A Clarion Call for the Church to press in with Fasting and prayer! Rasmussen: Mitt 30%, McCain 30%

God cares about this nation and does care about this election! How much do we??? After all the blogging and talking,, will you be willing to press in with prayer and fasting??

Sometimes it seems there is nothing we can do than blog and complain! But,, that is really not true for the Christian! It is a lie from the devil formed in the pit of hell!

Ezekiel 22:30 "I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one."

God can do a great deal with just a little!! He searches for just "a man!" Nobody likes to fast! If it were easy, everybody would do it! Perhaps you can give up just one meal! Do what you can! Pray like you mean it! Spend an hour with God every day. Pray into the night! Stay up all night and pray or just commit to meeting God daily with a broken heart!!

Prayer is simple! Open your mouth and talk to God and then you are praying! Enter His gates with thanksgiving! Thank Him for all the great things He has done! It doesn't matter how you feel,, and you aren't being a hypocrite if you don't feel thankful! You are acting in Faith! Besides,, prayer isn't just about you! It is about Him!!!

2Ch 7:14 — "IF my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; THEN will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

Talk to God! After you have thanked Him. Give Him some praise! Paul's praise brought down the prison walls! How do I praise Him?? Speak good things about Him! It's easy!! State that His name is above every other name! Tell Him what a good God he is!

Then,, be honest about yourself! Confess your sin! Talk to Him! Ask Him to heal this land! Pray for this election, our courts, our leaders!

Do you want to really be bold??! Want to really step out and say something crazy?? Proclaim things!!

Mark 11:23, "Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him."

Proclaim righteousness returns to our courts! Proclaim the the name of Jesus will be lifted up again in our congress! Speak to our schools that they will return to the foundation on which they were built! And speak to this election! That the more righteous man win!! Get radical in prayer!! Speak that our would so return to the Bible that all the nations of the earth would have to confess "Yes,, they left their God, but look! They have returned!! American is again a Christian nation!"

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places."

Pray that liars, thieves and deceivers will be exposed! Pray that the news media will report the truth!

God spoke,, and formed the heavens and earth! The Bible says our words also have the power of life and death!! Speak to the mountain! You say you did and it's still there??? Don't quit! It was years before Joshua and Caleb entered the Promise Land! But,, THEY DID!!!

I do not pretend to understand everything about God! Regardless of the outcome of Super Tuesday, regardless of the outcome of our general election, I do know this,,, God is not a liar and His Word is true!!! Nor do I believe God is finished with this nation! Ultimately, we have arrived here at this place because the church fell asleep! I blame congress for lots of things as well,,, but in all truth,, the blame is on the church doorstep,, and at in own homes. It all begins and it all ends in the prayer closet!

So,, will you join me in prayer and fasting over the next few days!!?? Not just for this election,, but for this nation,, that it may endure!!

"Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." James 5:16

"For men are not cast off by the Lord forever. Though He brings grief, He will show compassion, so great is His unfailing love. For He does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men." Lam.3:31-33

"For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and His ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? But, even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. 'Do not fear what they fear;do not be frightened." 1 Peter3:12-14

> Doesn’t change what Romney’s right hand guy did, and
> Romney knew about, as he whisked him through tolls by
> flashing his fake badge... and Romney didn’t can him
> until he got caught in the second state.

So, let me see if I’ve got this straight.

You’ve got your skivvies in a twist over a New York Slimes story about a Romney Operative who was able to get the governor through the tolls without having to pay the $1.25, right?

And I’m certain that McCain and Huckabee never, ever, EVER abused their positions for expediency, right?

And you ALWAYS obey the speed limits, and you ALWAYS come to a complete stop at the stop sign, and you ALWAYS pay the tolls without complaining, and you ALWAYS keep the parking meter topped up, right? If not, then you are a hypocrite.

Somehow, I’m just not getting the same level of importance out of this story that you are.

And you may believe that you have the whole story on this subject.

I don’t believe it for a minute.

I have heard people talk about meeting Romney. People who were adverse to his candidacy and his positions or changing positions or what have you.

To a man, and woman, they come away from meeting the guy with a completely different impression.

Now, maybe he’s just a better salesman than the rest of the bunch.

But if all I’ve got to go by is who’s a better salesman, considering the kind of personna we need to present to the outside world, and the kind of leadership we need in order to get the Congress and Senate in line with at least SOME conservative principles, I’ll take Romney over anybody else that’s still in the race, any day, all day.

> good spin - if you don’t like the nyts, go with the AP...
> but don’t rationalize.

No spin at all. Not on my part, anyway.

Read my post 82 again.

And the AP has as much credibility with me as the NYT.

The AP is All sPin, as is the NYT.

If their reporting on the War didn’t reveal that to you, nothing I say is gonna do it, either.

But if you’re looking for spin, the NYT and the AP are the right place to go for it.

God cares about this nation and does care about this election! How much do we??? After all the blogging and talking,, will you be willing to press in with prayer and fasting??

Umm, ok, the creator of the universe, and all that is, really, really cares who wins the presidential election of the united united states???

Are you sane?

Rhetorical question, I know.

If the power that be really cared, why not a thunderbolt, or simply see that the beast was never born, as well as her whole lineage.

Men may do some strange stuff, but I seriously do not think the Lord cares who wins the 2008 presidential race, it's kinda...beneath Him?

Might want to try something less grand, like pray for your favorite football team to win. That might garner some favor.

Although this is a silly disguised plea for God to smite John McCain which the Lord of the Universe will never hear, I do in fact share your belief that He has a guiding hand on this nation and I'd like to tell you why; it has to do with our history:

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams are the very seeds of our two great political parties even though they were not called Democrat (Jefferson) or Republican (Adams)--and, yes, (although I cannot say it about every member who has ever been one), I believe the Democrat party has been great because there have been significant pieces of legislation Civil Rights, the right for women to vote made by under Democrats.
In life Jefferson and Adams were the bitterest of enemies because of their opposing political beliefs yet, right before their deaths, they buried the hatchet. Incidentally, the dates of their deaths came on the same day EXACTLY 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independents which, of course, they were the inspiration of its passage.

James Monroe, the first president to shout out U.S. sovereignty to the rest of the world, also died on July 4th.

James Madison, Father of our Constitution, actually prayed that he would die on the 4th of July like the other three founding fathers. It was not to be, God took him EXACTLY 50 years to the hour that his first draft of the Constitution was submitted to the Congress for debate.

In 1863, the United States of America was teetering at its existence to remain one country but two great battles in the Civil War would determine that outcome, one in what was known then as the western theater of war and the other in the east. And so on, July 4, 1863, Vicksburg fell to the forces of Gen. U.S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee began his long retreat from Gettysburg, and never again was the country seriously threatened to split apart by two warring forces.

Abraham Lincoln, who I consider one of the two greatest presidents of this nation (the other being Washington) was assassinated on Good Friday (April 14, 1865) after experiencing only one week of peace as president after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox took place on Palm Sunday. Washington's death (on Dec. 14 1799) is also meaningful to me because it happens to be the date that the last regiment of British troops pulled out of Charleston, S.C. after the Treaty of Paris was signed to end the Revolutionary War.

These dates probably are just chalked up as "coincidental" to most here on this thread but to me they are evidence of God's Holy hand!

> ... you may also check into the penalty for impersonating
> a police officer - >>> WHILE MITT WATCHED

The governor has authority to deputize whomsoever he chooses.

That being said, nobody is perfect.

But by my reckoning, Mitt Romney’s imperfections are far less worrisome than those of the other candidates. Far less.

Your perceptions differ.

I respect that.

My prayer is that God will give us a man with integrity, purpose, and vision to lead this country in a Godly direction and confound those who want to wreak havoc and death on our shores.

May God’s will prevail

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