© 2016 Jeanne E Webster. All rights reserved and observed
Dear God . . .
For the massacre of millions of people and injuring of millions more…
Forgive us.
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For the legalized butchery of millions of unborn babies in America and around the world…
Forgive us.
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For teaching and legalizing the untruths of sexual immorality…
Forgive us.
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For the destruction of millions of lives, seduced and held captive by the power of drugs and alcohol…
Forgive us.
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For the breakdown of the family unit once held together by a common thread called love…
Forgive us.
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From the vicious slayings of innocent children by sadistic perverted persons…
Comfort us.
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For the abominations perpetrated upon the innocents of this world by “holy” ones…
Forgive us.
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`For the broken hearted who have lost their focus on the Healer of Broken Hearts, Jesus…
Comfort them.
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For the millions of people addicted to immoral and violent forms of entertainment…
Forgive us.
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For the thousands of our military troops drawing a “line in the sand” for peace…
Protect them.
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For the millions of frail elderly folks lying and dying in sliding-door facilities as ancient and neglected as they…
Comfort them.
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For the millions of caring, compassionate volunteers reporting for duty…
Praise your name.
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For the millions of parishioners mislead by pulpit wolves in sheep’s clothing…
Enlighten them.
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For the shepherds standing in pulpits, presenting the gospel with dirty hands…
Forgive them.
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For America, our beloved country, that is quickly deteriorating before our eyes…
Save us.
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For America, who has exported such vile and immoral commodities to the world…
Forgive us.
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For the World’s millions upon millions upon millions of starving and ignored people…
Relieve them.
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For the World’s incessant cry for more and more killing weapons…
Forgive us.
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For strength and determination to thwart the power of those who seek merely to kill for killing’s sake…
Oh God, help us.
Plant our feet in your sands of love and goodness…
Speak to our hearts.
Open our hands to bless those in need…
Open our ears to your voice.
Open our eyes to your holy thoughts…
Open our minds to see you.
Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly!
‘Ere we shall forever be undone!
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(Please read this Scripture. Perhaps we may see that what is going on in our little world today is nothing new. Yet…neither is God.)
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Amos 4:1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, Who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring wine, let us drink!”
2 The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days shall come upon you when He will take you away with fishhooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
3 You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast into Harmon,” Says the LORD.
4 Come to Bethel and transgress, At Gilgal multiply transgression; Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
5 Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, Proclaim and announce the freewill offerings; for this you love, You children of Israel!” Says the Lord GOD.
6 Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities. And lack of bread in all your places; yet you have not returned to Me,” Says the LORD.
7 I also withheld rain from you, When there were still three months to the harvest. I made it rain on one city; I withheld rain from another city. One part was rained upon, and where it did not rain the part withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water, but they were not satisfied; yet you have not returned to Me,” Says the LORD.
9 I blasted you with blight and mildew. When your gardens increased, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees, the locust devoured them; yet you have not returned to Me,” Says the LORD.
10 I sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt; your young men I killed with a sword, along with your captive horses; I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils; yet you have not returned to Me,” says the LORD.
11 I overthrew some of you, As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning; yet you have not returned to Me,” Says the LORD.
12 Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”
13 For behold, He who forms mountains, and creates the wind, who declares to man what his thought is, and makes the morning darkness, who treads the high places of the earth — The LORD God of hosts is His name.
