"The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.." Daniel 9:9
Life, liberty, free speech, safety for lost and saved Americans etc. -- man, a whole lot's at stake. Understatement!
So much of the craziness we are seeing this week boils down to just two issue: Pleasure seeking and abortion. They’ve threatened to riot, to burn down cities, and even to go to war.. for real. That’s how much they want to produce and then kill innocent babies (but they don't want to produce really, they want to un-produce). Scary horrific stuff.
The pandemic has just ended it would seem.
"The end of Roe v. Wade?" ~ Senator Tom Cotton (who is on the short list. Man, I pray it gets overturned!)
"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavily burdened by religious rituals that provide no peace, and I will give you rest refreshing your souls with salvation. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me following Me as My disciple, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest, renewal, blessed quiet for your souls. For My yoke is easy to bear and My burden is light." ~ Jesus, Matthew 11:28-30 amp
We can feel tired, down, weary, and pretty emotionally distraught inside, but coming to Christ, gettin’ alone to spend some time with him can help so much! We find that He injects into us a new energy of sorts (not some new age type), but a new power and new strength from his Spirit.
Would you pray something like...- Father, turn us back to you. we wholeheartedly unite to pray for another outpouring here today -- we so need that. Jesus, we all seriously need you! Do forgive us here in the USA, each one of us. No form of self righteous prayin' will help any. Please grant repentance and faith unto life, yes saving faith for those who don't yet know you here. Religion won't help us, it never has. Please revive and fully restore your believers here, and do send another spiritual awakening, Lord. do it again. Forgive us for all our pleasure seeking, abortions and independent living away from you. So, SO many killings of innocent babies. We come to you and humble ourselves before you, please be merciful. Search our hearts...
- Father, we come, because all have sinned and fall short of Your glory...
With Daniel’s heart and attitude, we confess that we Your people have sinned. On our watch our nation has spiraled downward to such a low level in morality. Search us, for You know our hearts and thoughts. Lead each of us to specifically confess and hang a U-turn to you. We agree and pray for wisdom, even for our leaders. Let the best choice be made for our Supreme Court Justice. We pray they'd be confirmed quickly -- we don't want more needless riots. (Romans 3:23; Psalm 139:23-24; 1 John 1:9; Jeremiah 15:19)
- Father, forgive us for not loving You with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength...
Your Word tells us that we are to show our love for You through our obedience to the word. We need your grace to empower, to give courage and guidance, Lord. If we, Your people, have been as obedient as we should be, would the sins of our nation be so great today? Help us hate sin to the same degree that you hate it, and love righteousness like you do as well. We need illumination with the Scriptures in your local church. Show us where we have grown distracted, worldly and lukewarm and failed to obey. (Matthew 22:37-38; John 14:15, 21, 23, 24; 1 John 5:3; 2 John 6)
Since God knows our future, our situation, our plans, our personalities, and our capacity to just listen to his truth today, His Spirit isn't going to speak more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
- Father, forgive us when we fail to love our neighbors as ourselves...
We are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves—love free of prejudice or favoritism, or we sin. Today social injustice is being revealed in ways many have never understood it. Now that we know, show us how to truly love our neighbors, especially the lost. Make us bold in sharing Christ; open their hearts to receive Him. (Matthew 22:39; James 2:8-9, AMP; Acts 16:14) Continue on at any time as the Spirit leads you in personal prayer...
- Father, forgive us when we fail to love others as Jesus loves us...
Jesus’ command is to love one another as He loved us, that by our love for one another, others will recognize us as His disciples. Is our love for one another a witness to the watching world? If not, show us where we fall short. Lead us, enable us to change. (John 13:34)
- Father, guide us as we continue to pray for the sins of Your people, the things on Your heart...
“You were taught with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires...and to put on the new self..” (Ephesians 4:22-24). I come in a spirit of repentance, to confess my sins and the sins of Your people here as You bring them to my mind. Please let your will be done in our upcoming election on November 3rd, and even beyond that any some people will try to cheat. We are more concerned with what happens in your house than in our White House, but all that is very important as well. We want what is best for the people of this Land, Jesus. We agree and pray that the enemy and his crowd wouldn't mess up our election process. Let your Kingdom come, let your will be done.
- Father, we don't want hard stubborn hearts. Open our eyes and ears today. Please have mercy on our nation.. so blinded by the darkness of sin. We need you now. “You must no longer live as the Gentiles [the lost] do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts..” (Ephesians 4:18-29). In Your mercy show us how to continue on in praying against the strongholds of evil that sadly seem to have become the norm in our nation (we want to see a change, we want it gone from our Land! And we want to win the lost while we still have some time). We want to the strongholds crumble -- including online porn, the exporting of it, sexual sins, the abortions -- idolatry, and others. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Edifying idea for us all. This week see if you can find some complimentary accompanying Bible verses that go along with these great quotes. and then let's pray the word.
Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer. — Elisabeth Elliot Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. — Corrie Ten Boom
Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow. — Benjamin Franklin
Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them. — Richard Baxter Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. — Spurgeon
God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays. — John Masefield
If your day is hemmed in with prayer, it is less likely to come unraveled. — Cynthia Lewis
When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message. —Oswald Chambers
Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer. — Charles Finney
Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer. — David Bryant
In worship, God imparts himself to us. — C.S.Lewis
The amount of time we spend with Jesus — meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face — establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom. — Charles Stanley
God shapes the world by prayer. The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil. — E.M. Bounds
It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone. — Hudson Taylor
There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. — D.A.T. Pierson
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray. — Oswald Chambers
The great people of the earth today are the people who pray, (not) those who talk about prayer. — S.D.Gordon
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. — Charles Stanley
Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important. — Charles Stanley
All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice. — J.H. Jowett
Work, work, from morning until late at night. In fact, I have so much to do that I shall have to spend the first three hours in prayer. — Martin Luther
To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees. —Billy Graham
Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God. — Oswald Chambers
Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine. — Andrew Murray
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies. — Frank C. Laubach
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. — J. Sidlow Baxter
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. — Oswald ChambersTo desire revival... and at the same time to neglect (personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another. — A.W. Tozer
God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely. — Anselm of Canterbury
Prayer is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural. — Oswald Chambers
The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... the fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down. — Campbell Morgan
There must be the inward worship within the shrine if there is to be outward service. — Alexander MacLaren
If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus.... He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship. — A.W. Tozer
I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time. — Charles Stanley
The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits. — Charles Stanley
Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine. — Andrew Murray
History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer. — Edwin Orr
All I know is that when I pray, (so called) coincidences happen; and when I don't pray, they don't happen. — Dan Hayes
There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes Of blinded men to instant, perfect sight; There is a place where thou canst say, "Arise" to dying captives, bound in chains of night; There is a place where thou canst reach the store of hoarded gold and free it for the Lord; There is a place — upon some distant shore — where thou canst send the worker and the Word. Where is that secret place dost thou ask, "Where?" O soul, it is the secret place of prayer! — Alfred Lord Tennyson
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope, and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. — Richard Cecil
I have lived to thank God that not all my prayers have been answered. — Jean Ingelow
Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. — Edwin Keith
To pray well is the better half of study. — Martin Luther
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. — Hannah MoreStudy your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer. — Robert McCheyne
If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour will be very well employed. — Francis de Sales
I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man may be nourished.... I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God and to meditation of it. — George Mueller
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth. — Charles Stanley
