Pray for President Bush - Day 1512

http://www.prayforgeorgewbush.com ^ | November 7, 2004 | Faith

[Faith]

Proverbs 2: 6-8
For the Lord gives wisdom,
and from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
He holds victory in store for the upright,
He is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
for He guards the course of the just
and protects the way of His faithful ones.

[Faith]

God help us ... Marines from the 1st Division gathered to pray yesterday
afternoon near Fallujah. An order for the assault is expected
over the coming days.

[Faith]

Make him as a Light, a Reflection of our Christ everywhere he goes, filling his mouth with Your Worship and Praise, as he Testifies of the Glory and the Majesty of Your Son.

Amen, KM. Thank you for sharing your prayer tonight. God bless you.

[Faith]

Thank you for praying with us, Pali.

[Faith]

Praying your prayer in agreement with you, Pegita. Thank you.

[Faith]

May the Lord's face shine upon you, TXLady. Many thanks.

[Faith]

Thanks for praying, Texagirl4W. May God bless you.

[Faith]

Holy Father,

Be a shield for each of our troops during this tremendous battle. We lift them up to You in prayer knowing that You will give Your angels charge over them to keep them in all their ways. Grant Your powerful wisdom and discernment to our military leaders and show them the way to victory. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen!

[Miss Marple]

Lord God,

Please be with our forces as they take part in the operation at Fallujah. May the foe be scattered and ineffective in their fight. May our men and women be protected by Your angels. Comfort all who defend this nation.

In Jesus' Name,
Amen.

[Faith]

Thanks for praying, bella1. God bless you.

[Faith]

Thanks for the prayer for our troops, Miss Marple. May the Lord stand with them in battle.

[Paul_B]

Lord, this battle could well be the largest one to date in Iraq. We pray that it would instead be quick and as painless as possible. We ask for favor for our troops among the population, and disfavor for the terrorists. We ask for safety for our troops and the civilians alike. We ask that the battle be well-defined, that the enemy would not be able to mix with noncombatants.

We are thankful for the number of troops that have recently accepted Christ as their savior. Now we ask for Your grace to shine upon them. Bring momentous, tide-changing victory, and end to the insurgency and the beginning of peace and democracy in the nation and the region. In Christ's mighty name we pray.

[Faith]

Amen to your prayer!

[grey_whiskers]

Pray for their safety, their success...and their faith!

[Faith]

Yes, Lord! Please keep their faith strong and under Your wings may they safely trust. Make Your truth their shield and buckler. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

[califamily4W]

Faith, my heart is heavily burdened as Fulluja breaks wide open.

Dear Father,
Please hear this cry... it is a battle cry given in Your good name and it is held on each breathe in the hunt for evil.
Have mercy and guide Your brave men. Protect those who carry our flag, strengthen the steps and light the way in this land of darkness.
In the heart of anxious loved ones, pour out the stillness of perfect peace.
And Lord, once again bring us to victory and bring them home heroes.

Amen

[alpha-8-25-02]

"As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord."
- Colossians 2:6



The life of faith is represented as receiving-an act which implies the
very opposite of anything like merit. It is simply the acceptance of a
gift. As the earth drinks in the rain, as the sea receives the streams, as
night accepts light from the stars, so we, giving nothing, partake freely
of the grace of God. The saints are not, by nature, wells, or streams,
they are but cisterns into which the living water flows; they are empty
vessels into which God pours his salvation. The idea of receiving implies
a sense of realization, making the matter a reality. One cannot very well
receive a shadow; we receive that which is substantial: so is it in the
life of faith, Christ becomes real to us. While we are without faith,
Jesus is a mere name to us-a person who lived a long while ago, so long
ago that his life is only a history to us now! By an act of faith Jesus
becomes a real person in the consciousness of our heart. But receiving
also means grasping or getting possession of. The thing which I receive
becomes my own: I appropriate to myself that which is given.
When I receive Jesus, he becomes my Saviour, so mine that neither life
nor death shall be able to rob me of him.
All this is to receive Christ-to take him as God's free gift; to realize
him in my heart, and to appropriate him as mine.


Salvation may be described as the blind receiving sight, the deaf
receiving hearing, the dead receiving life; but we have not only received
these blessings, we have received CHRIST JESUS himself. It is true that he
gave us life from the dead. He gave us pardon of sin; he gave us imputed
righteousness.
These are all precious things, but we are not content with them; we have
received Christ himself.
The Son of God has been poured into us, and we have received him, and
appropriated him.
What a heartful Jesus must be, for heaven itself cannot contain him!

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Evening Devotional



"The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the
passover with my disciples?"
- Mark 14:14



Jerusalem at the time of the passover was one great inn; each householder
had invited his own friends, but no one had invited the Saviour, and he
had no dwelling of his own. It was by his own supernatural power that he
found himself an upper room in which to keep the feast. It is so even to
this day-Jesus is not received among the sons of men save only where by
his supernatural power and grace he makes the heart anew. All doors are
open enough to the prince of darkness, but Jesus must clear a way for
himself or lodge in the streets. It was through the mysterious power
exerted by our Lord that the householder raised no question, but at once
cheerfully and joyfully opened his guestchamber. Who he was, and what he
was, we do not know, but he readily accepted the honour which the Redeemer
proposed to confer upon him. In like manner it is still discovered who are
the Lord's chosen, and who are not; for when the gospel comes to some,
they fight against it, and will not have it, but where men receive it,
welcoming it, this is a sure indication that there is a secret work going
on in the soul, and that God has chosen them unto eternal life. Are you
willing, dear reader, to receive Christ? then there is no difficulty in
the way; Christ will be your guest; his own power is working with you,
making you willing.
What an honour to entertain the Son of God! The heaven of heavens cannot
contain him, and yet he condescends to find a house within our hearts! We
are not worthy that he should come under our roof, but what an unutterable
privilege when he condescends to enter! for then he makes a feast, and
causes us to feast with him upon royal dainties, we sit at a banquet where
the viands are immortal, and give immortality to those who feed thereon.
Blessed among the sons of Adam is he who entertains the angels' Lord.

C.H.SPURGEON

SOLI DEO GLORIA!

[Coldwater Creek]

Thank you

[ejo]

"May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and for ever Amen."