Dear Ones,
Happy 4th of July! Hope you are enjoying the holiday though the weather is not ideal. Our family picnic was postponed yesterday because of the weather and doubtful there will be one today. It is raining and raining here we don’t know if we will go today either.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
Happy Independence Day to you! We began celebrating yesterday at our worship service by pledging allegiance as we faced the American flag, then turned to the Christian flag and pledged allegiance, and then turned to the Bible as God’s word that it might be a lamp unto our feet and light unto our path. We sang America the Beautiful and My Country! Tis of Thee, and many of us wore red, white and blue.
As wonderful as that all is, we also recognize how far we have strayed from God as a nation. I read online this morning what Clay Noah and others wrote about the importance of renewing our covenant with God as a nation and to be the Body of Christ throughout the world. They declared a fresh dependency on God and a renewed surrender to Robert Hunt’s 1607 covenant of prayer:
“We do hereby dedicate this Land, and ourselves, to reach the People within these shores with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to raise up Godly generations after us, and with these generations take the Kingdom of God to all the earth. May this Covenant of Dedication remain to all generations, as long as this earth remains, and may this Land, along with England, be Evangelist to the World. May all who see this Cross, remember what we have done here, and may those who come here to inhabit join us in this Covenant and in this most noble work that the Holy Scriptures may be fulfilled.”
We must always remember our first commitment as Christians is to the Lord as we are citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. I pray most every day for our nation to come back to God in repentance and to be a light in the world. As David prayed in Psalm 22:27-28 (ESV) “All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. For kingship belongs to the Lord and He rules over the nations.” May we all humbly turn to God who has the last word and gives true freedom and liberty!
Challenge for today: Pray for our country to repent and turn back to God and to reflect His kingdom on earth.
Blessings on this day and prayers and love, Judy
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