Posted on 11/11/2008 7:01:29 PM PST by Blogger
A FEW NOTES TO THOSE WHO ARE VISITING THIS THREAD FOR THE FIRST TIME:
1) YES THIS IS A SERIOUS PRAYER THREAD. WE ARE COMMANDED BY THE LORD TO PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE OUR ENEMIES AND COMMANDED IN HIS WORD TO PRAY FOR THOSE IN AUTHORITY THAT WE MAY LIVE PEACEFUL LIVES
2)YOUR RESPECT TOWARDS OUR DESIRE TO BE OBEDIENT AND TO SEEK THE LORD'S BLESSINGS FOR OUR NATION AND FOR THE CONVERSION OF OUR PRESIDENT-ELECT IS APPRECIATED
3)WHAT IS, IS. HE IS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT AND IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR US IF HE IS ON GOD'S SIDE RATHER THAN IF HE IS NOT.
4)THANK YOU FOR REFRAINING FROM RUDE COMMENTARY AND VULGARITIES. MANY FREEPERS TRULY FEEL LED TO PRAY FOR THE PRESIDENT-ELECT AND AMERICA ON A DAILY BASIS. THIS THREAD ALLOWS THEM TO DO SUCH, AND MANAGEMENT AND THE RELIGION MODERATOR WILL VIEW ANY RUDE OR VULGAR COMMENTARY ON THIS PRAYER THREAD AS A VIOLATION OF FREE REPUBLIC RULES IN THE RELIGION FORUM.
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Various rumors and confirmations have been floating about regarding the members of his cabinet. From what we have seen thus far, he will be the far left President that we anticipated he would be. Various policy ideas on everything from Embryonic stem cells to the second amendment are also making their way to the news cycle. Looking at these things, I can but shake my head and ask, What has America done? Lord, this land of the free and home of the brave has become the land of the willingly bound and cowardly. Rather than stand against evil, our people have first allowed it to exist side by side with them. Then, they allowed it a stronger voice. Now it is their master. Right and wrong are topsy turvy in the America of today. It isn't a Democrat thing. It isn't a Republican thing. It is an American thing - symptomatic of a nation that has seriously lost its way and is plunging into Oblivion. Save us, Lord, if we can be saved.
Lord, we lift up President-Elect Obama. He has been surrounded for years by radicals who do not honor You but use religion, when they express it, as a means to an end. Whether it is black liberation, or humanistic superiority, the preachers of hate that have been this man's companions have not preached a true gospel and even Obama's pastor says the way they define Christianity is not the same way that we do - the way the Bible does. Lord, we know that in Your sight there is no race or gender or economic status - for You do not respect a king any more than you do a pauper. Your truth is life and is exactly what these folks are looking for if they would but turn to You. And yet, for now, their eyes are focussed on power. We ask that for President Elect Obama you break his concentration towards the goals that will only mean judgment to this nation. Lord, shake him up personally so that he begins to question - and then at that moment of opportunity use whatever circumstances that You will to make Your way into his heart. We need a saved President, Lord. No man can do that job without You as his guide. Save President-Elect Obama and cause him to repent of that which displeases You.
Forgive our nation, Lord. Forgive Your people. We have been wrong before You and we deserve what we are seeing now. Only in Your wrath, remember mercy.
Lord, if it is not in Your plan to do a supernatural work to draw this man to Yourself, if his heart is so inclined against You as to have been reprobated; we pray for Your protection from the evil which is to come. That's all we know to do. The rest is in Your omnipotent hands.
Lord, I thank You for our military. On this day where we remember the sacrifices which they have made to preserve our freedom; we pray Lord, that this nation will not ultimately make them ashamed.
Go with us, the rest of this day and throughout tomorrow, Lord. Help us to stand for Your truth without fail. And hold us close to You, for we are fearful of what lies ahead. For it is in the precious name of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that I pray these things, Amen.
Prayer ping
God, please bless George W. Bush and show him exactly what to do in these last days.
God, please let this judgement upon America by Barack Obama be quick and thoroughly effective. May he be prevented from doing one thing to destroy our few, paltry restrictions upon this country’s holocaust of abortion.
Father God, please bring us Americans to repentance.
Praying. That I am.
Please add me to ping list, and thanks for doing this. There are plenty of places to vent our disagreements, but you are absolutely right—the Word declares that God is in control, and we are to behave as His children and not as the children of wrath.
Even my so-called lowly Ma knew a reprobate mind.Don’t beg talk..That’s what Prayer is..
rep·ro·bate (rpr-bt)
n.
1. A morally unprincipled person.
2. One who is predestined to damnation.
adj.
1. Morally unprincipled; shameless.
2. Rejected by God and without hope of salvation.
tr.v. rep·ro·bat·ed, rep·ro·bat·ing, rep·ro·bates
1. To disapprove of; condemn.
2. To abandon to eternal damnation. Used of God.
Oh my Jesus, by the power of Your most precious Body and Blood, I humbly ask You to heal Barack Obama from all that keeps him from knowing You.
You are added to the list, thank you.
As US churches mark election, Obama skips services
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129191/posts
“His name was invoked at church services nationwide on Sunday, but President-elect Obama didn’t attend any of them. He went to the gym instead. “
Agreeing in prayer in accordance with the commands of God.
Oh woe is me!
No debate allowed? Are you kidding me?
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
May it be, Merciful Father, that we so internalize Your Words that we confidently face the days ahead ... praying for revival to sweep our beloved land ... knowing that whatever befalls, all is well for those who are in the Palm of Your Hand.
Even as we pray for our beleaguered country, we bring our military sons and daughters before the Throne of Grace ... guard them from any harm that would come to them by the actions of a nation that has lost its luster.
And we pray for the Peace of Jerusalem, Your beloved city, that we not abandon her to the ravening wolves.
Hear our prayer, O Lord ...
Hear our prayer, O Lord ...
Incline thine ear to us
And grant us thy peace. Amen ...
I don’t understand, the “no debate allowed”. Please someone help, Ray?
I don’t understand, the “no debate allowed”. Please someone help, Ray?
Sun, Nov. 09 2008 06:52 AM EST
Billy Graham has counseled every American president since Dwight Eisenhower. But the evangelist known for his globe-trotting crusades has no plans to mentor Barack Obama, though his son did say his father would like to meet the president-elect and pray with him.
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Well, this sounds way better than some of those other "spiritual advisors" surrounding themselves with President-elect Obama.
Father,
Please strengthen Billy Graham and annoint him. Please open the doors to strong christians with decent demeanor to find their way into President elects chambers... and keep away the Rasputin (& worse) types.
Did you wake up this morning and think you were Jim Robinson? I managed to miss the part of of the rules here where you can dictate what is posted and where. Out of courtesy, I won't participate in any debates on this thread, but it sure as hell won't because you said it wasn't allowed.
My prayer for Obama is that the Holy Spirit will convict him of his sins and come to a saving relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ!
I’ve never seen that.
Thanks. :p
From now on if I want to make an unchallenged thread, I’ll make it a “prayer thread” in the Religion Forum. lol
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