DAY 31- DAILY BIBLE VERSE (I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU) - JUNE 24, 2012

June 24



Deuteronomy 31:6


6Be strong and brave, and don’t tremble in fear of them, because the Eternal your God is going with you. He’ll never fail you or abandon you!

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DAY 31- DAILY DEVOTION - JUNE 24, 2012

June 24



Not Abandoned


As crazy as it sounds when Bryan died, I felt like he abandoned me.   All I could think was I was all alone now.   All these questions of “Why” kept hounding me. The devil will use anything to make you feel all alone, deserted, or forsaken even when it may be out of your control.  I finally had to rise up & declare what the Word of God says.


Have you ever felt abandoned?  There are times in our lives when we may feel all alone or like someone or something has abandoned us.  Even Jesus felt abandoned by God when He was on the cross, yet He was fulfilling His purpose.   Look at Matthew 27:46(NIV) “About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”–which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”


Are you in your ninth hour crying out, “My God, why have you forsaken me?”  The devil would love for you to feel hopeless to where you want to give up on God, your purpose, or other people.  He will also try anything to make you feel like you are on a deserted island far away from everyone.  Feelings are feelings- they come & they go. Don’t base your destiny/purpose on feelings.  Base them on the Word of God.  I encourage you now to Rise up & say what the Word of God says:


Deuteronomy 31:8 (AMP) “It is the Lord Who goes before you; He will [march] with you; He will not fail you or let you go or forsake you; [let there be no cowardice or flinching, but] fear not, neither become broken [in spirit--depressed, dismayed, and unnerved with alarm].”


Joshua 1:5 (ASV) “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life. as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”


Joshua 1:5 (NLT) “No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. For I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will not fail you or abandon you.”


Hebrews 13:5b (AMP)-  “…I will not in any way fail you, nor give you up, nor leave you without support.  I will not, I will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let you down, relax..”


Rest assured that Father God is with you & He will NEVER leave you nor forsake you.  He has Always been & Always will be with you!


In partnership with Katherine Clift of DailyLiveWorship

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DAY 31- DAILY PRAYER (SEXUAL ABUSE) - JUNE 24, 2012

June 24

“God, we pray for victims of sexual abuse. We pray for healing. We pray for deep comfort. We pray that you will restore what has been stolen and broken. While you do not alter history, you reveal your love in the present and the future. What seems hopelessly shattered, in you can be redeemed. For the many millions who have been defiled in sexual abuse, show yourself to be loving and able – as you are willing – to give back life, and life abundant. Yes, there is great pain in this world. There is injustice. There is evil. We turn to you and cry out for help and healing. We cannot help but wonder why such horrible abuse happens. But we turn from “why?” and ask instead, “how?” How now will your perfect goodness and love find expression in the shadow of wickedness? God, you are good and loving and also all powerful. Yet you have risked giving humans the right to choose how we will live. Some choose evil. For those who are victims of other’s vile deeds, we ask you for grace and healing. For those who have suffered, come to them tenderly and with overwhelming and powerful love. We join Jesus’ and borrow his words, “Be freed from your suffering..” God, Heal the victims of sexual abuse, in Jesus name.”

Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/prayerplainandsimple/2011/07/a-prayer-for-victims-of-sexual-abuse.html#ixzz1yg78wAwO

DAY 31- DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR JUNE 24, 2012

June 24



His travels were exceeded only by Lewis and Clark. 


He led expeditions up the Missouri River with such characters as keelboatman Mike Fink. 


He discovered the South Pass through the Rockies and the first land route to California. 


He led settlers across the Santa Fe Trail, the Mojave Desert, the Sierra Nevadas and up the Oregon Coast. 


His name was Jedediah Smith, born JUNE 24, 1798. 


Jedediah entered into a fur trapping partnership, "Smith, Jackson and Sublette," and in 1827 sold his furs at a rendezvous near the Great Salt Lake. 


Jedediah noted in his Journal: 


"Then let us come forward with faith, nothing doubting, and He will most unquestionably hear us." 


On December 24, 1829, from Wind River on the east side of the Rocky Mountains, Jedediah Smith wrote to his parents in Ohio: 


"It is a long time since I left home & many times I have been ready, to bring my business to a close & endeavor to come home; but have been hindered hitherto...


However I will endeavor, by the assistance of Divine Providence, to come home as soon as possible...but whether I shall ever be allowed the privilege, God only knows. 


I feel the need of the watch & care of a Christian Church. 


You may well suppose that our Society is of the roughest kind. 


Men of good morals seldom enter into business of this kind-I hope you will remember me before the Throne of Grace...


May God in His infinite mercy allow me soon to join My Parents is the Prayer of your undutiful Son, Jedediah S. Smith." 


In a letter to his brother, Ralph, December 24, 1829, Jedediah Smith wrote: 


"Many Hostile tribes of Indians inhabit this Space...


In August 1827, ten Men who were in company with me lost their lives by the Amuchabas Indians...


In July 1828, fifteen men who were in company with me lost their lives by the Umpquah Indians...


Many others have lost their lives in different parts...


My Brother...I have need of your Prayers...to bear me up before the Throne of Grace." 


On May 27, 1831, Jedediah Smith was ambushed by Comanches near Sante Fe and killed. 


Just four months earlier, January 26, 1831, Jedediah Smith wrote to his brother Ralph in Wayne County, Ohio: 


"Some, who have made a profession of Christianity & have by their own negligence caused the Spirit to depart, think their day of grace is over; but where did they find Such doctrine? 


I find our Saviour ever entreating & wooing us."

Smith, Jedediah Strong. December 24, 1829, in writing to his brother, Ralph Smith in Richland County. Dale L. Morgan, Jedediah Smith - & the Opening of the West (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, Bobbs - Merrill Co., 1953; Bison Books, 1964), pp. 352-353.

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DAY 30- DAILY BIBLE VERSE (HEALING) - JUNE 23, 2012

June 23



Exodus 15:26 (The Voice Bible)


26If you will listen closely to My voice—the voice of your God—and do what is right in My eyes, pay attention to My instructions, and keep all of My laws; then I will not bring on you any of the plagues that I did on the Egyptians, for I am the Eternal, your Healer.

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DAY 30- DAILY DEVOTION - JUNE 23, 2012

June 23



Conquering the Enemy of the Spirit of Death


I have to share another very personal message today.  I pray it ministers to you as you read it.


I believe the date was Wednesday, September 4, 2010.  I was driving my late husband to go lead worship for a major ministry in the Dallas area.  He was pale, slim and very sick with stomach cancer.  As I was driving, I remember looking over at Bryan lying back in the front seat of the car.  His eyes were closed from exhaustion from being up all night in severe pain & vomiting non- stop.  I had told him earlier that he didn’t have to go lead worship that the ministry staff would definitely understand him not being able to go.  He insisted on going.  Anyway, when I looked at him so frail with hardly any life, all of a sudden for a split second the devil told me to take a good look at Bryan because that is what he would look like in the casket.  My spirit man rose up with everything inside me & yelled, NO, death has no hold over him or me.  I began to worship God because I knew that Christ had already conquered death, so why did I need to fear death?   For me, it had been a strong hold on me, and at that very moment what the devil thought he would take me down with became a huge break through for me.  I realized no more did I need to allow the spirit of death to taunt me anymore, no more thoughts, or that churning in my stomach from fear.  I said, what can the devil do to me? Nothing!  I began speaking My God is greater & has overcome the grave!  Hallelujah, Jesus is Alive!


I don’t know what spirit of death that may have tried to take a hold of you.  Could it be that you have been given a grim report from the doctor, has your relationship with Christ shriveled up to nothing and you feel dead to Him, or has your marriage been dead & gone a long time.  I am here to tell you today that God has conquered the enemy of the sprit of death, so you can rejoice & live again!  Live with purpose knowing that Satan has no hold on you.  The price was paid a long time ago.


I must say it again, whatever has died in your life, it doesn’t matter what it was or is – Jesus has conquered death, hell, and the grave for you.  Hallelujah!!  Rejoice and start prophesying life back to your dead things!


I love Ezekiel 37:4-9 “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!  This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath[a] enter you, and you will come to life.  I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord. ’” So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.


I prophesy life over anything that has tried to bring death or the stench of death- thoughts in your mind, to the fears or situations that may arise?


I hear the rattling of God doing some incredible things in your life.  Can you hear the bones moving and life coming back?  I speak life over you now and to your situation that seems bleak.  I declare that you have conquered the spirit of death and you are alive in Him!  I speak the breath of God to refresh you now.  “You will live and not die and declare the works of the Lord!”


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DAY 30 - DAILY PRAYER (CANCER) - JUNE 23, 2012

June 23


Jehovah Rapha,


We pray to You Lord God that you would touch those stricken with cancer, and heal them in a mighty way.  Take away their sins, and heal them to their bones.  They cry out to You, as we do for a touch of healing.  Lord, send Your word and heal them.  Restore health to them, and heal their wounds caused by the cancer.  Renew their strength as they mount up with wings like eagles, make them to run and not grow weary, make them to walk and not grow faint.  Let their be a great victory over the sting of cancer, and make it a lasting victory.  Through great faith we seek you God, and know that through You all good things come.  You are the giver of life, and the one that takes it away.  Restore the life of those living with cancer, and allow their testimony of healing be sweet music to Your ears.  We ask that cancer be taken from them in the Mighty name of Jesus we pray.  Amen!


Wally Ziolo
40DAYPRAYER4USA
Christian - Servant of God
Lancaster, Ohio

DAY 30- DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR JUNE 23, 2012

June 23



Indians along the Delaware River called themselves "Lenape," meaning in Algonquin "the people," and were in three clans: Turtle, Wolf and Turkey. 


William Penn, called "Miquon" meaning quill, made a peace treaty with Tamanend, chief of the Turtle clan, on JUNE 23, 1683, under an elm tree in what was to become Philadelphia. 


The Peace Treaty with the peaceful Quakers lasted over 70 years. 


In 1697, Tamanend's last message before he died was: 


"We and Christians of this river have always had a free roadway to one another, and though sometimes a tree has fallen cross the road, yet we have removed it again and kept the path clear." 


During the French & Indian War, the Turkey clan attacked English settlers. 


In 1778, Turtle clan Chief Gelelemend signed the first Indian treaty ever with the U.S. Government and later was converted to Christianity by German Moravian missionaries.


The Wolf clan converted, being called Christian Munsee, but were mistakenly confused with hostile Indians and tragically many were killed by vigilantes. 


The Lenape Indians fled to Canada, Kansas and finally to Oklahoma, where in 1861, the great-grandson of Chief Gelelemend was born, John Henry Killbuck. 


John attended the Moravian Seminary and in 1884 was one of the first Christian missionaries to the Yupik Indians in Alaska.


Penn, William. August 18, 1681, Letter to the Indians before his arrival. Pennsylvania Historical Society Collection, Philadelphia.


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