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Posted on 04/14/2008 7:54:15 AM PDT by Kitty Mittens
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'Come, Let us Rejoice Unto the Lord: Let us Sing Aloud Unto the Rock of our Salvation.' (Ps.95:1) We Love You, our Father, and Delight to Gather in Your Name. How Grateful we are for Your Saving Grace! From the Depths of Hell You have Raised us, Seating us in the Heavenlies with Christ. You Died our Death, and Now we Walk in Your Life. Your Righteousness Clothes us; our Sins You have Cast to the Sea. We Worship You, our Sovereign, Mighty Lord! Your Eternal Decrees Bring us Peace.
Our Brother-President is in our Hearts, as we Behold the Attacks Upon Your Child. We Pray for His Protection, our Kind and Loving Lord. Thank You that Your Servant Stands Upon the Rock. He will not be Destroyed or Shaken, because of Your Omnipotent Grace. Many are Now Saying, "Where is his God?" Please Lift our Brother Above the Hatred of his Foes. May his Ministry of Prayer Prosper, through Thy Grace. Please Help him to Share Thy Gospel with the Lost. Thank You that he Cares for those in Pain. May the Tears he Sows Now, Result in Eternal Joy.
Thank you for our Defenders of Freedom, Gracious Lord. We Pray All the Blessings of Heaven will be theirs. Guard them Continuously in Thy Love, Majestic Lord. Thank You that You are their Habitation, Sweet King. (Ps.90:1) Please Fill them with Your Strength and Glorious Might. Grant them Victories as they Safeguard our Beloved Land.
Our Hearts Plead for our Nation's Repentance, God of Grace! Turn us to You, that we may Honor and Glorify Your Name. Save us, my Lord, and Bring us to Jesus Christ.
We Plead for the Election of a Multitude of Godly Men. My Master, we Long that the Scourge of Abortion will End. Have Mercy Upon us, our Faithful, Caring God. Please Keep Thy Unmerited Favor Over our Land.
We Ask for Help and Strength for Your Afflicted Church. Thank You that You Fill Your People with Peace. Your Comforts Rejoice their Souls of Your Lambs. (Ps.94:19)
'Sing Unto the Lord a New Song: Sing Unto the Lord All the Earth.' (Ps.96:1) Thank you for Hearing our Prayers, Loving Lord. In Jesus' Name, for the Glory of the King, amen.
John the Baptist was languishing in prison and questioning his faith. He may well have wondered: Is Jesus the Messiah? Is His word true? Have I believed and labored in vain for my Master? Is this dark place my final reward for answering God's call?
Perhaps countless questions make their way through your mind as well: Is Jesus really the Savior? Have my sins been forgiven? Can I trust the Bible? Will I be raised from the dead? Does heaven lie ahead? Is all that I believe a cruel illusion?
Most of us ask questions like these from time to time. I do—especially on those dark days when circumstances bring sorrow and bitter disappointment, when it seems there's no storybook ending to our lives.
These questionings are not failures of faith but tests of faith and can be answered in John the Baptist's way: We must take our doubts to Jesus. In His time and in His own wise way He will restore the confidence our hearts desire.
Jesus didn't abandon John to his doubt. He sent word of the miracles He performed and the hope He preached (Matt. 11:4-6). As George MacDonald said of God's faithfulness: "You might as well say that a mother would go away from her little child lying moaning in the dark."
Bible in One Year: Judges 7–9; Proverbs 5:15-23
My PRayers are offered everyday for our President.
God Bless him and his family and
GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.
Thank you for the Good Devotionals you Post, your Honor, and for All you Do to Bring Righteous and Just Government to our Land.
May God’s mantle rest upon, both, President Bush and our next President. We need leaders of faith in these dark times, leaders of truth while the air is filled with lies, leaders of strength to overcome the serpents within our government and throughout this world.
We pray for our warriors, brave men and women of all castes, colors, and many nations, that fight for freedom and truth. May we stand together, shoulder to shoulder, united in God’s righteousness forever.
Amen.
Amen, Servant of Jesus Christ, to you Entire Heartfelt Post. Thank you for All you Contribute to this Place of Worship and Prayer.
AMEN SISTER AND GRACE TO ALL CHRISTIAN PATRIOTS!
“Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.”
- Psalm 25:18
It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas
concerning our sins-when, being under God’s hand, we are not wholly taken
up with our pain, but remember our offences against God. It is well, also,
to take both sorrow and sin to the same place. It was to God that David
carried his sorrow: it was to God that David confessed his sin. Observe,
then, we must take our sorrows to God. Even your little sorrows you may
roll upon God, for he counteth the hairs of your head; and your great
sorrows you may commit to him, for he holdeth the ocean in the hollow of
his hand. Go to him, whatever your present trouble may be, and you shall
find him able and willing to relieve you.
But we must take our sins to God too.
We must carry them to the cross, that the blood may fall upon them, to
purge away their guilt, and to destroy their defiling power.
The special lesson of the text is this:-that we are to go to the Lord with
sorrows and with sins in the right spirit. Note that all David asks
concerning his sorrow is, “Look upon mine affliction and my pain;” but the
next petition is vastly more express, definite, decided, plain-”Forgive
all my sins.” Many sufferers would have put it, “Remove my affliction and
my pain, and look at my sins.” But David does not say so; he cries, “Lord,
as for my affliction and my pain, I will not dictate to thy wisdom.
Lord, look at them, I will leave them to thee, I should be glad to have
my pain removed, but do as thou wilt; but as for my sins, Lord, I know
what I want with them; I must have them forgiven; I cannot endure to lie
under their curse for a moment.
“ A Christian counts sorrow lighter in the scale than sin; he can bear
that his troubles should continue, but he cannot support the burden of his
transgressions.
C.H.SPURGEON
SOLI DEO GLORIA!
Amen.
Amen, and Thank you So Much for these Spurgeon Devotionals, my Dearest Brother in Christ. What a Blessing they are to our Master's Church! Our Lord Ever Increase the Anointing Upon your Ministries, and Accomplish Great Things through you, for His Purposes, through Grace.
May God bless our great Country, her President and her valiant Warriors, In Jesus Name, amen.
God Bless your heart. KM! Thank you for the beautiful pictures and prayer!
I join in prayer for President Bush, the Administration, the election and our heroes standing in harm’s way!
God Bless and AMEN!!!!
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