1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

 

Today’s Morning Message is a part of President Andrew Jackson’s Farewell Address in 1837. Read it carefully and pray for our great nation, America.

 

But you must remember, my fellow citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

 

You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad; your strength and power are well known throughout the civilized world, as well as the high and gallant bearing of your sons.

 

It is from within, among yourselves—from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power—that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.

 

It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard yourselves. You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care.

 

Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.

 

May He who holds in His Hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed and enable you, with pure hearts and pure hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

 

These powerful words were spoken 187 years ago. They are pertinent as we look at our country today. This nation is in a shambles and it is a direct result of “we the people” not standing for Christ and Christian Principles.

 

This may sound like a broken record to you, but our nation is broken; badly broken. The broken pieces of our land are still here. We the Remnant must pick them up and seek the face of God as we use the words of our forefathers to glue our land back together for Christ.

 

It can be done IF we the people, in order to form a more perfect union, will stand for what is right, and turn back to God. Andrew Jackson warned us of what would happen if we became lax and ceased to be vigilant to guard our liberty. This is exactly what we have done. Now, look what has happened.

 

It’s time to be vigilant to protect those freedoms we have left and regain all that has been taken away. We must be a people of sleepless vigilance!

 

God will absolutely….......…turn the tide

 

Praying for sleepless vigilance,             Doreen

 

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