Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

Abba, Father,
 How Wonderful You Are!
 And LORD, Our God,
 How Excellent is Your Name Over All the Earth!
 You Alone Are Worthy To be Praised,
 For You Alone Are The One True God of The Universe.
 We Thank You for Revealing Your Secrets Through Your Word,
 To those who have will have eyes to see,
 and ears to hear.
 How Wonderful You Are,
 How Holy and Righteous and Just in Your Judgments!
 You Alone Are Worthy To Be Praised,
 For You Alone Are The One True God!

Let all that has been Concealed
Be Revealed.

Father, We Pray For The Peace Of Jerusalem,
According To Your Will and Promise.
We Pray That You Will Forgive The Sins
of Our Own Nation,
and Lead us all to Godly Repentance.
Create in Us Clean Hearts, Oh LORD,
and Renew a Right Spirit Within Us.

This we Pray Together,
As We Await Your Messiah,
Blessed Be He,
To Set Up His Kingdom,
And Make All Things Right.

God Bless America.

ML/LTOS

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

Exodus 6

6 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.”

2 God also said to Moses, “I am the Lord. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,[a] but by my name the Lord[b] I did not make myself fully known to them. 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners. 5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.

6 “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. 7 I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.’”

9 Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor.

10 Then the Lord said to Moses, 11 “Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.”

12 But Moses said to the Lord, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips[c]?”

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Although I am still buzzing from the magnificent Santana/EW&F Concert, there is another event on the horizon that has been on my "Bucket List" for over 50 years. Next month, I will be seeing Eric Clapton for the first time.

Eric is older than I am, suffers from Diabetes, Peripheral Neuropathy, and encroaching deafness. Yet, in spite of all this, he is still considered one of the best rock guitar players in the world.

Like a good, compliant, senior citizen, Eric got vaccinated against COVID. (England, the AZ Vax). Within a day of the vax, his hands went numb, and he lost the use of them for several weeks. If this had happened to a regular person, it would be tragic, but for Eric, it was an international catastrophe. Naturally, he spoke out, not against vaccines in general, but about being mandated to take one. The backlash was immediate and brutal. The only people who stood by him were Van Morisson and Roger Daltry of The WHO (the Band, not the World Health Organization!) The effect finally wore off, and Eric got his chops back, but there are some people who, to this day, refuse to play his music. (Idiotic!) Anyway, two of my sisters and I will be having an AWESOME "Girls' Night Out" next month and I expect it to be the Concert of a Lifetime. A man like Eric Clapton, who beat both heroin addiction and alcoholism, will not be held back by a vax reaction, old age, illness, or even the perfidy of so-called "friends".

When I look at Current Events, especially those of the past week, it is easy to get discouraged. The Opposition seems to be so huge and powerful, and I feel so weak and powerless. From recent events, I get the feeling that My Vote, something I cherished and believed in for half a century, may have been rendered meaningless by cheaters and tyrants. Government and religious institutions have failed us, and even my own body has betrayed me with an encroaching handicap that is the nightmare of musicians: hearing loss. It's enough to make one want to throw in the towel!

Today's reading demonstrates that I am not alone. Even Moses, one of the greatest heroes of the Bible, had his moments. In fact, here he is, making excuses again! His biggest ones are:

"Nobady Listens To Me!"

and

"I Have a Handicap."

My Goodness! Those are MY excuses!
It helps to realize that God's Servants are not like the Heroes of Myth and Legend. They were normal people like you and me. Their Power did not come from themselves.We are not to put our trust in princes, government, or even religions, but in the One True God. When I am Weak, then He is Strong.

Stay tuned for the Concert review. I have a feeling it will fit right in with our look at Exodus.

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

"He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification." (Romans 4:25)

God Bless America.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS