ldysly
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Post by ldysly on Jul 4, 2013 6:28:31 GMT -6
Dear Father,
As we celebrate 237 years of freedom here in our country let us not forget who it is that really gives us freedom. Many have forgotten that we were founded on Your principles. From different lands and cultures they came because here God was present.
We celebrate daily our freedom that You have given us and we are thankful. Please keep Your hand on us. I know we are headstrong and many have lost their way. But Father we love You and we long for the day when we truly go home. To the land that You have prepared for us. But until that day please bless us here as we go forward.
America is still a baby, only a few generations old so hold our hand as we continue to take those baby steps. Abba we love You so.
Amen
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Post by Murph on Jul 4, 2013 7:30:10 GMT -6
In Jesus Name,
Amen.
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Post by Keith on Jul 4, 2013 7:30:14 GMT -6
Amen.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. (John 8:36)
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Post by Murph on Jul 4, 2013 8:35:16 GMT -6
original F. Scott Keys poem...
"Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!"
1814
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ldysly
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Post by ldysly on Jul 4, 2013 8:38:22 GMT -6
Amen and may we never take any of ths for granted.
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Post by navyblue on Jul 4, 2013 13:29:53 GMT -6
My prayer, and AMEN to both, above. Though tattered and torn, we may yet keep it waving, over a land that is free, and home, still, to the brave. AMEN
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Post by Keith on Jul 4, 2013 15:15:10 GMT -6
Amen!
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