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Bachmann Explaines Why God Blessed America
Founders discovered key to success in the Bible
WND
WASHINGTON — The congresswoman sees America as a miracle.
It was a miracle the ragtag, underfed and underfunded Revolutionary Army could beat Great Britain, the strongest military power on Earth.
And it was a miracle that a fragile democracy, the only one of its kind in the world, would go on to become the greatest military and economic force the world has ever known.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., said, however, there is a simple explanation.
Americans didn’t make a king our sovereign. We didn’t make government our sovereign. We made God our sovereign.
WND asked Bachmann to explain why the founders believed God blessed America, because she is hosting “Washington: A Man of Prayer, 2014″ on May 7 in the U.S. Capitol.
The congresswoman said God blessed America because the founders recognized the strength of our nation wasn’t dependent upon themselves, their education, their status or their wealth. It is dependent upon the hand of an almighty and sovereign God.
The founders believed, she said, that just as God blessed the children of Israel, that “if we humbled ourselves, if we bowed our hearts and our heads before holy God, then God would hear from heaven. And if we confessed our sins before God, He would hear that confession, forgive this land and He would build it up.”
The founders, Bachmann told WND, “knew their own efforts would not be enough to bring about this nation. They knew it had to be dependent upon Him.”
President George Washington believed that the fate of the new country rested in its citizens’ fidelity to God. That is why he dedicated America to God.
“Washington: A Man of Prayer, 2014″ commemorates the events of April 30, 1789, when, after being sworn in at Federal Hall, President Washington, accompanied by Congress, proceeded to St. Paul’s Chapel where, as one of his first official acts, the president offered a prayer of dedication to God on America’s behalf.
Reposted with permission
