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American Minute with Bill Federer
During the Civil War, after issuing his Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln set a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, MARCH 30, 1863, stating:
"It is the duty of nations...to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins...with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy...
The awful calamity of civil war...may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins."
Lincoln continued:
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven...
We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown.
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."
Lincoln concluded:
"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...forgiveness."
Turn in and watch the Annual MOVIEGUIDE(r) Faith & Values Awards Gala on the Hallmark Movie Channel during sweeps week on May 16th, 6pm ET & PT. This is a miracle! www.MovieGuide.org
Get the book, Prayers & Presidents-Inspiring Faith from Leaders of the Past http://www.amerisearch.net/store/product_info.php?products_id=65
Watch William J. Federer's "Faith in History" program at: http://vidego.multicastmedia.com/player.php?p=y2b99484
Mar. 30-Daily Reading http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/readingplans/index.php/2011/03/30?plan=1&version=50
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30/03/2011
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'Be hospitable to one another without complaint. As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.'
1 Peter 4:9,10
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