Could I say that yesterday was a providential day for America?
September 21st, 2025. Could I say that a providential voice was memorialized and honored by what has been reported as over a billion people? I have heard that more people watched the burial of Charlie Kirk than that of John F. Kennedy. I watched both, and the touch of heaven on the memorial service for Charlie was that which could not be denied. I literally felt as though I had to sleep off what GayNell and I felt as we were riveted to the incredible oratory. Politicians sounded more like preachers than politicians, and preachers across America said, Amen to that.
I want to move the clock of time back to the West Side of Arlington, Texas. Join me if you can imagine where we are going. I am fifteen years old sitting in a history class. Mr. Lindsey is teaching and I am listening intently. Mr. Lindsey is a lay preacher and actually attends Bethel Temple, the same church my family attends in Fort Worth. It was of no consequence to him that what he taught that day was just another day in class. That day led to my salvation and ultimately leading me into ministry. He did not know that my life would have been marked by the stories he taught that day on God's involvement in the founding of America. I will never forget the Providential acts he attributed to God's intervention in our virgin nations affairs.
Stories like this one, that I borrow from the renowned historian, David Barton. I knew David when he was a country High School history teacher from Aledo, Texas, a town just West of Fort Worth. I used to buy rare books from his friend and we would see him at church conferences when we were pastoring back in the 70's in Texas.
In his writings about George Washington, he speaks of God's direct intervention and aid, which was so evident, that the then president celebrated having his entire army go to church the following day to openly acknowledge what he described as the "astonishing interpositions of PROVIDENCE" and called for a national day of prayer and thanksgiving. Yet another day of Divine involvement in America's behalf.
Samuel Adams spoke of providential interventions, which did not surprise the "Father of the American Revolution". Listen in to what Adams had to say about this subject: "Let America exert her own strength; let her depend upon God's blessings. He who cannot be indifferent to her righteous cause (i.e., God), will even work miracles if necessary, to carry her through glorious conflict and establish her feet upon a rock." Washington witnessed God's assistance so often that on more than 250 occasions he acknowledged the Providence of God. This had to do with preserving Washington's life in battle, when bullets were flying, to the change of weather at York.
These stories are from THE AMERICAN STORY II, page 229.
I am aware of other incredible stories of providence where God is given all the glory for changes. As I said, God put a hook in my jaw at 15 years old and I could not escape the word PROVIDENCE. I have some stories to tell.
I am Providentially a part of your life and I am the better for it.
Pastor Cleddie Keith
September 21st, 2025. Could I say that a providential voice was memorialized and honored by what has been reported as over a billion people? I have heard that more people watched the burial of Charlie Kirk than that of John F. Kennedy. I watched both, and the touch of heaven on the memorial service for Charlie was that which could not be denied. I literally felt as though I had to sleep off what GayNell and I felt as we were riveted to the incredible oratory. Politicians sounded more like preachers than politicians, and preachers across America said, Amen to that.
I want to move the clock of time back to the West Side of Arlington, Texas. Join me if you can imagine where we are going. I am fifteen years old sitting in a history class. Mr. Lindsey is teaching and I am listening intently. Mr. Lindsey is a lay preacher and actually attends Bethel Temple, the same church my family attends in Fort Worth. It was of no consequence to him that what he taught that day was just another day in class. That day led to my salvation and ultimately leading me into ministry. He did not know that my life would have been marked by the stories he taught that day on God's involvement in the founding of America. I will never forget the Providential acts he attributed to God's intervention in our virgin nations affairs.
Stories like this one, that I borrow from the renowned historian, David Barton. I knew David when he was a country High School history teacher from Aledo, Texas, a town just West of Fort Worth. I used to buy rare books from his friend and we would see him at church conferences when we were pastoring back in the 70's in Texas.
In his writings about George Washington, he speaks of God's direct intervention and aid, which was so evident, that the then president celebrated having his entire army go to church the following day to openly acknowledge what he described as the "astonishing interpositions of PROVIDENCE" and called for a national day of prayer and thanksgiving. Yet another day of Divine involvement in America's behalf.
Samuel Adams spoke of providential interventions, which did not surprise the "Father of the American Revolution". Listen in to what Adams had to say about this subject: "Let America exert her own strength; let her depend upon God's blessings. He who cannot be indifferent to her righteous cause (i.e., God), will even work miracles if necessary, to carry her through glorious conflict and establish her feet upon a rock." Washington witnessed God's assistance so often that on more than 250 occasions he acknowledged the Providence of God. This had to do with preserving Washington's life in battle, when bullets were flying, to the change of weather at York.
These stories are from THE AMERICAN STORY II, page 229.
I am aware of other incredible stories of providence where God is given all the glory for changes. As I said, God put a hook in my jaw at 15 years old and I could not escape the word PROVIDENCE. I have some stories to tell.
I am Providentially a part of your life and I am the better for it.
Pastor Cleddie Keith
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