A Prayer of Thanksgiving

The Following Comments and Prayer were given by Rev. Todd Crouch  at a Community Thanksgiving Service on 11/26/2013 in Bentleyville Pennsylvania.

 We as a nation have been blessed with power, prominence, and strength; we have been “the head and not the tail” …

 “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,.” James: 1:17-

 All that America has, has been bestowed upon us by the Great God.  For all that is ours’ we should offer thanks.

The Palmist wrote ,  "He who offerings, the  scarifies of Thanksgiving honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God."  Psalm: 50; 23

The Scripture here tells us, that it honors God when we offer thanks to Him. That is, when we as people, or as Christians, bow our heads and give thanks to the Lord God He is honored, and when we thank Him, the way is prepared for us to see His salvation. If we thank Him we may see His salvation in the challenges that face our nation.

 Alexis de Tocqueville the French noblemen and sociologist came to America and wanted to understand why this nation, so young a nation had risen to a position of power and prominence so quickly and was so blessed and so great.

He traveled across this land and studied American society; He spoke with the people in the streets , in the fields , in small towns and cities.  He spoke with people in the class room, the court house and even in the board rooms.

His findings were published in his two volume work Democracy in America, published in 1835 & 1840.

  

de Tocqueville noted  that there was  among Americans a common  faith.

Speaking of America’s relationship with and toward the God of the Bible and the blessings which flowed out of that relationship.

“Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secrets of her (America’s) genius and power”

“America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great”

“Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts-the cradle of its infancy, and the source of its claims”
    

 That is, de Tocqueville was seeing that the blessings of freedom which produces a great nation is produced, guided and sustained by Biblical Christianity, which is a relationship with God not a religion.

Please join me in prayer:

Thanks Giving Prayer

Father, we here now, together as a community both municipally and as part of the community of the Christian Church, thank You for the nation that we have been blessed to live and walk in.

Thank You for the freedoms and the blessings of Liberty. May they never cease or be taken from us, nor squandered by us.

Thank You for the nation whose history is like no other's.  For the heritage of great men and woman who built this land under Your province and leading them to established tenants of government, that have given us a general climate  of justness and fairness to live under. 

For the enforcement of just laws that give us a tranquil nation that we can live and walk without fear.

Thank You for the resources that are found upon and within this continent , for the land to sow and reap.  For the surplus of the field and the harvest, and the rain in due season. 

For the economic affluence and general prosperity that, we as a people have been blessed with.

Thank You, for the defense of this nation, and the arms by which we have been blessed with victory in times of strife.  Please keep us safe, be watchful over us, as the Psalmist wrote “unless the Lord keeps the city the guards maintain a useless watch”

You Lord , have made us the head and not the tail. Let us uses this prominence for the good of others and the defense of liberty. 

Let us recall what the Scripture says “ to whom much is given much is required”.

Let the peace never be shattered.  Give us the peace that comes only from You.  A peace that defies, and rises above, and is within us in spite of circumstances.

Thank You Lord, that we here, are still able to meet together without intrusion, regulation or interference. Please maintain this freedom,  that the word of God may ever go forth from the pulpits of the Churches. 

Thank You Lord for the great heritage of the Churches in this land.  May there be revival and unity break forth in and among them all. Let The Holy Spirit, Father, make You  known ever among us,  for as Apostle Paul wrote:

‘Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is Freedom”

Above all Lord, we thank You  for Your Son Jesus, and all the innumerable and uncountable blessings that are ours in Him, for all that He has,  and,  yet will ever do for us, and for Who He is..

 Let His name alone be exulted, for in Him are the answers to all needs both material and immaterial. For without Him, all these blessings can never be obtained or sustained.

Thank You Lord for all that has, is and will be ours.  Let us see Your salvation in the great challenges that lay before us all.  Heal our land O Lord, let us be the people, individually and collectively, that You have called us to be.

Let us be a united people under God.

And let it be, that Your Son be given the glory. In Him and in Him alone are found the answers to our nation’s challenges.  Let Jesus’ name alone be exulted in this land and beyond, for in Him are the answers to the great challenges that we face.

Thank You Lord for all that is ours’, all the Blessings that You have given. 

In Jesus' Name we thank You , and ask this.  Amen.
 

Rev.Todd Crouch, Pastor

The Fountain of Life Church a Congregation of Grace Communion
2101 Old National Pike.

Washington, Pennsylvania.   www.gcfountainoflife.org

The Fountain of Life is heard  on the RKP Radio Network 1710 and 1670 AM in Washington and North Franklin ,and 1790 AM  in the Arden Fair Grounds area of Washington Pennsylvania, and on 1710 AM in Bentleyville and Monongahela, Pennsylvania. And online around the world at www.rkpradio.com