National Day of Prayer - May 7, 2009

National Day of Prayer - May 7th, 2009
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The 58th Annual National Day of Prayer will take place Thursday, May 7, 2009. Millions will unite in prayer as thousands of events will take place from coast to coast. The theme for this year is "Prayer... America's Hope" and is based on the verse from Psalm 33:22 which states: "May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you."

I took a group of people to one of the local events in our area last year. I even took my 10 year old daughter out of school for the morning so she could attend with us. She can't wait for it to come around again. Last years' event was a prayer breakfast with Jill Briscoe as the guest speaker. We prayed for our country and for our leaders at all levels of government.

Our nation was founded under one God and He should be our ultimate authority. It is right for us to pray to Him for wisdom in the leading of our cities, states, and nation. It is good for us to pray to Him for the protection and safety of our people. It is our great duty to keep our nation under one God and to be dependent on Him for all things. Imagine all the people of the nation gathered together on one day throughout the country, united in the sole purpose of petitioning our God's will and favor. Imagine the sounds going up to heaven, to God's ears, and imagine His delight in His people who still remember and honor Him above all else.

Won't you join us by finding a local event near you and inviting everyone you know to participate in some way. The website will show you all your options for participating whether it's attending a local event or watching one in the various broadcast medias.

For those of you readers who live in my neck of the woods (Northeast Wisconsin) I invite you to join my group at the Appleton Prayer Breakfast. The guest speaker at this event is Bob Lenz. I've blogged about Bob before because he is such a great speaker of God's love, especially to the youth. This would be a great event to take your pre-teen/teenager kids too.

Appleton, WI Event
http://www.ndptf.org/custom/events/eventSearch/details.cfm?cal_id=10533


What a great tradition to start with your kids who will be the future leaders of America. Why not teach them the power of prayer as a nation, before the world tells them it's not an important thing to do, or before the world takes away the right to assemble in prayer altogether! Our freedoms in the area of religion are under attack and we must take a stand as to not lose them for our future generations.

Shirley Dobson (Dr. Dobson's wife) is the chair of the National Day of Prayer Task Force. She, along with President George W. Bush, and two governors, are being sued for praying publicly on the National Day of Prayer by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. This is a group made up of atheists, agnostics and free thinkers. They would like to eliminate all displays or expression of faith in the public square and are willing to drag you through the courts to intimidate you into subscribing to their vision of America.