“Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the LORD.”
Joel 1:14 (NIV)
“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 hand 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 that 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.”
April 30, 1863
President Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation
For a National Day of Fasting and Prayer
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