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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.

A PRAYER FOR OUR NATION by Robert Mattern
Father, in the Name of Jesus, we place Jesus' blood over us as we come humbly before You. We take authority over all satanic spirits trying to hinder us in our prayers for this nation. We ask You Lord to bring to our mind any unconfessed sin which needs to be dealt with before we intercede for our country (I John 1:9).
We come before You without blame, made holy by the blood of Jesus (Eph 1:4). You tell us that the first thing to do when gathered together is to pray for kings and all authority (I Timothy 2:2).
We are holders of a dual citizenship. By birth or naturalization we are citizens of the United States. By rebirth we are citizens of Heaven (Eph 2:19-22), seated in Jesus Christ (Eph 2:6), for above all power, principalities, thrones, might and dominions (Eph 1:21). We are blessed with all spiritual blessings (Eph 1:3) and doing the works of the Father on this earth (John 14:10-14).
We have come together in this body which is now a church. We are to rule by prayer over civil authorities (Acts 12:1-11) showing the manifold wisdom of God to all the heavenlies (Eph 3:10).
We now assume our rightful position over this world and this nation. We bind to our authority in Jesus Christ in the third heaven, the entire satanic hierarchy, and loose derision upon the enemy (Psalm 2:4).
The objective of our prayer is to bring about the restoration of this nation. You say this is a people robbed and spoiled, all of them snared in holes and hidden in prison houses. They are for a prey and none delivers; for a spoil and none says restore (Isaiah 42:22). Lord, we ask You to cause it to be reported in the third heaven this day that we say unto you "Lord, deliver and restore," because we know restoration is only by the power of our God (Judges 11:13-24).
In the Name of Jesus Christ, we bind the rulers of this age, year, month and day. Since God commands, "Time and seasons for His people" (Dan 2:21), we set the spirit of Restoration over all the areas just bound, to restore unto us the years the locusts have eaten (Joel 2:25).
In the Name of Jesus Christ, we bind the strong man (Luke 11:20-22) over this world, the Northern Hemisphere and North America. We now set the Spirit of Holiness unto the Lord over all areas just bound. In the Name of Jesus Christ, we bind the strong man over this nation and the spirits of Political and Spiritual Blindness. We bind the strong man over each individual state, commonwealth, territory, possession and all land occupied by the United States of America.
Lord, You have revealed Your nature to us in the names You have given Yourself. In Your Name, Elohim, You declare You are the Covenant keeper; and the Eternal and Unchanging God. We are Abraham's Spiritual Seed (Gal 3:16, 29) and all the promises of God are Yea and Amen in Christ Jesus (2 Cor 1:20) .
Bring about the deliverance of all the people in this nation who call themselves by Your Name. Let that deliverance cause us to humble ourselves, to pray and intercede (Acts 12:1-11), to seek Your face (Joshua 10:12; Isaiah 55:6) and to turn from our wicked ways. Then You will hear, forgive and heal our land (2 Chronicles 7:14).
You have imparted Your Name, Elohim, to rulers (Psalm 82:1) and judges (Exodus 22:9). Because they manifest in a very small way some of your Deity and Nature, we bind and remove Satan from them. We loose upon them all the edifying Spirits of God (Hebrews 1:7, 14) which lost not their first estate (Isaiah 11:2). You are also Lord Jehovah, and must judge in relation to virtue. You love Righteousness and hate Iniquity (Psalm 45:7). If this alone were to happen, we would have no hope; because they have made Your law void, You must now act (Psalm 119:126).
You are God almighty, Elshaddi, the Pourer Forth, Who makes us fruitful by nourishing us with Your Life Blood (Acts 20:28) and the shedding forth of Your Spirit (Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17-21). Pour out Your Righteousness (Amos 5:24) with spirits of Grace and Supplication (Zech 12:10).
We now praise You and offer You thanksgiving (Psalm 50:14). You are God Most High, El Elyon, and rule in the Kingdom of men (Daniel 4:32). You tell us to call upon You in the time of trouble (Psalm 50:14-15), to possess, take and judge the Kingdom of the Most High (Daniel 7:18, 22, 25, 27).
Lord or Adonai, You are our Lord and Master (John 13:13), our Husband (Mark 2:19-20, Rev 18:23, 21:2-9). You bought us with Your Blood as our price (I Cor 6:20; 7:23) to buy from our previous father (Eph 2:3). You cannot put us away, for You have no bill of divorcement (Isaiah 50:1) and You hate divorce (Matthew 19:7).
You are the everlasting God or Eloloam and even though we as individuals have fallen from the task, You are the God of Ages, Who reveals Your Nature through successive times and varied dispensations as men are able to receive it (Eph 3:10-11). In Your Son there is the sure promise of Redemption and He is the Everlasting Father of Ages (Isaiah 9:6).
You are the Lord of Hosts, Jehovah Sabboath. The charge of this nation was given to Christians who have failed; Your Name is the Lord of Hosts Who remains when all things shake. "The Lord of Hosts is with us, though the earth and mountains be removed into the midst of the sea, the God of Jacob our refuge" (Psalm 46:2-3, 7, 11).
Teach us that David was more powerful with the Name of the Lord of Hosts on his lips (1 Samuel 17:45), than in all the numbering of the army of Israel (2 Samuel 18:1, 24:10). You show us that when Your people are captive and have to help themselves, the prophets take security in the Name of the Lord of Hosts.
We now sanctify ourselves to You, Lord of Hosts, and fear no other (Isaiah 8:13). We now know "Of His government there shall be no end ... The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this" (Isaiah 9:7).
You are the Lord of the harvest; we pray You to send workers into Your harvest field in the Name of Jesus Christ (Matthew 9:38).
In the Name of Jesus Christ we command the gold and silver of Babylon to come into the Lord's house (Ezra 7:16), and that the Demon of Paper Money be bound and cast out.
In the Name of Jesus Christ we bind the strong man over the judiciary branch and loose into it the Spirits of Truth, Justice and Peace (Zech 8:16); because "Truth is lacking" (Isaiah 59:15) and judges are to "Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling" (Psalm 2:10-11).
In the Name of Jesus, we bind the strong man of Political Corruption over Washington, D.C. We bind the strong man over President Trump and Vice President Pence. We bind the strong man over the U.S. budget, the Bureau of the Budget, Director of the Budget and over all purchasing and dispersing departments in the U.S. government. We bind the strong man over each government body on every level.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, we now loose the Holy Spirit to manifest Truth, Righteousness, Holiness, Fairness, Honesty, Inventiveness, Prudence, Justice, Wisdom, Fear of the Lord, Knowledge, Might, Power, Love, Sound Mind, Counsel, Adoption, Revelation, Knowledge of Jesus Christ and the Obedience of Caleb over all areas bound.
We bind the high world rulers of War, Famine, Drought, Pestilence, Disease, Antichrist, 666 and Lawlessness, that this nation may remain at peace and herald the Gospel of the Kingdom forth to all the world (Matthew 4:23, 9:35, 24:14; Mark 1:14).
You tell us, Father, of a people who shall be of Thee, "to build up the old waste places; who shall raise up the foundations of many generations and be called the repairers of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in". (Isaiah 58:12). Restore now, Lord God Most High, Maker of Heaven and Earth, Lord of Hosts, and of the harvest. In the mighty Name of Jesus we ask this, Thank you, Father, for setting this nation free. In the mighty Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Based on a 1985 prayer by Robert Mattern, originally referencing President Reagan and his contemporaries, from Warfare Prayers by Pastor Win Worley, Hegewisch Baptist Church, Highland, Indiana.