Grace Bible Church is calling and encouraging all who attend our church and all who read this blog to join us in a special time of prayer this Friday, Jan. 16. The men of our congregation will meet at the church at 7:00pm that evening; those who can't attend are encouraged to pray through-out the day.

We will pray specifically about our nation and its gigantic needs. We will pray specifically for members of the Supreme Court, the president-elect and his cabinet, the Bush family, our senators and members of congress. We will pray about the threat of Islamic terrorism, liberalism, indifference, naivete, and intentional deceit in this wicked world. We will pray for a heartfelt, sincere, and effective response by God's people to all that is godly in our nation and in the world. And, we will pray until we are done.

We will also pray for the transition of government and the financial mess that looms large over our country and especially our state of Michigan. We will pray concerning the lack of Godly character in our leaders and the continuing attack on the sanctity of human life as evidenced in Washington, Lansing and pretty much, through-out our country. We will pray about the ascending rate of ungodliness; about apathy and indifference to all that truly matters in this life.

We will pray by name for the following:

President George Bush & Vice President Dick Cheney

President-Elect Barack Obama & Vice President-Elect Josephn Biden

The members of President Bush's cabinet:

Dept. of Agriculture: Ed Schafer

Dept. of Commerce: Carlos Gutierrez

Dept. of Defense: Robert M. Gates

Dept. of Education: Margaret Spellings

Dept. of Energy: Samuel W. Bodman

Dept. of Health & Human Services: Michael O. Leavitt

Dept. of Homeland Security: Michael Chertoff

Dept. of Housing & Urban Dev.: Steve Preston

Dept. of the Interior: Dirk Kempthorne

Dept. of Justice: Attorney General Michael Mukasey

Dept. of Labor: Elaine Chao

Dept. of State: Condoleezza Rice

Dept. of Transportation: Mary E. Peters

Dept. of the Treasury: Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

Dept. of Veteran's Affairs: Dr. James Peake

Office of Management & Budget: Jim Nussle

Environmental Protection Agency: Stephen Johnson

White House Chief of Staff: Joshua B. Bolten

United States Trade Representative: Ambassador Susan Schwab

Office of National Drug Control Policy: John Walters

The appointed members of President-Elect Barack Obama's cabinet:

Attorney General: Eric H. Holder, Jr.

Dept. of Agriculture: Tom Vilsack

Dept. of Commerce:

Dept. of Defense: Robert M. Gates

Dept. of Education: Arne Duncan

Dept. of Energy: Steven Chu

Dept. of Health & Human Services: Tom Daschle

Dept. of Homeland Security: Janet Napolitano

Dept. of Housing & Urban Dev.: Shaun Donovan

Dept. of Labor: Hilda Solis

Dept. of State: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Dept. of Interior: Ken Salazar

Dept. of Transportation: Ray LaHood

Dept. of Treasury: Timothy F. Geithner

Dept. of Veteran's Affairs: Eric F. Shinseki

Chief of Staff: Rahm Emanuel

National Security Advisor: James L. Jones

United Nations Ambassador: Susan E. Rice

White House Counsel: Gregory B. Craig

White House Press Secretary: Robert B. Gibbs

Justices of the Supreme Court:

John Roberts, Jr. Chief Justice

John Paul Stevens

Antonin Scalia

Anthony Kennedy

David Souter

Clarence Thomas

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Stephen Breyer

Samuel Alito, Jr.

U.S. Senate:

President Pro-Tempore: Robert Byrd

Majority Leader: Harry Reid

Democratic Whip: Richard Durbin

Minority Leader: Mitch McConnell

Republican Whip: Jon Kyl

Michigan Senators:

Carl Levin

Debbie Stabenow

U.S. House of Representatives:

Speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi

Majority Leader: Steny Hoyer

House Republican Leader: John Boehner

House Majority Whip: Jim Clyburn

Republican Whip: Eric Cantor

Dave Camp, Michigan, 4th

John Conyers, Jr, Michigan, 14th

John D. Dingell, Michigan, 15th

Vernon J. Ehlers, Michigan, 3rd

Pete Hoekstra, Michigan, 2nd

Carolyn Kilpatrick, Michigan, 13th

Sander Levin, Michigan, 12th

Thaddeus McCotter, Michigan, 11th

Candice Miller, Michigan, 10th

Gary Peters, Michigan, 9th

Mike Rogers, Michigan, 8th

Mark Schauer, Michigan, 7th

Bart Stupak, Michigan, 1st

Fred Upton, Michigan, 6th

Michigan State Government:

Jennifer Granholm - Governor

John Cherry - Lt. Governor

Andy Dillon - Speaker of the House

Pam Byrnes - Speaker Pro Tempore

Kevin Eisenheimer - Majority Leader

Dave Hildenbrand - Minortity Leader

"If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves, pray, seek My face and turn from their wicked ways I will hear them from heaven and heal their land"

2 Chronicles 7:14

"As we look at this country at the present time, we see a nation in moral and spiritual decline. Morally we have become bankrupt, as the barriers of decency have been swept away so that there are no restraints. Vulgarity and indecency are the norm. There is no limit to the obscenity shown on television. We are a sex saturated society in all that we see, hear and read; bribery and corruption have become a part of public life. We may not be attracted by such matter, but our children and grandchildren face growing up in a society which is falling apart."

Rev. Eric Royden, April, 2002

Will you join us in praying, not only on Friday, Jan. 16, but through-out the year for these needs? You can pick up a list of those we're praying for at Grace Bible Church; or, please feel free to copy this post and use it as a guide during your prayer time.