DAY 34 - DAILY BIBLE VERSE (WORKS OF GOD) - JUNE 27, 2011

June 27

John 9:1-41 ESV


As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ...

DAY 34 - DAILY PRAYER (DISABILITIES) - JUNE 27, 2011

June 27

Almighty God and Father,


Thank you for Your loving creation of life, and for making each of us unique in our design. We are each fearfully and wonderfully made in your image, and celebrate the beauty of your workmanship. Father, as we are each uniquely blessed with special talents and gifts, allow us to glorify You through the fulfillment of Your plan for our lives. Give grace to those with specials needs, for Your great blessings may not always be apparent in our earthly view of our bodies. Allow our handicaps to not limit, but enhance our special ministry in this world. For those who live with a disability, allow them to be encouraged by Your great love. Your word tells us that you wish to prosper us, not to harm us. Father, through all of life's circumstances, and bodily limitations, allow us to joyfully serve in Your kingdom.


In Jesus' name. Amen


Wally Ziolo
40DAYPRAYER4USA
Lancaster, Ohio
Christian

DAY 34 - DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR JUNE 27, 2011

American Minute for June 27th:


    Helen Keller was born JUNE 27, 1880. At the age of two she suffered an illness that left her blind and deaf. Her parents took her to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell who recommended the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston. There, at age of 7, Helen was tutored by Anne Sullivan through the sense of touch. Eventually Helen Keller learned to read Braille and began attending Radcliffe College, where Anne Sullivan interpreted lectures. Helen became concerned about all the blind, especially those blinded in war or by poor working conditions. She received numerous international honors for her efforts. Helen Keller learned to type on a Braille typewriter and wrote many books between 1903 and 1941, including: The Story of My Life, Optimism, The World I Live In, The Song of the Stone Wall, Out of the Dark, My Religion, Midstream, Let Us Have Faith, and The Open Door. Helen Keller stated: "The Bible is one mighty representative of the whole spiritual life of humanity." Helen Keller wrote: "I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God." Helen Keller concluded: "Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry...To love everybody sincerely...To act in everything with the highest motives...To trust God unhesitatingly."


Endnotes


Keller, Helen Adams. Bless Your Heart (series II) (Eden Prairie, MN: Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1990), 3.2.


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DAY 33 - DAILY BIBLE VERSE (HONESTY) - JUNE 26, 2011

June 26


2 Corinthians 8:21
English Standard Version (ESV)


21for we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord’s sight but also in the sight of man.

DAY 33 - DAILY PRAYER (HONESTY) - JUNE 26, 2011

June 26



Oh! Almighty and Everlasting God, Creator of Heaven, Earth and the Universe.


Help me to be, to think, to act what is right, because it is right; make me truthful, honest and honorable in all things; make me intellectually honest for the sake of right and honor and without thought of reward to me. Give me the ability to be charitable, forgiving and patient with my fellowmen - help me to understand their motives and their shortcomings -- even as Thou understandest mine!


Amen, Amen, Amen


Harry S. Truman
33rd President of the United States of America
Baptist


http://www.trumanlibrary.org/kids/prayer.htm





President Harry S. Truman, in 1950, stated:


“But all of us – at home, at war, wherever we may be – are within the reach of God’s love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God’s will. We should ask for courage, wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in His hands.” - 1950. Mrs. James Dobson (Shirley), chairman, The National Day of Prayer Information Packet (Colorado Springs, CO: National Day of Prayer Tack Force, May 6, 1993).

DAY 33 - DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR JUNE 26, 2011

American Minute for June 26th:


    The United Nations Charter was signed JUNE 26, 1945, by 51 member nations. Two months earlier, President Truman addressed the delegates: "At no time in history has there been a more important Conference than this one in San Francisco which you are opening today...We beseech our Almighty God to guide us in the building of a permanent monument to those who gave their lives that this moment might come." In 1953, President Eisenhower addressed the UN: "The whole book of history reveals mankind's never-ending quest for peace and mankind's God-given capacity to build." On June 10, 1963, Dwight Eisenhower told the Convention of the National Junior Chamber of Commerce in Minneapolis: "The United Nations has seemed to be two distinct things to the two worlds divided by the iron curtain...To the free world it has seemed that it should be a constructive forum...To the Communist world it has been a convenient sounding board for their propaganda, a weapon to be exploited in spreading disunity and confusion." Former President Herbert Hoover told the American Newspaper Publishers Association in 1959: "I suggest that the United Nations be reorganized...with those peoples who disavow communism, who stand for morals and religion, and who love freedom...What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism." Hoover ended: "It is a proposal for moral and spiritual cooperation of God-fearing free nations...rejecting an atheistic other world."


Endnotes


Harry S Truman, Address to the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, April 25, 1945, 7:35 p.m., Delivered from the White House by direct wire and broadcast over the major networks. Dwight Eisenhower's Dwight Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" Address to the UN General Assembly December 8 1953, Congressional Record, vol. 100, January 7, 1954, pp. 61-63. Hoover, Herbert Clark. April 27, 1950, speech to American Newspaper Publishers Association. Charles Hurd, ed., A Treasury of Great American Speeches (NY: Hawthorne Books, 1959), pp. 289-291.


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DAY 32 - DAILY BIBLE VERSE (HARMONY) - JUNE 25, 2011

June 25



1 John 3:17 


17 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

DAY 32 - DAILY PRAYER (HELP OTHERS) - JUNE 25, 2011

June 25




A Prayer to Help Others 

Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for Your love. Accept our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely. Make us strong to do Your work, willing to heed and hear Your will, and write on our hearts these words: "Use power to help people."

For we are given power not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people. Help us to remember it, Lord.
The Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; may He not leave us or forsake us; so that He may incline our hearts to Him, to walk in all His ways... that all peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other.

George H. W. Bush 

41st President of the United States (1989–93)

Inaugural address, January 20, 1989


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DAY 32 - DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR JUNE 25, 2011

American Minute for June 25th:


    The Korean War started JUNE 25, 1950. Communist North Korea invaded South Korea, killing thousands. General Douglas MacArthur was given command of the U.N. Forces and after a daring landing of troops at Inchon, MacArthur recaptured the city of Seoul. Political involvement prolonged the war, resulting in high casualties. President Truman stated in his 1952 Christmas Message: "Our hearts turn first of all to our brave men and women in Korea. They are fighting and suffering and even dying that we may preserve the chance of peace in the world." Truman continued: "Let us remember always to try to act...in the spirit of the Prince of Peace. He bore in His heart no hate and no malice - nothing but love for all mankind. We should...follow His example...As we pray for our men and women in Korea...let us also pray for our enemies...Through Jesus Christ the world will yet be a better and a fairer place." To the Salvation Army, December 12, 1951, General Douglas MacArthur said: "History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster."


Endnotes


Harry S Truman, December 24, 1952, in a nationally broadcast address upon lighting the National Community Christmas Tree, Washington, D.C., Public Papers of the Presidents. MacArthur, Douglas. John Stormer, The Death of a Nation (Florissant, MO: Liberty Bell Press, 1968), p. 128. John Eidsmoe, God & Caesar-Christian Faith & Political Action (Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, a Division of Good News Publishers, 1984), p. 68. George Otis, The Solution to the Crisis in America, Revised & Enlarged Edition (Van Nuys, CA.: Fleming H. Revell Co.; Bible Voice, Inc., 1970, 1972, foreword by Pat Boone), pp. 41-42.


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DAY 31 - DAILY BIBLE VERSE (PROTECTION) - JUNE 24, 2011

June 24



Deuteronomy 33:27 

(NIV)

27 The eternal God is your refuge, 
   and underneath are the everlasting arms. 
He will drive out your enemies before you, 
   saying, ‘Destroy them!’

DAY 31 - DAILY PRAYER (NATIONAL PROTECTION) - JUNE 24, 2011

June 24



National Protection


Most High God, I come to You in the Name of Jesus, asking for divine protection for the people of this country. I pray for the safety of every man, woman, and child. Keep us from harms way and provide protection from plans of destruction that our enemies have plotted. Stop their plans before they are evoked. Give wisdom, understanding and discernment to those who provide us protection. Help us to be watchful and alert to signs of wrongdoing. Please provide insight to national and local authorities on ways to guard, defend, and insure the safety of all American citizens both home and abroad. Helps us to unite with government leaders and law enforcement personnel in making this country a safe place to live, work, and play. Allow Americans to enjoy our freedom without fear. Amen.


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DAY 31 - DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR JUNE 24, 2011

American Minute for June 24th:


    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 operated a successful fur trading company out of Salt Lake City. 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."


Endnotes


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 (HARMONY) - JUNE 23, 2011

June 23



Colossians 3:12-14 


12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

DAY 30 - DAILY PRAYER (HARMONY) - JUNE 23, 2011

June 23


Harmony Among Races


Dear Father, I realize that racial enmity came as a result of the Fall. Truly, we do not even know the ethnicity of Adam, except that he was Your creation, a child of God. It is from his seed that all humanity proceeded. I pray that there would be such a move of Your Spirit in our nation that our oneness is Jesus Christ would positively influence relations between races. I desire that this begin in the Body of Christ and spread throughout every community in our country. May it affect every ethnic group and cross every racial barrier. I pray that when we look at those from another culture, we won't see them as people of another color, but that we will see them through the eyes of love as You see them--as people created in Your own image. Remind us all of the Golden Rule. Let us embrace one another as members of the one Body of Christ. Amen.




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DAY 30 - DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR JUNE 23, 2011

American Minute for June 23rd:


    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.


Endnotes


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 (FATHER) - JUNE 22, 2011

June 22


Romans 13:1 NIV


 1 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.

DAY 29 - DAILY PRAYER (WISE GOVERNANCE) - JUNE 22, 2011

June 22


Prayer for Wise Governance


Heavenly Father, we give thanks for the democracy alive in our country and for the freedom to worship You. 
Help the elected government and all in positions of power and authority to govern wisely and for the common 
good of all. Amen.


~~ Harvey Barnes

DAY 29 - DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR JUNE 22, 2011

American Minute for June 22nd:


    In Medieval Europe no one voted except the kings. 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 had 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."


Endnotes


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 (FATHER) - JUNE 21, 2011

June 21


John 14:16–17 KJV


16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

DAY 28 - DAILY PRAYER (I BELIEVE) - JUNE 21, 2011

June 21



Roger Sherman 
Signer of the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution


"I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the same in substance equal in power and glory. That the scriptures of the old and new testaments are a revelation from God, and a complete rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him. That God has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass, so as thereby he is not the author or approver of sin. That he creates all things, and preserves and governs all creatures and all their actions, in a manner perfectly consistent with the freedom of will in moral agents, and the usefulness of means. That he made man at first perfectly holy, that the first man sinned, and as he was the public head of his posterity, they all became sinners in consequence of his first transgression, are wholly indisposed to that which is good and inclined to evil, and on account of sin are liable to all the miseries of this life, to death, and to the pains of hell forever.


I believe that God having elected some of mankind to eternal life, did send his own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind, so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the gospel offer: also by his special grace and spirit, to regenerate, sanctify and enable to persevere in holiness, all who shall be saved; and to procure in consequence of their repentance and faith in himself their justification by virtue of his atonement as the only meritorious cause.


I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant.


I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the end of this world there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a final judgement of all mankind, when the righteous shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the Judge and admitted to everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment." 


--The Life of Roger Sherman, pp. 272-273.