Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15, the title of today's post,

The Appeals that Saved Us Then will Save Us Now.

In yesterday's post, I wrote about realigning America with heaven based on Matthew 610, where Jesus instructed us to ask for

his kingdom rule to come on earth as it is in heaven. I spoke about how America's founders

were aligned with heaven in the founding of our nation. I also said, we need more than patriots in

government to restore America. We need patriotic intercessors, those willing to appeal to heaven

for America's realignment with God. Our founders recognize this need in our nation's beginning. This is why

Washington commissioned the creation of the appeal to heaven flag and flew it over America's naval

vessels and battlefields in the Revolutionary War. Our founders believed so much in the power of prayer, appealing to heaven, that they spoke of it in the Declaration of Independence.

Quoting just a portion, we, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America and

General Congress assembled appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our

intentions, and then they go on. Think about that. The power of prayer appealing to heaven is mentioned in the first legal

document of our nation, the declaration that began America's existence. Patriot and signer

of the declaration, Samuel Adams, referenced this, the appealing phrase and the

concept in the Declaration. He referenced this a year later during one of the most challenging

points of the Revolutionary War. Adams is certainly one of my favorite founding fathers.

In September of 1777, a year after declaring independence, things were not going well for the American

Patriots. They had lost New York City and Fort Ticonderoga and were badly defeated at the Battle of Brandywine, losing hundreds of soldiers.

They were losing ground quickly in Pennsylvania, and the capital, Philadelphia, was about to be captured by the British.

When they saw it coming, the Patriots quickly hid the large Liberty Bell inscribed

with the quote from Leviticus 2510, proclaimed liberty throughout the land, all they

inhabit us thereof, they did so just in the nick of time. Congress then fled to Lancaster,

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