Take Time To Pray

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 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice -Psalm 55: 17

 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. -Dan 6:10

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint. -Luk 18:1

Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour -Act 3:1

He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius, -Act 10:3

And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing -Act 10:30

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Prayer Before Congress

This is a prayer prayed many years ago.

Our fathers’ God and ours, on the birthday of national independence we confess our dependence upon Thee. Without Thee we are lost in spite of the overwhelming might of our national arms.

We thank Thee for those pilgrims of faith who came hither in their frail barque across mountainous seas and who stepped upon strange shores with the salutation to a new world, “In the Name of God. Amen.” The Nation here established, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal has acknowledged that Name above every name and reverenced it, has built its altars, reared its temples, and raised its steeples, emblems of a faith that points to the skies and wings its sure and certain way to God. Make that faith of the fathers, we pray, real to us in these tempestuous days. Save us from a freedom of speech so empty that we have nothing worth saying, from a freedom of worship so futile that we have no God to adore, from freedom from want and fear with no creative idea as to how to use our plenty or our security for the redemption of our social order and for the salvation of our own souls. Let all that is low and unworthy in us sink to the depths. Let all that is high and fine in us rise to greet the morn of a new day confident that the best is yet to be. Amen.

(Source: Congressional Record-Senate, 78th Congress, first session, 89/5, July 5, 1943

Psalms 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Take Time To Pray

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice -Psalm 55: 17

 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. -Dan 6:10

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint. -Luk 18:1

Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour -Act 3:1

He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius, -Act 10:3

And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing -Act 10:30

Keep On Praying

GOD ANSWERS PRAYER!

And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?  I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? –Luke 18: 7, 8

God will surely vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and night. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: (2 Peter 1:10). Always pray and do not lose heart.

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. JOHN 3:16

Path Of Prayer

God wants us to talk to Him about everything that is going on in our lives, even though He already knows

Watch Tower

everything. When we have a special time and place of prayer, we can be sure, Christ will meet us there. Now is the time to spend much time in prayer, as our nation needs much prayer . It is a time that we should be interceding for the election of 2008 as never before.

In one region of Africa, the first converts to Christianity were very diligent about praying. In fact, the believers each had their own special place outside the village where they went to pray in solitude. The villagers reached these “prayer rooms” by using their own private footpaths through the brush. When grass began to grow over one of these trails, it was evident that the person to whom it belonged was not praying very much.
Because these new Christians were concerned for each other’s spiritual welfare, a unique custom sprang up. When ever anyone noticed an overgrown “Prayer path,” he or she would go to the person and lovingly warn, “Friend, there’s grass on your path!” - RWD
1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

Watch and guard our prayer life. Meditate, pray, and experience God’s power. We are admonished to be sober -”self-restrained.” We who are Christians do not want to be intoxicated with worldly cares and pleasures. When we become drowsy our prayer life falls.Temperance promotes wakefulness or watchfulness, and both promote prayer.

But he who has given up himself and his all to God, may say confidently that the Lord is his portion; and nothing but glory through Christ Jesus, is solid and lasting; that abideth for ever.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Romans 13:11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed.

Hebrews 9:26 Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

James 5:8 You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.

1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 John 2:18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.