God's Promises for the American Patriot - Soft Cover Edition

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GOD’S

PROMISES®

for the

AMERICAN

PATRIOT

DR. RICHARD G. LEE | JACK COUNTRYMAN

God’s Promises® for the American Patriot

© 2011 by Dr. Richard G. Lee and Jack Countryman

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Thanksgiving Proclamation

Praying for Our Nation

Declaring Independence

Patriotism Defined

True History or Consummate Fraud?

Investing in Eternity

God’s Co-worker

A Vital Connection

Quiet Commitment

Liberty, a Gift from the Creator

To Live Is Christ

Speak Up!

A More Just Society

The Godly Use of Power

Sail On, O Ship of State!

The Last Best Hope of Man

A Reawakening

Acknowledging God

Faithful to the End

The Bible and American Presidents

Duty to God

Answers from the Bible

Ask Not

Christ Reigns Supreme

The Goal of Government

Abraham Lincoln on Skepticism

Finding Hope in Suffering

One Man, One Woman

A Christian Nation

The Faith of the Founders

Protecting the Foundations

An American Hero

The American Moses

Asking God’s Aid for a Good Cause

Staying True

The Word and the Works of God

Godly Leaders

The Loving Devotion of a Free People

The Gettysburg Address

Guarding Truth

Freedom’s Cost

The Joy of Worship

Common Sense

Promised Blessings

Honor the Creator

The Fundamentals

As for Me!

The Designer of the Universe

Our Sacred Duty

Loyalty

Forgetting God

Shield of Strength

Praying for the Legislature

Following Christ’s Example

Building Character and Lives

A Godly Legacy

Obeying God

Faith of the Founders

The Goal from the Start

A Call to Battle

Words That Bless

A Frugal Government

Glorious and Pure Morality

No Ordinary Claims

The Soul of America

Spiritual Warfare

Jesus, Messiah and King

Bible or Bayonet?

America’s Fighting Preachers

America’s Bedrock

Spreading the Gospel

Would You Die?

Revival in America

A War Hero without a Gun

Son of Man and Son of God

Serving in the Church

God of Our Fathers

The Bible’s Influence

The Cornerstone of American Society

The Power of God

Duty, Honor, Country

The Jewish State, 1948

Genuinely Good Works

God’s Bigger Shovel

Lighting the World

A Day of Fasting

God’s Laws for God’s Creatures

Sunday School

Wisdom and Instruction for Life

God’s Providence

Circuit Riders and Farmer-Preachers

Words for a College Graduate

The Key to Survival

God’s Light

A D-Day Prayer

America on Its Knees

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Photo Credits

Introduction

It is the dream of every person to discover in his lifetime that special secret map that will guide him to hidden treasure. I believe that the book you hold in your hand is such a guide. Much of America’s rich story is told in these pages, along with many wonderful promises from God’s Word that have served as the very foundations upon which our nation was formed.

President Ronald Reagan said, Inside the Bible’s pages lie the answers to all the problems mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible. God’s Word and America’s story are inseparable.

I hope that as you read, you will enjoy these stories of America’s patriots and God’s wonderful promises to us all. May God bless you, and may God bless America!

Dr. Richard G. Lee

Throughout the history of our country, men and women have looked to God’s Word for wisdom, strength, and encouragement. Through His Word, He has guided them as they acknowledged His omnipotence. God’s promises come alive when combined with the historical journey of the men and women who formed the foundation of our country. Their dependence on God and His Word has become the brick and mortar for our Christian heritage. Each passage of Scripture has been chosen to help the reader appreciate our history and God’s promises.

Jack Countryman

Thanksgiving Proclamation

City of New York, October 3, 1789

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanks-giving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th. day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to all the People, by constantly being a government of wise, just and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed, to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shown kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord. To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and Us, and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

G. Washington

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Praying for Our Nation

From our nation’s earliest days, God’s promise in 2 Chronicles 7 that He will hear the cry of a humbled people has motivated America’s leaders to call citizens to prayer. In 1775, as it began the process of forming a new nation, the Continental Congress called for a day of prayer. At critical junctures during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln called for the nation to fast and pray. And in 1952, President Truman signed a bill establishing an annual National Day of Prayer.

Second Chronicles helps establish a model of national spiritual renewal. The book recounts how a succession of righteous kings in Judah led to reforms that brought the people back to true faith in God. Second Chronicles 16:9 assures us that God will show Himself strong toward those who place their trust in Him.

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 will forgive their sin and heal their land.

2 CHRONICLES 7:14

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If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 JOHN 1:9

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Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.

JEREMIAH 33:3

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Save now, I pray, O LORD;

    O LORD, I pray, send now prosperity.

PSALM 118:25

Declaring Independence

Adopted on July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence stated that the thirteen American colonies were Free and Independent States and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved. Our Founding Fathers acknowledged God as the source of our rights:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . .