Taking Back our NEIGHBORHOODS!

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How ’bout a Holiday Block Party?

As we come into the Holiday Season, we must understand that many of our neighbors are financially and/or emotionally stretched beyond their means. Others will run up extravagant credit card bills to lavish their loved ones with “stuff” that will be trashed or discarded within a month. Across the nation, food banks are struggling to keep their shelves stocked for the genuinely needy. Homeless shelters see the weather turning colder and more desperate people in need of shelter. Of course, there are those among us who abuse the system and drain our resources, but that doesn’t negate the true need that exists.

It is my contention that we are ALL people of faith … the question is in what or Whom do we put our faith? It is not up to me to decide, nor is it up to me to sit in judgment! It is up to you and me to CARE about our neighbors! Can we DO this, or are we too ruined by fear and suspicion?

caring …

Years ago, before 9/11 … before the nation went crazy, we knew our neighbors. Our children played together. We got to know different family and cultural traditions through people we lived next to and worked with. It made us richer human beings. Jews, Christians, and Catholics all living together, sharing “American Life!” Germans, Irish, Ethiopian, Chinese, Argentinian, Ukraine, Nigerian, Cuban … it didn’t matter where we came from. We were all AMERICANS. We still are!!!

Listed below is a short list of some of my favorite organizations that help our NEIGHBORS. Maybe if we all added our NEIGHBORS to our Christmas/Chanakah list, we’d appreciate the season more?

• CITY MISSION
• MERCURY ONE
• SALVATION ARMY
• CARE.org
• CATHOLIC CHARITIES

Share Your Holiday Spirit with Your NEIGHBOR!

Be creative! Get acquainted with NEIGHBORS. We don’t have to be best friends, but we all have something to share with one another!
DONATE to one of the organizations listed above, or one of your choice, and help bridge the gap for those in need.

Are the Washington D.C. Scandals an Answer to Our Prayers?

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from The Presidential Prayer Team website

God asks us – and commands us – in I Timothy 2:1-2 and Romans 13 to pray for our nation and its leaders. This boldness in prayer isn’t just about asking God for big things, but stepping out and trusting Him in faith, despite how impossible circumstances may seem. We can make a difference in America by praying bold prayers…prayers with answers that are only possible by God.

It’s our purpose as a ministry to use all of our available resources to mobilize an army of prayer warriors, people – like you – who unashamedly proclaim: “We Pray For America.”

In keeping with this purpose, we’re introducing a new BOLD (Beside Our Leaders Daily) prayer initiative for impacting America’s leaders. “We the People” will be the largest and most valiant prayer campaign we’ve ever undertaken as the largest fulltime prayer movement for our nation. During the final six months of 2013, we’ll be giving you focused and specific prayer direction and information on the highest positions within our government. Each day we’ll move office-by-office and department-by-department — from the Administration, Congress, the judiciary, and our military — praying for those individuals within our government who shape the course of this great nation.

As part of this “boots-on-the-ground” approach, we’ll also let each leader know that hundreds of thousands of people will be praying for them as they work and possibly make important decisions about our country’s future.

Your bold prayers and faith represent the same kind of courage that launched our great nation 237 years ago and that has sustained us through wars, economic downturns and terrorist attacks.

This bold plan to inspire millions of Americans to pray for their leaders has received some significant financial help by several friends of this ministry. But, they recognize that their giving alone is not enough to underwrite the entire cost of this intensive six month campaign. So, we are asking for your prayerful, bold financial help. They have graciously offered to match dollar-for-dollar any gift of $25 or more given now, or promised through December 31. But, we must know of your faith-giving plans before midnight on July 4.

That’s right – ALL your financial gifts of $25 or more for the rest of this year will be doubled. Starting NOW … any gift received by July 4th and your monthly faith commitments will be doubled as you give each month until the end of the year. The deadline to give now or indicate your faith promise is midnight on July 4th.

In I Samuel 2:30, God promises to honor a people and nation that honor him, so let’s keep praying. We believe that the recent scandals coming out of our nation’s capital are just one way God is answering the prayers of our members to “bring to light” the wrongs and deceptions in our government. We thank you for your generous support and for being among those who boldly proclaim: “We Pray For America.”

Your Prayer Team

Messing with the Military?

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Somehow, Conservatives, Constitutionalists and thinking Patriots must figure out a way to unite and EDUCATE the public on Conservatism. Personally, I think our most effective tool is our “prayer closet” because only GOD (if He chooses) can turn our nation around from this path of destruction.

PRESIDENTIAL PRAYER TEAM

A Day to Pray

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As I’m sure you all know, Monday is Inauguration Day, 2013, and many, many Americans are disgruntled about the manner in which the Presidency was retained. The man in the Oval Office appears to have no moral character to speak of, and this is reflected throughout most of the Congress, as well. Yes, there are a handful of exceptional men and women, but they are no outnumbered and overpowered, the effect of their good character is diminished.

At this point in our history, only God is big enough and strong enough to reverse the downward spiral of our no godless culture … if He will. For clarity, I’m not saying the Church … I’m saying Almighty GOD, YAHWEH, JEHOVAH … not allah! For a large part of the 20th Century, the Progressive movement (like the “Enlightenment” era) sought to use science and math to trump faith. We experienced a wave of human secularism that swept our education system from Kindergarten through the elite universities. “Evolution” trumped “Intelligent Design,” not because of superior evidence, but because of political pressure, i.e. “political correctness!”

“If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious.

“First of all, both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly than on college campuses, many of which at this point are small ivy covered North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the other sainted “victims” groups that PC revolves around, quickly find themselves in judicial trouble. Within the small legal system of the college, they face formal charges – some star-chamber proceeding – and punishment. That is a little look into the future that Political Correctness intends for the nation as a whole.” (Bill Lind, February 5, 2000)

This is where we live today. This is why those of us with faith in GOD must pray for our nation. I’m counting tomorrow as a START date … with no defined end date, but until we see GOD move in our midst to bring about a righteous change. For too long, we, the faithful, have done nothing. We have allowed deception to overtake the people of America and steal their (our) birthright – the American Dream!

Even the Presidential Prayer Team has written:

President Obama Still Campaigning: Launches ’Organizing for Action’

(Friday, January 18, 2013)

“President Barack Obama on Friday announced the relaunch of his remaining campaign apparatus as a new tax-exempt group called Organizing for Action that will “play an active role” in “mobilizing around and speaking out in support of important legislation” during his second term.

“We may have started this as a longshot presidential primary campaign in 2007, but it’s always been about more than just winning an election. [INDEED! It is about redefining AMERICA!]

Together, we’ve made our communities stronger, we’ve fought for historic legislation, and we’ve brought more people than ever before into the political process,” Obama wrote in an email to supporters. “Organizing for Action will be a permanent commitment to this mission.” “We’ve got to keep working on growing the economy from the middle out, along with making meaningful progress on the issues we care about – immigration reform, climate change, balanced deficit reduction, reducing gun violence, and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act,” Obama wrote. “I’m not going to be able to take them on without you.” Organizing for Action will be separate from the Democratic National Committee, with Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina, serving as the national chairman of the group.”

(Sources: Politico, ABC News)

No more excuses! We must each be an asset to our nation!

They, the Progressives who want to recreate America into something OTHER than what our Founders (and GOD) designed via our Declaration of Independence and US Constitution, are organized and lead by the “Community Organizer-in-Chief.” Those of us who oppose these measures and policies must also, for the sake of our future generations, organize and pray for GOD’s direction and strategy to defeat the destructive powers at work in our nation. We must!

Prayer Suggestions:

• Pray for a rise in the general awareness of the American people, that the lethargy or apathy be broken; that the American people would assume the position of We-the-People and assume their responsibility as such!
• Pray for the deceptive veil over the eyes of many Americans to be exposed and lifted so they can SEE the choices clearly.
• Pray for Godly leaders to rise up boldly without fear of retaliation or reelection!
• Pray for an overwhelming hunger for righteousness and integrity to arise among the American people.
• Pray for Godly discernment, i.e. clear vision of the motivations of our leaders, both those we see and those behind the curtain.

If you are in agreement, please share this, repost it … broadcast it high and low! Thanks! God, Save the USA!

Our Nation’s Godly Heritage ~ BELIEVE!

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Today, God continues His work in America – but it’s in a nation that has clearly lost its moral compass because good men and women became entangled in our everyday lives. There are stories in the news everyday concerning one or more of the following:

• Sanctity of life – abortion and euthanasia.
• Sanctity of marriage – same-sex marriage and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues.
• Sanctity of the family – divorce, spousal and child abuse, out-of-wedlock pregnancies and absentee fathers.
• Judicial activism (Supreme and lower court decisions).
• Revisionist education in the public schools.
• The perceived rise of Socialism and one-world government trends.
• Attacks and media bias against Christianity.
• And the infiltration of Islam into America.

Some politicians, for their own reasons, work to rewrite our heritage and remove God, and still they wonder why suicide is up, teenage pregnancy is up, broken marriages are up, and violence in general is up.

It is time for the silent majority of Americans to re-engage and begin to take our nation back so it continues to be the Shining Light on a hill our Founders believed it to be. It will not happen overnight, but we can ignite a rebirth of all that has been our American Heritage, if we begin NOW!

It is at times like this that we, as believing Americans must remind ourselves, and our neighbors (gently) of our heritage, the Foundation this nation was built upon. Our heritage is rich in faith and action… faithful action! We must recollect the brilliance of our Founders and grasp the meaning and depth of their faith. Even the skeptics understood the value of Judeo-Christian Morality, but these values have been twisted and maligned so thoroughly by Hollywood, by self-serving politicians, and even by some Pastors, Priests, and Rabbis that the simplicity of them is lost. Jesus summed the Law and the Prophets up in the Greatest Commandment:

MATT 22: 36-40

36 “Teacher, what is the most important commandment in the Law?”

37 Jesus answered:

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. 38 This is the first and most important commandment. 39 The second most important commandment is like this one. And it is, “Love others as much as you love yourself.” 40 All the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets are based on these two commandments.

We are a culture, a society that has forgotten how to love one another, how to befriend one another, and how to help one another as good neighbors. If we could re-learn this, many of our nation’s issues would be solved! We must remember that our Constitution, our Declaration of Independence both proclaim us FREE citizens by God’s gift, and demonstrate our GRATITUDE by sharing what we have, whether great or small, with whomever we can. It is a HEART-ATTITUDE change that must occur in America. It MUST, if we are to survive.

Our Nation’s Godly Heritage

Charles Habib Malik (1908-1987), Lebanese Philosopher and Diplomat

Charles Habib Malik (1908-1987), Lebanese Philosopher and Diplomat

Charles Malik was born in Lebanon and educated at the American Mission School for Boys in Tripoli, as well as the American University of Beirut where he graduated with a degree in mathematics and physics. He moved to Cairo, where he developed an interest in philosophy, and later studied at Harvard from which he earned a Ph.D. in philosophy. He was a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly for Lebanon, and a member of the Human Rights Commission. He was a noted theologian, appealing to fellow Eastern Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics and Evangelicals alike. He wrote numerous Bible commentaries. Evangelical leader Bill Bright spoke well of him and often quoted him.

The good [in the United States] would never have come into being without the blessing and power of Jesus Christ … Whoever tries to conceive the American word without taking full account of the suffering, and love and salvation of Christ is only dreaming.

I know how embarrassing this matter is to politicians, bureaucrats, businessmen and cynics, but, whatever these honored men think, the irrefutable truth is that the soul of America is at its best and highest, Christian.

“No one can deny that many of the founding fathers of the United States of America were men of deep religious convictions based in the Bible and their Christian faith in Jesus Christ. Of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, nearly half (24) held seminary or Bible school degrees.

These Christian quotes of the founding fathers will give you an overview of their strong moral and spiritual convictions which helped form the foundations of our nation and our government.” (Founding Fathers Christian Quotes)

George Washington
1st U.S. President

“While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”
–The Writings of Washington, pp. 342-343.

Even Dr. Franklin, who was skeptical about the divinity of Jesus, said the following, “”Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

“That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them.“

John Hancock
1st Signer of the Declaration of Independence

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. … Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.”
–History of the United States of America, Vol. II, p. 229.

Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President, Drafter and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever; That a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event.”
–Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.

“I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.”
–The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 385.

Will God’s will be done on Election Day?

by James N. Watkins

Rather than a book of answers or a systematic theology, the Bible is a book rich with mysteries and intriguing clues: God is three yet one, Christ Jesus is completely God and completely human, and the Lord raises up leaders while Americans freely elect officials.

The prophet Daniel wrote that God “controls the course of world events; he removes kings and sets up other kings.” (Daniel 2:21 NLT) Curiously, this was written while the Jewish people were under Babylonian captivity. The apostle Paul wrote, “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.” (Romans 13:1) He continues that authorities are “God’s servant[s] for your good” and “ministers of God.” (Romans 13:4, 6) Mysteriously, Paul penned that passage during Roman occupation led by deranged dictator Nero.

So, will God have His way on November 6? It’s a mystery! However, two things can be emphatically stated.
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SEE Presidential Prayer Team Devotional for more ideas and scriptures to pray.