PRAY FAST
VOTE
The
American Family Association requests our prayers for the midterm elections
taking place on Tuesday, Nov. 6th.
As you are aware Britain is affected by what takes place across the
pond. So let us join our brothers and
sisters and pray that every person voted in will be God’s choice.
AFA designates Monday, Nov.
5, as day of prayer and fasting
Thursday, November 1, 2018
AFA is encouraging God's people to pray and fast on Monday,
November 5, for God's will to be done on Election Day. Let's appeal to the God
of heaven to intervene and motivate his people to select godly leadership to
guide our country.
God has shown great mercy to our nation despite our manifest
sins. We have seen Pastor Brunson released from a Turkish prison and pray for
the president in the Oval Office. We have seen another constitutionalist (Brett
Kavanaugh) seated on the Supreme Court despite intense opposition. And we have
seen the president stand in the way of the transgender lobby and redirect both
our military and the Department of Health and Human Services in a biologically
and biblically correct direction. Let’s thank him for his undeserved grace.
Let us pray and fast in the following ways:
- That Christians would continue to love the lost and share the gospel with them
- That Christians would be emboldened to hold and defend a biblical worldview
- That all candidates and our country itself would be protected from attacks from within and without during this election season
- That the electorate would be granted God's wisdom to choose candidates of godly character, discernment, and judgment
Please, forward this to your family and
friends. Make copies of this alert to share with your pastor, church and Sunday
School members.
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Tim Wildmon, President
American Family Association
100 days of Prayer
Day 92
Blessed
are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God
Matthew
5:9 (NIV)
IT’S
NEVER TOO LATE TO MAKE PEACE
A frail elderly black woman sits in a South
African courtroom. Close by is a white policeman who’s been found guilty of
murdering her son and husband. He’d come to her home and shot her son dead
before returning to take her husband too. Eventually he came back for her. She
was taken to where her husband lay on a pile of wood. The last words from him
as petrol was poured over his body and he was set aflame were, ‘Father forgive
them…’
Now the woman’s here listening to the man’s
confession. She’s asked, ‘What do you want? How should justice be done to this
man who destroyed your family?’
‘I want
three things’ she says. ‘Firstly, to collect my husband’s ashes and give them a
decent burial.’ She continues: ‘Secondly, I now have no family so I want him to
become my son. To come and visit me at home so I can pour out on him whatever
love I still have remaining in me.’ ‘Finally,’ she says, ‘I’d ask someone to
come to me and lead me across the courtroom so I can take him in my arms and
let him know that he’s truly forgiven.’
The man faints. Those in the courtroom,
many victims of oppression and injustice begin singing, ‘amazing grace, how
sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me’.
PRAYER
Lord
please help us to be people of peace. Where we need to forgive give us strength
to do so. Where we need to make things right, give us grace to make this
possible. Help us to be peacemakers and give us all we need to do so. Amen
ACTION
Think
of those in your community who seem unloved or who are marginalised. Every
place has people on the outside. Do all you can to reach out to these people
and make peace in your community with those who would otherwise be ostracised.
[Gavin Calver is Director of Mission at the Evangelical Alliance]
Please pray and share with
your intercessors, Bible Study Groups, Prayer Groups, Church Prayers, Men &
Women’s Groups. Thank you.
Las & Arlene Ratnayake
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