Prayer for the Nation by Steve Hall!
🙏”With the hope of that awakening in view, now we turn to pray for our nation. But first of all, Father, we want to thank you for loving the whole world—not just America. You loved us so much you sent your Son for us. Jesus is the inexhaustible expression of that everlasting love.
🙏You sent him to all of the nations as one of us, to be among us—to be like us and for us. You sent him to die on the cross for the sins of the human race. You sent him to rise victorious from the grave, bringing all who belong to him into eternal life. You sent him to share his risen, reigning, saving, transforming life with all who trust in him as Savior and Lord of all. You sent him to inherit, liberate, and rule supreme over all creation, for all ages to come. (14)
🙏Therefore—we boldly pray for a fresh, awakening to Christ, not only in your Church but also throughout our entire society. The rapid spiritual and moral freefall in America today is beyond any person’s ability to reverse and heal. We are living in a generation overflowing with conflict and chaos. Masses of our citizens are lost in worldly attractions, sin, confusion, rebellion, fear, deception, hopelessness and, above all, a lack of understanding about the gospel and person of Jesus. Everywhere we look, we see deadly pandemic, financial uncertainties, racial injustice, immorality, hatred, lies, political wars, terrorism, corruption, injustice, as well as leadership crises on every level.
🙏Therefore—we hold to the mandate of Isaiah 61 fulfilled right now by how Jesus reigns supreme:
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
🙏Therefore—we declare before you and all creation: Christ is the ONLY answer for America in this divisive and dangerous hour! He is not only all we need and all we want; he is all we HAVE! He alone is the Way and the Truth and the Life! He alone is the Living Hope—the hope for this land for all the glorious things you have purposed and promised through him. (15) 🙏On behalf of our country, we are compelled to seek your face, Father—to do so without ceasing—that you might bring the supremacy of Christ down upon America, like never before, in all of his saving power. Do so quickly, wherever and however you desire!”
(Excerpt from A United Prayer Over America… Calling Down the Supremacy of Christ on a Nation in Crisis).