Wednesday Prayer

 Heavenly Father,

You have taught us to thank You when we go through tough times here on earth, because we know You are making us strong. Your word tells us to give thanks over everything. We thank You for all the trials and testings and we know without a doubt You are the one who brings us through it all. We know You hear our prayers. We know that You are working in our hearts, minds and bodies, healing them and delivering us from the stains of the world that try to hang on. We know that it is You who have given us the mind of Christ, It is You who is restoring our lives, It is You who continues to reform us like clay into that perfect vessel and image of Your Son Jesus. You have blessed us, You lead us by still waters, You give us rest and it is by Your strength we continue to increase our faith. You have taught us "Greater is He who is in us, than He who is in the world!" We walk by faith, not by sight, not by what we hear and not by what we feel." We trust in Your Word. We thank You for the process of sanctification and we can gladly say; "We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him."  1John 5:18. Thank you for never leaving us, for protecting us, for speaking to us and above all; for. your never ending love, faithfulness and forgiving us. 

We thank You for sending Your son Jesus to be the Lamb of God that takes our sins away and gives a new heart. Today on this Wednesday we humble ourselves and willingly confess our sins_____ and  we ask that You would take us the rest of the way. Help us Father to grow in You and be that light You have called us to be.

IN Jesus we pray. Amen.

If you have humbly and sincerely prayed that prayer, the Bible says that you are born again, a new creature in Christ, old things are passed away and all things become new. Seek a good Bible believing church, get a good Bible and begin to pray and read the New Testament first, preferably The Book of John. Your life will change as truth is given. Join a small group of believers and they will love you, pray for you when you have hurdles and you will learn from them. Congratulations and welcome into the family of God.

In Abraham Lincoln's Words:

 

16th President of the United States: 1861 ‐ 1865

Proclamation 85—Proclaiming a Day of National Humiliation, Prayer, and Fasting

August 12, 1861

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Whereas a joint committee of both Houses of Congress has waited on the President of the United States and requested him to "recommend a day of public humiliation, prayer, and fasting to be observed by the people of the United States with religious solemnities and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of these States, His blessings on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace;" and

Whereas it is fit and becoming in all people at all times to acknowledge and revere the supreme government of God, to bow in humble submission to His chastisements, to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in the full conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and to pray with all fervency and contrition for the pardon of their past offenses and for a blessing upon their present and prospective action; and

Whereas when our own beloved country, once, by the blessing of God, united, prosperous, and happy, is now afflicted with faction and civil war, it is peculiarly fit for us to recognize the hand of God in this terrible visitation, and in sorrowful remembrance of our own faults and crimes as a nation and as individuals to humble ourselves before Him and to pray for His mercy--to pray that we may be spared further punishment, though most justly deserved; that our arms may be blessed and made effectual for the reestablishment of law, order, and peace throughout the wide extent of our country; and that the inestimable boon of civil and religious liberty, earned under His guidance and blessing by the labors and sufferings of our fathers, may be restored in all its original excellence:

Therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do appoint the last Thursday in September next as a day of humiliation, prayer, and fasting for all the people of the nation. And I do earnestly recommend to all the people, and especially to all ministers and teachers of religion of all denominations and to all heads of families, to observe and keep that day according to their several creeds and modes of worship in all humility and with all religious solemnity, to the end that the united prayer of the nation may ascend to the Throne of Grace and bring down plentiful blessings upon our country.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed, this 12th day of August, A.D. 1861, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-sixth.

ABRAHAM LINCOLIN.

By the President:

WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State .