Prayer for our nation

[TClark]

'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.  We know Your Word  says, 'Woe to those who call evil good, ' but that is exactly what we have done.   We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.  We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.  We have rewarded 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 neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.  We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of 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!'
Billy Graham

[Hognutz]

Amen!! That is as well said as anything I have ever read. 

[OLE RASPY]

YES SIR.SPEAK IT.

[LX_Trkyhntr]

   AMEN!!

"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under" Ronald Reagan

2 Chronicles 7:14  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.

[honker22]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/prayernation.asp

I was copying and pasting and was going to send to some friends and a pastor/buddy of mine and checked the athenticity of the prayer.  It is a real prayer, but not by Billy Graham.  Snopes has a pretty cool story of how this originated.

I will say a big AMEN to all of it though!

[West Augusta]

This is an old one but is still good.

      
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Subject: Andy Rooney says, "Pray if you want to."

CBS and Katie Couric et al must be in a panic and rushing to reassure the White House
that this is not network policy.

Folks, this is the year that we retake AMERICA & CANADA !

********* Get Ready *********
Keep this going around the globe. Read it and forward
every time you receive it. We can't give up on this issue.

Andy Rooney and Prayer...

Andy Rooney says:

I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue
somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December.
I don't agree with Darwin , but I didn't go out and hire
a lawyer when my high school teacher taught his theory
of evolution.

Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be
endangered because someone says a 30-second prayer
before a football game. So what's the big deal? It's not
like somebody is up there reading the entire Book of
Acts. They're just talking to a God they believe in and
asking him to grant safety to the players on the field and
the fans going home from the game.

But it's a Christian prayer, some will argue. Yes, and this
is the United States of America and Canada , countries
founded on Christian principles. According to our very
own phone book, Christian churches outnumber all others
more than 200-to-1! So what would you expect --
somebody chanting Hare Krishna?

If I went to a football game in Jerusalem , I would expect
to hear a Jewish prayer.

If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad , I would expect to
hear a Muslim prayer.

If I went to a ping pong match in China , I would expect to
hear someone pray to Buddha.

And I wouldn't be offended. It wouldn't bother me one bit.
When in Rome ...

But 'what about the atheists?' is another argument. What
about them? Nobody is asking them to be baptized. We're
not going to pass the collection plate. Just humour us for
30 seconds. If that's asking too much, bring a Walkman or
a pair of ear plugs. Go to the bathroom. Visit the concession stand.

Call your lawyer!

Unfortunately, one or two will make that call. One or two
will tell thousands what they can and cannot do. I don't
think a short prayer at a football game is going to shake
the world's foundations.

Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek
while our courts strip us of all our rights. Our parents and
grandparents taught us to pray before eating, to pray before
we go to sleep. Our Bible tells us to pray without ceasing.
Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to
cease praying.

God, help us! And if that last sentence offends you, well,
just sue me. The silent majority has been silent too long.
It's time we tell that one or two who scream loud enough
to be heard that the vast majority doesn't care what they
want. It is time that the majority rules!

It's time we tell them, "you don't have to pray; you don't
have to say the Pledge of Allegiance; you don't have to
believe in God or attend services that honour Him. That is
your right, and we will honour your right; but by golly, you
are no longer going to take our rights away. We are fighting
back, and we WILL WIN!"

God bless us one and all...especially those who denounce
Him. God bless America and Canada, despite all our faults,
we are still the greatest nations of all. God bless our service
men who are fighting to protect our right to pray and worship
God.

Let's make 2010 the year the silent majority is heard and
we restore God as the foundation of our families and
institutions. And may our military forces come home safely
from all the wars.

Keep looking up.

[hookedspur]

 

[bird]

And when all else fails we can sing.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJfJPxLntZU