KNOWING GOD'S PEACE IN TROUBLED TIMES

Billy Graham's Prayer for the Nation

Heavenly Father, we come before You today to ask forgiveness and to seek direction and guidance. We know Your Word says “Woe to those who call evil good,” and that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed out spiritual values. We have exploited our poor and called it the lottery. We have reward laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbors possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom and expression. We have ridiculed the time honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.
Amen

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this on his radio program, “The Rest of the Story,” and received a larger response to this program than any other he has aired. With the Lord’s help may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we can again be called one nation under God.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Liturgical Year A, Cycle II

Thanksgiving Day Mass

First Reading: Revelation 18:1-2, 21-23; 19:1-3, 9
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 100:2,3,4,5
Gospel: Luke 21:20-28

Religion is man's way to go...God's way is Jesus to us.

That is why we must share God's way (the WORD) which is Jesus.

Share the Word with a brother or sister. You may be closer than you think to him or her.

Religion is just customs, traditions of man, hearsay, which doesn't come from the WORD of God.

Remember faith cometh by hearing. Our hope is in Jesus, the WORD, that was from the beginning to the end, ALPHA and OMEGA, from eternity past, to the present, to eternity future. The world that was, the world that is, and the world that is to come.

Blessing, may they be showers of blessing,

Brother Gary

DON'T FORGET:

• Brilliant people talk about ideas
• Average people talk about things
• Small people talk about other people

P.S. Try not to even think small this week. Let us try to understand your brothers and sisters customs, traditions of men and religions, they all come from man. We all know we need the LORD.

A THANKSGIVING PRAYER

This is a letter from the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians.

Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus,

and love unto all the saints,

Cease not to give thanks for you,

making mention of you in my prayers:

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened;

that ye may know what is the hope of his calling,

and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-word who believe,

according to the working of his mighty power.

Which he wrought in Christ,

when he raised him from the dead,

and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion,

and every name that is named,

not only in this world,

but also in that which is to come:

And hath put all things under his feet,

and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Ephesians 1:15-23

Remember when we pray, it's not our power, but His. To be enlightened by His power, we must listen for His voice to be able to understand. It is the power within us who believe to receive the answer to our prayer.

Blessing,

Brother Gary

DON'T FORGET:

• God allows U-TURNS
• We're too blessed to be depressed
• When all else fails, trust God.