Don't hate people, but there are some things to hate. Sin.

Attitudes of a hardened corrupt heart, and thinking (that mindset) that God finds totally repulsive...

Pride, puffed-up arrogance, snooty conceit, even the religious type of that. You know what I mean -- considering oneself above others, including God himself.

Organizations that undermine what healthy churches teach (Bible teaching congregations with sound leaders), and perverse individuals, their hands even - those that shed innocent blood (which in the original language would mean "the murdering of any innocent people." Our nation has sadly seen a whole lot of that, but there will be a judgment day. God won't let that go unaddressed). God hates the wickedness in a heart that devises evil plans, feet that make haste to run to evil (that weird eagerness to do what's hurtful towards decent persons and is wrong), or into lying -- that false witness who breathes out lies. Cuz Jesus is the truth. And He hates the sin of one who sows discord among brothers (using gossip, fibs, half-truths, and unnecessary criticism in order to cause negative division where it ought not to be). Are you a troublemaker at church or in your community? Stop it.

But there.. for a limited amount of time.. can still be hope for you if you only admit it and quit it. Get right in the light or left in the dark. Repent and believe.

I pray that we could pray in the USA today. Yep, would effectively. Today, we want to see the strongholds of evil crumble away, Lord.

"The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.." Daniel 9:9

Life, liberty, free speech, safety for lost and saved Americans etc. -- man, a whole lot's at stake. Understatement! 

So much of the craziness we are seeing this week boils down to just two issue: Pleasure seeking and abortion. They’ve threatened to riot, to burn down cities, and even to go to war.. for real. That’s how much they want to produce and then kill innocent babies (but they don't want to produce really, they want to un-produce). Scary horrific stuff.

The pandemic has just ended it would seem.

"The end of Roe v. Wade?" ~ Senator Tom Cotton (who is on the short list. Man, I pray it gets overturned!)

"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavily burdened by religious rituals that provide no peace, and I will give you rest refreshing your souls with salvation. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me following Me as My disciple, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest, renewal, blessed quiet for your souls. For My yoke is easy to bear and My burden is light." ~ Jesus, Matthew 11:28-30 amp

We can feel tired, down, weary, and pretty emotionally distraught inside, but coming to Christ, gettin’ alone to spend some time with him can help so much! We find that He injects into us a new energy of sorts (not some new age type), but a new power and new strength from his Spirit.

Would you pray something like...

- Father, turn us back to you. we wholeheartedly unite to pray for another outpouring here today -- we so need that. Jesus, we all seriously need you! Do forgive us here in the USA, each one of us. No form of self righteous prayin' will help any. Please grant repentance and faith unto life, yes saving faith for those who don't yet know you here. Religion won't help us, it never has. Please revive and fully restore your believers here, and do send another spiritual awakening, Lord. do it again. Forgive us for all our pleasure seeking, abortions and independent living away from you. So, SO many killings of innocent babies. We come to you and humble ourselves before you, please be merciful. Search our hearts...

- Father, we come, because all have sinned and fall short of Your glory...
With Daniel’s heart and attitude, we confess that we Your people have sinned. On our watch our nation has spiraled downward to such a low level in morality. Search us, for You know our hearts and thoughts. Lead each of us to specifically confess and hang a U-turn to you. We agree and pray for wisdom, even for our leaders. Let the best choice be made for our Supreme Court Justice. We pray they'd be confirmed quickly -- we don't want more needless riots. (Romans 3:23; Psalm 139:23-24; 1 John 1:9; Jeremiah 15:19) 

- Father, forgive us for not loving You with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength...
Your Word tells us that we are to show our love for You through our obedience to the word. We need your grace to empower, to give courage and guidance, Lord. If we, Your people, have been as obedient as we should be, would the sins of our nation be so great today? Help us hate sin to the same degree that you hate it, and love righteousness like you do as well. We need illumination with the Scriptures in your local church. Show us where we have grown distracted, worldly and lukewarm and failed to obey. (Matthew 22:37-38; John 14:15, 21, 23, 24; 1 John 5:3; 2 John 6) 

Since God knows our future, our situation, our plans, our personalities, and our capacity to just listen to his truth today, His Spirit isn't going to speak more to us than we can deal with at the moment. 

- Father, forgive us when we fail to love our neighbors as ourselves...
We are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves—love free of prejudice or favoritism, or we sin. Today social injustice is being revealed in ways many have never understood it. Now that we know, show us how to truly love our neighbors, especially the lost. Make us bold in sharing Christ; open their hearts to receive Him. (Matthew 22:39; James 2:8-9, AMP; Acts 16:14) Continue on at any time as the Spirit leads you in personal prayer...

- Father, forgive us when we fail to love others as Jesus loves us...
Jesus’ command is to love one another as He loved us, that by our love for one another, others will recognize us as His disciples. Is our love for one another a witness to the watching world? If not, show us where we fall short. Lead us, enable us to change. (John 13:34) 

- Father, guide us as we continue to pray for the sins of Your people, the things on Your heart...

“You were taught with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires...and to put on the new self..” (Ephesians 4:22-24). I come in a spirit of repentance, to confess my sins and the sins of Your people here as You bring them to my mind. Please let your will be done in our upcoming election on November 3rd, and even beyond that any some people will try to cheat. We are more concerned with what happens in your house than in our White House, but all that is very important as well. We want what is best for the people of this Land, Jesus. We agree and pray that the enemy and his crowd wouldn't mess up our election process. Let your Kingdom come, let your will be done.  

- Father, we don't want hard stubborn hearts. Open our eyes and ears today. Please have mercy on our nation.. so blinded by the darkness of sin. We need you now. “You must no longer live as the Gentiles [the lost] do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts..” (Ephesians 4:18-29). In Your mercy show us how to continue on in praying against the strongholds of evil that sadly seem to have become the norm in our nation (we want to see a change, we want it gone from our Land! And we want to win the lost while we still have some time). We want to the strongholds crumble -- including online porn, the exporting of it, sexual sins, the abortions -- idolatry, and others. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Edifying idea for us all. This week see if you can find some complimentary accompanying Bible verses that go along with these great quotes. and then let's pray the word.  

Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer. — Elisabeth Elliot  

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. — Corrie Ten Boom

Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow. — Benjamin Franklin  

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them. — Richard Baxter  

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. — Spurgeon

God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays. — John Masefield

If your day is hemmed in with prayer, it is less likely to come unraveled. —  Cynthia Lewis

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message. —Oswald Chambers

Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer. — Charles Finney

Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer. — David Bryant

In worship, God imparts himself to us. — C.S.Lewis

The amount of time we spend with Jesus — meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face — establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom. — Charles Stanley

God shapes the world by prayer. The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil. — E.M. Bounds

It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone. — Hudson Taylor

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. — D.A.T. Pierson

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray. — Oswald Chambers

The great people of the earth today are the people who pray, (not) those who talk about prayer. — S.D.Gordon

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. — Charles Stanley

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important. — Charles Stanley

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice. — J.H. Jowett

Work, work, from morning until late at night. In fact, I have so much to do that I shall have to spend the first three hours in prayer. — Martin Luther

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees. —Billy Graham

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God. — Oswald Chambers

Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine. — Andrew Murray

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies. — Frank C. Laubach

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. — J. Sidlow Baxter

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. — Oswald Chambers

To desire revival... and at the same time to neglect (personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another. — A.W. Tozer

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely. — Anselm of Canterbury

Prayer is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural. — Oswald Chambers

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... the fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down. — Campbell Morgan

There must be the inward worship within the shrine if there is to be outward service. — Alexander MacLaren

If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus.... He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship. — A.W. Tozer

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time. — Charles Stanley

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits. — Charles Stanley

Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine. — Andrew Murray

History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer. — Edwin Orr

All I know is that when I pray, (so called) coincidences happen; and when I don't pray, they don't happen. — Dan Hayes

There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes Of blinded men to instant, perfect sight; There is a place where thou canst say, "Arise" to dying captives, bound in chains of night; There is a place where thou canst reach the store of hoarded gold and free it for the Lord; There is a place — upon some distant shore — where thou canst send the worker and the Word. Where is that secret place dost thou ask, "Where?" O soul, it is the secret place of prayer! — Alfred Lord Tennyson

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope, and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. — Richard Cecil

I have lived to thank God that not all my prayers have been answered. — Jean Ingelow

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. — Edwin Keith

To pray well is the better half of study. — Martin Luther

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. — Hannah More

Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer. — Robert McCheyne

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour will be very well employed. — Francis de Sales

I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man may be nourished....  I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God and to meditation of it. — George Mueller

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth. — Charles Stanley

"Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” Psalm 82:3-4. To expose and criticize a so called good religion that encourages men to...

Hello! What's actually normal for all humans is to protect women and children.. no matter how small, young, old or weak. Duh! Time to board the clue-bus people. https://t.co/l8vGVKH0XL pic.twitter.com/jPFFYlt8fY

— KurtwVs (@kurtwvs) July 5, 2020

Breathing Babies Tossed in the Garbage Dumpster. It's Been In The News..More Than Once. Even Full Term and Born Babies Get Killed Now. It's still Murder. Factoid: Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, was not a hero at all. She was seeking to control who reproduced, sterilizing or segregating the "Unfit."

Would you pray something like:  God have mercy and forgive us in America -- we repent of the pleasure seeking and sin. Turn us back to You and Your Word. Pour out Your Spirit, restore.. send another awakening.

I'm told I can't talk about this cuz I'm a guy, but you and I were both privileged to be born.. so why can't I? 

You were taught that you have a right to abort, but what about his or her rights.. inside you? The Bible doesn't specifically address the issue of abortion directly per se. However, there are numerous teachings in Scripture that make it abundantly clear what God’s view of abortion is. In Jeremiah 1:5, it tells us that God knows us individually before our birth—He knits us in the womb. 

What does God think about this? See Psalm 139:13-16. It speaks of God’s active role in our creation and formation inside our mother’s womb. Exodus 21:22-25 prescribes the same penalty for someone who causes the death of a baby in the womb as the penalty for someone who commits murder. This clearly indicates that God considers a baby in the womb just as much of a human being as a full-grown adult. For a real Christian (and many who claim to be are not), abortion is not a matter of a woman’s right to choose. It is a matter of the life or death of a human being made in the very image of God’s (see Genesis 1:26-27; 9:6). 

Think!..this is a full term baby here. 

Prior to the 1973 court decision that allowed abortion on demand, developing embryos were considered unborn persons. Today, even a fetus that could survive on its own outside its mother's womb could be aborted (murdered), under certain medical circumstances. Science teaches us that human life begins at the time of conception. Yes, from the moment fertilization takes place, the child's genetic makeup is already complete. Its gender has already been determined, along with its height… along with its hair, eye and skin color. The only thing the embryo needs to become a fully-functioning being is the time to grow and develop. More importantly, God reveals to us in His Word that not only does life begin at conception, but He knows about us even before that time (Jeremiah 1:5). King David said this about God's role in our conception: "For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb....Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them" (Ps. 139:13, 16). 

Society continually seeks to devalue the lives of the unborn and elderly today, creating its own definitions of humanity based on distorted views of morality. But the undeniable fact is that life begins at creation, and a human is created as soon as it is conceived.

*Note: It’s interesting to me that most of the people that I talk to who are against all forms of Capital Punishment; are also the ones who are for abortion (even late term or even after the birthed baby has survived). They audaciously think that I am the one being contradictory in standing against abortion and yet being for Capital Punishment (in serious criminal cases) and think that they are the ones being non-contradictory in their opposite stance from mine. 

Hey, we all just need to get back to the Bible to see what God has to say about these subjects and back to Him. It's because both my opinions, yours and theirs aren’t worth more than the next guy’s. 

The Bible.. God's Word is authoritative and He should always have the last say in these matters. What’s interesting is that they want to see the very innocent people die (babies with an eternal soul), and want to protect the heinously guilty people who are deserving of expedited judgment… when I want to see the heinously guilty people—guilty of living for self, pleasure and convenience at the expense of others—properly judged (so that others will be both warned and protected from their homicidal habits)… and I want to see all the innocent people protected. 

Perhaps guilty people can relate well to the very guilty innately knowing that they too deserve God’s judgment (as I have also deserved it), when they should simply turn in repentance and faith to Jesus Christ, asking for His free forgiveness... and then act like the people who have recieved it should. Yes Christ already paid for it on the cross for all individuals (for all have sinned - see Rom. 3:23). They want me to speak out in defense for those on death row who can still speak out (and do in many ways), but my question is this: Who will speak out for those who cannot speak out… and never could? On average, there are 46,000,000 innocent babies who are killed worldwide each year. We know much more on this now and we've seen the pain babies feel in the womb. THIS MUST STOP -- WE MUST DO SOMETHING …but never something foolishly wrong that would go against what the Scriptures teach ..as some have sadly done. Ask, cuz God gives wisdom for us stopping all this killing, and for each of us rightly applying His Scriptures. 

1. How can I experience healing and recovery after an abortion?

2. Why should I not have an abortion?

3. What does the Bible say about abortion?

4. If aborted babies go to heaven, why is abortion wrong?

5. Is abortion murder?

6. If God hates abortion, why does He allow miscarriages?

7. Is Numbers 5:11-31 referring to God causing an abortion? What was the jealousy offering?

8. Why are Christians pro-life when it comes to abortion while at the same time in favor of the death penalty and supportive of war?

9. How should a Christian view Planned Parenthood?

10. Is it possible to be Christian and pro-choice at the same time?

11. How should a Christian view the Roe vs. Wade decision?

12. Does the Bible teach that life begins at conception?