Heavenly Father, I seek your direction. I thank you that you speak to me. I praise you because you live. You have supplied all my needs. You have multiplied loaves and fishes in my life to sustain me that I might testify concerning your grace and mercy. You have made me live day to day for as long as I can remember, forcing me into a place of faith. And when I was given some amount of wealth and success by the world's standards with all of its false security you let it be taken away from me so that I could hear from you again.

This third night in a row you have not allowed me to sleep through the night. You have woken me up to pray for hours. Perhaps, it is because your holy week is about to begin. Perhaps, it is because 2004 is so much like 1937. We seem to be so much on the verge of World War III, while the world sleeps. Our country does not understand the heart of its enemies or their plans.

Lord, you asked us to pray for our enemies. I know that they need a clear witness from us. So I also pray that our occupation in the Middle East will present opportunities to demonstrate your truth and your love. I know that much blood will be shed. I know that your church was built on such persecution and martyrdom. I pray for the comfort and wisdom and discernment of the families of those good workers whose lives were lost. And I praise you with the angels and saints that they have come home to you to see you face to face in eternal abundance. Oh how I look forward to the day when my own time comes.

Eternal Father, you have put me in a job that has me listening to political commentary every day and switching between Christian radio stations to pray and worship. It is a simple life that has helped me to understand exactly why you have brought me through so many trials. Truly you have brought me full circle through the world of politics and purpose since my youth. It was for the purpose of prayer. I pray for the will of the American people to fight and pay the very heavy price that seems to be needed to create and maintain tranquilitas ordinis that the third world war that our enemies have plotted against us will be held back. Thwart their plans Almighty God. It is not by our own strength that we can succeed. And clearly the enemy is from within.

Father in heaven, I won't put my trust in the princes of this world until you return with all your holy ones to reign because until then I know who the ruler is and I have seen his evil face. We are living in the day when it is clear that a people is being led by a false prophet and that prophet is now making alliances with the king whose emblem is the dragon, the very mark of the beast, the only kingdom in this world capable of building a standing army of 200 million soldiers. The sixth bowl and the sixth trumpet have sounded. The Euphrates was dried up as you said it would be so that we could understand you were not absent in this horrible day. You have prepared the day for the kings of the east to take their stand against Israel.

Lord, we don't know the timing. We do know that the season is ripe. The leaf is about to bud. We are on the verge of the seventh millennium. This is the place of faith, Lord. Do not let us live by the sword lest we die by it. Rather let us trust in the God who can move mountains, for whom nothing is impossible. For I see that my countrymen treat politics like a sporting event, always routing for their team, whether they are on the left or the right or just plain ignorant. I ask, Lord, that you prepare our hearts for spiritual battle that we can truly love our enemies who have been terrorists and support terrorism and the defeat of America and its allies. Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do. And open their blind eyes. Peel off the scales from them that they may see. Let them encounter the mercy of the living God, the one who died for them, the God of peace, the prince of Salem.

Lord, I have prayed before that 100 Osama Bin Ladens become 100 St. Pauls and resubmit this request before you. And I pray for these men and women. You know that it is against Islamic law to proselitize, that any who see your light and follow you will live in terror. Many will lose their lives for their faith in you, the only true testimony. Lord, I pour my heart out before you concerning their souls, these which you have prepared, leaders who can leaven the whole lump of dough. Maranatha!

For the false prophet rewards terror and conquest but prohibits peace. It always says, "peace, peace" when there isn't any. For who can have peace in their heart if they don't know you? Who can know they have been reconciled to you without acknowledging you, how you assured us of your love by your death on the cross? The god of the dragon is its own military strength. It spreads its Taoism and Kundalini and meditation to convince us that it comes in peace, to provide a false reconciliation with the divine, even showing forth miracles. But it denies your love and means to peace in Christ by offering no more than the drunkenness of nirvana or the infinite steps of soul walks to the Light that is wholly other, the simple God who listens as a loving Father. They are deceived. Their military God epitomizes their spiritual struggle, which is entirely in the flesh. These three, the children of the dragon, the children of the false prophet and the children of old Israel, which is the curse, fight a spiritual battle that can never be won.

Lord I do not pray to a God who does not hear. I pray to the Living God who has made clear to me that he is my best friend and who is capable of all things. Father, I know that you will not deny my requests for both ordinary peace in our day and so that all souls might come to receive your grace. You have prepared the way for your return but so many are still deceived. They have not come to know you. I am talking about billions of people that you love, that you died for. Having said this it is plain to me why you woke me these three nights. You want others to pray this prayer with me. For Holy Week approaches. And we are living in a day when Zechariah 12:10 is coming to be fulfilled through this wonderful movie, The Passion of the Christ.

Lord, I pray for the salvation of the Jews. They complain that this movie is too bloody. But Mel Gibson, being Roman Catholic, emphasized your body and your blood, which is central to his worship. What they don't realize is that the movie could have been enhanced if the Jews who insisted on Christ's death had been portrayed more accurately. For surely they were not present on Golgotha. Rather, they were celebrating the Passover at home with their own families, slaying their pure spotless lambs, O Lamb of God, spreading their lambs' blood on top of and across their doors so they could understand that the Lord had supplied his own first born son, that the Lord would provide the lamb of sacrifice, that their own first born sons might be spared, that they might be delivered from the enemy of their souls. Thousands of split second scenes of lambs being slain on that Day of Preparation would have added so much to that movie. For this is as it was. It was so much bloodier than Mel Gibson actually portrayed it.

Lord, open the eyes of the blind so that they may see and of the deaf so they may hear. I thank you for hearing my prayer. I know you will answer me. My time spent with you tonight is no shallow excersize. I know that you will also guide and direct me as I have requested. You know that I have need of financial assistance, perhaps a grant to complete a book, since I am underemployed. I pray that anyone who may pray this prayer with me will also see the books that I have written and pray for me so that I can devote more time to them and supply the needs of my family through something other than pizza delivery. Lord, I don't know what you want me to do to meet my financial needs, but I know you will answer me as I ask you what your will is for me. How can I thank you enough for all you have done for me? Pitifully, I worry about keeping a roof over my head and food for my children. I see bills coming towards me the way Moses saw Egypt coming after him when he was cornered in at the Red Sea. Lord, if I strike the rock twice to supply my family with water will you be angry with me? Please, forgive my lack of faith. Overlook my weakness. Be my strength. I do trust in you, my Saviour. Amen.