RE: 2 Chronicles 7:14

-----Original Message-----
From: Mrs. Bosco
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 10:33 AM
To: [a lot of worried Christians]
Subject: Fwd: 2 Chronicles 7:14

ONE MINUTE EACH NIGHT.... 9:00 PM Eastern Time.

Received from a friend and it is true, this is the scariest election we as Christians have ever faced and from the looks of the polls, the Christians aren't voting Christian values. We all need to be on our knees.

Do you believe we can take God at His word? Call upon His name, then stand back and watch His wonders to behold [sic]. This scripture gives us, as Christians, ownership of this land and the ability to call upon God to heal it. I challenge you to do so. We have never been more desperate than now for God to heal our land. This election is the scariest I remember in my lifetime.

2 Chronicles 7:14 "If my people, which are called by my name[,] shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
During WWII, there was an adviser to Churchill who organized a group of people who dropped what they were doing every night at a prescribed hour for one minute to collectively pray for the safety of England, its people[,] and peace. This had an amazing effect as bombing stopped. There is now a group of people organizing the same thing here in America. The United States of America and our citizens need prayer more than ever!!!

If you would like to participate: each evening at 9:00 PM Eastern Time (8:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Pacific), stop whatever you are doing and spend one minute praying for the safety of the United States, our troops, our citizens, for peace in the world, the up-coming [sic] election, that the Bible will remain the basis for the laws governing our land, and that Christianity will grow in the U.S.

If you know anyone who would like to participate, please pass this along.

Someone said if people really understood the full extent of the power we have available through prayer, we might be speechless. Our prayers are the most powerful asset we have.

Thank You. Please pass this on to anyone whom [sic] you think will want to join us.

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: MT2mb
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:31 AM
To: [other fretting Christians]
Subject: RE: 2 Chronicles 7:14

The drive to vote "Christian values" is not as simple as Candidate A vs. Candidate B. One example: which Christian values?

Should we vote against greed, and Mammon? The shedding of innocents' blood? Then the party in power must be voted out, resoundingly.

Oops; "innocent blood" also includes unborn children. So the Dems are out too; sigh. Let's look again.

Even the kindliest, saintliest priests (e.g., Benedict Groeschel) are recommending this be a single-issue election: thumb up/down on abortion: no more, no less. And it pains me greatly, in mind and spirit, to disagree; let's assume ignorance and poor vision on my part: I simply see this election as anything but a single issue before us.

The current badministration was (and is) anti-abortion… and now we have over 4,000 dead American soldiers, hundreds of thousands of dead in Iraq (a dangerous country in 2002, but not an immediate threat at the time – despite the lies we were fed – , unlike North Korea and Iran… both of which continue cooking nukes undeterred).

Another ready example (among dozens): We've been saddled with deregulation (a broken-record / stuck-needle left over from the charming daze – er, days – of Reaganomics… or what the current-president's father himself rightly called "voodoo economics"… before digging heartily into the crow-and-humble pie and jumping on the 1980 ticket), and now are looking to solve the fiscal outrages of the inevitably ensuing problem by throwing boxcars of money at it.

(Other deregulations: the media, the environment, handguns-for-all, lots more… brother. There aren't enough days and soapboxes left!)

(The other party is "tax and spend"? When in 2001 we started out with a huge surplus, and today have the most staggeringly enormous debt in history, one for which our children and grandchildren will struggle and suffer for… while golden parachutes continue to fill the Manhattan sky?) (Please do not site the "War on Terror[ism]" in response: that was hijacked out from under our noses. Counterresponse: why must NATO patrol Afghanistan? And why are we allowing the poppy-trade there to go on… while doing nothing for the tens of thousands of widows and orphans in Iraq? Or for our own veterans?)

We must protect the children, of course – especially the most vulnerable. But I will not swallow warmongering; a blind-but-winking eye to the obscenely rich (how many houses is that, John?); cutting of spending on education and health while the military receives carte-blanche ever costlier toys; police-state controls; an anarchistic free-for-all in the name of "smaller" (i.e., dangerously weakened) government and cruelly unfair tax burdens – let alone further and greater abominations – as the only price to end abortion.

What is the bigger picture, brothers and sisters? What else will your vote next month bring into office? Abortion must end… and at the same instance we must not lose sight of additional evils on our doorsteps while we fight to save tomorrow's children.

It should be obvious which way I'll be voting in a few weeks – and please accept my apologies (but not regrets) if any of the above offends you; I'd rather it only disturbed and troubled. I will most definitely be praying over my single vote, and over all the votes cast that day, with you. I, too, worry for our children and grandchildren, and those yet to be… and the rich traditions and heritage of our country. Fading –

May God have mercy on us; Mater Dei sancta, ora pro nobis.

Regards,

A. Gene Childe