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Showing posts with label God bless America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God bless America. Show all posts

Saturday, July 4, 2015

God Bless America

~~~ Genesis 27:1-5, 15-29 ~~~ Psalm 135 ~~~ Matthew 9:14-17 ~~~

Proud to be an American.
Celebrating Independence Day!

May God give to you
of the dew of the heavens
And of the fertility of the earth
abundance of grain and wine.

These are words taken from the blessing
Isaac gave to his son Jacob.
This is also part of the blessing I pray
God bestows upon our country.

God Bless America.
It is often the lyrics of our patriotic songs
 that remind us of how much we love this land.

God Bless America...
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

God does indeed shed his grace on our country.
He has created beauty for our eyes to behold from sea too shining sea.


My Country, ’tis of Thee,
Sweet Land of Liberty
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.

 Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!

It is freedom that sustains our country.
The freedom to the pursuit of happiness.
The freedom from persecution.
The freedom of free speech.
We have these freedoms today for the many
who were willing to shed their blood for it.
'Land where our fathers died'.
May the bells of freedom
ring across our land.
May the bells of freedom
 toll in our churches.

God bless America,
Land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above;

From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home, sweet home.
God bless America,
My home, sweet home.

I believe that God has, does, and will
continue to Bless our country.
I also believe that we, the citizens, must participate
in these blessings to protect what we have been given.

Star Spangled Banner
Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Just a few years ago we faced an attack on all that we hold dear
in this country let us be the ones who return to God.

No one patches an old cloak with a piece of unshrunken cloth,
for its fullness pulls away from the cloak and the tear gets worse.

May the God who blesses us keep us
and protect us from all evil.
God is constantly a new creation.
We look toward
him for he makes all things for good.

"In God we Trust"
Peace

Monday, May 26, 2014

God Sheds His Grace on Us

Memorial of Saint Philip Neri, Priest

~~~ Acts of the Apostles 16:11-15 ~~~ Psalm 149 ~~~ John 15:26-16:4A ~~~

The Lord takes delight in his people.

With honor and gratitude
we remember those who gave their lives for us.
Land of the free, home of the brave...
America the Beautiful.

The Lord takes delight in his people.

Proud to be an American.

The Lord takes delight in his people.


The Lord takes delight in his people.

For God so loved the world...
For the men and women who love and serve our country.

The Lord takes delight in his people.

There is no greater love...
than for a man to lay down his life for a friend...
to lay down his life for his country.

For the LORD loves his people, and he adorns the lowly with victory.

God Bless the United States of America.
God sheds his grace on us.
It is God that stands beside us, to guide us, to protect us.

May God hold our military men and women in the palm of his hand.
Today Lord, as we remember our fallen heroes,
we give you praise and glory.
We ask for your continued protection from all our foes,
both near and far.

Let us always remember those who paid the ultimate price
to insure freedom for the rest of us.

God Bless America!
So Blessed to be an American.
~~~Peace~~~

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Walk in His Presence

~~~ Genesis 22:1b-19 ~~~ Psalm 115 ~~~ Matthew 9:1-8 ~~~
 
God Bless America.
Home of the brave, land of the free.
 
 I will walk in the presence of the Lord, in the land of the living.
 
This is a wonderful psalm refrain in celebrating our country's independence.
 
Using verses from the daily scriptures I pray for our country.
We have made mistakes in the past with some of our laws
 and we will make mistakes in the future.
We are governed by humans who are frail and blinded
 by power and control.
Yes, as a country we are guilty of committing sins against
God's teachings of love.
But all is not lost in vain.
“Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.”
 
Jesus does forgive with one stipulation...go and sin no more.
God knows what is in the hearts of all of us, even those who do not profess to know him.
Jesus knew what they were thinking, and said,
“Why do you harbor evil thoughts?
 
Today is a good time to examine what evil thoughts
we do indeed harbor within the recesses of our heart.
Is it patriotic to condemn others?
Are we really the only ones who have all of the right answers?
 
“Where is their God?”
 I sincerely pray that we find the truth from God within our hearts.
I pray that no one has reason to look upon our nation and ask,
'where is their God?'
 
I place my trust in God, for he is the only one who can provide
what our nation longs for...
he alone is the giver of peace.
If we are to pass this peace on to others we must first possess it ourselves.
God himself will provide...
Are we capable of letting God love through us?

 
Here I am...
I come to love and support our beloved America.
I want to see the good in our nation.
I want to hear from the people who are making a difference
by truly spreading the gospel message of love. I pray this love will prevail over evil.
 
I am proud to be an American.
I cannot imagine living in any other country.
 
I invite you to place our country into God's hand.
Prayer is how we acknowledge God's presence in this land of plenty.
 
God, please continue to bless the United States of America.
Cleanse us of our past offenses.
Give our leaders your wisdom and courage in the laws they draft and pass.
 
We are called to follow Jesus...
this is the path flanked with abundant blessings.
God Bless America!!!