The devil has been pounding this week, but Jesus is still Lord. I have found that the more you desire and hunger for the Lord the more intense the devil and his bunch turn up the intensity of the attacks. If the redeemed want to serve the Lord they will find the same situation playing out. Don't quit! Don't stop! Don't give in!

The enemy has a quiver full of arrows some are dipped in the poison of discouragement. Some are dipped in the poison of doubt. Some are dipped in the poison of division. The Bible says, "Above all taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked." (Ephesians 6:16) Please do not just skim over this verse, but get down in it and allow these God breathed words to encourage and empower you.

I want to encourage to you read Ephesians 6:10-18. It is a much needed reminder of what it is that God has provided his children for the battle that they are in.

Thanks for visiting and thanks for praying,
Bro. Tracy

"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, the many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to God that made us It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."

April 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation for a National Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer.

Don't Give up! Don't Give In- But pray for America! Pray for our leaders-Local, State and Federal! Pray for the people! Ask God to have mercy on this nation! We need the mercy of Almighty God! We need Almighty God's protection and power. We nee His guidance and direction. We are nothing without Him and without Him we are nothing.

1. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.
3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.
Psalm 145:1-6
The psalmist declares, "I will" and so we should with the time we have been given.
I will Extol. I will Bless. I will Praise, I will Speak. I will Declare.
Let's start our morning off in such a powerful way.

Thanks for visiting and thanks for praying,
Bro. Tracy