"AMERICANISM IS A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE,  OF PURPOSE, OF IDEALISM, OF CHARACTER;  IT IS NOT A MATTER OF BIRTHPLACE OR CREED OR LINE OF DESCENT.”   —Theodore Roosevelt


Submitted by Club Chaplain - Gloria Cameron Cameron

May 2024

* * PATRIOT’S PRAYER * *   

THANK YOU, LORD, FOR MY MOTHER AND FATHER. SHOW ME SPECIFIC WAYS TO HONOR THEM IN OBEDIENCE TO YOUR WORD.

* *PATRIOT’S PROMISE * * 

EXODUS 20:12 IS THE ONY ONE OF THE Ten Commandments THAT COMES WITH A PROMISE:  “HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER, THAT YOUR DAYS MAY BE LONG UPON THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU."

April 2024

* * PATRIOT’S PRAYER * * 

THANK YOU, O GOD, FOR CALVARY. THANK YOU THAT JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD FOR ME THAT I MIGHT RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE. THANK YOU FOR THE RESURRECTION POWER THAT CAME ON THAT FIRST EASTER MORNING!  THANK YOU FOR THE BLESSINGS THAT YOU BESTOW UPON MY FAMILY AND ME EVERY DAY.

* * PATRIOT’S PROMISE * *

ROMANS 1:16 SAYS, “I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, FOR IT IS THE POWER OF GOD TO SALVATION FOR EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES.”  GOD ASSURES THE SALVATION OF ANYONE WHO BELIEVES THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.

March 2024

* * PATRIOT’S PRAYER * * 

THANK YOU, FATHER, THAT YOU HAVE GRANTED US FREEDOM OF THE SOUL THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF YOUR SON AND FREEDOM IN OUR NATION THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF OUR FOREFATHERS. MAY I REMEMBER THE HIGH COST OF THESE FREEDOMS EVERY DAY.

* * PATRIOT’S PROMISE * *

IN ISAIAH 45:22, GOD TELLS US, “LOOK TO ME, AND BE SAVED, ALL YOU ENDS OF THE EARTH! FOR I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NO OTHER.”  OUR FREEDOM CAN ONLY COME FROM GOD ABOVE. AS LONG AS WE LOOK TO HIM, OUR FREEDOM WILL BE ASSURED.

February 2024

** PATRIOT’S PRAYER **

ALMIGHTY FATHER, GRANT THIS NATION LEADERS WHO WILL MAKE DECISIONS BASED UPON THE PRINCIPLES AND TEACHINGS FOUND IN YOUR WORD. 

* * PATRIOT’S PROMISE * *

PSALM 119:160 SAYS, “THE ENTIRETY OF YOUR WORD IS TRUTH, AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR RIGHTEOUS JUDDGMENTS ENDURES FOREVER.” GODLY LEADERS WHO SEEK WISDOM FROM SCRIPTURE WILL BRING GOD’S BLESSING TO OUR NATION.

January 2024

** PATRIOT’S PRAYER **

HELP ME, FATHER, TO REMEMBER—THAT THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WORK I CAN DO ON THIS EARTH IS WORK I DO FOR YOU. THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD WILL FADE AWAY, BUT WORK FOR YOUR KINGDOM WILL LAST FOR ETERNITY.

** PATRIOT’S PROMISE **

GOD PROMISED TO SEND HIS SON;  “HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE.  ISAIAH 9:6.    PROMISE FULFILLED!!!


December 2023

PATRIOTS PRAYER 

KIND AND GRACIOUS FATHER, THANK YOU FOR SENDING JESUS TO THIS EARTH TO LIVE  A SINLESS LIFE, TO TEACH US ABOUT YOU, AND THEN TO DIE ON OUR BEHALF AS PAYMENT FOR OUR SIN. MOST OF ALL THANK YOU THAT HE WAS RESURRECTED, THAT HE NOW LIVES  AND THAT HE IS COMING AGAIN SOON

PATRIOTS PROMISE

IN LUKE’S CHRISTMAS STORY, THE ANGELS APPEAR TO THE SHEPHERDS AND SAY,  “DO NOT BE AFRAID, FOR BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY WHICH WILL BE TO ALL PEOPLE” (2:10). THESE TIDINGS WERE THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT JESUS WAS  BORN IN BETHLEHEM. GOD HAD PROMISED HIS SON TO ALL PEOPLE, TO SAVE THEM FROM THEIR SINS, AND JUST AS HE FULFILLED THAT PROMISE, HE WILL  FULFILL EVERY PROMISE HE HAS MADE.


November 2023

PATRIOT’S PRAYER

Creator God, grant us Your favor in this land.  And, like those who celebrated the first Thanksgiving, May we always lift up our thanks to You who have been so good to this nation. We lift our praise and thanks to You.

PATRIOT’S PROMISE

Hear the psalmists joy:
“Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!  For His mercy endures forever” (1 Chronicles 16:34).  When we give thanks to the Lord, God guarantees His mercy and favor .


October 2023

PATRIOT’S PRAYER

MAY WE NEVER FORGET, LORD, THAT OUR BLESSINGS AND FREEDOM COME FROM YOU.   

PATRIOT’S PROMISE

“COME, LET US WORSHIP…FOR HE IS OUR GOD, AND WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF HIS PASTURE” (PS 95:6-7).


September 2023

PATRIOT’S PRAYER

LORD, HELP ME COURAGEOUSLY STAND FOR THE RIGHT TO PUBLICLY PRACTICE MY FAITH.  

PATRIOT’S PROMISE

 “BE OF GOOD COURAGE, AND HE SHALL STRENGTHEN YOUR HEART” (PS 27:14).


August 2023

PATRIOT’S PRAYER

FATHER GOD, PROTECT OUR NATION SO THAT WE CAN BE THE LIGHT OF SALVATION AND FREEDOM---POLITICAL AS WELL AS SPIRITUAL IN THIS SIN-DARKENED WORLD.

PATRIOT’S PROMISE 

“YOUR WORD IS A LAMP TO MY FEET AND A LIGHT TO MY PATH” (PS 119:105). 


July 2023

PATRIOT’S PRAYER

ALMIGHTY GOD, FORGIVE OUR SINS. HEAR OUR CRIES FOR MERCY. STRENGTHEN THOSE WHO LEAD US TOWARD THAT WHICH IS RIGHT; REMOVE FROM LEADERSHIP THOSE WHO WOULD KEEP US FROM FOLLOWING YOU. 

PATRIOT’S PROMISE

THE WARNINGS OF GOD, OUR LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER, ARE BLESSINGS TO ALL WHO WILL HEAR AND HEED THEM:  “THE LORD GOD OF THEIR FATHERS SENT WARNINGS TO THEM BY HIS MESSENGERS. . .BECAUSE HE HAD COMPASSION ON HIS PEOPLE AND ON HIS DWELLING PLACE: (2 CHRONICLES 36:15) 


June

PATRIOT’S PRAYER

I PRAY TODAY, FATHER, FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN OF OUR ARMED FORCES ON FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC SOIL. BE WITH EACH ONE OF THEM AND PROTECT THEM AS THEY PROTECT US. GIVE THEM STRENGTH AND COURAGE AND SHOW THEM THAT YOU ARE WITH THEM.

PATRIOT’S PROMISE 

JOHN 3:16 TELLS US HOW GRACIOUS AND GENEROUS GOD WAS TO GIVE HIS ONLY SON  TO SAVE US FROM OUR SIN. FIRST CHRONICLES 29:17 SHOWS US HOW WE CAN BE AN EXAMPLE TO OTHERS BY REFLECTING GOD’S GENEROSITY WITH OUR OWN. GOD’S OFFERING OF JESUS AS OUR SAVIOR IS AN EXAMPLE TO US. HE SHOWED US HOW TO GIVE BY THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE OF HIS SON SO THAT WE MAY KNOW HOW TO GIVE.


May

PATRIOT’S PRAYER

LORD, SHINE YOUR LIGHT INTO THIS DARK WORLD. CONVICT THE DARK WORLD OF ITS SIN AND BRING EACH ONE OF US TO A FULL KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. LET US SEE YOUR GLORY DEAR GOD, AND THEN LIVE IN A WAY THAT TRULY HONORS YOU. MAY WE BE CITIZENS OF A NATION THAT TRULY HONORS YOU.

PATRIOT’S PROMISE

THE PROMISE OF HABAKKUK 2:14 HAS YET TO BE FULFILLED—“THE EARTH WILL BE FILLED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GLORY OF THE LORD, AS THE WATERS COVER THE SEA.”  WHAT A GLORIOUS DAY THAT WILL BE!


April

PATRIOT”S PRAYER

FATHER, I PRAY THAT WE, AS NATION, BECOME PEOPLE OF PRAYER, BOTH ACKNOWLEDGING THAT OUR BLESSINGS COME ONLY FROM YOU AND PRAYING FOR YOUR WILL TO BE DONE IN OUR COUNTRY.

PATRIOT’S PROMISE

HEAR THE HOPE OF CHRONICLES 7:14—”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 WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN AND HEAL THEIR LAND”


March 2023

PATRIOT’S PRAYER

DEAR LORD, PROVIDE US GODLY MEN AND WOMEN TO LEAD OUR NATION INTO UNITY AND PEACE. MAY THESE LEADERS ENABLE AMERICA TO REBUILD HER BROKEN WALLS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT OUR LAND MIGHT ONCE AGAIN PROSPER UNDER YOUR BLESSINGS AND CARE.

 PATRIOT’S PROMISE

GOD RECOGNIZES GODLY LEADERS AND IS WILLING TO BLESS ANY NATION WILLING TO FOLLOW THEM: “HE WHO WALKS RIGHTEOUSLY AND SPEAKS UPRIGHTLY, HE WHO  DESPISES THE GAIN OF OPPRESSIONS. . . HE WILL DWELL ON HIGH: HIS PLACE OF DEFENSE WILL BE THE FORTRESS OF ROCKS; BREAD WILL BE GIVEN HIM, HIS WATER WILL BE SURE” (ISAIAH 33:15-16).


February 2023

PATRIOT’S PRAYER

LORD, HOPE IS SOMETHING THAT IS DIFFICULT TO HAVE THESE DAYS. FILL MY HEART AND HEAD WITH HOPE GROUNDED IN YOU AND YOUR TRUTH AND, CONSEQUENTLY, ENTHUSIASM FOR THE FUTURE.

PATRIOT’S PROMISE

“BE OF GOOD COURAGE, AND HE SHALL STRENGTHEN YOUR HEART, ALL YOU WHO HOPE IN THE LORD.”  PSALM 31:24 IS VERY CLEAR: HOPE BRINGS COURAGE AND COURAGE BRINGS STRENGTH. WHEN WE HAVE A ZEAL AND PASSION FOR HIM, THE LORD GOD SAYS, WE CAN FACE ANYTHING.


January 2023

PATRIOT’S PRAYER 

WHAT A PRECIOUS BLESSING, DEAR GOD, TO BE WORTHY OF PEOPLE’S TRUST. HELP ME BE TRUSTWORTHY AND HONEST. KEEP MY WORDS PURE WITH THE NECTAR OF TRUTH. GIVE ME STRENGTH TO ADDRESS DIFFICULT SITUATIONS WITH TRUTH. MAY I NEVER CHOOSEw LYING AS AN EASY OUT.

PATRIOT’S PROMISE

PSALM 63:11 PROMISES THAT  "THE MOUTH OF THOSE WHO SPEAK LIES SHALL BE STOPPED.” IF WE LIE, GOD WILL STOP US. IF WE LIE, WE CANNOT RECEIVE HIS BLESSING. 

Rutherford B. Hayes: 19th President, United States of America.

I AM A FIRM BELIEVER IN THE DIVINE TEACHINGS, PERFECT EXAMPLE, AND ATONING SACRIFICE OF JESUS CHRIST. I BELIEVE ALSO IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES AS THE REVEALED WORD OF GOD TO THE WORLD FOR ITS ENLIGHTENMENT AND SALVATION.
— RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, 19TH PRESIDENT
THE WHOLE INSPIRATION OF OUR CIVILIZATION SPRINGS FROM THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST AND THE LESSONS OF THE PROPHETS. TO READ THE BIBLE FOR THESE FUNDAMENTALS IS A NECESSITY OF AMERICAN LIFE.
— HERBERT HOOVER, 31ST PRESIDENT
 

Submitted by Club Chaplain - Gloria Cameron Cameron

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the World’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
—  Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and the third president of the United States (1801-1809)