Re: Re: Re: AMERICA: GREATER EXPECTATIONS
| Posted On: 11/12/07 12:13:16 AM |
Age 41, FL |
Read the Book of Kings and tell me what God did when leaders didnt follow his Word. He killed so many Bad Kings its unreal. God is Love but he is Just!
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Re: AMERICA: GREATER EXPECTATIONS
| Posted On: 10/30/07 08:33:09 AM |
Age 53, FL |
GOD sent his son, Jesus Christ as a mediator, a man, to die for our sins that those who ask for forgiveness and choose to believe in him will be forgiven and granted eternal life in Heaven.
We acknowledge you Almighty God, asking forgiveness for our sins as a nation, we are grateful for our very existence, we humbly implore your protection and favor. "Hear, O our GOD, how we are despised!
Return their reproach on their own heads and give them up for plunder in a land of captivity."
Enlighten our eyes O Lord our God lest we sleep the sleep of death! Lest our enemies say they have overcome us. Lest our adversaries rejoice when we are shaken, from within.
We have trusted you as a nation O Lord our God. Many of us continue to trust you even in these days of drunken jubilation, celebrating our many freedoms and position among the nations.
Forgive us our transgressions O Lord our God, for we have sinned against you. 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 we have failed.
We acknowledge with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God upon our nation. Especially the opportunity afforded our founders to peaceably establish our form of government and those allowing and providing for our safety and happiness through the course of our accession. We sing your praises once again Lord. For God has dealt bountifully with us.
Help us O Lord our God, as a nation to arise and build and bless You again. Help us return to teaching our children the Ten Commandments and the history of our country, including the events of 9/11 so that we may no longer be a reproach to others. Help us be an example so that when people and nations despair in their trials, troubles and tribulations they will see the Grace of God shine on us, and seek to know Him themselves.
Let us pray as George Washington did with Thanksgiving in our heart "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 show kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase 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." Given, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, A.D. 1789.
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Re: Re: Re: AMERICA: GREATER EXPECTATIONS
| Posted On: 10/27/07 09:19:58 AM |
Age 59, SC |
No, You are saying that. My post above is much shorter and say nothing of the kind. It simply means that is is not wise to mess with God's natural order of things because God knows what He is doing and we do not. If a change in wind has disastrous consequences, how much worse will be the fallout from changing His well-thought-out plan for marriage and the family. Please read my post first before imagining things I clearly did not say. Love, Janet
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Re: Re: AMERICA: GREATER EXPECTATIONS
| Posted On: 10/26/07 04:21:15 PM |
Age 21, MN |
Good call George. -Dan Smith
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Re: Re: AMERICA: GREATER EXPECTATIONS
| Posted On: 10/26/07 04:21:15 PM |
Age 21, MN |
Good call George. -Dan Smith
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Re: Re: AMERICA: GREATER EXPECTATIONS
| Posted On: 10/26/07 04:19:50 PM |
Age 21, MN |
So, you're telling me that a perfectly possible and common climate change and a perfectly possible string of brushfires (which i believe they found out was started by a person, and i dont think God would tell anyone to intentionally light things on fire) is evidence that God is striking back at "the Governator"? If God deals with sin that way, then America would burned itself to the ground in the 1800's when we allowed slavery and killed Native Americans in the name of God so we could take their land. or when Nixon did watergate. Or when Bill Clinton had a little too much fun with a lady friend. Ted Haggard's church would have been destroyed. The Catholics would be gone because of those silly priests who couldnt handle celibacy and decided to pick the wrong age group to satisfy themselves. You need to think about all of those incidents and more before you can claim that God actually passes judgement that way. God shapes and influences events, but i don't see consistency when you look at a large scale like that. -Dan Smith
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Re: AMERICA: GREATER EXPECTATIONS
| Posted On: 10/25/07 01:36:31 PM |
Age 59, SC |
Shortly after Gov.Schwarzenegger signed the gender-neutral bill, the winds reversed, replacing the prevailing Western cool, moist Pacific breezes with the harsh, hot, dry Eastern Santa Ana winds. Small brushfires were fanned into major conflagrations causing untold devestation. Does anyone think the Governor has noticed that when God's thoughtful natural order gets messed up, really bad consequences happen? Dear Governator, it is not wise to mess with God's natural order of things. Love, Janet
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Re: AMERICA: GREATER EXPECTATIONS
| Posted On: 10/25/07 12:11:20 PM |
Age 28, TX |
Slight correction: The Dalai Lama does not serve "many gods." He believes he IS one.--Mrs. Pilgrim
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Re: AMERICA: GREATER EXPECTATIONS
| Posted On: 10/25/07 10:25:58 AM |
Age 61, MO |
Is the United States of America "one nation under God," or is it a nation under servitude to a government that is in opposition to the values and laws of God? The United States, as a body politic, has never made any pretension of allegiance to Jesus, but the citizens have been conditioned to pledge allegiance to the nation's flag. Because of not stating allegiance to Jesus, the founding fathers created a space in which a new religion could arise. True liberty comes only through Christ. True freedom is an experience that comes from knowing and obeying Jesus. It is not something any worldly government can either grant or deny. The "god" in which most Americans put their trust is an idol quite different from the God of the Christian faith. It more like the ideological god of humanism. Many U.S. citizens have fallen prey to the presumptuous notion that their nation is God's chosen people (not unlike geopolitical Israel). Americans have been deceived about the way God has blessed them. Economic wealth is rarely a sign of God's blessing. In those cases where God does bless a person or nation with wealth, it is not His intent that the wealth should be stored up. Money is a powerful force, and one that can easily become a false god. Maintaining affluence has been a major factor to the wars the U.S. has waged abroad. Power in the United States has always been in the hands of the wealthy elite, from colonial land owners to large corporations to lobby groups. A massive amount of nationalism reared its ugly head after the 911 tragedies. Christians are called to be a holy, set apart people in the midst of their pagan neighbors; not more vocal about praising and defending a golden calf United States system. We, as American citizens, should be asking forgiveness for the patriotic idols we have created, and our arrogance in relating to other nations. There is blood on the hands of many greedy Americans from the lives they have taken to appease their idols of liberty, democracy, and wealth. The citizens of the United States of America are inheriting lies, vanity, and materialism. The people will be wise to know that the Lord will curse the man who trusts in man, and whose heart is not with God. (see Jeremiah 17:5-11). George Cancilla
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Re: AMERICA: GREATER EXPECTATIONS
| Posted On: 10/24/07 03:04:35 PM |
Age 48, CA |
And THIS is what we are invading other nations in order to Liberate them into.
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