A CALL TO PRAYER FOR AmERICA
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A CALL TO PRAYER FOR AmERICA
T united states, its citizens and inhabitants have drawn strength, hope, from the very first continental congress, through every form of adversity to their knees and implored g od a lmighty to protect their families and hroughout the history of the and guidance from prayer. and blessing, americans have fallen to heal their land. THE CONGRESSIONAL PRAYER CAUCUS FOUNDATION, THE THE CONGRESSIONAL CONGRESSIONAL THE THE CONGRESSIONAL CONGRESSIONAL PRAYER PRAYER CAUCUS PRAYER CAUCUS PRAYER CAUCUS FOUNDATION, CAUCUS FOUNDATION, FOUNDATION, FOUNDATION, INC. INC.INC. INC. INC. the freedom upon which america is founded affords the right to any individual to decline to pray if he or she so desires . h owever , that same freedom allows those who believe in the power of prayer to utilize that great opportunity to ask g od to bless and sustain our nation . ACALL TO PRAYER FOR AmERICA AACALL ACALL ACALL CALL TO TO PRAYER TO PRAYER TO PRAYER PRAYER FOR FOR FOR AmERICA FOR AmERICA AmERICA AmERICA that freedom is not diminished merely because one is elected to public office . 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sincerity their belief of that their of that their belief belief that that adding your ,.pray and further join us by praying for godfrom ’s continued blessing on sincerity this country .belief odheal heal a. merica g odgcould gcould ga od g could od heal could od merica a could merica heal heal .a merica a. merica . . t hank you for your faithfulness and for standing with us . i t is our sincere belief that g od will hear oon thereafter , these m embers formed ongressional paucus rayer c aucus vigilantly watch and to and s oon thereafter thereafter ,oon these thereafter thereafter m embers m,embers these ,formed these m formed embers m the embers the cformed ongressional cthe formed the c ongressional p c rayer ongressional prayer c cpaucus rayer pto rayer vigilantly to ceaucus vigilantly cto aucus towatch vigilantly to watch vigilantly and and to watch to watch and to to soon sthe soon sof prayers h, isthese people and heal this land .ongressional mc ay gthe od bless you and may h continue to bless and sustain protect the right of individuals to pray in a merica . t heir vision for the c aucus inspired them to form the protect protect the u the protect right protect right of individuals ofthe right individuals to individuals of pray to individuals in a in to merica apray to merica pray . in t heir .ain tmerica heir a vision merica vision . tfor heir . tfor the heir vision the cvision aucus cfor aucus for the inspired the inspired c aucus cthem aucus them inspired toinspired form to form them the them the to form to form the the the nited sthe tates ofright aof merica . pray congressional paucus rayer c aucus oundation incis a-non -non partisan ,-non -non profit organization designed congressional congressional congressional crayer p ongressional p rayer c cpaucus rayer pfrayer oundation fcoundation aucus cfaucus ,fioundation nc ,f.ioundation nc which ., which ,. iwhich nc a is ,non .inc a which non -is . partisan which partisan is a is ,anon non -,partisan non -profit -partisan profit ,organization ,organization non -profit -profit organization designed organization designed designed designed to support the call of aback merica to prayer to support to support the to the call support to call support of a the of merica a the call merica call of a back of merica to aback prayer merica to prayer back . back to . prayer to. prayer . . it ness the following signatures as of the 7th day of m arch in the year of our l ord 2015. th th 7 th of thm arch, 2015, members of c ongress and state legislators from all across a merica the day the n the 7othn 7day nday of the nm of the 7arch m7day arch , 2015, day of , 2015, m of members arch mmembers arch , 2015, of , 2015, cof members ongress cmembers ongress of and cof and ongress state congress state legislators and legislators and state state from legislators from legislators all all across from across from aall merica aall across merica across america america on o o o gathered for the purpose of calling the back nation to. back prayer . they realized the for a merica turn back gathered gathered for gathered for the gathered the purpose purpose for for of thecalling of the purpose calling purpose the of the nation calling of nation calling theback the nation to back nation prayer to prayer back they to . they prayer to realized prayer realized . they the . they the realized need realized need forneed the for america the need a merica need for to for turn a tomerica turn ato merica back back to turn to turn back back to g od and prayer , not for a single day or a single month , but to pray “ without ceasing .” a ccordingly , this to g to od gand od and to prayer g to prayer od g , not and od, not and for prayer for prayer a single , anot single , not for dayfor day aor single aa or single single a day single day month or month a orsingle ,abut single , but to month pray to month pray , but “ without , but “to without pray to ceasing pray “ without ceasing “ without .” a.”ccordingly ceasing accordingly ceasing .” a,.”ccordingly this a, ccordingly this , this , this dayrespectfully we and issue humbly issue this “cpto all to pall rayer for a and invite you to join us in this call by call dayday we respectfully we dayrespectfully day we respectfully we and respectfully and humbly humbly and issue and humbly this humbly this “cissue all “cissue all to this this rayer “p crayer all “ cfor to for apto merica rayer a pmerica rayer for and for merica invite a” merica invite you you and invite join to invite join us you in us you to this injoin to this call join us call by in usthis by in this call by by ” merica ”aand ” and ”to adding your name , and further join us by praying for g od ’ s continued blessing on this country . adding adding your your adding name adding name , and your , and your further name further name , and join , and join further us by further uspraying byjoin praying join us for by us for g praying by od g praying ’sod continued ’sfor continued for godg’sblessing od continued ’sblessing continued on this on blessing this blessing country country on this on . this .country country . . W you for your faithfulness and forand standing .with iour tsincere is our sincere belief that g od hear t hank you you for for your your you faithfulness you for faithfulness for your your faithfulness and faithfulness and for for standing standing and for with for standing with us standing .with us i t .iswith i tus our is us . us isincere t .isi tbelief our is belief our sincere that sincere that gbelief od gbelief will odthat will hear that gwill hear od gwill od will hear hear t hank t hank t hank t hank the prayers of hof isand people heal this land .od m ay g bless you and may h e may continue to bless and sustain the the prayers prayers of theh of the prayers is h people prayers is people h of is and heal hpeople isand heal people this and this land and heal land . heal mthis ay . mthis g ay land gland bless od .m bless ay .od you mg ay you od and gbless od and may bless you may h eyou and h continue e and continue may hto e h continue bless to e continue bless and and to sustain bless to sustain bless and and sustain sustain the u nited s tates of a merica . the the united united sthe tates sthe u tates nited of ua nited of merica sa tates merica states . of .aofmerica america . . W W W W W th th the th th of th m arch in the year of our l ord 2015. it ness the following signatures 7the day it ness it ness the the following it ness following it ness thesignatures the following signatures following as signatures of as signatures the ofasthe 7of as 7day of asday of of m of the 7arch m7day arch in day ofthe in m ofthe arch year m arch year in of the our in of the our year l ord year lof ord 2015. our of 2015. our l ord l ord 2015. 2015.