Is Prayer a Part of Submission to Governing Authorities?

Yes.  Yes it is.  When we submit to someone’s authority, we must at all cost wish for, desire, pray for the best for that person yielding authority.  Not only out of godly concern for others, but out of concern for the working of God in our lives, especially concerning LIFE, we must pray for those over us in power.  Lord, we pray for the soon-to-be utmost earthly authority over us, our President-Elect.  Speak to Mr. Obama’s heart.  Speak loudly, Lord.  Shout!  Thank you, with praise. 

There are ministries dedicated to praying for our President-Elect, Barack Obama, that God will change his heart regarding abortion and life-issues.  This is our prayer for this week, in preparation for Senator Obama’s inaugural.  God, change the heart of this man whom you have placed in authority over this our nation, this people.  God, please change his heart.  We praise you.

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 will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 

Please pray for those males and females still in the womb, especially those headed for destruction.  Pray for their parents to be convicted of the value and beauty of life, no matter whether these boys and girls are born “perfect,” in a human sense.  All babies are perfect to God.

Thank you God for life.

The clock ticked the time right into the new year.  A new year.  What will God do with it?  What will we let Him do with it?  Well, life-issues are still at the forefront in our election process.  Life-issues are not just “going away.” Early in 2008, a friend told me he had visited with a local TV reporter about something concerning abortion.  He was told by the reporter that the issue was no longer of interest to TV audiences, that the law made abortion legal, and that was that. 

Wrong.  Life-issues still burn and burn to be resolved.

Join me in the resolution to never NEVER let these issues of LIFE burn out.  Join with me in prayer to our Great God, asking Him to stoke the cinders in our hearts to a blazing commitment to created and enduring life.  Thank you.

Our new year will be here tomorrow.  Let’s say good-bye to the old, to old attitudes, to old laziness, to old habits.  Greet the new with the NEW.  New attitudes, new service, new habits of positive outcome.  Let’s pray to God to move to give rid of the old enemies standing against created LIFE.  Pray to God to strike down the machinations of THE enemy, that old serpent Satan.  Please, God, help us!  Help us go ever more strongly against the enemy of the universe, help us be victorious!  We plead you.  We beseech you.  Change hearts, change attitudes, bring revival.  Usher in this new year with YOUR plans only, not our puny outbursts.  Please, Lord, we ask.

What “new” do we need in the pro-life struggle for the upcoming year?  Well, for a few, renewed vigor, increased insight, broad wisdom, ongoing searching of the heart of God, continual dedication to pray, praying-praying-praying, encouragement for life-warriors, tender hearts toward mothers and families, and confidence in the hope God brings.  Please pray for these and the myriad other aspects of this battle:  a battle in which we may not rest.  Thank you Lord for the oncoming answers.  Praise your Name. 

We are approaching a new calendar year.  It holds such opportunity.  It holds such challenge.  Lord, help us to claim this scripture, that in Christ, we are new creations of new beginnings.  You are creating new beginnings, new persons continually, in the womb.  Help us to have a new courage and renewal of comittment to stand for those in the womb in new and ever more effective ways, including continual prayer.  Thank you for answering so many prayers in this regard during this passing year of 2008.

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 will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 

Luke 2:16 Joy to the World a Baby . . . and His Friends

Psalm 119:147, 148 Meditate on Our Night Watch

Psalm 139:13 (Pt. 4) Yarn of Gold

Psalm 139:13 (Pt. 3) God Knitted Jesus Too

Redemption came through this Baby so loved and praised by Anna, the quite elderly prophetess.  Just like all persons rejoicing over a new birth, she talked to many about the new baby, especially those seeking redemption.  Our nation as a whole must seek redemption—and it will come one person at a time through belief in the Baby of Bethlehem.  But also, at the other end of the spectrum of life spans, we must recognize the importance of the aged and what they speak.  Our prayer is, God, that we may be faithful to hold up the importance of LIFE, from the cradle (or manger) to life’s natural end.

Joy to the World, a Baby came.  At eight days old, this Baby was greeted in the Temple by the man Simeon, apparently old, and the prophetess Anna, 84 years old.  According to God’s plan for salvation, from the beginning of its being fleshed out, a baby and older folks played a part.  May we always, Lord, revere babies and the elderly as part of your plan, not because of what they do, but just because they are just here:  you have put them here.  Help us to get the word out that the Word in fleshly baby form and His elderly friends are wanted and needed by God.  Merry Christmas.

We are on a night watch even as we anticipate the annual celebration of the birth of the Saviour.  The psalmist says he anticipates the night watch for purposes of meditation.  Pray today that we may meditate in anticipation of the joy of Christmas, with thoughts and prayers looking forward to the births of today’s babies, especially those unborn who will be rescued from instruments of death and drugs of death.  Pray for the families of those who are not rescued. 

The Child, the Child, in the hay:  the representation of the beauty and holiness of all conceived babies.  Purest, most innocent, created.

God knits us in the womb with yarn of gold.  Gold can be purified; but in the womb, purity is already there in the form of a baby who knows no guile.  It’s true that God chose to give the human race a choice regarding the Saviour, and it’s true that the newest newborn already needs a Saviour Who is always waiting to make Himself to known to each of us.  But God’s plans (the gifts, bents, abilities) God puts within us from conception are truly of a yarn of gold.

May we pray daily, and trust Him, to open the eyes of the world to this truth:  Babies are created beings, with plans of gold for their futures.  Please, Lord, let this belief take over in our world.