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Thanksgiving Proclamation
Wishing all of you a very happy Thanksgiving day ... let's take the
time today to look for and be thankful for the blessings in our lives.
They are there. For all of us.
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THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
(issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789 ... "By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation" )
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THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
(issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789 ... "By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation" )
Whereas it is the
duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to
obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore
His protection and favor; and - Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by
their joint committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the
United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by
acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of
Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceable to
establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."
Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
(hand-signed: Go. Washington)
Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
(hand-signed: Go. Washington)
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A Real Heroine
For years during World War II, a group of young Polish women, some of them barely out of their teens, outfoxed the Nazis. At great personal risk they saved the lives of thousands of Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto to safety. Yet for years their work went unheralded; indeed very few people even knew what they had done. Only decades later did they finally receive the credit their heroism merits.
This remarkable true story begins with the Nazi Germany invasion of Poland in 1939. Soon afterwards the Germans set up a ghetto in the Polish capital Warsaw. More than 440,000 Jews were forced inside its walls, where they had to face abject conditions. That number bears repeating: Over 440,000 men, women and children—almost a third of Warsaw’s population—were forced into a tiny, heavily guarded section of the city and barricaded behind 7-foot-high walls.
Although many Catholic Poles were indifferent or indeed openly hostile to Poland’s 3.5 million Jews—who made up 10 percent of its total population—there were some Poles who felt compelled to help their Jewish neighbors. Among them was Irena Sendler, who was a 29-year-old social worker when the Nazis invaded.
Sendler appealed to her friends and colleagues to help the Jews imprisoned behind the ghetto’s walls without food, medicine or contact with the outside world. They had to do something, Sendler believed, even if the Nazis strictly forbade interactions between Warsaw’s Jews and “Aryans.” So she used her position as a social worker in the city’s Welfare Department to obtain a municipal permit to enter the ghetto. Her pretext was to inspect sanitary conditions there. She was preying on the Nazis’ fear that the typhus that plagued the ghetto would spread beyond its walls. But in fact Sendler used the pass as a ruse to enter the ghetto, where she hoped to provide help. Once there she made contacts with members of Jewish welfare organizations, and Sendler and her friends began to smuggle aid into the ghetto.
“The first time I went into the ghetto it made a hellish impression on me,” Sendler recalled. “I’d go out on my rounds in the morning and see a starving child lying there. I’d come back a few hours later and he would already be dead, covered with a newspaper.” She soon realized that she could not possibly bring in enough aid to provide much help to Warsaw’s Jews. The situation was just too dire. Then the Nazis began deporting Jews from the ghetto to death camps. In fall of 1942, the Germans sent 280,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka. “I knew they were going to the freight yard and to their death,” she said. “Very quickly we realized that the only way to save the children was to get them out.”
During Nazi occupation there was a Polish underground organization to save Jews, known as the Council for the Aid of Jews (or Zegota in Polish), operating clandestinely in Warsaw and Sendler became the head of its children’s division. She had about 30 volunteers in her group, mostly young women, and their mission was simply to save as many children and teenagers as possible from the ghetto. Zegota used its network to work both within and without the ghetto: it would rescue Jews from the ghetto and attempt to assist Jews trying to survive in hiding beyond the ghetto walls. The organization tried to find hiding places for Jews who did manage to escape and paid for their upkeep and medical care.
Taking the underground name Jolanta, Sendler leveraged the contacts she had as a social worker. She believed she could send Jewish children to the orphanages and children’s homes she knew of. And it was a great plan. But it was incredibly hard to get children out of the ghetto. To do so, Sendler and her comrades hid Jewish infants on trams and garbage wagons. They led older children out through secret passageways and the city’s sewers in order to free them. “Some children were placed in coffins, their mouths taped, or they were sedated so they wouldn’t cry,” Stanlee Stahlof the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous told the New York Times. “Other children were smuggled out in potato sacks.” Sometimes they would use an ambulance wagon with a driver and a dog to take Jewish children through the ghetto gates. “Children were under the floorboard,” Stahl explained. “The barking dog would drown out a child’s cries.”
But it wasn’t just a question of getting children out of the ghetto. Sendler had to determine where they could be kept safe outside. She figured outside of the heavily patrolled city was best. But in order to take the children from safe houses in Warsaw to orphanages and convents in the surrounding countryside, they’d need paperwork. The Germans—notorious bureaucrats—would always ask for documents. So Zegota’s underground activists used forged Catholic birth certificates and fake identity papers, which they had signed by priests and high-ranking social services officials. It was a well-orchestrated conspiracy, but fraught with danger.
Any non-Jew caught with a Jew would be killed, as would their family. Obviously the Jew would be killed too. And the Nazis were always looking for Jews beyond the ghetto, while there was no shortage of Poles happy to deliver a Jew to them. Any child stopped in the street by the Gestapo who was unable to recite a Catholic prayer was liable to be shot on the spot. So Sendler taught Jewish children the prayers any non-Jewish Polish kid would know; she would even wake them up in the middle of the night to test them. She knew that knowing them could be a matter of life and death.
"You are not Rachel but Roma. You are not Isaac but Jacek,” Sendler would tell those she tried to save. “Repeat it ten times, a hundred, even a thousand times." But while Sendler and her colleagues gave the Jewish children Polish pseudonyms, they kept meticulous records of the children's Jewish names so they could be reunited with their families after the war. That was the plan, at least. But persuading a family to entrust their child with her was understandably tricky, even if the family knew that life in the ghetto was so dire. “Their first question was: ‘What guarantee is there that the child will live?’” Sendler recalled. “I said, ‘None. I don’t even know if I will get out of the ghetto alive today.’”
Sendler’s luck ran out in October 1943, when the Gestapo arrested her. They knew she was part of an underground network, tortured her and sentenced her to death. But Sendler managed to conceal incriminating evidence including the addresses of the children she had saved. This no doubt save the Jewish children’s lives once again. The Gestapo sent Sendler to Warsaw’s notorious Pawiak prison for execution, but her comrades bribed prison officials and she was released before it could take place.
Even after her narrow escape Sendler continued to try to save Jewish children from murder, working as an underground activist until the end of the war. Once the Nazis were defeated, she and her colleagues brought together all their records of the children they had saved, including their names and locations. They gave the records to Zegota’s Adolf Berman, the head of the Central Committee of Polish Jews, so that the children might be reunited with their families. However despite Zegota’s good intentions, this would be impossible: Almost every parent of the children they saved had been killed in a concentration camp or the ghetto.
Poland became part of the Soviet Union after World War II and instead of celebrating Sendler and her comrades as heroines, the Communist authorities silenced them. Their actions did not fit the collective narrative; only years later could their story be told in Poland. Israel was more appreciative and Yad Vashem recognized Sendler as one of the first “righteous among the nations” in 1965. But because Poland’s Communist leaders did not allow her to travel to nefariously “Zionist” Israel, she could only receive the award in 1983. It was the first of many accolades she received. In 2003 Pope Jean-Paul II sent Sendler a personal letter in praise of her wartime efforts and she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Irena Sendler died a year later at the age of 98.
“She was the inspiration and the prime mover for the whole network that saved those 2,500 Jewish children,” Debórah Dwork, a professor of Holocaust history at Clark University told the New York Times after her death. Sendler and her comrades managed to save their lives with the help of the Polish Resistance and about 200 convents and orphanages in Warsaw and beyond. The work was not easy and it was very dangerous, but it was vital. Sendler personally smuggled out of the ghetto about 400 children. Among the 400 was Elzbieta Ficowska, who was just a baby in 1942. “Mrs. Sendler saved not only us,” Ficowska said, “but also our children and grandchildren and the generations to come.”
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Confused.........
I am confused about my blog (s). At one point something changed, and I lost my "old", or first, blog. I thought. Then, after I'd started a new one, the old reappeared. I'd like to combine the older one, "NONNY AND HER THOUGHTS", with the newer one - I would think it's possible. But I don't know how. Does anyone know how? Help, please! :)
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Poem: A Journey to Sambisa | Face2FaceAfrica
Poem: A Journey to Sambisa | Face2FaceAfrica
Don't stop praying for the release of these girls, and others imprisoned. With every new "newsworthy" event that pops up all over the world, the last news story is too often forgotten. Please don't forget these young women. As the poem here says, "imagine" if YOU were one of these girls, waiting, hoping for someone to come and rescue them.
Don't stop praying for the release of these girls, and others imprisoned. With every new "newsworthy" event that pops up all over the world, the last news story is too often forgotten. Please don't forget these young women. As the poem here says, "imagine" if YOU were one of these girls, waiting, hoping for someone to come and rescue them.
Monday, August 11, 2014
Artists without borders. Or facts.
Artists without borders. Or facts.
WORTH reading to understand the Israelians problems with Hamas................
WORTH reading to understand the Israelians problems with Hamas................
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Sunday, July 27, 2014
Christian persecution - "What Would I Do?"
By Sandra Carol Mers Clayton
"What Would I Do?"
The Bible: John 15:18-25 (NIV) ...
"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you
belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do
not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is
why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant
is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute
you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They
will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One
who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be
guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. He who
hates me hates my Father as well. If I had not done among them what no
one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen
these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. But this
is to fulfill what is written in their Law: 'They hated me without
reason.' "
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Persecution of Christians is taking place today, right now, this very
minute. All over this world. In spite of our media being silent on the
subject, we are hearing of it and seeing it. In today's high-tech world
it is difficult to keep things secret. Persecution of Christians IS
happening.
However, as Scripture above says, it is nothing
new for Christians. Jesus told His followers back then, and tells us
still today, that if we choose to follow Him, we, too, will most likely
suffer - be persecuted because we are His followers. And Christians
HAVE suffered from that time on up to today.
Why? Well, as
Jesus said in the verses above, we do not like to be told we are
sinners. We prefer floating along in our little bubbles of "we are fine
and good and do no wrong" worlds. But Jesus had the audacity to pop
into this world and tell us we are SINNERS! How dare He tell us that!
See...the problem with Him telling us that is, as He Himself tells us,
is that until we HEARD Jesus tell us we were all sinners, we fooled
ourselves into believing that we were not. Now, though, we've HEARD
that we ARE sinners, and have no excuse ... can't say "but I didn't
know". Now we know. And we don't like it. Throw the Christians out! We
don't like what they are saying!
And we also know that Jesus
suffered at the hands of His Father's creations - we sinners. We know,
too, that Jesus suffered the ULTIMATE persecution at the hands of His
Father's creations - He was crucified on a cross, a horrible, painful
form of persecution and death. He was born into this world for a
purpose: to be the voluntary Sacrifice on that cross for the sins of His
Father's creations - us.
"They will treat you this way
because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me". When He
first started preaching and teaching there were those who believed and
those who did not. And those who believed and who followed Jesus and His
teachings were told that they, too, like Him, would be persecuted.
Spit on. Laughed at. Mocked. Arrested, Run out of town. Tortured. Thrown
into prison. Murdered. Jesus didn't WANT that to happen. But He knew
it would - He knew His followers, if not all, a good many of them, would
face persecution simply because they heard truth and followed the One
who brought them the truth. Because they refused to "stick with" a
"religion" that did them no good. Because they listened to Jesus,
discussed with Him the things He told them, thought over all they were
hearing and, finally, came to believe Him. Jesus knew the trials His
believers in this world would face because of Him. He knew believers
would need God's strength, comfort, wisdom to stand strong in their
faith. He knew this.
Jesus still knows this. I believe His
heart is broken at the persecution of God's children still yet in
today's world. Believers persecuted for the simple reason that they.
refuse to deny their Christian faith. When we were missionaries in
France we were able to also travel to other countries. Because of that I
have heard Christian persecution stories; have talked face to face with
some who lived through persecution. One of our students, an African
man, told us of his fellow pastors who refused to deny Christ, and were
buried up to their heads, with honey poured over them, and died with
some sort of huge African ants covering and biting their heads. In
Romania we heard of, and met some, who had survived the long years of
Christian persecution from the Communists. In Haiti Satan and his
voodoo worshipers do not like Christians.
These stories not
only broke my heart, but frightened me. Yes, scared me because I would
often ask myself, "what would I do?" I ask myself the same question
now, as I learn of the daily persecutions, of the horrible things
non-Christians are doing to Christians, even the children. Satan is
alive and still at work in this world. When I read of the crucifixions
of Christians by the Islamists, when I saw the photos of them, my heart
was again broken. I could only think: "How cruel! How could ANYone do
such things to another human being?!", and I cried. And ask myself, once
again, "what would I do?" Would I deny Christ, turn against my
Christian faith, as these people who were crucified were told to do if
they wanted to live? Or, would I be strong in the faith, trust God to
help me through, and boldly proclaim that I am Christ's and will remain
Christ's, knowing of the horror that was to follow? I certainly would
like to think that's what I would do - but I don't KNOW.
What
I know at this point is that I am afraid, knowing what's happening to
Christians. What I know at this point is that God says "trust me", but
I'm not sure I could in the face of such horrors. What I know at this
point is that I just DON'T know what I would do, and MUST trust that I
will know if and when such a time ever arrives. What I know at this
point is that I take courage from something one of our students once
told me, as he was helping dry the dishes after eating dinner with us.
He had suffered in his country for being a Christian. He knew what he
was talking about. He said, "You will know. You will know when the time
comes. God gives us the grace at the moment we need it. I know."
I cling to that. It will HAVE to be God's grace "at the moment I need
it", because I'm only feeling fear, right now, of these persecutions
that very well could be happening in our own country before long. My
heart breaks for all these Christian people being persecuted today,
for those who were mockingly crucified for refusing to deny Christ - at
the same time I am thanking God that His grace MUST have been there for
them, at their last moments, as they stood strong in their faith and
would not deny Him to save their physical lives.
As we go to
our churches tomorrow, let's remember to pray for the Christians being
persecuted right now, and for the families of those who have been
murdered. And let's remember to pray for our own country ... that we
will, as a country, repent and return to Him. And, perhaps, too,
tomorrow, let's remember to ask ourselves the question: "What would I
do?"
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday. Bonne dimanche a vous tous.
The Bible: John 15:18-25 (NIV) ...
"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you
belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do
not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is
why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant
is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute
you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They
will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One
who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be
guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. He who
hates me hates my Father as well. If I had not done among them what no
one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen
these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. But this
is to fulfill what is written in their Law: 'They hated me without
reason.' "
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Persecution of Christians is taking place today, right now, this very
minute. All over this world. In spite of our media being silent on the
subject, we are hearing of it and seeing it. In today's high-tech world
it is difficult to keep things secret. Persecution of Christians IS
happening.
However, as Scripture above says, it is nothing
new for Christians. Jesus told His followers back then, and tells us
still today, that if we choose to follow Him, we, too, will most likely
suffer - be persecuted because we are His followers. And Christians
HAVE suffered from that time on up to today.
Why? Well, as
Jesus said in the verses above, we do not like to be told we are
sinners. We prefer floating along in our little bubbles of "we are fine
and good and do no wrong" worlds. But Jesus had the audacity to pop
into this world and tell us we are SINNERS! How dare He tell us that!
See...the problem with Him telling us that is, as He Himself tells us,
is that until we HEARD Jesus tell us we were all sinners, we fooled
ourselves into believing that we were not. Now, though, we've HEARD
that we ARE sinners, and have no excuse ... can't say "but I didn't
know". Now we know. And we don't like it. Throw the Christians out! We
don't like what they are saying!
And we also know that Jesus
suffered at the hands of His Father's creations - we sinners. We know,
too, that Jesus suffered the ULTIMATE persecution at the hands of His
Father's creations - He was crucified on a cross, a horrible, painful
form of persecution and death. He was born into this world for a
purpose: to be the voluntary Sacrifice on that cross for the sins of His
Father's creations - us.
"They will treat you this way
because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me". When He
first started preaching and teaching there were those who believed and
those who did not. And those who believed and who followed Jesus and His
teachings were told that they, too, like Him, would be persecuted.
Spit on. Laughed at. Mocked. Arrested, Run out of town. Tortured. Thrown
into prison. Murdered. Jesus didn't WANT that to happen. But He knew
it would - He knew His followers, if not all, a good many of them, would
face persecution simply because they heard truth and followed the One
who brought them the truth. Because they refused to "stick with" a
"religion" that did them no good. Because they listened to Jesus,
discussed with Him the things He told them, thought over all they were
hearing and, finally, came to believe Him. Jesus knew the trials His
believers in this world would face because of Him. He knew believers
would need God's strength, comfort, wisdom to stand strong in their
faith. He knew this.
Jesus still knows this. I believe His
heart is broken at the persecution of God's children still yet in
today's world. Believers persecuted for the simple reason that they.
refuse to deny their Christian faith. When we were missionaries in
France we were able to also travel to other countries. Because of that I
have heard Christian persecution stories; have talked face to face with
some who lived through persecution. One of our students, an African
man, told us of his fellow pastors who refused to deny Christ, and were
buried up to their heads, with honey poured over them, and died with
some sort of huge African ants covering and biting their heads. In
Romania we heard of, and met some, who had survived the long years of
Christian persecution from the Communists. In Haiti Satan and his
voodoo worshipers do not like Christians.
These stories not
only broke my heart, but frightened me. Yes, scared me because I would
often ask myself, "what would I do?" I ask myself the same question
now, as I learn of the daily persecutions, of the horrible things
non-Christians are doing to Christians, even the children. Satan is
alive and still at work in this world. When I read of the crucifixions
of Christians by the Islamists, when I saw the photos of them, my heart
was again broken. I could only think: "How cruel! How could ANYone do
such things to another human being?!", and I cried. And ask myself, once
again, "what would I do?" Would I deny Christ, turn against my
Christian faith, as these people who were crucified were told to do if
they wanted to live? Or, would I be strong in the faith, trust God to
help me through, and boldly proclaim that I am Christ's and will remain
Christ's, knowing of the horror that was to follow? I certainly would
like to think that's what I would do - but I don't KNOW.
What
I know at this point is that I am afraid, knowing what's happening to
Christians. What I know at this point is that God says "trust me", but
I'm not sure I could in the face of such horrors. What I know at this
point is that I just DON'T know what I would do, and MUST trust that I
will know if and when such a time ever arrives. What I know at this
point is that I take courage from something one of our students once
told me, as he was helping dry the dishes after eating dinner with us.
He had suffered in his country for being a Christian. He knew what he
was talking about. He said, "You will know. You will know when the time
comes. God gives us the grace at the moment we need it. I know."
I cling to that. It will HAVE to be God's grace "at the moment I need
it", because I'm only feeling fear, right now, of these persecutions
that very well could be happening in our own country before long. My
heart breaks for all these Christian people being persecuted today,
for those who were mockingly crucified for refusing to deny Christ - at
the same time I am thanking God that His grace MUST have been there for
them, at their last moments, as they stood strong in their faith and
would not deny Him to save their physical lives.
As we go to
our churches tomorrow, let's remember to pray for the Christians being
persecuted right now, and for the families of those who have been
murdered. And let's remember to pray for our own country ... that we
will, as a country, repent and return to Him. And, perhaps, too,
tomorrow, let's remember to ask ourselves the question: "What would I
do?"
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday. Bonne dimanche a vous tous.
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Prayer needed .....
"The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in Him."
(the Bible: Nahum 1:7)
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We need to be in prayer constantly for so many things. Right at this moment, though, I am thinking specifically of two: the kidnapping of the girls in Nigeria, and the persecution of Christians all over the world. Pray for those girls to be found and rescued; for Nigeria's government to act and for other governments to send some help. Pray for the persecuted Christians - those who are right now being arrested, beaten, tortured, killed for one reason only: that they are Christians. Pray that they will be comforted, even in the midst of their sufferings; pray that they will truly feel God's presence with them wherever they are, and, of course, pray that they will be relieved of their torment and released to their families.
(the Bible: Nahum 1:7)
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We need to be in prayer constantly for so many things. Right at this moment, though, I am thinking specifically of two: the kidnapping of the girls in Nigeria, and the persecution of Christians all over the world. Pray for those girls to be found and rescued; for Nigeria's government to act and for other governments to send some help. Pray for the persecuted Christians - those who are right now being arrested, beaten, tortured, killed for one reason only: that they are Christians. Pray that they will be comforted, even in the midst of their sufferings; pray that they will truly feel God's presence with them wherever they are, and, of course, pray that they will be relieved of their torment and released to their families.
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