5 days left to pray for the election.

praise2Day 35, November 1, 2012

Your light shines over all who choose to call You Lord.

I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. (Psalm 34: 1-3)

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. (Romans 1:25)

Dear heavenly Father, You are the Creator of the universe and we praise Your blessed and holy name! You alone are the provider of all things and with You all things are possible.  Lord, if we say nothing, the rocks will cry out Your magnificent name.  You are a marvelous God, and Your light shines over all who choose to call You Lord.

Forgive our transgressions, Lord. Forgive us for seeking to serve the created rather than the Creator as Your word says in Romans 1:25.  Send a river of conviction throughout our Country and convince each and every heart to seek to be washed in Your forgiving love and return to You in pure and holy worship.

In Genesis 18, we recall Abraham pleaded for fifty righteous souls to be found and then finally for only ten righteous souls among the people to avert total destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

We shudder and plead for the protection of our land from complete ruin because of unrighteous living. Forgive our transgressions, Oh God. Flood our minds and souls with conviction that if we do only one wrong against You, Lord God, we break our relationship with You. Draw us to be washed in the Blood of Jesus as we humble ourselves and pray, seeking Your Face, and turning from our evil ways of all wrong in our lives that You might heal our Land.

Thank You, Oh Holy God, for tending to our voices in one accord today as we intercede on behalf of our Nation.  Thank You for restoring us to being “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”  Thank You that we will once again be able to call upon You and say, “God Bless America” because we are assured You will do so because America is truly blessing Your Holy Name.

We call upon You on behalf of our Nation, the United States of America.  We ask You to have mercy and grace upon her people.  We humbly seek that You do not turn Your face away although so many have turned from their roots of our forefather’s founding our Nation upon Your principles. We call upon You, Lord, for Your grace and protection on this election November 6, just 5 days from now.  Help us Oh God and heal our land.

It is in the name of Jesus Christ we entrust our Nation, the United States of America, into Your care.  AMEN.

Prayer Day 6 for the Election, 34 more to go

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“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” (Matthew 28: 19-20)

Thank you for this day Lord.  We praise your Holy name.  You are the God of all blessings, the source of all life and the giver of all grace.  You are the eternal, loving God.

Father, in Matthew you commanded us to make disciples of all nations and we need to begin with ourselves. Lord, please transform our lives and help us to be more like you.  Forgive us Lord for our transgressions. You have promised to always be with us and we thank you.  Lead us Lord and protect us, protect our country.

Help us to turn our hearts to you with sincerity and courageously spread your good news.  Help us to take your message to the ends of the earth.  Father we trust in You to fill us and use us for without You we can do nothing.  Lord we ask that you place within us your vision for our nation. Open our eyes, dear Lord, so that we may see. Dear Father please help our nation (our people) to make the right choices. Surround us with your love, fill us with your grace, and strengthen us for Your service.

For all our blessings, we give you thanks and through Jesus Christ we pray.

Amen.

40 Days of Prayer, #1, September 28

Prayer40 DAYS TO A VERY IMPORTANT ELECTION

Day 1 of 40 days of prayer for our country.

In a daily devotional from this morning my pastor gave this interesting fact:  John Jay, PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS; DIPLOMAT; AUTHOR OF THE FEDERALIST PAPERS; ORIGINAL CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE U. S. SUPREME COURT; GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” 

I pray we can get back this providence and take hold of our duty as a Christian nation.

It is our duty to pray for those who hold elected office in our country.  In fact, Scripture commands us to do so. 

“I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;  For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty”, (1 Timothy 2:1-2).

Dear heavenly Father,

We praise you and acknowledge you as the creator of our universe.  We acknowledge the blessings you have bestowed on this land we call the United States of America.  We confess our sins Lord and ask forgiveness for forgetting you during these times of need.  Please forgive us and our nation for failing you.  We thank you Father for allowing us to be born in the land of the free.  We thank you for all the riches and grace you have provided throughout history.  We come to you respectfully and humbly to give thanks for the blessing we receive daily.  Lord, please protect our land and keep us free.  Dear Lord, please heal our land.  Draw us back to you Lord and allow your strength to restore our nation to a place where we serve and honor You.  Father we thank you for the great leaders of the past and ask that you give us a leader on November 6 that will follow the calling You have given us.   We thank you once again for all our blessings.  In God we Trust.   Through your son Jesus Christ we pray,

AMEN

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land”, (2 Chronicles 7:14).

God bless the USA,

scan0012“The Tubthumper”

Freedom or slavery; citizens or subjects?

Part of celebrating Independence Day is remembering why our forefathers fought and what they accomplished. Thanks to them, we live in the greatest country in the world. 

Two hundred thirty-six years ago this Fourth of July, 57 men signed the document that created the American republic. They represented a people of about 3 million grouped in a series of 13 colonies along the eastern seaboard of the United States.  They were all sought by the commander of the British forces in North America for sedition and treason.   It was a group of wanted men.  The commander had behind him the resources of the greatest military power on earth. The wanted men had behind them the beginnings of a government from scratch, they had no army to speak of, but they had something mighty in the way of a dream for freedom and independence.

There was no way for them to know they were beginning the greatest constitutional republic in history. The republic they began has influence around the world like none other.  The constitution this republic designed provides freedom to its citizens like nothing created before and for all those years has continued to do so.  There is nothing that has ever matched it and nothing ever will.

What is common among us now is a denial of what made our country the great rock that it is.  Our current President has been since he was elected in denial of the Constitution of the United States and has stuck to his assertion that the US Constitution is open to change.  He says, “It allowed for protests, movements, and the assimilation of new ideas that would repeatedly, decade after decade, change the world—a constant forward movement that continues to this day.” He believes there is neither form nor firmness in the constitution.  He believes all is fluid.  Our current standing President takes the position that this liberates us to do whatever we will.  He has deliberately broken the constitution many times and our great country is guilty of “willful blindness”.

We as a country have slid a long way down the greased slide toward hell.  We have allowed some to erase the major advancement we have enjoyed in the past.  Our current government, under our current leadership is growing so fast and furious that we are almost to the point where our government will have more resources than those it governs.   Once it reaches that point it may well never be possible to reverse it.   It will also be a defeat of democracy, freedom and independence.

Please look at your rights.  When they are denied to you, and if the United States continues on its current path, they will and you will feel the oppression quickly.  The original principles of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution put every man and woman that has been deprived of their rights in the same place as the Founders on July 4, 1776.   Please, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are precious and need to be protected.  They are the principles of the United States.  Much blood was spilled to obtain them.  They are now in jeopardy.

Pray for the healing of our land.  Pray for the leadership of our country.  Take a stand for what you believe.  Be active by voting and supporting the ideals of your choice.  I hope freedom is your choice.  It is mine.  Never in our nation’s rich history have we seen a President who so completely and blatantly disregards our constitution and the laws set in place.  If this recklessness is allowed to continue, we will fundamentally lose our nation.  Our rights as individuals will be overwhelmed by statism — with every last action being dictated by federal mandates and taxes.  And our states will simply become part of federal authority to carry out its desires.

We have an election in just four months. It’s time WE THE PEOPLE take a stand! If we sit by silently in the face of this latest direct assault on the rights of the people we will lose all we have and end up with a “Soviet” style government with unlimited power to take away our rights.

Please pray for our nation.  Pray that we get back to what began this great land.  It began with a desire to have religious freedom and to worship God our own way.  It is very unfortuneate for us that mainstream America has forgotten about God.  Yes, we as a nation have forgotten God.  Paul tells us in Romans 13:1, “Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.”   Please wake up and remember God.

Here is a prayer done in the senate on the 4th of July 1861.  I truly wish we could have a prayer like this today.  Review it and ponder just awhile on how far we have fallen away from God.

The following prayer was offered by Rev. Byron Sunderland, D.D. on July 4, 1861 before the opening session of the U.S. Senate. Almighty and everlasting God, be not angry with us for our sins, which we only confess and deplore; but pardon our offenses and extend to us Thy favor. We thank Thee for Thy goodness on this anniversary of the nation a day tenfold more precious by reason of our present troubles, and sacred to the heart for the ever memorable Declaration of our fathers, in which Thou didst begin more openly to give us a name among the nations of the earth. We thank Thee for all Thy manifold and abundant mercies hitherto to make our nation exceedingly great and glorious; but now disasters have befallen us and darkness broods in the land. And now we ask Thy mercy as the Senate is convening at a most momentous crisis of our history. Give to Thy servants all needed help. Add to their deliberations wisdom and unanimity, and profit and speed to their conclusion. Bless Thy servant, the President of the United States, our veteran Commander-in-Chief, and all that have functions in the civil and military power. May the angel of Thy presence walk in the Cabinet and in the Congress and in the camp, to go before, to purify, and to direct the now greatly and universally-awakened love of country. And we beseech Thee to guide us, to overrule and order all things, and so to cause that nothing shall fail, that the disorders of the land may be speedily healed, that peace and concord may prevail, that truth and righteousness may be established, and that Thy Church and Kingdom may flourish in a larger peace and prosperity, for Thy Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen. (Source: Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, first session, new series, 1, 4 July 1861.) (Contributor: American.edu)

Do you see what I mean?

I have placed three good websites below should you want to educate yourself on our history.

1)      http://www.ouramericanrevolution.org/

2)      http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html

3)      http://constitutionus.com/

Heal Our Land, O God.

“The Tubthumper”