America 250 – TEN Days of PRAYER – Day Nine
FLAG robert-linder-fcFEnjBmm14-unsplash “O LORD, You are my God. I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, for You have done wonderful things; Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.” [1] LORD God, here we are again, boldly entering Your presence on behalf of our beloved A m e r i c a . This “shining city upon a hill,” as President Reagan called her in his January 11, 1989, farewell address, today is greatly dimmed. You, my LORD, know President Reagan took this phrase from the 1630 sermon of John Winthrop to the Massachusetts Bay colonists. Reagan stated, “…Winthrop…wrote it to describe the America he imagined.” [2] As true believers, we know Jesus said it first, speaking of those who are born-again of His Spirit. Jesus called us “…the salt of the earth…” and warned about losing our saltiness. But then He said, “You are the light of the world…” like a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden. [3] We, LORD, who have Your Word in our he...