The LORD will not hear our prayers Part 1

Today when we see the direction that our nation is heading, we can clearly see the parallel to what we read about in Isaiah 1.

The society in which we live has become extremely secular to the point of wanting to erase the God of Israel from our everyday lives, replacing Him with false teaching and secular agendas.

With that said, our president – the leader of our country – President Obama, stated in front of the entire world that America – a country that was founded on Christian principles and beliefs by men that feared God – is not a Christian nation.

In saying this, in my opinion, our leader has renounced the founding principles of this country. Principles that according to his agenda, are no longer needed nor wanted, which is in complete contradiction to the beliefs of our founding fathers, and the great men that helped mold and define the values that set this nation apart from others.

In order to share the views of the men that molded this nation, I have collected quotes that dispute statement that President Obama has made.

President George Washington

“The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.”
August 20, 1778

“Almighty and eternal Lord God, the great Creator of heaven and earth, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; look down from heaven in pity and compassion upon me Thy servant, who humbly prorate myself before Thee.”

“Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the council of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States..” “…Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency”

“Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.”
ca. 1789

“The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man, will endeavor so to live, and act, as becomes a Christian Soldier defending the dearest Rights and Liberties of his country.”
July 9, 1776

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports . . . And let us indulge with caution the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion . . . Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle.”

President John Adams

“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: ‘It connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”
July 4, 1821

“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were…. the general principles of Christianity.” June 28, 1813

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Oct. 13, 1789

“Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there contained! Every member would be obliged in conscience to temperance, frugality and industry: to justice, kindness and charity towards his fellow men: and to piety, love and reverence toward Almighty God….What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be.”
Feb. 22., 1756.

“The Christian religion is, above all the Religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of Wisdom, Virtue, Equity, and Humanity. Let the Blackguard Paine say what he will; it is Resignation to God, it is Goodness itself to man.”
July 26, 1796

“Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure than they have it now, they may change their rulers and the forms of government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty.”
June 21, 1776

Abigal Adams

“A patriot without religion, in my estimation, is as great a paradox as an honest man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society? …The Scriptures tell us righteousness exalteth a Nation.”
Letter to husband John Adams 1776.

Patrick Henry

“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here.”
1776

President Thomas Jefferson

“Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”

“The reason that Christianity is the best friend of Government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.”

“Of all systems of morality, ancient of modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to be so pure as that of Jesus.”
1813

“I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man…”

“I have always said and always will say that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, better husbands… the Bible makes the best people in the world.”

“My views- – - are the result of a lifetime of inquiry and reflection, and very different from the anti-Christian imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference of all others—”
April 21, 1803

President James Madison

“Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, unpunished and unrestrained by the magistrate, unless under color of religion any man disturb the peace, the happiness, or safety of society, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.”
ca. 1789

“religion is the basis and Foundation of Government” and “the belief in a God All Powerful, wise and good…. is essential to the moral order of the World and the happiness of men”

President John Quincy Adams

“It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God.”

“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were…. the general principles of Christianity.”

“My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising… It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day… It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.”

“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privileged and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”

President Andrew Jackson

“The Bible is the Rock on which this Republic rests.”

Samuel Adams

“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”
1776

President Abraham Lincoln

- “Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.”

“It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness…”

“I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man.”
1863

“Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.”

President Theodore Roosevelt

“To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.”

“It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men’s lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.”

President Woodrow Wilson

“America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scriptures. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I as of every man and woman in this audience that from this night on they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great book of revelations. That if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by this baptism of the Holy Scripture.”
1911

“I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I ask every man and woman in this audience that from this day on they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great Book (the Bible).”

President Herbert Hoover

“The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.”

Elias Boudinot

“Our country should be preserved from the dreadful evil of becoming enemies of the religion of the Gospel, which I have no doubt, but would be the introduction of the dissolution of government and the bonds of civil society.”
1777-78

Ben Franklin

“I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning….” “A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.”

George Washington Carver

‘The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible’, “In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.”
1939

President Calvin Coolidge

“The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.”
1923

Martin Luther King

“I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land.”
1968

George Mason

“The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.”
1776

President Ronald Reagan

“Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience…without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure…If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.” “Government should uphold–and not undermine–those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.”

President John F. Kennedy

“The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”

Supreme Court Justice

We need to remember this country was founded on Christian principles and a nation that feared God.
John Jay (served from 1789 to 1795)

“The greatest glory of the American Revolution was this: It connected in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”
David Brewer (server from 1890 to 1910)

“This is a religious people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation … We find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth … These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.“
Joseph Story (served from 1812 to 1845)

President Grover Cleveland

“All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.”

In my opinion, if we do not repent to God for the immoral ways in which we are walking as a nation, God will not hear our prayers or our cries in a time of need.
Isaiah 1:15 ESV When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

We as Christians must love the Lord with all our hearts, mind and soul and pray for our nation to turn back to God and honor Him.

Matthew 22:37 ESV And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Love Jesus every day and walk in His ways!

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