PATRIOT DAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2007A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
The events of September 11, 2001, changed the people and therefore the entire United States forever. We saw 19 men attack us and murder our families, friends and loved ones right here in our own country with a magnitude we never before imagined. By a joint resolution approved December 18, 2001, by the Congress and as proclaimed by President Bush, September 11, of each year is designated as "Patriot Day."After the attacks on 9/11, the words defending our country took on new meaning as we began an offensive move which continues today to protect and insure the future freedoms of the families of this United States America.On Patriot Day, please take time for prayer in remembrance of the innocent victims, and pay tribute to the valiant men and women who risked their lives during that time so others would live. Thank God for the thousands who stand strong daily in their service to our country to protect and insure our lifestyle and freedoms.

This article is from the Southern Baptists Prayer Gram. Please continue to pray for our leaders and the troops who are defending our country and who put their lives on the line everyday.

Prayer Captain out.

School Buses and Terrorists

I just want to inform you folks of something I heard on the Glenn Beck show. I say this not to alarm anyone or to cause a panic. I want to stay informed and make people aware.

He stated that there is something going on with our schools and there are are Arabic men who are going around the country buying old school buses, ambulances and police vehicles. The thought is that these Muslim / Islamic fanatics will try to terrorize our schools.

Here is the advisory: If you here of a school in your area being threatened by terrorist, calmly and collected, contact your school and notify your child's school that he has an appointment and you are coming to pick him or her up. Then do so.

If the threat is at your child's school, obey your local authorities and do not, I repeat DO NOT go to your child's school. Let the first responders do their job. The murderers are trying to pull you in. You have all seen when there is trouble at a school, all the lookie lous come out and large crowds surround the scene wanting to get a closer look. Please do not be sucked into their ploy. I know you want to rescue your child, and you want to get them out of harm's way. But, we need to let the authorities do their job.

Please be aware and not afraid. Please monitor your local news for reports in your area.

Please be in prayer. Pray that these evil fanatics will be foiled and not succeed with their evil plans.

http://uncooperativeblogger.wordpress.com/2007/03/28/terrorists-buying-school-buses/

This blog also has info regarding these fanatics.

Please pray for our troops and soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, please pray for our country that the our politicians will be truthful and honorable, and that those who speak lies and and mean harm to our country will be defeated.

Prayer Captain Out.

Slander Against General Petraeus

Just when you think the Democrats and their three ring travelling side show couldn't get any freakier, they open their mouths and walk right in their own lips. I am blown away by the recent ads put out by Moron.Org, I won't mention their distasteful and slanderous name on this blog. You know, you have seen the ads. They attack General Petreus even before he opened his mouth.

Ted Kennedy the drunken Senator from Massachusetts, took time from his 3 Martini lunch, to spew more of venomous poison to the drive-by media. This drunk murderer spouted off that the Honorable General would only praise himself.

(hiccup) thanks ..."burp!" Teddy.

Only people with honor work out of Massachusetts any way, right Bill Belechik? "ouch!"

Back to the point...This man has had incredible success in Iraq and all these nay saying Demos can say is "He is a puppet of President Bush!" "He is only going to say what a success the Surge is". Gen Petraeus said their is success but there is still work to do. Don't we get it? Don't we see that the Demos want us to fail. Don't we get it that Chuck "The Schmuck" Shumer (who is a traitor not only to his party, but to the American people as well) and all the deceivers in the Democratic Party and the Moron.org demon seeds are supporting the terrorists.

They don't understand that Muslim and Islamic people want us who do not believe in their homicidal religion to die. I want to drive them to the nearest pig farm and throw them in the pig slop.

I believe that the government needs to untie the hands of our American Troops and let them take the murderers out. You are either for us or you are targets. No middle ground, no fence sitting. Help us defeat these terrorists or die with them. Obama and Clinton need to leave. Leave the country, leave the continent, leave the planet. You are not for the American people and I believe that the American people are tired of your duplistic natures. That they do not want people who support the terrorist, like Obama does. They don't want people who undermine and speak lies and distort the truth like Hillary does.

The Democrats need to denounced the lies against Petraeus and publicly state that they no longer will take support from Moron.org. Then the idiots from moron.org need to be loaded into a plane in the middle of the night then drop them off in downtown Baghdad and tell them to find their own way back. ...but don't ask a soldier for help unless he wears a turban.

I do pray that our country will fight this terrorist war to win. It is okay to want to win. I troop deserve nothing less.

Prayer Captain out.

Struggling With Sin

In this day and age it is very hard to keep our ways pure. Every where you look there is some add with a scantily clad woman or some innocent show you are watching and then boom, there is a couple groping each other, or you go through the check out line and "bam" there are adds with women half dressed. Your child is innocently researching some information on the Internet and "wham", a pornographic add pops up on their screen. Immorality is invading our culture and our home and it seems like we have become numb to this fact. We will excuse these things as harmless. Well they didn't really do anything, or she was covered, or... you know the rest.

I believe with all my heart that when we allow even theses so called "PG-13" images into our eyes and minds that we slowly give the enemy ground. And slowly we become anesthetized to its effects. We begin to tolerate what we once thought was shocking. We begin to need more to stimulate our minds, and slowly ever so slowly they raise the temperature until we are in essentially dead. We even put ourselves in danger of becoming spiritually dead.

I know right now some of you are thinking, that is just you overreacting. That those people who become hooked on these images, programs, sites, magazines, etc. is just weak willed people. I would challenge you to monitor for one month, what you watch. Write down in a journal, what programs you deem as acceptable. See what movies you allow yourselves to view. Ask yourselves would you want yourself or your family members to act, dress, or do the things they see in these media genres.

I would also challenge you to ask yourself, am I problems in my home. Do I have any "secret sins" that no one knows about? Am I living a double life? The Bible says "you cannot serve two masters. You will the one and hate the other." If we are serving our sin, then how can we serve our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? I am not meaning to preach at anyone. When I point a finger at someone, I am also pointing at myself. Brothers I urge you to seek your hearts. Do I want Jesus to rule my life? Do I really want him there? Will I allow to to walk in any room of my life and freely give Him access. Or is there a secret room? A room where only you can go and be alone with your "secret sins". Jesus you can go in any room you want, but...

The great lie from the great liar is that we can live these double lives and know one gets hurt. I am here to tell you that is a LIE!!! If you have this kind of life and even if you think no one is hurting, you have just given ground to Satan. You have given him access into your "home".
Where Satan is Jesus will not abide. Brothers ask yourselves this one question: If you have not or are not submitting to the authority of Jesus Christ, then how can you expect your wife, son, or daughter, to respect your authority over them? You need to be in line with the authority of God, meaning your heart, soul, body and mind have to be in line with God, before you can expect the same of your family.

Brothers before you ask where does he come off, I just want to say like those old Hair Club For Men ads, "I am not only the CEO of HCFM, but I am a client as well." I know of what I am saying here. My hearts desire is that we can be right with God. That we not simply just talk about God, but we live Him as well. It is too easy to give lip service and play church on Sunday. We need to get right with God. We need to spur each other on to the goal.

Brothers I will close in saying I need other like minded brothers who want more than life itself to walk closer with God. I know that there are other Christian brothers who need the same. My prayer is that we have this in the church today. Please be in prayer also.

Prayer Captain out.

No More WWE for ME

I am deeply hurt right now. I have to admit a secret pleasure in watching the circus event known as World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). I used to watch RAW and Saturday's Main event, but after seeing recently I have had to check my heart and conscience and I have concluded that I can no longer watch it.

I realize that this type of wrestling is fake, but it is athletic in their movements and admit it guys, it is like a male version of soap operas. The continuing story lines keeps us hooked. It kept me hooked. I was only interested in the wrestling and the amazing leaps and jumps, and stunts required to pull of these moves, but their are parts I would just turn away from or the channel for that matter. Wait for it to pass and continue viewing.

But this Saturday evening, after not having watched this WWE for some time. I do not have cable and the basic channel I was watching from no longer carried the show, I stopped watching. But this Saturday I watched the Main Event and was stunned at what I heard and saw. The man on my left said something that rocked me to my socks. He dared called himself the "King of Kings" and he said it more than once. I cannot begin to tell how much my spirit grieved over hearing this. Jesus Christ is the only Kings of Kings. Not some beefed up wrestler who is definitely not the King of Kings. I also know that this WWE enjoys pushing the envelope, but if they were to look at the recent deaths of some of their popular wrestlers, they would see at what cost they are paying to push those envelopes. Drugs and debauchery are rampant in Entertainment Wrestling - all for the mighty buck.

I am saddened also that these guys are willing to blaspheme in order to make more money. That they would promote evil and lies to pursue the mighty dollar. Jesus is the King of Kings, Jesus is the Lord of Lords and I will not support his name being mocked in the name of entertainment. I will pray for these men to receive Christ into their lives.

I pray that the Lord will use men like Steve Borden (a.k.a. "Sting") to reach Wrestlers who are need the power of the Gospel in their lives.

Please pray that Steve will receive the power and blessing of the Holy Spirit to reach these men and women.

BATTLEGROUND OF THE SOUL

TEARING DOWN STRONGHOLDS OF BITTERNESS

SOUL: Our minds, wills and emotions vs. spirit (Greek psuche) - Hebrews 4:12

Ground: Jurisdictional are (place in our souls) - Ephesians 4:26 - 32

Stronghold: Mind-set and conclusions contrary to scripture -

II Corinthians 10:4-5 Proverbs 14:12

Tormentors: Afflictions allowed by God to teach us mercy - Matthew 18:34-35

Principality: A ruler of evil over a jurisdictional area

Picture an all white chess board. The boards is your soul and as we sin a square is darkened. In the middle of that board is our stronghold of bitterness. As we lust a square is darkened, or we have doubts a square is darkened, anxiety, fear, bad habits, self rejection, anger, etc.

Until our very souls are covered with ground that we have surrendered to Satan.

Scripture gives us a very clear Steps of Action:

1. Confess the sin of bitterness - Hebrews 12:15; I John 1:9 Bitterness defiles our souls.

2. Ask God to regain surrendered ground - Psalm 23:3

3. Tear down strongolds with truth - II Corinthians 10:4-5 Lost ground can be regained.

4. Show mercy by forgiving your offender - Matthew 6:14-15

Bitterness defiles our souls.

Bitterness weakens our souls. Psalms 106: 15

Lost ground can be regained.

Understand the meaning of mercy. In the parable of the unjust steward, the debtor did not plead for mercy; he simply asked for an extension of time. "...Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all." (Matthew 18:26)

The lord delivered him to the tormentors so he could come to the realization that he would never be able to pay back his debt. If he would plea for mercy, the lord would forgive him the entire debt. Then, having experienced mercy, he would be to show mercy to his offenders.

... This has been an excerpt from a Bill Gothard Basic Life Principals Seminar. If you are struggling with sin, if you have given ground to Satan, please do not despair. There is hope. With Jesus Christ we can reclaim this ground.

It Belongs to the Master

We are in a world today where we are consumed with owning more. We must have the newest toy, or the latest widget, or the trendiest cars or clothes. Where are our priorities? Church where is our compassion? Why are we caught up in worrying, and in anger and bitterness? There is freedom is Jesus. The Bible say "He whom Jesus has set free, is free indeed!!!" (emphasis added by me) The "things" we have are not ours anyway. The home, clothes, cars, everything, they all belong to him.

Think about Abraham. He finally was blessed with a son, from Sarah. As God had promised and delivered. Then God asks Abraham to sacrifice his Son. Did God want Abraham to kill his son? We all know he didn't want him to physically do it, but he wanted Abraham obey without question and in his heart his was totally committed to sacrifice Jacob. I think we need to have the same heart. Do we not trust in God? Do we not believe that we can thank God in all circumstances, good or bad. That our Creator will not forsake us. Is our heart right. Do we understand that we are merely caretakers of God's possession.

My prayer is that I would be right with God and that I would trust in Him, the Lord Jesus. I pray that I would be Godly example to my family as a father. That I would be a Godly husband, a man who is sold out to God, 100%, no questions asked. I pray that I would be example to others in my community and in my church. That the love and light of Jesus would shine through me. I don't want to be a fake, phony, lukewarm Christian. I want Jesus and the Kingdom of God to be my number one priority. I believe I have to realize this week, that the trappings of this world are temporal and have no real value to me anymore. There is something very freeing in knowing that. I want to live for Jesus and I want other to know of his great mercy and love and share with them the gift of the Gospel.

I ll be praying for you, please pray for me.

Prayer Captain out.