Born Again Nations
By The President of The United States of America: A Proclamation For a Day of National Humiliation Fasting and Prayer Whereas the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and Just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation: And Whereas, it is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognise the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people? 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 behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain on that day from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion. All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorised by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and restoration of our now divided and suffering country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh.
Abraham Lincoln By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State
The above proclamation is preserved in the Library of Congress as Appendix no. 19 in volume 12 of the United States At Large. It was initiated by a resolution of the United States Senate, and was officially declared by President Lincoln on March 30, 1863.
Its message contains two related themes which challenge our careful consideration. First, the proclamation acknowledges the unique blessings enjoyed by the United States, but suggests that these blessings have brought about an attitude of pride and self-sufficiency which are the root causes of a grave national crisis. Some of the phrases could apply with equal force to the condition of the nation today: “We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.... 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.... We have become too selfsufficient... too proud to pray to the God that made us!” Second, the proclamation unequivocally acknowledges “the overruling power of God” in the affairs of men and nations. It indicates that behind the political, economic, and military forces of history, there are divine spiritual laws at work; and that by acknowledging and submitting to these laws a nation may change its destiny, averting threatened disaster and regaining true peace and prosperity. In particular, the proclamation sets forth one specific, practical way in which a nation may invoke on its own behalf “the overruling power of God”—that is, by united prayer and fasting.
The author of this proclamation, Abraham Lincoln, is generally regarded, both by Americans and by the world at large, as one of the shrewdest and most enlightened of American presidents. He was a man of sincere faith and deep convictions, but he never sought membership in any of the Christian denominations of his day. In no sense could he be considered as unbalanced or extreme in his religious views. Further, this proclamation was not merely the product of Lincoln’s private convictions. It was requested by a resolution of the entire United States Senate.
How shall we assess the deep and unanimous convictions of men of this calibre? Shall we dismiss them as irrelevant or out-of-date? To do this would be merely the mark of unreasoning prejudice.
Rather, we owe it to ourselves to give honest and careful consideration to this proclamation and the issues which it raises.... Commentary by Derek Prince, a world renowned minister of the Gospel and Intercessor in his book “Shaping History Through Prayer and Fasting”
“...The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the thoughts of His heart through all generations. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His heritage...” - Psalm 33: 11&12 AMP
“...When our sons shall be as plants grown large in their youth and our daughters as sculptured corner pillars hewn like those of a palace; when our garners are full, affording all manner of store, and our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our pastures; when our oxen are well loaded; when there is no invasion [of hostile armies] and no going forth [against besiegers—when there is no murder or manslaughter] and no outcry in our streets; Happy and blessed are the people who are in such a case; yes, happy (blessed, fortunate, prosperous, to be envied) are the people whose God is the Lord!” - Psalm 144:12 – 15
Dearest folks... I haven’t researched this for myself, but I don’t need to because I have the Word of God on it... however, I give you charge to do this with the full guarantee that with a few years lag or quite possibly not at all, the so-called clinical depression, sickness and disease, poverty, murder and suicide rates, amongst other evils, in most of the traditionally Christian countries to include the United States of America, United Kingdom and most of Europe increased in direct correlation to the decline in the perceived relevance of God’s Word... the Bible... to life... the same goes for International Terrorism...You may have your conspiracy theories on why USA has such a pervasive influence today, but I will let you know the primary reason... which is that when the economic immigrants from Europe settled in North America, they started off this nation with a covenant with Almighty God, giving their oath to be His people, even as He is their God... their whole educational system grew out of the Word of God, the Holy Bible... even the medical system, which explains that medical insignia of intertwined snakes around a pole, drawn from the Bible [Numbers 21:8], when the children of Israel were undergoing God’s judgement and being bitten by poisonous snakes, and His mercy prevailed at the same time, and He asked Moses to make this image, such that if anyone looked at it, they would be healed... which was a foreshadow of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross... it is no wonder why the United States of America has been so blessed with Economic power and influence over the whole world, much like Great Britain was... and also the primary reason they have been so hated, even though there is an established policy of giving financial aid, even to nations that hate them and want to see their end...
The USA has been the cradle of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ for generations... during which period, most of the rest of the world was steeped in the darkness of lifeless religion and idolatry... having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof [2 Timothy 3:5]... even today... the greatest concentration of Word of Faith based ministries impacting the world is concentrated in the USA, with countries like South Korea, Singapore and Nigeria beginning to toe the line... though multitudes of Christians in the USA with direct access to these men and women of God cling irrationally to unbelief and lifeless religion, even then, the ministries in these other countries would mostly trace spiritual fatherhoods and impartations to these great men
and women of God from the United States of America... those great generals... that held the rope while the rest of the world were teetering on the brink of destruction... the A.A. Allens... the William J. Seymours’... the Aimee Semple-Mcphersons... the John G. Lakes... the William Branhams... the Jack Coes... the John Alexander Dowies... Maria Woodworth-Etter... Katherine Khulman... Smith Wigglesworth, and Evans Roberts (shining lights from Great Britain)... Oral Roberts... Kenneth E. Hagin... men and women of whom the world was unworthy... in a time when the miraculous power of God was virtually relegated to the stuff of myths, these great generals of the faith were manifesting the glorious wonder of the miraculous power of God... greater works than our Lord Jesus, as He promised... they were seeing creative miracles... arms and legs were growing out in the presence of audiences of thousands!! ...I have videos of this... people were being raised from the dead... salvations... manifold healings of diverse kinds... special miracles... the miraculous at an unprecedented level... a time (early 1900s) when medical science being chronically deficient, they had not much to rely on but the miraculous power of God! The city of Los-Angeles where Aimee SempleMcpherson ministered at Angelus Temple saw loads of ambulances from the hospitals congregating there on every day of worship and they leaving empty!! ...to the point that a unanimous decision was taken by the City council, to reserve the ambulances for those that really needed them, and that people wanting to go to Angelus Temple for healing should be carried there by some other means!! ...24-hour prayer, praise and worship in shifts in their tower... men of God like John G. Lake who ministered in South Africa when the bubonic plague suddenly broke out... he would carry the lifeless corpses and dying people with his bare hands without any infection to himself leaving the scientific community astounded! ...they coming to him to ask why he was not being infected and he saying, it is the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:2)... the Anointing... what he called the Lightening of Jesus... he being a Scientist in his own right, allowed experiments to be done on him, they affixing microscopes and all the medical paraphernalia, and they would put a specimen of the deadly froth coming from the victims mouths containing the bubonic virus in his hands, and right under the lens of those microscopes, they would see every single virus die!!
Coming back to the United States, he ministered in his healing rooms in Spokane, Washington, which as a direct result, became billed as the healthiest city in the world! ...men like Jack Coe who pulled people from their wheelchairs and commanded them to walk and they mostly did! ...the few who didn’t being rebuked sharply for their unbelief... with Anointing oil representing the Holy Spirit, laid his hands on the cancerous growth on a woman's face and pulled it (the cancerous growth) right off!! ...leaving her facial skin as smooth as a new born baby’s... and in the very presence of a large audience... (I have seen it myself in a video I have which was recorded from that service)... William Branham... who ministered with a visible manifestation of a halo around his head!! I mean visible!! That you can see with your physical eyes!! Much like the children of Israel saw the Pillar of Fire of the Presence of God physically!! ...this halo was actually captured in camera pictures taken from that time, and the halo can be clearly seen!! Image editing technology was not available back then in the early 1900s, so you can’t say this halo was edited in to deceive anybody... plus, we have the witness of thousands of people in his services from that time who saw it! ...with their physical eyes!! [Believe God’s Word as written in the Bible, please do not seek to see manifestations like these with your physical eyes, or you would be vulnerable to
deception and end up starting your own religion as another mohammed saying some devil, appearing as an angel of light appeared to you and gave you some nonsense you now want to force down all our throats! ...Jesus said to Thomas who declared that unless he saw with his physical eyes he would not believe, “...be not faithless, but believing... Blessed are those who have not seen, but yet have believed” John 20:24 - 29]. You can read all about these great generals of the faith in the works researched and produced by Roberts Liardon in a book and Videos titled “God’s Generals”...
Special miracles!! ...obese people loosing hundreds of pounds right before the congregation after hands were laid on them, and their clothes falling off them once they got up!! ...Brother Kenneth Hagin... putting his hands on a stage with the Spirit of Might (Isaiah 11) upon him and breaking a whole stage into two!! ...the same Spirit that was on Samson which gave him super-human ability to destroy 1,000 men equipped with
swords, shields and spears, with nothing but the jaw-bone of an ass!! ...carry a whole city gate to the top of a hill!! ...and tear a full-grown lion much bigger than himself into pieces from its mouth with his bare hands!! ...and my great daddy’s spiritual dad Oral Roberts, who saw multitudes of medically documented healings in his tent meetings! ...thousands upon thousands of healings, salvations, multitudes of signs and wonders!! 20 million souls... won to the Lord... fruit... which remains to this day... such an astounding irreversible impact on the Body of Christ’s power for witness that can never be erased... he gave the Body of Christ the revelations of the Anointing transfer through partnership, the miracle of seed-faith, the central role the Holy Spirit and speaking in other tongues has in the ministry of our Lord Jesus here on earth, building the first allChristian academic university with full-subject courses on earth from nothing... no money... no plans... nothing! ...but the Presence of Christ Jesus, and the gift of speaking in other tongues, which things I believe we will delve into in some further email... he went on to be with the Lord on December 15th, 2009 to join brother Hagin (who left in 2003) and all the saints from the beginning of time, and is currently enjoying all the divine riches of our Master’s Person in all His fullness unfettered by any earthly cares...
Up to our present day generals still here with us... Kenneth & Gloria Copeland, Benny Hinn, Bishop David Oyedepo, Morris Cerullo, Jerry Savelle... who early on in his ministry of helps to brother Copeland, his baby daughter Terri-Anne was in an accident in the children’s room, part of her little finger had been cut off! ...this baby crying and shrieking in pain and brother Jerry feeling virtually helpless, brother Copeland prayed for immediate relief and the child went off to sleep... taking the child to the most prominent plastic surgeon in the country who I believe was a Sikh, and considering the prospects of affixing that lifeless finger tip back on, this guy said it was impossible, and Terri-Anne would live with this stump for a finger forever... severely attacked by thoughts of fear and doubt, Jerry Savelle prayed and praised God anyway, and when the bandage was removed this finger had grown back!! ...complete with a beautiful new fingernail, with just a little scar as a memento! ...this Sikh doctor exclaimed “...my god!!”... and brother Jerry said no no no... not your god... my God!! ...when will we let go of all this unbelief in our God’s abilities...
The faith of our Lord Jesus Christ sunk so low in the United Kingdom and many other traditionally Christian countries in Europe to the point that the people officially charged with upholding this, began talking about amalgamating several religions under one umbrella in the so-called political correctness of non-exclusion... in the deceived words that we all serve the same God... we don’t all serve the same God!!! ...I love and long and am praying for all Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and their whole fervent hearts with the humility enough to realise that they did not originate from nothingness... from a cosmic chemical soup at the beginning of time... like the apostle Paul, I long for the natural seed of Abraham... the Jews... I long for them to bring that zealous devotion for what they cannot even see or feel into our Blessedness, and help us Christians in this generation understand what true devotion really means... even so-called atheists have my love... human beings... walking this beautiful planet the devil has unsuccessfully tried so much to destroy... seeing the clouds... the seas... grasses... flowers... the sun... moon... stars... new human beings... being brought into this world... beautiful babies... each with their different personalities, no one alike... miracles all around us, and we still say we are not sure... and we want a sign... how many more signs would we get before we decide to believe... signs and wonders do not produce faith friend... only the Word of God does which you have full access to...
No religion on the face of this planet can possibly claim to give any form of life or visible witness to any human being... the Dalai Lama seems to be a good guy in the political correctness of the word, not necessarily God-ward, but has no power to protect his fellow Tibetans or anybody else for that matter... Buddha was a little overweight before he died and was probably killed by obesity-related sicknesses and diseases so he can’t teach any of us the way to life and success because his god was his belly... neither confucius nor guru marahaji were quite sure about the way before they died, and we don’t build our lives on theories but facts so no show there... mohammed and allah are certainly not the way... their koran took a lot out of the Old Testament books of the Bible, added to it only mentioning Jesus as a prophet in there to give it some level of
credibility... and evading to mention His very clear and impossible to misunderstand assertion that I AM THE SON OF GOD... plus, their domineering bloodthirsty demands to be respected and worshipped strikes me as a bit insecure... but Jesus... glory to God... Jesus Christ... was very explicit when He said, I AM THE WAY... I AM THE TRUTH... and I AM THE LIFE... not a way... not a truth... not a life... but THE WAY... THE TRUTH... THE LIFE! ...and I have tangible evidence of this in my life, and in the witness of countless billions from the beginning to this very day... Christ Jesus is very much alive, and we are enjoying fellowship with Him today, through His Spirit... perhaps even on a deeper level than the apostles had with Him in his 3-year ministry on earth... yes... it is the same Christ Jesus you read about in the gospels ... Glory to God... bless His holy Name... ...and you can receive Him today... at no cost to yourself because He has paid it all... you don’t need to climb a mountain for enlightenment... do enough good works in your strength hoping for a better existence when you supposedly come back as a fish or a frog... or travel to any geographical location on the face of the planet, you can receive Him right where you are... and He will come into your heart, and fellowship with you... build your life up to His standard height of perfection as you walk in His obedience... oh... you need to meet our Master.... please open your heart and see Him... His Glory... His Beauty... His Majesty... His Perfection... surrounded by Glorious Light... the Joy of our existence, and the very Centre of the universe... He is not a religion... He is the very living relationship we were created to enjoy before the fall of man through Adam, and all His thoughts since then have dwelt on nothing else but the restoration of His family... us... I wish I could write in tongues to express all the blessed things He is communicating to my heart right now, because neither English nor any other language on the face of this planet is sufficient enough... His Beauty... His Perfection... His Majesty... Manhood and Deity wrapped up into One... clothed in thick folds and waves and billows of light that no darkness can approach unto... His Love... He is Love... His Person is Love... His very Nature and Personality is Love... He is Real... He is Light... He is Life... He gives the breathe of life to the most wicked of terrorists... He didn’t create them to be terrorists... He loves every human being... He saw them... and loved them from when they were babies... from the very foundations of the earth... He weeps... oh He weeps... over what human beings have been transformed into... He created them beautiful... He created them to bear His glory... to exhibit the light of His Majesty... angels do not have this honour... yet man relegated this authority to a fallen serpentine maggot crawling rat... who destroyed this glory together with the little he had been given as the covering anointed cherub... arch-angel Lucifer... the light-bringer... blocked from My Light... blocked from My Love... blocked from My Life... everything returns to darkness... everything beautiful degrades into oblivion... for I am... the Sun... of Righteousness... I will... repair... I will... restore... I will... renew... I will perfect... I will... because I am... glory to God... thank You Lord Jesus...
Lots of wealthy celebrities are humble enough to realise their deficiencies so they shell out billions of dollars for personal advisers and life coaches, but how much can you pay to have God! ...as your personal adviser and life coach? ...you can’t afford Him even if He charged you ... all He has asked for which you can most certainly afford, and which is to make His advise most effectual for your benefit is your whole heart... everything! ...and with joy and thanksgiving that He still wants the mess we have created to turn around... for our benefit...
Though steeped in darkness of religion and idolatry, God still had faithful servants in many other nations... like my greatgrand father-in-law, Edward Kvjatkouskij who worked in America as a young man for some years, around the same period as the Azusa street revival, where we believe he got saved and baptised in the Holy Spirit... he prophesied the collapse of soviet communist rule in his words to my father-in-law, “...king Mikhail will come and the communist rule will come to an end...” ...long before Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, which was about 4 regimes after Stalin... refusing to worship Josef Stalin, and recant the Lordship of Jesus Christ, he suffered for this 10 years in a Siberian concentration camp under this wicked regime where human life counted for nothing...
...and my yet to be known forefathers whom a prophet once told me served God... and are very much the reason for my faith today... my immediate natural father was not what we would call a strong believer... a brilliant surgeon but a self-proclaimed atheist who for many years would often try to evangelise me to his point of view every time he had the chance... I stood in faith for his salvation all that time... I was in shock for many days when he died in 2009 and I cried hot tears because I never realised how much I loved him... reminiscing about what could have been if he had given his whole life to the Lord... time lost to all eternity never to be regained... and the uncertainty over his eternal destination... but I was to learn later on that one of his last known words a few days before he died was in a text to his colleague, wishing him God’s blessing on his
promotion... he had previously maintained that there was no God or devil... so I believe God the words of our conversations resounded to him in his last days on earth and he said, “...yes Jesus... please come into my heart... I am sorry for all my sins, and I forgive every, and anyone who has wronged me for anything they have said or done...” before he passed on... if not... I did what I could... it boils down to every individual’s will before their Maker, which the Lord Himself would not violate... in fact... if you doggedly decide you want to go to hell, God will repeatedly try and persuade you otherwise, but He will respect your wishes... and allow you go where no human was created to be... even though His heart will weep for this tragic loss of your spirit to all eternity... Faith is hereditary folks... you are doing your children a most immense good by your choices for God today...
In the Anointed One, Your servant by the divine will of God, Temisan
“...You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavour? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. You are the light of the world-like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father...” – Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:13 – 16) New Living Translation