From: heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 1997 6:10 PM
To: Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup
Subject: Thanks to our heavenly Father
From: David G. Hallowell
To: "Eddie Chumney" <heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>,
Subject: Thanks to our heavenly Father
Thanksgiving Proclamation -- 1863
It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their
dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their
sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope
that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to
recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures
and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed
whose God is the Lord.
We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals,
are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war
which now desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted
upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of
national reformation as a whole people?
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of
heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and
prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no
other nation has ever grown.
But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious
hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched
and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the
deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were
produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-
sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving
grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be
solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one
heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do
therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United
States, and also those who are as sea and those who are
sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last
Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our
beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.
~ Abraham Lincoln 1863
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Prayer of Thanksgiving 1997
G O D B L E S S M Y A M E R I C A
I thank You Lord for her. I praise you for that liberty
which, provides the rich soil in which grows the
strongest ferment of invention, the greatest hope of
justice and a deep love of You who are Love personified.
America did not invent thanks-giving but perhaps her strength
is secreted in the very fact that somehow from that first
Pilgrim feast through all these many years she has continued
to officially and (many)privately set aside a time for thanking
You for your bounty, and by her example taught others to do
The same. "In God we Trust," is hopefully more than a slogan
but a continuing reality for a people of destiny. May it be so?
How carefully and creatively You have guarded and guided me
through this year, dear Father. What miracles, excitement and
protection, what fellowship and faith, what wisdom and courage
You have imparted. What lessons in patience, persistance,
provision and potent power you have surprised us with.
You are truly King of all kings. You are Lord of Lords.
You have the secrets of the universe resident in Your very Word,
yet you stoop to grace me with Your mighty Presence. How my soul
delights in My Saviour.
Through all my life what grace and mercy You have shown
this poor useless servant. How wonderfully patient You have
been when I rebelled, when I tried to go my own way, when
I said, "but" instead of "Yes Father." Then just when all seemed
lost you heard my repentant cry for "H E L P," cleansed and rescued me,
and healed my broken spirit, and restored our broken relationship, and
applied the sweet salve of Your Holy Spirit to comfort and guide me
once again.
Then each sweet lesson as it came on time, in its time; each more precious
than the one before, which in its own time seemed such a pinnacle as to
never be surmounted. What a glorious God! What depths of Wisdom.
What tender Mercies. What unfathomable Love. What boundless possibilities.
What living Joy!
How can I help but praise Thee. What a paltry 'Thanks' my best effort
looks compared with Your ever increasing blessing and love.
Thank you God for being....and for being there when.....
well You know all of the 'whens.'
Thank you for my friends in the faith who heard Your voice and responded
thus filling this stream which by faith is on the way to becoming a river
of blessing to us and our ministry to the hurting ones in Crimea. Thank
you for using me here.
Thank you above all else, that my name is written in Your book in Heaven.
In that, as you taught us, I truly rejoice. H A L L E L U J A H !!!!
Always-ever in and by the authority of the Name above every Name,
Yeshua HaMeshiach/Jesus Christ /Eesous Hristos, Amen.
~ David G. Hallowell 1997
May His peace in you increase,
David
The Lord's Phone No. - Jeremiah 33:3
333017, Ukraine, Crimea
Simferopol, 51st Army Street, D49, Kv1
Sensitive mail use...P. O. Box 2
Rev. David Gerry Hallowell
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From: "terry and margaret Law"
To: <Heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>
Subject: thanksgiving
This is the time of the year that we take time to be thankful for the
many blessings in our lives. I have been on internet for several
months and found this site through Hay'did. I am so thankful for
the teaching - I am learning new things all the time and challenged to
think, meditate and grow. Thank you for becoming my mishpacah.
May the L-rd bless you abundantly.
Margaret
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