Presidential, Congressional Proclamations Needed Now!
"Gather together, gather together, O shameful nation, before the
appointed time arrives and that day sweeps on like chaff, before the fierce
anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the day of the Lord's wrath comes upon
you. Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, you who do what He commands..
Seek
righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day
of the Lord's anger." (Zeph 2:1-3; see also all of chapters 1 & 2).
From Florida, in his first public statement regarding the
terrorist attacks upon our nation, President Bush called for a moment of
silence. Later from Barksdale Air Force in Louisiana, he asked for our prayers.
During the Civil War, many God-fearing Americans recognized the
war to be nothing less than God's judgment upon the entire nation. Pastors and
other leaders appealed to Congress to recognize the need not only for prayer,
but also for prayer mixed with REPENTANCE as the only hope to mitigate
much-deserved judgment.
We ask Christians everywhere to petition
your pastors, the President, your Congressman and Senators. Ask them to make an
official appeal to their flocks and constituents to REPENT and PRAY. Let fasts,
prayer meetings, community and citywide prayer gatherings of every kind be
called to cry out to God and to humbly seek Him with genuine, Biblical
REPENTANCE, that His wrath might mercifully be turned from us.
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We urge you to call the President's public comment line at: 1-202-456-1414.
-- Send a fax to President George W. Bush at: 1-202-456-2461.
-- Call your Senators and Congressman at: 1-202-224-3021.
In your own words, urge them to follow the example of those
pastors, Congressmen and President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 who issued a call to
the American people to urgently repent before God and to appeal to Him for
clemency.
Please Join us in Repentant Prayer to
God:
Father, May our national tragedy be transformed by your
Merciful Hand into a catalyst for Repentance & Returning to You. Embolden
our President to call our divided, sin-drenched nation to Repentance. Lord,
Please, in your Wrath, REMEMBER MERCY! In Jesus' Name, Amen (Joel 1:14-15;
2:15-18; Hab 3:2).
LINCOLN'S PRAYER
PROCLAMATION
On March 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued an historic
Proclamation Appointing a National Day of Prayer & Fasting:
"Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the supreme
authority and just government of the 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 recognize 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 land, 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 who 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.
"All this being done in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the
hope authorized 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 the restoration of our now divided and suffering country to
its former happy condition of unity and peace."
Abraham Lincoln
March 30, 1863
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