Posted on 09/19/2013 9:42:58 PM PDT by NEWwoman
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Heavenly Father –
The headlines filled with violence – home and abroad – are another reminder of the signs of the times and a reflection of the rebellion in our hearts against You. And in our country another sign of rebellion is a renewed effort to remove all references to God from the public discourse and displays – such as taking out “under God” from the pledge.
We confess our sins which we commit daily as individuals and as a nation, especially when we live like atheists. Yet may we take comfort that You over-rule all the evil devices of men and women. May Your people, Father, walk in the Light of Your Word and be filled with the Holy Spirit to do Your will in this world.
Protect all those who serve others from the first responders to the latest crisis at home to our brave men and women who put on the uniform and put themselves in harm’s way to keep us safe.
We ask for Your mercies in Jesus’ precious Name,
Amen
I join in prayer for our heroes and nation!
Blessings, Alamo-Girl, for your prayers for our nation and heroes.
Amen.
Prayers always for our Heroes and our beloved Nation.
Blessings, etabeta
Thank you so much for this beautiful of great prayer and petition...I pasted a post my daughter sent me the other day written by Ben Stein..my this generation find themselves returning to the ONE TRUE GOD...in our homes, on the field, throughout our nations...Amen.
My confession . . .
I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians.
I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him?
I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.
In light of recent events - terrorists attacks, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school.
The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbour as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said okay.
Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with, ‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.
Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.
Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit.
If not, then just discard it. No one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don’t sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards, Honestly and Respectfully,
Ben Stein
Amen to your prayer for Our American Heroes and For Our Beloved Nation.
Praying with you for our nation and our military, NEWwoman
Amen
Blessings, fieldmarshaldj, for your prayers for our nation.
Blessings, etabeta, for your prayers for our heroes and our nation.
Wow, Jeanbl. Thanks for sharing Ben Stein’s well written rebuke to the insanity in our present day America.
Blessing for your prayers, which is the only thing that may turn us back to God.
Blessings, left that other site, for your prayers and all you do to encourage us to pray for our country and God’s people throughout the world.
Blessings, MEG33, for your prayers for our country and the heroes who defend her.
Thank You.
Today is proving to be a struggle for me, so I do appreciate your prayers.
May the Good Lord give you strength through your struggles and bring a marvelous resolution ... in Jesus Name, Amen
Psalm 91: 9-16
9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling,
10 no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
14 “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
In Jesus’ holy name we pray.
Amen
Blessings for the reminder of God’s promises, dansangel, and for joining in prayer for our country and those who defend her.
Amen.
Blessings, Irish Rose, for your prayers.
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