So the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;
Posted on 04/21/2006 3:50:20 PM PDT by ohioWfan
Father, we bring before You our President, George W. Bush, thanking You that he is a follower of Your Son, Jesus. We see daily the attacks against him from all sides because he displays the Fruit of the Spirit, and we ask Your protection over him as he goes about the very difficult task of leading this country in the war against an evil enemy. We ask that You would keep him faithful in prayer and in study of Your word, and that You would help him to grow in faith and in purity as he serves this country and You. We pray for his family, that they would be safe and that no one would do them harm.
Father, we bring before You our brave troops, especially those who are serving in harm's way, and we ask a special hedge of protection to surround them each moment of each day. We pray that they would be comforted in their loneliness and might feel Your presence with them. Help them to be able to seek out and destroy those who would destroy the fragile new democracy in Iraq. We ask that Your hand would be upon everything done in that land, that You might receive all the glory for what has been accomplished there.
And finally dear Lord, we pray for this nation, begging Your forgiveness for our sins, as individuals and as a country. Help our leaders, we pray, to follow Your laws, and the laws of this land, and the Constitution on which it was founded. Give our leaders the strength of conviction they need to fight the battles that need to be fought. Help them to lead, and not be led, to govern and not be controlled by polls or public approval. Give them wisdom beyond human understanding, and courage as they make decisions that will affect the future of this country. We thank You for America, dear Lord; for this great gift of freedom we have. But most of all, we thank You for the freedom that we have through Your Son, Jesus, in whose name we pray, Amen!
Please join us in prayer for our President, our troops, and our nation!
AMEN OHIO AND GRACE TO ALL CHRISTIAN PATRIOTS!
Blessed Creator,
Thou hast promised thy beloved sleep;
Give me restoring rest needful for
tomorrow’s toil;
If dreams be mine,
let them not be tinged with evil.
Let thy Spirit make my time of repose
a blessed temple of his holy presence.
May my frequent lying down make me familiar
with death,
the bed I approach remind me of the grave,
the eyes I now close picture to me their
final closing.
Keep me always ready, waiting for admittance
to thy presence.
Weaken my attachment to earthly things.
May I hold life loosely in my hand,
knowing that I receive it on condition
of its surrender;
As pain and suffering betoken transitory health,
may I not shrink from a death that introduces me
to the freshness of eternal youth.
I retire this night in full assurance of one day
awaking with thee.
All glory for this precious hope,
for the gospel of grace,
for thine unspeakable gift of Jesus,
for the fellowship of the Trinity.
Withhold not thy mercies in the night season;
thy hand never wearies,
thy power needs no repose,
thine eye never sleeps.
Help me when I helpless lie,
when my conscience accuses me of sin,
when my mind is harassed by foreboding
thoughts,
when my eyes are held awake by personal
anxieties.
Show thyself to me as the God of all grace,
love and power;
thou hast a balm for every wound,
a solace for all anguish,
a remedy for every pain,
a peace for all disquietude.
Permit me to commit myself to thee
awake or asleep.
A PURITANS PRAYER!
SOLI DEO GLORIA!
This is just beautiful, alpha! Those Puritans sure could pray, couldn't they? :)
Thanks! SDG!
No record deal, no dream fulfilled, no three minute video
No catchy jingle, no big hit single playing on the radio
Can make me happy
Can make me feel the way You do
You make me happy
I wanna make You happy too
You make me happy
You make me happy
No flashy cars, no movie stars, no man, woman, boy or girl
No fancy things, no diamond rings, nothing in the whole wide world
Can make me happy
Can make me feel the way You do
You make me happy
I want to make You happy too
You make me happy
You make me feel the way I do
You make me happy
I wish the whole world knew You too
No I cannot count the ways You have made my life so blessed
All I know is that You came and made beauty of my mess
Said I cannot count the ways You have made my life so blessed
All I know is that You came and made beauty of my mess
You make me happy
You make me feel the way I do
You make me happy
I want to make You happy too
You make me happy
You make me feel the way I do
You make me happy
I wish the whole world knew You too
Happy; Ayiesha Woods
Thank you for your faithful prayer, Luvya! God bless you!
Amen, oWf. May God bless and protect our beloved President, whom history will show to have been one of our greatest.
And keeping our brave troops in my prayers, as always.
Praying with you Ohio. Father, protect and defend your child George W. Bush and guard him from his enemies. Make his path straight and smooth and his words those of your choosing. Show him your ways and allow him to lead this nation to your glory.
Amen, Fudd Fan! God has blessed us!
Amen and AMEN, rightgirl! Thank you for your faithful prayers.
Attacked from all sides, both at home and abroad...
I stand behind our President, our Troops, and our Country...I also kneel down and give thanks for them all!!!
God Bless our President!!!
Thank you for praying!
"May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever Amen."
Amen! Thank you, ejo.
Joining you in your beautiful prayer.
Thanks, Sea! Our prayers are much needed!
I'll pray that Bush wises up!
He's doing a TERRIBLE job.
ILLEGAL immigrants, NO order security to speak of and out the other side of his mouth he's concerned about attacks.
He needs to GET REAL and try some CONSISTENCY.
I don't, however consider your 'contribution' to this (protected) thread a sincere prayer.
Please take your political discussion to an appropriate thread.......there are thousands of them out there where you can bash away.
Here, we pray.
Ditto. You must have seen this other thread:
BUSH'S STAND ON ILLEGALS MAKES NO SENSE
boblonsberry.com ^ | 04/25/06 | Bob LonsberryTen percent of Mexico is in America.
Not the territory, the population.
Ten percent of the population of the Republic of Mexico lives illegally in the United States of America.
And it’s only getting worse. The number of Mexican citizens crossing illegally into the United States each day is in the tens of thousands. Which proves Mexico has a better president than we do.
Here’s how I figure.
The vast majority of Mexicans want free immigration into the United States. The vast majority of Americans don’t.
Score one for them.
The vast majority of Americans want a physical wall built along the Mexican border. The vast majority of Mexicans don’t.
Score two for them.
Illegal Mexican immigration into the United States helps the economy of Mexico and hurts the economy of the United States.
Score three for them.
Their president says he will encourage illegal immigration. Our president says he will discourage it.
Their president actually did and our president actually didn’t.
Score four for them.
Which is about game, set, match.
And it only got worse this week when George W. Bush stood up in Orange County, California, and said things that could only make Mexicans cheer and Americans sob. Our captain seems to be playing for the wrong team.
Here are some examples.
George W. Bush said two things were certain: We can’t deport illegal aliens and we can’t punish businesses that employ them. The problem with that is that a full 50 percent of Americans – a number far higher than his own personal popularity – favor deportation for all illegal aliens in this country.
And an even higher percentage favor strict sanctions on people who hire illegals.
Which essentially means the president has thumbed his nose at the people.
The president says the cornerstone of his immigration reform is a guest worker program and eventual citizenship for illegals here now. Both those viewpoints are also opposed by the majority of Americans.
Further, George W. Bush said that the Border Patrol was not in the business of capturing or stopping illegal aliens. Rather, he wants them to look for contraband and terrorists. He specifically does not want the Border Patrol involved in stopping the people streaming across our border.
Which, again, is just opposite of what the American people want and expect.
The president also described legislation being discussed in the Senate as an “important compromise.” It is, of course, nothing of the sort. It is one extreme position. It is the wildly pro-illegal immigration position. A compromise would be the middle ground between to points, not one point at the exclusion of the other.
He has essentially endorsed the Teddy Kennedy plan for alien normalization. Which explains why one of the first and loudest voices of praise for the president’s remarks came from Senator Kennedy.
Finally, the president told the Orange County crowd – a group of businesspeople generally uncomfortable with the flood of aliens – that the illegal immigrants are “decent, hard-working people” who “need to be treated with respect.”
Which gets back to the point that Mexico has a better president than we do. There’s no doubt that the Mexican president stands up for his country. There’s no evidence that the American president stands up for his.
Rather, he seems to sell our interests – and our opinions – down the river.
Which gets back to the midterm elections. George W. Bush is about 12 months away from impeachment hearings if the Democrats take over the Congress, and the way things are going they’re apt to get at least half of it come November.
Why?
Because the Republican Party has turned off the Republicans.
Half the country hated Bush the day he was elected. The other half liked him. The dramatic swing in support numbers shows that it’s not Democrats who are ticked at Bush, it’s Republicans. His support has evaporated – among the people who put him in office. Among the Republicans. Especially the conservative Republicans.
And the president’s stance on illegal immigration is one of the major reasons for that. Between the debt he has accumulated and the millions of illegals he has let sneak into our country, it is quite likely that the negative effect of this presidency will be felt for decades and decades.
And that’s not a Democrat saying that, it’s a Republican.
George W. Bush has abandoned our values and our borders. And we’re abandoning him.
And that might leave us with a Democrat next go ‘round, but it’s hard to believe that could be any worse.
Oh, it could get worse. But what a miserable choice.
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