Updated: 10/24/2008
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Speakers on for The Lord's Prayer
Take One Minute to Pray!
This is the scariest election I can remember. I’m 67 years old and have voted for the last 48 years. I cannot remember when the issues and stakes have ever been higher! If you are to believe the polls, We are about to elect a President of the greatest country on earth, who was raised a Muslim, professes to be a Christian, has extreme left-wing affiliations and is an admitted socialist.
I was raised to believe in Christian values – and I’m afraid many Christians in this country are confused right now by the “pie-in-sky” promises and the charisma of Barrack Hussein Obama and will not vote their Christian values.
During World War II, there was an advisor to Churchhill, who organized a large group of people to pray for the safety of England. They dropped whatever they were doing at a prescribed time and collectively prayed for one minute. This had an amazing effect – the bombing stopped. There is now a group of people organizing the same thing in this country.
If you would like to participate each evening, see below.
Text for this section forwarded by Al D. Marks
Vice Chairman Communications, Hall County Republican Party
Click here to print out this page in PDF format and tape to your
computer monitor, TV, recliner, car dash or wherever you might
be at 9 p.m.
STOP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOINGAT PRECISELY 9:00 PM EST
(8:00 CST, 7:00 MST, 6:00 PST)
And spend one minute praying
for the well being of the United States of
America and our troops;for our leaders to have the wisdom to lead us through these troubled times;
that we make the right choices in the
upcoming election;that the Bible will remain the bases for the
laws governing our land andthat our Judeo-Christian religion (upon which
this country was founded) will prevail in the US
We need to pray for our Nation. If we ALL do this, It will
make a difference - - - and don’t forget to VOTE
Republican!
Pray for Sarah Palin!
Please Pray for
Sarah Palin
everyday until the election on November 4!
Thank you so much for your prayers for Sarah Palin. With just 14 days left to the elections, we now have 6,000 people praying in almost 3500 zip codes. I can't even tell you how exciting that is to me! If you have a few minutes, please listen to The 700 Club interview with Sarah Palin that aired this morning. It's about five minutes long. Toward the last 30-seconds of the interview, the topic turns to prayer.
Please forward this email using the Constant Contact forwarding option in the lower left hand corner. That way the format will stay intact.
Also, please continue to tell others about our You Tube video and our goal of having people praying from every zip code in America!
God Bless You!
NOTICE -- County-wide Prayer Meeting in Hall County Georgia
There was a nondenominational county-wide prayer meeting Monday night, October 20, at Lakewood Baptist Church on Thompson Bridge Rd. in Gainesville, GA at 7:00pm.
Don't be confused by the "pie-in-the sky" promises and the charisma of Barrack Hussein Obama. We have the power to change the course of this election and keep a man as suspect as "The One" from leading our country to who knows where with his message of "change". A change I fear will be away from our Christian ideals and away from one nation under god to one nation under Allah!
Let's pray we make the right choices Nov 4th, that the Bible will remain the bases for the laws governing our land and Christianity will grow in the U.S.
We need to pray for our Nation. Let us all do it. It will make a difference. In addition to the above scheduled prayer meeting - don't forget to STOP whatever you are doing at precisely 9:00 pm EST every evening and spend one minute praying.
(We hear that many communities are having similar prayer meetings between now and November 4.)
Election, Churches and Voter Turnout
October 20, 2008
In Matthew 22:21, Jesus commanded His followers: "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."
Today, many mistakenly act as if the conjunction in this verse is "or" -- that is, "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, or unto God the things that are God's," but to the contrary, the verse deliberately uses the conjunction "and" -- that is, "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's." Very simply, Christians are commanded to do their duty in both the spiritual and the civil arenas -- to fulfill a dual responsibility in both.
Christians in previous generations fully understood the scope of this command. For example, the Rev. Charles Finney, a minister and leader in America's Second Great Awakening, reminded Christians in his generation:
The Church must take right ground in regard to politics. . . . God cannot sustain this free and blessed country which we love and pray for unless the Church will take right ground. . . . God will bless or curse this nation according to the course Christians take in politics.There are three weekends left before the November elections, and churches can do five things during that time to help ensure that Christians fulfill their civic responsibilities in this election.
1. Preach an ELECTION SERMON.
Election sermons began in America in 1633 and continued for the next 270 years. These sermons reminded Christians of their Biblical responsibilities in the civic arena, addressing the issues of the day from a Biblical perspective. As the Rev. Ebenezer Thayer noted in 1725, the preachers of Election Sermons were to offer thanks for the blessings received and also were to be "watchmen upon Jerusalem's wall, whose proper business is to decry dangers and give seasonable notice
thereof -- to observe the sins of the times and the awful symptoms of God's departure.
" Dr. Timothy Stone's Election Sermon from 1792 can be read online.
2. Utilize these BULLETIN INSERTS.
We have a church bulletin insert with quotes from five famous American ministers on the importance of Christians voting according to Biblical standards and values. Obtain these bulletin inserts in packages of 50 or 100, and distribute them on Sunday, November 2 before the November 4th election. These bulletin inserts are offered at a 50% discount.
3. Make VOTERS GUIDES available to parishioners.
In the three weeks leading up to the election, make these guides available so that the people will be equipped to cast an informed vote either in early voting or in on site voting on Election Day. Those voters guides are available free on our website and are downloadable so that they can be printed in whatever quantities are needed by each church
or group.
4. Show "YOUR VOTE COUNTS" DVD.
We have produced a 3-minute DVD, "Your Vote Counts," showing the historic role and importance of Christians voting. This DVD can be shown in church the Sunday preceding the election to encourage voter participation. (This video can be
downloaded from our website or you can email us to order a copy of the DVD.)
5. All of the above activities are completely legal.
To assuage any concerns that pastors or parishioners might have, we not only
have a letter from the IRS setting forth the freedoms of churches to engage in
these activities but also the legal analyses of several national legal groups
(including Liberty Legal Institute and Liberty Counsel) further affirming the right of churches to engage in these activities. In fact, these legal groups will represent
free of charge any church that is attacked for engaging in these constitutionally protected activities.
Let's do all we can to be salt and light in the civil arena this election cycle, and
these five things will help achieve that objective. (Feel free to forward this
information on to other pastors, churches, or Biblical voters.)
God Bless!
David Barton
Let's do it!
If My people who are called by My name will
humble themselves, and pray and seek My face,
and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear
from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal
their land. (II Chronicles 7:14)
The Lord's Prayer is the model of prayer that Jesus taught us, as recorded in the gospels of Matthew and Luke.It is presented here in traditional language - Matthew 6:9-13
You might want to sing along with the music
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen
Please forward a link to this page to everyone you know who believes in the power of prayer! Let's create a prayer chain across this great country.
Bettye Chambers
Georgia Women for McCain-Palin Coalition
Communications Director/Webmaster
www.GeorgiaWomenForMcCain.org
Web page
by Bettye
