Part of celebrating Independence Day is remembering why our forefathers fought and what they accomplished. Thanks to them, we live in the greatest country in the world. 
Two hundred thirty-six years ago this Fourth of July, 57 men signed the document that created the American republic. They represented a people of about 3 million grouped in a series of 13 colonies along the eastern seaboard of the United States. They were all sought by the commander of the British forces in North America for sedition and treason. It was a group of wanted men. The commander had behind him the resources of the greatest military power on earth. The wanted men had behind them the beginnings of a government from scratch, they had no army to speak of, but they had something mighty in the way of a dream for freedom and independence.
There was no way for them to know they were beginning the greatest constitutional republic in history. The republic they began has influence around the world like none other. The constitution this republic designed provides freedom to its citizens like nothing created before and for all those years has continued to do so. There is nothing that has ever matched it and nothing ever will.
What is common among us now is a denial of what made our country the great rock that it is. Our current President has been since he was elected in denial of the Constitution of the United States and has stuck to his assertion that the US Constitution is open to change. He says, “It allowed for protests, movements, and the assimilation of new ideas that would repeatedly, decade after decade, change the world—a constant forward movement that continues to this day.” He believes there is neither form nor firmness in the constitution. He believes all is fluid. Our current standing President takes the position that this liberates us to do whatever we will. He has deliberately broken the constitution many times and our great country is guilty of “willful blindness”.
We as a country have slid a long way down the greased slide toward hell. We have allowed some to erase the major advancement we have enjoyed in the past. Our current government, under our current leadership is growing so fast and furious that we are almost to the point where our government will have more resources than those it governs. Once it reaches that point it may well never be possible to reverse it. It will also be a defeat of democracy, freedom and independence.
Please look at your rights. When they are denied to you, and if the United States continues on its current path, they will and you will feel the oppression quickly. The original principles of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution put every man and woman that has been deprived of their rights in the same place as the Founders on July 4, 1776. Please, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are precious and need to be protected. They are the principles of the United States. Much blood was spilled to obtain them. They are now in jeopardy.
Pray for the healing of our land. Pray for the leadership of our country. Take a stand for what you believe. Be active by voting and supporting the ideals of your choice. I hope freedom is your choice. It is mine. Never in our nation’s rich history have we seen a President who so completely and blatantly disregards our constitution and the laws set in place. If this recklessness is allowed to continue, we will fundamentally lose our nation. Our rights as individuals will be overwhelmed by statism — with every last action being dictated by federal mandates and taxes. And our states will simply become part of federal authority to carry out its desires.
We have an election in just four months. 
It’s time WE THE PEOPLE take a stand! If we sit by silently in the face of this latest direct assault on the rights of the people we will lose all we have and end up with a “Soviet” style government with unlimited power to take away our rights.
Please pray for our nation. Pray that we get back to what began this great land. It began with a desire to have religious freedom and to worship God our own way. It is very unfortuneate for us that mainstream America has forgotten about God. Yes, we as a nation have forgotten God. Paul tells us in Romans 13:1, “Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.” Please wake up and remember God.
Here is a prayer done in the senate on the 4th of July 1861. I truly wish we could have a prayer like this today. Review it and ponder just awhile on how far we have fallen away from God.
The following prayer was offered by Rev. Byron Sunderland, D.D. on July 4, 1861 before the opening session of the U.S. Senate. Almighty and everlasting God, be not angry with us for our sins, which we only confess and deplore; but pardon our offenses and extend to us Thy favor. We thank Thee for Thy goodness on this anniversary of the nation a day tenfold more precious by reason of our present troubles, and sacred to the heart for the ever memorable Declaration of our fathers, in which Thou didst begin more openly to give us a name among the nations of the earth. We thank Thee for all Thy manifold and abundant mercies hitherto to make our nation exceedingly great and glorious; but now disasters have befallen us and darkness broods in the land. And now we ask Thy mercy as the Senate is convening at a most momentous crisis of our history. Give to Thy servants all needed help. Add to their deliberations wisdom and unanimity, and profit and speed to their conclusion. Bless Thy servant, the President of the United States, our veteran Commander-in-Chief, and all that have functions in the civil and military power. May the angel of Thy presence walk in the Cabinet and in the Congress and in the camp, to go before, to purify, and to direct the now greatly and universally-awakened love of country. And we beseech Thee to guide us, to overrule and order all things, and so to cause that nothing shall fail, that the disorders of the land may be speedily healed, that peace and concord may prevail, that truth and righteousness may be established, and that Thy Church and Kingdom may flourish in a larger peace and prosperity, for Thy Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen. (Source: Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, first session, new series, 1, 4 July 1861.) (Contributor: American.edu)
Do you see what I mean?
I have placed three good websites below should you want to educate yourself on our history.
1) http://www.ouramericanrevolution.org/
2) http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html
Heal Our Land, O God.
“The Tubthumper”
