Daily Dose For August 1

Memory Verse  O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! Psalms 8:1 NASB

2 Kings 17 Psalms 27

“Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious -people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.”  Rowan Williams

We praise you, O Lord, for the waters, the mountains and hills, the deserts and valleys, the wilderness spaces, and for all living creatures. Forgive us when we have not been good caretakers of the earth. Make us into -people who practice resurrection by bringing dead things back to life and by making ugly things beautiful again. Amen.(Commonprayer.net)

Daily Dose For July 31

Memory Verse  Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord Psalms 33:12 NASB

2 Kings 15-16 Psalms 26

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

“God’s mercy reached our land. Peace came to heal the bleeding wound. Dispensing blessings wide around with an unsparing hand.”  Amen (Josiah Caldwell)

Daily Dose For July 30

Memory Verse  Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord Psalms 33:12 NASB

2 Kings 13-14 Psalms 25

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

“You’ve heard of Caldwell, the parson, who once preached the Word Down at Springfield? What, no? Come—that’s bad, why he had All the Jerseys aflame! And they gave him the name

Of the “rebel high-priest.” He stuck in their gorge,

For he loved the Lord God, and he hated King George!”  Amen (Bret Harte)

Daily Dose For July 29

Memory Verse  Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord Psalms 33:12 NASB

2 Kings 11-12 Psalms 24

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

“Our cause therefore, my dear brethren, is not only good, but it has been prudently conducted: Be therefore of good courage; it is a glorious cause: It is the cause of truth against error and falsehood; the cause of righteousness against iniquity; the cause of the oppressed against the oppressor; the cause of pure and undefiled religion, against bigotry, superstition and human inventions.  It is the cause, for which heroes have fought, patriots have bled, prophets, apostles, martyrs, confessors and righteous men have died.”  Amen (Abraham Keteltas)

Daily Dose For July 28

Memory Verse  Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord Psalms 33:12 NASB

2 Kings 9-10 Psalms 23

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.  

Thro Various Scenes of Life God has Sustained me. May he ever be my unfailing Friend, May his Love cherish my Soul, May my Heart with Gratitude Acknowledge his Goodness and may my Desires be to him and to the Remembrance of his Name... May We then turn our Eyes to the bright Objects above, and may God give us Strength to travel the upward Road. May the divine Redeemer conduct us to that Seat of Bliss which he himself has prepared for his Friends; at the Approach of which every Sorrow shall Vanish from the human heart, and endless scenes of Glory Open upon the enraptured Eye" Amen Oliver Walcott

Daily Dose For July 27

Memory Verse  Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord Psalms 33:12 NASB

2 Kings 7-8 Psalms 22

The following story is from Wives of the Signers - The women behind the Declaration of Independence, pp 102-103: "At a meeting of the Council of Safety in Lebanon, near the close of 1776, when the prospects of our success looked dark, two members of the Council were invited to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Benjamin Huntington and William Hillhouse. The conversation turned upon the gloomy outlook. `If we fail,' said Mr. Williams, `I know what my fate will be. I have done much to prosecute the war; and one thing I have done which the British will never pardon - I have signed the Declaration of Independence; I shall be hanged.'

"`Well,' said Mr. Huntington, `if we fail I shall be exempt from the gallows, for my name is not attached to the Declaration, nor have I ever written anything against the British Government.'

"`Then, sir,' said Colonel Williams turning upon him, `you deserve to be hanged for not doing your duty.'" (William Williams https://causeofliberty.blogspot.com/2011/02/william-williams.html)

There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come. Amen John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg

Daily Dose For July 26

Memory Verse  Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord Psalms 33:12 NASB

2 Kings 5-6 Psalms 21

Friends and Brethren: You must all be sensible that the affairs of America have at length come to a very affecting and alarming crisis.… Duty to God, to ourselves, to Posterity, enforced by the cries of slaughtered Innocents, have urged us to take up Arms in our Defense. … We would therefore recommend to the Colony at large to cultivate that Christian Union, Harmony and tender affection which is the only foundation upon which our invaluable privileges can rest with any security, or our public measures be pursued with the least prospect of success. (Matthew Thornton)

“God would graciously pour out His Holy Spirit on us to bring us to a thorough repentance and effectual reformation that our iniquities may not be our ruin; that He would restore, preserve and secure the liberties of this and all the other British American colonies, and make the land a mountain of Holiness, and habitation of righteousness forever.” Amen Johnathan Trumbull