Prayer for Our City: May 2, 2016
The first Thursday of May is designated our National Day of Prayer.
Join with fellow Christians from Huntsville/Madison County as we observe this day by praying together at the Madison County Courthouse steps (east side) for the noon lunch hour. We will pray the National Prayer together (see below) , which was written by Dr. Tony Evans, this year’s honorary chairman. The NDP Committee has also prepared a prayer guide which we will use to pray over the 7 mountains of culture. http://www.nationaldayofprayer.org/
Our theme for 2016 is Wake Up America, emphasizing the need for individuals, corporately and individually, to return to the God of our Fathers in reverence for His Holy Name.
To further highlight our theme, Isaiah 58:1a was chosen as our Scripture for this year:
“Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet.”
We will begin our time of corporate prayer at 12 noon, Thursday, May 5 with the blowing of the shofar; the trumpet Isaiah was referring to that sounded to call the people together for a solemn assembly (Joel 2:15).
National Prayer
Dear heavenly Father, we come to You today as a humble people desperate for Your supernatural intervention on behalf of our beloved nation. First, we thank You for all the blessings You have bestowed on our land, blessings that have allowed us to bring so much good and benefit to not only our own citizens but also to the rest of the world. The very ideals upon which this country was founded were based on biblical truths, no matter how some try to rewrite history to deny that very fact today.
This is why our hearts are so broken over how You continue to be marginalized and dismissed by both our people and our institutions. We are also saddened by the fact that Your people have contributed greatly to the spiritual apathy that now engulfs us. Our satisfaction in remaining religious without being fully committed to living out the truths of Your Word has caused us to become co-conspirators with the forces of evil that are destroying us as a society.
It is for this reason that we personally and collectively repent of our carnality and recommit ourselves to becoming visible and verbal disciples of Jesus Christ. Enable us, by Your Spirit, to no longer be secret agent Christians but rather to publicly declare and live out Your truth in a spirit of love so that You feel welcome in our country once again.
Thank You for Your promise to hear our prayers when we call to You with hearts of repentance and obedience, which is how we are appealing to You today, Father. On behalf of Your church, we affirm afresh the priority You are to us that You would fill every dimension of our lives as we seek to bring You glory through the advancement of Your kingdom in our personal lives, our family lives, and in the lives of our churches and our government leaders. We confidently invite heaven’s intervention into all the affairs of our nation and we praise You in advance for Your answer.
In Jesus’ name we pray.
Amen.
by Dr. Tony Evans
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