Father God, I come to you with a heavy heart on behalf of America. Our nation has turned its back on You; You have been thrown out of the majority of our churches, schools, homes, and hearts. The American public curses You for not intervening in the horrible circumstances that have become everyday life for them, but how can we ask You to bless the places You have been thrown out of? We have given You every reason to completely leave us to our own devices; but even so, Your mercy and grace is so obviously interjected into each of our lives each day. Please open my eyes to this, and take away my bitterness and despair over how badly we have messed things up.
You tell us in Your word that You have appointed our leaders, so I will respect our government officials for that reason; but as our social morality has decreased, the morality in our government has followed suit. In addition to an unbelievable amount of corruption among government officials, there have been laws passed allowing murder and other things that are clearly against God’s laws, and for these reasons, I cannot and I will not ask Your blessing on our nation; I will, however, beg for mercy and plead with You to work in the hearts of the men and women who still serve You. You set us free from sin, and we sit here like we are still in bondage while an entire world is perishing because we won’t get up and tell them how You freed us. Please fan the flame that has died down in each of our hearts and stir in us so intensely that we cannot do anything but get up on our feet and run the race You set before us. Our apathy is beyond pathetic; it is appalling.
Lord, our nation is proud; we boast of what we have done and how far we have come, but our advances are proving to be our undoing. So Jesus, please bring our nation to its knees to repent of our sins. We need callouses on our knees, not on our hearts.
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