Posted on 06/28/2009 8:59:18 AM PDT by Kitty Mittens
With Thanksgiving in our Hearts, we Rejoice in the Presence of our King of kings. 'To You I Lift Up my Eyes, O You Who are Enthroned in the Heavens.' (Ps.123:1) How Blessed are Your People, Lord, to be the Recipients of Sovereign Grace! Elected in Eternity, Redeemed in Time, we are Thankful for Your Gift of New Life!
Your Excellency, our Military Men and Women are Continually in our Hearts. Be Praised, Loving Lord, for Each and Every Precious Life. May Your Grace Sustain them, and Your Power Surround them Day and Night. May Jesus be the Savior and Master of Every Life. Please Guard them Safely Beneath the Shadow of Your Covering Wing. For them we Pray Psalm 112:6,7,8: 'He will Never be Shaken; a Righteous Man will be Remembered Forever. He will have No Fear of Bad News; his Heart is Steadfast, Trusting in the LORD. His Heart is Secure, he will have No Fear; in the End he will Look in Triumph on his foes.'
Our Abba, we Intercede for our America with All our Hearts. 'We are not Presenting our Supplications Before You on Account of Any Merits of our Own, but on Account of Your Great Compassion. O Lord, Hear! O Lord, Forgive!' (Dan.9:18,19) Please Save us, our Merciful God, and Turn us to Righteousness, through Grace. 'Be Just and Fair to All, the Lord God Says. Do what's Right and Good, For I Am Coming Soon to Rescue you.' (Is.56:1)
We Lift Up our Brethren in Christ, Asking for a Special Touch for Your Lambs. Thou Knowest All Needs, Caring Lord; we Ask that their Petitions will be Fulfilled. And if Anyone Comes to this Prayer Thread who doesn't Know Thee, we Pray for their Everlasting Salvation. May Thy Blessed Spirit Awaken them, and Draw them to our Great Shepherd-King.
Thank You for Hearing us, our Faithful, Gracious Lord. In Jesus' Name, for the Glory and Praise of our King, amen.
Amen to your beautiful prayer, Kitty.
I join in prayer for our heroes!
Amen!
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Three months before a planned missions trip, a friend and I were talking about the upcoming event. He said to me, “If anyone can’t go, I’d be willing to step in and join you.” This was not going to be an easy 8 days, for we would be painting, repairing, and fixing stuff in the July heat of Jamaica. Yet my friend seemed eager to go.
About 6 weeks before we were scheduled to leave, there was an opening. I e-mailed my friend—whom I hadn’t seen in the interim—and asked if he was still interested. He immediately responded, “Sure! And I got a passport just in case you asked.” He had made sure he was ready—just in case he got the call to go.
My friend’s preparation reminds me of what happened back in the first century at Antioch. Paul and Barnabas were among a number of people getting themselves ready spiritually for whatever God might ask them to do, or wherever He might send them. They didn’t prepare by getting a passport, but they “ministered to the Lord and fasted” (Acts 13:2). And when the Holy Spirit said, “Separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work” (v.2), they were all set for the journey.
Are you preparing for what God might want you to do? When the Spirit says, “Go,” will you be ready?
AMEN DEAREST ELECT SISTER AND GRACE TO ALL THE SAINTS!
“But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.”
- Exodus 7:12
This incident is an instructive emblem of the sure victory of the divine
handiwork over all opposition. Whenever a divine principle is cast into
the heart, though the devil may fashion a counterfeit, and produce swarms
of opponents, as sure as ever God is in the work, it will swallow up all
its foes. If God’s grace takes possession of a man, the world’s magicians
may throw down all their rods; and every rod may be as cunning and
poisonous as a serpent, but Aaron’s rod will swallow up their rods. The
sweet attractions of the cross will woo and win the man’s heart, and he
who lived only for this deceitful earth will now have an eye for the upper
spheres, and a wing to mount into celestial heights. When grace has won
the day the worldling seeks the world to come. The same fact is to be
observed in the life of the believer. What multitudes of foes has our
faith had to meet! Our old sins-the devil threw them down before us, and
they turned to serpents. What hosts of them! Ah, but the cross of Jesus
destroys them all. Faith in Christ makes short work of all our sins. Then
the devil has launched forth another host of serpents in the form of
worldly trials, temptations, unbelief; but faith in Jesus is more than a
match for them, and overcomes them all. The same absorbing principle
shines in the faithful service of God! With an enthusiastic love for Jesus
difficulties are surmounted, sacrifices become pleasures, sufferings are
honours. But if religion is thus a consuming passion in the heart, then it
follows that there are many persons who profess religion but have it not;
for what they have will not bear this test. Examine yourself, my reader,
on this point.
Aaron’s rod proved its heaven-given power.
Is your religion doing so? If Christ be anything he must be everything.
O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your
soul!
C.H.SPURGEON
SOLI DEO GLORIA!
Praise the Lord from morning to night. HE rides upon the Heavens, and careth for the lowly. We rest in HIM alone, and pray for HIS watchful care and comfort for our men and women in the Military, that seek to protect our Nation -- and we pray for HIS watchful care and comfort on all that seek to serve HIM as sovereign LORD and King.
Oh LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!...
Joining with you in praise and prayer.
Amen.
"I will take up the cup of salvation, and call upon the Name of Lord"
~Psalm 116:13 ~
Amen.
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