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My fellow Christians, what do you think of the following prayer?

Prayer for our Nation’s Health Care Reform

Lord Jesus, you are the Divine Physician,

And the source of all life and health.

Guide our nation at this critical moment,

As our government seeks health care reforms.

Give our elected officials the humility to know

That they are servants, not masters.

Give them the wisdom to realize

That every life has equal value.

Give them the strength to resist the idea

That some lives can be sacrificed to save others

Or that killing the unborn is a part of health care.

Give your people the courage to speak up

And to hold public officials accountable for their actions.

Save us, Lord Jesus, from a culture of death,

And let every reform in our public policy

Be based on the reform of our hearts and minds

In the light of your Gospel,

For you are Lord forever and ever. Amen.

Please pray along, because the bill will be voted on soon!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Your opening is a question about quality, not a plea for followers!

    I prefer prayers that don't try to tell God what to do, but instead reaffirm my faith that God knows what he's doing and that I'm on board with what ever God decides. The Lords prayer is the classic example of how we should pray: First worship, then make supplication, and finally reaffirm our acceptance of God's will.

    May the peace of our mutual Lord be with us all, always!

  • 1 decade ago

    Well, it seems rather redundant and wasteful to pray that our officials can resist the idea that some lives can be sacrificed to save others or that killing the unborn is a part of health care when they already agree with that, and to skip praying for the children who are dying from disease because their families are too poor to have health care.

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    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Well, For the most part your prayer is for a good cause. I will pray for the nation. But I always like to say, Lord let thine will be done, not mine. So, if it does come to that point, well, I know that the lord allowed it to happen.Because all in all he controls this world.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I agree with the prayer, but if people seems to think that this world is headed for the divine before the dispensation of judgment, they are being deceived. Mankind is on a path of one way destruction and Obama and this administration is seeing to it that we get there right on time. The Prayer should be, "Father, Bring down those who are serving the evil satanic spirit of the Antichrist, open their eyes and save those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Come Quickly King Jesus! ..In Jesus name!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l39XsMcyvgA

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  • 1 decade ago

    I think that denying your citizens basic health care is inhumane in the extreme, and that a lot of people are being lied to by those who stand to lose a lot by moving to a universal health care system.

  • 1 decade ago

    Amen

    Psalm 139

    For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

    1 O LORD, you have searched me

    and you know me.

    2 You know when I sit and when I rise;

    you perceive my thoughts from afar.

    3 You discern my going out and my lying down;

    you are familiar with all my ways.

    4 Before a word is on my tongue

    you know it completely, O LORD.

    5 You hem me in—behind and before;

    you have laid your hand upon me.

    6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

    too lofty for me to attain.

    7 Where can I go from your Spirit?

    Where can I flee from your presence?

    8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

    if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there.

    9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

    if I settle on the far side of the sea,

    10 even there your hand will guide me,

    your right hand will hold me fast.

    11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me

    and the light become night around me,"

    12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;

    the night will shine like the day,

    for darkness is as light to you.

    13 For you created my inmost being;

    you knit me together in my mother's womb.

    14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

    your works are wonderful,

    I know that full well.

    15 My frame was not hidden from you

    when I was made in the secret place.

    When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

    16 your eyes saw my unformed body.

    All the days ordained for me

    were written in your book

    before one of them came to be.

    17 How precious to [b] me are your thoughts, O God!

    How vast is the sum of them!

    18 Were I to count them,

    they would outnumber the grains of sand.

    When I awake,

    I am still with you.

    19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God!

    Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

    20 They speak of you with evil intent;

    your adversaries misuse your name.

    21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,

    and abhor those who rise up against you?

    22 I have nothing but hatred for them;

    I count them my enemies.

    23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;

    test me and know my anxious thoughts.

    24 See if there is any offensive way in me,

    and lead me in the way everlasting.

    This sure sounds to me like the prayer of a baby who has not yet been born.

    Is verse 19 a prayer for protection from abortionist?

    Source(s): 43+ years following a Jewish Carpenter & studying His Book!
  • 1 decade ago

    Well, I thought the Islamic fundamentalists had cornered the market on mixing religion and politics...but I see that there are some fundamentalist Christians in this country who want to mix it up here in as radical a way as they do it over in their countries. Scary stuff!

  • 1 decade ago

    We Will get the Heath Care one day Because The U.S.A is going to be like the World System The Ant-Christ will be the main man in this

    Dis World Order Pray Lord Jesus Come Quick

    One World Government

    I CAME ... because of "your" sin

    "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: " Romans 3:10

    "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Romans 3:23

    "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners;" I Timothy 1:15a

    I DIED ... to pay for "your" sin

    "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:5

    "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him." Romans 5:8 & 9

    "In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:" Colossians 1:14

    I AROSE ... to keep "you" saved eternally

    "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." Hebrews 7:25

    "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." John 10:27 & 28

    "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." I John 5:11

    YOU MUST REPENT ... admitting you are guilty, that you cannot do "anything" to save or help save yourself, and that you need Jesus Christ

    "I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." Luke 13:3

    "Let the wicked forsake his way. and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God. for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord." Isaiah 55:7 & 8

    "Not by works of righteousness which we have done. but according to his mercy he saved us," Titus 3:5a

    "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." Romans 4:5

    YOU MUST TRUST ... putting your "complete" faith in Jesus Christ to save you

    "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16

    "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform." Romans 4:20 & 21

    "To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." Romans 3:26

    "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." Romans 3:28

    WHAT IS YOUR DECISION?

    I CHOOSE TO TRUST JESUS AS MY SAVIOUR

    "He that believeth on him is not condemned:" John 3: 18a

    "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Romans 10:10

    "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:13

    I CHOOSE TO REJECT JESUS AND KEEP MY WAY

    "... but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." John 3 :18b

    "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." Revelation 20:15

  • 1 decade ago

    hey i personally don't care about the reason you are praying but i do like this prayer it is meaningful and looks like it took sometime to do

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Excellent. Thank you for that, I am praying with you.

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