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Born Again Nations
By The President of The United States of America:
A Proclamation
For a Day of National Humiliation Fasting and Prayer
Whereas the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and
Just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a
resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and
humiliation:
And Whereas, it is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence
upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble
sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and
to recognise the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history,
that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord:
And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are
subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the
awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment
inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation
as a whole people? 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.
Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of
the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th day of
April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer. And I do hereby request
all the People to abstain on that day from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at
their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to
the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn
occasion.
All this being done, in
sincerity and truth, let us then rest
humbly in the hope authorised by
the Divine teachings, that the
united cry of the Nation will be
heard on high, and answered with
blessings, no less than the pardon of
our national sins, and restoration of
our now divided and suffering
country, to its former happy
condition of unity and peace.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States the
eighty-seventh.
Abraham Lincoln
By the President:
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State
The above proclamation is preserved in the Library of Congress as Appendix no. 19 in
volume 12 of the United States At Large. It was initiated by a resolution of the United
States Senate, and was officially declared by President Lincoln on March 30, 1863.
Its message contains two related themes which challenge our careful consideration.
First, the proclamation acknowledges the unique blessings enjoyed by the
United States, but suggests that these blessings have brought about an attitude of
pride and self-sufficiency which are the root causes of a grave national crisis. Some of
the phrases could apply with equal force to the condition of the nation today: “We have
grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.... 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.... We have become too self-
sufficient... too proud to pray to the God that made us!” Second, the proclamation
unequivocally acknowledges “the overruling power of God” in the affairs of men and
nations. It indicates that behind the political, economic, and military forces of
history, there are divine spiritual laws at work; and that by acknowledging and
submitting to these laws a nation may change its destiny, averting threatened
disaster and regaining true peace and prosperity. In particular, the proclamation
sets forth one specific, practical way in which a nation may invoke on its own behalf “the
overruling power of God”—that is, by united prayer and fasting.
The author of this proclamation, Abraham Lincoln, is generally regarded, both by
Americans and by the world at large, as one of the shrewdest and most enlightened of
American presidents. He was a man of sincere faith and deep convictions, but he never
sought membership in any of the Christian denominations of his day. In no sense could
he be considered as unbalanced or extreme in his religious views. Further, this
proclamation was not merely the product of Lincoln’s private convictions. It
was requested by a resolution of the entire United States Senate.
How shall we assess the deep and unanimous convictions of men of this
calibre? Shall we dismiss them as irrelevant or out-of-date? To do this would be merely
the mark of unreasoning prejudice.
Rather, we owe it to ourselves to give honest and careful consideration to this
proclamation and the issues which it raises....
Commentary by Derek Prince, a world renowned minister of the Gospel
and Intercessor in his book “Shaping History Through Prayer and Fasting”
“...The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the thoughts of His heart through all
generations. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the nation whose God is the
LORD, the people He has chosen as His heritage...” - Psalm 33: 11&12 AMP
“...When our sons shall be as plants grown large in their youth and our daughters as
sculptured corner pillars hewn like those of a palace; when our garners are full,
affording all manner of store, and our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands
in our pastures; when our oxen are well loaded; when there is no invasion [of hostile
armies] and no going forth [against besiegers—when there is no murder or
manslaughter] and no outcry in our streets; Happy and blessed are the people who
are in such a case; yes, happy (blessed, fortunate, prosperous, to be envied) are the
people whose God is the Lord!” - Psalm 144:12 – 15
Dearest folks... I haven’t researched this for myself, but I don’t need to because I have
the Word of God on it... however, I give you charge to do this with the full guarantee
that with a few years lag or quite possibly not at all, the so-called clinical depression,
sickness and disease, poverty, murder and suicide rates, amongst other evils, in
most of the traditionally Christian countries to include the United States of
America, United Kingdom and most of Europe increased in direct correlation to
the decline in the perceived relevance of God’s Word... the Bible... to life... the
same goes for International Terrorism...You may have your conspiracy theories on why
USA has such a pervasive influence today, but I will let you know the primary reason...
which is that when the economic immigrants from Europe settled in North America, they
started off this nation with a covenant with Almighty God, giving their oath to be His
people, even as He is their God... their whole educational system grew out of the Word
of God, the Holy Bible... even the medical system, which explains that medical insignia
of intertwined snakes around a pole, drawn from the Bible [Numbers 21:8], when the
children of Israel were undergoing God’s judgement and being bitten by poisonous
snakes, and His mercy prevailed at the same time, and He asked Moses to make this
image, such that if anyone looked at it, they would be healed... which was a foreshadow
of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross... it is no wonder why the United States of America
has been so blessed with Economic power and influence over the whole world, much like
Great Britain was... and also the primary reason they have been so hated, even though
there is an established policy of giving financial aid, even to nations that hate them and
want to see their end...
The USA has been the cradle of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ for
generations... during which period, most of the rest of the world was steeped in the
darkness of lifeless religion and idolatry... having a form of godliness, but denying the
power thereof [2 Timothy 3:5]... even today... the greatest concentration of Word of
Faith based ministries impacting the world is concentrated in the USA, with countries like
South Korea, Singapore and Nigeria beginning to toe the line... though multitudes of
Christians in the USA with direct access to these men and women of God cling
irrationally to unbelief and lifeless religion, even then, the ministries in these other
countries would mostly trace spiritual fatherhoods and impartations to these great men
and women of God from the United States of America... those great generals... that held
the rope while the rest of the world were teetering on the brink of destruction... the A.A.
Allens... the William J. Seymours’... the Aimee Semple-Mcphersons... the John G.
Lakes... the William Branhams... the Jack Coes... the John Alexander Dowies... Maria
Woodworth-Etter... Katherine Khulman... Smith Wigglesworth, and Evans Roberts
(shining lights from Great Britain)... Oral Roberts... Kenneth E. Hagin... men and women
of whom the world was unworthy... in a time when the miraculous power of God was
virtually relegated to the stuff of myths, these great generals of the faith were
manifesting the glorious wonder of the miraculous power of God... greater works than
our Lord Jesus, as He promised... they were seeing creative miracles... arms and legs
were growing out in the presence of audiences of thousands!! ...I have videos of this...
people were being raised from the dead... salvations... manifold healings of diverse
kinds... special miracles... the miraculous at an unprecedented level... a time (early
1900s) when medical science being chronically deficient, they had not much to rely on
but the miraculous power of God! The city of Los-Angeles where Aimee Semple-
Mcpherson ministered at Angelus Temple saw loads of ambulances from the hospitals
congregating there on every day of worship and they leaving empty!! ...to the point that
a unanimous decision was taken by the City council, to reserve the ambulances for those
that really needed them, and that people wanting to go to Angelus Temple for healing
should be carried there by some other means!! ...24-hour prayer, praise and worship in
shifts in their tower... men of God like John G. Lake who ministered in South Africa when
the bubonic plague suddenly broke out... he would carry the lifeless corpses and dying
people with his bare hands without any infection to himself leaving the scientific
community astounded! ...they coming to him to ask why he was not being infected and
he saying, it is the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:2)... the
Anointing... what he called the Lightening of Jesus... he being a Scientist in his own
right, allowed experiments to be done on him, they affixing microscopes and all the
medical paraphernalia, and they would put a specimen of the deadly froth coming from
the victims mouths containing the bubonic virus in his hands, and right under the lens
of those microscopes, they would see every single virus die!!
Coming back to the United States, he ministered in his healing rooms in Spokane,
Washington, which as a direct result, became billed as the healthiest city in the world!
...men like Jack Coe who pulled people from their wheelchairs and commanded them to
walk and they mostly did! ...the few who didn’t being rebuked sharply for their
unbelief... with Anointing oil representing the Holy Spirit, laid his hands on the cancerous
growth on a woman's face and pulled it (the cancerous growth) right off!! ...leaving her
facial skin as smooth as a new born baby’s... and in the very presence of a large
audience... (I have seen it myself in a video I have which was recorded from that
service)... William Branham... who ministered with a visible manifestation of a halo
around his head!! I mean visible!! That you can see with your physical eyes!! Much like
the children of Israel saw the Pillar of Fire of the Presence of God physically!! ...this halo
was actually captured in camera pictures taken from that time, and the halo can be
clearly seen!! Image editing technology was not available back then in the early 1900s,
so you can’t say this halo was edited in to deceive anybody... plus, we have the witness
of thousands of people in his services from that time who saw it! ...with their physical
eyes!! [Believe God’s Word as written in the Bible, please do not seek to see
manifestations like these with your physical eyes, or you would be vulnerable to
deception and end up starting your own religion as another mohammed saying some
devil, appearing as an angel of light appeared to you and gave you some nonsense you
now want to force down all our throats! ...Jesus said to Thomas who declared that unless
he saw with his physical eyes he would not believe, “...be not faithless, but
believing... Blessed are those who have not seen, but yet have believed” John
20:24 - 29]. You can read all about these great generals of the faith in the works
researched and produced by Roberts Liardon in a book and Videos titled “God’s
Generals”...
Special miracles!! ...obese people loosing hundreds of pounds right before the
congregation after hands were laid on them, and their clothes falling off them once they
got up!! ...Brother Kenneth Hagin... putting his hands on a stage with the Spirit of
Might (Isaiah 11) upon him and breaking a whole stage into two!! ...the same Spirit that
was on Samson which gave him super-human
ability to destroy 1,000 men equipped with
swords, shields and spears, with nothing but
the jaw-bone of an ass!! ...carry a whole city
gate to the top of a hill!! ...and tear a full-grown lion much bigger than himself into
pieces from its mouth with his bare hands!! ...and my great daddy’s spiritual dad Oral
Roberts, who saw multitudes of medically documented healings in his tent meetings!
...thousands upon thousands of healings, salvations, multitudes of signs and wonders!!
20 million souls... won to the Lord... fruit... which remains to this day... such an
astounding irreversible impact on the Body of Christ’s power for witness that can never
be erased... he gave the Body of Christ the revelations of the Anointing transfer through
partnership, the miracle of seed-faith, the central role the Holy Spirit and speaking in
other tongues has in the ministry of our Lord Jesus here on earth, building the first all-
Christian academic university with full-subject courses on earth from nothing... no
money... no plans... nothing! ...but the Presence of Christ Jesus, and the gift of speaking
in other tongues, which things I believe we will delve into in some further email... he
went on to be with the Lord on December 15th, 2009 to join brother Hagin (who left in
2003) and all the saints from the beginning of time, and is currently enjoying all the
divine riches of our Master’s Person in all His fullness unfettered by any earthly cares...
Up to our present day generals still here with us... Kenneth & Gloria Copeland, Benny
Hinn, Bishop David Oyedepo, Morris Cerullo, Jerry Savelle... who early on in his ministry
of helps to brother Copeland, his baby daughter Terri-Anne was in an accident in the
children’s room, part of her little finger had been cut off! ...this baby crying and
shrieking in pain and brother Jerry feeling virtually helpless, brother Copeland prayed for
immediate relief and the child went off to sleep... taking the child to the most prominent
plastic surgeon in the country who I believe was a Sikh, and considering the prospects of
affixing that lifeless finger tip back on, this guy said it was impossible, and Terri-Anne
would live with this stump for a finger forever... severely attacked by thoughts of fear
and doubt, Jerry Savelle prayed and praised God anyway, and when the bandage was
removed this finger had grown back!! ...complete with a beautiful new fingernail, with
just a little scar as a memento! ...this Sikh doctor exclaimed “...my god!!”... and brother
Jerry said no no no... not your god... my God!! ...when will we let go of all this unbelief
in our God’s abilities...
The faith of our Lord Jesus Christ sunk so low in the United Kingdom and many other
traditionally Christian countries in Europe to the point that the people officially charged
with upholding this, began talking about amalgamating several religions under one
umbrella in the so-called political correctness of non-exclusion... in the deceived words
that we all serve the same God... we don’t all serve the same God!!! ...I love
and long and am praying for all Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and their
whole fervent hearts with the humility enough to realise that they did not
originate from nothingness... from a cosmic chemical soup at the beginning of
time... like the apostle Paul, I long for the natural seed of Abraham... the
Jews... I long for them to bring that zealous devotion for what they cannot even
see or feel into our Blessedness, and help us Christians in this generation
understand what true devotion really means... even so-called atheists have my
love... human beings... walking this beautiful planet the devil has
unsuccessfully tried so much to destroy... seeing the clouds... the seas...
grasses... flowers... the sun... moon... stars... new human beings... being
brought into this world... beautiful babies... each with their different
personalities, no one alike... miracles all around us, and we still say we are not
sure... and we want a sign... how many more signs would we get before we
decide to believe... signs and wonders do not produce faith friend... only the
Word of God does which you have full access to...
No religion on the face of this planet can possibly claim to give any form of life or visible
witness to any human being... the Dalai Lama seems to be a good guy in the political
correctness of the word, not necessarily God-ward, but has no power to protect his
fellow Tibetans or anybody else for that matter... Buddha was a little overweight before
he died and was probably killed by obesity-related sicknesses and diseases so he can’t
teach any of us the way to life and success because his god was his belly... neither
confucius nor guru marahaji were quite sure about the way before they died, and we
don’t build our lives on theories but facts so no show there... mohammed and allah are
certainly not the way... their koran took a lot out of the Old Testament books of the
Bible, added to it only mentioning Jesus as a prophet in there to give it some level of
credibility... and evading to mention His very clear and impossible to misunderstand
assertion that I AM THE SON OF GOD... plus, their domineering bloodthirsty demands to
be respected and worshipped strikes me as a bit insecure... but Jesus... glory to God...
Jesus Christ... was very explicit when He said, I AM THE WAY... I AM THE TRUTH... and I
AM THE LIFE... not a way... not a truth... not a life... but THE WAY... THE TRUTH... THE
LIFE! ...and I have tangible evidence of this in my life, and in the witness of countless
billions from the beginning to this very day... Christ Jesus is very much alive, and
we are enjoying fellowship with Him today, through His Spirit... perhaps even
on a deeper level than the apostles had with Him in his 3-year ministry on
earth... yes... it is the same Christ Jesus you read about in the gospels ... Glory
to God... bless His holy Name... ...and you can receive Him today... at no cost to
yourself because He has paid it all... you don’t need to climb a mountain for
enlightenment... do enough good works in your strength hoping for a better existence
when you supposedly come back as a fish or a frog... or travel to any geographical
location on the face of the planet, you can receive Him right where you are... and He will
come into your heart, and fellowship with you... build your life up to His standard height
of perfection as you walk in His obedience... oh... you need to meet our Master.... please
open your heart and see Him... His Glory... His Beauty... His Majesty... His Perfection...
surrounded by Glorious Light... the Joy of our existence, and the very Centre of the
universe... He is not a religion... He is the very living relationship we were
created to enjoy before the fall of man through Adam, and all His thoughts
since then have dwelt on nothing else but the restoration of His family... us... I
wish I could write in tongues to express all the blessed things He is communicating to
my heart right now, because neither English nor any other language on the face of this
planet is sufficient enough... His Beauty... His Perfection... His Majesty... Manhood and
Deity wrapped up into One... clothed in thick folds and waves and billows of light that no
darkness can approach unto... His Love... He is Love... His Person is Love... His very
Nature and Personality is Love... He is Real... He is Light... He is Life... He gives the
breathe of life to the most wicked of terrorists... He didn’t create them to be terrorists...
He loves every human being... He saw them... and loved them from when they were
babies... from the very foundations of the earth... He weeps... oh He weeps... over what
human beings have been transformed into... He created them beautiful... He created
them to bear His glory... to exhibit the light of His Majesty... angels do not have this
honour... yet man relegated this authority to a fallen serpentine maggot crawling rat...
who destroyed this glory together with the little he had been given as the covering
anointed cherub... arch-angel Lucifer... the light-bringer... blocked from My Light...
blocked from My Love... blocked from My Life... everything returns to darkness...
everything beautiful degrades into oblivion... for I am... the Sun... of
Righteousness... I will... repair... I will... restore... I will... renew... I will
perfect... I will... because I am... glory to God... thank You Lord Jesus...
Lots of wealthy celebrities are humble enough to realise their deficiencies so they shell
out billions of dollars for personal advisers and life coaches, but how much can you
pay to have God! ...as your personal adviser and life coach? ...you can’t afford
Him even if He charged you ... all He has asked for which you can most certainly
afford, and which is to make His advise most effectual for your benefit is your whole
heart... everything! ...and with joy and thanksgiving that He still wants the mess we
have created to turn around... for our benefit...
Though steeped in darkness of
religion and idolatry, God still
had faithful servants in many
other nations... like my great-
grand father-in-law, Edward
Kvjatkouskij who worked in
America as a young man for
some years, around the same
period as the Azusa street
revival, where we believe he got
saved and baptised in the Holy
Spirit... he prophesied the
collapse of soviet communist rule
in his words to my father-in-law,
“...king Mikhail will come and the
communist rule will come to an
end...” ...long before Mikhail
Gorbachev came to power, which
was about 4 regimes after
Stalin... refusing to worship Josef
Stalin, and recant the Lordship of
Jesus Christ, he suffered for this
10 years in a Siberian
concentration camp under this
wicked regime where human life
counted for nothing...
...and my yet to be known forefathers whom a prophet once told me served God... and
are very much the reason for my faith today... my immediate natural father was not
what we would call a strong believer... a brilliant surgeon but a self-proclaimed atheist
who for many years would often try to evangelise me to his point of view every time he
had the chance... I stood in faith for his salvation all that time... I was in shock for many
days when he died in 2009 and I cried hot tears because I never realised how much I
loved him... reminiscing about what could have been if he had given his whole life to the
Lord... time lost to all eternity never to be regained... and the uncertainty over his
eternal destination... but I was to learn later on that one of his last known words a few
days before he died was in a text to his colleague, wishing him God’s blessing on his
promotion... he had previously maintained that there was no God or devil... so I believe
God the words of our conversations resounded to him in his last days on earth and he
said, “...yes Jesus... please come into my heart... I am sorry for all my sins, and I
forgive every, and anyone who has wronged me for anything they have said or done...”
before he passed on... if not... I did what I could... it boils down to every individual’s will
before their Maker, which the Lord Himself would not violate... in fact... if you doggedly
decide you want to go to hell, God will repeatedly try and persuade you otherwise, but
He will respect your wishes... and allow you go where no human was created to be...
even though His heart will weep for this tragic loss of your spirit to all eternity... Faith is
hereditary folks... you are doing your children a most immense good by your choices
for God today...
In the Anointed One,
Your servant by the divine will of God,
Temisan
“...You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavour?
Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as
worthless. You are the light of the world-like a city on a hilltop that cannot be
hidden. No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise
your heavenly Father...” – Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:13 – 16) New Living Translation