Monday Writing to Celebrate Our Country

Good morning...
      

Hope your Fourth of July is a great day. Today our Pastor Larry Ihrig's message was about the foundation of our country. God blessed us from the beginning because we built Him into every policy and He was paramount in the formation of this country. In the words of the song, "God Bless America," God shed His grace on this country. 

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, 

the people He has chosen as His own inheritance.” 

Psalm 33:12

The USA is a covenant Christian nation. We are one nation under God. The Christian majority is the largest group in America (~75%, 2012 polling). Christians uniting in Christ is our nation’s source of unity. Below are some of the thousands of quotes endorsing God in government by our Founding Fathers and others in American history. American children have prayed and read the Holy Bible in schools for 355 years (1607 – 1962), Congress recommended Bibles for America and funded Christian missionaries, the third verse of our national anthem says, “And this be our motto, ‘In God is our trust”. We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions…

– George Washington, Thanksgiving Proclamation 1789

Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ.
– George Washington, Prayer

We have this day [Fourth of July] restored the Sovereign to whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in Heaven, and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His Kingdom come.

– Samuel Adams

“The United States in Congress assembled … recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States … a neat edition of the Holy Scriptures for the use of schools.”
– United States Congress 1782

Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is their duty – as well as privilege and interest – of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.

– John Jay... First Chief-Justice of the U.S. Supreme C

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…that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with His glory.

– John Hancock, Signer of the Declaration of Independence

These are the words of some of our Founding Fathers, and the list goes on through the years up until 1983.  

THE NAME OF THIS PICTURE IS

"ONE NATION UNDER GOD"

“The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the ‘Year of the Bible.'

– Ronald Reagan
                                      (How times have changed in 33 short years!)

We need to remember this Promise of God in the Bible...

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 I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin                     and will heal their land.                       Chronicles 7:14

One nation under God.

Have a happy Fourth of July and remember how important God has been 

in the formation and success of the United States of America. 

Let thanking Him for His blessings be part of your celebration.

Corinne Mustafa
and the writers of Women's Focus Ministries.