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Father God, this is a day for Your glory. The world looks to America's vast natural resources and temperate climate for the explanation of why she has become so great. But though these things have contributed, the most underlying reason does not lie there, for other nations and nation-groups of size equal to or greater than us have those benefits abundantly but have not approached our greatness. We rather are great because our Founders dared to return to Your word to find Your blueprint for how a society and its government should be ordered. In so doing they blessed not only their progeny but all who would flee here for refuge with not only the longest-lived republic in world history, but the greatest, and a democratic one at that.

Oh how the ignorant and rebellious both here and abroad try to obscure that imposing fact, and indeed attempt to expunge You from our cultural life in order to advance their corrupt desires and misguided idealism, but the record is nonetheless clear. This nation's glory is Your legacy, and none other's.

You are particularly honored today in our ability to express our intentions for how the nation should be directed for the next four years. And You have been exalted in that Your people have diligently sought Your face without ceasing leading up to this day, praying to become a channel of Your blessings for a nation in grave crisis.

Our greatest prayer is that You continue to glorify Yourself, dear Lord, in every possible way. Send judgment on wrongdoing, but bequeath mercy on the penitent. Just as we offer ourselves to You, we offer this nation to You for the performance of Your blessed will on earth. Sanctify us, set us apart for Your purposes. Through our yieldedness and obedience send Your Gospel of Freedom throughout the earth. Raise a crescendo of the petitions Your faithful saints worldwide, which they have been making for us, until it becomes a symphony of revival of unprecedented proportions to shake the entire globe. Break every shackle, free every soul, conquer every sin and its effects.

O God, glorify Yourself on this day!