We Must Keep Our Promises – One Nation Under God
By Alan on Oct 14 in Blog tagged a choice land, Abraham Lincoln, agency, Almighty, American, Columbus, conflicts, country, covenant, divine, divine purpose, first americans, founded, founding fathers, george Washington, God, God bless America, healing, homes, liberty, Lincoln Memorial, miracles, most important election, native Americans, Obama, one nation, personal salvation, proclamations, promises, Prosperity, protection, religion, return to God, Romney, schools, scourges, serve God, silences, spiritually, taken God out, temple, the people, thomas jefferson, tragedies, Under God, victories | 2 Comments
The American Covenant – One Nation Under God
cov·e·nant (kv-nnt)
noun: A binding agreement;
verb: To promise by or as if by a covenant.
The Lincoln Memorial, often referred to as a temple, with it’s ninety-nine foot marble sculptured edifice spiritually manifests that the United States of America is truly “One Nation Under God” and set apart as a choice land commissioned with a divine purpose.
There is compelling evidence that America founded by the Almighty, is embedded in divine purpose through a national covenant between God and the people of this nation with specific obligations, promised blessings and divine instruction.
If we keep and obey Gods Commandments and live by His inspired Constitution, then God covenants with with us these three specific socio-political blessings:
1) Liberty,
2) Protection, and
3) Prosperity.
It is a covenant that enhances and maximizes God’s gift of agency unto personal salvation by providing an environment where His children might choose freely, becoming who and what they desire to be and in providing the environment where freedoms of religion enables them to progress spiritually.
America “is a choice land” to “be free from bondage,” as long as we “serve the God of the land”. (Ether 2:12)
America has struggled through bloody conflicts, glorious victories, devastating scourges, healing redemptions, long silences, great proclamations, deep tragedies, and phenomenal miracles.
For example, ancient prophets saw the discoverer Columbus and that the first settlers and founders willfully received the land and nation under covenant; 
that George Washington’s scripture of choice was an ancient prophecy about the gospel destiny of America, and knew the many battlefield miracles he witnessed were connected to a covenant with the Almighty; 
that Thomas Jefferson testified that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution profoundly reflect and codify the American Covenant; 
and how Abraham Lincoln fulfilled some of the greatest prophecies related to God’s kingdom on earth.
Additionally, it is the astonishing and miraculous relationship (forged in life and death) between the founders of this nation and the temple of God all the way throughout the present day with miracles, revelations, tokens, and symbols of God’s work throughout our history.
.
If we are to continue to have the freedoms that evolved within the structure that was the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true author. If we keep our promises, God will keep His promises.
We have taken God out of our country, our homes and our schools!
America is essential for our freedoms and it was founded upon God!
WE ARE FACING THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN HISTORY!
LET”S FAST AND PRAY TOGETHER!
May we ACT and choose well the one who will best lead our nation into the future and
sustain the Constitutional principles of freedom and our promises to God.
WE MUST RETURN TO GOD!
… AND REMEMBER OUR COVENANTS!!!
May God Bless America
The First Americans – The Native Americans
Alan Osmond
For The Family
Related Posts
Please forward this to your family and friends!
If you enjoyed this post, feel free to share it using one of the following social sites:
Question to the Publisher:
“Why don’t you stick to singing and Strengthening The Family and leave politics alone?”
Well since you asked, . . .
With me, it wasn’t the words on the walls, the Gettysburg Address and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address that struck me so deeply or that created the lasting effect in Washington D.C. when I was there helping produce Ronald Reagan’s Opening Ceremonies several years ago. It was the spiritual conviction that I have in my heart that The United States of America is truly “One Nation Under God”, set apart as a choice land and commissioned with a divine purpose.
As I worked with my brother Merrill at the Lincoln Memorial, and at the request of Nancy Reagan, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir stopped the parade and sang ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ to the President bringing tears to his eyes that I felt and realized the evidence of the Almighty, embedded in divine purpose and deeply rooted of that which I hold most sacred within the Gospel of Jesus Christ and this nation. I realized more as I visited the monuments the connection that God had with our forefathers and the founding of this promised land and His ultimate design for His children, that He created and offered up America by and through a national covenant, or promise to us His children and from us to Him! It is a covenant whose principal blessings include Liberty, Protection, and Prosperity. It is a covenant that through God’s gift of agency we may have salvation unto Eternal life by providing an environment where we as God’s children might choose freely, becoming who we are and what we desire to be, or not.
When I read in my Book of Mormon of a declaration that America “is a choice land” and we are to “be free from bondage,” as long as we “serve the God of the land”, (Ether 2:12) it reminds me that we must keep our covenant to God in order to keep from bondage!
You see, when Columbus landed here, he knew he and the first settlers and founders willfully received the land and nation under covenant. George Washington’s scripture of choice was an ancient prophecy about the destiny of America and as General he knew the many battlefield miracles he witnessed were connected to a covenant with the Almighty; that Thomas Jefferson testified that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution profoundly reflect and codify the American Covenant. I have also learned from the Book of Mormon that it not only deals with religious instruction, but also government, politics, and warfare; why the Prophet Joseph Smith really sought for the presidency of the United States; and how Abraham Lincoln felt compelled to seek out a Book of Mormon during the darkest days of his presidency.
Yes, there is evidence of God’s work from the discovery of this country all the way throughout our history.
As we learn how every victory we have achieved as a nation has been contingent on our ability to live and keep our covenants with God, we will then understand that the covenant that was made by the people responsible for it, and will then come to understand the blessing and obligations of the covenant to God that we must make!
The reason I sometimes speak out boldly is because of the degeneration of the values and morals of our society today and the breakdown of the family. We as a nation are forsaking the Almighty God and our covenants or promises that we have made to Him and God will NOT be mocked!
May we realize this more fully and may God continue to Bless America is my prayer for this blessed land!
Alan Osmond
Thanks for this timely reminder, Alan. It IS an important election. Our nation is on the brink of disaster. It will take a very strong and dedicated/principled leader with strong Constitutional beliefs to bring us back to the prosperous and righteous America of the past. It can be done. Mitt Romney is the “white knight” who can do the deed. Please VOTE for Mitt: it’s a vote for Freedom and America.