Posted on 08/21/2014 9:15:39 PM PDT by NEWwoman
Heavenly Father –
May we never forget that You are with us, even to the end of the age. And through dark times and chaos when the world has gone mad, You walk with us and bring us through the current distress.
May we look to You for our help and guidance in the storms of life. May Your Word calm the turmoil and strife in our land. Save our nation from self-destruction and hemorrhages from the bitter division and hatred.
Keep all our heroes, who fight the battles on all fronts – physically, morally, and spiritually. Shield them in Your special care. May Your presence dwell in them and give them strength.
In Jesus Name we pray,
Amen
I join in prayer for our heroes and nation!
Amen.
Amen
Amen with thanks giving to Jesus.
Amen.
Amen and God’s protection on our American Heroes
Joining you in Prayer for Our American Heroes and Our Nation.
(Beautiful presentation today, NW! :-) )
Praying with you for our Heroes and our beloved Nation.
Blessings, etabeta
Blessings, Alamo-Girl, for you constant prayers for our beloved America and heroes.
Blessings, laplata, for your steadfast prayers for our heroes.
Blessings, Maudeen, for your prayers for our nation and heroes.
Blessings, dadfly, for your prayers for our nations and heroes.
Blessings, Pajamajan, for your prayers for our nation and heroes who defend her.
Blessings, blueyon, for your prayers for our beloved America and heroes.
Blessings, left that other site, for your encouragement and prayers for all God’s people and our heroes.
Blessings, etabeta, for your constant prayers for your beloved America and our heroes.
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Amen to your prayer! Thank you all who lead prayer for FR.
When you wrote of our nation being divided, I remembered Nehemiah’s prayer when Israel was scattered, like we are in this nation today. We personally are divided within ourselves; being part of the world, but are told to come out of the world. When Nehemiah looked at the walls he said they were in trouble and they had to be rebuilt. I remember hearing a sermon on the rebuilding of the walls which parallels how prayers, repentance, obedience ...can change our each of us and our nation. I too often make my prayers quick and too practiced. We know this country is divided, and I can be divided in my commitment to God. I know I sometimes think the right leader can turn this nation around, when in reality it must begin with me stepping forward in fervent repentance and prayer. It will be God doing the changes in my heart and the heart of this nation.
Nehemiah 1
4 When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven. 5 Then I said:
“Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 6 let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you. 7 We have acted very wickedly toward you. We have not obeyed the commands, decrees and laws you gave your servant Moses.
8 “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, 9 but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’
10 “They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand. 11 Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man.”
Nehemiah 2
17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.” 18 I also told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me.
They replied, “Let us start rebuilding.” So they began this good work.
19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. “What is this you are doing?” they asked. “Are you rebelling against the king?”
20 I answered them by saying, “The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it.”
Nehemiah 4
4 [a]When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly incensed. He ridiculed the Jews, 2 and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, “What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble—burned as they are?”
3 Tobiah the Ammonite, who was at his side, said, “What they are building—even a fox climbing up on it would break down their wall of stones!”
4 Hear us, our God, for we are despised. Turn their insults back on their own heads. Give them over as plunder in a land of captivity. 5 Do not cover up their guilt or blot out their sins from your sight, for they have thrown insults in the face of[b] the builders.
6 So we rebuilt the wall till all of it reached half its height, for the people worked with all their heart.
13 Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows. 14 After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”
Nehemiah 6
15 So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.
16 When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God.
Nehemiah 9
They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors. 3 They stood where they were and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day, and spent another quarter in confession and in worshiping the Lord their God.
32 “Now therefore, our God, the great God, mighty and awesome, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes—the hardship that has come on us, on our kings and leaders, on our priests and prophets, on our ancestors and all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today. 33 In all that has happened to us, you have remained righteous; you have acted faithfully, while we acted wickedly. 34 Our kings, our leaders, our priests and our ancestors did not follow your law; they did not pay attention to your commands or the statutes you warned them to keep. 35 Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying your great goodness to them in the spacious and fertile land you gave them, they did not serve you or turn from their evil ways.
36 “But see, we are slaves today, slaves in the land you gave our ancestors so they could eat its fruit and the other good things it produces. 37 Because of our sins, its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have placed over us. They rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress.
I found this and thought it was good.
http://www.raystedman.org/bible-overview/adventuring/nehemiah-rebuilding-the-walls
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