A Covenant for America's Second 250 Years - Part 1 by Mike Sharman
In the name of God, Amen. 1
We humble ourselves before the divine Author of our individual and national existence 2
and ask Him to provide a safe journey for us and our children through our nation’s next two hundred fifty years. 3
Almighty God rules over the universe. He is the Lord of our bodies and our minds. 4
He presides in the councils of nations. 5
He is the great Provider of all public and private good 6 that was, that is, or that will be. 7
Throughout our history, He has been our constant friend. 8
Humbly we approach His throne with praise for the wonders which He has done and with gratitude for His
glorious light of the gospel, whereby, through the merits of the gracious Redeemer, we may ourselves become
the heirs of God’s eternal glory. 9
We commit to Him that our first and principal desire is to assist our families and neighbors to come to the true
worship of God as He is revealed in the Bible. 10
We acknowledge that the Bible is itself the government of the People, by the People, and for the People. 11
We remain convinced that the only legitimate purpose of government is to promote the welfare of mankind 12 and
to secure God-given rights 13, therefore, we should choose leaders who entirely love and will promote the
common good. 14 Our public officials need to be praying people and a prayed-for people. 15
We ask the God of Wisdom, the Great Governor of the World, to encourage our leaders to create laws that
would honor Him and be in keeping with His Word. 16
We recognize that our blessings of liberty cannot be
preserved unless we firmly adhere to 17 the foundations of
our national policy which were laid in the eternal rules
which God Himself ordained. 18 When we as individuals
are not influenced by those moral principles, we look in
vain for public virtue. 19
Recognition of the Supreme Being has always been the
first and most basic expression of Americanism 20 , but
even those who do not believe in God receive the
blessings of our nation’s settled and quiet Government 21
because God’s fundamental principles of liberty formed
the basis on which our nation’s laws were erected. 22
We realize, however, that we are a nation of differing and often competing faiths, a body politic comprised of
freemen, rather than a religious dictatorship imposed upon the unwilling. 23
The manner in which we carry out the duty we owe to our Creator can be directed only by reason and conviction, and not by force or violence. 24
Our citizenship duties are to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. 25
Bigotry is simply inconsistent with our declaration 26 that Creator God made all men equally free, endowed with inherent
rights for the enjoyment of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 27
These truths are self-evident and need no other proof 28, and we will not, and can not, sell these gifts from God,
or give them away. 29
We depend solely upon the Great Arbiter of the Universe by whom empires rise and fall 30 and the Invisible Hand
31 which has given us the choicest bounties of Heaven. We 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. We humble
ourselves before God’s power, confess our national sins, and pray for His forgiveness. 32
LORD, we sing “In God Is our Trust” to you in a united chorus. 33
Grant us a new birth of freedom in You, so that our government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth 34, but shall continue
as one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 35
All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ Thy Son and Our Savior. 36
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