Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem

Almighty God, Abba Father!
How Blessed and Holy is Your Most Wonderful Name!
You Alone Are Worthy To Be Praised and Worshiped;
You Alone Are Holy;
You Alone Are The One True God Of Abraham!
How Glorious and Majestic You Are,
King of The Universe, Ancient of Days,
Our All in All
and Rock of Ages.
Let Our Song Praise Your Saving Power
and Exalt Your Your Name,
forever and ever!

We Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem,
According to Your Will and Promise.
We Pray For the People and Leaders of Israel,
that They Will Look to You for the Protection
and Prosperity of their Nation.
We Also Pray For Revival in our own Beloved USA.

  We Pray For The Leaders of Our Nation,
May They Be Inspired and Led By You,
And Please Guide Them in All Things.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

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

ye have therefore received Christ Jesus
the Lord, so walk ye in him:

Rooted and built up in him, and stab-
lished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

Beware lest any man spoil you through

philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

____________________________________________Colossians 2:6-15 (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."

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem

As I was setting up today's thread, I did not have a clue as to what to share as to what my "story" would be. Suddenly I was interrupted by a phone call, and the Caller ID indicated that it was my health insurer. I paused in my set-up of the thread and answered the phone. It was an automated call wishing me a happy new year from my insurer, and then launched itself into an automated survey about my satisfaction with the delivery of my health care. Well, that made sense, as the insurer is helping to pay for my health care, so I started answering the automated questions. The robotic voice had a sing-song, condescending, baby-talk feel to it, with phony hesitations and smarmy little fake chuckles, as if the person were deliberately adjusting their tone to talk down to an aged person. I was getting more and more annoyed, but thought each question was going to be the last one...but then there was another...more personal, condescending, and insulting that the previous one! Then the phony voice chuckled and soothed its way into some VERY personal matters, and I slammed the receiver down with an expletive deleted.

I immediately called my insurer and persevered until I got a real human. Then I told him what happened. He confirmed that there was indeed an outside marketing firm that was doing a Patient Survey, so it was not a spoof or a scam. He was appalled, however, at what the survey sounded like, and he helped me compose a formal complaint to the PTB in the insurance company. I said that it does not serve the company well by having outside marketing survey companies INSULT the intelligence of their clients, especially those over 65, by talking to us as if we are feeble minded! He agreed with me.

After nearly an hour of this, I sat down to tell today's story, based upon today's reading, and I STILL was drawing a blank. Then I re-read Today's Passage.

Paul was writing to ordinary people, recently brought to Faith out of paganism, various Greek Philosophies, and Roman State Religion. (Remember...he was The Apostle to the Gentiles.) There were many believers who felt that, since The Messiah was a Jewish idea, the Gentiles had to become Jews FIRST, before coming to faith in Christ. This was a constant undercurrent in the Early Church, and still survives today in some denominations. And so, Paul writes letters, which have become part of our Canon of Scripture.

Notice, that Paul does NOT talk "baby talk" to these new Christians. He does not reduce his writing to the lowest common denominator, nor does he avoid difficult subjects to be politically correct. He does not hold back deep Theological concepts, and does not assume that his audience will be too "feeble minded" to get it. He distills his Truths in succinct, adult language that a modern seminary would take a whole semester to explain.

And, guess what! He succeeds where a whole 30 minute call from the "Automated health Care Survey Company" FAILED.

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

Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”
Lamentations 3:22-24 (NIV)

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 and thank you.