God's Promises for the American Patriot - Soft Cover Edition
By Richard Lee and Jack Countryman
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Embark on a journey to understand what God has done for America and who we are as a nation.
A new wave of American patriots and their fervor for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are reminiscent to that of over 200 years ago. In response, God's Promises® for the American Patriot combines historical facts about our forefathers with promises from God's Word, giving a powerful look at the importance of Biblical values and how they affect the fabric of our constitution. It's both inspiring and educational and is sure to fuel the passion of many Christian patriots across the globe.
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Richard Lee
Award winning author, Richard Lee, is a displaced writer of the weird, wonderful and grotesque. Since 2001 he has made an impact on the genre world and thrives within its limitless boundaries. Over seventy short stories have slammed his name on anthologies and magazines across the globe. Five novels impacted humanity and two novellas were the icing on the cake. He still sends his books out to independent and legacy publishers, looking for that elusive million dollar cheque. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/threeand10/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/threeand10 Website: http://threeand10.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/writer113/ Daily Motion: http://www.dailymotion.com/threeand10
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GOD’S
PROMISES®
for the
AMERICAN
PATRIOT
DR. RICHARD G. LEE | JACK COUNTRYMAN
9781404190115_INT_0003_002God’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.
9781404190115_INT_0011_001And 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
www.libraryofcongress.com
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. . . .