A Prayer For Our Nation

Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation THIS MAN SURE HAS A GOOD VIEW OF WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY! '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!' Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,' and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'One nation under God.' Think about this: If you forward this prayer to everyone on your e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be heard by the world. (It's worth a try!) One Nation Under God.

A Simple Deck of Cards

Here is a new way to look at a deck of cards!!



Deck of Cards

It was quiet that day, the guns and the mortars, and land mines for some reason hadn't been heard.

The young soldier knew it was Sunday, the holiest day of the week.

As he was sitting there, he got out an old deck of cards and laid them out across his bunk.

Just then an army sergeant came in and said, 'Why aren't you with the rest of the platoon?'

The soldier replied, 'I thought I would stay behind and spend some time with the Lord.'

The sergeant said , 'Looks to me like you're going to play cards.'

The soldier said, 'No, sir. You see, since we are not allowed to have Bibles or other spiritual books in this country,

I've decided to talk to the Lord by studying this deck of cards.'

The sergeant asked in disbelief, 'How will you do that?'

'You see the Ace, Sergeant? It reminds me that there is only one God.

The Two represents the two parts of the Bible, Old and New Testaments

The Three represents the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost.

The Four stands for the Four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John .

The Five is for the five virgins there were ten but only five of them were glorified.

The Six is for the six days it took God to create the Heavens and Earth.

The Seven is for the day God rested after making His Creation.

The Eight is for the family of Noah and his wife, their three sons and their wives -- the eight people God spared from the flood that destroyed the Earth.

The Nine is for the lepers that Jesus cleansed of leprosy He cleansed ten, but nine never thanked Him.

The Ten represents the Ten Commandments that God handed down to Moses on tablets made of stone.

The Jack is a reminder of Satan, one of God's first angels, but he got kicked out of heaven for his sly and wicked ways and is now the joker of eternal hell.

The Queen stands for the Virgin Mary.

The King stands for Jesus, for he is the King of all kings.

When I count the dots on all the cards, I come up with 365 total, one for every day of the year.

There are a total of 52 cards in a deck; each is a week - 52 weeks in a year.

The four suits represent the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.

Each suit has thirteen cards -- there are exactly thirteen weeks in a quarter.

So when I want to talk to God and thank Him, I just pull out this old deck of cards and they remind me of all that I have to be thankful for.'

The sergeant just stood there After a minute, with tears in his eyes and pain in his heart, he said, 'Soldier, can I borrow that deck of cards?'

Please let this be a reminder and take time to pray for all of our soldiers who are being sent away, putting their lives on the line fighting

Prayer for the Military.

Please keep the wheel rolling. It will only take a few seconds of your time, but it'll be worth it to read on....

Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands.
Protect them.
Bless them and their families.
I ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.
Amen.

When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our servicemen and women all around the world.

There is nothing attached, but this can be very powerful.
Of all the gifts you could give a Soldier, prayer is the very best one.
Do not stop the wheel, please -- just send this on.

When forward ing, please keep this letter clean by deleting all forwarding information from the subject line and from the top of the letter.

In God I Trust!

The Nation of America Needs Forgiveness

May God forgive the United States of America for what we, as a people, did tonight. Though the heavens fall, let us never abandon or forsake the nation of Israel for if we do, it will be the beginning of the end of America as a nation. We may entertain angels unawares but those "angels" could also be from hell posing as angels of light.

Maple Trees and The Presidency

Hey everybody. I had some guys from a tree farm come out today and plant a red maple tree for me. It doesn't look like the one at the left just yet but over time it will. The tree I purchased was 4 years old and over 10 feet tall and has lost a few of its leaves. Down south here I am told that fall is the BEST time to plant new trees since the planting shock will be minimized. As I sat and watched the nurseryman plant the tree I wondered to myself what It will look like in twenty years. I may or may not still be alive...time will tell. But, the maple will growing steadfastly no matter what.
Then I wondered, "I wonder what type of President this tree will view as we usher in a new America"? Will the President be inexperienced, arrogant and do us more harm than good because he feels so self assured? Will he and his spouse FINALLY be proud to be called Americans? My maple tree is proud to be called a maple and it is going to use all of its solar power resources and water to grow to be strong and majestic and steadfast. Or, will the opposite be true and will my little maple tree have a grove of strong, experienced older trees that it can take example from and not have to worry about someone in the world trying to hurt it as it grows. The older trees know what strong and violent storms can do to a younger tree because they have survived those storms themselves. The little maple in my front yard needs to take a new direction from its past couple of years with its root bundled in a sack. It needs change and today it finally got the chance to have its environment change for the better where it can florish and grow and have its young life go in a brand new direction.
My little tree knows that times of change for the better aren't going to be easy. You see, it was planted in a state where a draught situation has been prevalent for 5 years or more. It has to have someone to care for it while it battles the hard time in order to achieve better times ahead. It is ready to do so. It also knows that pretty, eloquent, decorative YOUNG trees may seem so on the outside but are they not just as likely to get sick, lose their pomposity and show what they really are on the inside? Inside they are just a tree....just like my little maple. My little maple tree thinks that if you are going to say your that your bark and leaves are more elegant and therefore have a better chance to survive the next four years of change because of your profound knowledge of nature one would have to ask the tree "what types of storms have you experienced and survived, oh beautiful tree that give you such a clear insight of all that goes on around you?" What....none, you say? I for one would worry about ANY entity who might say such foolhardy things. As a little maple tree, I DO KNOW that the Declaration of Independence was hidden in an OLD Maple Tree in Connecticut. I hear the tree wasn't too pretty but it surely knew how to do the job. You see, because of aging and some battles with squirrels in the past there was a hollowed out area where the document could be hidden from the enemy.
In closing, let's really closely examine our two conversely different type of trees and ask ourselves, " I wonder which one will survive the next 4 years in such harsh times and in its new surroundings and secondly, which tree will offer protection from storms and tempests, but give cooling shade when we need to be relieved from the hot rays of the world's sun? As for the author, I am going to depend on an older, more mature tree with a few scars in its bark that ensured our Independence over 200 years ago. There is something to be said for a tough ol' tree.

GREAT JOB, SARAH

Hey everybody: Most of you that know me well know that I am neither a democrat nor a republican. I am an independent and vote my conscience in elections. Last night Sarah Palin absolutely blew my doors off...even more than her first t.v. appearance when we were introduced to her for the first time. In my opinion, she was spontaneous, gracious, and relaxed...in other words she was being herself. She is definitely a "what you see is what you get" candidate and a real person without pretense. When she said she was a Washington outsider and that she would be a refreshing change I had to plaudit her. One last thing. If you watched her closely, you may have noticed that when she answered a question or rebutted Joe Biden she talked and looked directly into the camera...at US! She also said that she was an average middle class American and that also related to most of us. Lastly, when she said that leaving Iraq now...would be "waving the white flag of surrender". We did that in Vietnam and within 2 months the Vietcong had overrun the entire peninsula and it was in their control and that is the case to this day. We left the south Vietnamese with our tails between our legs and I think doing that once in our history is enough!! I guess the democrats forgot about that. The eyes of the world are watching us intently now and if we abandon another war we will be perceived as weak and that is outrageously dangerous. Sarah and John McCain know this. Getting back to Sarah.....GREAT JOB last night. I hope I will get the opportunity to meet you one day.

Wise Words

I read this today and I thought that it was very appropriate.
"Blessed is the nation who's god is the Lord...". I think that is self explanatory.

Sarah's Glasses

I watched a video today stating that Sarah Palin's rimless glasses are the hottest selling thing since sliced bread. The man who designed this particular style of glasses is a Japanese inventor. The company that manufactures the glasses and grinds the lenses said that they cannot keep up with demand and that they have sold more glasses in the last two weeks than they had the entire year. I admit that Sarah looks good in her glasses but I'm a little concerned that Americans are "focusing" on the fashion a little bit more than the person. With the stock markets in chaos, a war overseas and an election looming that will determine the outcome of our future for the next four+ years, don't you think that we have better things to concern ourselves with than Sarah's glasses? I know I sound like Andy Rooney but I call 'em like I see 'em. I would love to see Sarah and her running mate in the White House in January....with or without her glasses.