Day of Prayer

Today (May 5^th 2011), in Christian “gathering places” across America, is the National Day of Prayer. George Washington, father of our country, started this day of prayer, but it was not until 1952 that it was formally established by Congress. Of course, things were far different in 1952, but even then some atheists and imposters fought the idea. Prayer had been the accepted practice in Congress from its very beginning, our forefathers spent much time in prayer.

The phenomenon of prayer was a mystery to me as a child. Born and raised in a Christian home, never exposed to anything but Christianity, I believe my mother told me I started going to church when I was only two weeks old. Both of my parents, all of my grandparents, all of my great grandparents were involved in the same church, which was built by these same ancestors. My young mind was mystified by these real men standing and praying out loud above the congregation... my relatives going to the alter in the front of the church and kneeling in prayer, the pastor on his knees in prayer. Later, I found that this was the greatest power and need in their life. In the supernatural, mystical action, they showed for time and eternity, their faith..... faith, action based on belief, sustained by confidence.

Having lived a long active live, I now understand this definition of faith. I know that God only listens to believers, the only prayer He hears from an unbeliever is a prayer of repentance. The academics, the atheists, those just playing church, those who think they have God fooled are just wasting their time. God requires one thing from us, and one thing only, TRUST. He is in charge of everything, HE IS BOSS.

Once, years ago, already blind, but owning several entrepreneurial businesses, with one of my employees driving, I took several of my managers in my Cadillac up the country to the home where I was born and raised. I showed them the community where my parents, grandparents, etc had farmed for hundreds of years. I remember pointing out to them, from memory, the large consolidated school where I went for 12 years, the smaller school which my father attended, the two-room school which my mother and grandmother attend, and the beautiful old country church which my ancestors built in 1874. Then, at the home place, I showed them the beautiful old home which had been in the family for a very long time.

On the way back, pointing out the large, old cemetery and other things. I said, “can you imagine me plowing mules in these fields? Cutting wood in these extensive woodlands owned by my family?” They were all very quiet, they had never been exposed to family legacy, family heritage. They had never heard their mother pray at the table before a meal. They had finally seen the results of prayer in Christian America. They finally knew that my life had not been accidental, that it is not an accident, a quirk of nature, human beings evolving from pond scum, that many of us have committed our lives to prayer. That our parents, grandparents, ancestors had consecrated their yet unborn progeny through prayer many years ago, that men such as me were just fulfilling the goals that God had already designed and chosen me for...and they, if they had been willing to submit to God, rather than to the world, the flesh, the devil. You serve one of two masters: God or the devil. You cannot serve both, choose you this day whom ye will serve (Joshua 24:15).

Alfred Lord Tennyson, in his poem Morte D'Arthur, said, “more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.” Perhaps because of my blindness, perhaps because I live alone, perhaps because I have no one else on whom I can depend, I have very definite need for prayer in my life. As long as I can remember, I get up very early in the morning and have a time of prayer about everything, about today's activities, my employees, my family and friends. I know that many of them do not want me praying for them because they do not want God involved in their lives (and that is their problem). I have a time of communion, the Lord's Table, I have a small piece of bread, asking God for healing and the healing of all those who need healing, even the earthquake victims in Japan, New Zealand, Chile, Haiti, the recent tornado victims.

God took all our sicknesses and infirmities to the cross, along with our sins and the sins of the world, the full wrath of God. The wrath that should be imposed on us was afflicted on His only Son, whom He loved (Isaiah 53). The apostle Paul tells us and showed us that Christianity comes with a price, the “marks of the Lord Jesus.” (Galatians 6:17) We are told to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17). Even our blessed Lord, who had put on a tent of human flesh, dwelled among us, lived a perfect life, had need for prayer, and taught us how to pray (Matthew 6:9-13).

The greatest privilege, the greatest power, that we as Christians (those who claim the name of Christ), have in this world, is prayer. It is not necessary to have a long prayer, Peter said, when He walked on the water, “Lord help me.” If any of you smart people, you academics, you lovers of Satan find a better way, please let this weak, old man know! I have unbelieving family members, relatives, friends who have nothing to say to me anymore because I have told them about their lost condition. Some, who are Democrats, who support the Democrat political machine, may still think they are praying, but anyone who supports the heathenism of abortion, the Satanism of same-sex marriage, the paganism of tax enslavement, Christ has already said, “cannot be His disciple.” (Luke 14:26, Luke 14:17, Luke 14:33).

When you have government, you have government what government can do. When you have education, money, idols you have what they can do. When you have prayer, if you are Christian, and you are doing what He has told us to do, you have what God can do. If anyone reads the newspapers, listens to news broadcasts, has eyes to see what is going on in this world, ears to hear what is going on in this world, and does not think that we need what God can do and claims to be a Christian, you should obey and pray.

Ubiquitous

We have heard of President Thomas Jefferson's Bible, he had cut out of the scripture, the things with which he did not agree. As if this would change the mind of God, the One Who had dictated it. As great as President Jefferson was, perhaps the greatest mind to ever become President of the United States, God did not care what he believed.

Jefferson's Bible was nothing new, in Jeremiah 36, we find that King Jehoiakim sitting in his winter palace, listening to the words of the prophet Jeremiah, had the words with which he did not agree cut from the scripture with a knife and burned on the hearth in front of him. This changed nothing, to this minute, every prophecy, every promise in the Holy Bible has been fulfilled.

Our lives are a living testimony to everyone we meet, we do what we do because we believe what we believe. A young black man knew me only because he was a member of a crew which worked on one of my buildings. He was 23, living with a girl whom he had impregnated, and to whom he was not married. She took off after the birth of the baby, but he loved his child. He called me for help, thinking that a wealthy Christian man could be approached with his problem. He said, “my child and I did not need her...I left my baby with an elderly lady during the day when I was at work. My baby so looked forward to my coming home to be with her at night, and then I got arrested for theft and put in jail. I was in the cell screaming that I had to go home and take care of my baby. Someone called the social services who found the baby screaming, the lady had left her in the house alone, thinking that I would be there shortly. Ever since I have been out of jail, I have only seen her once, six months ago, I don't think she knew me. My life is ruined.”

You see, this young black man should have learned earlier that Satan always pays off in counterfeit. Who will people believe, God of life, Creator of the universe, Giver of every good and perfect gift, or Satan, the father of lies? Unbelievers in good and evil, the law of God, or even civil laws made by man, whether discarded by a President, King, or young black father, ubiquitous, found everywhere at all times.

Muslims, generally speaking, are the poorest people on earth, I found this in every one of the 40 Muslim countries I have visited. There is no stricter law than Shira law, in every luxury hotel of the world I ever visited, I found Muslims breaking the laws of the Koran...much like Christians, obviously enjoying breaking the laws of God, even the common sense of natural laws. Physical, political, spiritual, we know the value of education, but in our nation's capital, Washington DC, over $20,000 is spent per student each year, yet only 44% graduate from high school. In the Catholic private schools in our nation's capital $3,382 is spent on tuition per student per year, and 99% graduate. It is the ubiquity of our times, worthless pieces of paper, diplomas and degrees handed to student who thought they were working and paying for something worthwhile.

The greatest ubiquity in American lives: what we put in our body. In order for the body to survive, to have energy, there must be replacement nutrition to cells. There is so little nutrition in most food, that the body cannot even remove the toxicity present in its system. You are not destined to be sick, the body is able to heal itself, if you put the right nutrients in your mouth.

The most ubiquitous deception in our financial and economic lives, dishonest bankers. In all my life, constantly in the business community, I have never known but one honest banker, a cousin, T.L. Smith. Bestial bankers, the whores of Wall Street have almost destroyed the nation. We are in the worst economic disaster in history, ubiquitous, world-wide. They knew that this housing bubble was a fraud, now the very ones who caused the disaster are passing the pain on to the taxpayers, while they enjoy their big bonuses. Many books such as Peter Schiff's The Housing Crisis, had warned everyone. The ubiquity, it spread everywhere, derivatives, in full knowledge. In my office buildings, two units, two mortgage companies, with rooms full of people on computers typing mortgages. In how many buildings and how many offices in this town and any other town did this go on? One business had 14 rooms, I was over for something, heard all the computer activity. The manager said, “they are busy typing mortgages for housing all over the country, it's just a big scam, but we get paid for it.” It was ubiquitous, going on everywhere, selling houses to people who could not afford rent, many did not even have a job.

The Federal Reserve owns more US government debt than China and Japan combined. Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman, wrote his thesis for his doctorate on the devaluation of currency. We are experiencing inflation, and will experience more inflation as well as the devaluation of the dollar. We may not have the inflation of the Weymar Republic (Germany pre-WWII), Zimbabwe or Bolivia (in 1985, Bolivia had an inflation rate of 20,000%), but in a few months with the increasing prices of commodities, food will be double its present price.

I was in Bolivia during the worst of the inflation crisis, you cannot believe it, people in stores constantly marking up items. A wheelbarrow full of money that would buy a car in the morning would not buy a bicycle in the afternoon. In all of life's activities, victory is won, or the war is loss in the prayer closet. A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion. Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. (Psalm 112:2-3) For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. (Psalm 91:11-12)

The blessings of God are here and now, it is not necessary for His own to wait for heaven. There is no sickness in heaven, we can have his healing here, now. There is no economic problems in heaven, the streets are paved with gold. We can have his prosperity here, now. It is ubiquitous in everything, pray for those who do not have this blessed assurance. When you look like the world, talk like the world, enjoy the things of the world, and believe what the world tells you, you can expect the results of the world. If your citizenship is in heaven, and you are just passing through this world, you have a right to expect the blessing of God. That God is going to take care of you, ubiquitous, he takes care of everything.

Yesterday, February 3^rd was World Day of Prayer in Washington DC. God must have winced with embarrassment when President Obama showed up, the promoter of the killing of more babies, and the dragging of our nation into greater debt than any President from George Washington to George W. Bush. He told them that he prayed for guidance in the White House, God pays very little attention to the words of the lost until they repent. If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me (Psalm 66:18)