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Thursday, May 07, 2015

Prayer for Mercy and Grace. The Window is Still Open.

Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you in the name of your son Jesus Christ. We thank you for you, and we thank you and praise you for your unchanging nature and character. We thank you for your Word that you have faithfully given to us throughout the ages so that we might know you, and hear you, and see you. Without your Word we cannot know you or understand your ways. You are such a faithful God in righteousness, holiness, justice, compassion. Everything good comes from you. Every breath that we breathe, and every step that we take is from you. You hold all things together through your son Jesus Christ. We come before you this day on behalf of our nation. Lord Jesus, we petition you to pour out your Spirit on this country. Your spirit of conviction. Your Spirit of humility, your Spirit of faith and your Spirit of repentance. Lord Jesus, we pray for your will to be done for this country. We ask for mercy and grace. We confess that we have forgotten you in our daily lives, we have neglected your Word, we have turned away to our own ways of thinking and doing. We have pushed you out of all of the areas of our lives, our schools, our government, our courts, our churches, and this by our pride and sinful nature. You cannot bless us if we do not honor you, and if we do not stop and turn around. We pray today that you would in your most merciful kindness deal with our pride. We are calling things that you consider evil and wicked as good. And we are calling things that are good and right and true as evil. We as a nation are backwards and stiff necked because of our pride. We as a nation are apathetic and have turned toward ourselves rather than outward looking to you for answers in humility and godly sorrow for our sins. Our sins are grevious and our hidden sins are obvious. Each one of us has turned to our own way, and you are warning us as a nation, as individuals to stop and turn around and face the reality of the gospel of Jesus Christ. But we resist your gospel truth about your son Jesus Christ because of our pride. We know this because of the way that we talk to each other, the way that we run from each other, the way that we teach in our churches, the way that we live in our homes when the doors are closed. Every good thing comes from you Lord God please unstop our ear, and open up our blind eyes. You are willing Lord. We praise you and thank you that you are willing still. The window of your mercy and grace is still open. May we be shaken Lord Jesus so that what remains is faith in you. Thank you Heavenly Father and in your Son's name Jesus we pray. 

Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Prayer In Jesus' Name Will Change Things!








"Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it." John 14: 13-14

"If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you." John 15:7

"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you." John 15:16

"In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full." John 16: 23-24

"I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him."1 John 5:13-15

The Best Things God Has For You Are Free!

The Living God wants a living relationship with people. He is Spirit and Truth, and those who want to experience Him must seek Him in Spirit and Truth. That is a conditional requirement for having a relationship that is alive with Him. To seek God you must be humbled.  The Spirit of God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. The Spirit of God points to Jesus Christ, the 2nd Person of the Triune God. The reason is because through Jesus Christ God the Father is making a way for all sin and death to be defeated. The blood of Jesus is the literal cleansing agent for all of our sin. Sin is more accurately a human nature problem not a human behavior problem, so it's our nature that keeps us from the Living God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. No one is good by nature, and no one is seeking God really. What really is happening is the Living God is pursuing you, doing all that is necessary to really save you from yourself. If you want to meet the Living God today pray that your heart will be humbled. Every good thing comes from the Father. The really good things of God are 1. A broken and contrite heart, 2. A humble heart and mind, 3. Faith to believe in who and what Jesus did for you personally. 4. Salvation for eternity with the Living and Loving God. 

“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love....." (Isaiah 55:1-3 ESV)