Intercede for America!

PrayerI have gone easy on the number of posts over the last week because beginning this Friday I will be submitting a post every day for 40 days.  During these 40 days (if you pray, and I hope you do) we need prayer, fasting and turning to God in obedience.  We need to ask for God’s help in the selection of our nation’s leadership.  If you don’t understand the fasting thing then please just be obedient to God and pray.  I will be doing my own ting and I pray you will be doing yours.  Let us all humble ourselves and cry out to the Lord with one united voice.  We must repent and seek His face.

As Christians it is our duty to pray for those who hold elected office in our country.  In fact, Scripture commands us to do soIn 1 Timothy 2, verses 1 and 2 it says, “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.”

It is also our privilege and our responsibility to vote.  After 40 days of prayer, fasting and obedience to God we need to exercise our right and vote.  We are at a crucial national, state and local election frontier.  We are at a spiritual crossroad and we need to do all we can to elect people who will lead us with Biblical values and return us to our roots.  Be sure to register and vote.

Pray for the future of America.  We are seeing economic decline in unprecedented terms.  We are seeing corruption, secular humanism and attacks on our religious liberties like never before.  If you know how to fast do so for prayer and fasting together brings change through the power of God.  If you need help regarding the issue of fasting you can seek this great website for guidance http://40daystosaveamerica.com/ .  I am not asking you to fast as that is a personal issue.  I am asking for prayer.  I am asking for a focused daily and consistent prayer for our country.  Will you join me for 40 days to lift our country before the creator?

While you pray please remember the presidential election will likely be determined by 7 states.  As intercessors, we are to ask for god to move in a mighty way within these states.  Please mention them by name as you pray for our God is organized and specific.  Ask for Him to move on Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Virginia and Nevada.    Certainly do not forget the other states, particularly your own for God can make it happen from anywhere he wishes.  I am giving you the human statistical probability as we know it and these states are called the “swing states”.

From the very beginning of America God has moved among us mightily because his movements were preceded by prayer.  Over the centuries there have been witnessed triumphs over dark days.  Throughout history the presence of God has been invited through our intentional and persistent prayer.  The possibilities are endless when we pray!  God placed an amazing power in our hands when he gave us the power of prayer and a way to reach the Father.   When we humbly seek His face by praying he will answer us and will move to accomplish His desire for our land and for us.  Please pray for the direction of our nation.  Prayerfully seek His face on a daily basis.  Intercede for America.  Let us believe our prayers are heard and will make a difference.  Let us claim the victory!

Ronald Reagan made a speech to America on February 6, 1986 when he said, “To preserve our blessed land we must look to God…It is time to realize that we need God more than He needs us.  Let us, young and old, join together, as did the First Continental Congress, in the first step, in humble heartfelt prayer.  Let us do so for the love of God and His great goodness, in search of His guidance and the grace of repentance, in seeking His blessings, His peace, and the resting of His kind and holy hands on ourselves, our nation, our friends in the defense of freedom, and all mankind, now and always.

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America… Our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal. Today, we utter no prayer more fervently than the ancient prayer for peace on Earth.   The Lord bless and keep you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace…And God bless you all.”

Humanly speaking… we are hopeless.  Our only hope is in the mighty hand of God.

Dear Lord, we come to you humbly today and seek your blessing.  Help us dear Lord to listen to you and to heed your instruction.  Father, we rest in your presence for you are the anchor of our souls.  It is You alone dear Lord that we desire and nothing else can take your place.  Father we need you, we love you and we praise you.  We pray these things through your son Jesus Christ.

Amen

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