Posted on 09/07/2005 8:50:35 PM PDT by kayak
We are once again humbled by Your awesome power, Your everlasting mercy, and Your gentle grace. Though our lives are stained with sin, You have washed us clean in the blood of our precious Savior Whom You sent to redeem us and restore us into fellowship with You. We praise You, Almighty God, and offer our lives in service to You in gratitude.
Lord, we pause from the tumult and the politics and the sweeping news stories of the day to pay homage to a great American, William H. Rehnquist. We thank You, Lord, for his life and for his service to our nation. Comfort his family in the days ahead and bless them with Your loving presence.
Father, We also ask that You would send more like him to serve in our Supreme Court. Speak to the President's heart that he may nominate yet another candidate to the Supreme Court who will honor the work of our forefathers when they penned the Constitution through Your inspiration. Let our Senators manage to put aside politics and personal agenda and the desire to create controversy and do what is right for our nation.
O Lord, we come to You on behalf of our brother in Christ, George W. Bush. Never has a man faced such an onslaught, criticized from all sides for every move he makes. Though he is imperfect as we all are, this is a good and compassionate man who studies Your Word and heeds Your voice. Yet many in our nation wish to destroy him both personally and politically. Give him strength, O Lord, and patience and persistence. Keep him on the narrow path of righteousness. Let him shake off the criticisms of the petty as dust from his feet and listen only to You. Bring him comfort and peace amidst the turmoil and the heavy burdens he bears. Watch over him and his family and keep them safe from harm.
Father, our hearts are grieved at the massive losses and suffering from Hurricane Katrina -- in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. We are grateful for the large numbers of people who are reaching out to these people in response to their tragedy. We ask that You give hope to the hopeless and sustenance to those who have lost everything. Minister to those responding to the catastrophe who are working long hours in horrific conditions and dealing with sights and smells and sounds that are almost too much to bear. Let them know Your peace that passes understanding even amidst the hideous things with which they must deal.
We are thankful, also, for our military who are serving both at home and abroad. They carry out their tasks with extraordinary courage and expertise. Bless them, Lord, and keep their families close to Your heart.
Lord, Your Word tells us that those things that are divisive are not of Your Holy Spirit. This alone tells us that many in our great nation do not know You because too many of our citizens seem to thrive on trying to divide our nation, turning one group against another. Lord, we pray for these people. Send the Holy Spirit to convict them of their sin and teach them the joy of salvation through Jesus Christ, our Lord, in Whose Name we pray. Amen.
Please join us in prayer.
All the time, Brother!
Thank you for your prayers.
Got your back covered as well on this one.
Amen to your Prayer...we need to give the President some much needed support these days as the left has tried to ramp up their attacks.
How true! We must pray without ceasing.
AMEN KAYAK!
"There is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet."
- Jeremiah 49:23
Little know we what sorrow may be upon the sea at this moment. We are safe
in our quiet chamber, but far away on the salt sea the hurricane may be
cruelly seeking for the lives of men. Hear how the death fiends howl among
the cordage; how every timber starts as the waves beat like battering rams
upon the vessel! God help you, poor drenched and wearied ones! My prayer
goes up to the great Lord of sea and land, that he will make the storm a
calm, and bring you to your desired haven! Nor ought I to offer prayer
alone, I should try to benefit those hardy men who risk their lives so
constantly. Have I ever done anything for them? What can I do? How often
does the boisterous sea swallow up the mariner! Thousands of corpses lie
where pearls lie deep. There is death-sorrow on the sea, which is echoed
in the long wail of widows and orphans. The salt of the sea is in many
eyes of mothers and wives. Remorseless billows, ye have devoured the love
of women, and the stay of households. What a resurrection shall there be
from the caverns of the deep when the sea gives up her dead! Till then
there will be sorrow on the sea. As if in sympathy with the woes of earth,
the sea is for ever fretting along a thousand shores, wailing with a
sorrowful cry like her own birds, booming with a hollow crash of unrest,
raving with uproarious discontent, chafing with hoarse wrath, or jangling
with the voices of ten thousand murmuring pebbles. The roar of the sea may
be joyous to a rejoicing spirit, but to the son of sorrow the wide, wide
ocean is even more forlorn than the wide, wide world. This is not our
rest, and the restless billows tell us so.
There is a land where there is no more sea-our faces are steadfastly set
towards it; we are going to the place of which the Lord hath spoken.
Till then, we cast our sorrows on the Lord who trod the sea of old, and
who maketh a way for his people through the depths thereof.
C.H.SPURGEON
5 SOLAS!
2Ti 2:7 Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.
Lord, I stand behind President Bush. As my sister says, he is not perfect. No one is. But he is good, and he is Yours, and I am thankful to have him as our leader. May You lead the leaders and give them understanding where they lack; may they seek Your face.
America is in great need. We have extraordinary burdens placed upon us, burdens we alone are not able to carry, burdens You have allowed so as to draw us back to You, Who are the only possible answer to our needs.
I pray that what we are going through is a godly discipline unto us, and not a judgment. I pray for more time, more mercy, more grace, toward the ends of repentance and ultimate victory.
Give us - and Your Gospel - victory in the war on terrorism. Give us at home victory over humanism in all its forms, including immorality and the welfare state.
I raise up to You those who are suffering, particularly the hurricane victims, and our own Kitty Mittens. Make a way where there was none, to Your glory.
"May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever Amen."
We must pray without ceasing.
AMEN! I pray everyday that Our Lord Jesus Christ gives our brother, President George W. Bush, the strength to weather the unrelenting attacks he must endure day after day. I also pray for our country and our brave troops.
Amen and Amen.
Thank you for that very fitting meditation by Spurgeon today. God bless you!
Amen! And again I say "Amen!"
Thank you for your faithfulness in prayer.
Thank you for joining with us in prayer.
Heavenly Father, thank You for the many blessings we receive from You. We come before You now to pray with and for our brothers and sisters in Christ. We pray for President Bush and his administration in this great time of need. We pray for all the victims of the hurricane and for all those who are helping with recovery.
We pray for our military and their families. Dear Lord, we pray for a healing in our country. Bless all those who join us in prayer.
We ask these blessings in Your Son's Precious Name, Amen.
Father, we pray that our President stays on your path and that you strengthen him in times of need. We pray too, Lord Jesus, that you open the eyes of those who too often are quick to criticize so they that may see their own failings. Father, we ask for your healing hand for our nation and your divine protection against the evil that surrounds us. In Jesus' name, Amen.
AMEN!
Thank you for joining us and for posting that excellent graphic.
Psa 107: 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Psa 107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
Psa 107:6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psa 107:7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Psa 107:8 Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psa 107:9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
We pray the above scriptures for those devastated by Katrina. Thank You, Lord, for leading them forth by the right way that they might go to a city of habitation.
We pray for our President as he seeks cooperation between federal, state and local agencies, and ask You, God, to empower the spirit of compassion and teamwork that characterizes our nation. We pray that the problems will be solved with the best possible solutions and that a spirit of unity and mutual servanthood will prevail.
Thank You, Father.
May those in our nation who hunger and thirst find the Bread of Life and the life-giving Water that quenches the thirst of the soul as well as having their physical needs met.
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