If your clothing is provocative, even though it may be your heart’s desire to remain pure for your spouse, you are sending the message to men, to boys, that you are ready for that sexual activity now. You're sending a conflicting message and you're making it hard for your brother to remain pure. When your clothing draws attention through its tightness, or through the flesh that it reveals, away from your face, where you could be treated as a person of intelligence and dignity, and to those parts of your body which have sexual functions, you are asking for trouble and you are causing your brother to stumble... Do we want our wives and our daughters to be looked upon as sex objects for the gratification of other men?
Ligon Duncan

Thanksgiving Prayers Of Freedom

Thanksgiving Prayers Of Freedom

THANKSGIVING PRAYERS OF FREEDOM

Our Heavenly Father:

It is indeed a privilege to stand here today and speak to you openly and without fear.

It is by your supreme grace and mercy that we enjoy such a regal honor. Your love has provided the means for each of us to enjoy blessings beyond human imagination.

However, multitudes of humanity have lived and died upon this earth and never experienced the freedom to speak in open assembly of their love for you.

It is not without cost that we enjoy OUR present freedom. Others, before us, have paid the ultimate price to buy for us the liberties of this great country in which we live.

They have followed the example of Jesus who GAVE His life so that others might have a more abundant life.

Your Word directs us to “give everyone what [we] owe him” whether that be taxes, respect, or honor, we should not let our debts go unpaid. Therefore, today, we are gathered here to offer the respect and honor due to the unsung heroes of our nation.

Although we may not know their individual names, I am certain that you have precise records of every act of courage that has ever been performed for the love of God and fellowman. Although we can only honor the collective acts of these self-less people, you will reward every act individually.

Help us today to set our hearts and our minds to the proper recognition of those who have paid heavily for the freedom that we enjoy today.

Guide each phase of this celebration of their courageous acts.

We ask these things in the Lovely Name of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

AMEM.



Dear Lord:

We thank you for the sacrifices that have been made which allow us the freedoms that we enjoy today.

Thank you for the death of your Son Jesus on the cross that we might be free from the bondage of sin.

Thank you for the many courageous deeds which our brothers and sisters have performed in their attempts to secure and retain our God-given rights.

Thank you for the rights of FREE ASSEMBLY & RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.

Thank you for all of the rights which we, as Americans, often take for granted but which MANY in the world today hold so sacred that they will give their lives in defense of them.

Thank you for all of the loyal Americans before us who were like-minded in their appreciation of these rights and were willing to do their part to assure that such rights are NEVER denied.

Give us the moral courage to join them.

Whether we meet the aggressor in physical battle or whether we defeat him in lawful elections, we commit ourselves to the task of assuring that our children (and their children, should you tarry) will also enjoy the rights of a free America.

By your grace, we are assured of the victory!

In Christ’s Holy Name,

AMEM.

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