Please join us in prayer for our President, our troops and their families, and our nation.
My prayers are with the President, the troops, and the nation. May God protect us all.
Agreeing with you in prayer, kayak. Heavenly Father, we ask blessings for President Bush, our military, and this nation. Bless all who come here to pray.
AMEN KAYAK AND AMEN ALL!!
"If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or
the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled
the fire shall surely make restitution."
- Exodus 22:6
But what restitution can he make who casts abroad the fire-brands of
error, or the coals of lasciviousness, and sets men's souls on a blaze
with the fire of hell? The guilt is beyond estimate, and the result is
irretrievable.
If such an offender be forgiven, what grief it will cause him in the
retrospect, since he cannot undo the mischief which he has done! An ill
example may kindle a flame which years of amended character cannot quench.
To burn the food of man is bad enough, but how much worse to destroy the
soul! It may be useful to us to reflect how far we may have been guilty in
the past, and to enquire whether, even in the present, there may not be
evil in us which has a tendency to bring damage to the souls of our
relatives, friends, or neighbours.
The fire of strife is a terrible evil when it breaks out in a Christian
church. Where converts were multiplied, and God was glorified, jealousy
and envy do the devil's work most effectually. Where the golden grain was
being housed, to reward the toil of the great Boaz, the fire of enmity
comes in and leaves little else but smoke and a heap of blackness. Woe
unto those by whom offences come. May they never come through us, for
although we cannot make restitution, we shall certainly be the chief
sufferers if we are the chief offenders. Those who feed the fire deserve
just censure, but he who first kindles it is most to blame.
Discord usually takes first hold upon the thorns; it is nurtured among
the hypocrites and base professors in the church, and away it goes among
the righteous, blown by the winds of hell, and no one knows where it may
end.
O thou Lord and giver of peace, make us peacemakers, and never let us aid
and abet the men of strife, or even unintentionally cause the least
division among thy people.
C.H.SPURGEON
SOLI DEO GLORIA!