A Prayer For You

Dear Lord, I thank You for this day,
I thank You for my being able to see
and to hear this morning.
I'm blessed because You are
a forgiving God and
an understanding God.

You have done so much for me
and You keep on blessing me.

Forgive me this day for everything
I have done, said or thought
that was not pleasing to you.

I ask now for Your forgiveness.

Please keep me safe
from all danger and harm.

Help me to start this day
with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude.

Let me make the best of each and every day
to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.

Please broaden my mind
that I can accept all things.

Let me not whine and whimper
over things I have no control over.
And give me the best response
when I'm pushed beyond my limits.

I know that when I can't pray,
You listen to my heart.

Continue to use me to do Your will.

Continue to bless me that I may be
a blessing to others.

Keep me strong that I may help the weak.
Keep me uplifted that I may have
words of encouragement for others.

I pray for those that are lost
and can't find their way.

I pray for those that are misjudged
and misunderstood.

I pray for those who
don't know You intimately.

I pray for those that don't believe.

But I thank You that I believe
that God changes people and
God changes things.

I pray for all my sisters and brothers.

For each and every family member
in their households.

I pray for peace, love and joy
in their homes; that they are out of debt
and all their needs are met.

I pray that every eye that reads this
knows there is no problem, circumstance,
or situation greater than God
and that You can't fix.

Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight.

I pray that these words be received
into the hearts of every eye that sees it.

My final prayer is that you save us
in Your kingdom,
in Jesus' name I pray. Amen!

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A broken and a contrite heart

Psalm 51

1Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

2Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

3For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

6Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

9Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

11Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

13Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

15O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

16For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

19Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.


King James Version (KJV)

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Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
James 5:16 (King James Version)
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Confesaos vuestras faltas unos á otros, y rogad los unos por los otros, para que seáis sanos; la oración del justo, obrando eficazmente, puede mucho.
Santiago 5:16 (Reina-Valera Antigua)
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Confessez donc vos péchés les uns aux autres, et priez les uns pour les autres, afin que vous soyez guéris. La prière fervente du juste a une grande efficace.
Jacques 5:16 (Louis Segond)
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Confessai, portanto, os vossos pecados uns aos outros, e orai uns pelos outros, para serdes curados. A súplica de um justo pode muito na sua atuação.
Tiago 5: 16 (João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada)
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이러므로 너희 죄를 서로 고하며 병 낫기를 위하여 서로 기도하라 의인의 간구는 역사하는 힘이 많으니라
야고보서 5:16.

Providence In His Will

"Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us of which we know nothing. Those who accept the one principle of making the service of God supreme, will find perplexities vanish, and a plain path before their feet." The Ministry of Healing, p481.

Famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONbLux_h0h0&feature=player_embeddedhttp://

1. Friends let us pray for the victims of the recent devastation in Indonesia. (an estimated population of around 237 million people, it is the world's fourth most populous country, and has the largest Muslim population in the world.) More than 700 people were confirmed dead across on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and thousands remained missing in the wake of the 7.6-magnitude earthquake (and torrential rain) that hit the western coast on Wednesday.
   
2. Let us also pray for the victims of the recent disasters in The Philippines; where a 6.6 Earthquake, and two Typhoons in succession have left a path of destruction killing almost 300 people; Presently two Typhoons are still wreaking havoc in the Philippines.
   
3. Let's also remember our friends of American Samoa, victims of a Tsunami that has left at least 180 dead, with one in five Samoans significantly affected by the tsunami..
   
4. Let's not forget to also pray for the brethren in Vietnam who have also suffered human casualties due to Typhoons.
   
5. Let's also pray for the people of Messina; where landslides following heavy rains and mud killed at least 22 people in Sicily.
   
6. Lastly, let's include in our prayers our friends in the State of Georgia. Eight days of rain contributed to flooding in Atlanta, killing eight people and causing an estimated $250 million in damages to homes, roads and other infrastructure.
   

Profound natural disasters are part of the labor pangs that our Lord Jesus Christ warns us about:


7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

8All these are the beginning of sorrows.
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14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

15When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

16Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

20But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
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29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

33So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

36But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

37But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

40Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

41Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

42Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the
thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

44Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

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Matthew 24.

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For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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1 Thessalonians 5:3

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Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes

25At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

26Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.

27All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

28Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Matthew 11:25-30.

A Prayer for Rifqa

A Prayer for Rifqa

Rifqa Bary a 17 year old Sri-Lankan young lady from New Albany, Ohio who converted from Islam to Christianity, needs our prayers. Please pray that the Lord intercedes, and allows her to remain in the State of Florida where she fled for refuge from her Muslim parents. On Friday, Agust 21, 09, the Florida courts ruled that they would allow her (a minor) to remain in foster care while investigations are conducted.

Rifqa Bary ran away from her parents Mohamed and Aysha Bary, because she feared her father would kill her for her recent conversion to Christianity. She hitchiked to Columbus, then took a bus to Orlando, Florida where she took refuge with Rev. Blake Lorenz, pastor and his wife Beverly, of the Orlando-based Global Revolution Church, whom she had met on the internet. She is now in protective custody with Florida's Department of Children and Families. Her parents want her returned home to Ohio, but, Rifqa fears for her life, since in Muslim Sharia Law all converts to Christianity are heretics, and are instructed by the Koran to be killed.

We must pray fervently for this young lady to remain in protective custody, or foster care in the State of Florida, so that she can exercise her religion. The Florida courts will ultimately rule wheter she remains or is returned to Ohio.

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed
to repeat it." George Santayana.

Many Americans have a disdain for history, and can only remember what they had for breakfast. or what they did last weekend. However, we can not forget the case of Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy who was rescued at sea (when his mother drowned trying to reach Florida), and was eventually (rescued from his uncle's home in Miami, Florida) apprehended by Immigration and Naturalization authorities in a manner reminiscent of a storm trooper assaultc; He was returned to his father who (was flown from Cuba) was waiting in Washington D.C. in 2000. Nor can we forget the case of the two Dallas-area sisters, 17 and 18 year olds, that were murdered last year by their Egytian father (still at large and is believed to have fled the country) because they dated non-Muslim boys.

How quickly we forget?
Practically all have forgotten why the first non-native settlers (Europeans) came to what we now call the United States; It was to escape religious persecution, and the tyranny of the Church of England, and its latent ally the Roman Catholic Church. Fastforward - 400 years and the descendants, and beneficiaries of the Pilgrim's Voyage for Freedom, can see that religious tyrants have come to its shores to impose the same tyranical, despotic beliefs that the Pilgrim fathers fled from in England; This time, these religious zealots are not from Europe, but, are from Asia (where there is no religious freedom or a tradition of tolerance). That's why after its independence from Great Britain in 1947, the Vice-Royalty of India was divided into India, West Pakistan (Bangladesh), East Pakistan (Pakistan), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), etc.; Because of the different religions: Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Jain , Farsi, and Bhuddist.
Please pray for Rifqa
May the Lord provide her protection, and allow her to discover and remain in His love; Afterall, the God of Abraham, Issac , and Israel is the God of all, not just Christians. Jesus died for everyone's sins, even the one's of those from Sri Lanka!


Reference:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541205,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1918228,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

BTW: I believe her full name is Fatimah Rifqa Bary. Fatimah as in Fatimah of Muslim history: a daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad from his first wife Khadija; (She is regarded by Muslims as an exemplar for men and women.); Also, Our Lady of Fatima of Portugal, of the 1917 (three peasant children Lúcia Santos and her cousins, siblings Jacinta and Francisco Marto. ) Mary apparitions...

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