Rise up LORD!
INDEPENDENCE DAY PRAYER
Rise up LORD!
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Rise up LORD!
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” — (Maud Hart Lovelace)
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” – (Nelson Mandela)
“When God is asked: “Remember your great mercy and love,” he is being asked to act according to his character. When someone asks God to “remember not [my] sins,” he or she is asking that God would not act on what he knows. Therefore, to say that the Israelites “forgot” God is to say that they no longer were controlled by what they knew. We could put it another way. Though they knew who God was and what he wanted, those things were not real to them.” ― (Timothy J. Keller, Judges For You)
“Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and said, “Because this nation has violated the covenant I ordained for their ancestors and has not listened to me, I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died. I will use them to test Israel and see if they will keep the way of the LORD and walk in it as their ancestors did. – (Judges Chapter Two)