http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/prayer/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:28:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418988/posts A friend said to me the other day: “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.” Allvoices http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418988/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:28:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418890/posts Let Us Keep to the Point " ". . . my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death" " —Philippians 1:20 My Utmost for His Highest. ". . . my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed . . . ." We will all feel very much ashamed if we do not yield to Jesus the areas of our lives He has asked us to yield to Him. It’s... My Utmost for His Highest (The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers;1992) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418890/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:28:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418682/posts The celebrations have begun already in Sydney, Australia where 1.5 million people participated in massive fireworks displays and festivities. Final preparations are being made in Times Square, New York where authorities are expecting the largest crowd in the history of such New Years gatherings. At midnight, the ball will drop and a massive crowd will welcome a New Year with the sincere hope that it will offer them a new beginning. The experience is nearly universal. Some Nations use different calendars, but the passing of one year to another is marked by a deliberate period of reflection over the past... Catholic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418682/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:54:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418530/posts On the last day of December 2009, we end the year with an article based upon Christianity and Culture ... Christianity has permeated our culture in every way conceivable ... everything that happens in our society can be linked to the sovereign will of God and the role that sin is allowed to play in this great cosmic experiment here on earth. America was founded as a Christian nation. Although that premise has been challenged frequently in recent years, a clear look at historical documents and monuments show an overwhelming support for the Bible and the God of the Bible.... Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418530/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:13:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418403/posts “For I know the thoughts that I think towards you,says the LORD,thoughts of peace and not of evil,to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me,and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me,when you search for Me with all your heart." ~Jeremiah 29:11-13 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418403/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:34:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418294/posts Yesterday "You shall not go out with haste, . . . for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard" —Isaiah 52:12 Security from Yesterday. ". . . God requires an account of what is past" ( Ecclesiastes 3:15 ). At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise when we remember our yesterdays. Our present enjoyment of God’s grace tends to be lessened by the memory of yesterday’s sins and blunders. But God is... My Utmost for His Highest (The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers;1992) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418294/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:44:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418105/posts At 7:41pm est Rush Limbaugh was "was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains." We have no idea how serious this is. I'm asking for an immediate prayer, rosery, whatever to help this man. Jesus Christ protect and heal this man. KITV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418105/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:59:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417564/posts "And Every Virtue We Possess" ". . . All my springs are in you" —Psalm 87:7 Our Lord never "patches up" our natural virtues, that is, our natural traits, qualities, or characteristics. He completely remakes a person on the inside— ". . . put on the new man . . ." ( Ephesians 4:24 ). In other words, see that your natural human life is putting on all that is in keeping with the new life. The life God places within us develops its own new virtues, not the virtues of the seed of Adam, but of Jesus Christ.... My Utmost for His Highest (The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers;1992) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417564/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:19:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417361/posts When was the last time you felt God was really doing something new in your life? How many of us have our testimony as an historical narrative but have no current revelation of the Spirit’s work in our lives? Is there a momentum carrying you into whatever buffer zone still remains between you and Jesus? Do you think I am speaking of something mystical, something that God is doing specifically to bring you to a greater level of obedience, trust, and worship? Are you living in yourself or in Him, and is your spirit soaring over all your problems or... Following Judah's Lion http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417361/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:08:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417260/posts America has been greatly blessed by God and has stood as the greatest country in the history of the world for over 200 years. America has many foreign and domestic enemies that are seeking her destruction.This thread is a daily call and reminder for people of faith who believe in God and in the power of prayer to make a commitment to intercede for America at this critical time in her history2 Chronicles 7:14If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417260/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:39:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2416871/posts Deserter or Disciple? "From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more" —John 6:66 When God, by His Spirit through His Word, gives you a clear vision of His will, you must "walk in the light" of that vision ( 1 John 1:7 ). Even though your mind and soul may be thrilled by it, if you don’t "walk in the light" of it you will sink to a level of bondage never envisioned by our Lord. Mentally disobeying the "heavenly vision" ( Acts 26:19 ) will make you a slave to ideas... My Utmost for His Highest (The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers;1992) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2416871/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:30:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2416856/posts "The night also is thine." - Psalm 74:16 DEAR LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY, THIS HOUR AND THIS SECOND. LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS TIME YOUR SAINTS CAN GATHER BEFORE YOUR THRONE OF GRACE WITH PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION. LORD, WE PRAY FOR ALL OF YOUR SAINTS NO MATTER WHERE THEY MAY BE OR WHATEVER THEIR NEED. LORD, WE PRAY ESPECIALLY FOR OUR TROOPS AND PATRIOTS WHO FAITHFULLY PLACE THERE PRAYERS FOR OUR HEROES AT THE FOOT OF THE THRONE,AND TO ALL MEMBERS OF GOVERNMENT WHO HOLD YOUR TRUTHS CLOSE TO THEIR HEARTS. LORD, WE PRAY FOR... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2416856/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:06:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2416391/posts 1 Chron. 16:35 Save us, O God of our Salvation, And Gather us Together, And Deliver us from the heathen, That we May Give Thanks to Thy Holy Name, And Glory in Thy Praise. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2416391/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:13:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2416179/posts Continuous Conversion ". . . unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven" —Matthew 18:3 These words of our Lord refer to our initial conversion, but we should continue to turn to God as children, being continuously converted every day of our lives. If we trust in our own abilities, instead of God’s, we produce consequences for which God will hold us responsible. When God through His sovereignty brings us into new situations, we should immediately make sure that our natural life submits to the spiritual, obeying the... My Utmost for His Highest (The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers;1992) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2416179/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:50:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2415905/posts Jude 1:24,25 All Glory to Him Who Alone is God, Who Saves us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Yes, Splendor and Majesty, All Power and Authority Are His from the Beginning; His they are and His they Evermore shall be. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2415905/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:33:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2415669/posts Where the Battle is Won or Lost "’If you will return, O Israel,’ says the Lord . . ." —Jeremiah 4:1 Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God’s presence, never in full view of the world. The Spirit of God seizes me and I am compelled to get alone with God and fight the battle before Him. Until I do this, I will lose every time. The battle may take one minute or one year, but that will depend on me, not God. However long it takes, I must wrestle... My Utmost for His Highest (The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers;1992) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2415669/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:36:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415301/posts After over a decade of hanging here, picking up other prayer requests I must post one of my own. My wife and I have taken in two grandchildren (2 and 5) after the death of their father and eventual abandonement by their mother who has been overwhelmed by one medical condition over another. She called this morning half way around the country with news that she is once again hospitalized, this time with conjestive heart failure and would like to home to see her children while she can. This is difficult on so many levels and only a mighty and... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415301/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:05:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2415263/posts 'Walk in the Light' "If we walk in the light as He is in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin" —1 John 1:7 To mistake freedom from sin only on the conscious level of our lives for complete deliverance from sin by the atonement through the Cross of Christ is a great error. No one fully knows what sin is until he is born again. Sin is what Jesus Christ faced at Calvary. The evidence that I have been delivered from sin is that I know the real... My Utmost for His Highest (The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers;1992) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2415263/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:13:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415179/posts America has been greatly blessed by God and has stood as the greatest country in the history of the world for over 200 years. America has many foreign and domestic enemies that are seeking her destruction.This thread is a daily call and reminder for people of faith who believe in God and in the power of prayer to make a commitment to intercede for America at this critical time in her history2 Chronicles 7:14If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415179/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:53:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2414892/posts His Birth and Our New Birth " ’Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,’ which is translated, ’God with us’ " —Matthew 1:23 His Birth in History. ". . . that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God ( Luke 1:35 ). Jesus Christ was born into this world, not from it. He did not emerge out of history; He came into history from the outside. Jesus Christ is not the best human being the human race can boast of— He... My Utmost for His Highest (The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers;1992) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2414892/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:33:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2414757/posts "Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. 10 Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you:... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2414757/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:36:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414729/posts <p>Pary for those that are spending their first Christmas alone. My D-i-L's Mom has always lived near her parents. Her mother just died in June. This is her first Christmas without her and she's not dealing with it well. She has been invited to her childrens homes but declined.</p> Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414729/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:15:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414524/posts Please watch this heart-rending video now posted on YouTube by a young mother who does not know where to turn:VIDEO: Blaise talks to Oprah About "Prader-Willi Syndrome" - only 187 views, so far... Blaise Major Owings wants Oprah to feature his cause "Prader-Willi Syndrome"on her show -- so that a cure can be found for him and all the other children with this genetic disorder. Please Oprah We need your voice. YouTube (via his mother's Facebook page) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414524/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:32:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414479/posts Prayers please for my wife and family. My father-in-law passed away last night. A hard situation is made harder by us being 2000+ miles away with no resources to tap for travel expenses. Please pray for comfort and acceptance. Thanks. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414479/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:18:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414467/posts Bless this night, oh Lord, we pray, Bless our families we love so dear, Bless our friends far and near— Lord, give peace in every way. TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414467/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:05:02 GMT