Prayer for Racial Unity in the United States

***Prayer for Racial Unity in the United States

Please pray with me:

Heavenly Father,
Racial tension continues to build.

Your Word commands us:

1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.”

John 7:24
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

REVERENCE:
Before You, there is no outward appearance. You do not see us as black and white, red, yellow...You look to our heart. Thank You. Because of Jesus, we can all come before You without fear of our outward appearance. Yet, we cannot hide what is in our heart. For You see us, You see our intentions as we stand without cover, completely exposed.

Thank You, Father, that we are completely exposed before You. Thank You that You see all there is about us. You see what we love and what we worship. You see the thoughts of our hearts. You know where we deceive ourselves. Thank You, that with You, nothing is hidden.

...and yet, You love us. You knew we would choose to be rebellious. You knew we would separate ourselves by what we see. You knew all about racial prejudice and division. And yet, You love us. You love all of us: red, yellow, black, and white...they are [all] precious in Your sight. Thank You.

RESPONSE:
The only response is to bow before You in gratitude. Your desire for relationship is inconceivable. Your willingness to pay for our sin that we can be blameless, is beyond the imagination. Yet, You desire to pour out Your love upon us. You desire to change us. Change me.

Wash us of our prejudices. Show us the path, so that we can look as You look. Give us a desire to be like You... to see people and welcome them, love them, and nurture relationship. Intensify a desire to receive others as You receive them. After what You have poured out on us through Your grace, how can we do less! How can we want less? Create godly desire in us.

Open the eyes of our understanding Lord, so that we see past the outward appearance. Fill us with Your compassion for racial unity. Holy Spirit, fill us with a desire to pour out the compassion and love of Jesus.

Lead us along the path of surrender to Your will. Your will is clear that we should love one another. Your will is clear that we are not to look at the outward appearance of people. Then, Lord, give us eyes to see deeper. Open our spiritual eyes. Sharpen our ability to discern the move our Your Spirit and to yield completely to what You desire.

REQUESTS:
Help Lord! Racial disunity has proliferated. Did we really think that laws would change hearts? You are the God who changes hearts. I beseech You. I come boldly —because of what Christ has done. You have given access to the Righteousness of Christ. So I come boldly...I come on behalf of this nation.

Matthew 28:19
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Your Word is clear. Give us a heart for those unlike us. Form us to be missionaries in our communities and equip us by Your Holy Spirit for this work. Embed it in our hearts and grant us a passion to act!

Raise up Your church to take a stand, through their actions! Raise up Your church, O God and equip us to demonstrate an ability to walk and see spiritually. Pour out Your Spirit (Holy Spirit come!), and pour out a passion to embrace and eliminate racial discrimination. Surely, You hate racial discrimination. Help us to hate it too.

Equip us! Again, I come boldly! Equip Your church to go beyond our comfort zone. Give us an intense desire to pull down the racial separation. Why are there black Baptist Churches and white ones, Hispanic churches and Indian, Syrian and Russian, Iranian, Chinese?

How can these walls and barriers come down? What do we need to make this move? Holy Spirit, make it so. We will be so uncomfortable...equip us to embrace discomfort, that we might have unity in Christ Jesus.

Bring Pastors together to begin solving this problem. Give them a vision to draw together their congregations to be unified by the Spirit.

We need equipping. We need hearts to be open to this vision. We need healthy curiosity and desire to understand beyond our comfort zones. We need words. O Father, You are the God who gave Your Word. Equip us, Holy Spirit, equip us. Pour out strength beyond our own.

READINESS:
Ready us with an outpouring of Your love.

John 13:34
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Your love is sacrificial. May we sacrifice our prejudices. Only through You can this come about. Surely, we must surrender our fears, our senses to accomplish this. Show us what we must sacrifice, to accomplish unity. Father, we appeal to You to work through our hearts to submit to Your mandate that we love one another.

Teach us to pick up the whole armor that You have provided through Jesus Christ. Give us confidence in Your provision for our daily lives. Establish in our hearts that You will protect us. You will go before us. Encourage us that our courage may become an epidemic in Your church.

Holy Spirit, we need faith. We need the faith of God to move. Equip us, that we move swiftly and efficiently. May we rest each night knowing that we moved on every opportunity that came before us throughout each day.

...and that we may be found faithful in the day of His coming.

In the Name of Jesus Christ,

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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/

Terror in Las Vegas...the prayers of one sinner

***Prayers following the terror of the Las Vegas shooting ...a call to unity

Verse
Psalms 73:19
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

Psalms 91:5
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

Please pray with me:

Heavenly Father,

I give You thanks for You are the God of Life and not of death. I give You thanks that I can come to You in my sorrow for the condition of the United States. I come.

I praise You, the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God. You know the condition of this nation, You know our hearts, our fears, our needs. You know our spiritual condition and You know the decrepit condition of our thinking and our hearts. You know the sickness of our spirits. Thank You ...for You are the answer and You are willing to give liberally. I come asking for Your answers.

Our nation suffers another hit. This terror is different for it is clearly the work of one human against another. It was premeditated. It was carefully planned and executed. It's purpose was death of innocent people. Father, one moment all was well, and in another moment, terror reigned without ceasing. Help Lord. You know the details.

First I ask for Your definitive presence with those who are suffering. Many came to the fore as the event unfolded. Many were taken to medical facilities for needed attention. And many have returned home and sit with the reality of their experience. Invigorate Your church to keep reaching out—especially to those whose wounds are mental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Help these victims to rise up, seek You and find Your grace, mercy, and peace.

Many are asking for answers. We turn to our police and our government for answers. We demand they respond. We demand they tell us the details and we demand they bring us answers that we want to hear. We demand that they "do something." Forgive us for every time we have not turned to You. You have the answers.

For those that seek, may they turn to You. May they find relevant churches that know Your Word. Father, may Your Word proliferate through the minds and hearts of these people who are seeking answers. Rise up Your army of believers, establish their credibility through an out-flowing of Your peace and hope within them. Establish their demeanor with true empathy for those in pain and seeking some kind of answer. May they find the path to Your Word.

Raise up Your Word in this situation and in this nation. May it be spoken out loud that it may be heard. Please call those who would hear Your Word to find it, hear it, listen intently and internally, and diligently seek You for the only answers that will bring surety.

Father, I pray for churches to wake up and heed the call. Is not the harvest ready? Are the laborers few? Please raise them up. Raise up testimonies that call to the heart of the hurting. Raise up credibility of Jesus Christ—Lord and Savior. Soften the hearts of the hurting who would blame You for not preventing this situation. May they find their own free-will and realize that the shooter had free-will too. Holy Spirit, convict thousands across our nation to utilize Your gift of their free-will and make a decision to receive and follow Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Hallelujah!

May this time of grieving be turned to dancing. Up-gird our nation to seek You intently. Raise up warriors to enlist and join the spiritual battle. Teach us to come before Your presence and delight You with the intentions of our hearts. Holy Spirit, descend on us and establish us before the Throne of Grace. Sculpt us to be the prayer warriors that know this not a battle of flesh and blood. Holy Spirit, please lead our prayers.

Father, many people are demanding the government move on gun control. Yet we know, that if guns are banned, other means will surface. Father, it avoids the problem...the problem of our spiritual condition. Raise up churches and pastors, raiser up YOUR message that we will answer to You and that the proliferation of sin is what is beleaguering our nation. Father, may Your church rise to the surface and attend to Your business that You desire that every person come to the saving grace of Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 2:4
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

...and the media. Father they promote terror and their agendas. They even use this event to put down and criticize our president. Place Your hand of protection on him and his family. Silence the media that uses anything available to promote their agenda. Expose the lies and raise up truth. You are Truth. Jesus Christ is Truth. Let us proclaim truth. We desperately need discernment and wisdom, and words of Your leading. We cannot do this on our own. Help Lord. I cry out to You. May many cry out.

Hear my heart before Your throne of grace and mercy,

In Jesus’ Name.

Please consider these prayers for the revival of our nation:
For the U.S.
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. They are offered in good faith that others may find them helpful in their prayer life and that the Church of Jesus Christ may be found faithful in the day of His coming.

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/

Hurricane Irma: Pleading for mercy and help in time of need

*** Hurricane Irma: Pleading for mercy and help in time of need

Isaiah 25:4
“For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.”

Psalms 88:11
“Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?”

Please pray with me:

Heavenly Father,

O Father of life, God of mercy. we are reeling from Hurricane Harvey and Irma is at our doorstep, threatening the nation. Have mercy, O God. Call us to seek You.

You are the God who gives strength to the poor and needy in our distress. You are the refuge from the storm. You are a refuge and Your are strength, when the blast of the storm pushes us against the wall. Thank You Lord, for Your mercy is from everlasting.

Many are crying out, "Where is God!" Yet, You are omnipresent. You are there. You are in every moment and You are in every place. Yes, You are there. Your presence is fierce and yet merciful. Help us Lord, we call unto You. Have mercy.

The destruction is total. Entire islands are devastated. The destruction is beyond comprehension. The Caicos and Turks islands, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Dominican Republic. Father, the devastation is so great, it is not possible to understand it. There are no services for these people. There is no water, no food, no sanitation, no cover. Have mercy and may Your presence be felt. May Your testimony rise up.

Homes are destroyed. Families are separated and searching. Children have been ripped from their mother's and father's arms. The devastation has annihilated the infrastructure. And it has brought horror to families as they assess their staggering loss. Children cry out in fear and trembling as their parents are no more. Alarm and panic are of no avail, for who is there that can help. Only You O LORD, please have mercy.

You are there. How can they know it? How can Your presence be felt? How can these people have the strength to move forward? How is it possible? Only You know.

Rise up, O God. Demonstrate Your sovereignty. Cause everyone there to seek You and proclaim Your sovereignty. Are there people there who know You? Are there believers there who will rise up with a testimony of Your salvation? Who are they? You know.

May Your Holy Spirit rise up. May rejoicing come from the mouths of those who know You. May there be great peace within them and may it flow from their being. Raise them up as a testimony to You: The One True and Living God. Raise up a song in their hearts and send them forth.

Comfort these people in their losses. It is so extensive. Yet, can thy lovingkindness be demonstrated from the grave? Save these people. Through this horrific storm, save them. Pour forth Your compassion and may it be seen by many. May all these people know they need a Savior and cry out to You and find grace to help in this deep time of need.

Can these storms be a rallying cry for unity in this nation? I ask it. May we leave our agendas and find ways to help. Father, have mercy.

Help us, that we may stand strong and 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 Weather Disasters
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. They are offered in good faith that others may find them helpful in their prayer life and that the Church of Jesus Christ may be found faithful in the day of His coming.

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/