During the days of America’s founding, colonies would declare:
- days of prayer when times were bad;
- days of fasting when times were real bad; and
- days of thanksgiving when things turned around.
This developed into many colonies, like New Hampshire and Massachusetts, having annual days of fasting, often on Good Friday.
This is evidence that colonists were not “deists” who believed God set the laws of nature in place and then let everything run on its own.
America’s founders believed in a living relationship with God where:
- if people sinned, He would call them to repent;
- if they did not repent, He would sent judgment; and
- then when they repented and believed, He would send deliverance, health, and blessings.