A Day Of Praises And Thanksgiving!

LORD, thank you!! Your Name be praised for your faithful answers to prayer!

Thank you for the US Supreme Court's ruling rejecting Michael Newdow's appeal to disallow prayer at the Presidential Inauguration. Thank you for the precedent that this sets. I continue to pray that you speak to Michael Newdow's heart. Work in his life, Father. Let him know how much you love him and that your Son, Jesus Christ, died for him, too. That your free offer of eternal life is open to him, too.

While you're at it, dear God, let Michael Newdow know that Christianity is not a "religion" but a RELATIONSHIP with you. Which is why I could call you my Dad. Through Jesus Christ, you have made all who believe in his Name your adopted sons.

Michael is renewing his efforts in getting the words "under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance. This time, LORD, he is including other atheists and their kids in his bid. Please, do not allow this to prosper, too. I pray that in the process, Michael and his atheist friends will come to know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord.

Thank you also for the Louisiana Supreme Court decision reinstating the amendment to that state's constitution effectively defining marriage as between one man and one woman. I pray that this will be the case in every state constitution and the federal constitution of the USA. I pray that you will comfort those who may feel that they incurred a loss or have been left out because of this ruling. Let them know, LORD, that they are loved and prayed for by all that care for them as deeply as Christ cares for them.

I praise your Name, dear LORD, and thank you for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's confirmation of Condoleeza Rice as the country's next Secretary of State inspite of the Democratic Senators' seeming attempt to use the event to grandstand and present themselves, albeit vainly, as champions of the nation's good. I pray that you allow the full Senate's vote to result in the eventual emergence of Rice as Secretary of State, despite the Democrats' foot dragging. Forgive me, LORD, for judging but this seems to amount to nothing more than waste of time and the taxpayer's money.

I pray, Father, that you will speak to the hearts of the extemists among the Democratic Senators and Representatives. Please, dissuade them from their idealistic but misguided pursuit of socialism, whether they label it by such other names as "progressive" or "liberal". This failed system only seems attractive in the beginning because of its big brother promises to supply the needs of everyone through governmental management. LORD, we have seen what this has done to the Soviet Union and its satellite states. Welfare states only lead to social decay and the inevitable collapse of "advanced social orders" dreamed up by pie-in-the-sky intellectuals and self-worshiping thinkers.

Dear God, please do not allow us to go the way of Canada, France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. We will one day see their demise because of their bullheaded insistence on liberalism. I thank you, dear God, for the results of the 2004 Elections here in the USA. You showed up BIG TIME! You listened to your people as we cried in intercession for this nation. We were just about to be overrun by the forces of wickedness. But you, LORD, are bigger than the biggest of them. I pray that you will sustain the social system that this last election denotes.

On a personal note, I thank you, Father, for the rescue that my wife and I have been praying to you for. You have sent a buyer for the store. One with a fair offer that does not degrade our investment. You have also set up a desirable job for my wife and timed it so she may become incumbent at about the time that the store's operation should transition to the new owner. How awesome is your faithfulness!!! I pray that you will indeed make this direction concrete now and finalize everything at your discretion and timing.

Glory be to your Name, dear God! Thank you very much!! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Let your Name be praised!!!

In Jesus' Mighty Name, I ask it, LORD. Amen.