Pray for President Bush

Heavenly Father,

We give thanks to You, Lord, for You are our refuge and Your love endures forever. May Your redeemed who have been gathered from the nations, glory in Your praise. Let us proclaim Your mighty acts and tell of Your wonderful goodness. Father, You have blessed us with precious gifts from Your great bounty. We humbly praise Your Name and thank You for being our God Who is always with us, our God Who will accompany us through the days that lie ahead. Help us to seek You and Your kingdom first, making our relationship with You the focus of our lives.

We come together to thank You for Jesus Christ. Had You not sent Your Son to die for us, Father,, this short journey on earth would be futile, and there would be no hope for eternal life. Please accept our humble and grateful praise for our Precious Savior Who is the most wonderful and powerful gift we could possibly receive. May Your Name be proclaimed in all generations and may we praise You for ever and ever.

Father, may our President joy in Your strength and rejoice in Your salvation. May his love abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that he may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through our Savior. Father, help him to see clearly the potential evil that is moving in on our nation and the nation of Israel. Help him to continue to battle for what is right and for that which will protect us. Grant him the courage to face any nation intent upon harm and destruction, and even our own politicians who so frequently choose their positions on the basis of political gain. Grant our President safety and security all the days of his life, and put all of the devil’s schemes into a state of complete confusion. Please take pleasure in George Bush because he fears You, and he hopes in Your mercy. Place upon his heart Your answers to every problem. We are grateful that he publicly acknowledges the American people for the prayers lifted up on his behalf.

May Your strength fill our military men and women as they continue to stand for freedom. Bless and reward the efforts of each troop to bring peace to this world and to establish liberty where tyranny once existed. Protect them from the hand of the enemy, and send aid and comfort to their families who await them.

O Lord, may it be that we, as a nation, would turn our hearts to You and boldly take a step toward You. Help us to inherit the kingdom that you have prepared for us from the foundation of the world. We exalt You, Mighty King. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

February 16, 2008

It’s A Fact

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READ: Ephesians 4:1-6

[I pray] that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You. —John 17:21

In doing research for his epic story Roots, Alex Haley embarked on the freighter African Star, sailing from Monrovia, Liberia, to Jacksonville, Florida. He did so to better understand the travails of his ancestors, who were brought in chains to America.

Haley descended into the ship’s hold, stripped himself of protective clothing, and tried to sleep on some thick, rough-hewn bracing. After the third miserable night, he gave up and returned to his cabin. But he could now write with some small degree of empathy of the sufferings of his forebears.

It’s one thing to say we believe that Jesus Christ, the second Person of the holy Trinity, identifies Himself with us. It’s quite another to feel the blessed experience of our identification with Him. But we need not resort to extreme measures to grasp the truth of that oneness, for Christ Himself has endured the most extreme of all measures to identify with us. He went to the cross to reconcile a sinful human race to Himself (Rom. 5:10-11).

Reading Scripture, praying, and partaking of the Lord’s Supper can help us gain at least some awareness of our identification with our Lord and Savior. But regardless of how we feel, our unity with Him is a fact that we must grasp in faith.

With longing all my heart is filled
That like Him I may be,
As on the wondrous thought I dwell,
That Christ liveth in me. —Whittle

The just shall live by faith—not by feeling.

Bible in One Year: Mark 7–11; Proverbs 16:22-33

AMEN SISTER AND GRACE TO ALL CHRISTIAN PATRIOTS!

“Thy good Spirit.”
- Nehemiah 9:20

Common, too common is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit. This is folly
and ingratitude. He deserves well at our hands, for he is good, supremely
good. As God, he is good essentially. He shares in the threefold
ascription of Holy, holy, holy, which ascends to the Triune Jehovah.
Unmixed purity and truth, and grace is he. He is good benevolently,
tenderly bearing with our waywardness, striving with our rebellious wills;
quickening us from our death in sin, and then training us for the skies as
a loving nurse fosters her child. How generous, forgiving, and tender is
this patient Spirit of God. He is good operatively. All his works are good
in the most eminent degree: he suggests good thoughts, prompts good
actions, reveals good truths, applies good promises, assists in good
attainments, and leads to good results. There is no spiritual good in all
the world of which he is not the author and sustainer, and heaven itself
will owe the perfect character of its redeemed inhabitants to his work. He
is good officially; whether as Comforter, Instructor, Guide, Sanctifier,
Quickener, or Intercessor, he fulfils his office well, and each work is
fraught with the highest good to the church of God. They who yield to his
influences become good, they who obey his impulses do good, they who live
under his power receive good. Let us then act towards so good a person
according to the dictates of gratitude. Let us revere his person, and
adore him as God over all, blessed for ever; let us own his power, and our
need of him by waiting upon him in all our holy enterprises; let us hourly
seek his aid, and never grieve him; and let us speak to his praise
whenever occasion occurs.
The church will never prosper until more reverently it believes in the
Holy Ghost.
He is so good and kind, that it is sad indeed that he should be grieved
by slights and negligences.

C.H.SPURGEON

SOLI DEO GLORIA!

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