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JCsites.com
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| Posted 9/12/2001 6:03 AM (GMT -6) |   | I got this prayer via e-mail from a friend and thought I would post it here. I know you'll join me in prayer for our nation. Staggering, shocking, saddening, words cannot describe... I must pray.
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All, I was sent this message today and thought it appropriate to pass along. Please also pray for children who are scared and feeling vulnerable to attacks like yesterday.
Dave Hemminger
dave@hemminger.com
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Dear Heavenly Father,
We are moved by the alarming news and crisis that our country is facing. This, the greatest nation, founded in the belief that "In God We Trust" & the "Land of the Free". Please have mercy on those suffering, hurting and in fear, and give wisdom & strength to those who are assisting. May the forces of evil be broken by your power and may we humble before thee, our strength and refuge.
Give wisdom to our President & our leaders and bring your comforting peace through the power of your Holy Spirit. Help us here to reach to those that have been affected by this tragedy.
In the name of our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus. AMEN
Please send this to all your friends and create a prayer chain
throughout this nation.
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trosie
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| Posted 9/12/2001 5:20 PM (GMT -6) | | Here's a prayer I got via e-mail so I will post this one here too.
Dear God....
We ask that you might be with all the people whose lives have been changed
forever by the violence of this morning. Comfort and support those trapped
under wreckage. Guide those seeking to rescue people in all kinds of
difficult situations. Bring healing to the mourning and the those whose
bodies, hearts and minds have been traumatized forever. Protect all those
in the military and other jobs that place them at risk in these troubled
times. Inspire those who must decide how we will respond to this attack.
This is a day when we need your support and wisdom, we give thanks that
your Spirit is blowing through our midst.
Amen
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Magneton
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| Posted 9/13/2001 4:04 AM (GMT -6) | | A prayer with new meaning for each of us, thought to be the words of St. Francis of Assisi:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is discord, union;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much
seek to be consoled as to console,
not so much to be understood as to understand,
not so much to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
it is in dying that we awake to eternal life.
Amen.
Magneton
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Proverbs23_23
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| Posted 9/13/2001 11:57 AM (GMT -6) | |
1 I love you, O Lord, my strength.
2 The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3 I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, so I shall be saved from my enemies.
4 The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of perdition assailed me; 5 the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
6 In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
7 Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.
8 Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.
9 He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet. 10 He rode on a cherub, and flew; he came swiftly upon the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
12 Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire.
13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice.
F15 14 And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings, and routed them.
15 Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 He reached down from on high, he took me; he drew me out of mighty waters. 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me. 18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity; but the Lord was my support.
19 He brought me out into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me. 21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 22 For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me. 23 I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt. 24 Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
25 With the loyal you show yourself loyal; with the blameless you show yourself blameless;
26 with the pure you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you show yourself perverse.
27 For you deliver a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.
28 It is you who light my lamp; the Lord, my God, lights up my darkness.
29 By you I can crush a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.
30 This God—his way is perfect; the promise of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all who take refuge in him.
31 For who is God except the Lord? And who is a rock besides our God?—
32 the God who girded me with strength, and made my way safe.
33 He made my feet like the feet of a deer, and set me secure on the heights. 34 He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
35 You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand has supported me; your help F16 has made me great. 36 You gave me a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip. 37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them; and did not turn back until they were consumed. 38 I struck them down, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet. 39 For you girded me with strength for the battle; you made my assailants sink under me. 40 You made my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed. 41 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them; they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them. 42 I beat them fine, like dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets. 43 You delivered me from strife with the peoples; F17 you made me head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me. 44 As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me. 45 Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their strongholds.
46 The Lord lives! Blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation, 47 the God who gave me vengeance and subdued peoples under me; 48 who delivered me from my enemies; indeed, you exalted me above my adversaries; you delivered me from the violent.
49 For this I will extol you, O Lord, among the nations, and sing praises to your name. 50 Great triumphs he gives to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever.
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Proverbs23_23
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| Posted 9/13/2001 12:17 PM (GMT -6) | | For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.
Therefore put on God's complete armor, that you may be able to resist and stand your ground on the evil day [of danger], and, having done all [the crisis demands], to stand [firmly in your place].
Stand therefore [hold your ground], having tightened the belt of truth around your loins and having put on the breastplate of integrity and of moral rectitude and right standing with God.
And having shod your feet in preparation [to face the enemy with the firm-footed stability, the promptness, and the readiness produced by the good news[ of the Gospel of peace.
Lift up over all the [covering]shield of saving faith, upon which you can quench all the flaming missiles of the wicked [one].
And take the helmet of salvation and the sword that the Spirit wields, which is the Word of God.
Pray at all times(on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty. To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceeding in behalf of all the saints (God's consecrated people).
...Grace (God's undeserved favor) be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with undying and incorruptible love. Amen
"Come Lord Jesus"
Proverbs
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trosie
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| Posted 9/13/2001 5:25 PM (GMT -6) | | I hope this works??? I received this
e-mail today and want to pass it along to you as a source of upliftment. It is worth looking at -- I found the pictures relaxing and peaceful, and the message so true!
Subject: Fw: "Interview with God"
Type in: http://www.reata.org/interview2.html
Blessings,
trosie
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Proverbs23_23
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| Posted 9/14/2001 2:15 AM (GMT -6) | | I talked to my brother and sister-in-law yesterday. It was very hard to listen to the shaking in their voices as they each told the story. My sister-in-law was supposed to be in the Customs Department at WTC at 8:30AM. She (being one of the heads of the Dept.) was moved to the Sony building instead for a separate meeting first. She was walking there when the planes hit.
My brother was in DC at the Treasury when the sirens went off. He spoke of grabbing women and dragging them out of the building because they were too scared and weak and wanted to sit in the fetal position in the hallway. They ended up running 5 miles.
My sister in law had to take a train back to DC. She told of Penn Station and the looming fear in the air. (why don't trains have metal detectors?????)
I told my brother I was praying for him, and thought I could offer hope in Jesus.
He laughed at me.
My heart was heavy yesterday. How can one have such a hard heart in the midst of disaster? He saw what happened in real life and was clearly shaken, but at the thought of Jesus, he saw no refuge.
Please remember them in your prayers,
Proverbs
"In unity there is strength" Aesop
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Mephi2K
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| Posted 9/14/2001 5:15 AM (GMT -6) | | Dearest Lord,
Evil in this life sucks...including that which lies within my dusty frame. Have mercy, my Lord. Continue to give us light. God, please help us all.
Tearfully your servant,
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writerdad
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| Posted 9/14/2001 10:48 AM (GMT -6) | | | | |
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trosie
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| Posted 9/14/2001 8:37 PM (GMT -6) | | Here are a few scriptures to add to Proverbs list:
Hosea 6: 1-2
"Come, and let us return to the Lord;
For He has torn, but He will heal us;
He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
After two days He will revive us;
On the third day He will raise us up,
that we may live in His sight."
2nd Peter 3:8
"But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day"
We are in that day and hour for our eyes to be looking up to God for direction.
trosie
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Proverbs23_23
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| Posted 9/16/2001 2:20 AM (GMT -6) | | My brother and sister-in-law told me they are going to church today.
PTL
Proverbs
Many waters cannot quench Your love.
Rivers cannot overwhelm it.
Oceans of fear cannot conceal You love for me.
Many waters cannot quench Your love. Rivers cannot overwhelm it.
Oceans of fear cannot conceal Your love for me.
Your love for me.
Holy Love, flow in me, fill me up, like the deepest sea. Like a crashing wave pouring over me, holy love flow in me.
Many sorrows cannot quench Your love, Darkness cannot overwhelm it.
I will not fear, Your love is here to comfort me.
When I find You I find healing, When I find You I find peace.
And I know that there's no river so wide, No mountain so high, No ocean so deep that You can't part the sea.
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trosie
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| Posted 9/16/2001 2:38 AM (GMT -6) | | Sing it sister! Praise the Lord about your brother and sister-in-law. What an answer to prayer, eh!!!
Holy love, flow in me. Fill me up like the deepest sea...
trosie
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 9/16/2001 11:24 AM (GMT -6) | | At some thoughts a man stands perplexed, above all at the sight of human sin, and he wonders whether to combat it by force or by humble love. Always decide: "I will combat it by humble love." If you resolve on that once for all, you can conquer the whole world. Loving humility is a terrible force: it is the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.
The Starets Zozima, in Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
PotOnWheel
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 9/16/2001 11:39 AM (GMT -6) | | ![]()
How do you do this?
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