Posted on 11/14/2018 5:43:49 PM PST by metmom
Edited on 11/14/2018 5:54:19 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Therein is our hope.
If only the people of this nation could see that!
I am joining you today for this day of fasting and prayer for our nation. Thank you and may God bless you!!
Our Father in heaven, Holy is your name. In your infinite wisdom, holiness, and goodness beyond measure, please move in the hearts of our leaders, our people, our families, and ourselves this day.
We regret our trespasses with deep sorrow. We are not worthy of your mercy. With our whole hearts, we beg your forgiveness upon our nation, our leaders, our people, our families, and ourselves.
May your Holy Spirit fill the hearts of your people and let this day be the turning of the tide of darkness over our nation so that your light will forever shine upon us from sea to shining sea.
Amen.
May God bless you and each of us praying and fasting for our nation today, and show us all this day what we must do to bring healing to our nation.
Amen to your beautiful prayer and thank you for joining in.
Our country is worth praying and fasting for. Specifically that the Lord would pour out His Spirit upon our land, that the people would repent and turn their hearts to their God and creator who loves them. He desires their true happiness. He desires to show them mercy and protection. Only in following the Lord will America find peace and safety.
Father, hear our prayers today and let us give all glory to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.
Amen to both your prayers.
Thanks for the links!
One of my favorite chapters!
PTL and Amen!
Amen!!!
...asking the Lord to cleanse and restore. For justice to prevail. For righteousness to instill true joy in hearts and minds renewed and refreshed.
For protection of PDJT, his family, and his administration. For his administration to seek to follow God’s agenda with each decision.
For great and mighty things to be seen and known as we see power transferred to just hands made wise and willing to help steer us back on course.
For those called to labor as a servant of the Most High God, to answer in faith, ‘Yes, Lord, here I am.’ Even if it be in the midst of battle we cannot imagine.
Let Your hedge be given as protection, and Your works among men be known.
In Jesus Name, Name above all names...
Amen
I am so sorry to hear it, KeyLargo! May God bless you and help you heal and recover completely.
Lord we pray that you would break the chains of wickedness in America. Bring freedom from the oppression of a corrupt government. In Jesus name amen.
All of the above.
AMEN and AMEN!!!
Farther God, may we see your glorious deliverance of our nation from the wickedness, burdens, oppressions and yokes that have so bound us and clouded our every day.
We sorrow for our nation and ask for Your healing. Help us, we pray, O Lord, that we might return to You afresh.
In Jesus Name. Amen
Sorry to Hear this! Prayers for a Quick Recovery.
Thank you for the Biblical Purposes of Fasting. Wonderful to see them in a list like that.
Amen!
Wonderful. Thank you!
Lord, just thinking about all the things I am thankful for. Family, a home, church and freedom to worship... Most of all I'm thankful You sent Your Son to pay the price for my sin that I might have eternal life.
I prayed and fasted today too. I definitely believe there’s a field white for harvest in America. But as for the country as a whole, including our laws and our culture, regaining a Christian character, that I don’t see happening, barring some catastrophe that’s a true doomsday event, like nuclear weapons being used, and I’m not sure that would even be the Lord’s will. He Himself could make anything happen, and allowing a doomsday catastrophe to happen is how I believe He would bring the country and culture back to Him.
But otherwise, the apostasy today in Western countries at least appears to fall within the realm of man’s free will. On the whole, the people alive now in wealthy nations are mostly getting what they want — to throw off God, lured in by their pride in mankind’s “accomplishments” and their false confidence in their own goodness. They believe in secular science and living for life in this world, and they have no need of God, especially since they’re not sinners and believing in “superstition” is for the ignorant and uneducated. The Satanic vision which the world lives by is so powerful in our time and place that those with the spirit of Antichrist even consider themselves to be the world’s true moral authorities. That’s overwhelming spiritual blindness. Satan has taken over all of our worldly institutions and also holds tremendous power in the Church and among many professing Christians, whom he is more and more often luring away from faith in Christ.
No, the worldliness in our time and place is too strong for the Gospel, which doesn’t mean that God and His Son and the Gospel aren’t truly stronger ultimately, and He couldn’t make people believe differently, but it’s a matter of His judgment on people.
“And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12
Today even many professing Christians take comfort in finding other professing Christians who agree with them that God’s Word doesn’t have to be taken seriously on this or that, as though God can be outvoted by men who profess to serve Him. And why do they believe that getting agreement from others can trump God’s Word when intellectually they must know it can’t? Because they don’t feel like they truly have to fear God. They have a false confidence that they really don’t need Jesus to have died for their sins.
All of the things we have, everything made possible by modern technology, is for the most part a stumblingblock to faith because even many if not most Christians use them in a worldly, carnal spirit, which says all these things are much better used as Satan’s toys than God’s tools. Even many Christians of our time and place don’t want God to “oppress” them, preventing from having all manner of what they take to be fun, but which is really slavery that can’t and doesn’t satisfy. How far many professing Christians are from putting the next world before this one, but doing so is the ultimate in living out one’s faith. Instead Satan’s voice, speaking through this world, convinces so many people that the truly right way to live is as an untrained dog that ever increasingly learns to ignore its master’s voice.
The deceitfulness of riches — an upper middle class spirit of mammon — has overpowered the Church in America. And part of what that spirit does is that it talks about the danger. It talks and talks and talks about it. It’s in the lucrative businesses of writing books and holding conferences about it. But that’s mostly clouds without rain. It’s the Christian faith as a business. That’s what’s here today.
And so no matter what happens, and how bad things get, so many Christians are ultimately content to keep the machine running, keep “peace with Satan” to have a good life here, while expecting “peace with God” for the next life. The Church starts using Satan’s translation of the Bible more and more. Shouldn’t all the evil that’s celebrated in our society today be the cause for more calls for prayer and fasting and returning to the Lord, and that even at holidays? Shouldn’t there be some mourning called for by our “Christian leaders”?
If we want America to be run in a way that’s more pleasing to God, then the Church must live up to its responsibility to be the guardian of “democracy” — the republic. That means fighting for justice everywhere. So many of our worldly leaders have helped to build an unjust society, China, into a tremendous world power, and the secular left, which claims to be the guardian of justice and “democracy” have silently allowed that, but then again, so has the Church here. The Church has often even allowed the blasphemy of the claim that where God’s Word sounds socialist, it must not be followed. We will not follow God if He promotes communism. That perverts the truth. God is not being a communist when He pronounces woe on them that grind the face of the poor or speaks on the evils of wealth. No, follow His Word to do right by the poor while not being a godless communist. Don’t despise the poor and worship the rich to avoid being thought of as a socialist. Don’t disavow God’s Word to avoid being thought of as a socialist. I used to be a Democrat, and now there is just one party for me, the Republican party. But that doesn’t make it without real and awful sin. I idolized the Democratic Party as a Democrat and I wouldn’t do that again as a Republican. Like one’s country needs to be held to account and cleansed periodically, so does the Republican party.
So often, too, professing Christians put the blame on the left, on Democrats, on homosexuals, universities, etc. Yet again, the Church in America is growing so worldly that putting the blame on unbelievers is like preferring to live in Satan City, Babylon, and to “enjoy” all it has to offer, but wanting Democrats, socialists and homosexuals kicked out of it for not being Christian and being the source of sin and its ruin.
In giving up the world, not loving our lives here, not loving the world, God truly has something better for us, which we miss out on we when listen to Satan telling us that we’re missing out on what he has to offer.
WELL SAID!!!!
It’s kind of weird because while I am convinced that we are to pray as we have for this country, I also do not see the kind of renewal and revival we are hoping and praying for.
That’s not to say that I don’t believe God can’t answer our prayers. I think it’s His will we pray that way and that He is working to that end regardless.
But He also has His timetable for the end times, which I see more and more indication that we are living in. And as I see it, that means things are getting worse by the day.
I ran across a message a few months ago about what Christians should pray for and could not have agreed with it more. I’ll see if I can find it.
That said, you are correct about the delusion this country is operating under and how strong it is. It’s absolutely breath-taking at times the lies that people believe.
And you are correct, that it’s because we have kicked God out of our lives as a nation. I think as a result, He is giving the nation as a whole what we collectively asked for.
My prayer and hope is that God would bring in that harvest of souls before the curtain comes down. I’ve been praying for opportunities to minister to people and share Christ with them and that people would come to Him.
I would dearly love to see this country turn around and become a light to the rest of the world, but I think the best we can hope for is a reprieve. I am not at all certain about the outcome of the next election as the dems will have their vote fraud machine all in place. I think they were caught flat footed in 2016 due to over confidence that Hillary would win, and while they tried to flip states, it was too little to late. Next time they will not be so unprepared.
Maranatha, Lord Jesus.......
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