National Day of Praying

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Joel 1:14 “Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.”

Can you imagine our current president of our country declaring that the nation needs to repent before God and seek Him because they have become too self-sufficient and proud? Can you imagine him declaring that the nation should have a national day of humiliation, fasting and prayer because of its pride? Can you see your leader doing that? I bet with the current spiritual state of our leaders today, we can only imagine this. I recently came across a speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. As you read his address, you can’t help but notice how he urged the nation to humble themselves before the Lord. Here is a portion of the speech:

“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 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. 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 behoves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”