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Fast and pray for America.

We need to pray for revival, a Third Great Awakening — that God would pour out His Holy Spirit and work repentance and revival in our land and give us the knowledge and fear of the Lord.

Fast and pray for America: Our Founding Fathers called numerous fasts. Christians should fast and confess personal and national sins in the spirit of 2 Chronicles 7:14: If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land (ESV).

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12). We can’t lose. They can’t win.

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Suffering as a Christian

1 Peter 4

12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 13 But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. 16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. 17 For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 And

“If the righteous is scarcely saved,
    what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”

19 Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.

 

 

 

 

 

“Steadfast for God and Country”
REV. JONAS CLARK, Pastor of the Church at Lexington during the Revolution, Leader of Revolutionary Thought.
For 160 years the colonies from Massachusetts to Virginia, by virtue of their original charters, had been free to call meetings of electors to consider matters of common interest, and had enjoyed many privileges which were taken away by these acts of Parliament passed in quick succession in a few short years. It was a rude awakening to the colonists to find all semblance of self-government taken from them and heavy taxes imposed for the benefit of the home government. James Otis who was described by Samuel Adams as “a flame of fire” declaimed against the injustice of these proceedings and in describing the situation said: “We cannot see the equity of our being obliged to pay off a score that had been so much enhanced by bribes and pensions to keep those to their duty who ought to have been bound by honor and conscience.”
These parliamentary acts were born of cupidity. The theory on which they were supported was that Parliament had power to pass such laws as it pleased for the government of the colonies. The motive was, to the victors belong the spoils. All restraints on the Tory party had been removed by the favorable ending of the war. The prize of the continent of America was in the hands of England and there was no longer any danger of its loss or capture by another power. The ownership was undisputed, their control was absolute, parliament was supreme. The home government in the hands of the Tories, refused to listen to the wise counsels of the Earl of Chatham, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Col. Barre, Lord Camden, General Conway and others, which, if they had been followed, would have saved the colonies to England. (Pages 5-6 ESV)

My wife and I are the proud parents of an autistic 30-year-old son. Despite the love and support of family and friends, autism leaves us exhausted and devastated. We do not know why our family suffers with autism other than that we live in a fallen world. Some would ask why God permits such things, but we pity those who suffer such things and do not know the Lord. We look forward to that day when Christ “will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away” (Revelation 21:4). We pray that God will be glorified in healing our son in this life, but we know that he will not be autistic in heaven.

 

On this date in history

April 25

404 BC: Peloponnesian War: Lysander’s Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
1607: Eighty Years’ War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
1707: The Habsburg army is defeated by the Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1792: La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MQ-SC9bmp4 with English subtitles. From the 1942 movie Casablanca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeFhSzoTuc

1792: In Paris, highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.

1829: Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
1846: Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.

1847: In California, the last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.

1859: British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1861: American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
1862: American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1898: Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
1915: World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

1916: Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove. From Britiannica: ANZAC Day, in Australia and New Zealand, holiday (April 25) that commemorates the landing in 1915, during World War I, of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The Allies attempted to take control of the strategic Dardanelles from Turkey, allied with the Central Powers, in the so-called Dardanelles Campaign, which began in February 1915. ANZAC forces landed on April 25 and secured a beachhead at what came to be called ANZAC Cove, on the Aegean side of the peninsula. Despite additional landings by other troops during the succeeding months, the Allies could not capture the strait, and they suffered enormous losses from battle and disease. By December 1915 the Allied troops, including the ANZAC forces, had been withdrawn. Nonetheless, the ANZAC troops earned a reputation for valiant fighting, and they then served with distinction in France and in the Middle East. Later, in 1917, the Australian and the New Zealand forces were separated, and ANZAC thus ceased to exist.

1920: At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class “A” League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
1939: DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.
1945: Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
1945: The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement. The puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini tries to escape. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.

1945: The last German troops retreat from Finland’s soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.

1959: The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

1975: As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
1982: Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
1983: Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto’s orbit.