However, it seems this American Minute needs to be posted in breaking news today.
William Federer posts his American Minute every day and highlights something from America's past in which an American's faith in God is on display - either for a single event or, more often, he shows how faith in God impacted his or her contribution to our nation and to the world.
Today's American minute highlights the date, April 6, 1917, which is the date on which the US entered World War I - and the encouragement at that time by this nation's President for each American to turn to God on behalf our nation, and on behalf of each of those who live here.
Today - April 6, 2010 - we live in such a time again.
May God prompt our hearts to hear these words from 1917 as if they were uttered today - so that we will do as our forefathers did - not just in 1917, but over and over and over - in times of crisis for our nation and its people.
It is not meant as a call to worry, or to be anxious or afraid - but to pray, to be humble (like a little child) before our Father, to go to Him and just ask like a little child what He would have us do right now. And to seek His hand upon this nation today, a hand of protection, a hand of uplifting, a hand of peace and calm, a hand of provision, a hand of deliverance from evil.
Some may want to fast today.
Some may want to go to their houses of worship today.
Some may want to get down on their knees today.
Some may want to just stand outside and look up to the skies and raise our hands and rejoice and thank Him that He is in control of all that is going on.
Some may want to confess our sins to God and to each other, asking for and receiving God's forgiveness and the forgiveness of those whom we have wronged.
Some may want to FORGIVE those who have harmed us individually or as a nation.
Whatever we are "led" (inspired by God) to do in this regard - may we do it today.
And may God's peace that passes all understanding reside in our hearts and minds as they are stayed on Him and on His unfailing love for each of us and for our beloved America!
Thank you for the opportunity to post this in Breaking News today.
If at all possible, please keep it here and not in General Chat (where The American Minute usually resides).
Thank you, JimRob, and God’s best blessings on you and yours for this marvelous Free Republic website/family which has blessed and continues to bless our nation and the world in ways that we won’t fully understand until one day further along.
Praying for our nation that Obama refuses to defend.
Thank you for your post and your prayer for our nation....but I do not believe that the day America entered WWI should be commemorated. Our declaration of war on Germany was quite possibly the worst decision in American history, and I include the decisions that led up to the Civil War.
May His Kingdom come...
May His Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
God is the only hope for deliverance of this or any other nation. (or person...)
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Praying for this Nation everyday!