One Nation … for the Glory of God 
By Kenneth Copeland

Why did the Pilgrims come to America? What was in the heart of God concerning this place? If you want to know the truth about the founding of our nation, go back to its original documents and the circumstances surrounding their creation. The truth may surprise you.

It has always been God’s plan to have a nation where the glory of God could be sown and nurtured, from which His glory could spread throughout the whole earth - where all people could praise the God of heaven and be protected from sin, sickness, demons, fear and all the curse that had come on the earth. This North American continent was the place He chose for the seed to be planted.

God picked a handful of people from different places to come here and plant the seeds of His glory. They were not racists or religionists. They were just believers.

In November 1620, a little ship called the Mayflower came to the shores of this continent. The people aboard had the glory of God and a prayer of faith in their hearts for a place where they could worship God in freedom. On board that vessel, these people entered into a covenant with God to establish the land of His dreams in the Name and in the blood of Jesus.

The Mayflower Compact is America’s first great constitutional document. It was signed in Cape Cod Bay before the ship’s inhabitants set foot on American soil. Here is some of what it proclaimed:

In the name of God, amen. We whose names are underwritten…Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia….

This wasn’t just any colony. It was, in the words of the Pilgrims themselves, “for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith.” In England they had suffered persecution for their religious convictions. That had led them to emigrate to Holland in search of religious freedom. After 12 difficult years there, they made the voyage to the New World to begin a colony for the glory of God.

I always come back to this when I hear people predict the doom of the United States like they have been doing for more than 220 years. I want you to know something about this country - it may go through some hard knocks, but it’s not going to fail. I can tell you exactly why. It’s protected under the Mayflower Covenant - a covenant established in the blood of Jesus between the Pilgrims and God. Because of it, God has had mercy on this nation in spite of all of us.

Recently Gloria and I heard a statement made by a prophet of God - a powerful man of prayer from India. He said Jesus came to him in prayer one afternoon, and he asked, “Jesus, when are You going to judge America?” Jesus said, “I’m not. I have a covenant with them that was made on the Mayflower, and I remember that covenant….” Thank God, that covenant has saved this nation over and over.

As Galatians 3:28 says, There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

God never intended for the black man to come here in the belly of a slave ship. And He never planned for the white man to come over here and steal from the red man and kill him. None of that was God’s plan.

God’s plan was a place where all tribes, all tongues, all races, all colors could freely praise and worship Him together.

God intended for this North American continent to be a place where there would be a nation like the family of God. It was meant to be a place where people honestly love each other. Why? Because of the anointing that abides within. There is an anointing to love (Ephesians 3:14-20).

A Jewish man loved and died for all of us - the black man, the red man, the white man, the yellow man, the brown man. There had to be an anointing to do that, and that anointing is on His Body, the Church, today. It’s Christ in you…our hope of glory!

Make no mistake about it, God is still going to have His dream and we’re a part of it.

The American dream is God’s dream-one nation under God filled with His glory.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

The third Monday in January has been designated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, celebrating the life of that great civil rights leader and minister of the gospel. Under his leadership, our nation took a turn in the direction of fulfilling God’s dream of a people united and walking in love.

Today we’re farther down that road, but we still have a ways to go. Love is still the answer to the spirit of division, and that answer is still only to be found in Christ.