Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

Dear Heavenly Father,
We Praise Your Name.
You Alone Are Holy,
Wonderful, and Glorious.
Thank You For Giving Us Your Word,
Which Sometimes Contains Hard Lessons.
We Thank You For Our Mentors and Teachers,
And Especially For Those Who Serve in The Military
Who Protect and Defend Our Beloved USA.
We Pray that You Will Give Them a Double Portion of Your Spirit.

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.

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Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

Acts 25

Festus Consults King Agrippa

13 A few days later King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus. 14 Since they were spending many days there, Festus discussed Paul's case with the king. He said: “There is a man here whom Felix left as a prisoner. 15 When I went to Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought charges against him and asked that he be condemned.

16 “I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand over anyone before they have faced their accusers and have had an opportunity to defend themselves against the charges. 17 When they came here with me, I did not delay the case, but convened the court the next day and ordered the man to be brought in. 18 When his accusers got up to speak, they did not charge him with any of the crimes I had expected. 19 Instead, they had some points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a dead man named Jesus who Paul claimed was alive. 20 I was at a loss how to investigate such matters; so I asked if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem and stand trial there on these charges. 21 But when Paul made his appeal to be held over for the Emperor's decision, I ordered him held until I could send him to Caesar.”

22 Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear this man myself.”

He replied, “Tomorrow you will hear him.”

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Please continue to pray for me. I am beginning to suspect that this "cold" is something more. I dragged myself to a clinic yesterday to get some medicine, but I'm still struggling. Thanks in advance for your prayers.

As many of you know, I am an avid motorcyclist, and my two younger brothers started riding right after I did. We used to ride together a lot.

My brother Tom pulled his '03 Heritage Softtail up to the gas pump right behind a rather tough-looking biker who was gassing up his bike, which was the exact same year and model as mine, a 93FXR.

"Nice Bike," my brother innocently said. "My SISTER rides one just like that."

The biker took that the wrong way and charged at my brother., who quickly said, "No, no, that was a compliment! My sister really does ride an FXR! She's a VERY REMARKABLE WOMAN!".

The two guys became instant friends, and ended up talking about bikes, family, sisters, and so on. Sometimes we have to be very careful how we word things!

It's easy to get the "Herods" mixed up. There was the one who rebuilt the Temple (The Architect), the one who slaughtered the Innocents of Bethlehem, the one who accepted worship and got eaten by worms, and this one, King Agrippa

This one was no prize either, and fit the description of a "Yes-Man" perfectly. He groveled to the Romans, favored their customs over his own Jewish Religion, and was generally thought of as a "Puppet". His sister, Bernice, who is seen traveling around with him in this chapter, was alleged by the Historian Josephus as also being his "girlfriend". Eyew. All told, the Herods were not a nice family and, by abetting the Roman illusion of self-rule, he was a traitor to his own people, in my opinion.

Anyway, Paul is actually going to be given a chance to preach the Gospel to these reprobates, and, in tomorrow's reading, we will see how he approaches that task.

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

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