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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
White House Schedule (all times Eastern):
9:30 AM: Daily briefing.
10:00 AM: Meets with senior advisers.
2:00 PM: Delivers remarks on health care reform.
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Daily Devotionals
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
By Betty Miller
Now we call the arrogant blessed.
This is what the high and lofty One says – he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and lofty place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed, than to share plunder with the proud. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes…The Lord detests the proud of heart. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I thank God every time I remember you. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Include in your prayers today Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden.
Scripture references: Mal. 3:14; Isa. 57:15; Prov. 16:19; Matt. 5:5; Prov. 6:16,17; Prov. 16:5; Ps. 139:23,24; Matt. 5:5.
Please also join us in praying for a special need for The Presidential Prayer Team. Dave Otto, Chairman of our Board of Directors, has recently announced a campaign called “Answer the Call” To read his letter to all our members – [Click Here]
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Judicial Prayer Needs
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
PRAY FOR OUR JUDICIARY
At least 14 state attorneys general have filed suit challenging the “individual mandate” provision of the health care reform legislation, where Americans must buy health insurance or face federal penalties, as unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court refused to hear a First Amendment appeal from a Washington high schooler whose school would not allow the wind ensemble to play an instrumental version of Biebl’s “Ave Maria.” Justice Alito dissented.
Pray about the impact that the decisions of the court impose on individuals in our nation.
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Featured Member of the Judicial Branch for Prayer
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Judge Carlos T. Bea, 9th Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals
Carlos Tiburcio Bea was born in San Sebastian, Spain, in 1934. He was five years old when his family emigrated to Cuba. He represented Cuba as a member of that country’s basketball team in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. He later emigrated to the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 1959.
He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, from which he also received his Juris Doctorate in 1958. After years of private practice in California, he became a trial judge on the San Francisco Superior Court in 1990. He served there until his appointment to the Ninth Circuit in 2003.
President Bush nominated Bea to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on April 11, 2003. He was confirmed by a unanimous vote in the Senate on October 1, 2003.
Judge Bea wrote the recent decision in the Newdow vs. Rio Linda case involving keeping God in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Featured Member of the Armed Forces for Prayer
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
David Sedney, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
For Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia
David Samuel Sedney is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia in the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs. Mr. Sedney came to the Office of the Secretary of Defense from the United States Embassy in Beijing, China, where he was Deputy Chief of Mission from 2004-2007. Prior to that he held the same position and Charge d’Affaires for the Embassy in Kabul, after the 2002 re-opening of the Embassy in Afghanistan.
He also served with the State Department in Azerbaijan and Romania, as well as at the White House Situation Room in 1988-1989.
Mr. Sedney is a graduate of Princeton University, and Suffolk School of Law. He attended Louisiana State University’s School of Law, where he studied Law of the Sea and International Law. He is a distinguished graduate of the National War College. He speaks Romanian, Chinese and Azerbaijani, among other languages.
Mr. Sedney is married to Diana, and they have three daughters.
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Legislative Prayer Needs
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
PRAY FOR OUR CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS
House Democrats, sensing a new political wind at their backs, are debating which next legislative steps will best utilize their political capital: financial reform, climate change, immigration, “cap-and-trade.”
In the Senate, Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (Nevada) anticipates completing the reconciliation package by the end of the current week, confident that GOP objections and amendments would fail.
Pray about the discord that exists in our Legislature, particularly when personal attacks are employed.
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Executive Prayer Needs
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
PRAY FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, laid out President Obama’s road map for the mortgage crisis fix, saying abandoning Fannie Mae is not the solution.
A new U.S.-Russian treaty reducing long-range nuclear weapons to be signed later this year was presented by President Obama to Sen. John Kerry (Massachusetts) and Sen. Richard Lugar (Indiana), ratification leaders.
Pray for all of the Administration’s activities, domestic and foreign, to produce the best results for America.
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Featured Member of the Executive Branch for Prayer
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Eric K. Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Eric Ken Shinseki was born November 28, 1942, in Lihue, Kauai in the then territory of Hawaii, to a Japanese-American family.
He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science degree and a commission as a second lieutenant. He also earned an M.A. in English literature from Duke University.
Shinseki served in a variety of command and staff assignments in the Continental United States and overseas, including two combat tours with the 9th and 25th Infantry Divisions in Vietnam as a military forward observer and as a commander. During one of those tours, he stepped on a land mine, sustaining a severe and permanently-disabling foot injury.
He served as a soldier with the United States Army until 2003, and retired with the rank of four-star general. He was the 34th Chief of Staff of the Army from 1999 until June of 2003.
In December of 2008, President-elect Obama announced that he would nominate Shinseki to become Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on January 20, 2009, and sworn in the next day.
Secretary Shinseki is married to his high-school sweetheart, Patricia, and they have two grown children.
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Featured Member of the Legislative Branch for Prayer
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Lamar Alexander, Senator from Tennessee
Senator Lamar Alexander was the seventh generation of his family to be born in Tennessee, when he came into the world there on July 3, 1940. His mother was a kindergarten teacher and his father an elementary school principal. His early introduction to politics happened when in high school he was elected Governor of Tennessee Boys State.
He received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University in 1962, and in 1965 received his law degree from the New York University School of Law. He clerked for Fifth Circuit Judge John M. Wisdom in New Orleans from 1965 to 1966. For ten years beginning in 1967 he worked periodically for Senator Howard Baker. In 1978, Alexander ran for governor of Tennessee, and made a name for himself by walking 1,000 miles across the state wearing a red and black plaid shirt. He won that election, and served until January 1987.
He moved his family to Australia for a brief period of time, but returned in 1988 to become the president of the University of Tennessee. He became U. S. Secretary of Education in 1991, during which time he approved the accreditation of Christian schools and universities in a highly controversial move. He made two unsuccessful runs for President in 1996 and 2000.
Despite vowing to never again return to elective office, he was persuaded by the Bush White House to run for the seat of retiring Senator Fred Thompson in 2002. He tends to vote with an independent streak, often breaking ranks with the conservative members of the Republican Party.
He currently serves as the Republican Party Conference Chair. In response to Sunday’s passage of the health care reform act by the House of Representatives, and the accompanying reconciliation package, he said: “We’re going to go sentence-by-sentence through however many pages there turns out to be, and enforce the rules of the Senate, which is our responsibility. Every action we take will be a responsible action to enforce credible, significant amendments and points of order.”
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Daily Prayer
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Our Father, You are so very good to us. You hear our prayers, and you have told us that you will respond according to your own divine will and plans. We ask today, Lord, that you place of hedge of protection around our military personnel, particularly those serving in harm’s way, in their various locations around this earth. These men and women are precious to us; and we know that your heart yearns for each one of them also. Thank you for your divine protection. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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