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!


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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.”

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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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DAY 29- DAILY BIBLE VERSE (LOVE) - JUNE 22, 2012

June 22


1 Corinthians 13:4-6


4Love is patient; love is kind. Love isn’t envious, doesn’t boast, brag, or strut about. There’s no arrogance in love; 5it’s never rude, crude, or indecent—it’s not self-absorbed. Love isn’t easily upset. Love doesn’t tally wrongs 6or celebrate injustice; but truth—yes, truth—is love’s delight!


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DAY 29- DAILY DEVOTION - JUNE 22, 2012

June 22



Love


I know its not Valentines Day, but God keeps speaking the word love to me today. So, I must be obedient & write about love. I was watching Joyce Meyer’s last night & she said, “You know why people don’t walk in love? It’s costly. It’s going to cost you something”


John 3:16, “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life” God’s love for mankind cost Him his one and only son. Does your love for Christ, cost you something? It should!


A few years ago, I kept telling Bryan that I wanted to spend more time in Prayer and the Word but every time something would always come up. I will never forget the words Bryan spoke to me. He said, “Kathy, you make time for the things you want to do. Just like you make time to eat, brush your teeth, and sleep.” Are you making time for God or are you making excuses like I was? Let Him know that He is your everything- your one true love.


Let this song by Hillsong(Sing Your Love) be your prayer today as we love on Him with our worship:


It used to be darkness
Without you
I lived my life in blindness
But now I am found


And I’ll sing, sing I love you so
And I’ll sing
Because the world can’t take away
Your love


You found me in weakness
Broken
You came to me in kindness
And now I live


I’ll give my life for you Lord
For all you’ve done


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DAY 29 - DAILY PRAYER (MARRIAGE BLESSING) - JUNE 22, 2012

June 22



A Marriage Blessing


We thank You, O God, for the love You have implanted in our hearts.


May it always inspire us to be kind in our words, considerate of feelings, and concerned for each other's needs and wishes.


Help us to be understanding and forgiving of human weaknesses and failings.


Increase our faith and trust in You and may Your prudence guide our life and love.


Bless our marriage, O God, with peace and happiness, and make our Love fruitful for Your glory and our joy both here and in eternity.


Author Unknown

DAY 29 - DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR JUNE 22, 2012

June 22



In Medieval Europe, most countries had only one person vote - the king. 


In colonial America only landowners voted, then those owning a certain amount of personal property. 


After the Revolution, States gradually let those without land vote if they paid taxes, but many States continued religious and literacy tests. 


In 1870, the 15th Amendment let former slaves vote. 


In 1920, the 19th Amendment let women vote. 


In 1924, American Indians could vote in Federal Elections. 


In 1961, the 23rd Amendment let District of Columbia residents vote in Federal Elections. 


In 1964, the 24th Amendment let vote those who could not pay a poll tax. 


In 1965, the Voting Rights Act removed literacy tests. 


On JUNE 22, 1970, President Nixon extended the Voting Rights Act to let 18-year-olds vote. 


The Supreme Court, in Oregon v Mitchell, limited this right so the 26th Amendment was passed in 1971 to confirm it. 


President Nixon stated March 24, 1970: 


"In other areas, too, there were long struggles to eliminate discrimination...Property and even religious qualifications for voting persisted well into the 19th century - and not until 1920 were women finally guaranteed the right to vote." 


On August 24, 1972, Nixon said: 


"For the first time in the 195 year history of this country, men and women 18 to 21 years of age will have the chance to vote." 


In 1832, Noah Webster wrote in his History of the United States: 


"When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers 'just men who will rule in the fear of God.' 


The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty. 


If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; 


laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes; 


corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; 


the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; 


and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. 


If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws."

http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/voting.html Richard Milhous Nixon, Jan. 20, 1969, Inaugural Address. Department of State Bulletin, February 10, 1969. Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents - 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. 275-279. The Annals of America, 20 vols. (Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968, 1977), Vol. 19, pp. 8-12. Benjamin Weiss, God in American History: A Documentation of America's Religious Heritage (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1966), p. 154. Willard Cantelon, Money Master of the World (Plainfield, NJ: Logos International, 1976), p. 122. J. Michael Sharman, J.D., Faith of the Fathers (Culpepper, Virginia: Victory Publishing, 1995), pp. 116-117.

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DAY 28- DAILY BIBLE VERSE (PROMISE AFTER FLOOD) - JUNE 21, 2012

June 21



Isaiah 54:9 (The Voice Bible)


9 I think this is like the time when Noah lived.
I promised that I would never again destroy the world by a flood. So now I am promising never again to be so angry and punishing as I was when I sent you away.


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DAY 28- DAILY DEVOTION - JUNE 21, 2012

June 21



Keep Moving Forward


Job 17:9 “The righteous keep moving forward ,and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.”


This past May, we were going on vacation to Florida.  All 4 girls were in the car, and it seemed like an eternity with all the driving we were doing trying to reach our destination.  We had to go through several cities before we got there.   We were all cramped in the car with all our stuff everywhere.  While on our way, we got into some heavy traffic that slowed us down.  Needless to say, it got a little stressful.  Then Alivia, my youngest daughter kept asking every 5 minutes when we would get there.  It seemed that every time we would get going at a good rate of speed, we would have to slow down or stop.  All I wanted to do was keep moving forward.


Do you feel like you have been on life’s road trip long enough? I know for me, these past 21 months without Bryan have been some of the hardest times I have ever been through.  At times, I felt like we were on a dreadful racetrack going round and round and then other times it seemed like we were in the desert, and then finally, it seemed like we were starting to go somewhere only to stop again.  Then, before I knew it, I had strength and purpose again, and I was ready to move forward in the things He’s called me to do.


I now see God beginning to use those extremely agonizing tearful times of mourning and turning them into joy for this new journey.


I believe God is about to revive what you thought wasn’t going to happen or what you thought was lost or stolen.  God has been waiting for you to keep moving forward.  He knows that strength comes out of those severe and un-pleasant times that you HAD to go through to get you ready for NOW!


I see God awakening, breathing new life into, and rejuvenating your calling and destiny.


First, you must let go of things that have held you back & don’t rationalize dead things or things that God has said to let go of… instead, lift up holy hands to Him.  Stir up faith again inside of you to believe Him for the impossible.  Man says it can’t be done, but God says I am the creator of all things and it can be done!


Isaiah 43:18-19 (GW) “Forget what happened in the past, and do not dwell on events from long ago.  I am going to do something new. It is already happening. Don’t you recognize it? I will clear a way in the desert. I will make rivers on dry land.”


God is making a way even now.  Don’t try to figure it out, just trust Him.  Would you join me in worshiping the Lord, and thanking Him for what He’s doing?  Keep Moving Forward in Jesus Name!


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DAY 28 - DAILY PRAYER (FLOODING) - JUNE 21, 2012

June 21



"God of creation, You created water for life, yet water destroys life. Bless those whose lives and livelihoods are compromised by water in this recent flooding [insert names of specific families whose homes or farms have flooded, if desired]. Comfort those grieving, angry, homeless, and afraid; be with them and remind that that, despite this crisis, You will never leave them or forsake them, though it may feel this way. Bless those affected by flood waters with new life and help, that they may rebuild what is lost in You. Amen."


Copyright Melissa Roberts

DAY 28 - DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR JUNE 21, 2012

June 21



The U.S. Constitution went into effect JUNE 21, 1788, when New Hampshire became the 9th state to ratified it. 


The 55 writers of the U.S. Constitution consisted of: 


26 Episcopalian Christians, 
11 Presbyterian Christians, 
7 Congregationalist Christians, 
2 Lutheran Christians, 
2 Dutch Reformed Christians, 
2 Methodist Christians, 
2 Quaker Christians, 
2 Roman Catholic Christians, and 
Dr. Franklin, who called for prayer during the Constitutional Convention, June 28, 1787: 


"God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? 


We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.'...


I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel...


I therefore beg leave to move-that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business." 


Ben Franklin signed Pennsylvania's Constitution, Sept. 28, 1776, which stated: 


"Each member, before he takes his seat, shall make and subscribe the following declaration, viz: 


I do believe in one God, the Creator and Governor of the Universe, the Rewarder of the good and the Punisher of the wicked. 


And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration." 


The Journal of the U.S. House of Representatives, March 27, 1854, recorded the unanimous vote of the 33rd Congress to print Congressman James Meacham's report, which stated: 


"At the adoption of the Constitution, we believe every State - certainly 10 of the 13 - provided as regularly for the support of the Church as for the support of the Government...


Down to the Revolution, every colony did sustain religion in some form. It was deemed peculiarly proper that the religion of liberty should be upheld by a free people." 


Congressman Meacham concluded: 


"Had the people, during the Revolution, had a suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle."

Franklin, Benjamin. Jun. 28, 1787. James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 (NY: W.W. Morton & Co., Original 1787 reprinted 1987), Vol. I, p. 504, 451-21. James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1966, 1985), pp. 209-10. Henry D. Gilpin, editor, The Papers of James Madison (Washington: Langtree & O' Sullivan, 1840), Vol. II, p. 985. George Bancroft, Bancroft's History of the Constitution of the United States vols. I-X (Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1838), Vol. II. Albert Henry Smyth, ed., The Writings of Benjamin Franklin (NY: The Macmillan Co., 1905-7), Vol. IX, pp. 600-601. Gaillard Hunt & James B. Scott, ed., The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America, reported by James Madison (NY: Oxford University Press, 1920), pp. 181-182. Andrew M. Allison, W. Cleon Skousen, & M. Richard Maxfield, The Real Benjamin Franklin (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Freeman Institute, 1982, pp. 258-259. John Eidsmoe, Christianity & the Constitution - The Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, A Mott Media Book, 1987, 6th printing 1993), pp. 12-13, 208. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), pp. 122-124. Stephen Abbott Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, OR: American Heritage Ministries, 1987; Mantle Ministries, 228 Still Ridge, Bulverde, TX), p. 159-160. D.P. Diffine, Ph.D., One Nation Under God - How Close a Separation? (Searcy, AR: Harding University, Belden Center for Private Enterprise Education, 6th edition, 1992), p. 8. Stephen McDowell & Mark Beliles, "The Providential Perspective" (Charlottesville, VA: The Providence Foundation, P.O. Box 6759, Charlottesville, Va. 22906, Jan. 1994), Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 5-6. The Journal of the U.S. House of Representatives, March 27, 1854, recorded the 33rd Congress? unanimous vote to print Connecticut Congressman James Meacham?s report on the history and benefit of continuing the tradition of chaplains in Congress, army and navy. http://www.usconstitution.net/constframedata.html

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DAY 27- DAILY BIBLE VERSE (DO NOT FEAR) - JUNE 20, 2012

June 20


John 16:33


33I have told you these things so that you will be whole and at peace. In this world, you will be plagued with times of trouble, but you need not fear; I have triumphed over this corrupt world order.


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DAY 27- DAILY DEVOTION - JUNE 20, 2012

June 20



Winning the Lost @ Any Cost


“He who wins souls is wise.” Prov.11:30 NKJV


I’m not much of a lottery player, but here in Texas I always hear the advertisements for the Mega Millions.   Although it seems to be appealing, I am always reminded of something greater than winning millions… Winning Souls for Christ!


Mark 16:15-18 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.”  We must go and share our faith if we don’t, then who will?  Mark Cahill said it so perfectly, “It’s not how can I share my faith, it’s how can I Not share my faith.”


Let sharing your faith take precedence over everything else.  I encourage you to start praying every morning for God to send you people to minister to and share Jesus with, talking about changing someone’s future- The Bible says, “what does it profit a man to gain the whole world & loose his own soul”?  Lord help us not to be so concerned with the things of this world that we ignore a lost and dying world.


Jesus’ last words were to Go into all the world & spread the gospel to the ends of the earth?  “If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?” David Livingstone


God, we pray that you would keep us focused on winning souls at any costs!  Its Heaven or Hell for everyone.   The Bible says in Romans 14:10, that we will be held accountable for our choices.   I pray that we make good choices in putting supremacy on soul winning.  I can see it now, people running up to us in Heaven thanking us for taking time to talk to them about Jesus.


John Wesley said it so profoundly, “You have nothing to do but to save souls.  Therefore spend and be spent in this work.  And go not only to those that need you, but to those that need you most…It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take care of this or that society; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as many sinners as you possibly can to repentance.”


Lord, we pray that we wouldn’t be so busy with life that we can’t take a few moments of everyday to share our faith with others.   God, let your last words be our Great Commission, reaching the world for Jesus.    I love what Billy Sunday said, “Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.”


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DAY 27 - DAILY PRAYER (BRING SALVATION) - JUNE 20, 2012

June 20


Father in Heaven,


Bless those who wrong us, and point their lives towards Christ.  Give compassion and mercy to those who have wandered down the wrong path, and place their foot upon a firm rock.  Where satan has wrought corruption and evil, wash it away with the blood of the lamb.  Where there is destruction and violence, repair it with new beginnings and peace.  Destroy the stronghold of the enemy in their minds, hands, and hearts. 


Father God, we are plagued by evildoers who have no sense of wrong.  Restore in them a right conscience - leading of the Holy Spirit.  Bring them to their knees in repentance vs. to a cell of iron bars.  Lead others to forgive them, as You have forgiven each of us in our transgressions.  Give them a way to retreat from the pit of sin, and strengthen them as they seek to do Your will.


We pray for an end to senseless destruction of property, human lives, and eternal souls.  We rebuke satan and his agents of chaos in the Mighty name of our Lord Jesus Christ.  May the enemy retreat from his strongholds, and never return to the reclaimed ground in Christ's name.  Restore order and peace in the campsites of the enemy, and let Your light shine upon territory that was dark and evil.


The Authors personal petition (for wherever two or more at gathered) - For the situation in our neighborhood where arson is rampant...restore peace and order to the darkness, and remove the cloak of evil that lurks in the shadows.  Bring the perpetrator(s) to the knowledge of salvation, and let them place their burdens at the foot of the cross.  Have mercy on their souls Father, and hear our prayers for their redemption.


We pray this in the name of Your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen!


Wally Ziolo
40DAYPRAYER4USA
Lancaster, Ohio

DAY 27 - DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR JUNE 20, 2012

June 20



JUNE 20, 1632, King Charles I of England granted a charter for the Colony of Maryland, named for his Catholic wife, Queen Henrietta Maria, stating: 


"Charles, by the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith...


Whereas our well beloved...subject Coecilius Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, in our Kingdom of Ireland...being animated with a laudable, and pious Zeal for extending the Christian Religion...hath humbly besought Leave of Us that he may transport, by his own...expense, a numerous Colony of the English Nation, 


to certain...parts of America...partly occupied by Savages, having no Knowledge of the Divine Being..." 


Maryland's Charter continued: 


"With the increasing Worship and Religion of Christ within said Region...shall...be built...Churches, Chapels, and Places of Worship." 


Lord Baltimore sent two ships, the Ark and the Dove, to settle the colony. 


Buying land from the Indians, they founded the city of St. Mary's as a refuge for persecuted Catholics. 


In 1649, they extended liberty to Protestants by issuing the Toleration Act, which stated: 


"That no person... within this province...professing to believe in Jesus Christ shall...from henceforth be any ways troubled or molested...in respect of his or her religion."

Maryland, Charter of. June 20, 1632, issued by King Charles I to Cecilius Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore. Ebenezer Hazard, Historical Collection: Consisting of State Papers & other Authentic Documents: Intended as Materials for an History of the United States of America (Philadelphia: T. Dobson, 1792), Vol. I, pp. 327-328. William McDonald, editor, Select Charters & Other Documents (NY: The Macmillan Co., 1899), pp. 53-54. Frances Newton Thorpe, ed., Federal & State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, & Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, & Colonies now or heretofore forming the United States, 7 vols. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905; 1909; St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1968), Vol. III, pp. 1677 ff. Henry Steele Commager, ed., Documents of American History, 2 vols. (NY: F.S. Crofts & Co., 1934; Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1948, 6 ed, 1958; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 9 edition, 1973), Vol. I, p. 21. William McDonald, ed., Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1889 (NY: Macmillan Co., 1909), p. 32. Charles E. Rice, The Supreme Court & Public Prayer (NY: Fordham University Press, 1964), pp. 160-161. Richard L. Perry, ed., Sources of Our Liberties: Documentary Origins of Individual Liberties in the United States Constitution & Bill of Rights (Chicago: American Bar Foundation, 1978; NY: 1952), p. 105. Pat Robertson, America's Dates With Destiny (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1986), pp. 31-32.

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DAY 26- DAILY BIBLE VERSE (JESUS) - JUNE 19, 2012

June 19


John 14:6-7 (The Voice Bible)


Jesus: 6I am the path, the truth, and the energy of life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7If you know Me, you know the Father. Rest assured now; you know Him and have seen Him.


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DAY 26- DAILY DEVOTION - JUNE 19, 2012

June 19



Say the Name of JESUS


When you don’t know what else to do or when you need a good jumpstart to your day.. Say the Name JESUS- demons and everything else trembles and falls to the ground at the name of Jesus… I love the name of JESUS..


When I was having my 4th daughter Alivia, they were having trouble giving me the spinal tap.  I started saying, JESUS, JESUS, JESUS. They had to give it to me like 3 times.. I kept saying JESUS, JESUS, JESUS.  While saying His name, I had such complete peace.  And when they finally let Bryan in the room, I was so relaxed for my C-section, that Bryan kept asking me if I was ok since my eyes were closed and I wasn’t saying anything. I had such peace that I can’t describe.  That only comes from Him!


Peace, Peace, wonderful peace- that ONLY comes from JESUS not a spouse, child, or money.


Whatever you are facing today, call out JESUS & watch His peace surround you as a shield..  JESUS, JESUS, JESUS!!


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DAY 26 - DAILY PRAYER (PRAYER FOR THE NATION) - JUNE 19, 2012

June 19



Prayer for the Nation


God of ages,
in your sight nations rise and fall,
and pass through times of peril.
Now when our land is troubled,
be near to judge and save.
May leaders be led by your wisdom;
may they search your will and see it clearly.
If we have turned from your way,
help us to reverse our ways and repent.
Give us your light and your truth to guide us;
through Jesus Christ,
who is Lord of this world, and our Savior. Amen.


--- Presbyterian Church USA

DAY 26 - DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR JUNE 19, 2012

June 19



The first formal "Father's Day" was celebrated JUNE 19, 1910, in Spokane, Washington.


Sonora Louise Smart Dodd heard a church sermon on the newly established Mother's Day and wanted to honor her father, Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, who had raised six children by himself after his wife died in childbirth.


Sonora drew up a petition supported by the Young Men's Christian Association and the ministers of Spokane.


In 1916, Woodrow Wilson spoke at a Spokane Fathers' Day service. President Nixon, in 1972, established Father's Day as a permanent national observance.


On Tuesday, December 6, 1904, in his Fourth Annual Message to Congress, President Theodore Roosevelt stated:


"No Christian and civilized community can afford to show a happy-go-lucky lack of concern for the youth of to-day; for, if so, the community will have to pay a terrible penalty of financial burden and social degradation in the to-morrow....


The prime duty of the man is to work, to be the breadwinner; the prime duty of the woman is to be the mother, the housewife. All questions of tariff and finance sink into utter insignificance when compared with the tremendous, the vital importance of trying to shape conditions so that these two duties of the man and of the woman can be fulfilled under reasonably favorable circumstances."


On May 20, 1981, in a Proclamation of Father's Day, President Ronald Reagan stated:


"'Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it,' Solomon tells us. Clearly, the future is in the care of our parents. Such is the responsibility, promise, and hope of fatherhood. Such is the gift that our fathers give us."


On Father's Day, 1988, Ronald Reagan said:


"Children, vulnerable and dependent, desperately need security, and it has ever been a duty and a joy of fatherhood to offer it.


Being a father requires strength...and more than a little courage...to persevere, to fight discouragement, and to keep working for the family."


Reagan continued:


"With God's grace, fathers find the patience to teach, the fortitude to provide, the compassion to comfort, and the mercy to forgive.


All of this is to say that they find the strength to love their wives and children selflessly."


President Reagan ended:


"Let us...express our thanks and affection to our fathers, whether we can do so in person or in prayer."


Williams Jennings Bryan gave over 600 public speeches during his Presidential campaigns, with his most famous being "The Prince of Peace,” which was printed in the New York Times, September 7, 1913:


"Christ promoted peace by giving us assurance that a line of communication can be established between the Father above and the child below."

Fathers Day. June 19, 1910. The first formal "Father's Day" celebrated in Spokane, Washington, by Sonora Louise Smart Dodd. In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon established Father's Day as a permanent national observance of on the third Sunday of June. Sharron G. Uhler, B.Phil., Archivist, Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum; former Curator, Hallmark Historical Collection, "Father's Day," World Book Online Americas Edition, http://www.aolsvc.worldbook.aol.com/wbol/wbPage/na/ar/co/192440, October 20, 2001. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2328/father1.htm, http://www.arose4ever.com/roses/fathersday.htm, http://morning-glow.com/holidays/father/father.html Proclamation 5810--Father's Day, 1988, May 3, 1988, By the President of the United States

of America A Proclamation, Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 2:54 p.m., May 4, 1988.


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