Tazi-san

I'm currently boiling some potatoes and carrots for a nice side dish for the mini-BBQ at a friend's.  In the mean time I just wanted to wish you all a wonderful Independence Day!

Hoping for America to stay freer than ever before and always remember who we are.



My 4th of July Prayer:

Jesus,

Thank you that we have a place to try and come and pursue righteousness and our dreams in the doing of good to others and the exercising of our gifts.  Thank you for the sacrifices that people have paid on our behalf and we honor that and all our veterans who sacrifice their bodies for us. Please provide for them and give them the honor they deserve and the mental/physical healing they need along with their families.

YHWH, deliver us from dead-end work, greed, and corporate cruelty.  I rebuke Mammon, the worship of money, in the name of Jesus Christ our High Priest. Loose our finances so that we can have an inheritance for our children. Cause us to start our own businesses that function in love, creativity, mercy and righteousness. Teach us to keep your commands to that we can honor you and bless those around us.

Please turn the hearts of the father's back to the children and help us pick up the broken pieces in our lives.  Dry our tears, rid us of our addictions, make us whole and tell us who we are.  Bring us into relationship with you again. Father please heal our marriages and families.  We have not been faithful in protecting these things.  We are so sorry and (sorry, I broke down here..) Our children are so lonely and they don't know who or what to follow.  They are at the mercy of wolves and do not have the protection and guidance they deserve. A child should not be feeling like an orphan with both parents at home. Good SHepherd, gather your children and protect their hearts, minds and bodies and give them a desire for love, justice, and righteousness, no matter what situation they are coming from.

Also turn the hearts of the mothers back to her children and not allow death to enter her womb.  God have mercy on us for the 50 million+ lives we have snuffed out and the children that are molested and trafficked. Help our young women especially to see their value and worth and give them to wisdom to not allow wicked men into their lives to abuse their bodies and hearts.  In the inverse, protect our men from women who dishonor and slander them, seek to undermine them, and more. Heall our relations between men and women and give us new love and wisdom for each other, that we treat each other like brothers and sisters.

Soften our hearts to truly love our neighbors and not curse or slander them.  Change the way we see each other to be like family. We cannot bless you then turn around and cruse men because fresh and salt water cannot come from the same spring. Shut down that fanning up of racism and manipulation from the media and shut up their lies altogether, trying to divide us and pit us against each other.

Surround our president and all administration in this nation with wise council, please give us leaders who care about righteousness and justice.  Rid from their ranks greed and lust and bring the hidden evils to light so that true justice can be done in this nation. Expose it all. Destroy the spiritual bondage and wicked principalities in high places that build machines, systems and mentalities to steal, kill, and destroy us from the inside out.

The world watches us and the standards we set so please help us clean up our back yard and take care of our own so we can be that City on a Hill that our Founders, imperfect men as they are, dreamed of. Give us wisdom in our Law Making, Enforcement, Economics, Education, and Health Care.

I can't really say God bless America anymore but I will say...

YHWH, Holy One of Israel, have Mercy on America.  Please stand beside her.

Her name means "lovable" so help it to ring true.

All of this will be done, not by might, nor by power, but by your Spirit. Baruch ha Shem.

In Jesus' name, Amen.