Hope for a fractured nation —divided against itself...a prayer for unity

Hope for a fractured nation divided against itself...a prayer for unity.

Please pray with me.

Father, Your Word:

Mark 3:25
And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Heavenly Father,
I love this nation: The United States of America. The USA, where You have placed me. I am grateful beyond words that I live here and have the freedoms that have blessed this nation. So many people have poured out their very life for the freedoms that I enjoy each day.

I give You thanks. Yet my heart is heavy over the division that has captured the minds and hearts of this nation. It seems that one cause or another has brought disunity everywhere I look. People seem to be consumed with their flavor of disruption. Many seem to seek division in every conversation. It seems to have become our identity. Forgive us.

Father, the division is alarming. It is literally disarming and we are totally vulnerable.

Our nation is fractured.

• Sanctity of Life:
  • Abortion
  • Discarding unused embryos
  • Assisted suicide
  • Eugenics
• Race
• Marriage
• Religion
• Politics

It extends past the foundational precepts to the "Haves and the have nots," the "employed and unemployed," and You know what else we have proclaimed worthy of our division. I proclaim that Your Word is true (John 14:6), Your Word will not fail (Deuteronomy 31:8), and Your Word will not return void (Isaiah 55:11).

Sanctity of Life:
You are the Giver of Life. (Genesis 2:7) Open the eyes of our hearts to understand that life is a gift and not ours to take. Unless You show us this way, it is not possible that we can find it on our own.

Forgive us for being so consumed on our own self-interests that we cannot look wider than our immediate desires. Please, God of Mercy, do not leave us in this condition.

Racial Division:
Father, raise up voices of unity between the races. This is not a new struggle, but it is more complex with more factions involved: Hispanic, Black, White, Asian, Latinos, and others. We need Your help. Yes, raise up hearts that reach across the divide of race and extend a smile of welcome, a hand of true acceptance.

Bind us together as one to fight for common causes of worth: to help the hungry and the homeless...to reach out to those without hope and by Your Spirit - lift them up.

Marriage:
Surely, Lord God, we are making up our own rules to accommodate our desires. The redefinition of marriage is a place of deep grief. Your Word is so clear and the ramifications of this choice are also clear. Yet, we have taken this path. Call us to repent, to confess, and to plead for mercy. We look to the statistics to justify our choices, and when they do not, we cover them up.

Yet, there are those who adhere to Your Word. Give us a heart to reach those who are pushing the agenda of redefining marriage and further defiling our nation.

Religion:
Father, this has become so complex. We have Muslim against Christian, Muslims against Muslims, and Christians against Christians. Is it no wonder that so many people have become disappointed and left the entire of concept of Your being?

Within Your true Church - those who have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I ask for unity... unity and desire to love each other. Your Word tells us that "they" will know we are Christians by our love. Give us a heart to love each other. Unify Your church within the individual churches.

Redirect our minds and hearts to organize in prayer and outreach to demonstrate Your Gospel, the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. May these demonstrations be a part of every day as we seek You, speak our faith, and respond to help those in need. Give us eyes to see the need of others, and motivate us as to how we can meet those needs. May we put down our differences and unify to proclaim the Good News.

Politics:
What a befuddlement. How can we pray effectively for our government and leaders. You command us to do so, but putting it into practice has become a challenge.

Father, I ask for wisdom for our leaders—national, state, and civic. Wisdom to seek out their own hearts and put aside their anger and frustration and find Your grace. Please place a desire for unity across the lines of division. I include our Senate and House: both nationally and at the state level. Grant them insights to see pathways that will bring people together and unify them across political lines.

Please give them ideas on how to show the love of Christ to each other, remembering that perfect love casts out fear. Bring Your perfect love into their daily situations. Grant these leaders self-control. Fill their hearts with new words, new responses. Please bring unity to our political venues.

Proverbs 15: 1
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Help us. Bring unity to Your people. That we may be found faithful in the day of His coming.

In Jesus' Name

Please consider these prayers for the revival of our nation:
For the U.S.
Disaster Recovery Prayers
For the Trump Administration
For Leaders and Decision Makers
For Pastors, especially in the U.S.

***This prayer is my own and the content does not reflect the philosophy or policies of any organization.
For assistance in understanding God's Word, consider the Derek Prince Legacy Radio podcasts. This and other free and life-changing resources can be found at https://www.derekprince.org/.

For encouragement and guidance to pray for our nation, please consider being a part of Intercessors for America. Join this army of prayer warriors. Consider visiting their website to learn more. http://ifapray.org/

Hope and momentum for the uprising of conscience...in support of the pro-life movement

Hope and momentum for the uprising of conscience...in support of the pro-life movement.

Please pray with me.

Heavenly Father,
Your Word:

Jeremiah 1:5
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

Father, You existed before time began; and You knew each of us before there was ever a clock. You have know each of us since before the beginning of time. Your Word clearly states that children are Your inheritance.

Psalm 127:3
“Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.”

We are robbing You of Your inheritance. Have mercy and help us change our ways.

Mark 12:27
He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living:

Confession, request for mercy:
Father, we lost our way and You know all the motivations that caused us to legalize abortion. Have mercy on us. Speak to us and prick our conscience that we may turn from this wickedness and find the much-needed grace which You lavishly hold in reserve for us. You assure us that Your mercies are renewed every morning and Your faithfulness never fails. Thank You.

So many have brought to my attention that the issue isn't as simple as we may think. My heart is heavey and I grieve. But You are our hope and the God who can help us to focus on the pathway through this blight.

Lamentations 3:22-23
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

In spite of Your clear Word on these matters, we continue to push the gamut and we have made into law, the right of a person to end a life. Have mercy, O God. Raise up our conscience to face the casualties and the results of our decisions:

• An outpouring of guilt on so many that are involved.
• Brothers and sisters suffering from "survivors guilt"
• Naked families - bereft of sons and daughters, siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles...
• Untold heartache...wondering what might that child have contributed...


• The loss of the joy that only a child can bring
• Lost growth from hardships that were never endured
• The loss of the intellect and and artistic renderings that might have come forth

Father, there are so many more...only You know. Have mercy.

For the Pro-Life Movement:
Father, You have a brilliant spokesperson: Jeanne Mancini. She wants to make abortion "unthinkable." ...and there are people and organizations that join her and stand for life. Cause many to rise up in support of her and every initiative that honors You regarding this matter.

Raise them up, O God. Raise up Right for Life! Raise up those who speak out for the unborn, Paul Ryan, President Trump, and so many others.

Give people words and enliven them such that the words can't remain inside these speakers. Compel them to give these words birth, and to bring these words from You, into the light of day! Establish within us, the American people, an awareness of these actions and a commitment and determination to speak out for life. Give the hearers, ears to hear truth and an eagerness to embrace it and actively take up this cause.

Father, may pastors speak out from the pulpits and call abortion what it is: murder. Give them the gentleness needed for those who have been a part of the abortion movement, and mothers who have had abortions. Give them the words of assurance that there is forgiveness and freedom if people will confess and repent. O Father, this is the Gospel. May the Gospel be preached from the pulpits in this nation regarding the pro-life movement.

May those in this nation who support pro-life rise up. May side-liners be convicted that they are here for "such a time as this" (Esther 4:14). Pour out compelling speech that brings others on board.

For Pressure on Federal Funding:
Father, surely, this is part of our greatest shame...we, every American, is paying for the funding of abortions. Please, may Your Holy Spirit exert enormous pressure that this stop. Congressional elections are soon. Some people are running on the pro-choice, pro-abortion platform...hidden behind so many lies from the pit of hell:

• "Planned Parenthood"
• The Safe Abortion Action Fund
• NARAL
• The National Abortion Foundation
• Over-population
• "A woman's right to control her body"
• The Affordable Care Act

May many rise up and pressure our government to stop using taxpayer money for this work. Give them words that may be heard, may Your love of life be present. May there be godly anger, drenched in the outpouring of Your grace and love. May the arguments be compelling and may they be heard by the opposition. Please cast down the lies and open the eyes of the opposition to see (and to hear) YOUR Truth.

To stop the spread of "the next steps":
Selective abortion and designer children:
Father, You know where this can go. You are watching and nothing escapes Your knowledge, including the expansion of this heinous concept. From legalized abortion, there is s spread to "selective abortions"... targeting and leading to the extinction of entire populations of people.

Parents want perfect children—perfect by their definition. We have this ability to "see" into the womb and to identify characteristics of these children. This is being used by the medical profession and those who believe they can profit from this capability, to pressure parents to abort children who are, in any way, "defective."

Surely, this has proliferated to every physical attribute that can now be controlled through DNA testing and alterations. We want designer children. Genetics...help us bring these technologies to submit to the directives of Your Word.

Legalized suicide, euthanasia:
Father, we have twisted so much: the right to life to "the right to die"... the potential of this movement is alarming. We want control of every aspect of "Life." Forgive us as we strip You of Your directives—placed in Your Word for our protection. Help us to come to our senses. We can't do this on our own. Have mercy O God.

For those caught-up as victims in the abortion industry:
Mothers who have had abortions and their families:
Father, Your love never fails. Pour out Your solutions. May each person who feels guilt, learn and embrace Jesus Christ and His salvation and Your grace to help in time of need.

There are many who have had abortions and do not know they too are victims of the enemy. They believe lies. Yet, as painful as this may be, I ask that they see truth, that they may come to the Living God who will not fail them.

Doctors and medical staff:
Is there regret? Guilt? Have these people had to choose between participation and providing for their family? You have a way out. Cause them to seek You. Direct them to the road of repentance and to find Your true provision for them, for their families, and to know that You will take care of them. Give them the unction to "make haste" to leave this work.

Silence the lies to drop from the earth, and raise up Truth, that we may be set free.

Raise us up...that we may be found faithful in the day of His coming.

In Jesus' Name

Please consider these prayers for the revival of our nation:
For the Sanctity of Life
For the U.S.
Prayers of my heart
For Pastors, especially in the U.S.

In Jesus’ Name.

***These prayers are based on the encouragement and guidance from Intercessors for America. These prayers are my own and the content does not reflect the philosophy or policies of Intercessors for America. These are published in good faith and for general information purpose only. Please consider joining this army of prayer warriors. Consider visiting their website to learn more. http://ifapray.org/

For encouragement and guidance, consider being a part of Intercessors for America. Join this army of prayer warriors. Consider visiting their website to learn more. http://ifapray.org/

California Mudslides and devastation...an appeal to God for mercy

A prayer for those affected by the California mudslides.

Please pray with me.

Heavenly Father,
Your Word:

Jeremiah 10:12-13
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

Psalms 40:2
And He doth cause me to come up From a pit of desolation -- from mire of mud, And He raiseth up on a rock my feet, He is establishing my steps.

Father, The devastation seems unending. The pictures and videos are horrific. People are frightened.

You control the weather, and many are tempted to say,

• "There is no God who cares."
• "How could a God who cares, allow this to happen?"
• "How could a God of love, do this?"

Have mercy O God. For You are our only true hope. Turn our hearts to seek You, that we may find help in this time of need.

Every part of my body wants to scream and plead with You as I look upon this devastation. Yet, You bid me to come with praise and thanksgiving and I submit to Your Word.

Praise:

• You are the One True and Living God.
• You are omnipotent; You are all powerful.
• You are omniscient; You know every detail of the California mudslides.
• You are omnipresent; You are there. You have personally witnessed all that has happened.
• You are the God of Life. You alone know the depth of pain at the loss of life.
• You are the God who heals the broken hearted. You know the hearts that are broken.
• You are the God who wants all to be saved. You know each of us and You are a personal God who cares.

Thanksgiving:

• Thank You that You are a just God. You rain on both the righteous and the wicked. Disaster finds its place in the lives of all; including those who put their trust in You.
• Thank You that You are not ignorant of what is going on here and You move with purpose.
• Thank You that You have told us to expect tribulation and suffering.
• Thank You that You have promised to be with us and that we can overcome and that we can have peace:

  John 16:33
  “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

Petition:
For those who have lost loved ones.
Father, You alone know the depth of sorrow in these lives. Please comfort them in their angst. Be the peace that their troubled hearts cannot find. And direct them to seek You for answers to all the questions that plague their thinking. Bring people around them that can be Your presence. Have mercy on them O God, and pour out Your grace to them.

For those who have lost everything.
Father, You know the thoughts of those who survey the indescribable devastation: homes filled with mud. Huge rocks that cover the land that was a street or a front yard. Roadways that are impassable and piles of trees, uprooted like twigs. Even if we know You have given us all that we have accumulated, we nonetheless, suffer loss of our personal affects.

Inhabit the thinking of those who have lost so much. Direct their thoughts and establish Your thoughts for them. The road forward seems impossible. The work-effort needed to recover is beyond the imagination. What is the path forward? You alone know, O God.

Request for a miracle!
We need a miracle! You are the God of miracles!
Rise up O God! Fill California with Hope and Faith and may it be proclaimed. Establish undeniable miracle after miracle and may the receivers sing Your praises and give You the glory. May Your work be undeniable! Turn hearts towards You that they may seek You with all of their hearts and find Your grace to help in this time of need. And may person after person say:

• "This is a miracle from the hand of God."
• "Truly, God has done this! It is HIS work that has brought me through."
• "There is a God who cares and He has filled me with hope, faith, and peace in the midst of trouble."

I bring YOUR Word before You: You are a God of Hope! Establish faith in Your Word, that Your faithfulness may be proclaimed through this land. Father, may this land repent and be revived through this disaster.

Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Establish Your Word...these Words in this situation. Surely, without a miracle, this would be too much to bear! I ask for this miracle: establish faith and hope in the people who have lost so much:

Romans 15:13
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Without Your help, we are lost and this event will be overwhelming. Establish our faith and hope in Your Word. Strengthen us to prevail and to do so by the power of Your Holy Spirit.

I proclaim Your Word, for it can not return void.

Raise us up. That we may be found faithful in the day of His coming. Amen and Amen!

In Jesus' Name

Please consider these prayers for the revival of our nation:
Disaster Prayers
For the U.S.
Prayers of my heart
For the Trump Administration
For Leaders and Decision Makers
For Pastors, especially in the U.S.

***This prayer is my own and the content does not reflect the philosophy or policies of any organization. It is inspired by Derek Prince Legacy Radio podcast. This and other free and life-changing resources can be found at https://www.derekprince.org/.

For encouragement and guidance, consider being a part of Intercessors for America. Join this army of prayer warriors. Consider visiting their website to learn more. http://ifapray.org/