When May arrives we are not far from the National Day of Prayer. This year it falls on Thursday, May 3. I encourage you to participate. Go somewhere and pray for America. The chapel at Olive will be open all day if you would like to drop by and pray. Special services are being held in the Pensacola area. Find one of those and go and pray.

On Sunday C-SPAN broadcast live the LA Times Book Review and discussion of culture and religion. This was an amazing event. In the segment I watched, Bible Christianity took a beating. One man could not believe we still lived in a country where more believe in the coming rapture of the church than adhere to evolution. It seemed to him that educated America would not follow the Bible, but science. What a country we live in. On May 3 we need to pray for revival.

Statistical reports are in for the Southern Baptist Convention. Numbers are up in several areas including the number of churches and money given. For this and other items, we rejoice. However, for the second straight year we have baptized less than we did the year before. On May 3 pray for revival in the American churches.

The war in Iraq crawls onward. We have been there longer than we fought in WWII. Victory came and then we stayed for years in that clean up. It seems we have years to go in Iraq. On May 3 pray for our brave men and woman on the front lines of war wherever they may be. Pray for the President and the Congress to get together on a plan. We need God to intervene and wise leaders need to put aside partisan politics. Pray for peace on the National Day of Prayer.

Visit www.ndptf.org. to learn more about this important day.

Pastor Ted Traylor

Posted on Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 at 9:38 am.
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