I think it’s good every once in a while to remind ourselves of this covenant that was spoken over our nation by the earliest settlers. Let’s align ourselves with it and declare it over America. I understand this was one of the first prayers prayed on American soil and one of the first corporate covenants.

“We do hereby dedicate this land and ourselves to reach the people within these shores with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to raise up godly generations after us and with these generations, take the Kingdom of God to all the earth. May this covenant of dedication remain to all generations as long as the earth remains and may this land, along with England, be evangelist to the world. May all who see this cross* remember what we have done here, and may those who come here to inhabit join us in this covenant and in this most noble work that the Holy Scriptures may be fulfilled.”

— Robert Hunt, 1607, Cape Henry, Virginia

• They planted a cross on the beach.