- President Bush: The events of the past month have been a serious concern to me, and a serious concern to the American people … It's my responsibility to provide the American people with a candid assessment on the way forward. There is tough fighting ahead. The road to victory will not be easy. We should not expect a simple solution. The fact that the fighting is tough does not mean our efforts in Iraq are not worth it. To the contrary; the consequences in Iraq will have a decisive impact on the security of our country, because defeating the terrorists in Iraq is essential to turning back the cause of extremism in the Middle East.
Psalms 104:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great: You are clothed with honor and majesty,
Psalms 104:2 Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.
Psalms 104:3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind,
Psalms 104:4 Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire.
Psalms 104:5 You who laid the foundations of the earth, So that it should not be moved forever,
Psalms 104:6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains.
Psalms 104:7 At Your rebuke they fled; At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away.
Psalms 104:8 They went up over the mountains; They went down into the valleys, To the place which You founded for them.
Psalms 104:9 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, That they may not return to cover the earth.
Psalms 104:10 He sends the springs into the valleys, They flow among the hills.
Psalms 104:11 They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Psalms 104:12 By them the birds of the heavens have their home; They sing among the branches.
Psalms 104:13 He waters the hills from His upper chambers; The earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.
Psalms 104:14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the service of man, That he may bring forth food from the earth,
Psalms 104:15 And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face shine, And bread which strengthens man's heart.
Psalms 104:16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap, The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,
Psalms 104:17 Where the birds make their nests; The stork has her home in the fir trees.
Psalms 104:18 The high hills are for the wild goats; The cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers.
Psalms 104:19 He appointed the moon for seasons; The sun knows its going down.
Psalms 104:20 You make darkness, and it is night, In which all the beasts of the forest creep about.
Psalms 104:21 The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God.
Psalms 104:22 When the sun rises, they gather together And lie down in their dens.
Psalms 104:23 Man goes out to his work And to his labor until the evening.
Psalms 104:24 O LORD, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your possessions-
Psalms 104:25 This great and wide sea, In which are innumerable teeming things, Living things both small and great.
Psalms 104:26 There the ships sail about; There is that Leviathan Which You have made to play there.
Psalms 104:27 These all wait for You, That You may give them their food in due season.
Psalms 104:28 What You give them they gather in; You open Your hand, they are filled with good.
Psalms 104:29 You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
Psalms 104:30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the earth.
Psalms 104:31 May the glory of the LORD endure forever; May the LORD rejoice in His works.
Psalms 104:32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the hills, and they smoke.
Psalms 104:33 I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Psalms 104:34 May my meditation be sweet to Him; I will be glad in the LORD.
Psalms 104:35 May sinners be consumed from the earth, And the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD! (NKJV)
DEAR LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY, THIS HOUR AND THIS SECOND.
LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS TIME YOUR SAINTS CAN GATHER BEFORE YOUR THRONE OF GRACE WITH PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION.
LORD, WE PRAY FOR ALL OF YOUR SAINTS NO MATTER WHERE THEY MAY BE OR WHATEVER THEIR NEED.
LORD,WE PRAY FOR COMFORT FOR THOSE WHO MOURN THE LOST,AND FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN FEAR AS WE BATTLE EVIL.
LORD,WE THANKYOU FOR A PRESIDENT WHO DOES NOT EQUIVACATE DISCERMENT AND TELLS THE CITIZENS THE EVIL THEY ARE FACING IS ISLAMIC FACISM.
LORD, WE PRAY ESPECIALLY FOR GEORGE WALKER BUSH, LAURA BUSH, BARBARA AND JENNA BUSH, THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND ALL MEMMBERS OF GOVERNMENT WHO HOLD YOUR TRUTHS CLOSE TO THEIR HEARTS.
LORD, WE PRAY FOR YOUR CONTINUED HAND OF GUIDANCE AND PROTECTION IN EACH ONES LIFE.
LORD, WE PRAY EACH BELIEVER LOCKS INTO THEIR HEART THE FACT THAT YOU ARE GOD AND TOTALLY SOVEREIGN, WE PRAY THEY JUST LET YOU BE YOU AND STOP BOXING IN YOUR EMINENCE.
LORD, WE PRAY ALL CHRISTIAN PATRIOTS CHOOSE THE RIGHTER WRONG AND HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW YOU WOULD LIKE THE BETTER GOOD IN AUTHORITY, NOT VOTE BASED ON SINGLE ISSUES, THOUGH TEMPER THEIR THOUGHTS THROUGH THE FILTER OF YOUR WHOLE WORD.
LORD, WE PRAY FOR THIS COUNTRY, A LAND FORMED ON THE PRINCIPALS YOU GAVE US. WE PRAY FOR A RETURN TO A TIME WHEN THIS LAND WAS BASED ON GOD, DUTY AND HONOR.
LORD, WE PRAY FOR YOUR SOVEREIGN HAND OF PROTECTION AGAINST ALL WHO THREATEN OUR LAND.
WE PRAY THAT THE DECEPTIVE LIES OF POLITICAL DESPOTS AND THE MEDIA WILL FALL ON DEAF EARS AND ONLY YOUR TRUTH WILL BE HEARD. WE PRAY THE WORDS OF THOSE WHO WOULD READ THE KORAN ALONG WITH YOUR HOLY WORD IN A EFFORT TOWARD SO-CALLED DIVERSITY WILL ROT IN THEIR THROATS.
LORD, WE PRAY FOR ALL OF THE DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM, WHETHER HOME OR IN FOREIGN LANDS.
WE PRAY FOR THEIR SAFETY AND WE PRAY FOR COMFORT FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND WE THANK YOU FOR THEIR STRENGTH AND COURAGE IN STAYING THE COURSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
LORD, WE PRAY FOR THE COMFORT OF THE FAMILIES OF Private Thomas Tucker and Kristian Menchaca.
LORD, WE PRAY YOUR VENGENCE IS SWIFT AND HARSH AGAINST THOSE WHO COMMITTED THESE MURDERS AND ALSO AGAINST THOSE WHO HATE THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE OF ITS CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES.
LORD, WE PRAY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ISRAEL FROM MUSLIM TERRORISTS.
LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR THE SKILL AND FORTITUDE YOU HAVE GIVEN OUR MILITARY WHICH ENABLES THEM TO TURN EVIL MEN OVER TO YOU FOR ETERNAL JUDGMENT.
Jude 1:24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
Jude 1:25 To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen.
"The trees of the Lord are full of sap." - Psalm 104:16
Without sap the tree cannot flourish or even exist. Vitality is essential to a Christian. There must be life -a vital principle infused into us by God the Holy Ghost, or we cannot be trees of the Lord. The mere name of being a Christian is but a dead thing, we must be filled with the spirit of divine life. This life is mysterious. We do not understand the circulation of the sap, by what force it rises, and by what power it descends again. So the life within us is a sacred mystery. Regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost entering into man and becoming man's life; and this divine life in a believer afterwards feeds upon the flesh and blood of Christ and is thus sustained by divine food, but whence it cometh and whither it goeth who shall explain to us? What a secret thing the sap is! The roots go searching through the soil with their little spongioles, but we cannot see them suck out the various gases, or transmute the mineral into the vegetable; this work is done down in the dark. Our root is Christ Jesus, and our life is hid in him; this is the secret of the Lord. The radix of the Christian life is as secret as the life itself. How permanently active is the sap in the cedar! In the Christian the divine life is always full of energy-not always in fruit- bearing, but in inward operations. The believer's graces, are not every one of them in constant motion? but his life never ceases to palpitate within. He is not always working for God, but his heart is always living upon him. As the sap manifests itself in producing the foliage and fruit of the tree, so with a truly healthy Christian, his grace is externally manifested in his walk and conversation. If you talk with him, he cannot help speaking about Jesus. If you notice his actions you will see that he has been with Jesus. He has so much sap within, that it must fill his conduct and conversation with life.
C.H.SPURGEON
SOLI DEO GLORIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!