FASTING, PRAYING, STUDYING AND LIVING FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD NOVEMBER 25, 2021

From: Paul Gage

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FASTING, PRAYING, STUDYING AND LIVING FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD NOVEMBER 25, 2021   To the Dear Saints of God all Around the World,  No matter where you live or what struggles of life you face, God is always the best answer. I Thessalonians 5 is a good reference for today, especially verse 18 which reads; "In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."  The following is an excerpt from today's "American Minute" by William Federer. You can read the entire selection by going to The American Minute. At the Bicentennial Celebration of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, December 22, 1820, Daniel Webster declared:  "We have come to this Rock, to record here our homage for our Pilgrim Fathers; our sympathy in their sufferings; our gratitude for their labors ... and our attachment to those principles of civil and religious liberty, for which they encountered the dangers of the ocean, the storms of heaven, the violence of savages, disease, exile, and famine ...

... We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene of our history was laid; where the hearths and altars of New England were first placed; where Christianity, and civilization ... made their first lodgment, in a vast extent of country, covered with a wilderness."

Governor William Bradford wrote of the Pilgrims:  "They shook off the yoke of Anti-Christian bondage, and as ye Lord's free people, joined themselves (by a covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in ye fellowship of ye Gospel, to walk in all his ways, made known or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavors, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them."

On November 12, 1620, the first full day in the New World, Governor Bradford described the Pilgrims' thankfulness:  "Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element."

Pilgrim elder William Brewster commented:  "The church that had been brought over the ocean now saw another church, the first-born in America, holding the same faith in the same simplicity of self-government under Christ alone."  The following comes from the 1970 Daily Bread:" There is so much of beauty and joy in the world that there should never be a time when we cannot praise God. Life has so much more meaning when our eyes are opened to our blessings rather than to our trials. When our hearts go out in praise ot God, we shall have continual freshness in our lives that will always bring new hope and courage for all our days.  HAPPY THANKSGIVING! God Bless Paul Gage