Who stands for the national anthem and other matters

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In the last two weeks I have had friends who live in the DFW area and really all over America asking me to pray for a situation they are experiencing as a Christian that gives them great pain and suffering.

Divorce.

Alcoholic parents neglecting or abusing their children. 

Job pressure.

Fear of officers of the law.

Wells Fargo fires 5.300 minimum wage workers for playing games with people's accounts and retires there top manager with a $125 million retirement package. No one in handcuffs.
Frustration because the football came is delayed to include the National Anthem and who is standing and who is kneeling and who has a fist raised and who doesn’t.  “I’m here for the game.  I don’t want to thank or talk about racial issues.  Those were solved by the Civil War in 1865 or the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s or certainly when we finished electing an African American President in 2008.  Let’s move on now that everyone is treated fairly.

Concern because there is no possible choice for an excellent President for the USA.

Today my readings in Scripture reminded me.  It is right for followers of Jesus to have a desire to finish the work we have been given to do.  He will give us the protection we need to finish strong.  He will not give us a pass from living in this world as a salt and light for this is the work we are called to do.

He will set us apart from the world by the way we live.  We live in unity with all our brothers and sisters who follow Jesus Christ as Lord of Lords and King of Kings.   Our unity is both broad and deep. 
His love is needed because our world is a place where people are lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God and yet

They are very religious.  At their churches, synagogues, mosques, and other temples of worship that look like football stadiums and basketball arenas and golf courses.  They are very religious.  They have a form of godliness of some sort but deny God power in their daily lives to live in the ways of His Son Jesus.
So we pray.  We stay in the word.  We worship Jesus Christ as Lord.  We re-read His prayer for us.

John 17.
15 I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them [d]from [e]the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
Larry Wishard

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