Nov 23 2008
Prayer for our nation
From a friend, I received this:
Billy Graham’s Prayer For Our Nation
‘Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, ‘Woe to those who call evil good,’ but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. 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 self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor’s 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, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free.
Amen!’
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, ‘The Rest of the Story,’ and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord’s help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called ‘One nation under God.
Now, I read and re-read that, and thought to myself “Wow. Someone finally said it.” I have always been the person to stand and say “That’s my right!” About various things. I have rights as an American. I also have privileges as an American. But I also have a responsibility. As an American and as a Christian.
In a country that was founded on the principles of God, there are people trying to take away the right to worship and to pray. People who are so self convicted that they are attempting to have God stuck from every aspect of our world. A very bitter man has petitioned and tried to remove the words “In God we trust” from money. Money that believers and non-believers alike spend. Money that purchased the computer, paper and ink that was used to print that petition. Did he deface the money by crossing those words out first? Probably not.
There are people who are so self convicted about the Pledge of Allegiance saying the words “One nation, under God” that they refuse to say the pledge, and refuse to allow their children to say it. What, are you kidding me?
We have freedoms and rights, but more so, we have privileges and responsibilities. We cannot change a basis for which our country was based on. (Not without a dictatorship which chooses to do so anyway). It is our privilege to live here, not our right. I mean look at all of the different races and nationalities that we have living here. The United States of America has far more of a combination than any other country. Feel free to research that. It is a privilege, and along with any privilege comes responsibility.
It is my personal opinion that if you do not want to abide by the foundations for which this country was set upon, then get out.
