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Post by stevekimes on Jul 4, 2013 12:35:42 GMT -8
How do you feel that God has blessed the United States? How would you like God to bless the United States in the future?
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Post by Josh on Jul 9, 2013 8:26:51 GMT -8
It's a tough question for me. Can something, like a resource, be considered a blessing if it was orginally acquired through immoral means? |
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Post by Josh on Aug 8, 2013 9:11:30 GMT -8
Anyway, I would say he has blessed us with material bounty, but how much of that was acquired nefariously?
Still, we have much, so, much is required of us. We might call that a blessing or a curse... Or both simultaneously.
On another note, I am inclined to think that to some degree the natural landscape defines a people and there's just something about the newness and grandeur and wildness of North America that I'd say is a blessing.
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Post by asaph on Apr 3, 2015 4:06:13 GMT -8
Had God blessed America? Yes. The unique nature of our Constitution and the Republic. Freedom, liberty, inalienable rights granted by Him - life, liberty, pursuit of happiness (private property ownership and self-control, self-governance). The "fruited plain." Other natural resources.
All of that is now gone, literally or in policy and practice. It may still rain on the righteous and unrighteous but, to say, May God bless the United States of America is empty and hollow now. I do not believe God is blessing America. I believe God is allowing America to reap what has been sown - the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life.
The nation may collapse and disintegrate, or sink into a despotic totalitarianism in our lifetime if Christ does not return. Certainly in the next generation's lifetime.
Isa 26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee earnestly: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa 26:10 Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah. ASV
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Post by lena01 on Aug 7, 2017 1:54:41 GMT -8
"God Bless America" is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin during World War 1 in 1918 and revised by him in the run up to World War 2 in 1938. The later version has notably been recorded by Kate Smith, becoming her signature song.[1][2]
"God Bless America" takes the form of a prayer (intro lyrics "as we raise our voices, in a solemn prayer") for God's blessing and peace for the nation ("...stand beside her and guide her through the night...").
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