Posted on 06/15/2005 7:35:34 PM PDT by kayak
We thank You for all the blessings of this day but we especially are grateful for Your steadfastness. You are the Eternal One, our Creator, the same yesterday, today, and forever. In a world that is changing before our eyes, You are our Anchor; in our storm-tossed lives, You are our Safe Haven. In our sinfulness, You are our Savior -- loving us, understanding us, forgiving us through the blood of Your only begotten Son. You are our Joy and our Hope. All praise and glory to Your hallowed Name!
Lord, just one of our many blessings is the privilege of being born in this country. We see much wrong in America but we are ever mindful that it is still much more blessed than most nations around the world. Thank You, Lord, for Your benevolence towards us. We pray for our young people, who are the future of America. Instill in them a sense of the history and heritage of this great nation that they may strive to carry on the worthy traditions of our past while making the changes that will make us a better nation going forward. Strengthen them when they grow tired and weary and pick them up when they stumble and fall. Place in their hearts a love for You and for Your commandments that they can be Your instruments in helping return our nation to those values that have made us that shining city on a hill, a beacon of hope to all the world. Let them know truth and honor and valor and reverence for life.
Lord, we pray, too, for our President, a man with heavy burdens made heavier by those who lie and deceive and who put their own power and greed ahead of the best interests of our nation. We thank You for the faith of our President and his eagerness to proclaim Your Name. Honor his faithfulness to You by filling his cup to overflowing with wisdom, courage, perseverance, patience, and love. Bless him as he seeks to carry out Your will in his own life and for our nation and light his way that he may stay on the narrow path of righteousness. Watch over his beloved Laura and let their marriage grow yet stronger each day that it may be a comfort to them as they face the vitriol tossed their way daily. Be with Barbara and Jenna and guide them that their lives may be pleasing to You. Keep all of the First Family safe from harm.
Father, we lift up those in our military. Be their Shield as they encounter a devious enemy; be their Comfort as they miss their families; be their Physician when they are injured in body or spirit; be their Counsellor when they see their fellow soldiers die in battle. Hold their loved ones under the shadow of Your wings while they are absent from their heroes.
We ask all these things in the Name and for the sake of Jesus, our Savior and our Lord. Amen.
Let us raise our voices in praise to the Lord God Almighty.
Amen, kayak! Thank you, Father, that Your power is greater than any foe that our President shall encounter. We praise You for Your faithfulness to him and we are confident that You will reward his faithfulness to You. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.
Thank you for your prayer and that very appropriate scripture.
Thank you for your steadfastness in this special ministry, Faith. God bless you.
AMEN DEAR SISTER,AMEN!
GRACE TO ALL BRETHREN!
"Delight thyself also in the Lord."
- Psalm 37:4
The teaching of these words must seem very surprising to those who are
strangers to vital godliness, but to the sincere believer it is only the
inculcation of a recognized truth. The life of the believer is here
described as a delight in God, and we are thus certified of the great fact
that true religion overflows with happiness and joy. Ungodly persons and
mere professors never look upon religion as a joyful thing; to them it is
service, duty, or necessity, but never pleasure or delight. If they attend
to religion at all, it is either that they may gain thereby, or else
because they dare not do otherwise. The thought of delight in religion is
so strange to most men, that no two words in their language stand further
apart than "holiness" and "delight." But believers who know Christ,
understand that delight and faith are so blessedly united, that the gates
of hell cannot prevail to separate them. They who love God with all their
hearts, find that his ways are ways of pleasantness, and all his paths are
peace. Such joys, such brimful delights, such overflowing blessednesses,
do the saints discover in their Lord, that so far from serving him from
custom, they would follow him though all the world cast out his name as
evil.
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our
profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to
duty.
No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our
delight.
Delight and true religion are as allied as root and flower; as indivisible
as truth and certainty; they are, in fact, two precious jewels glittering
side by side in a setting of gold.
"'Tis when we taste thy love,
Our joys divinely grow,
Unspeakable like those above,
And heaven begins below."
C.H.SPURGEON!
GODBLESS OUR PRESIDENT,HIS FAMILY,OUR COUNTRY,TROOPS AND ALL WHO JOIN THIS MINISTRY!
5 SOLAS!
Amen, Kayak. Thank you. From the heart of God.
We pray, also, Father, for the peace of Jerusalem. We receive the prosperity as those who love her. We receive the peace within our walls and the prosperity within our palaces. We say, "May peace be within you."
As a nation, may we seek her good for the sake of the house of the Lord our God.
Amen.
"May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever Amen.
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