Posted on 01/29/2024 5:03:36 PM PST by ViLaLuz
Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)
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James 5:8--You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
Joining all in prayer remembering our strength is in the Lord:
“My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in distresses, in persecutions, in difficulties, in behalf of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong.”
2 Corinthians 12: 9-10
Amen.
Amen!
Joining in prayer that we would only draw closer to Him.
Amen.
Prayers up.
Amen !!! <><
Psalm 129
A Song of Ascents.
1 ‘Often have they attacked me from my youth’
—let Israel now say—
2 ‘often have they attacked me from my youth,
yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 Those who plough ploughed on my back;
they made their furrows long.’
4 The Lord is righteous;
he has cut the cords of the wicked.
5 May all who hate Zion
be put to shame and turned back.
6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops
that withers before it grows up,
7 with which reapers do not fill their hands
or binders of sheaves their arms,
8 while those who pass by do not say,
‘The blessing of the Lord be upon you!
We bless you in the name of the Lord!’
Please add mine for my food sensitivities that I could add food back into my diet. I keep trying, but it doesn’t always go well.
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Will do metmom! You are in my prayers for the mast cell difficulties that you deal with all the time.
Father, we bow before You in reverence and fear, asking for Your healing touch on metmom. We are concerned Lord, about this thorn in her flesh and pray that in Your grace and mercy she be healed and returned back into full health and strength.
Comfort her and ease the suffering and frustration she experiences. We pray that the distressing symptoms of this condition would soon be reduced and metmom returns to health in every part of her body.
Give the doctors the wisdom to treat this illness correctly. Strengthen her so she may they be able to lay all of her worries and concerns down at Your feet, knowing that You are the God Who cares for His children, and You are a God Who heals.
May Your peace that passes understanding guard the heart of metmom in the days that lie ahead. We will give You all the praise and all the glory, even in times of distress. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Thank you stars & stripes forever! God bless you! I’m looking forward to the day we get to see the prince of this world dispatched to the Lake of Fire.
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Prayer for Free Republic
Abba Father, bless Jim Robinson, his son Chris, and his family. Bless their family situation and thank you for Jim’s health and healing. We are thankful for Jim’s website here and are blessed we are free to pray here. We ask for a successful fundraising campaign for Jim. May many Freepers yet to know You see all the prayers and Good News posted to FR and come to Christ in this time of the end. We know Your wish is for every Freeper on this site come to Jesus Christ for Salvation.
Thank you Jane Long! God bless you!!
Prayer For Spirit Empowered Discernment
Father, there is an ever-encroaching darkness that is spreading across our nation in particular and the world in general, and morality, truth and virtue are quickly being replaced with an evil and unbiblical society.
Bless we pray, and protect those that are seeking to uphold the truth of the gospel, and give each one spirit-empowered discernment and wisdom to follow the path of truth and to renounce the evils that are seeking to encroach, suffocate and confuse those who trust in Your holy name.
Thank You, that in the power of Your Holy Spirit, You have enabled and empowered all those that trust in Jesus as Saviour to stand firm. Thank You, that you have endowed us with the spiritual armour that we need to shun evil. Equip us with all that is needful to stand fast in the evil day. This we ask in the name of the Lord Jesus, Amen.
Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Prayers-When-Confused
I love this song, too! There’s another version of it that’s my favorite but I was unable to find it. So many musicians have done this great prayer in a song!
Thank you pollywog! God bless you!!
Prayer For Revival In Our Land
Loving Lord Jesus, it saddens me to see the way that the gospel of Jesus Christ is being so compromised in our land. As a nation we seem to have moved so far from the true gospel of grace and our churches and fellowships seem to be embracing many alternative and compromised teachings that are not true to Your Word.
Revive this land I pray. Stir up the hearts of those that have come to trust in Jesus Christ, but who have been enticed to follow a different gospel or who have chosen to walk the way of compromised. Let those that are Your blood-bought children, be stirred in their hearts to seek the truth and to draw ever closer to the Lord Jesus. And Lord, for those who once trusted You but have now wandered far away, I pray that You will speak to their hearts, revive their spirit and draw them back into close fellowship with Yourself. Revive this land, I pray. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/prayer/prayer-for-revival-in-our-land-584
Thank you Maudeen! God bless you!
I want to reshare this sermon again. Such a great message concerning those in rebellion.
This is playing this morning from Isaiah 30. We cry out to the Lord in this time of lawlessness. It’s time to repent! It’s time for revival! In the Name of Jesus! For your glory, Lord.
Isaiah 30 - Warning to the children who rebel
FULL MESSAGE RESTORED | 11-09-22 Way Maker
Just over an hour long
https://youtu.be/7mvD6wokxy8
Affirming our trust in the Lord.
Strengthen our faith by the stories of those who have come before us during dark days.
Joining in prayer for our beloved America.
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Amen NEWwoman! Thanks and God bless you!!
For National Repentance, Deliverance and Truth
Dear Lord and Heavenly King, thank You that there are no boundaries in Your kingdom and that You ultimately rule over heaven and earth, despite the fact that wickedness and evil seeks to dominate the nations of the world as well the lives of individuals.
I pray that You would set up godly men and women in positions of leadership and power in our own nation and in all the nations who exercise authority in our world today.
Thank You for those leaders that are prepared to stand up for truth and righteousness. Give them boldness to challenge those who want to to remove the principles of freedom and tolerance and establish the flawed principles that come from human wisdom.
Lord, I pray that You would guide the leaders of many nations to repent of their sins and turn to the path of peace that only comes from You. Help them to understand that the only peace that will ever be established on earth will be under the rule of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, after Your wrath has been poured out on a Christ rejecting sinful world. Have mercy Lord. Have mercy on all the leaders of nations who do not know You. I pray that many will be saved by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, in Whose Name I pray. Amen.
Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/prayer/for-national-repentance-deliverance-and-truth-739
Thank you spirited irish! God bless you!!
Why Do People Love Darkness More Than Light?
December 18, 2019
By MARTEN VISSER
https://www.biblword.net/why-do-people-love-darkness-more-than-light/
It is not God’s will that people love the darkness, but that they will see the light. But people are evil, and that is why they love darkness. The Bible says: “the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed” (John 3:19-20).
Living in darkness
Ever since Adam and Eve sinned, man has lived in darkness under the power of the prince of darkness, Satan. The world is called “this present darkness” which has “cosmic powers” over it, that is to say, Satan and his demons. This is in total opposition to God, for “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1: 5).
Jesus came into the world as light
However, God did not leave this world in darkness. He sent his son Jesus, who said “I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness” (John 12:46). That is the only hope for the world. That is the only hope that people will turn from darkness to light. God is the only source of light, and only He can give us light. If we believe, He “has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6).
Delivered from the domain of darkness
When we have received that light from God, we have been delivered from the domain of darkness and transferred to the kingdom of his beloved Son (Colossians 1:13). “Whoever follows the Son will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (John 8:12).
The darkness appeals to the natural man
Since believers still have to struggle with the old man, it is necessary to warn them “take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness” (Ephesians 5:11), and to “cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light” (Romans 13:12). We do so enthusiastically, especially because we know that ‘this present darkness’ will last not much longer. Jesus is coming back! “The night is far gone, the day is at hand” (Romans 13:12). Knowing that, the Lord sends us into the world, like he sent Paul, to all people “to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith” (Acts 26:18).
For it is not God’s plan that people love the darkness, but that they will receive his light!
Joining in prayer, petition, thanksgiving, hope and peace.
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Yes, amen! Thank you Jeanbl! God bless you.
Prayers For United Nations
Father, we come to You to pray about the United Nations knowing that they are pursuing an agenda that is so often counter to the truth of Your Word, and at times seems diametrically opposed to godly principles.
Father, we recognise that many of their programmes and policies are couched in issues like sustainable development, global warming, global consciousness, and civil liberties, and we begin to realise that behind much of their agenda is a spirit of control.
Father, we know that You are in full control of all that takes place in our world, and that members of the United Nations can do nothing that is not permitted by You. We pray that You will expose anything that is designed to undermine godly principles in our lives, and pray that You would remove anyone who abuses their power or is seeking to place people under bondage or manipulate the world’s resources for their own personal advantage.
Lord, we know that the time is short and that the Lord Jesus will return to take the Church to be with Himself very soon, but we pray that in Your grace, You would alert those Christians that have not yet recognised the serious implication of these UN subtle policies that are being implemented and which are designed to enslave the world, eliminate state sovereignty and bring in the false religion of the Anti-Christ.
Father, the world needs judgement, but we plead that in Your wrath You would show mercy, and we pray that many would repent of their support of the UN and come to saving faith in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour, before it is too late. We ask this in Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/prayer/prayers-for-united-nations-1655
Joining all in prayer remembering our strength is in the Lord:
“My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in distresses, in persecutions, in difficulties, in behalf of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong.”
2 Corinthians 12: 9-10
Amen.
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Amen UMCRevMom@aol.com! Sometimes it’s difficult to remember this while in pain. That is the best reminder.
What does it mean that when I am weak, then I am strong (2 Corinthians 12:10)?
https://www.gotquestions.org/when-I-am-weak-then-I-am-strong.html
Joining in prayer that we would only draw closer to Him.
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Amen SisterK! God bless you!!
How can I have a closer relationship with God?
https://www.gotquestions.org/closer-relationship-with-God.html
Thank you Kalam! God bless you!!
Ephesians 6:10-20 (NKJV)
The Whole Armor of God
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints— 19 and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Thank you Tucker39! God bless you!!
Ezekiel 5 NKJV: A Sword Against Jerusalem - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%205&version=NKJV
Holy Father, America has lost her way and is in rebellion against you, just like Israel in your Word. Ezekiel 5:6 states that “She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are all around her; for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.’” Although in reference to Israel, the footprint of evil is recognizable and describes the state of America today!
Ezekiel 5:11 states in part “‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity.” Holy Father, shake up the apostate churches in American and around the world. Destroy the idols and scatter the wicked who’ve infiltrated the church! Turn over their tables and drive them out of your house! We call for purification of your bride!
Just as the Lord warned the people of Jerusalem in Ezekiel chapter 5:7, “‘Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you’— therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.”
Ezekiel 5:14 “Moreover I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by. 15 ‘So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken. 16 When I send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread. 17 So I will send against you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’”
Holy Father, let all America and the world receive the warning of your coming Wrath—Pestilence, famine and death by sword! Although we know you are a patient, merciful, slow-to-anger and gracious God, you are also a just God who cannot not tolerate evil forever. Put the words of your prophets before us constantly so we may see clearly again. Remove our spirit of blindness. Remind us over and over of your final Victory over Satan and his followers so we may once again fear and respect our mighty God.
We lament the downfall of America and nations around the world. We pray for protection of your children, especially the young and innocent, who are corrupted more and more every day by shameless pedophiles, perverts and sex traffickers. We cry out for your victory against the slaughter of the preborn. Father God, stop the arrogant deviants twisting our children’s minds with perversions and delusion that they are their own god in attempts to neutralize your plans for them. Shut down the indoctrination centers pretending to be schools where our children are turned against their families and parents, to be devoured by Satan. Stop the wicked leaders in this current administration fighting our country to legalize the murder of the preborn. Halt the wicked promotion of gender confusion which destroys children’s minds and bodies. Sweep clean this nation’s libraries which are now full of pornographic filth aimed at children. Burn up the plans of pedophiles pushing to legalize destruction of youth. Reverse the destruction of homosexuality, fornication, divorce, transgenderism and all perversions that have gained foothold in America. Protect American from the wicked schemes of globalists with god complexes, pushing their antichristian systems and worldview on us.
We pray for our leaders that they may turn from their wicked ways and discover the Truth who is You. Stop the theft of the people’s money and its use to promote sin around the world. Even other nations are noticing how far America has fallen, Lord!
We are so thankful for your Holy Spirit who helps us to speak and act in such a time as this. America was founded to glorify you. We have strayed so far and want to return to You! We are grateful for your Armor and protection of your remnant. AMEN!
Psalm 129
A Song of Ascents.
1 ‘Often have they attacked me from my youth’
—let Israel now say—
2 ‘often have they attacked me from my youth,
yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 Those who plough ploughed on my back;
they made their furrows long.’
4 The Lord is righteous;
he has cut the cords of the wicked.
5 May all who hate Zion
be put to shame and turned back.
6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops
that withers before it grows up,
7 with which reapers do not fill their hands
or binders of sheaves their arms,
8 while those who pass by do not say,
‘The blessing of the Lord be upon you!
We bless you in the name of the Lord!’
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AMEN DarthVader!! God bless you!!
PSALMS 78:1-8, God’s Kindness to Rebellious Israel
A Contemplation of Asaph.
1 Give ear, O my people, to my law; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.
5 For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;
6 That the generation to come might know them, The children who would be born, That they may arise and declare them to their children,
7 That they may set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments;
8 And may not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not set its heart aright, And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
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