CSN - LightWing Messages - Remembering Abraham Lincoln - 2/11/2024
Jesus and Beelzebul
Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see. All the people were astonished and said, “Could this be the Son of David?”
But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.”
Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand. If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?
And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges. But if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
“Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.
“Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come. Matthew 12:22-32 (NIV)
FOUNDER’S MESSAGE:
In the month of January, the messages have evolved from the Strike Force of Prayer effort in calling believers to holiness to Mother Teresa’s message calling some “leaders” to a deeper demonstration of morality in our nation. In comparing that time to this, a descent into a more sinful and decadent society has occurred. From the beginning of the new millennium, and the attacks on 9/11, there seems to have been a teetering back and forth between good and evil across the land. From the time when many Americans were united on 9/11 after the attacks,
when Americans supported our first responders and law and order to a point in which rampant lawlessness has shocked the normal citizens.
In this edition, our messages are focused upon another time in which America was being torn apart and the nation was seemingly on its deathbed. Our first message is from the man who was able to keep his head and held on strongly to the foundations of our nation. The first of our messages is from Abraham Lincoln and is his call for a national day of prayer and fasting: his efforts in a “Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day.” He appealed to the Almighty quite a few times during those dark and terrible days of our nation’s history.
Lincoln had a clarity and presence of mind to question whether “the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for… presumptuous sins…” His words were an appeal to the citizens, but in another way, an appeal to Heaven. We certainly need leaders like Lincoln today, who take seriously the clear and present danger to our Republic. He went on to express on his appeal that: “We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own...” Are we there again?
The second message is one I wrote way back in 2022 in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday in that year as I sensed that people were not just forgetting about Lincoln, but maligning him more and more. Though there has been much written about Lincoln over the years, I am offering my five cents as observations and reflections from reading testimonies from those who knew him, as well as from videos and movies, but also from earnest prayer regarding his historical efforts to preserve the Republic and his personal sacrifice to the preservation of the Union.
Since our Zoom call successfully migrated from Wednesdays to Mondays this past January, and we are hoping the readers who would like to join us could cross the bridge and get on the Zoom calls on Mondays. Our calls this year will follow the same format of having a discussion or an interview linked to the topic covered in the preceding Sunday edition.
Tomorrow, on Lincoln’s birthday, we will have our regular discussion time focusing on the messages regarding good ole’ Mr. Lincoln. Again , we invite our readers to call in and check in with other like-minded readers for mutual support in these turbulent times. Those readers who join us this coming Monday evening can participate in the question and answer session, or just listen. Readers need to reach out if they’re not already on our list to receive a link to the call. Please send an email request to this address: d.jamzon@gmail.com We’ll add you to our mailing list.
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“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14 New International Version
Therefore, may we who are called by His name, approach our Heavenly Father in humility and pray to seek His heart and mind, to seek His mercy for our own transgressions. May we all turn away from our wicked ways may He deliver us from the evil in our midst. May we build His Kingdom and His righteousness on earth as it is in Heaven.
Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day
By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation. March 30, 1863 = Washington, D.C.
Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to 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.
And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.
All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
Senator James Harlan of Iowa, whose daughter later married President Lincoln's son Robert, introduced this Resolution in the Senate on March 2, 1863. The Resolution asked President Lincoln to proclaim a national day of prayer and fasting. The Resolution was adopted on March 3, and signed by Lincoln on March 30, one month before the fast day was observed. Source: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler et al.
Today, unfortunately, Lincoln is controversial to both Libertarians and the Left…
Abraham Lincoln - Still a Great Leader to those who Love the Republic!
By Dennis Jamison ——Bio and Archives--February 12, 2022
Today, some patriotic American people who still care about the Republic may remember that it is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. However, many may not even want to remember his birthday based on their own bias or prejudice. Abraham Lincoln is seemingly still as controversial in our time as he was in his own. The state governments that consider Lincoln as a president to be honored over President’s Day weekend, confuse the purpose of the federal holiday known as 'President’s Day'. However, though some state governments honor Lincoln in such a way, there are others in the old southern states that refuse to honor Lincoln in such a way on President’s Day. The pain of the Civil War endures even into this millennium.
A nation without heroes or great examples of genuine leadership is a nation not fully rooted in its foundation
The federal holiday referred to as President’s Day is really to honor George Washington’s birthday as the first president. However, since the 1971 legislation that created a “one day fits all” President’s Day, a great deal of confusion was created that endures today. Yet, from the 1970s until now, America has changed in a drastic way. Washington and Lincoln are no longer respected the way they once were. The Left has on purposely and repeatedly attacked the characters of these two great men. A nation without heroes or great examples of genuine leadership is a nation not fully rooted in its foundation. Thus, a nation without heroes is a population with a problem of identity--a nation that can be remade in the image or likeness of whom the Left happens to designate as heroes. Their great leaders are Stalin, Mao, or Castro. But, today is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday--still remembered by those who still care about the Republic as a great leader.
Unfortunately, for those challenged by history, or who are ignorant of Lincoln’s greatness, remembering the real Abraham Lincoln is primarily limited to study in U.S. history classes. But these days, history is not taught, “history” is a series of narratives that suffice for honest history. Yet, the great American writer Carl Sandburg likened Abraham Lincoln to a character out of a Russian fairy tale. Many Americans are aware that he was born in a shabby log cabin in the backwoods of Kentucky on February 12th in 1809. Many today, as they peer back into the shadows of history, may consider it quaint, but this man who grew to become president was born essentially into poverty. Humble roots and Mr. Lincoln’s life experiences shaped his choices in life and helped him in struggling with serious adversity during his life to become a decent man and a great president.
“The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll give me a book I haven’t read.”
Actually, Lincoln did not just appear on the scene one day robed in greatness. Although the fabled memories of Lincoln’s birth and early start in life are considered important, they were of little importance until the man seriously considered the prospects of a career in national politics. Realistically, it is not likely a man of Lincoln’s caliber would want to run for political office today, nor would it be likely he would be elected. Lincoln was not a well-educated man, even by the standards in his day. Understandably, Lincoln was not proud of his roots and most of his early life experience, and was certainly not proud of his impoverished education. When requested to provide a brief account of his early years, he did write a “little sketch” as he described it. Lincoln sent it to Jesse W. Fell on December 20, 1859. Lincoln wrote a brief introduction to the sketch and stated: “There is not much of it, for the reason, I suppose, that there is not much of me…”
This autobiographical sketch was combined with other facts related to Mr. Lincoln’s legislative and political accomplishments and forwarded by Fell to Joseph H. Lewis, who used the material to prepare a more extensive memoir, which was provided to many newspapers of the day. This essentially helped supportive delegates prepare for Lincoln’s nomination at the Republican Convention in Chicago the following June. Lincoln’s “little sketch” was one of the most extensive accounts he committed to paper regarding the events of his own life. And, the first paragraph dealt more with his Lincoln family heritage.
It should be noted that Lincoln once commented about his past, “It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. It can all be condensed into a simple sentence, and that sentence you will find in Gray’s Elegy – ‘the short and simple annals of the poor.’ That’s my life, and that’s all you or anyone else can make out of it.” Other than such brief references, Lincoln did not like to talk much about his early life due to the dismal circumstances. The most remarkable part of Lincoln’s story is that the boy eventually grew to manhood, and along the way, he managed to overcome limitations and deficiencies as best as he could. What he lacked in formal education, he compensated for through his efforts devoted to personal study and in reading whatever material he could borrow or secure in one way or another. He was an avid and voracious reader, and he would walk miles just to borrow books. He once stated, “The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll give me a book I haven’t read.”
His anger toward the Democrat Party fueled his desire to enter politics and become a member of the Whig Party
Despite serious efforts to overcome his essential lack of capabilities or resources, Lincoln was not proud of his early beginnings and did not seek to glorify them like so many biographers. He was not inclined to speak much of those times, unless it was to contrast his humble roots with wanna-be aristocrats seeking to portray themselves as someone they were not. He seriously took issue with such individuals after he became involved in the political realm. And, while the Republicans are able to claim Lincoln as one of their founding members, Lincoln may not have been too fond of the Republicans of this day. However, his anger toward the Democrat Party fueled his desire to enter politics and become a member of the Whig Party. Actually, Lincoln was more associated with the Whigs of his day than the Republicans, even though his fame came as the first Republican president.
There is a story about Lincoln as told by Professor Allen Guelzo of Gettysburg College that expresses the Lincoln-like manner. According to Guelzo, in 1840, while Lincoln campaigned for the Whig presidential candidate, William Henry Harrison, he debated against Democrat Colonel Dick Taylor. Lincoln took offense when Taylor criticized the Whigs as aristocrats. Lincoln made the point that while Taylor had his stores over the county, and rode in a fine carriage, wore his kid gloves, holding his gold-headed cane, he (Lincoln) was a poor boy, hired on a flat boat at eight dollars a month, and had only one pair of breeches. Lincoln concluded that if you call that aristocracy, he would plead guilty to the charge. Today, unfortunately, Lincoln is controversial to both Libertarians and the Left, and it is doubtful he would identify with the RINOs. Yet, to his detractors, it is best they read his own words, or to read words of those who truly knew him. He was not a god. He was simply a man who strove to overcome the odds stacked against him pretty much throughout his life. But, this much is true, if American parents could raise more kids like Lincoln, we could get through our future trials as he got through those that confronted him. Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln!
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