The Kyle File

If people truly believed in the power of prayer, they’d do it more often.

warrior-of-god (via ilovebeinginlovewithhim)

hopeinthebible:

wewontbequiet:

Ah, God… In all honesty, I need Your help with this part.

This isn’t easy but God will help me.

This song is more than a hundred years old, but it is still very powerful and expresses a strong desire to be a channel of God's power here on earth. Be blessed as you enjoy listening to and sharing this lovely tune.

IS WHAT

YOU'RE LIVING
FOR WORTH
DYING FOR?

I love this. I'm glad I was able to blow it up and read it. I put the text into my caption, so that it can be read with a screen reader.

Origin of Post

I originally posted this via email to the Obama Prayer Team on my.barackobama.com as well as on my community blog there. I felt I should add this to my own personal blogs as well, since the MyBO site is considered to be a place for supporters of President Obama, but this post should be seen by people who both agree and disagree with his views, because it’s about the state of our nation and health care rather than specifically about the President or his views on the subject. I have kept my original post intact, for the most part, only adding headers and some formatting. I am also including a comment I received on the original community blog post, because I feel it is supplementary to my own prayer. My thanks to the author of the comment, who will be duely attributed.

Rationale

I strongly believe that health care is a fundamental Human right for all people. Yet in our great nation, health care is a multi-billion dollar industry that seeks wealth at the expense of those who are suffering. From prescription drug companies that push the latest and greatest chemical substances that help us get rid of one symptom only to cause three more to the doctors who charge astronomical fees for basic services while all the time they collect money from the drug companies to the insurance companies who force people to make a choice between quality health coverage and their next meal, more and more people get rich from more and more people’s suffering every day.

The Bible tells us that Jesus healed whoever he could, and it says nothing about anyone’s ability to pay for His services. Not to mention the fact that all healing miracles performed by Jesus were complete, with no half-healings if someone didn’t pay enough, or even have enough faith. And once a person was healed, the healing never caused more and more symptoms from ailments caused by the healing to keep a person coming back for more.

Prayer Points

Let us pray for complete health care reform in this great nation in which we live. Let us pray that health becomes recognized as the basic and fundamentalHuman right that it is, rather than a political football to be passed back and forth or a tool to be used to make some people rich at the expense of others. Let us pray for complete and total health coverage for all, regardless of a person’s ability to pay for treatment. Let us pray for health care providers that do their jobs to the best of their ability in order to maintain good health for all people rather than for money. In short, let us pray for a Christ-like health care system.

Prayer

Lord God, we come to you now in prayer for our nation. We come to you because we know our nation needs an entirely new vision of health care. We ask that you give our leaders the wisdom to reform our health care system, and to rebuild it from the ground up if necessary to make it as Christ-like as it can be. We know from your Word that your Son Jesus never turned anyone away because of their inability to pay, nor did He even ask for payment in exchange for healing, nor did He give partial healing if someone couldn’t pay enough, nor did He give partial healing in order to force people to come back for the rest. In fact, we believe that the idea of making someone rich in order to gain partial healing is repulsive to you. Lord God, show us the right path. Make our leaders understand how a Christ-like health care system should be, and that anything else is offensive to you. Provide for our nation the wisdom, the understanding and the resources to make a truly Christ-like health care system a reality. Silence the loud voices of those who oppose any positive step because they want things to stay the same. Open their eyes that they may see that only your way is right and just. All these things we pray in the name of your Son Jesus Christ, who gave His own life to save us all from ourselves. Amen.

Comment By Jason & Linda Izumi

This is the full text of the comment as it was posted to my community blog. Only paragraph formatting has been added.

YES, THANK YOU KYLE FOR POSTING THIS IMPORTANT AND THOUGHT PROVOKING PERSPECTIVE ON THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM OF THIS COUNTRY, ALSO BRINGING INTO LIGHT THE (UNECESSARY AND PREVENTABLE) SAD STATE OF HEALTH IN GENERAL OF OUR FELLOW CITIZENS.

YES WE ARE BROKEN IN SO MANY WAYS, WE SURE NEED CHRIST TO GRANT US THE WISDOM AND DISCIPLINE TO LIVE IN A HEALTHY MANNER, IN ADDITION TO SHOW US HOW TO CARE FOR THE COUNTLESS NUMBERS CURRENTLY IN NEED OF MEDICAL HELP, WHICH SYSTEM AS YOU NOTED IS ALREADY IN A STATE OF CHAOS.

YES WE NEED A STRONG RE-VAMPING OF THE ENTIRE MONSTOUS SYSTEM, GOD HELP US! AND A STRONG RE-EDUCATION PROGRAM ON LIVING HEALTH-FRIENDLY LIFE STYLES.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, BUT IN FACT MOST IMPOTANT ACTUALLY–WE SURE NEED A STRONG RETURN TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE LORD, WE NEED TO BE HEALTHY SPIRITUALLY AS A NATION AND INDIVIDUALLY, THAT WE MAY LEARN TO APPRECIATE THE TRUE BOUNTY THAT THE LORD HAS GRANTED US, OUR OWN PHYSICAL BODIES AND THE LAND, THE WATER, AIR ETC. ALL PROVIDED BY THE LORD, ALL BEING RAMPANTLY ABUSED EVERYWHERE ONE LOOKS.

SORRY FOR RAMBLING, BUT PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO APPRECIATE THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF HEALTH, LIFE AND SUSTENANCE, OTHERWISE IT SEEMS AN IMPOSSIBLE BATTLE TO GET PEOPLE TO COOPERATE TOGETHER IN THIS SERIOUS MATTER.

ANYWAY, THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT POST AND PRAYER, MAY THE LORD HAVE MERCY UPON US ALL, AND HELP US AND GUIDE US THROUGH THIS ONE, GOD INSPIRE PRESIDENT OBAMA TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY ACCORDING TO YOUR WILL AND PURPOSES, THANK YOU FATHER AND CREATOR, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN!