Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem

One of the most difficult commands from St. Paul, The Author of Hebrews, and Jesus Himself was the admonition to pray for those in authority. This is nearly impossible to do sincerely when one is the victim of an oppressive regime, and unless one is truly praying "In The Spirit", it comes off as insincere and grudgingly offered up. Believe me...it's NOT easy!

The last eight years have been difficult ones for people who take this command seriously. Many believed in their hearts that the former administration was there by trickery and usurpation, and had nothing but evil planned for America. This, of course, has been born out by facts and figures, and by the huge number of changes that the new administration has had to implement in order to get things going in the right direction again.

During the last administration, a bumper sticker emerged citing Psalm 109:8 "May his term be short and another take his office". However, the rest of the Psalm carries far more dire imprecations than a mere transfer of power.

To "New Testament Believers", this Psalm seems "harsh". Why did God allow this in the Canon of Scripture, if we are enjoined to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us?

Remember, David, though flawed, was a "Man After God's Own Heart." If you look carefully at this Psalm, you will see that the curses against the enemy are not David's, but are the enemy's OWN curses turned back on him. It is in harmony with the Proverb "He who digs a pit will fall into it." David is Praising God, asking Him for Justice, and merely citing the "Law of Sowing and Reaping". Jesus did the same thing when He said that "A bad tree bears bad fruit."

This is probably the scariest and most dark of the Impreccatory Psalms, but tomorrow, we launch into a new section that is full of Messianic references and Praise. Stay Tuned.

Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

Amen

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH FOR
THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM!
And for the Preservation of the Valiant
Israeli Nation!

"King David In Prayer"
Pieter de Grebber

OLD not thy peace, O God of my praise;

2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.

28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

_________________________________________________Psalm 109 (KJV)

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For ML In This Time Of Tribulation.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For the Repose of the Soul of ML's Mom.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For A Rapid Recovery For Our Own Yorkie.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For A Rapid Recovery For Our FRiend Uri'el2012.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Safety Of Our Gallant Troops And For The Success Of Their Vital Mission.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Repose Of The Souls Of Our Embassy Staff In Libya Who Were Assassinated 11 September 2012.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For The Deliverance Of Our Beloved Nation From The Lion’s Mouth.

PRAYERS ASCENDING ON HIGH For Our Brethren Of All Faiths Throughout The World Suffering Persecution.
We pray in particular on behalf of our brothers and sisters in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and throughout the Mideast. The members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, some of which date from the days of the Apostles, suffer under cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors, we are all "Nazarenes."

Prayers always for all of the above. God bless.

But you, Sovereign Lord,
help me for your name’s sake;
out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.

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Joining in prayer for Israel, our beloved America, and all God’s people.

Praying for the peace of Jerusalem, for our families and friends, for those facing persecution, for our nations.