God of all Nations,
On this Independence weekend we ask your blessings upon
those whom we love and hold dear whose names we have lifted up today and those
who we lift up silently to you.
We offer praise for this nation; praise that we were born in
a country where we are free to worship and move about and live our lives in
ways that people of other nations cannot.
Yet today Lord we come to you with confession: We confess there are many in this nation that
have perverted the idea of “Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” our
founding fathers desired to include casual sex, addictive drug use, and profane
music and entertainment. We confess
there are those who have perverted our Founders’ idea of the right to bear arms
to mean the right to have handguns to use to settle arguments with anyone and
everyone; to rob and to assault.
We confess that we have become insensitive to the immorality
of it all; we are no longer shocked by the profane; the rampart illicit sex,
the daily shootings.
Father God we ask you be with those who are standing strong
in the face of what would weaken the moral fiber of our country. That we may restore the original ideals of
our Founding Fathers and the women who stood and worked with them. We ask that we may bring this nation once
again to be “One nation under God.” We ask
that you help us preserve and assure true liberty and justice for all. It is in your Son’s holy name we pray. Amen.
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