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Very good and interesting article regarding our National Day of Prayer today, May 3rd, 2012. I think it worth mentioning that Jesus asked His disciples, could you not watch and pray for even an hour? An hour here in the Greek did mean an hour as we know it but it also means, according to Strongs Concordance, a certain definite time or season. They kept falling asleep and the Lord kept trying to get them to wake up. Romans 13:11...for you know what a critical hour this is, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from your sleep...

May 3, 2012

National Day of Prayer
by Kerby Anderson

Today is the National Day of Prayer. It is a vital part of our American heritage.
The first call to prayer happened before the American Revolution. In 1775, the
Continental Congress called on the colonists to pray for wisdom as they considered how
they would respond to the King of England.

Perhaps one of the most powerful calls to prayer came from President Abraham
Lincoln during the Civil War. In 1863, he issued a proclamation for a day
of “humiliation, fasting and prayer.” Here is some of that proclamation.

“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.”

In 1952, Congress passed and President Harry Truman signed a resolution which
declared an annual, national day of prayer. In 1988, President Reagan signed into law a
bill that designated the first Thursday of May as the time for the National Day of Prayer.
That is why various celebrations throughout this country are taking place today.

It is estimated that there have been more than one hundred thirty national calls to
prayer, humiliation, fasting, and thanksgiving by presidents of the United States. There
have been sixty Presidential Proclamations for a National Day of Prayer because every
president has signed these proclamations. And there have been almost 1,000 state and
federal calls for national prayer since 1775.

Today is the National Day of Prayer. Please pray for this nation and its leaders.
I’m Kerby Anderson, and that’s my point of view.

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