I wonder what someone with his ignorant beliefs would say of the history of our nation and how "prayer and fasting" played a role.
Little unkown facts like the pilgrims who first arrived on what later became the United Sates fasted on a regular basis. What followed after their fasts was a time of great freedom and prosperity in the soon to be land of the free and home of the brave!
Some may call that a coincidence! O ye of little faith! It is a wicked generation that needs to see to believe-- no Faith!
A wicked generation that has no problems mocking God, destroying marriage, cheating on spouses, neglecting children and family, giving in to masturbation, participating in fornication and homosexuality, viewing pornography, all the while sacrificing their babies on the altar of "freedom" and "choice".
Indeed, we are living in wicked times.
With a president who sees nothing wrong with killing our babies in the safety of their mommies womb and trying to destroy DOMA and the protection of marriage as he caters to the gay activists. All the while trying to shove socialized medicine down our throats that will put the most vulnerable at risk of DEATH and bankrupt the nation--
Have you any doubt we are living in the last days?
Turning to God is our only hope, indeed his grace and mercy has always been our only true hope!
Michele Bachmann said it right, we must pray and fast! God bless her for her courage!
I am in my own season of prayer and fasting, maybe you can join me.
I am keeping an online journal to hopefully encourage others to do the same: http://my-40-day-fast.blogspot.com/
The defeat of the healthcare reform is on my prayer list. Will you pray with me?
If you are reading this, please pray and fast for your future, your children, our nation and each other! Fasting is an incredibly powerful spiritual weapon!
Remember, when you pray, God gets your attention, but when you fast and pray, YOU get God's attention!
God bless you! --Marisela
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Bachmann: Prayer and fasting will help defeat health care reform
By PAUL DEMKO 8/24/09 4:35 PM
On Wednesday Rep. Michele Bachmann was part of a star-studded “teletownhall” meeting to discuss health-care reform. The event, billed “Keeping Faith with the Unborn,” was sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion advocacy group. The organization’s president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, claimed that there were some 350,000 listeners on the line.
Bachmann was joined by North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx, most famous for calling Matthew Shepard’s murder was a “hoax,” and former Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, who made national headlines by refusing to concede after losing her re-election contest November. But even with such veteran political pugilists sharing the phone line, Bachmann managed to distinguish herself during the 90-minute phone call.
The 6th district Republican quoted the late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, attacked Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for receiving political contributions from a medical doctor who was murdered in May, and called on everyone to get down on their knees and pray that health care reform fails. Bachmann didn’t always make sense, but she undoubtedly scared the living daylights out of anyone on the line.
Bachmann repeated the myth, adopted early by Sarah Palin, that the health-care plans being debated in Congress would set up “death panels” to determine which old folks are entitled to health care. “Thank God that Sarah Palin said that,” she told the callers. “These are true.”
In response to a caller from Minnesota who wanted to know if there was a plan afoot in Washington to require all medical doctors to perform abortions, Bachmann didn’t exactly shoot the suggestion down.
“Unless we explicitly restrict these items, I think we can fully expect that these radical pro-abortion individuals could very likely make those decisions,” she told the caller. “All of us who have labored tirelessly in the pro-life cause for years and years and years, we know what these people are capable of. That’s why they have to be tied down by restrictions explicitly in law.”
She also suggested that it might be some kind of religious destiny that hardy souls such as herself are in Congress at this time.
“We all need to consider that in God’s timing that he may have allowed us, as members of Congress, to be in the position that we’re in just for this specific issue right now,” she said. “Everything that all of us have worked together and labored for over the years, all of it could be undermined with this one bill. President Obama realizes that. The radicals that are on the pro-abortion left, they realize that. They could win it all. And the unborn, and the vulnerable, the disabled and those at the end of life could lose it it all.”
But it was Bachmann’s fervent call to utilize prayer and fasting to beat back health-care reform efforts that was the true highlight of the call.
“That’s really where this battle will be won — on our knees in prayer and fasting,” she told the listeners. “Remember: faith without works is dead. So we’re asking you to do all of it: pray, fast, believe, trust the Lord, but also act.”
