President Abraham Lincoln’s words in the dark days of the Civil War speak to us today:
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever known. But 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! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness." - Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of a National Fast Day, March 30, 1863.
As we pray for revival in our land, let's ask the Lord to raise up the kind of humble, God fearing leaders like Abraham Lincoln that have challenged us as God's people to obey God's call to prayer...
"If my people, who bear my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face and turn from their evil ways, I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land." - 2Ch 7:14.
A humble, honest look into HIStory reveals the truth that God responds to this kind of prayer, and just as He did before, HE will make America great again.
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