The Kreider Connection
Racers For Christ
February, 2009 Newsletter
February is the birth month of people like Lincoln, Washington … and me. The first two represent people who found a way to succeed when things were tough. They both had to overcome great failures and challenges to accomplish great things. The times in which we live require us to have that same kind of mind set. Great football couch Vince Lombardi said, ‘The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of determination!” We all need to commit to overcoming failure, challenge and trials! It is time to find a way or make a way, and that needs to be God’s way. God alone knows exactly what the future holds. Lincoln and Washington sought God’s guidance and helped lead this great country of ours through difficult times. Today the USA needs each of us to be that kind of person – the future now depends on us!! Will we seek God guidance and be the ones to step up to the plate and find the way to make it through today’s valley?
Prayer – Almighty God I want to be yours. Please use me today for your good and to the good of all. Guide me and show me the way to be a part of the solution for this nation’s great challenges. Lord we pray for our troubled land that its citizens may see the need to turn back to you. We repent for our many sins; especially for not putting you first in our lives. Thank you dear Jesus for using us and helping us through each day. To you be all the glory! Amen
Remember: always feel free to contact us if you are going through difficult times. We will be glad to pray with you and if you wish, put you on the RFC prayer chain. Prayer can change lives and the world.
Your fellow servants of Christ,
Glenn and Linda
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Thought – What would I do differently today if I knew tonight I would be face to face with Jesus? Think about it.
Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were not ashamed to call on the name of the Lord when they were faced with desperate times and hard decisions. Abraham Lincoln once said, “I have been driven to my knees many times because there was no place else to go.”
We’ve all heard of the event depicted in the painting shown below of Washington’s prayer in the woods at Valley Forge.
Some say the story is tradition, but the following excerpt from the diary of the Rev. Nathaniel Randolph Snowden seems to provide authentication of this occasion:
“I knew personally the celebrated Quaker Potts who saw Gen’l Washington alone in the woods at prayer. I got it from himself, myself… as follows:
“In that woods pointing to a close in view, I heard a plaintive sound as, of a man at prayer. I tied my horse to a sapling & went quietly into the woods & to my astonishment I saw the great George Washington on his knees alone, with his sword on one side and his cocked hat on the other. He was at Prayer to the God of the Armies, beseeching to interpose with his Divine aid, as it was ye Crisis, & the cause of the country, of humanity & of the world. Such a prayer I never heard from the lips of man. I left him alone praying. I went home & told my wife. I saw a sight and heard today what I never saw or heard before, and just related to her what I had seen & heard & observed. We never thought a man c’d be a soldier & a Christian, but if there is one in the world, it is Washington.”
Rev. Snowden goes on to say about George Washington:
“I felt much impressed in his presence and reflected upon the hand and wonderful Providence of God in raising him up and qualifying him with so many rare qualities and virtues for the good of this country and the world. Washington was not only brave and talented, but a truly excellent and pious man of God and of prayer. He always retired before a battle and in any emergency for prayer and direction.”
“When the army lay at Morristown, the Rev. Dr. Jones, administered the sacrament of ye Lord’s supper. Washington came forward at ye head of all his officers and took his seat at ye 1st table, & took of ye bread and wine, the Symbols of Christ’s broken body and shed blood, to do this in remembrance of ye L J C & thus professed himself a Christian & a disciple of the blessed Jesus.”