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In a speech made in 1863, Abraham Lincoln said, "We have been the receipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prospertiy; 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...

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Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 13:1-7, 1 Corinthians 9:19-23, 1 Corinthians 9:19-34, 1 John 1:1-10, 1 John 2:2, 1 John 4:7-12, 1 John 5:10-12, 1 John 5:1-12, 1 John 5:14-15, 1 John 5:1-6:1, 1 Kings 17:1-7, 1 Peter 1:18-23, 1 Peter 1:1-9, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Peter 1:4, 1 Timothy 6:19, 2 Chronicles 1:6-12, 2 Chronicles 7:1-4, 2 Corinthians 3:1-11, 2 Corinthians 3:13-18, 2 Peter 1:3-11, 2 Peter 1:4, 2 Samuel 7:12-16, 2 Samuel 9:6-13, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4, 2 Timothy 1:3-5, 2 Timothy 3:10-17, Acts 8:9-24, Colossians 2:1-10, Colossians 3:10, Colossians 3:22-4:22, Colossians 4:2-6, Daniel 1:1-15:1, Daniel 1:1-2:1, Deuteronomy 1:1-28:1, Deuteronomy 8:13-14, Ecclesiastes 3:1-9, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Ephesians 2:8-10, Ephesians 4:11-16, Exodus 1:1-8, Exodus 14:10-15, Galatians 1:1-22, Genesis 17:15-19, Genesis 40:1-23, Genesis 6:5-13, Hebrews 11:1-40, Hebrews 11:8-10, Hebrews 1:6-14, Hebrews 7:1-28, Isaiah 26:3, Isaiah 27:6, Isaiah 48:17-18, Isaiah 57:15, Isaiah 7:1-16, James 1:19-27, James 4:1-10, Jeremiah 31:27-34, Joel 1:1-3:1, John 10:7-15, John 1:1-18, John 12:1-8, John 1:29-42, John 13:23-24, John 14:15-17, John 14:15-21, John 15:13, John 16:33-33:33, John 17:1-24, John 20:19-31, John 20:24-31, John 2:1-11, John 3:16-4:16, John 4:21-24, John 8:1-11, Joshua 1:1-11, Joshua 1:1-9, Joshua 18:1-25, Luke 13:1-17, Luke 15:11-32, Luke 18:9-14, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 19:28-40:28, Luke 19:32, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 4:14-27, Luke 5:1-11, Luke 6:27-30, Luke 6:6-11, Luke 9:52-62, Mark 10:17-31, Mark 10:35-45, Mark 3:1-9, Mark 3:7-4:7, Matthew 11:1-12:1, Matthew 1:23, Matthew 13:22, Matthew 13:44-52, Matthew 21:1-11, Matthew 2:1-18, Matthew 2:13-23, Matthew 22:37-40, Matthew 24:17-21, Matthew 24:36-44, Matthew 25:14-28, Matthew 25:21, Matthew 25:31-46, Matthew 26:26-30, Matthew 28:19-20, Matthew 3:1-12, Matthew 4:1-11, Matthew 5:21-37, Nehemiah 2:18-20, Philemon 1:17-19, Philippians 2:5-11, Philippians 4:6-12, Proverbs 1:20-30, Proverbs 30:8-9, Proverbs 31:17-32:17, Proverbs 4:1-30, Psalms 100:1-5, Psalms 13:1-6, Psalms 138:1-8, Psalms 139:7-8, Revelation 2:1-29, Revelation 2:4-5, Romans 12:1-2, Romans 12:12-14, Romans 1:8-15, Romans 8:24-25, Romans 8:35-39, Titus 2:11-15, Titus 3:1-5, Zechariah 12:1-13:1, Zechariah 9:9-12

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