June 20, 2010
Oil Spill has Louisiana Govt seeking Divine Intervention
Today, Sunday June 20, the government of Louisiana has called a Day of Prayer encouraging people of all faiths to cry out for Divine Intervention in the Oil Spill Crisis and the lives affected by it. Louisiana State Senator Sen. Robert Adley got a unanimous resolution on Wednesday to declare today a Day of Prayer. Sen. Adley told CNN… "Thus far efforts made by mortals to try to solve the crisis have been to no avail. It is clearly time for a miracle for us."
Historically, I'm not even sure when was the last time this nation faced something so devasting that our governing officials issued an official plea for Divine Intervention.
Feel free to join my friend Pastor Dino Rizzo of Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge and many thousands of others for online prayer for the oil spill at 7 PM central, tonight, Sunday June 20. We have one more service yet today here at Church at the Gate in Sioux Falls and we will be joining them in prayer. We actually started a few weeks ago as I noted here on this blog. Here's what I said in that post:
We are praying fervently that God would have mercy on us in relation to the BP oil spill in the Gulf; specifically that he'd release wisdom to plug the leak and creative technologies to clean it up, and that he'd expose what he needs to expose right now in our hearts and especially in our corporate and national leaders.
Meanwhile, Obama goes golfing, again. BTW, did you know one of the judgments God brings on the nation that continually rejects him is that he… "will make mere lads their princes"? (Isaiah 3:4) America is being governed by a novice because we deserve it. This Lord's Day Obama ought to be the first to the altar crying out for God's help in resolving this disaster of Biblical proportions.
Comments on Oil Spill has Louisiana Govt seeking Divine Intervention »
Deb @ 4:54 pm
AMEN!
Nancy @ 6:04 am
Obama golfs and Bush Jr. took more vacation days than any president in U.S. history, which might explain why he didn't notice that the oil industry was essentially running the MMS. But a Buddhist would say that all presidents and leaders need downtime for mindfulness practice. Some fish, some golf, some do vipassana (mindfulness) meditation. Great songwriters stare at the horizon or their roomful of instruments. Some pray and wait for the answers which is a form of mindfulness. All these practices calm the monkey mind chatter so we can get past the limitations of the mind and access greater creativity. If such a practice yields results, I'm loathe to condemn it. If such a practice just wastes time, then it needs to stop. To everything there is a season…
But I don't think it's necessary for a state to issue a call to prayer. If you pray and you are conscious of what's going on in the world, you don't need the government telling you to pray. It's well, kinda obvious!