Beyond Praying for Our Nation

Well, yesterday concluded our last day of "Praying for Our Nation" through the American Prayer Initiative. I would like for us to take a few moments to reflect back over what we've prayed these 31 days and review some of the scriptures we're read (keeping in remembrance the time you have spent with God). I hope you have, indeed, grown closer to the Lord through this time of supplication.

We've covered many very important topics. As you've prayed I hope that God has instilled in you the desire to keep lifting your country up before Him during your daily devotions and prayer time (if you don't already). In light of current world affairs the need is greater than at any other time in our history. Even after this election is over, whoever God has "allowed" to rule will need our prayers. God's saints must be about the Father's business. Through Him our prayers can change not only our state and our nation, but the world and through our prayers we can usher in the next stage of God's plan for mankind. 

Thank you dear friends for praying with me and God bless.

A Summary of Our Month of Prayer:

1. Thanksgiving: Thank You for all the bountiful blessings You have poured out on America. (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)

2. Humility: As we humble ourselves in prayer, and seek You and turn from our wicked ways, we thank You for Your promise to hear, to forgive and to heal our land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

3. Repentance & Forgiveness: Thank You that as we genuinely repent, You extend Your mercy and pardon. Please lead us to an understanding of how far we have strayed as a nation. We humbly and sincerely ask for Your forgiveness and restoration. (1 John 1:9)

4. Leaders: Please give our leaders ears to hear Your wisdom and guidance, and the discernment, courage and strength to carry out Your direction. We ask, Father, for You to move their hearts to honor You as their highest Authority. (Proverbs 21:1)

5. The Law: Please awaken and lead our people and our leaders to a reverent understanding and adherence to Your laws. (Hebrews 10:16)

6. Justice: We ask for leaders, a judicial system and judges who adhere to the original intent of our founding documents and their many connections to Biblical principles. (Deuteronomy 1:16-17)

7. Domestic Tranquility: We ask You for law enforcers, first responders and law makers of integrity, and for Your direction, correction and protection for them and their families. (Psalm 122:7)

8. The Common Defense: We ask for Your protection against all enemies foreign and domestic, seen and unseen, and pray for Your abundant protection and provision for those in overt or covert service and their families. (Psalm 18:2)

9. The General Welfare: We ask for Your guidance in how to best promote the well-being of our citizens. (1 Corinthians 10:24)

10. The Blessings of Liberty: Thank You, Father, for guiding our founders in securing the blessings of liberty for us. We ask You to guide us in reclaiming those blessings for ourselves and our posterity. (2 Corinthians 3:17)

11. Rights: Thank You for founders who established this country on the fact that our rights come from You. We ask for your divine intervention against all attempts to re-define those rights on man’s terms. (1 Timothy 1:8)

12. Life: Thank You for founders who established this country on the fact that You created all of us equal. We plead for You to lead all Americans to respect and protect the sacred right to life at every stage. (Psalm 127:3)

13. Liberty/Freedom: Thank You for our founders great respect for Your gift of free will, and for pledging their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to establish a government which would protect our God-given right to freedom. (Galatians 5:1)

14. The Pursuit of Happiness: Thank you for our founders foresight in establishing our God-given right to pursue our own destiny. Please forgive our futile attempts to pursue happiness apart from You. (Psalm 68:3)

15. Virtue: Please awaken Americans to our founders belief that happiness and virtue were one in the same. Return us, O God, to the respect and pursuit of virtue in our private and civic lives. (Philippians 4:8)

16. Ethics: We ask for a rebirth of an understanding between right and wrong. Lead us, O God, in Your ways of thinking, saying and doing the right thing. (Psalm 1:1-3)

17. Truth: We ask for a renewed hunger for Your Truth in our land. (Psalm 25:5)

18. The Church: We plead for an awakening in Your church. Convict us of our responsibility to live and speak your truth and grace into every aspect of our culture. Protect Your church from being absorbed into the ways of this world. Lord, we ask for your protection from persecution and from all attempts to silence the voice of Your church. (Ephesians 2:19-22)

19. The Poor: Lord, we pray for those who suffer spiritual, relational and/or economic poverty. We especially ask You to move Americans to minister to the true needs of the orphans, widows and prisoners in our communities. (2 Corinthians 8:9)

20. Family: We pray for Your hand to be upon the healing and restoration of families and upon the institution of family. (Colossians 3:18-21)

21. Marriage: We pray for Your hand of healing and restoration upon marriages, and upon the institution of marriage. (Ephesians 5:31-32)

22. Manhood/Womanhood: We pray for healing and restoration of true manhood and womanhood in America. We ask for Your wisdom and protection against attempts to re-define our very identity as men and women. (Genesis 1:27)

23. Relationships & Race: Thank You, Lord for clearly demonstrating the importance of relationships. We ask for Your protection over all our relationships, humbly asking for Your wisdom as You guide us to love as you love. (Galatians 3:28)

24. Youth/Education: We lift up our youth asking for Your divine intervention and protection over their lives. Guide their teachers and their parents, O God, to train them up in Your ways. Give them wisdom and courage in this godless culture. (Proverbs 22:6)

25. The Culture/Media/Journalism/Entertainment/The Arts: Father, we ask for Your help in reclaiming our culture from the strongholds of the enemy, praying for You to strengthen, broaden, deepen and give favor to Christian influence on the culture. (Philippians 4:8)

26. The Economy/Business/Labor: We ask, Lord, for Your divine solutions for America’s moral and financial re-birth. (Titus 2:6-8)

27. Health Care/Healing: Guide us, Lord, to Your model for health care and healing in our country. (Proverbs 3:5-6)

28. International Relations: We ask for Your wisdom, discernment and strength in all our dealings with other nations. (Psalm 9:7-8)

29. Immigration/Immigrants: Allow us to hear and respond to Your desires for those who would be Americans. (Deuteronomy 24:17)

30. Citizens/Voters: Teach us, Lord, to value our role as citizens. Awaken in the electorate a desire to know the true principles upon which America was built, and draw us to Your vision for the restoration of our beloved country. (Proverbs 11:11)

31. Vision: We thank You Lord, that in You America can once again become a “City on a Hill” ~ Your beacon to the world. (Matthew 5:14-16)

For further Scriptural references & prayer suggestions go to: AmericanPrayerInitiative.org