DAY 6 (MEMORIAL DAY) - DAILY BIBLE VERSE (SORROW) - MAY 30, 2011

May 30



Revelation 21:4 (New International Version)


4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[a] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

DAY 6 (MEMORIAL DAY) - DAILY PRAYER (MEMORIAL DAY) - MAY 30, 2011

May 30





Blessed and Loving Father,


We approach your throne today with humble thanks and praise for our freedom in this country.  Today we honor our many men and women who have served valiantly to protect our borders throughout our 200 + year history, and to fight for righteous causes abroad.  Our American service men and women committed themselves to defend and protect the lives of Your people in this land, whether they knew You through Your Son, or will someday make a decision to know You through Christ Jesus.


Father, we also reflect upon the great sorrow that many families have shared across this country due to war.  We ask that your Holy Spirit would continue to comfort those who mourn over lost military family and friends, and that they would be brought closer to You through their healing.  Lord, please wipe away every tear from their eyes, and show that though Your Son, death shall be no more!


Protect the travels of those who have journeyed to far away places over the weekend, and accompany them with Your hand of protection to their homes and families.  Give Your angels charge concerning them, and protect them from any harm or evil along their paths.


Thank you for the many blessings that you have bestowed on us as a nation, and may we continue to seek your face in our daily lives, and times of national reflection.


We ask these things in the precious name of Your Son, Jesus Christ.


Amen!


Wally Ziolo
40DAYPRAYER4USA
Lancaster, Ohio
Christian

DAY 6 (MEMORIAL DAY) - DAILY HISTORY - MAY 30, 2011

American Minute for May 30th:


    Southern women scattered spring flowers on the graves of both the Northern and Southern soldiers who died during the Civil War. This was the origin of Memorial Day, which in 1868 was set on MAY 30. In 1968, it was moved to the last Monday in May. From the Spanish-American War, to World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, War against Islamic Terror, up through the present, all who gave their lives to preserve America's freedom are honored on Memorial Day. Beginning in 1921, the tradition has been for Presidents to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which is guarded 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The number 21 being the highest salute, the sentry takes 21 steps, faces the tomb for 21 seconds, turns and pauses 21 seconds, then retraces his steps. Inscribed on the Tomb is the phrase: "HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD." In his 1923 Memorial Address, President Calvin Coolidge stated: "There can be no peace with the forces of evil. Peace comes only through the establishment of the supremacy of the forces of good. That way lies through sacrifice...'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.'"


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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. November 11, 1932, inscription on back panel. Thomas Vorwerk, The Unknown Soldier (Springfield, MO: Pentecostal Evangel, June 28, 1992), p. 12. Vice-President Calvin Coolidge, May 31, 1923, Memorial Day Address, "The Destiny of America," The Price of Freedom - Speeches and Addresses (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924), pp. 331-353.


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DAY 5 - DAILY BIBLE VERSE (REPENT) - MAY 29, 2011

May 29


Jeremiah 18:8 (New International Version)


8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.

DAY 5 - DAILY PRAYER (REPENTANCE) - MAY 29, 2011

May 29

Lord,


We come to You today to ask forgiveness for the many sins of this nation.


Forgive us for not keeping the Sabbath Holy, as You declared, but instead we have turned Sunday into a day of sports and recreation.


Lord, Your word states You are a jealous God. Please forgive us for tolerating other religions, such as Islam, and their disrespect of You and Your nation.


Forgive us for not raising the children of this nation to love and respect You as their Lord.  We have not told them there is a clear right and wrong.  Forgive us for allowing prayer to be taken out of public schools, and allowing man’s politics to teach them a false history of this nation and other national propaganda.


Forgive us for electing officials with good economic plans and deplorable morals, with no respect for You Lord.


Forgive us for being a divided body.  For not standing together as one family, united under one Holy God.  Lord, may we now come together working to further Your kingdom.


Lord, forgive us for thinking Your money, is our money.  Lord that what we have gained on earth, somehow has come from our own strength.  Forgive us for storing up our treasures here on earth, and not in heaven.  Please give us an eternal mindset.


Forgive us for turning sex into a casual, adulterous, careless act, with no regard for what You intended of these binding relations.  There are many secrets in many hearts, in Your church, and outside of Your church.  The devil has crept in, and has a stronghold in many of our lives.  Lord, may the sacred unity of a man and a woman be forever upheld, and for whatever we are at fault in, either personally or as a nation, we repent.


Forgive us for allowing minority groups of sinners to speak louder than the believers in this country.  They are like yapping little dogs! Lord, we ask you to muzzle them, and help us to become a bold and outspoken representation of You, Your word, and Your saving grace to this community and to the nation.


Lord, please forgive us for running to You in the bad times, and forgetting You in the good times.  Yes, Lord you are the God of the valley, but also the God of the mountain.  Please Lord, be in our loves everyday, not just in tragedy.


Lord, now I will ask You to speak to all the hearts gathered here today.  Lord, tell us what else we need to repent of, either personally, as a church or as a nation.  May we confess those sins to you now.


Luke 18: 10-14


10"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11The Pharisee stood up and prayed about[a] himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'


 13"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'


 14"I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."


In closing, we are sorry for all the sins of this nation.  Please accept our humble prayer of repentance to You.  Please move in a mighty way across this Nation.  Please Lord, honor this 40 days of prayer and fasting.  May all we do bring glory to You!


In Jesus Name, Amen




Jennifer Ziolo
Christian
Good Shepherd Church
Lancaster, Ohio

DAY 5 - DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR MAY 29, 2011

American Minute for May 29th:


    Awarded the Navy's medal of heroism during World War II and the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage, he was the youngest elected President, serving just over 1,000 days before being shot. This was John F. Kennedy, born MAY 29, 1917. Kennedy stated in his Inaugural, January 20, 1961: "I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forbears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life." John F. Kennedy continued: "Yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe - The belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." Writing to Brazil's President, Janio da Silva Quadros, January 31, 1961, John F. Kennedy stated: "Once in every 20 years presidential inaugurations in your country and mine occur within days of each other. This year of 1961 is signalized by the happy coincidence. At this time, each of us assumes challenging duties...To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals."


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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald. Jan. 20, 1961, Inaugural Address. Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States - From George Washington 1789 to Richard Milhous Nixon 1969 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office; 91 Congress, 1 Session, House Document 91-142, 1969), pp. 267-270. Department of State Bulletin (published weekly by the Office of Public Services, Bureau of Public Affairs, Feb. 6, 1961). Davis Newton Lott, The Inaugural Addresses of the American Presidents (NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961), p. 269. Charles E. Rice, The Supreme Court & Public Prayer (NY: Fordham University Press, 1964), p. 193. Benjamin Weiss, God in American History: A Documentation of America's Religious Heritage (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1966), p. 146. The Annals of America, 20 vols. (Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968), Vol. XVIII, pp. 5-7. Lillian W. Kay, ed., The Ground on Which We Stand - Basic Documents of American History (NY: Franklin Watts., Inc, 1969), p. 296. Willard Cantelon, Money Master of the World (Plainfield, NJ: Logos International, 1976), p. 121-122. Bob Arnebeck, "FDR Invoked God Too," Washington Post, September 21, 1986. Vincent J. Wilson, ed., The Book of Great American Documents (Brookfield, MD: American History Research Associates, 1987), p. 84. Halford Ross Ryan, American Rhetoric from Roosevelt to Reagan (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1987), p. 156. Jeffrey K. Hadden & Anson Shupe, Televangelism - Power & Politics on God's Frontier (NY: Henry Holt & Co., 1988), p. 272. Ronald Reid, ed., Three Centuries of American Rhetorical Discourse: An Anthology & a Review (Prospect Heights, Il: Waveland Press, Inc., 1988), p. 711. William Safire, ed., Lend Me Your Ears - Great Speeches in History (NY: W.W. Norton & Co. 1992), p. 812. Peter Marshall & David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg's Heart 'N Home, Inc., 1991), 1.20. J. Michael Sharman, J.D., Faith of the Fathers (Culpepper, Virginia: Victory Publishing, 1995), pp. 111-112.


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