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Guest Host, Alex McFarland, is joined by Cynthia Scott, Author of “Celebrating God, our Founder”

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0:32Celebrating God, celebrating America.
0:36Hi, Alex MacFarlane here.
0:37We've got a great show today.
0:39I'm very honored to be sitting in for Pastor Attorney
0:42Broadcaster, Abe Hamilton III, on this edition
0:46of the Hamilton Corner.
0:47And if you've listened to me much at all,
0:49maybe it was our AFR show exploring the word
0:53that has heard live Monday through Friday.
0:56and now in its probably either 16th or 17th year.
1:01And then I have the privilege of being on the Hamilton corner
1:04on a fairly regular basis,
1:06and the Lord's allowed me to write a number of books.
1:09And much of what I write about
1:11are the spiritual foundations of our country.
1:14If you've followed my heart communication,
1:18you know I love this nation, I mean, I really do.
1:21And as we approach our 250th birthday,
1:25The guest that we're going to converse with tonight
1:28is really the personification of where my heart is,
1:33patriotically, to revisit the spiritual foundations
1:36of our nation.
1:38And we're gonna talk about that,
1:39but I wanna give a verse,
1:41and then later on in the show we'll take calls as well.
1:43But in Ezekiel 22,
1:46Ezekiel 22,
1:48Israel had fallen into great sin,
1:51and it so mirrors our day in which we live.
1:54I mean, there was immorality just unspeakable.
1:58I mean, you'll have to read it for yourself.
1:59Read Ezekiel 22, say, 20 through 30.
2:04And there was idolatry, there was paganism,
2:08there was violence and murder so much
2:11that God called Jerusalem a, quote, bloody city.
2:15But then there was incest, there was disrespect
2:19and murder of parents.
2:21In other words, it was a society that,
2:24in many ways like our own had lost its spiritual foundations.
2:28And the word of God says, I sought for someone
2:31to stand in the gap, to intercede,
2:34and to call out sin, to speak up truth,
2:37that I might not destroy the land.
2:40It says, but I found no one.
2:43Now, as we do the show tonight, I'm praying
2:45that if the Spirit of the Lord were seeking
2:47for someone to stand in the gap, to pray,
2:50to get on their knees and intercede,
2:52to say, I believe in God and His Word.
2:56I'm going to stand for truth.
2:58I pray that the Spirit of the Lord would find many willing hearts, lives, and voices.
3:05And I think after we talk with our guest, you're going to feel very inspired to do the
3:09same.
3:10Her name is Cynthia Scott.
3:12She's author of a book celebrating God, America's founder.
3:17And to get us ready for something we'll celebrate in just a couple of weeks, our 250th birthday
3:23they are guests tonight, Christian and Patriot, Cynthia Scott.
3:28Cynthia, thanks for being with us.
3:31It's wonderful to be here.
3:32Thank you.
3:32Loved what you just said.
3:34Loved it.
3:35To God be the glory.
3:36To God be the glory.
3:39I'd love to share some time my story of what God did in my heart
3:43to put within me such a fire for revival in America.
3:47But I want to hear your story.
3:49How did God bring you to speak and write and message the way that you so effectively do
3:56for speaking up about the spiritual DNA of our country?
4:01Well, that goes back a while, Alex.
4:06I think it was back in 2008 when God laid it on my heart.
4:10I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and that we needed as a nation to repent of our sins
4:17and to hold a solemn assembly.
4:19And nobody was really talking much about it then,
4:23but God made it very clear to me
4:25that we were a nation that needed to repent.
4:27And so I prayed about that, I worked towards that.
4:31God, as I studied revivals,
4:34I realized that repentance and prayer always preceded them,
4:38and my heart was for God to revive the church
4:41and to bring a spiritual awakening to America.
4:44And that's almost 20 years ago when you think about it
4:47and things have actually changed a lot since then.
4:50One of the good things that has changed in my opinion
4:53is that this message that we, God's people,
4:57need to repent is growing.
5:00God is putting that in the hearts of more and more people.
5:03And about six years ago, God laid it on my heart
5:08to pray for the nation out of the history of the nation.
5:11I'd read some books about God's hand in our founding
5:14and they were very inspirational.
5:15They were history books.
5:17But God was asking me to pray from that history
5:20and to remember his mighty acts in America.
5:24You know, the Bible says remember the mighty acts of God,
5:27but we don't often think about remembering
5:28in terms of our own history.
5:30And so I did that.
5:32I began to write these prayers.
5:33We held them, we prayed them at congregational prayer meetings
5:37outside because it was COVID and it was,
5:40and you know, the church was closed
5:41for a small short period of time.
5:43And when I got to about the fourth or fifth prayer,
5:46I realized that God himself is our founder
5:49and he does not get the co-deserves.
5:52And perhaps that is our greatest national sin
5:56because if we acknowledged him
5:58and gave him the credit, the glory,
6:00and the obedience really that he deserves,
6:04then perhaps we would not be in need of such repentance.
6:08Indeed, indeed.
6:10Isn't it amazing that our founding father
6:13was the heavenly father?
6:15I mean, I love George Washington.
6:17And by God's grace, it's been my privilege
6:20to teach political science, American history,
6:23written a number of books.
6:25I love George Washington, our first president,
6:28you know, so often called the founding father,
6:30but like you point out, the heavenly father
6:33was America's founding father.
6:36Yes, I love Washington also, Alex.
6:39And I think part of the reason that I love him
6:42is because it's so evident to see God's hand on him.
6:46The hand divine providence.
6:48And it's stirring, isn't it, when we see God move,
6:51in any regard, but when we think about what God did
6:54through that man and others,
6:56to bring about the greatest nation
6:58that the world has ever known,
6:59it is really astonishing.
7:02Well, it really is in the life of George Washington,
7:06how multiple times there were assassination attempts
7:10his life and just in the providence of God he was spared. Cynthia, in your research did
7:17you ever come across a book, The Faith of Our Founding Father by an author named Janice
7:23T. Connell? Did you ever see that book? No, I have not. We interviewed her. This has
7:29been, I'm going to say 10 years ago, but out of Washington's prayer journals, and this
7:35This is very important.
7:37If anybody ever says to you listeners, well, the founders who are secularists or deists,
7:42they weren't really Christians.
7:45Janice Connell, this author, she just took verbatim from Washington's own prayer journals
7:53the way that he would write morning and evening prayers.
7:57Verbae is like this, and then I want you to comment.
8:00George Washington would write,
8:02Heavenly Father, before whom I may appear,
8:06only wrapped in the robes of righteousness
8:09of thy dear son, Jesus.
8:11That's how George Washington would write a prayer,
8:17wrapped in the robes of righteousness of thy dear son,
8:19Jesus.
8:20That doesn't sound like an atheist or agnostic, does it?
8:25No, or even a deist.
8:27No, it does not.
8:28I mean, clearly Washington was a Christian.
8:31And for instance, I don't know,
8:33people wanted to write that out of our history.
8:36And it's really important that we go back and remember.
8:38And that sounds like a fascinating book.
8:40I will look for it.
8:42And these personal accounts are really what matter, right?
8:46We know what his heart was.
8:48We know that he encouraged his soldiers to go to services.
8:53We know he had a heart for their suffering
8:55and sought the Lord on behalf of them.
8:58and Mollie Forge, so many things.
9:00And we know he had a praying mother, right?
9:02And praying wife.
9:04And the other thing that astonishes me,
9:07I know I keep using that word, but it's true, it's stunning.
9:10The last time that George Whitfield preached was 1770,
9:15that is just six short years
9:17before the Declaration of Independence.
9:19So our founding fathers, including Washington,
9:23were raised in this God consciousness
9:26coming out of the first great awakening.
9:28And what I've heard, and Alex, you may have heard the same thing,
9:32that many of these historians say, well, they
9:34don't refer to Christianity in the same terms that we do.
9:37No, but they had such a god consciousness
9:40that they would use terms like divine providence
9:43in the hand of God, meaning the very same things
9:46that we mean by God's activity in our midst.
9:49So it is wonderful to look back and revisit the truth
9:54about Washington and the truth about our founding.
9:58You mentioned George Whitfield,
10:00and Whitfield is one of the just vitally important figures.
10:06And you also referenced the first great awakening,
10:08which is so important.
10:11And by the way, if you're just tuning in folks,
10:14I'm kind of like a kid at Christmas
10:16because we're talking about God and country,
10:18and our guest is author and Christian patriotic figure
10:23I've got a book from about a hundred years ago, Cynthia,
10:28called Revivals in the Midst of the Years.
10:31And it was talking about the first Great Awakening
10:34and then the things that contributed to the American Revolution
10:38and then other Great Awakening.
10:40I've got a quite a I want to share, but first I'm going to throw this out to you before our first break.
10:45What role did prayer play in the building up the American Revolution,
10:51Revolution sustaining the Continental Army through the battle with Britain, the battle
10:56for our independence.
10:58Tell us and help us understand and appreciate the role of prayer in the birthing of this nation.
11:04Well, I think it's really important to understand the role of prayer in the life of a Christian,
11:11because prayer is communion with the Father.
11:14Prayer is calling on the greatest power in the universe to come to our aid.
11:21And that's exactly what happened in this existential battle of the Revolutionary War.
11:27In fact, it happened 150 years prior, going back to the time of the pilgrims and the Puritans.
11:33When they left everything they knew in search of a land where they could worship God.
11:38I mean, imagine how they prayed on the Mayflower.
11:41I just think about the existential threats that they faced, which caused them to fall on their
11:47knees.
11:48It's just a part of who we are as Christians.
11:51And if we are Christians that don't pray, then we are missing.
11:55We are missing so much in terms of our relationship with God through Christ and also calling on
12:02Him as I said, the one for whom nothing is impossible to come to our aid.
12:07So as I look back at that season of the revolution of the creating of the greatest nation the
12:14world has ever known, we know that pastors encourage their people to pray.
12:19We know that families prayed.
12:20We know that the leaders prayed.
12:22We know that the Continental Congress prayed, right?
12:25And the Constitutional Convention.
12:27They did not just pray in private.
12:30They prayed in public.
12:32And I think that's also something that is extremely important.
12:36And that's why I liked that Rededicate 250.
12:39I was thrilled that Trump called for the nation to be rededicated to God because these public
12:44times of national prayer and repentance are critical to a nation.
12:50Well, they really are, and that was May 16 and 17.
12:53I mean, think about it, folks.
12:55And I think about some of the Christian leaders
12:57like Franklin Graham and others that were there,
13:00rededicating ourselves, being on record to reaffirm
13:05our founding spiritual DNA.
13:08Now, we've got a brief break coming up,
13:09and folks, later on in the program,
13:11we're going to take questions.
13:12But Cynthia, do you have a website?
13:14Tell us about your book or books,
13:16where they can find them and give your website
13:18for this first break please. Yes, the website is GodourFounder.com. The book
13:25combines both history and prayer for the nation so it doesn't just look back on
13:30God's hand in the nation but it engages the reader as they read chapter by chapter
13:36with that same God who founded this nation to work in their lives and in the
13:40future of our nation. Celebrating God our founder. You know I mentioned a book
13:45about revival that I've got and folks think about this and then it maybe will give hope
13:50for the times in which we live.
13:52In 1741 there was a Presbyterian missionary that was in the colonies and we're talking
13:59thirty-five years before the declaration and it was a very rough time, a lot of violence,
14:05immorality, darkness, this particular missionary said, verily as these people seem to care little
14:12for God, God seems to care little for them.
14:15The whole of this people as I see it," said this Presbyterian missionary.
14:20This people is ripe either for a manifestation of God's grace or God's judgment.
14:28That's America 2026, I think, either God's mercy or God's judgment.
14:33Stay tuned to Hamilton Corner with Alex McFarland.
14:35A very special guest sent the Scott celebrating God, America's founder.
14:41a brief break, much more content, plus your calls and questions on this edition of the
14:46Hamilton Quarter.
14:47They'll go away.
14:48A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
15:04He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
15:09I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, and Him.
15:14I will trust Psalm 91 verses 1 and 2.
15:17In a perilous world, so many people are afraid.
15:21They're fearful.
15:22In a world where inner cities and many other communities are just simply dangerous places
15:27to be.
15:28We see the drug trafficking, human trafficking, muggings, murders, physical and sexual abuse.
15:34There is a place of safety in this world and it's found in God.
15:38It's found in that secret place, that intimate relationship with God.
15:42No one can protect you like God can.
15:45But it's important for us to do our part to appropriate, to place ourselves in that secret
15:50place.
15:51Praying Psalm 91 every day is a very wise thing
15:54for all believers to do.
15:56No one can protect you like God can.
16:06Shining light into the darkness,
16:08this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:13The great reformer, Martin Luther, would love Cynthia Scott
16:16because even during the Protestant Reformation,
16:18Luther was kind of a legend in his own lifetime.
16:22And someone once told Martin Luther,
16:23you're the greatest reformer.
16:25And Martin Luther said, no.
16:28The greatest reformer of all time would be he who sets the church a praying.
16:34And I apply that to Cynthia Scott because she has organized so many prayer groups and so
16:40many prayer initiatives on the part of America.
16:43And so she's with us now.
16:45Cynthia, thanks for being with us tonight.
16:47But most importantly, thanks for just having the courage and the faithfulness to tell our
16:52nation and individuals like myself, things that we need to hear.
16:57blessings on you, dear reformer.
17:00Well, I don't know if I'd go that far and your praise is a little high, but I will say
17:06that we underestimate the God to whom we pray.
17:12It's not Alex that prayer works.
17:15It's that God responds to the prayers of his people.
17:19And I can't stress that enough because are we calling on him for every single thing that
17:26we need?
17:27He is the greatest power in the universe.
17:30And I do hope, I mean, nothing, nothing thrills me more than to encourage people to cry out to him individually and together.
17:38And it's not hard to do. It's a conversation.
17:41You know, I have a morning prayer group that the Lord laid it on my heart to pray every day for the nation.
17:48I didn't know I was going to do that.
17:50And so I got a Zoom link from the church. I gathered a dozen or so friends.
17:55and we have not missed a day, Alex,
17:56and we pray every single day, Christmas, New Year's,
18:00the weekends, and we just gather on Zoom.
18:03We're gathering daily in the temple,
18:05and it has been such a lifeline for those of us
18:09that have been on it, and we have seen so many prayers answered,
18:12both national prayers and personal prayers.
18:15I really want to encourage your listeners and viewers
18:20to just stop and think, how can I pray more?
18:25How can I become closer to God?
18:27Because it wasn't just those famous founders
18:31that we look back on that were responsible
18:34for the creation of this nation.
18:35Just think about how many hundreds of thousands
18:38of regular, godly people were praying,
18:43were living obediently and working towards freedom
18:47to bring forth this amazing nation.
18:49every single person matters, every single prayer matters.
18:54And it's really the people, we the church,
18:57and we have this amazing God who offers us,
19:02anything you ask, according to my will, I will do it.
19:05Where two or more agree, I am with you, I will do it.
19:09This is the God that invites us to work with him
19:13in this moment in time.
19:15And I would like to say we are living in an astonishing moment in time.
19:22Amen.
19:22200 years of the greatest nation the world has ever known.
19:27The only constitution that has preserved freedom as long as ours has.
19:33And I believe that God is trying to get our attention.
19:37He's trying to say, think about this moment.
19:39Look to me at this moment.
19:41don't just look to the past, but look to the future and see what I will do.
19:48If God is the founder of America, and I agree with you, I believe he is,
19:54let's ask this question, the God of the Bible, the biblical God, why would he have raised up this
19:59nation? I have my own ideas, but Cynthia Scott, what do you say? Why did God initiate, sustain,
20:08birth and bless America.
20:13I think simply to expand the kingdom,
20:15you know, that was the heart of the pilgrims
20:17and the Puritans when they came over.
20:19They saw America, not just as a place where they could live
20:24and honor God in the way in which they lived,
20:26according to his word, but where they could share the gospel,
20:30where Christ could be made known,
20:32and not just to those on this continent,
20:36but beyond this continent.
20:38So I like to say I say it in my book,
20:41Jesus is in America's DNA.
20:43He is good.
20:45That is a fact.
20:46Our, the earliest settlers wanted a place
20:49where they could share the gospel,
20:51where people could live in freedom.
20:53And those principles were then distilled
20:56into our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.
20:59And it's amazing what happens when people live
21:03according to God.
21:04I'm not saying we're perfect.
21:05You know I'm not.
21:06I mean, we started this conversation by saying that we have fallen and we need to repent.
21:11But the ways of God are so good in leading a nation, in leading a people, giving freedom
21:18and opportunity.
21:20And so I believe it's for the expansion of the kingdom.
21:23I do too, completely.
21:251,000 percent.
21:27God has blessed this nation.
21:28I mean, my goodness, such innovation, such accomplishment, such miraculous visitations
21:35from God.
21:36It was for the Great Commission.
21:37I really did.
21:38Yes, I did.
21:39So, for those just tuning in, we're talking with Cynthia Scott, author, the Celebrate 250
21:46America.
21:47She's calling us to come back to God, the original founder of the country.
21:51We will take questions in the third segment.
21:53I'm going to go ahead and give the number, but it'll be a few short minutes before we get
21:58to the phones, but the number, if you have a question or you want to call in, it's 888-5898840.
22:05But right now, Cynthia, what do you say to people?
22:08And I hear this, and very often it's like pastors, and they'll say, well, you know, faith and religion
22:15have no place in government.
22:17And government, culture, politics, that's a separate lane.
22:23Faith is a personal matter.
22:25Keep Christianity and the government separate.
22:28How do you respond to that objection?
22:32Well, we know this well, Alex, that the separation of church and state was intended to prevent
22:39any governmental agency from presiding over the Church of Jesus Christ, over God's church.
22:46And so that was really what they meant by separation of church and state.
22:50But it's actually silly to believe that anybody can go into any kind of an office or any kind
22:55of a calling without taking their belief system with them, regardless of what that belief system
23:01is. And our founders clearly felt and said that our form of government with all of its freedoms
23:07is suitable for only a moral and religious people by religious they meant Christian. That is the
23:14era in which they were raised. That's the religion to which they were referring. So we are to take
23:21our Christian belief system with us everywhere we go. And the principles of the Bible, which
23:30undergird our freedoms and our founding documents are essential to preserving those freedoms.
23:38We are a Christian nation, not because some of us are Christian, but because our founding
23:43documents were arose out of Christian principles.
23:47And if you try to remove those Christian principles from the documents, from our laws, we will
23:53lose our freedoms, because God is the author of freedom.
23:57He's the only one that can give it.
23:59And if we eliminate God from the equation in America,
24:04we will lose our freedom.
24:06I was going to ask that.
24:08What is the risk if we don't return and acknowledge,
24:12and frankly, not only acknowledge but affirm the divine biblical
24:18DNA of our Constitution and culture.
24:21You know, what do we risk losing, Cynthia?
24:24We risk losing our freedoms.
24:26we risk losing what this nation was created to be.
24:30And I would like to make a distinction
24:33for those of us who are joining us here today.
24:36And the freedom of religion,
24:39the freedom to practice the religion of your choice
24:42comes from God, right?
24:43Because God is the author of freedom.
24:45The principles that are embedded in our Constitution
24:49to maintain that freedom must be preserved.
24:52So even the atheist or someone who believes a different religion
24:57should be grateful that we are a Christian nation
25:00because they are provided the freedom
25:03to believe the way they want to
25:05because of our founding documents being rooted in scripture.
25:10So we have freedom in our nation
25:13but we cannot ever lose our Christian roots.
25:16And you know, I mean,
25:18we are a pluralistic culture in the sense,
25:21I've had academics at universities and different ones.
25:24Well, Christianity, this is not a theocracy.
25:27We're a pluralistic culture.
25:30Yeah, we are pluralistic in the sense.
25:33Somebody can believe whatever they want to believe.
25:36If someone opts to not believe in Jesus, I'm sorry for them, but that is their prerogative,
25:42but we are not pluralistic in the sense that any and every worldview could or should be
25:50allowed into the halls of government, leadership, or the classroom.
25:55And here's another thing that people need to understand that when anyone migrates here,
26:01they don't just come in a vacuum or, you know, leave all their cultural assumptions at the
26:08border.
26:10Everybody has a worldview.
26:11And that's why it is so dangerous, folks.
26:13I got to tell you, it is so dangerous.
26:16increasing numbers of Muslims that are running for and winning offices, you know, more and
26:25more school board members are Islamic, more and more chiefs of police, persons in terms
26:33of leadership.
26:34And I had a four hour conversation with the vice president of care.
26:39And this Islamic woman just very calmly told me, she said, America will become a caliphate
26:46and she seemed to be confident that they were more committed to America than
26:53Christian Americans are committed to America. So we definitely need to pray.
26:58Cynthia, if you would, talk to us about what could light a fire, a renewed fire
27:05of patriotism and frankly obedience in the hearts of those that really do
27:13to understand and love America, what could reignite the passion for our country?
27:19Well, that passion comes from the Holy Spirit, but he does work in different ways.
27:24And I wrote this book primarily so that God would get the credit.
27:27That's really my heart, that God would be honored.
27:30But secondarily, I believe that Christians and Americans need courage to stand up for
27:36our history, to stand up for the truth about our nation.
27:39We are entitled to be a Christian nation.
27:43is entitled to take that away from us. That's how we were founded. That's how our freedoms were created.
27:50And I believe that as people come to know the truth of our history, which has been written out
27:56of the history books, as you know, Alex, I believe that as they see, oh my goodness, God really was
28:01involved in this. You know, my book goes from the time of the pilgrims and it spans across the
28:07revolution, the two great awakenings, and the Emancipation Proclamation, American Prosperity,
28:13and looking forward because I want people to see the broad brush stroke of God across
28:18this nation.
28:19It wasn't just one or two incidents where God was involved.
28:24God has been involved in the ideas even before America was America.
28:30In the hearts of men and women, he has been involved in creating us and sustaining us and
28:35he is the answer to our future, period.
28:39And you know, other nations are entitled to have their belief systems, to have their forms
28:44of government.
28:45And fine, nobody's arguing with that.
28:47We are entitled to ours.
28:49And Christians need to have courage to stand up and fight for that.
28:53Because you're right, we have many threats.
28:55And if you look at other nations of the world truthfully, without Christ, there's no freedom.
29:01Think about the other nations that have arisen under totalitarian regimes, whether they're,
29:06know, religious or Marxist or secular, the people are oppressed because only the God of
29:14the Bible gives freedom. So I'm hoping that God will use this moment in history to spark
29:22a fire that fire you're talking about as people come to know the truth of our history
29:27that has sort of been hidden. I mean, I was surprised at many of the things I learned as
29:31I began the research for this book. I'm sure you have been, as you've done all the research
29:35the books that you've done. God has been there all along and I think that he is
29:40able to light that fire. We've got a break coming up and we are going to get
29:44to calls. I see people holding the numbers. Triple eight, 5898840. Triple
29:50eight, 5898840. The American Family Radio Network, our very special guest,
29:55author Cynthia Scott. Cynthia, in your research, did you ever come across
30:00sociologists who taught at, I believe Oxford, J.D. Unwin. Does that name ring a
30:09bell? It does not. I learned about him through a number of
30:14colleagues, fascinating, but he studied like 80 of the world's preeminent
30:21civilizations throughout history. And he wrote a book called Sex and Culture, and
30:26and unwind documents basically that when there is a breakdown of morality and sex outside
30:34of marriage and promiscuity becomes prevalent, that it is without a doubt the culture will
30:41unravel.
30:43And here's what he said that cultures, and this is profound folks, they go through protective,
30:49productive, prosperous, promiscuous, protective fight, build your nation, productive, build
30:56houses, businesses, but then hard work and self-control, deferred gratification, marriage,
31:05morality, fidelity, it builds prosperity.
31:08But he said during that third phase, protective, productive, prosperous, as generations come
31:15along that don't know what it took to give you what you've got.
31:21And it reminds me in Israel there arose a generation that knew not Joseph nor Joseph's
31:26God.
31:27But during the phasor promiscuity, that's the prosperity and then the forgetting of the
31:34spiritual and moral foundations and then the fourth stage that is the destruction of a culture
31:40promiscuous and unwin he's been dead probably 80 to 100 years but I mean that could be America's
31:48timeline couldn't it the productive protective prosperous promiscuous. It could be if God does not
31:57intervene if we do not cry out to him to intervene it absolutely could be. I think that that's why God
32:04says in the word that when you've built your houses and you're living in your cities, don't
32:10forget me. He's telling us do not forget him. It is not by our own hand that we've attained
32:16this wealth, right? He's been the one that's blessed us. And that's why it is so very important
32:22to remember. And to me, it's almost miraculous. You know, the prayers in my book sat in my laptop
32:30for five years before God opened a door to put them into this book.
32:34Just last May, you know, 13.
32:37And I think that's because we are living in this moment when people are looking
32:43back and there is an opportunity to remember.
32:46Hold on.
32:47We've got a break.
32:48I'm so sorry.
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35:22Hey, welcome back to the program.
35:24We're going to resume our conversation with Cynthia Scott in just a moment, but I want
35:28to talk to you about Saturday night, June 20th, which is just days away.
35:33Now, if you know much about what we do, we do the show exploring the word, but when I'm
35:39not at the radio, Mike, I am on the road and we've done citywide events and camps and conferences
35:45all over America, all 50 states.
35:48But this Saturday night, listen up folks and please pray.
35:51going to be back in North Myrtle Beach, the Greg Roles Legacy Theater. Now, Myrtle
35:59Beach, if you know anything about the Mid-Atlantic region, and this absolutely
36:03relates to our conversation with Cynthia Scott, but Saturday night, June 20th, 7
36:08o'clock, we've got a free event. I'll be speaking and it's a revival meaning. What
36:13I'm going to do is tell you about what spiritual awakening is, revival, how you
36:18You can take this back to your church or your community.
36:22You can be a carrier of revival, really.
36:26And we're going to talk about prayer, what it really means to repent and turn to God and
36:31experience the awakening that our nation needs.
36:34Now, for the last several years, if you listen to what we do, we're all over America.
36:39I'll be in Texas next month with a big citywide crusade.
36:43But let me tell you why Myrtle Beach.
36:45Turtle Beach is the number one beach destination in America.
36:48It's probably the number one golf destination.
36:51There are restaurants, seafood, it's just wonderful.
36:54But there are all these music theaters, kind of like Branson, Missouri.
36:58And we began to rent theaters down there.
37:02People come on vacation.
37:04Why not come and learn about the Lord, learn about God's Word, learn how to defend the faith?
37:10And it was of course last year in front of several thousand people from 17 states that
37:16Charlie Kirk and I did a big event last August and it was the last event he did in America
37:24before that tragic day in Utah.
37:26Well, this Saturday night, now later on in the summer, we'll have Eric Metaxas, we'll
37:31have other conferences.
37:32I'll tell you all about that.
37:34But folks, please pray this Saturday night, June 20th, a revival.
37:39part of our Revive US tour and you can get complete information at my website which is
37:45just my name, AlexMcFarlane.com, AlexMcFarlane.com, but we'll keep you posted on that and we need
37:53an awakening in our nation. So that's why we're doing what we're doing. We're talking with
37:57Cynthia Scott. We're also going to take some phone calls. The number, if you have a question,
38:03It's triple eight, five, eight, nine, eight, eight, 40.
38:06We begin in Louisiana with David.
38:09David, thanks for holding and welcome to our conversation
38:13with Cynthia Scott.
38:17Hello, David.
38:21David, are you there?
38:24Hello, David.
38:26Okay, we're gonna try to go to Melissa.
38:30Melissa, are you there?
38:32Yes, I am.
38:33Welcome, thanks for holding.
38:36Thank you for having me.
38:38I am hearing the words of truth and it just seems to me and it just encourages me to want
38:46to take time and follow through and have a deeper prayer life.
38:52I am very passionate about my country.
38:55I love my country.
38:56I just want to know in my heart's cry really is like when I hear the speaking and I really
39:04grow stronger my thoughts, you want to be a part of the awakening sort of the movement of
39:09you know bringing back our country to where it needs to be.
39:15I guess the question is how do we really bring over the voice that the speaker is talking
39:21about you know when she says hey look you know we're gonna have to have ourselves come
39:26back and fight for our country because you know it's like we don't go into other countries
39:31and make their beliefs change on our account.
39:33We are pretty much very humble of a country.
39:38But I feel like my husband and I talk at the table every morning
39:42and we're always thinking on, I mean,
39:45because David didn't just stand down in the book of the Bible.
39:48He didn't just, I know we can't think of violence to that degree,
39:54but how is it that we can say we're going to make a change?
39:58We're going to have a prayer life, yes.
40:00but how is it that we really can make a change to the words that she spoke that certainly encourages
40:08me but I want to know how. Great question. Cynthia, what do you say? Well, I think I would say
40:17start with prayer and remember prayer isn't just asking. The more important part of prayer is listening
40:24to what God is saying to you and there are many ways to speak up. First of all, we can speak
40:30truth to our families and we do it in love. We don't necessarily have to hit them over the head with it.
40:36We can get involved in civic organizations. We can vote. I think one of the most important things
40:43that we as Christians need to do is to get behind godly or at least the closest to godly
40:51candidates that we can and support them. I'm shocked by the number of people that are Christians
40:57that don't vote. I mean, all throughout the scriptures, we're told to be good stewards of everything.
41:03And yet somehow, we've sort of let this idea of being a good steward of the nation laps.
41:09So I think we just sort of start in our circle. Who is it that we know? What about the local school
41:14board? What about local races? We have, you know, we've got an election coming up in November. We just
41:21went through a primary season, make a call and see how you can get involved. It's sometimes
41:27phone calls or or doorknobging and I I
41:31Don't think we should underestimate
41:34The power that God brings as we pray. He's going to give you the ideas
41:38You know when I started praying for the nation. I did not have the idea of this book
41:42You know, it's something that God does in the process in the midst of our relationship
41:46So I want to encourage you to continue to press into God
41:49I would like to encourage you to get the book because it's a way to pray
41:53It is, you know, each chapter deals with a part of our history and then it goes into
42:00prayer for the government.
42:02Well, first of all, repentance and then Thanksgiving.
42:05Then the government, our leaders, praying for our leaders, praying for the people, the culture
42:10and the church in America, all rooted in scripture.
42:14There is scripture, everything in the book is rooted in scripture because apart from
42:18God's word, we don't know his will.
42:20And then there's a time to sit and listen to what God is saying to you.
42:27And that's what I want you to do, Melissa.
42:28I want you to sit and listen.
42:30And you're going to connect scriptures in your mind that you've read with things that
42:35are going on in your life or your community and jot them down.
42:39And then at the very end of each chapter, there is a gentle call to action.
42:43It's a prod.
42:44It's just you don't have to do what I'm suggesting, but listen to what God is calling you to do
42:50because prayer and action go together.
42:52They did it at the time of the revolution and they do now.
42:55And you know, when we think about what they were preaching
42:58at the time of the revolution,
42:59they were preaching freedom in Christ,
43:01but the pastors were taking that plumb line of scripture
43:05and comparing it to the days in which they lived
43:07and they said, wait a second, we're not free
43:10because we are under the tyranny of this king, George,
43:13and we've got to get out from underneath him
43:15because God has intended for us to be a free people.
43:18And so we need to hold up the scriptures
43:21next to what's happening in our world.
43:23And if we are in alignment with God's word, great.
43:27We continue.
43:28But if we are not seeing alignment with God's word,
43:30then that's a call to action right there to get involved.
43:33And join with some others to pray.
43:36I love corporate prayer.
43:39It's so powerful.
43:40And by corporate prayer, I mean two or three or 200 or 500,
43:45either with the church or with a small group,
43:47It is very encouraging to seek God and hear from them,
43:51from Him together.
43:53Amen, amen.
43:55We're gonna circle back to that.
43:56Melissa, thanks for calling.
43:58Right now in Kentucky, Frank.
44:01Frank in Kentucky, thanks for holding.
44:03I like, I like to.
44:04Yeah, welcome.
44:05Hi, Alex.
44:06Alex, I have a complaint.
44:09My complaint is, I've been, first of all,
44:14I've been in Kentucky almost 25 years
44:17And I've been out in the public like everybody else has.
44:21And I'm yet to see people come up to me and say,
44:24sir, do you know Jesus?
44:26Are you are, are you,
44:30and I've been in public places like everybody else goes.
44:34And yet I haven't seen great people come up to me
44:38like Walmart, you know, place like that and say,
44:40do you know Jesus?
44:42I'm the point of making it right.
44:43You mean like witnessing Christ.
44:46Yeah.
44:47So the point I'm trying to make is Alex, no one is, the Christian is not doing this, okay?
44:53It's been going on a long time.
44:56So sometimes Ronald was there, he tells us to go out in the world and take the gospel
44:59out and make disciples of people.
45:03So take the word out.
45:06And so actually the word is out there out there in the world.
45:12That's not so much in the...
45:14That's a good point.
45:16Cynthia, as a Christian, we are to be a witness.
45:20I was thinking about something.
45:22I believe it's Jeremiah 29-7 that God told Israel, seek the peace of the city where you
45:29are captives.
45:33Many ministers have reprimanded me and they'll say, well, the world is waxing worse and worse.
45:42My home is heaven.
45:43Israel. They were captives and they were to be salt and light. And yes, for the Christian
45:50heaven is our home, but America is where we live until we get there. We're to be salt
45:58and light, aren't we? We are. And you know, it's interesting because I was talking to somebody
46:04recently, they were talking about censorship in the media. And after he spoke, I said, you know,
46:10our history has been censored. And I believe that I even believe that we as Christians self-sensor.
46:18And what I mean by that is we allow ourselves to be intimidated into not speaking about Jesus,
46:25because other people tell us to. Why should we living in a free nation, not speak about Jesus,
46:33just like everybody else speaks about their belief system? I believe we are guilty of self-sensoring.
46:40and we of all people have the good news.
46:43I mean, that's a scheme of the devil
46:44when you think about it.
46:46Of course, he would want Christians to self-sensor
46:48and be quiet, but that's not God's way.
46:51And there are many, many ways to speak about Jesus
46:55and asking somebody if you can pray for them.
47:00And then in the course of our conversation,
47:02sharing that you're praying to Jesus,
47:04there are many ways to do it.
47:05But what we need to do is speak up.
47:07We cannot be afraid, Alex.
47:09We have good news, not just for this nation, but for eternity.
47:14And we just need to speak it.
47:17Yeah, we do.
47:18And folks, keep some gospel tracks.
47:21Look, if you write to the Billy Graham ministry,
47:24they will send you his wonderful little booklet
47:27called Peace with God.
47:28And I often say to people, I'll say,
47:30hey, here's a little booklet with some Bible verses.
47:33It will be a great encouragement to you.
47:34May I give this to you?
47:36And don't forget Jesus is as close by as a prayer.
47:40You'll be amazed 999 people out of a thousand
47:44will gratefully take it.
47:46But David in Louisiana, David, are you there?
47:50Yes, thanks for holding.
47:53What you got David?
47:55It's an honor to be on.
47:56Thank you very much.
47:57Hey, the reason I'm calling is I've come across a name
48:03that was a it's fact of fiction.
48:05I don't know, it's during the time of the founding.
48:09Just the name, Heyman Solomon Ringabel.
48:18He was a Polish immigrant who helped fund
48:21the Continental Congress, I think, didn't he?
48:24Or didn't he give some money to George Washington
48:28to help?
48:29It was either the American Revolution
48:31or the Continental Congress.
48:33Am I right on that?
48:36That is exactly correct.
48:38And I came across this for the first time,
48:40and I was astound.
48:42Yes, he literally paid, yeah, he was a Polish Jew,
48:49and he was financially, and he literally paid
48:52for the Battle of Yorktown, which in the end,
48:57it helped us win the Revolutionary War.
49:01And wow, I was just wondering if,
49:04So if you'll have come across his name, it's these remarkable things.
49:08Thanks. We're almost out of time. I want to throw to Cynthia. You know,
49:11um, the Jewish influence in the American Revolution, which is a lovely story. And then our participation,
49:20Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, in the rebirth of Israel, America is a nation of destiny, isn't
49:28Cynthia. Yes, we absolutely are a nation of destiny. We are part of God's story. I believe that every
49:35nation can be part of God's story. Obviously, God is no respecter of persons, but in America,
49:42he shaped a people that would shape the world and would spread the gospel. And we really are that
49:48light. We cannot let this light flicker out. We have got to step into this moment in history.
49:54and we've got to be strong in our faith,
49:56and yes, he used Jewish people,
49:58as well as others and Native Americans and Blacks and Whites.
50:01I mean, God used so many people to bring about this nation.
50:05And he did do it for his glory.
50:09And I love that verse from one Samuel,
50:12it's a theme of the book, one Samuel 230,
50:15those who honor me, this is God speaking,
50:18those who honor me, I will honor.
50:21And that really is the way of America.
50:23We're almost out of time, Cynthia Scott,
50:25celebrating God, America's founder.
50:27Thanks, Cynthia, for being with us.
50:28Thanks to Bobby Rosa, Jeff McIntosh, all the crew.
50:31And thank you for listening.
50:32Hey, folks, remember your life can be the influence
50:36that helps save our nation.
50:41The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast
50:43may not necessarily reflect those
50:45of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.

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