SMOKE ON THE WIND
President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed April 30, 1863, a National Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer. His proclamation is just as appropriate for our world today as it was 140 years ago.
Lincoln’s Proclamation on Prayer
“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, the 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 God that made us. It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”
Pray for our nation and all the nations of the world.
With God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26
Rev. Tom Dancing Feather Ebbing
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