Create in me a clean heart, O God.

Renew a loyal spirit within me.

Do not banish me from your presence and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation and make me willing to obey you.

Psalms 51:10-12

Lord,

Turn your face back to the U.S. and give us favor.

Give Christian the strength and encouragement to stand up and turn the tide of the insanity that envelops us.

Let us stand for truth, do what is right, and to be the change and a positive force in our communities.

Let us come together where we are and be spots of light among the darkness.

Let those spots join together to become a pool, the pools a sea, and the sea an unstoppable wave.

Reclaim our nation.

Change our hearts.

Renew our minds.

Be bold.

Away with your noisy hymns of praise.

I will not listen to the music of your harps.

Instead I want to see a might flood of justice, an endless river of righteous living.

Amos 5:23-34

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If I think negative thoughts enough I'll believe them and do negative things. If I think positive thoughts enough I'll believe them and do positive things. Why just today I learned that a flea and an elephant can be conditioned to believe they have no power; the flea, to jump out of a jar, and the huge elephant, to free himself from a small chain all because man repeated a negative condition untill the flea and the elephant believed they could not, then, they did not when the condition was removed. They both believed a lie. Is that what we as humans do as well, take on positive or negative thoughts and become controlled by them 23:7 ...

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