A Day of Fasting and Prayer

A good friend of ours shared this with us.

I think this is something that we need to be doing on a regular basis.  Our country certainly does need some intervention.

Dear Family and  Friends,

I was very grateful to receive this e-mail and want to share it with you in hopes that you might join us in this very important petition to God to help our nation at this very difficult time.  We face problems abroad.  We have many very serious challenges within.  It seems that this may be the greatest way to resolve them --- to receive divine help --- to humbly petition God for help.   I hope you will share this message so we can have thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands, of good people uniting their faith and prayers in behalf of our Nation. 

 May you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving ---- one where we will both count our blessings and give geniune thanks to the Giver of all blessings!     

DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYER FOR  AMERICA

We, my wife and I, are firmly convinced that our elected politicians are incapable of representing the will of the American people – and  incapable of adhering to the Constitution of the United States of America which they took a solemn oath to uphold and defend.

We are among the millions of U.S. Citizens who are at our wits end sending e-mails, faxes, telephoning, meeting with elected officials, demonstrating, rallying – and hoping – that those representatives will do the will of the people. They have failed. Have we, as well?

 The United States of America is a choice land, a nation that was founded by our forefathers who were divinely inspired by God the Father Almighty.

 This choice nation has been the defender of freedom throughout its relatively short history. We have led in the fight for freedom against many tyrants and dictators who have plundered and pilfered their  citizens and have subjected them to great sufferings through blood and horror.

The people of those nations who suffered these great injustices  knew that they could always depend upon the goodness, power and righteousness of the  United States of America to extract them from their plights, and it was done – many times over.  It was not done without expense – the expense of the  blood and sacrifice of the members of our armed forces – and the suffering of their families.

As the year 2009 soon comes to a close, we the citizens of the  United  States of America find ourselves facing many of the challenges – which  those nations suffered at the hands of their political leaders. We are being attacked from within!

 Who do we turn to? To which great nation can we turn to help us keep and maintain our freedom? We do not have the same hope of those nations to whom we were benefactors.

 We MUST turn to our Savior.  If we are a righteous people, we will be deserving of, and receive of  His blessings as He has promised.  He suffered and died for us – He atoned for our sins; each one of us - individually.

We know that - as a  nation – we can once again be the choicest of lands.  However, we cannot achieve that blessing without our willingness to please our Lord and Savior.

 We are asking that all who read this message that have faith in Christ designate Sunday December 6, 2009 as a day of fasting and prayer for America .

 You do not have to march on the nation’s Capitol nor go to a tea bag rally. From the comfort of your home, you can get on bended knee and with a broken heart and contrite spirit, petition the Lord to bless this nation generously according to His will. Then, keep the fast for that day.  Make that Christ-like commitment to  our Heavenly Father.  He will listen, He will answer.  That has been promised.

"And all things,whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” (Matthew 21:22)