America 250 - TEN Days of PRAYER - Day Two

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LORD God, as we begin our day, we come before Your throne and bow in Your presence. Thank You for our nation—the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave—the country You gave us. As Christians, true believers in Jesus Christ, we have been complacent and sometimes apathetic about the rights, freedoms, and blessings You have provided.

 

While we have been asleep,

the evil one has sewn tares and gained ground on our watch.

He seeks to destroy our land and enslave our people.[1]

 

His deceived workers don’t even realize it is Satan who controls their puppet strings, because their hearts and consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.[2] These blinded ones have become like their father[3] and puppet master, “…workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but evil is in their hearts.”[4]

 

Gaining more and more power is their immediate goal, O LORD, yet they are caught in Satan’s web like dinner for a spider. You said, “Do not fret because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.”[5]

 

May Your Word come to pass quickly for our country, O LORD.

But in the meantime, will these evildoers, these workers of iniquity,

destroy America, the land our brave men and women

fought so hard to set free from tyranny?

 

America, the land You gave us, is once again in danger. We, who are trying to keep it, are fighting a battle as fierce as the Revolutionary War, and no one but You can save it. So, we look to our heavenly Father and ask, “LORD, save us! LORD, save America from the socialists and communists who are gaining ground. Give our President and all in authority Your WISDOM, but also DISCERNMENT to see the enemy within. Help us, LORD God Almighty, to fight this evil because we can do nothing without You—without Jesus.[6]

 

We, Your children, will TRUST You. We’ll do good as You said. We’ll dwell in this beautiful land and feed on Your faithfulness.[7] And because we know Your purposes will be accomplished and worked out for our good,[8] we will REST in You, wait patiently, and not fret when we see the wicked prosper.[9]

 

Thank you, LORD, for Your peace.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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[1] Matthew 13:24-30; Matthew 13:36-43; John 10:10; I Peter 5:8

[2] I Timothy 4:2

[3] John 8:44

[4] Psalm 28:3

[5] Psalm 37:1-2

[6] John 15:5

[7] Psalm 37:3

[8] Daniel 11:36; Romans 8:28

[9] Psalm 37:7