{"id":15877,"date":"2012-05-03T08:16:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T12:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/?p=15877"},"modified":"2013-04-03T02:39:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T06:39:44","slug":"national-day-of-prayer-2012-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/national-day-of-prayer-2012-president-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"National Day of Prayer 2012: the prayers President Obama has yet to proclaim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Thursday, May 3, 2012, marks the 61<sup>st<\/sup> anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/nationaldayofprayer.org\/\">National Day of Prayer<\/a>. On this day, millions of believers will bow their knees and raise their voices in praise and petition. In churches, courthouses, school auditoriums, and public squares, people will unite together for one common purpose &#8211; to see\u00a0their nation\u00a0turn to God.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer has been interwoven into the culture of our country since its onset. In 1863 Abraham Lincoln released a proclamation for a day of \u201chumiliation, prayer and fasting.\u201d He <a href=\"http:\/\/showcase.netins.net\/web\/creative\/lincoln\/speeches\/fast.htm\">wrote<\/a> of America:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is part of President Obama\u2019s 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/nationaldayofprayer.org\/news\/2010-presidential-proclamation\/2012-proclamation\/\">proclamation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On this National Day of Prayer, we give thanks for our democracy that respects the beliefs and protects the religious freedom of all people to pray, worship, or abstain according to the dictates of their conscience. Let us pray for all the citizens of our great Nation, particularly those who are sick, mourning, or without hope, and ask God for the sustenance to meet the challenges we face as a Nation. May we embrace the responsibility we have to each other, and rely on the better angels of our nature in service to one another. Let us be humble in our convictions, and courageous in our virtue. Let us pray for those who are suffering around the world, and let us be open to opportunities to ease that suffering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn\u2019t have a strong reaction when I first read our president\u2019s proclamation. His prayer seemed cordial, considerate of others, motivational, even. He exhorted us to remember the sick and pray for those who are\u00a0suffering. Although I didn\u2019t find the prayer particularly moving, I wasn\u2019t overly offended by it. Yet as I read through Lincoln\u2019s proclamation, I asked myself something. &#8220;What&#8217;s different about these two proclamations?<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln called for a national day of \u201chumiliation.\u201d He was\u00a0provoking\u00a0Americans to acknowledge their sin, confess their guilt, and repent for their wrongdoing.\u00a0\u00a0When reading our president\u2019s proclamation, I\u00a0wondered, \u201cWhere is the talk of America\u2019s pride, greed, and mockery of God?&#8221; Where is the national mourning over the bloodshed of 54 million babies? Where is the repentance for our booming sex slave industry or prostitution, our divorce rate and adultery? How can we pray for the suffering\u00a0and forget the millions\u00a0living with\u00a0years of\u00a0sorrow\u00a0from post-abortion syndrome? How can we ask God to help us meet the challenges we face, all the while neglecting the fact that those challenges have roots in our murderous practices? We might have a better economy if the millions who could contribute to it hadn\u2019t been destroyed through abortion.<\/p>\n<p>It really all comes down to this &#8211; Lincoln\u00a0recognized America&#8217;s guilt, while our president refuses to. Earlier in Lincoln\u2019s proclamation, he <a href=\"http:\/\/showcase.netins.net\/web\/creative\/lincoln\/speeches\/fast.htm\">wrote<\/a>:<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And whereas 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 only are blessed whose God is the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>And, insomuch as 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 but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lincoln clearly wondered if the \u201cawful calamity&#8221; of the Civil War was perhaps a punishment for the sins of a nation &#8211; the sins he would later\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachushistory.org\/second-great-awakening-age-reform\/approaches\/lincolns-second-inaugural-address\">describe<\/a> in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> inaugural address as the bloodshed of innocent slaves.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-15880 alignright\" style=\"margin: 15px;\" title=\"pdm8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pdm8-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pdm8-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pdm8.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0respect President Obama and pray for him with sincerity. I&#8217;m not seeking to\u00a0point the finger at him or\u00a0judge his prayer.\u00a0What I&#8217;m\u00a0declaring is that we need presidents and leaders who will acknowledge the evil of abortion and confess it as such. We all\u00a0must recognize\u00a0our national\u00a0guilt. If millions of Christians are gathering for\u00a0the National Day of Prayer, let\u00a0us all repent and mourn over\u00a0the blood-soaked\u00a0land we call home.\u00a0Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass spoke these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyisaweapon.com\/defcon1\/douglassjuly4.html\">sentiments<\/a> concerning the church\u00a0in a speech\u00a0before the president, leaders, and citizens for\u00a0the Fourth of July in 1852:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American church is guilty, when viewed in connection with what it is doing to uphold slavery; but it is superlatively guilty when viewed in its connection with its ability to abolish slavery. The sin of which it is guilty is one of omission as well as of commission. Albert Barnes but uttered what the common sense of every man at all observant of the actual state of the case will receive as truth, when he declared that &#8220;There is no power out of the church that could sustain slavery an hour, if it were not sustained in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let the religious press, the pulpit, the Sunday School, the conference meeting, the great ecclesiastical, missionary, Bible and tract associations of the land array their immense powers against slavery, and slave-holding; and the whole system of crime and blood would be scattered to the winds, and that they do not do this involves them in the most awful responsibility of which the mind can conceive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am grateful for the National Day of Prayer. I\u00a0look forward to taking\u00a0part in an event in my state. With the many prayers we pray, I hope repentance for abortion is on the top of the list.\u00a0I don&#8217;t want a\u00a0pep-rally. I want desperate prayers, brokenness, and mourning that bring conviction and turn hearts towards righteousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrast our president&#8217;s National Day of Prayer proclamation with that of Abraham Lincoln, over a century ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":15880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>National Day of Prayer 2012: the prayers President Obama has yet to proclaim - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/national-day-of-prayer-2012-president-obama\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"National Day of Prayer 2012: the prayers President Obama has yet to proclaim - 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