Meat for the Hungry

  FLAG robert-linder-fcFEnjBmm14-unsplash Heavenly Father, You did it! You gave A m e r i c a 2 5 0 Y e a r s o f B l e s s i n g ! Thank You!   Thank You not only for the physical freedom of this land, but also for preappointing our time and the boundary of our dwelling, so we should seek You, [1] and celebrate this amazing country.   Holy, holy, holy, LORD, You alone deserve glory, honor, and power, but above all, our worship. [2]   LORD, when I think about the history of A m e r i c a , it wasn’t just deciding to break from Great Britain and signing our Declaration of Independence. It was these heroic men backing up that decision with action, a willingness to die to make men free, which became the Battle Hymn of OUR Republic . [3] And why? Because it was exactly what the Lord Jesus Christ did for us. [4]   I know You, O God, placed that determination within the hearts of each founding father, each officer, and soldier who fought in t...

  FLAG robert-linder-fcFEnjBmm14-unsplash O LORD my God, the One True and Living God, I bow in Your presence today.   Thank You, O holy One of Israel, for my whole being, my health, my talents and abilities, and everything I am. You alone are the One who holds my life in Your hand. In Jesus, You chose me before the foundation of the world that I should be holy, set apart for You, and blameless before You in love. By Christ Jesus, You blessed me with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, and You did all this for the praise of the glory of Your grace. [1]   By Your grace or You giving me something I did not deserve, You predestined me and adopted me as a son according to the good pleasure of Your will. [2] You made me accepted in Your Beloved and mine—Jesus, God the Son. And LORD, it is in Him—In Jesus—that I have redemption and forgiveness of my sins through and by His shed blood. [3] This is only because Jesus became flesh and died for my sins as my...

FLAG robert-linder-fcFEnjBmm14-unsplash LORD God, as we begin our day, we come before Your throne and bow in Your presence. Thank You for our nation—the L a n d of the F r e e and the H o m e of the B r a v e —the country You gave us. As Christians, true believers in Jesus Christ , we have been complacent and sometimes apathetic about the rights, freedoms, and blessings You have provided.   While we have been asleep, the evil one has sewn tares and gained ground on our watch. He seeks to destroy our land and enslave our people. [1]   His deceived workers don’t even realize it is Satan who controls their puppet strings, because their hearts and consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. [2] These blinded ones have become like their father [3] and puppet master, “…workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but evil is in their hearts.” [4]   Gaining more and more power is their immediate goal, O LORD, yet they are caught in Satan’s web like dinn...