Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

It's Time to Pray for Sarah Palin

As I was watching the news this past week, God put it on my heart to pray for the Palins. As, Sarah Palin has stepped into the national race for the Vice Presidency, there have been some horrible attacks on her person, character, family & beliefs. Todd & Sarah Palin have been open about their faith & beliefs and the media is bent on, not just defaming her character, but destroying her & her family.

This is not a political endorsement, rather a call to prayer for a family of God's children that the Devil has set his sights on to destroy.

These latest attacks show the true colors of the viciousness and vitriol of the attackers.

1) "Left-wing internet hackers have been credited for illegally breaking into GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s email. Members of what has been described as the “cyber vigilante” group Anonymous broke into Palin’s personal Yahoo email account and uploaded stolen information to the Internet." Sept. 17, 2008

2) Hollywood actors fell into the deep end years ago, as we know, but it really seems like they've sunk to new lows in their attacks on Sarah Palin. On Sept 15, 2008, Chevy Chase said this: "Well, I thought, I mean, it's extraordinary how well she played her and how much she looked like her. I'd just like her to be—personally I felt we didn't need the Hillary stuff. I'd like her to go even harder. I want her to decimate this woman. This is a, this woman is, I mean I can't believe isn't more about her. All the media have and the press have been going "oh, she's a wonderful, oh God, her speech was great." Just unbelievable to me that this woman is running for vice-president."

3) Leftwing Bloggers coined this phrase “Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a Governor”. Sept. 5, 2008


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Even though the attacks on the Palins seem to be backfiring on the Obama camp, and energizing the conservative base around the country, we cannot forget that there is a huge spiritual battle going on here. The Palins, for the simple fact that they are children of God, are being attacked by Satan. Satan is using lots of people in the media to try and destroy her and tear her to bits.

We need to lift them up in prayer. They need God's protection, provision, wisdom, strength.

I encourage all of us that every time you hear Sarah Palin's name on the radio or on the TV or she comes up in a conversation, let that be a reminder to pray for her, and Todd, her children, and especially Trac who is being deployed to Iraq soon.

I'm not a believer in Mail Forwards, but this word needs to get out to the family of God. Our country is in dire times. We need leaders of character and faith and I believe that John McCain and Sarah Palin can navigate us through the political waters of our times. And there are those out there that have proven that they will cross every line in order to remove her from this race.


Pray with me,
Nev

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Ephesians 6:10-17
10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

this is my prayer today

from the song "Hosanna" by Brooke Fraser

"Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like You have loved me
Break my heart for what breaks Yours
Everything I am for Your kingdom's cause
As I walk from earth into eternity"

Monday, April 7, 2008

Jackson Senyonga

I heard a great sermon this past Sunday. We had a missionary from Uganda, Jackson Senyonga, come and speak to us about prayer. Here follows some things that he preached:


Does God answer prayer? What kind of prayer does God answer?

He preached from the Scripture :

2 Chronicles 20

Here are some quotes from Jackson:

"God has no credibility problem in the area of answered prayer."

"It's impossible to seek the Lord and not find him."

"When you stand on your knees, you are taller than your enemies."

His Message:

There are 5 kinds of prayers that God answers:

1) Desperate Prayers:

a) Casual prayers: America loves this one

b) Crisis prayers: (9/11) its a good prayer, but it dies quickly after the crisis is over

c) Committed prayers: This prayer causes real change

-2 Chr 20:12 - "we don't know what to do Lord, but our eyes are on you...."

- in humility - ex. Moses, Jacob

"Prayerlessness is an exhibit for Pride."

Jackson believes right now, that "Prayer is the missing ingredient in the American Church."

2) God likes to answer the Big Picture prayers

- Kingdom Minded prayer

3) Pray for Other People:

-"It starts with you, but doesn't end with you."

-"We are so much in our own way"

- "It's not about me, it's about the Kingdom."

4) Act/Walk out your prayers: everyone has a part to play

"Prayer is harder on our knees"

"Some of us want to hide in prayer to disobey God"

-"We want to spiritualize our disobedience.----that's witchcraft."

-"What ever you don't do, it goes undone."

-"If you don't go and touch those(non-believers) people [you just prayed for], they will go untouched and go to hell."

5) Pray sacrificially

"Not out of liking, but out of obedience.

Ex. from Scripture:

Matt 16:21-23

21 From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 22And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you." 23But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man."

As soon as Jesus began to speak on sacrifice and death, Satan [through Peter] interrupted because ----

"Sacrifice produces power"

"Fires from heaven (Power) don't fall on nothing, they fall on sacrifice"