Colossians 3: 5-8Please pray with me:
5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: 7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. 8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Heavenly Father,
Thank You for all the media madness that has gripped our technological nation. It has made information so readily available. We have news and entertainment at our disposal 24/7. Which is which? It’s hard to tell sometimes.
The substance of entertainment has nose-dived as we observe what comes out of Hollywood, by and large. I have seen this. I have witnessed the degradation of television which fills the eyes and minds of our youth, in disgust, I turned away. But I have not prayed. I have not prayed for those who make this visual and aural filth. I have not prayed for those who sell it, or for those who indulge in it. Forgive me. Lead my prayers.
Father, intimacy has been abandoned in favor of public indecency. Help Lord. Restore to us the values of modesty and intimacy, carefully protected. Women have become so immodest—and cry “Foul” when they are treated poorly. Forgive us. “Hollywood” has leached onto our immodesty, our poor treatment of women, of each other. As a culture, and as a nation, we have sought what is more and more of a spectacle.
It seems that Your Church has turned its head in disgust and responded with judgement. Turn us around. Show us the result of having abandoned these people who hunger and thirst after genuine care and love. Give us a heart for those around us who are so desperate for love that they would sell the only thing they think they have…their bodies.
Hollywood has take advantage of the failures in our culture. So many have made movies that teach indecent behavior to our youth, and it has become so commonplace that our nation accepts the unacceptable as “normal”. Forgive us. Open the eyes and ears of every person in Hollywood as to the ramifications of their “creations” …
Father, our language has become filthy with insinuations of sexual misconduct as a common day occurrence. Modesty has been abandoned for indecency. We accept it as part of the world that You warned us about, rather than ministering to these people who need to know about Your love for them. How can we reverse this?
Open the eyes of those who engage in these activities. Let them see what people, especially our youth, have taken from their creations. Open the hearts of Your Church to seek these people out and proclaim Your genuine love for them. Give us a directive, a mandate, push us, drive us—fill us with compassion—that we take it to these souls, whom You love and proclaim that You are God who cares, loves, and redeems.
In Jesus’ Name.
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