Monthly Archives: August 2017

Prayers for We the People

The Great Divide

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Father GOD, I am so grateful You let me be Your daughter; thank You. I have done nothing to deserve You; it’s all Your grace. I admit to You I am alarmed and stunned at the foolishness and the unholiness I see and the hatred and the for lack of better words down right dumbness and dullness displayed day after day. And so in the words of You, Yeshua, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Holy Spirit, please lavish us with strong conviction for sin and bring we the people to repentance. I am asking You for an awakening to who we have become as a people and what will befall us if we do not repent. I pray You will fill pulpits with courageous people and the pews with the same and that sinners and saints will repent. I pray for the zeal of the Apostles to be infused into every son and daughter You have on this planet. I don’t expect it overnight but I ask that it steadily grow until You are pleased and evil is curtailed in this Land.
I ask You to defuse and disband the hate groups that are loudly and violently demanding their own way.
I pray for President Trump and all his cabinet that they will give You their attention. I pray for wisdom and protection for them. I pray You will speak and make Your will known to each man and woman sitting in places of leadership.
I pray for safety and protection for the people in the path of this hurricane bearing down on Texas. Thank You for how You will glorify Yourself and help people through this tragic happening.
I pray for unbelievers across this country that they will have an encounter with You that turns their hearts and opens their mouths to speak truth.
Father GOD, I pray You will forgive the flat-out stupidity that is rampant and that You will raise up men and women of wisdom to outshine and overcome this blight on America at this time.
I pray Holy Spirit that You will revive us. I am thinking that we Your people are a lot sicker than we think we are; move us to find out just what the truth is about ourselves and more importantly just what You expect of us. I don’t think we know. We either don’t know or we have gotten distracted by the world and we have forgotten why we are here. Forgive us, Abba, and renew and revive us quickly I pray.

Shabbat Shalom, my Friends

Ephesians, Holy Soap Box

Just Saying

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I invested a few minutes looking at some pictures of early elementary school students. Clearly the colors of their skin did not matter to them. So, I am pitching this out for consideration.

Why teach them otherwise? Why expose and indoctrinate them with violent attempts to sanitize America’s history? The very act of sanitizing history introduces hatred. Why not tell them the truth; the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Why not learn the truth ourselves? Why not do valid research and learn just how many people groups have been slaves and who are still slaves? And while we are researching let’s not limit it to slavery, let’s look at the coming to America; who came and why, what they found, the sins they committed, the good they did. Let’s be honest, let’s be human about it and seek The Creator to understand it all; and added to this, let us not forget the framing of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Through it all, let us use the old documents to tell the real story, not the opinions of some 20th and 21st century authors whose aim it is to re-write history.

We cannot undo what has been done but we can learn from the past and we can do better today and tomorrow.

To continue stirring and spreading this present hatred will not change the past but it will destroy the future.

We can help. We can stop posting unwholesome, non-edifying, strife-building stories, videos, pictures on Facebook, Instagram, snap-chat, etc. etc.  

IF IT WILL NOT HELP US APPRECIATE EACH OTHER, DON’T POST IT.

Ephesians 4:29 (AMPC) 29 Let no foul or polluting language, nor evil word nor unwholesome or worthless talk [ever] come out of your mouth, but only such [speech] as is good and beneficial to the spiritual progress of others, as is fitting to the need and the occasion, that it may be a blessing and give grace (God’s favor) to those who hear it. source

Chazaq! 

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The Burned- Over Place

  April 10, 1997  
The Burned- Over Place
Read: 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 | Bible in a Year: 1 Samuel 15-16; Luke 10:25-42
He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities. —Isaiah 53:5

Some early settlers were traveling together across the western prairies of the United States. One day they were horrified to see a fire fanned by strong wind coming their way.

As the flames raced closer and closer, one man, to the amazement of the others, set fire to a large patch of grass downwind. The tinder-dry grass burned quickly and left behind a charred and barren area. Then he told them to move onto the burned-over place. They watched as the fire swept toward them until it reached the burned area—and then stopped! They were safe as the fire passed by them on both sides.

The fires of God’s judgment will descend on a wicked world, but God has provided a burned-over place. At Calvary, the fire of God’s justice was met by Jesus. He bore our sin there and fully paid for our transgressions. He made full satisfaction for our sins, and we who have taken our stand by faith in the finished work of Christ are safe in the burned-over place. There is nothing left to burn.

Jesus “bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed” (1 Pet. 2:24). Are you in the burned-over place?

The flames of God’s judgment can never touch me,
For Jesus has borne all God’s wrath on the tree;
I now stand secure in the burned-over place,
A sinner, unworthy, yet saved by His grace! —Bosch

Jesus died in our place to provide a place of safety.

 

Shabbat Shalom 

Chazaq! 

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