Monthly Newsletter PublicationSeptember 2005
McClain Ministries1050 Ridgeside Drive, Brandon, MS39042
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Healing Prayers To Help Build Your Faith
Healing For My Body
Dear heavenly Father, in Jesus' name, I come to You for healing in my body. I know that You are a good God, and You are a compassionate, loving Father who desires to see me healthy, whole, and free. I ask for Your healing power to touch my body right now. Help me to be strong in my faith and to receive my healing.
Jesus died on the cross for my salvation, as well as took stripes on His back for my healing; He bore my sickness and carried my diseases. The Bible says He Himself took our pains in His own body that with His stripes we were healed.
As I read, study, and meditate on Your Scriptures about healing, I realize that the power of Your Word brings that healing. Let the truth of Your Word grow strong in my heart and bring revitalization to every part of my body. I receive the Scriptures regarding healing and restoration and make them my own. Jesus paid the price that I be made whole. Now, Lord, I receive Your Word and believe it. I thank You and praise You for the healing that has begun in my body right now. Help me to see myself well and walking in Divine health in Jesus' name.
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Prayer of Faith For Healing
Father, in the name of Jesus, I come asking You to heal me. It is written that the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if I have committed sins, I will be forgiven. I let go of all unforgiveness, resentment, anger and ungodly feelings toward anyone.
My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and I desire to be in good health. I seek truth that will make me free – both spiritual and natural (good eating habits, appropriate rest and exercise). You bought me at a price, and I desire to glorify you in my spirit and my
body – they both belong to you.
Thank you, Father, for sending Your Word to heal me and deliver me from all my destructions. Jesus, You are the Word who became flesh and dwelt among us. You bore my griefs (pains) and carried my sorrows (sickness). You were pierced through for my transgressions, crushed for my iniquities, the chastening for my well-being fell upon You, and by your scourging I am healed.
Father, I give attention to Your words, and incline my ear to your sayings. I will not let them depart from my sight, but keep them in the midst of my heart. For they are my life and health to my whole body.
Since the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in me, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to my mortal body through His Spirit who dwells in me.
Thank you that I will prosper and be in health even as my soul prospers. Amen.
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A New Look For The Newsletter
The grief of parents who losssons or daughters in Iraq hasbecome a potent political weapon – much more so than inother recent wars.
In my view, these moms and dads have been badly let down by both sides of the war debate. The war's advocates have offered little justification for the sacrifices made by beloved sons and daughters in Iraq, which has allowed the families' raw grief to fester into public anger - and the war's opponents have sought cynically to exploit the families' sorrow for political ends.
Cindy Sheehan camped outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas for weeks determined to stay put until the president told her exactly what "noble cause" her 24-year-old son Casey died for in Iraq.
In past wars, the sorrow felt by parents was no less intense than that experienced over Iraq, yet it was rare for personal grief to go so public.
Today, doubt and uncertainty - and even shame - about the Iraq war from the top of society down has turned families' grief into bitterness, and even public rage. In the past, bereaved families took comfort in the belief that their son or daughter died for a greater cause; traditional notions of honor, patriotism, and duty would have given their loved one's death on the battlefield some meaning.
Now, families have few ways to make sense of the deaths in Iraq. The cause that their sons and daughters gave their lives for – the need to get rid of Saddam Hussein's deadly WMD - turned out to be false.
And how could such deaths be seen as a source of pride, as they might have been in earlier periods, when even our leaders seem embarrassed by the Iraqi debacle? The Pentagon ban on releasing photographs of returning military coffins suggested it is ashamed of the war dead, seeking to sneak them through the back door and hurry them into the earth without anybody noticing. (That policy was changed last week - more than two years after the war began - in a settlement of a Freedom of Information suit.) President Bush has been criticized for failing to attend the funerals or memorials of slain servicemen and women.
Ceremonies that in earlier times might have given meaning to death in a war zone are explicitly avoided this time around.
What are families to make of this? When even our leaders seem uncertain about the war - when they turn shamefaced from the dead and refuse to recognize their sacrifices with any kind of reminder of their sacrifice - it is not surprising that the families feel bereft, confused, and angry. Without those familiarcrutches of duty, victory, or pride, the death of their loved ones mustseem as meaningless as if they'd died in a caraccident or in a brawloutside a bar. That is why motherssuch as Cindy Sheehan ask Bush avery simple question: “Well, whydid my son die?”
There's another reason grief has become a "significant political force" - some in the antiwar movement are exploiting it. As the Los Angeles Times said of Sheehan's camp-out in Crawford, "antiwar activists are trying to make her their long-sought voice."
There is something deeply wrong, cynical and morbid - and I say this as one who was implacably opposed to the war - about these attempts to further publicize and politicize the families’grief. It's almost as if some of the antiwar politicians want thefamilies of the dead to dotheir workfor them; as if it is enough to pointto a weeping mom to make the caseagainst war. They are relying onimagesof hardship and sorrow rather thanmaking the hard politicalcase against military intervention, they are letting bereaved families do the job they were elected to do. We sent lawmakers to Washington to represent all of our nation’s views and not hide behind the legitimate grief of parents who have already sacrificed dearly.
On one side, pro-war advocates have left military families to work through their grief alone and confused, and on the other, anti-war forces push these families further into the spotlight. Both are inadequate ways of dealing with the issue of war. They are sorry substitutes for a serious political debate about Iraq - and these methods will likely only exacerbate families' grief.
Let’s not ever forget that Jesus paid it all. His One Sacrifice is enough for all of mankind.
Locally there are a number of shelters housing Biloxi, Gulfport and New Orleans evacuees. These sheltersneed resources and we intend to help.
ChristUnitedChurch is the Central Headquarters for all shelters.And this is what the shelters need:
New Socks
New Undergarments (all sizes)
Air Mattresses
Blankets
Towels
Pillow Cases
Toys
Back Packs
Handy Wipes
Umbrella Strollers
Diapers (all sizes)
Formula
Sip Cups
Baby Food (all stages)
House Shoes (slippers of all sizes)
Depends (Adult Diapers)
Bottle Water
Nonperishable Food Items
Personal Hygiene Items (all types)
Bags w/handles
We have already started to put together 250 Care Packages that contain personal care items.Our goal is1500 packagesbySeptember 10th. Coordinating this effort is Denise Jones and Mary Simpson: 601-918-7614.
There is a special shelter located at the TradeMartCenter in Jackson, MShousing dialysis patients. They specifically need blankets and pillows. We intend to furnish 200 immediately. Coordinating this effort is Sylvia Washington: 601-331-0315
Many folks are still looking for loveones we have resources that can help: Coordinating this effort is Arbra Ackee:501-258-1444.
We are also working on possible free cell phones. Kim Myers and Anitra Williams are coordinating this project with both local and national vendors.
Anitra's phone # 601-331-6814.
This is only the beginning. If you want to volunteer for any of the above projects, contact the coordinators for additional information. If you want to donate toward the relief effort, just make your check payable to McClain Ministries and earmark them for "storm relief." As always feel free to contact me at 601-824-7498.
Family News Network of the International
Committee of the Red Cross
As a result of Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people within the United States and abroad have lost contact with their loved ones.
In an effort to help restore family links, the ICRC - in close cooperation with the American Red Cross - offers the following services to all those seeking information about relatives who may have been affected by the hurricane.
or
1-877-568-3317
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