Hello, thanks for joining me today for Give Him 15. The title of today's post is

Prayer and America's Constitution. Many Americans are unaware of God's intervention in saving

our republic through Roger Sherman and Benjamin Franklin.

I'm going to venture a guess that most of you know little, if anything, about founding father, Roger Sherman. His contribution to America's beginning was extremely important.

Sherman was distinguished as the only founding father to sign all four of America's major founding documents,

the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation,

and the Constitution of the United States. What an honor. Sherman was a shoe cobbler,

surveyor, and a merchant prior to his political career.

He was a self-taught lawyer, a state senator, a superior court judge, and a judge in Connecticut for 14 years.

Later, he was a member of the Continental Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence.

He was also a member of the Constitutional Convention,

where he made 138 speeches.

He then became a U.S. representative from 1789 to 91,

and at the age of 70, was elected a U.S. senator serving from 1791 to 93.

Many Americans, like me for the first 45 years of my life, did not know much about the Constitutional Convention and other founding events.

Here's a very brief overview of significant events leading up to and including the Constitutional Convention.

In 1776, the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Britain,

the Declaration of Independence, which we will celebrate this week. Then the Revolutionary War took place from 1776 to 1783.

During this time, 13 United States functioned under the Articles of Confederation.

The Constitution and not yet been written.

And we had no president. Washington, our first president, wasn't elected until

1789. Most people don't know that. The central government had limited power and income,

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