Make Us One: A 31-Day Prayer Journey Toward Racial Healing

[Phil Miglioratti]

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NEW from PrayerShop . . . Make Us One is a biblical, Christian response to the issue of racism. Scripture calls followers of Jesus to the ministry of reconciliation. Praying through Make Us One will open your heart and the hearts of fellow believers to become the answer to Jesus' John 17 prayer, that we would be one. Features •Make Us One is a 31-day devotional prayer guide that speaks into this issue. It is designed to open the heart of the reader so he or she can experience inner healing, repent where needed, and move him or her toward heart-transformation. Ultimately it is a cry for God to bring healing over this evil in our nation. •Each of the powerful, insightful, scripture-based prayers is written by a national prayer leader or pastor of multiple ethnicities. It has a hard-hitting, clear, prophetic voice for our times, and a message to the Church that it cannot turn a blind eye to this issue any longer, but needs to live out Jesus' prayer in John 17, that we would be one. •The book also includes short stories by people of color showing how they experience acts of either subtle or overt racism or discrimination to give those of us who do not have to deal with that, a picture of what our brothers and sisters in Christ face regularly. •Great for a church to pray together. About the Compilers: ~> Niko Peele is the founder and director of Ignite Movement, a Christian nonprofit that helps establish and advance vibrant Gospel communities and united movements on college campuses and in cities.also serves on the leadership team for Collegiate Day of Prayer and is a member of America's National Prayer Committee. ~> Jonathan Graf is the president of the Church Prayer Leaders Network and the Publisher at PrayerShop Publishing. A popular speaker and author, Jon has written 6 books on prayer, including The Power of Personal Prayer and Praying Like Paul. Sample Prayers See People the Way Jesus Sees Them One Race ~Scroll to Comments> for Chapter Titles & Authors Purchase>>

[Phil Miglioratti]

Make Us One:

A 31-Day Prayer Journey Toward Racial Healing

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

ALVEDA KING

DAY 1 Open My Eyes

COREY LEE

DAY 2 I Decrease, That You Would Increase

WILL CHUNG

DAY 3 Search Me, Help Me, Teach Me

SANDRA HIGLEY

DAY 4 Move Me Closer

JASON HUBBARD

TESTIMONY Momentary Hurt, Lasting Memories

DEXTER SULLIVAN

DAY 5 Jesus, Awaken Me with Light

REBECCA SHIREY

DAY 6 Forgive Us, Restore Us

PAT CHEN

DAY 7 We Repent of Historical Sins

JUDY TURPEN

DAY 8 One Race

CYNTHIA SCOTT

TESTIMONY Not My Daughter!

JOSHUA TIMBERLAKE

DAY 9 Purify My Heart

GWEN CAMPBELL

DAY 10 Love That Drives Out Hate

BOB BAKKE

DAY 11 Your Mercy Fills Us with Hope

JOHN ROBB

TESTIMONY False Assumptions?

JOSIAH JORDAN

DAY 12 We Lament

JOSH CLEMONS

DAY 13 Wake Us Up

DAVID BRYANT

DAY 14 Perfect Us in Unity

RON BOEHME

TESTIMONY A Quiet Walk Marred by Racism

SAM HAN

DAY 15 Show Me the Way to Walk

KATHY BRANZELL

DAY 16 Unity of the Body

ELI BONILLA

DAY 17 Tear Down the Dividing Wall

RONNIE FLOYD

DAY 18 We Receive One Another

STEVE HAWTHORNE

TESTIMONY Names Can Hurt

ALEX LEE

DAY 19 With Contrite Hearts, We Cry Out

DENNIS AND BETTY JO CONNER

DAY 20 Heal and Reconcile

BRIAN WILLIAMS

DAY 21 Trading Prejudice for a Kingdom Legacy

NATASHA MILLER

TESTIMONY The Subtlety of Racism

LINDA FEGINS

DAY 22 Become Prophetic, Not Political

PHIL MIGLIORATTI

DAY 23 Remove the Planks

NICK HALL

DAY 24 Revive Our Hearts with Righteousness

and Justice, NANCY WILSON

TESTIMONY The Token Engineer

LUKE BOBO

DAY 25 Rally My Heart to Reconcile

DERRICK DELAIN

DAY 26 Love That Unifies and Restores

LEWIS HOGAN

DAY 27 Freedom for All

DAVID BUTTS

DAY 28 Emmanuel, Show Forth Your Great Mercy

JONATHAN TREMAINE THOMAS

TESTIMONY A Routine Stop?

MICHAEL JOHNSON

DAY 29 Raise Up Righteous Voices

JASON NETTLES

DAY 30 Committed to Listen, Learn, and Heal

CAROL MADISON

DAY 31 Make Us One

BILLY HUMPHREY

WHAT NOW?

ABOUT THE COMPILERS

[Phil Miglioratti]

[RICHARD H. SKIBA, JR.]

Phil, 

You posted a blog POLITICIZED PRAYERS, DON'T BOTHER, on August 12, 2020 at 11:04am

 

I shared a blog TRADITIONAL COLUMBUS DAY POEM – REIMAGINED, on September 4, 2020 at 10:26pm:  https://praynetwork.ning.com/profiles/blogs/traditional-columbus-da...

 

Today you sent an E-mail calling for us to pray with Jesus from a Biblical Perspective Toward Racial Healing.  How can we pray without confessing and repenting our perversion of Jesus’ teaching? 

 

Maybe we should first consider something that should not be Re-imagined…

 

UNREPENTANT PRAYERS, DON'T BOTHER!

 

[RICHARD H. SKIBA, JR.]

Organized churches of “men” must confess and repent.

Papal Bull Dum Diverersas - 18 June 1452

Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas on 18 June, 1452. It authorized Alfonso V of Portugal to reduce any “Saracens (Muslims) and pagans and any other unbelievers” to perpetual slavery. This facilitated the Portuguese slave trade from West Africa.

The Bull Romanus Pontiflex (Nicholas V) - 5 January 1455

The same pope wrote the bull Romanus Pontifex on January 5, 1455 to the same Alfonso. As a follow-up to the Dum Diversas, it extended to the Catholic nations of Europe dominion over discovered lands during the Age of Discovery.

The Bull Inter Caetera (Alexander VI) - 4 May 1493

In 1493 Alexander VI issued the bull Inter Caetera stating one Christian nation did not have the right to establish dominion over lands previously dominated by another Christian nation, thus establishing the Law of Nations.

 

Together, the Dum Diversas, the Romanus Pontifex and the Inter Caetera came to serve as the basis and justification for the Doctrine of Discovery, the global slave trade of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Age of Imperialism.

 

information taken from www.doctrineofdiscovery.org. 

 

[Phil Miglioratti]