Friends,
I've had several requests for
reprints of the opening prayer on 11/3. While I often
have notes to remind myself of His guidance throughout the
week preceding Sunday's opening prayer for both services, I don't have a
"finished/polished/edited" version as
if that's ever possible in prayer.
So here are some recollections from
the notes:
Father, while our first citizenship
is in Your Kingdom, we are Americans
who love this country and everything
that it has stood for as a nation
under You.
Today, we are grieved to see it
being ripped apart and falling apart by
ineptness, ignorance, and deception
in the highest levels of federal
government; trickling down with its
diseases on so many levels of
our society.
Trust has been broken with the
people; as our modern technologies
allow us to see broken promises,
blatant lies, extreme partisanship
from all parties, and a spirit
flagging in the winds being blown by
those who do not know You and do not
even think of You; allying
themselves with dark spirits who
want to insult You and injure
Your people.
Indeed, as Paul announced so long
ago as Jesus warned, they,
the evildoers, come in sheep's
clothing, looking like they're on Your
side, slipping in like terrorist
sleeper cells, and waiting for an
opportune time to expose themselves
and attack to ravage
all semblances of holiness to You.
Jesus warned us. He said they
will lie like their real father.
They will confuse to detour and
destroy. They will replace
Godliness by the book with ideas,
inventions, imaginings,
and other idolatries that lead to
the nation's decline.
Yet, we know Your people are strong
- armed with the
mightiest weapon for the battle:
Jesus.
We have Jesus: "It is no longer
I who live but it is Jesus
who lives in me."
So we are not afraid to take our
country back just like
many authentic believers in America
are taking their
churches back.
We are not afraid of darkness
because we can salt to save
and shine to expose to salt to save.
We are not afraid of them - the
forces of darkness and the
evil one itself - because He who is
in us is greater than it
that is in the world.
We do not run in fear because the
spirits of darkness flee
from us because we have invited
Jesus into us.
We claim Your victory.
We sing Your praises.
Onward, we go, as Christian
soldiers!...Satan's host doth
flee...Hell's foundations quiver at
the shout of praise...
We join the salvation army around
the world right now
right here; knowing the final score
before the last
inning or quarter or whatever is
played...
We know victory because when the
spirits of darkness
attack, they are messing with our
Father's children; and
He will not allow them to steal the
souls that He has
saved through Jesus in whose name we
pray.
Amen.
Of course, you can listen to what
was actually prayed by going to the archived version of the service via www.bnnsradio.com.
If you missed it, music aligned our
hearts with Him and His as we scratched the surface of
Ephesians in an homiletical kinda way and raised praises and experienced glory
and...
Blessings and Love!