PRAYER: Lord, We Believe Your Word!

Oh, Lord

Great And Glorious

We Come Before You

Hearts Heavy

At The Plight Of Our Nation's People!

Lord, What Is To Become

Of This Prodigal People

Who Relish A Diet Of Pig Swill

And Reject The Lush Banquet

Arrayed On Zion's Hill;

Who Studiously Walk By Blind Sight;

Who Consider The Faith Of Jesus A Pox And A Blight;

Who Wallow In Flights Of Fantasy;

Who Enjoy Playing Pat-A-Cake

In The Whispy Web Of The Fabled Spider Anansi;

Who Thrill At The Experiencing Of The Mind-numbing Pill

And Laugh Uproariously

At All That Is Worthy A Toilet To Fill;

Who Play With The Fraud

And Believe Themselves To Be God;

And Who Consider The Confessed Children Of The Living God

To Be Kin To Demon Frogs?

Lord, Have Mercy Upon Them In Their Distress!

Oh, Lord

We Who Love And Believe In Your Beloved Son

Are Denigrated

And Denied

And Despised

And Abused

And Accused

Because:

We Don't Indulge In Thrills And Spills For Fun;

We Refuse To Play Russian Roulette With The Known Loaded Gun;

We Acknowledge That Sin Has No Degrees

No Matter Its Color

And That It Separates Us From The Holy God

We Daily Seek To Please;

We Know That An Elevating Love Of Self Is No Green Grass

And That It Puts Us In The Position

Of Requiring Your Sending Unto Us A Balaam's Talking Ass;

We Recognize That Self-Medication

Puts Us Up High On A Rotten Tree Limb;

We Refuse To Live To Experience Fleeting Thrills That Will Ultimately Kill;

We Choose To Accept And Know The Creator God Who Lives

Who Loves Us And Who Causes Us To Grow;

And Because

We Choose To Live By The Intangible Faith Of Jesus Christ The King

And Sing Praises To Him As We Look With Great Hope 

For The Sky Break Heralding His Returning!

Father,

Give Unto Us Strength For Our Journey

And Courage For The Way We Must Walk

Even In The Face Of Gross Opposition

To Humbly Keep The Holy Faith

To Be Able To Disagree

And Not Be Disagreeable

As We Share The Truths Of Heavenly Light

And Freely Available Salvation Unto Eternal Life!

Let Not The Spirit Of Fear Overcome Us!

Father,

Pity Us By Your Mercy

Comfort Us With Your Grace

And Let The Indwelling Holy Spirit

Direct Correct And Chide Us

And The Holy Angels Protect Us

Until The Day When In This Fleeting Life

We Have No More A Place!

Oh, Father,

Let Our Love For You Be Not Fair Weather

Neither Let It Be Wasted On The Accursed Other!

Bless Our Faith With Holy Sight

Unto The Day When There Shall Be

No More Night!

And, Lord

In That Day Of The Trumpet Of God

Call Us Forth From Death

Unto Eternal Life

For We Believe Your Holy Promises

And We Trust You To Honor Your Promise

To Get Us Home Safely

Through Jacob's Time Of Trouble

The Coming Prophesied Strife!

Oh, Lord

We Love You Indeed

And In The Name Of Jesus Christ The Righteous

With These Petitions We Plead.

Oh, Lord, Hear!

Oh, Lord, Do For Us What Only The Holy God Can Do!

AMEN.

Oh, That Men Would Praise

The Eternal God Of Love

The Giver Of True Life!