From the looks of things,
It seems the Republicans will control Congress but lose the White House. It is still dead heat the Presidential elections but I like to give the oppsing team advantage and put myself at a disadvantageous position.
Currently this is how I am praying. If indeed God does not want to give outright victory to Bush I can only say that Kerry is in His plans. Why is Kerry part of God's plans? So that the fullness of a nation's sins will be achieved and punishment can be meted. God is merciful but He is also just so putting Kerry into power would the same as hardening Pharoah's heart. This first few times it was Pharoah hardening his own heart then the last five times was God hardening Pharoah's heart so that all the punishment can sent out. Now I suspect if God didn't send ten plagues the Egyptians wouldn't have let the Hebrews go. God in His infinite wisdom knows that it takes ten not nine not eleven before the Egyptians will let the Hebrews go for long enough so that the Israelites can reach the Red Sea. Had God not hardened Pharoah's heart until the tenth plague but only until the eighth, I think Pharoah would have let them go but not long enough that God can reveal His marvellous power against the Egyptians.
So for the current elections I am drawing the same parallel. First we pray for mercy on behalf of the American nation, that God will not let them reach the fullness of their sins so soon. How is this achieved? If Bush is reelected, chances he will nominate four new Supreme Court judges that will be able to let regulations for Roe vs. Wade to go through. The current injunction against the Partial Birth Abortion Act is pending appeal in the Supreme Court and I don't expect it to be pass the Supreme Court because the majority are Liberals. If you analyse the Old Testaments all nations that got massacred were nations that practise child sacrifice and abortion can be said to be a form but as always there is always a caveat that the fullness of sins must be reached. This is why Abraham didn't get the land straight away.
And if Kerry does win all is not lost. All we have to do is pray that the conservative members of the Supreme Court will have their preserved long enough to survive a Kerry presidency which I suspect will be only one term( given his aversion to work).
In summary. Pray for a Bush victory while praying for God's mercy on America( like Moses did for the Israelites) and if Kerry wins pray for the health of the Supreme Court judges. Though I must remind my readers that Bush is not perfect and had not he become the first president to signed the first legislation to regulate Roe vs. Wade I wouldn't have been bothered about this election and also for the fact that Kerry is over-whelmingly pro-choice.
Onwards to a lighter subject. Currently I am doing a Bible study base on the shorter books of the Bible. They are so shrt there is not excuse not to have read them. In fact some of them are sohorter than an average posting of mine but they are unread and God's inspiration within its letters remained untapped. So this is what I amtrying to do with group. Here is a list of books that can be finished in less one sitting of one hour. Book four of Psalms( remeber Psalms is the longest book in the Bible because it consists of four books.), Ruth, Ecclesiates, Songs of Solomon, Titus, Philemon, Joel, Amos, Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Malachi, Haggai, 1 and 2 Peter, 1,2, and 3 John, Jude, 1 and 2 Timothy, 1 and 2 Thessolonians. This is not exhaustive but as my memory serve but this is to illustrate that just doing these books we can cover more than one-third of the Bible! OK not one third but one third of the books.
Nut as you grow more mature in the Word even the Pentateuch will get interesting...seriously. For those of you looking for guidance in ecclesiology, missiology the Pentateuch is the way to go.