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Posted on 05/19/2008 8:17:56 AM PDT by Kitty Mittens
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We are Gathering before You, Lord, So Thankful for Your Everlasting Love. Before Eternity You Chose us by Name, and we Bow in Awe and Reverence at Your Feet. Be Praised for Your Glorious Salvation, O God. Thank You for Giving us New Life in Your Son!
We Lift our President and our Leaders to You, Asking for Every Blessing, through Grace. May Eternal Salvation be Granted to Many Hearts. We Pray Ardently for the Defeat of Evil Men, Holy Lord. Please Send us Godly Leaders who will Champion the Rights of the Preborn. Be Pleased to Raise Up Men who are after Thine Own Heart. Our Sin-Sick Nation Needs Revival, and we Ask that Fervently, in Your Name. Please Forgive us our Tresspasses and Sins, and Help us to Love Jesus Christ.
Father, Please Send Forth Daily Supplies of Strength for our Troops. May Thy Protection be with Every Life in a Powerful Way. We Pray that our Christ will be the Savior of Every Heart.
We Ask, Sovereign God, for Israel's Protection and Peace. We Plead for Thy Presence to Bless Your Afflicted Church. We Thank You for Your Mercies, O God. Glory to You for Your Kindness, our Loving Lord.
We Worship You, Abba-Father, and Lift High the Name of Your Son. In Jesus' Name, for the Glory of the King, amen.
My wife and I were stopped at a railroad crossing to allow a train to pass. As we waited in the line of cars, the driver next to us suddenly darted through a nearby parking lot and headed in the direction of the next available railroad crossing.
I turned to Marlene and said, with some righteous indignation, “Look at that guy. He’s trying to get around the train instead of waiting like the rest of us.” As soon as I said those words, the man, camera in hand, hopped from his car to take pictures of the oncoming train. I had judged his motives, and I was dead wrong.
Although we can observe behavior and outward appearance, only God can see what’s in the heart. That is one reason we all need the Word of God so desperately. Hebrews 4:12 says, “The Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
When we find ourselves ready to judge another person’s motives, let’s pause and remember—only God can see the heart, and only His Word can expose its motives. Our responsibility is to let the Lord and His Word convict us about our own hearts.
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Thank you, your Honor, for this Good Devotional. It's Always So Important to Remember that our Lord Alone is an Accurate Judge of Men's Hearts. May He be Lifted Up, Honored, and Glorified in All our Lives.
Amen. Thank you for Prayers answered, thank you for the blessings of this day, and for Our President, and our troops, our country, families, friends, freedoms. Amen.
We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing;
he chastens and hastens his will to make known;
the wicked oppressing now cease from distressing:
sing praise to his Name, he forgets not his own.
Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
ordaining, maintaining his kingdom divine;
so from the beginning the fight we were winning:
thou, Lord, wast at our side: all glory be thine!
We all do extol thee, thou leader triumphant,
and pray that thou still our defender wilt be.
Let thy congregation escape tribulation:
thy Name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free.
Words: Nederlandtsche Gedenckclanck, 1626;
trans. Theodore Baker (1851-1934), 1894.
Music: Kremser (Nederlandtsche Gedenckclank, 1626)
Amen, Thank you.
AMEN SISTER AND GRACE TO ALL CHRISTIAN PATRIOTS!
“I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon
the earth.”
- Ecclesiastes 10:7
Upstarts frequently usurp the highest places, while the truly great pine
in obscurity. This is a riddle in providence whose solution will one day
gladden the hearts of the upright; but it is so common a fact, that none
of us should murmur if it should fall to our own lot. When our Lord was
upon earth, although he is the Prince of the kings of the earth, yet he
walked the footpath of weariness and service as the Servant of servants:
what wonder is it if his followers, who are princes of the blood, should
also be looked down upon as inferior and contemptible persons? The world
is upside down, and therefore, the first are last and the last first.
See how the servile sons of Satan lord it in the earth! What a high horse
they ride! How they lift up their horn on high! Haman is in the court,
while Mordecai sits in the gate; David wanders on the mountains, while
Saul reigns in state; Elijah is complaining in the cave while Jezebel is
boasting in the palace; yet who would wish to take the places of the proud
rebels? and who, on the other hand, might not envy the despised saints?
When the wheel turns, those who are lowest rise, and the highest sink.
Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.
Let us not fall into the error of letting our passions and carnal
appetites ride in triumph, while our nobler powers walk in the dust. Grace
must reign as a prince, and make the members of the body instruments of
righteousness.
The Holy Spirit loves order, and he therefore sets our powers and
faculties in due rank and place, giving the highest room to those
spiritual faculties which link us with the great King; let us not disturb
the divine arrangement, but ask for grace that we may keep under our body
and bring it into subjection.
We were not new created to allow our passions to rule over us, but that
we, as kings, may reign in Christ Jesus over the triple kingdom of spirit,
soul, and body, to the glory of God the Father.
C.H.SPURGEON
SOLI DEO GLORIA!
Amen.
Amen, and Amen, and All we Suffer in this Life will be Worth it All then! All the Heartache, All the Pain; it will Soon Give Way to Eternity's Bright Dawn, and, oh, what Rejoicing the Saints will Do then!
Thank you for your Appreciated Ministry to the Church, my Brother and Sister of my Heart.
Amen.
All I can add is I agree, in Jesus Name and Give Thanks that our President and First Lady and their Secret Service protectors are home safe, amen.
What a blessing to pray with such committed Christians everyday! Thank you, God, and please heal our brother, Jim Robinson!
Joining with you in prayer.
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