Prayer A to Z

O Lord, how many are Your works!

In wisdom You have made them all;

The earth is full of Your possessions (Ps. 104:24).

God used great wisdom in His creation.

So teach us to number our days,

That we may present to You a heart of wisdom (Ps. 90:12).

God teaches us to use our time wisely, so that we may grow in wisdom.

Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being,

And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom (Ps. 51:6).

God desires truth (honesty) in my innermost being; and there He will make me understand wisdom.

The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,

And his tongue speaks justice (Ps. 37:30).

The righteous man will speak wisdom, then and also justice.

My eyes are closely on these election races to keep Republicans in power. We need both the Senate and the House. It is so close. Down to the end. We can pray, but we have to leave it up to God. His plans are final. The nations may fall, but each person is accountable for himself. We do whatever we can and leave the rest to God. We pray for those in power as God wills it. And we pray for peace in the world and for our own holiness. We live in this world and do all things without grumbling so that we may prove to be blameless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse world; and we live to appear as light in the world, always doing good (from Phil. 2:14). We are so thankful that He has rescued us from the domain of…

Seek wisdom from God and He will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways acknowledge Him,

And He will make your paths straight.

7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;

Fear the Lord and turn away from evil.

NASU

Booker T. Washington

I previously wrote an article on African American slavery, and some of the topics I am planning to blog on. This is a topic that I have been quite interested in lately—I’m not sure why. But I feel that God is calling me into it. The more I read and think about it, the more I feel called. I guess I just like to root for the underdog. And the African American, esp. those who came out of slavery were that. Lately, in my reading, I have seen how they have made great advances as they came out of slavery, even though treated very badly: with lynching, segregation (in the Jim Crow era), being treated so badly by whites, poor working conditions; etc.

And there were a few that were heroes like Ida B. Wells, who dedicated herself to an anti-lynching crusade and made…

There’s nothing like a crisp cool autumn day to mediate on all that God has provided, to reflect on His goodness and mercy, and to dream of what is to come. God will be good in all the seasons of life.

Away from me, all you who do evil,

for the Lord has heard my weeping.

9 The Lord has heard my cry for mercy;

the Lord accepts my prayer (Ps 6:8-9).

I have been thinking lately about the subject of African American Slavery. What an evil thing it is to enslave another person and to treat them so badly. It’s hard to understand. For a while now I’ve been thinking about reading and writing on the subject–just mainly to try to understand it, how it was. I found a textbook entitled, The African American Experience: A History. It’s quite informative and I’m learning a lot. I’m planning on blogging through it. So far I have these ten topics:

1. Slavery in Africa.
2. European involvement in slavery.
3. Slavery moves to America. Why?
4. Slave ships
5. Why black slave were preferred over others
6. What was the white man’s attitude toward black slaves? Racism.
7. The process of slave trading.
8. How were the slaves generally treated?
9. Why was there such a great demand for slaves in America, especially in the south?
10. Slaves fight back.