I like the books by T. Davis Bunn because they tell stories about how fictional characters spread the Good News of Jesus Christ in the marketplace.

I think it is no coincidence that I finished reading his book The Presence last week, right before Sarah Palin was chosen as McCain's running mate.  The book is about a small town lawyer who has been invited to work at the White House.  His presence brings the Presence of the Lord in such a tangible way that all of Washington is changed because of him.  In the first week, Bible studies begin in the White House and after a month or two, five hundred are attending each morning, even the president and his wife.  Because the Presence is with him, he gives words of direction to the president and he changes his course.

I pray His Presence inhabits the White House and changes our nation and our government in a lasting way.

Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?"  He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" (Gen 4:9 NKJV)

The last Cain, John McCain, has a different answer.  He answers, "I am my brother's keeper."  Life took center stage at the RNC last night.  McCain has become the strongest pro-life candidate the nation has seen.  Through the actions and deeds of his life, he has shown He is an able brother's keeper.  I will be honored to have him keep my nation. 

Watch this video and see that Sarah Palin is the real deal.  What a great lady!  I can't wait to see her as the Vice President of America.

The following words are from Sandy Warner of the Quickened Word:

 It sounds as though this video took place within the last year.  It is 14 minutes long.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1766638341

Please pray for Sarah Palin's "destiny" in how it is to unfold within the USA right now.

Lord in the Name of Jesus, we bless Sarah Palin and ask that You will protect she and her loved ones for such a time as this.  We bind and break off any demonic assignment against her and loose to her 7 fold blessings in replacement.  We cover her in the blood of Jesus Christ.  We loose the angels of God to go with her and carry her into her destiny created before she was born.  Thank You Lord for Your hidden servants and all that You do to raise them up.  Thank You Lord that she honors You with her life.  Now we ask that You will honor her, in a job well done.  Open the double doors and release her into Your chosen destiny in Jesus Name we pray, amen.

Job 38:22-23 NKJV
"Have you entered the treasury of snow, Or have you seen the treasury of hail,  Which I have reserved for the time of trouble, For the day of battle and war?

Kindly
sandy

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin answered all my questions about whether she has what it takes to be a Vice President.  As a mother who went against doctor's advice to abort her baby and with an unmarried teenage pregnant daughter, the unborn child will have an advocate.  Her views run counter to what Obama once said about abortion.  He said he believed in abortion because if his daughter got pregnant, he would want her to have a way out so she wouldn't have to have a baby. 

While I realize that Obama is running for presidency and Palin is only a running mate for the presidency, her record is superior to his in every way.

While Palin has decisively moved forward against corruption in her state, Obama has not been able to move decisively on anything against his bid for presidency.  I was very disappointed to learn that America is considering someone who refused to vote 130 times because he couldn't make a decision.  We need a decisive person in the White House. 

In her speech, she demonstrated that she can be tough where one needs to be tough.  She reduced the Alaskan budget by $254 million in Alaska over the past 20 months.  She went against corruption, even from her own party, ruthlessly.  As one who signed a bill  to get the largest pipeline project going, she knows how to solve our energy problems.

Alaska now has a surplus whereas Obama's plans are for increased government spending at the expense of taxpayers.  Alaska taxpayers got refund checks and still the state had a surplus!

Sarah Palin sees the amount of money that is sent to countries who do not have our best interests at heart as being foolish.  The Democratic party doesn't think it is.  They took a five week vacation instead of dealing with the problem.  While we fund the terrorists who could destroy us, they are vacationing in exotic places.

Governor Palin recognizes that finding alternative ways to provide our own energy without buying resources from other countries keeps the American dollar here.  As the American dollar gets stronger, spending in this country increases, business grow and everyone prospers. 

As a mother of a military son who is going to Iraq next week, we will have an advocate for the armed forces.  As a mother of a baby with Downs Syndrome, we will have an advocate for those with special needs.  As the daughter of educators, the issue of education will have an advocate in the White House.  As a wife to a steelworker union husband, steelworkers will have an advocate.  As a woman who enjoys hunting, she will be an advocate for the NRA.  As a devout Christian, we know God will be in the White House.

Last night, I was walking through my small neighborhood praying as I went.  A neighbor at the end of the street stopped me to tell me about a stranger who had walked purposefully through our neighborhood; he must have cut through my driveway, the only opening on the other end of the street.  She didn't have a good feeling about him.  I didn't see him as I made a circle, but I saw another neighbor who told me she had just seen a strange person who suddenly disappeared.  She thought he must have gone into the woods between the road and our neighborhood. 

I told my husband about it and he went out to look around.  I had to pick up my son from Boy Scouts.  When I returned, my husband told me he had caught the guy hiding in the bushes between our house and next door.  When confronted, he said he was waiting for someone.  For two hours, he had been hiding out at the end of a dead-end street of a tiny neighborhood of nine houses.  Discovered, the guy left.  The whole incident was just too weird!