Men with Chests

Mornings for me have seen some changes of this past year as I received news from my doctor that “Hot Tamales” and “Junior Mints” were not a food group.  This meant a change in diet and early morning exercise.  The diet change was no big deal, but the exercise was something else.  So, in order to assuage the boredom of peddling a recumbent bicycle I turn on the TV and watch the news while I sweat and peddled.

Today was the National Day of Prayer and I was treated to constant flash backs on the TV news to the National Prayer Breakfast and then it happened… the speech of President Obama from the Prayer Breakfast.

First, let me say that my understanding of the Biblical theology of prayer is that true prayer rests with regenerated believers alone (Isaiah1:15; John 9:31).  And a gathering of people from all kinds of faith, Christian (Evangelical, Liberal Protestant, Catholic, etc.), along with Mormonism, Scientology, Islam, Buddhist, and who knows what else sends a message that devalues propositional truth, the exclusiveness of the Scriptures,  and makes God the subjective  god of our imagination.

As I listened though, to President Obama it became very clear, very quickly, that for him, government was the answer to the social condition of man and that God was a mere helper.  He certainly did not see prayer from a Biblical perspective that views the discipline of prayer as a complete dependence upon God no matter what the situation or outcome.  The politicizing of prayer by our President was truly sickening and his reliance on “his administration” and “their” policies to cure the ills of mankind was staggering.

I have kept this blog short, as I could comment no further on the speech since  I walked out of the room before he finished and I got sicker.

Acts 17:28 ( NKJV ) ²⁸for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

2 Chronicles 7:14 ( NKJV ) ¹⁴if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

-  Michael Holtzinger