Archive for July, 2012
30 DAYS OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN MARRIAGES
Thursday, July 12th, 2012BY CRYSTAL BANKS
Dear God,Two imperfect people cannot make a perfect relationship. This morning we humble ourselves and pray and invite You Lord God into our marriage relationship. We can’t do this alone. We invite You to be the centre of our marriage and to get “all up in our buisness”.
DAY TWO:
We prayed and invited you into our marriage relationship. Although you Lord God are perfect we are not. We have said and done hurtful things to our spouse in the past and our spouses have said and done hurtful things to us in the past Lord God. We don’t want anything to get in the way of Your best for our marriage and our lives Lord God. Today we lay our hurts at your feet. We release our offence, our resentment, our expectations, and our disappointments to You Lord God. People that we are close to hurt us the most so even small things can turn into big mountains.
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
DAY 14
FOR FREEDOM – HE SET US FREE
The following are the dictionary definitions of FREEDOM:
1. The state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint.
2. Exemption from external control, interference, regulation, etc.
3. The power to determine action without restraint.
4. Political or national independence.
5. Personal liberty, as opposed to bondage or slavery: a slave who bought his freedom. (Source)
On the day we celebrate the biggest Birth of Freedom the world has ever seen, it would serve us well to take another look at what Freedom really means. It was more than just the removal of crazy King George III by the Continental Army, General George Washington and some rag-tag peasants. It was a dawn of a new day where the governed would govern themselves according to a set of Principles and not under some “divine right” of corrupt kings and queens. These principles were all based on the Bible.
It was a novel concept, a new paradigm. It was not to create another theocracy like Rome, but a land where non-believers in God would not just have the same rights and freedom to live peacefully, but could prosper as well. After all, the rain does really fall equally on the righteous and the unrighteous. During the American Revolution, it was America’s pastors who were the conscience of the burst of Freedom and I would even venture to say that the First Great Awakening – the biggest Revival in the world at the time, had something to do with it. This Awakening was spurred by men like Jonathan Edwards – who preached the greatest sermon still in this country (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, July 1741). George Whitefield and John Wesley fired up America for the Gospel and people saw that there was Freedom in the Gospel, through Christ our Lord, for the first time in their lives.