Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom). (2 Cor. 3:17)
Posted on 07/24/2009 8:07:26 AM PDT by Hiskid
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom). (2 Cor. 3:17)
We pray today for the soldiers who are laboring here and abroad to secure an earthly environment for Your Word to have free course. Thank You for calling them and using our military to execute judgment against oppressive political systems that attempt to keep people in bondage and separated from Your truths. Give them Your victory, Sir. Guard their coming in and their going out and give them peace. Pour out of Your Spirit on each precious soul who serves and each who stands free behind the victory they secure. Give each soldier a vision of the righteous cause in which they have a part. We ask You, Sir, for full and speedy healing for the bodies and souls of those who have been wounded.
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We also bring Patti Patton-Bader and Soldier’s Angels before You. We know that their work was inspired by You. Provide human and financial resources so that they may they fulfill their call: ”May no soldier go unloved. May no soldier walk alone. May no soldier be forgotten, Until they all come home.”
We ask You for a return on the giving that each person makes in time or finances to support this good work. We also pray for healing for Ms. Patton-Bader. Deliver her from the bondage of Hepatitis C and bring her into the liberty that Your healing wings provide.
Thank You, Father, for guiding and answering our prayers. We love to come before Your throne and spend time with You. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Thank you for praying for our heroes today.
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Sermon from a church in Virginia recently. Gen 47: 13-27
Good morning, brothers and sisters; it's always a delight to see the pews crowded on Sunday morning, and so eager to get into God's Word. Turn with me in your Bibles, if you will, to the 47th chapter of Genesis; we'll begin our reading at verse 13, and go through verse 27.
Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us?... Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray.. So we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt, and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to
deal with this for them. And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built. So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again.
So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their livestock - their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkey - to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that only took them through the end of that year.
But the famine wasn't over, was it?
So the next year, the people came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their own lives. “There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we die
before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh.” So they surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to Pharaoh's government, and
then sold themselves into slavery to him, in return for grain.
What can we learn from this, brothers and sisters?
That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard times only leads to slavery? Yes. That the only reason government wants to be our provider is to also become our master? Yes.
But look how that passage ends, brothers and sisters! Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt , in the land of Goshen . And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.” God provided for
His people, just as He always has! They didn't end up giving all their possessions to the government, no, it says they gained possessions!
But I also tell you a great truth today, and an ominous one. We see the same thing happening today - the government today wants to “share the wealth” once again, to take it from us and redistribute it back to us. It wants to take control of healthcare, just as it has taken control of education, and ration it back to us, and when government rations it, then government decides who gets it, and how much, and what kind.
And if we go along with it, and do it willingly, then we will wind up no differently than the people of Egypt did four thousand years ago - as slaves to the government, and as slaves to our leaders.
What Mr. Obama’s government is doing now is no different from what Pharaoh's government did then, and it will end the same.. And a lot of people like to call Mr. Obama a “Messiah,” don't they? Is he a Messiah? A savior? Didn't the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh made them his slaves, “You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh”?
Well, I tell you this - I know the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of mine; and Mr. Obama is no Messiah! No, brothers and sisters, if Mr. Obama is a character from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh.
Bow with me in prayer, if you will.
Lord, You alone are worthy to be served, and we rely on You, and You alone. We confess that the government is not our deliverer, and never rightly will be. We read in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the people of what a ruler would do, where it says “And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.” And Lord, we acknowledge that day has come. We cry out to you because of the ruler that we have chosen for ourselves as a nation..Lord, we pray for this nation. We pray for revival, and we pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters.
Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect Your people from the atrocities of Pharaoh's government.
In God we Trust
AMEN
Heroes Prayers Up!!
I join in prayer for our heroes!
Amen.
Thank you for sharing this sermon.
May the LORD Jesus Christ Richly bless you!
" Thus will I bless Thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in Thy name."
~Psalm 63:4 ~
Amen.
God bless you for your diligence in praying.
'Great is our Lord, and Great is His Power;
His Wisdom is Infinite.' (Ps.147:5)
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