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friends Ponder Verses for Americans to ponder:"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." "Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he chose for his inheritance." -Psalm 33:12 "But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today. If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God." -Deuteronomy 8:18-20 "The wicked return to the grave, all the nations that forget God." -Psalm 9:17 "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows." -Galatians 6:7 (a country also reaps what it sows) Quotes for Americans to Ponder:First part of Mayflower Compact: "In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith … Having undertaken a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia for the Glory of God and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honor of our King and Country." Unknown, but I think it had something to do with Connecticut: "… Whereby our said people, inhabitants there, may be so religiously, peaceably and civilly governed, as their good life and orderly conversation may win and incite the natives of this country, to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Savior of mankind and the Christian faith." James Madison "We have staked the whole future of American civilization on our capacity to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." Daniel Webster "If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering, but it we neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how soon a catastrophe may overcome us." Patrick Henry "It cannot be emphasized too strongly, or too often, that this great nation was founded – not by religionists – but by Christians ….. not on religion, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ." Ronald Reagan "Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." Thomas Jefferson "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever." Benjamin Franklin "Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants." Patrick Henry "It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains." Abraham Lincoln "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." April 30, 1863, Abraham Lincoln "We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us." Joe Wright's Prayer: (Jan 23, 1996, Kansas State House) "Heavenly Father, we come before You today to ask Your forgiveness and seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, ’Woe to those who call evil good,’ but that’s exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values.We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it moral pluralism; We have worshiped other gods and called it multi-culturalism; We have endorsed perversions and called it alternative lifestyles; We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery; We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation; We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare; We have killed our unborn and called it choice; We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable; We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building esteem; We have abused power and called it political savvy; We have coveted our neighbors’ possessions and called it ambition; We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of _expression; We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.Search us, O God, and know our hearts today; try us and see if there be some wicked way in us; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. I ask it in the name of Your Son, the Living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen." My Last 5 Updates |
