Should America estalblish this as the "American's Prayer"?

Question

American's Prayer

Our Almighty Father, whom art in Heaven, whom art creator of all existence, and the only true and living God. Hallowed be your name. We approach your throne in prayer.

This day you have given and provided with the golden sun shining on beautiful nature, Thank thee. In this day as we love, live, and labor may we do all of our deeds in your accordance. Thankfullness to you for all of the blessing given from you. Thankfullness to you for your son, our Lord and Savior. You so loved the world you gave your son to redeem mankind, he gave his life upon the cross of calvary and you ressurected him and he opened the life gate that whom that believe may not perish but have everlasting life. He is now at your right hand, Thank thee.

May we seek you and your kingdom: Your kingdom come and your will be done here on earth as it is in Heaven. Father, we are greatful and thankful for this united land of America. Our great land of liberty built on your foundation and under you, the only true and living God. May our hopes of our country be built upon your rock and no other rock that leads to sinking sand. Let not our enemies, nor the gates of Hades, nor the chief evil being prevail against it. Our faith, the one and only faith let us have and none other that our country undivided and whole can hear and have the ability read and speak your word which is truth and may the truth make us free. Let us always be free to worship you the only true and living God not as a privilidge but as commanded. Let your Gospel be heared for mankind to obey for salvation. Our trust is in you from our faith by hearing your true word. Let us always follow your commandments first, have given to us our blessing from you of food, water, garmets, shelter, and toilage. May the children of this land grow in to good Christian individuals and leaders of tommorow. Be with us when we help our fellow citizens when they are in need. Let us join hands in brother hood in our loved for our blessed land. Let us not be lead into temptation, but delivered from evil and with your rod and staff comfort us and from that may we fear no evil nor the dark valley of death. May our leaders lead us with in your word, commandments, guidance, and accordance. May brave and bold men and women who defend this land for it's people recieve your love, support, protection, courage, and comfort. May our citizens live freely with liberty and justice for all. O' Father may this great nation have your love, mercy, grace, and glory shed on to it. Long may this land live and have it's foundation built upon your rock. May this country be stong in your will and live forever and ever. May your grace be with this land forever. Let us all have faith, hope, love, knowledge of your word, and belief inside of us always and endlessly. For the kingdom, glory, and power is yours and in your hands forever and ever. Worthy art thou and How great thou art.

Forgive us all of our errors, debts, and shortcomes. Father' Thank you for all. It is in and through the name of your son Jesus Christ, the only mediator between you and mankind that we pray.

Amen.

Answer 1

Go back to Afghanistan, Osama. Traitor.

If you people are so hell-bent on this kind of thing, why don't you just leave? America doesn't want you.

Answer 2

No!
For one it's too long. For another it's too specific (even assuming most people believe in God or some Higher Power many many do not believe in Jesus Christ).
If I were to think of a prayer for Americans...off the top of my head I would say the Serenity Prayer.

Answer 3

Its a bit long. But I wish more people felt and knew these things. It seems that Evil has been taking (deceiving) people with avenging vigor and this nice prayer would not be accepted by many. The end to all this will be here soon. God Bless

Answer 4

You seem to forget that America is a secular nation not a theocracy.

I'm an American but I'm not a christian and neither are many other Americans. You also seem to forget that not everyone follows your religion.

Keep your prayers out of secular government.

Answer 5

No we should not, because our government does not exist to propagate any one theology over another. The last time humans lived under such a government, it was called the Dark Ages.

Answer 6

Too long...American are far too impatient to take the time required to memorize a prayer this long and then to actually say it repeatedly!

Answer 7

You can pray all you want. But we shall have no American Prayer.

Answer 8

Absolutely not.

Answer 9

Im in! Where do I sign up. BTW if I was to post this, it would get erased. Almost every time my question or answer has a prayer in it, it disappears. God bless!!

Oh and contrary to what many of your responders would think... Our forefathers would be proud...

"America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions. The legions which she sends forth are armed, not with the sword, but with the cross. The higher state to which she seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God."

~ Calvin Coolidge, 30th American President

1 Chrisropher Columbus was motivated by his Christian faith to make his difficult voyage.
2 The Pilgrims clearly stated that they came to the New World to glorify God and to advance the Christian faith.
3 The Puritans who followed the Pilgrims to New England, created a Bible based commonwealths in order to practice a representative government that was modeled on their church covenants. Their more than 100 governmental covenants and compacts essentially laid the foundation for Americas Constitution, which was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1789.
4 This nation was founded in large measure as a sanctuary for religious dissidents, seeking asylum from religious pesecution and seeking the opportunity to live in freedom under the laws of God.
5 The education of the settlers and the founders of America was uniquely Christian and Bible based.More than 40% of the signers of the Declaration of Independence had seminary degrees.
6 The Great Awakening, areligious revival, was a key factor in uniting the seperate pre - Revelutionary War colonies and increasing communication among them.
7 Many of the clergy in American colonies "preached liberty" The pulpits of New England were especially important in helping to bring about independence.. Long before the general population understood the threat to American liberty, some colonial ministers saw what was coming and boldly spoke out about it from their pulpits.
8 Biblical Christianity was the driving force behind the men who championed American independence.
9 Christianity played a significant role in the development of our nations birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence.The Declaration of Independence metions God four times.
10 The Biblical understanding of the sinfullness of man was the guiding principle behind the United States Constitution.. The framers of the Constitution drew their inspiration from the Bible. They intended America to be one nation under God.


George Washington
Taken straight from George Washingtons prayer journal..
O most glorious God in Jesus Christ, my merciful and loving father, I acknowledge and confess my guilt, in the weak and imperfect performance of the duties of this day..I have called on Thee for pardon and forgiveness of sins...sounds pretty Christian to me.Unless diests pray to Jesus.Not!

official actions of Jefferson -
legislative and military chaplains
establishing a national seal using a religious symbol
including the word" God " in our national motto
official days of fasting and prayer at the state level
punishing sabbath breakers
punishing marriages contrary to biblical lawpunishing irreverent soldiers
protecting the property of churches
requiring oaths saying "so help me God takenon the Bible
granting land to Christian churches to reach the Indians
granting land to Christian schools
Allowing government property and facilitiesto be used for worship
using the Bible and non denominational religious publications to be used in public schools(He was involved in three different school districts and the plan in each one of these required that the Bible be taught in each our public schools
Allowing clergymen to hold pubic office, and encouraging them to do so
Purchasing religious books to stock public libraries
funding clergy salaries in Indian mission schools
Funding construction of church building for Indians
Exempting churches from taxation
Establishing professional schools of theology( He wanted to over fromGeneva, Switzerland the entire faculty of Calvin's theological seminary and establish it at the University of Virginia)
Treaties requiring other nations to guarantee religious freedom
including religious speeches and prayers in ceremonies
Doesn't sound like the actions of one who would remove the freedom of worship or "separate church and state." The separation of church and state IS NOT in our Constitution!

John Adams proposed that when Americas future citizens celebrated The Declaration of Independence, they should have religious services to thank God for what He had brought about. President Adams said Independence Day should" be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival, commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward and forevermore."

John Adams wrote and distributed a book for 10 year olds that was to teach them how to read the Bible while he was in office.

John Adams warned his countrymen:
We have no government armed with power capable of controlling with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strong cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholy in adequate to the government of any other.

The vast majority of delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention were professing Christians. Only Ben Franklin and James Wilson of Pennsylvania were known to be Deists.

Ben Franklins speech at the Constitutional Convention:
Mr. President. The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasoning with each other - our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, is me thinks a meloncholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding.
We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those republics which, have been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist.And we have viewed modern states all around Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances.
In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark, to find political truth and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understanding?
In the beginning of the contes with Great Britan, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for Divine protection - Our prayers,Sir, were heard & they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending Providence in our favor.
To that kind of Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity.And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend?Or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance?
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men.And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice , it is probable that an empire can rise without His aid?
We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that "except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it"(Psalm 127:1) I firmly believe this; I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: we shall be divided by our partial local interests: our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages.
And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war and conquest.
I therefor beg leave to move - that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of heaven, and it's blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service."

Here was probably the least religious of the Founding Fathers calling for prayer and quoting scripture
Congress has opened every session with prayer from the first (September1774)to the most recent.