"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Neither are your ways, My ways," declares the LORD.
As the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
Posted on 03/11/2005 3:04:34 PM PST by ohioWfan
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Neither are your ways, My ways," declares the LORD.
As the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
Dear Lord, we ask also that President Bush might understand Your ways, and submit his own personal ambition and innermost thoughts to You, and to You alone. Overwhelm him with a sense of Your presence in his life, and give him the strength he needs to accomplish the things which You have put him in office to do. Keep him deep in Your word and in prayer, so that he might walk in Your way, and have thoughts that come directly from You. We continue to pray that You will keep him safe from harm, for we know that there are many who plot against him, and those in his family. We ask for protection of Laura, Barbara and Jenna, and their extended family, and ask that You might bless them in abundance. Help them each to grow in love, and in the knowledge and wisdom that comes from above.
Lord, we also continue to pray for our soldiers, sailors and airmen who serve in harm's way, and ask that You place a shield of protection over each one of them. Grant them comfort and peace and freedom from all fear, and help them to understand that, despite what they might hear in the mainstream media, that they are doing something honorable and good, and that the American people support them, honor them, and most importantly pray for them. Be with families waiting anxiously at home, heal those who have been injured, and wrap Your arms of love around the families of those who have fallen, that they might have a peace that only You can give.
Lord we pray for this great nation that You have blessed with such abundance. We pray that we might become a nation once more that honors Your law and Your truth. We pray for the families of the judge and the two other victims of this tragedy in Georgia, that there might be swift justice for the killer, and great comfort for those who have suffered this great loss. Lord, we continue to pray for Terry Schindler Shiavo, that You would intervene and that her life may be spared from a brutal, painful murder. We continue to pray with fervency that we might once again as a nation honor life. Lord, we beg Your forgiveness for any apathy that we might feel, and for not standing up as much as we should to protect the lives of the weak and the preborn. Grant us mercy, O Lord. Hear our prayers and bless us in the name of Jesus, who is the Lamb of God, slain for us, Amen!
Please join us in prayer today for our President and First Lady, for our troops, and for this nation!
Thank you. God Bless President Bush and the United States of America
Heavenly Father, We thank you for our many, many blessings and pray for safety for our beloved military and continued guidance for our president who has set about freeing two nations. Amen
Prayer bump
If you pray, make it short and sweet. A good example is the prayer that Christ taught us. Not many words; just the right ones.
May the mind of Christ, my Savior,
Live in me from day to day,
By His love and power, controlling
All I do and say.
May the Word of God dwell richly
In my heart from hour to hour,
So that all may see I triumph
Only through His power.
May the peace of God my Father
Rule my life in everything,
That I may be calm to comfort
Sick and sorrowing.
May the love of Jesus fill me
As the waters fill the sea;
Him exalting, self abasing,
This is victory.
May I run the race before me,
Strong and brave to face the foe,
Looking only unto Jesus
As I onward go.
May His beauty rest upon me,
As I seek the lost to win,
And may they forget the channel,
Seeing only Him.
May The Mind Of Christ, My Savior, Kate B Wilkinson
Amen! Thank you for praying with us, unkus.
Amen, Peach! Praying for continued guidance for President Bush.
Thanks, srm!
And may they forget the channel, seeing only HIM!
May that be our prayer tonight.
To HIM be all the glory.
Praying your prayer aloud in agreement with you, ohio. Thank you for your expressions of faith, concern, and hope.
AMEN OHIO AND AMEN ALL!
GRACE AND PRAYERS FOR INFINTE BLESSINGS TO ALL BRETHREN!
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
(NKJV)
EPH 2V 8-10
"In my prosperity I said I shall never be moved."
- Psalm 30:6
"Moab settled on his lees, he hath not been emptied from vessel to
vessel." Give a man wealth; let his ships bring home continually rich
freights; let the winds and waves appear to be his servants to bear his
vessels across the bosom of the mighty deep; let his lands yield
abundantly: let the weather be propitious to his crops; let uninterrupted
success attend him; let him stand among men as a successful merchant; let
him enjoy continued health; allow him with braced nerve and brilliant eye
to march through the world, and live happily; give him the buoyant spirit;
let him have the song perpetually on his lips; let his eye be ever
sparkling with joy-and the natural consequence of such an easy state to
any man, let him be the best Christian who ever breathed, will be
presumption; even David said, "I shall never be moved;" and we are not
better than David, nor half so good.
Brother, beware of the smooth places of the way; if you are treading
them, or if the way be rough, thank God for it.
If God should always rock us in the cradle of prosperity; if we were
always dandled on the knees of fortune; if we had not some stain on the
alabaster pillar; if there were not a few clouds in the sky; if we had not
some bitter drops in the wine of this life, we should become intoxicated
with pleasure, we should dream "we stand;" and stand we should, but it
would be upon a pinnacle; like the man asleep upon the mast, each moment
we should be in jeopardy.
We bless God, then, for our afflictions; we thank him for our changes; we
extol his name for losses of property; for we feel that had he not
chastened us thus, we might have become too secure. Continued worldly
prosperity is a fiery trial.
"Afflictions, though they seem severe,
In mercy oft are sent."
C.H.SPURGEON!
SOLI DEO GLORIA!!
Thank you for praying so faithfully!
Thank you for that wonderful passage of Scripture, alpha! A gift from God, and not of ourselves.
My most sincere apologies.
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