Prayer Summary
A list of daily and weekly prayer requests.We hope you will find this tool useful.
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Daily Prayer
Heavenly Father, the critical need for prayer is ever before us and we cherish the ability to approach you with those things that matter to us. It means so much to know that they matter to you, too. As we start the week we ask that you would be us, the nation, and its leaders. Amen.Prayer for America
Father, thank You for the United States and its government. I pray for the president, the national and local government, the judges, the policemen, the business leaders and all those who are in leadership positions in this country. Please protect them from the evil that is in the world and keep them safe and free from all harm.
You have promised to bless any nation that follows after You. Help us to live quiet and peaceful lives so that we can continue to spread the Good News of the Gospel thr
Father, thank You for the United States and its government. I pray for the president, the national and local government, the judges, the policemen, the business leaders and all those who are in leadership positions in this country. Please protect them from the evil that is in the world and keep them safe and free from all harm.
You have promised to bless any nation that follows after You. Help us to live quiet and peaceful lives so that we can continue to spread the Good News of the Gospel throughout our land. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Prayer Updates
March 4th, 2010
President Obama Declassifies Cybersecurity SecretsBowing to pressure from activist groups and to the dictates of common sense, the Obama administration has done what the Bush administration wouldn’t and declassified some general information [PDF] about the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), a sweeping program that the Bush White House launched in early 2008 to protect the government and critical civilian networks from cyberattacks. It turns out that, like at least one other effort launched by the Bush administration in the name of national security, the program was too secret for its own good. In May of 2008, some members of congress became frustrated with the CNCI’s combination of extreme secrecy and hefty pricetag, and asked in vain for someone from the Bush administration to give a bit more information on it than a former DHS official’s brief description of it as a “Manhattan Project to defend cyber networks.” Civil libertarians were also up in arms over the program, as were security experts—the former because the extent of the government’s intrusion into private networks wasn’t known, and the latter because no one could say who, if anyone, had been consulted in the plan’s formulation. This past Tuesday, the Obama administration lifted a bit of the veil on the program. Bush’s original directive wasn’t declassified, but the White House did release a five-page summary of the program to the public.
Pray for protection of our nation from Islamist terrorists and other foreign aggressors. Pray for our nation’s leaders to provide strong policies to protect our nation.
Palestinians Finally Agree to Talks with Israel
Israeli and American officials welcomed an Arab League decision reached in Cairo on Wednesday approving indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks for four months as a means of getting the peace process on track. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that it appeared “conditions were now ripe” for renewing negotiations.In a speech to the Knesset, he said that as a result of Israel both expressing a willingness to return to talks and taking concrete measures on the ground to make them happen, fewer countries were willing to agree to Palestinian preconditions to the talks. Abbas has said for months that he will not talk with Israel unless there is first a complete halt to Jewish construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The green light given Abbas by the Arab League to the Arab peace initiative to enter into indirect talks for four months is widely seen as the “ladder” he needed to come down from his demands and accede to repeated requests by the US, EU, Egypt and Jordan to return to talks.
Pray for the safety of our soldiers fighting for freedom in Afghanistan. Pray for courage of the families that support them.
Pray for peace in Israel. Pray for protection from the nuclear ambitions of the state of Iran.
Executive Prayer Needs
March 3rd, 2010
PRAY FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATIONThe White House is bracing for news this week that joblessness may go as high as ten per cent, a figure impacted by the blizzards on the U.S. East Coast areas.
President Obama, even though presenting a smaller, scaled-back version of the health care reform legislation, has said he would not accept a piecemeal approach, but may ask for an up-or-down vote on the bill he has proposed.
Pray about the impact that Administration decisions make upon Congress and the lives of American citizens.
Legislative Prayer Needs
March 3rd, 2010
PRAY FOR OUR CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSLawmakers, led by Sen. Chuck Schumer (New York) are urging the Obama Administration to place a moratorium on the distribution of stimulus funds to foreign countries when intended to preserve and create U.S. energy jobs.
A cyber security bill being introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (West Virginia) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine) would give the president new emergency powers in the event of a massive, nationwide cyber attack.
Pray about the security of the United States, both in areas of economics and technology.
Judicial Prayer Needs
March 3rd, 2010
PRAY FOR OUR JUDICIARYThe same-sex marriage law in the District of Columbia took effect Wednesday after the Supreme Court denied a petition to place a stay on the legislation, the Congress also having failed to prevent the Act from going forward.
It is anticipated that the Supreme Court will utilize the 14th Amendment due process clause to extend the scope of the Second Amendment right to bear arms, limiting state and federal regulations.
Pray about the Court’s source of wisdom; and that they would seek wisdom from the Lord.
Other Prayer Concerns
March 3rd, 2010
THE WARKillings of at least eight Iraqi Christians in the northern city of Mosul has sparked an exodus from the Arab-controlled Kurdish areas in the run-up to the elections scheduled for Sunday.
Richard Holbrook, U.S. enjoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, is deeply concerned over the loss of free press in Afghanistan since that government has placed restrictions on media coverage of militant assaults.
Pray about the many issues that the fledgling democracies of this area must concern themselves with.
TERRORISM
A network of caves utilized by Al Qaeda and Taliban militants said to be their largest final hold-out has been seized by the Pakistani military after a weeks-long offensive.
Iran is not cooperating with the UN nuclear watchdog’s investigation into the country’s nuclear program, defiantly stating that the program is intended for peaceful civilian use, despite uranium enrichment reaching 20%.
Pray about the continual tensions that exist in this region, and the spillover that impacts the rest of the world.
THE ECONOMY
According to the Commerce Department, for the first time since the Great Depression, Americans took more aid from the government than they paid in taxes last year, in welfare, unemployment and other government benefits.
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn, a 40-year veteran of the U.S. Central Bank, will step down in June, giving President Barack Obama a freer hand to reshape the institution with new appointments.
Pray about the continuing downward spiral of the U.S. economy and its impact on our citizens.
ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST
At a meeting in Cairo, Arab foreign ministers have agreed to seek a resumption of indirect Palestinian-Israeli talks, which should see some fresh negotiations soon. The Palestinian Authority has not agreed to participate.
Israeli police stormed into the hotly disputed Temple Mount area of Jerusalem’s Old City to disperse Palestinian stone throwers near the mosque where a group of tourists had assembled. They stood guard there until calm was restored.
Pray about attempts to develop peace in Israel, Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.
HEALTH CARE
Food-borne illnesses, such as E-coli and salmonella, not only take a toll on American health, they are estimated to have cost the U.S. $152 billion annually, according to the Produce Safety Committee, as 76 million each year are sickened.
A recent study by Case Western Reserve University stated that Dimebon shows virtually no effect in treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, on either cognition or behavioral problems, when compared with a placebo.
Pray about the overall health of Americans with respect to both food and medications.
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