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We would like to wish all a happy and healthy Independence Day. As we celebrate our independence as a country, we need to remember great men that formed and signed our declaration, and the people who gave up everything they had to secure what they believed in. They sacrificed wealth, land, family… even their lives.
Our country has fallen greatly from the spirit of our forefathers. We are divided on every front. Are we willing, as our forefathers were, to stand up and make a difference? |
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Let us celebrate this weekend not just with a Bringhurst steak, hamburger or roasted pig, but also with a declaration that this Great country, and the spirit of freedom and independence, is worth saving… and with a commitment to do our part.
I came across a prayer Ronald Reagan delivered to the American people back in 1986. It feels to me like it was meant for today, and I'd like to share it with you.
Have a great independence day!
Jeff Bringhurst
I came across a prayer Ronald Reagan delivered to the American people back in 1986. It feels to me like it was meant for today, and I'd like to share it with you.
Have a great independence day!
Jeff Bringhurst
A Prayer for Healing
To preserve our blessed land we must look to God... It is time to realize that we need God more than He needs us... We also have His promise that we could take to heart with regard to our country, that "If my people, which are called by my name shall humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
Let us, young and old, join together, as did the First Continental Congress, in the first step, in humble heartfelt prayer. Let us do so for the love of God and His great goodness, in search of His guidance and the grace of repentance, in seeking His blessings, His peace, and the resting of His kind and holy hands on ourselves, our nation, our friends in the defense of freedom, and all mankind, now and always.
The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America... Our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal. Today, we utter no prayer more fervently than the ancient prayer for peace on Earth.
If I had a prayer for you today, among those that have all been uttered, it is that one we're so familiar with: "The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace...." And God bless you all. -
Ronald Reagan, February 6, 1986
To preserve our blessed land we must look to God... It is time to realize that we need God more than He needs us... We also have His promise that we could take to heart with regard to our country, that "If my people, which are called by my name shall humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
Let us, young and old, join together, as did the First Continental Congress, in the first step, in humble heartfelt prayer. Let us do so for the love of God and His great goodness, in search of His guidance and the grace of repentance, in seeking His blessings, His peace, and the resting of His kind and holy hands on ourselves, our nation, our friends in the defense of freedom, and all mankind, now and always.
The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America... Our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal. Today, we utter no prayer more fervently than the ancient prayer for peace on Earth.
If I had a prayer for you today, among those that have all been uttered, it is that one we're so familiar with: "The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace...." And God bless you all. -
Ronald Reagan, February 6, 1986