Dear Heavenly Father,

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Thank you for another day of life on Your glorious creation. I come to You this morning to petition for Your Pastors and all the men and women who are doing Your work this morning. Please watch over them. Help them to make themselves an empty vessel for You to help all of us.

Lord, they need Your Love and Strength just as much as the rest of us do. Let us forget to pray for them. They work so hard, and sometimes it gets very hard. Help them to be still and know that You are God. Help them to hold onto their Faith.

I pray for the Online Pastor. Please protect him from all harm and evil; spiritually, physically, emotionally, and mentally. As well as our (the USA) men and women in the Military, their families, and loved ones. Also, I pray for their coalition partners who are fighting against The Enemy.

I pray the people whom work so hard trying to save those who do not know You. May they have a renewed spirit day by day. You are so faithful, Lord. Thank You so much.

I also pray for those who have been injured and those families of the ones who have come home. Please Comfort them, Love them, ease their pain, and put a hedge of Your Love around them. Grant them the will to carry on. I pray this also for those who are thinking about suicide. Help them to feel Your presense and know this is not the answer. Help them to hold on just a little longer until they can see past their pain.

God, why do people want to kill us? Why are they so evil? I know the answer, but sometimes this weighs heavy on my mind. Like the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and the Ayatollahs in Iran. Won't You please crush them? They are our enemies. They are the children of Satan, I do believe.

I do not believe all Muslims are of this mind. That is something I cannot wrap my mind around. I know some very kind and gentle people who happen to be Muslims. I cannot even imagine them to be my enemy. Please lead me.

Help us to renew our minds and please purify our hearts. Make us white as snow. Ready at all times to do Thy will. I love You so much, Lord. Help me to be a better witness for You. I know I am missing the mark. I repent not reading Your word everyday. I also repent the evil thoughts of hatred I hold onto. Except the hatred of the enemies, for I am not ready to release that hatred. Please forgive me, but I will not. I do not believe I am supposed to.

Did You not say, 'To hate the things the Lord hates is the beginning of wisdom'? Is this what you meant? I pray it is. Please help me, Lord.

Thank You for being all powerful, all knowing, omnipresent, loving, the same yesterday-today-and tomorrow, and for loving us enough to give Your One and Only Son to go to the Cross in our place, that whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have eternal life. I have no words to express my gratitude. It is overwhelming. Thank You loving us this much. In Jesus' Precious name I pray.

Amen.

Pope Ex-communicate Four Chinese Bishops

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Yesterday, the Vatican excommunicated two Chinese Bishops which the Chinese government had ordained without any consultation with the Pope. (The nerve of this Communist government, eh?) The Vatican also excommunicated the two Bishops whom ordained the two.

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls cited Article 1382 of the Roman Catholic Church's canon law. That article states that "both the bishop who, without a pontifical mandate, consecrates a person a bishop, and the one who receives the consecration from him, incur a 'latae sententiae excommunication,'" which means they are automatically excommunicated. <...>

The ordinations come as China and the Holy See try to re-establish ties that ended after communists took control of China in 1949.

Formal ties would give some security to Vatican loyalists in China, who are frequently harassed and fined and sometimes sent to labor camps. Most Chinese Catholics are only allowed to worship in government-controlled churches, but millions are loyal to the Vatican.

But the Vatican said any dialogue was at risk now. <...>

The Holy See also expressed alarm at reports that 20 more bishops might be ordained without Vatican approval and stressed "the need for respect for freedom of the church and for the autonomy of its institutions from any external interference."

It added the Vatican "sincerely hopes that there will not be a repetition of these unacceptable acts of violence and inadmissible acts of coercion." [article by Alessandra Rizzo]

China is trying to squash religious freedom. Period. That is unacceptable. If these Communists won't listen President George W. Bush, maybe they will listen to the Vatican. After all, the Vatican has many more followers. God has many! It is wise not to mess with Him!