By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-01 08:17:22 | Updated at 2025-01-04 03:48:05
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Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, Religious Freedom and the Media.
"I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness." (1 Timothy 2:1-2)
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"Finally, brothers, rejoice. Set things in order. Be encouraged. Agree with one another. Be at peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you." (2 Cor. 13:11)
Prayer and letter to the Creator of the Universe, the Lord God Almighty, Great Jehovah, the Lord Jesus Christ and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit:
Lord God, it is cold here in the northern part of the US in the winter. And dark, as I drive around town the end of the last day of the year. Mister Zamboni and his hockey-rink smoothing machine couldn't do as good a job as the weather has here. Brand-new tires and four-wheel drive and I'm still sliding around the corners. Thank you for the tires, Lord. There was just enough money for them and they were sorely needed, especially after the slow leak in the front right and the big puncture - how did that get there? in the back right on the sidewall, that one was losing five pounds a day in -10 weather. Thank you for those tires.
Thank you for our salvation, Lord Jesus. And thank You for the fuel, and that young lady you sent who knew how to fix the snowblower. I can't do it and the shop is backed up two months for any small engine work.
Lord, it's odd, but thank you for those homeless people around. Some profess salvation. Many, many are drunks and druggies who can't stay at a shelter when they're high, and they remind us of how fragile our comforts and our lives can be. I hear our numbers are about one out of ten of us is dependent on alcohol, and with the other stuff, we are all seemingly addicted to something. I'd like to be addicted to something good, better than coffee and sugar.
Paul said in 1st Corinthians 16:13-16: " . . .13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 14 Let all your things be done with charity. 15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have ADDICTED themselves to the ministry of the saints,) 16 That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
You got me off the cigarettes and the other stuff, Lord. Thank you. Please do the same for so many Americans who are yearning for something that they won't or can't admit is You. They try everything else. Please help us to show them You, Lord Jesus, by our love. Help us to give them the Good News of the Gospel. And Lord Jesus? You know that so many of us will never travel, like be a missionary to Africa or Venezuela, or China or Iran or whatever. So it looks like You've sent a bunch of these people to us instead, to hear the Gospel. The missionary field came to us, Lord. And it's no less dangerous than going there. Nothing like having an already-deported illegal alien from a Third World country back in our country to set our most vulnerable people on fire and watch them burn to death for fun. We can now have the experience of being in a dangerous foreign land without leaving ours.
Yes, the mission field has come to us. Help us to obey Your Great Commission in this Year Of Our Lord 2,025.
And please protect and give wisdom and strength to our elected leaders, Lord. Also our armed forces, law enforcement, first responders, and those who preach the Gospel and teach and support and care for those sick or injured.
In Jesus Name, amen.
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