Posted on 02/10/2016 7:47:16 AM PST by Hiskid
God Bless America
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that s free.
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer:
God bless America, land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Through 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.
The Star-Spangled Banner
O say can you see, by the dawn s early light,
What so proudly we hail d at the twilight s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O er the ramparts we watch d 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,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Vs. 4:
O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov d home and the war s desolation!
Blest with vict ry and peace may the heav n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto - In God is our trust,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Please join our forefathers in songs of petition and praise to our God for our Nation.
Thank you.
Really wish more would sing that fourth verse at public events.
Look up the circumstances under which God Bless America was written. Quite a story.
When Columbus landed he claimed in one journal that his me. Fell on knees on shore and sang The Dem.
The first book published in the new world was the Massachusetts Psalm book. On page 100 was a song using a loose translation of that song.
For years it was known as old hundred. We sing it today as the Doxology
First song sung. First song published. Still in our hearts
Praise God...
TE DEUM.
HATE this notebook. Changes words. After proofing even
Amen.
I love those songs.
I love “America The Beautiful” too! (”God shed His Grace on thee!”)
Prayers always. God bless.
Amen.
Amen, Hiskid
Those lyrics are so meaningful!
Joining in prayer for our beloved America, for the coming elections, for our heroes in harm’s way, for our people.
Amen.
Joining you in Prayer and Praise, Dearest Sister Hiskid.
Thanksgiving for your Anointed Prayer Ministry.
Amen.
Thank you for renewing our hearts in hope for our nation. Truly, GOD is our HOPE...Great is HIS FAITHFULNESS...Wonderful is HIS MERCY...Amazing is HIS GRACE...and we are blessed to be alotted the FREEDOM to enter HIS PRESENCE with THANKSGIVING and PRAISE, ever looking toward HIS COUNTENANCE to remain on us. Praying for our beloved heroes and the nation that we love.
THANK YOU, hoosiermama, for the great input and information! We are especially grateful for your prayers.
I love "America The Beautiful" too!
The foundation of that song says it all:
= Materna, "Oh Mother Dear Jerusalem"
America isn't like the other nations. Her soul is different. The enemy is on full attack to infiltrate and destroy her body, mind, heart, and spirit. Her soul, however, is completely out of reach. It's what drives the enemy insane.
Kind of like Num 24:16. What Balaam saw such that he couldn't curse Israel.
Balaam took up a parable. He saw the vision of Shaddai falling and [its] eyes revealed. It's the simple meaning, because its *what he saw*. The vision (parable) of Shaddai. Falling (from above to below, from the spiritual into the physical world, in a parable, such that he could see it). He saw the eyes (the soul) of the Almighty, which were revealed through the vision.
"I am WHO I am", Exodus 3:14. Exactly.
That midrash concerning Moses and the coin (Exodus 30, Shekalim).... same thing. The sages knew what they were writing. The Midrash IS a parable which is the simple meaning.
God showed Moses a coin of fire "in order to explain" how a coin could atone for a soul. What is the plain meaning in the Midrash is that Moses DID in fact understand, because it was revealed in his eyes. He SAW that it was a coin of fire, because it was reflected in his eyes. That's how you know he saw it, and understood that it was on fire.
Otherwise he would have asked God, "Fire? What fire? I don't see any fire."
"Tzaphnat Paneach" or "Megillat Esther". Same meanings: revealing of the hidden. Hidden in plain sight...
Yosef is still alive, and he his a parable (mashal, see Strong's H4910/11/12) over all the land of Egypt.
Deepest thanks for your prayers for our Nation and for the members of our Armed Forces.
One nation under God since its inception !
Amen to all of your prayers
Thinking about infiltration -- such an apt description of what we are witnessing (once beyond denial, one by one!) in that one word; physical and spiritual aspects.
Infiltrate: to secretly enter or join (something, such as a group or an organization) in order to get information or do harm; to cause (someone) to secretly enter or join a group, organization, etc.; to pass into or through (something)
Infiltration: the act or process of infiltrating; the state of being infiltrated; Military: a method of attack in which small bodies of soldiers or individual soldiers penetrate the enemy's line at weak or unguarded points in order to assemble behind the enemy position and attack it from the rear, harass enemy rear-area installations, etc.; a system of transporting troops or vehicles at extended and irregular intervals so as to avoid enemy observation or attack, especially from the air. --
Interesting. Seems I read something about this recently...
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