Our Father in heaven, we come before You today, acknowledging You as our Creator. You are the God of Abraham, Jacob, and Isaac, the One who established Your chosen people and through whom You gave Your Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ. You established the promised land of Israel and demonstrated time and time again that if Your people sought You, worshipped You, and obeyed You, that You would bless them with guidance, provision, and protection. But that if they turned away, then You would remove Your hand and allow judgment.
Lord, we also acknowledge that just as Israel was dedicated to You at it’s founding, that another country years later would also seek Your blessing and dedicate themselves and their land to You. The first president of these United States of America, on the day of his inauguration sought Your hand, Your guidance, and Your blessing on our new country, and the people prayed and celebrated in agreement.
In the following years, Lord, You did more for us than we deserved. You blessed us with military strength, economic strength, with inventions, medical discoveries, academic achievement and national prosperity. You lifted us up to lead the world as we proclaimed that our blessings came from You and that “In God We Trust”. Our constitution acknowledges You as our Creator and our founding fathers noted that our people should never be led without Your Word.
But as You blessed us, we eventually became prideful in our success, believing that it was also by our own hands that our nation was elevated, and that You owed us blessings and protection. In time a generation rose that became calloused toward You, Oh God, and we chose our own prideful logic above Your truth, abandoning You in our schools and ignoring You in our courts. Yet, You showed patience and mercy, and called out “Return to Me, America. Return to Me.”
But instead we embraced our sin, claiming we were Lord over ourselves. We abandoned You by giving credit to the creation of our world to astronomical chance, and began throwing out Your moral boundaries for our selfish pleasure. We oversaturated our hearts and minds on immoral entertainment until our conscience was seared, and began shedding the innocent blood of our unborn children who were an inconvenience to our lives. Yet You kept calling, “Repent, America. Repent and return to Me!”
But we responded that, “We’ve done no wrong.” And we justified our sin as our right and liberty. We chased money, physical pleasure, and the belief that we are entitled to what we do not deserve. And now we stand on the precipice of redefining what You have already called “sacred” for a definition of our own.
Lord, what You call wicked, we now call good. And we’ve now begun persecuting those that proclaim Your truth. You’ve sent warnings, allowing breaches in our security, and instability in our economy. You’ve allowed drought to begin touching our land, and civil unrest in our cities.
Lord, even the people who claim to still acknowledge You have become apathetic and complacent in our comfort. Our worship has been lukewarm and our prayers passionless. We shake our heads in shame as our nation weakens around us, instead of repenting of our apathy and inaction. Where are the people of God? Where are those that still cry out to You with broken and contrite hearts?
Lord, we deserve judgment. We deserve Your wrath, for we have sinned and sinned greatly. And we know that Your judgment starts in the house of God. Our righteousness is as filthy rags, and our hypocrisy as a cancer in our land. But we cry out to You, Lord! We have nowhere else to look but You! There is no other answer. Man cannot redeem us. Remember Your mercy! Remember Your compassion! Break our hearts, Oh, God! Help us to love what You love, and to hate what You hate. Give us the courage to call sin what it is, and to define our lives by Your truth. Remind us of Your love for us, and call us to repentance. May every heart that knows You as Lord seek You this day! May we grieve over our sin this day; that You might show us mercy and forgiveness.
Lord, for those that heed Your words, and repent with open hearts, restore us to You. And unify those that love You. Raise up a generation that seeks You and worships You with their whole heart. Raise up a generation that is not ashamed of the gospel, and that hates to be lukewarm. Grant them faith, love, and courage to live according to Your Word, and to pray with power and to act with conviction. Raise up leaders, Lord, who will not compromise when under pressure, or abandon You for the approval of men. Raise them up, Lord, that they may call upon Your name, and confess Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords.
Break up the hard soil in our hearts, Lord, that You may take joy in our worship of You, and bless us again. Call us to holiness, that we would once again be the light of the world and draw all men to You. Awaken us, Lord! Rekindle our fire, and stir our hearts. We confess our sins, and we seek Your face. Forgive us, Lord God, that we can again proclaim, “Great is Thy Faithfulness”.
We ask for Your forgiveness and cleansing. We pray against those who reject Your truth. Turn their hearts to You or confound their logic. But don’t let wickedness take our land. Don’t let them succeed. Stand in their way, Lord. For America is Yours! And like Israel, may she remain undivided and in Your care. Keep our bond strong with Israel, Lord, and our leaders loyal. Or remove them from office. May Your kingdom come and Your will be done. We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, Amen.
- Alex Kendrick
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This amounts to more than mere “apathy and inaction” as Alex calls it. He is right about that. When the Supreme Court passed their ruling on the so-called “same sex marriage” issue, there was hardly a whimper in outcry against this from God’s people; especially from our pulpits. When Planned Parenthood was exposed by the Center for Medical Progress for the murderous devils they are, not only murdering MILLIONS of unborn children, but then trafficking in the organs of those murdered children, again, no outcry from Christians! As Christian businesses have been systematically targeted by the sodomites all over America, and when Kim Davis was jailed in Rowan County, Kentucky for taking a stand against these devilish perverts and their child molesting agenda, again, where was the outcry from Christians nation wide AS A WHOLE? It hasn’t been there. Instead, the church is (for the most part) SILENT on these and many other issues. What about the rash of “transgenders” who are now pushing their filthy weirdness and satanic perversion, seeking access to women’s and girls bathrooms, locker rooms and showers nation wide? Why isn’t the church up in arms about this garbage? Where is the righteous indignation and outcry, not only prayerfully, but POLITICALLY against these things? What about the sophisticated network of devil-worshiping pervert-pedophiles who kidnap children off our streets every day (in the hundreds of thousands!) and sell them into sex slavery and human trafficking through kiddy-porn sites internationally? How many Christians know about the “research” that Alfred Kinsey did back in the 1930’s thru 1950’s, where he had children as young as 2 months old molested for up to 24 hours at a time, timed the reaction, and called it “orgasm” so that he was then able to go around preaching his “sexologist” gospel of “children are sexual from birth”? How many know that this, more than anything else, has led directly to the onslaught of moral filth and sexual perversion that now saturates our nation? Again, where is the INFORMING, the INVOLVEMENT on the part of America’s Christians about such things?
But you see, the problem is far deeper and far greater than that! It’s called COMPROMISE AND IDOLATRY, and it started in 1901 when America’s churches, Bible schools, seminaries, and pulpits began accepting Satan’s counterfeit “bible” from England: Westcott & Hort’s “Revised Version” that was nothing more than the devil’s Vatican counterfeit of God’s word (the Authorized King James Version). Look at America: you can trace ALL of our problems back to this one issue. When heretics like Phillip Schaff, James Strong (of Strong’s Concordance fame!), and Joseph Henry Thayer managed to foist their version of the Westcott-Hort corrupt Greek text in the form of the American Standard Version on the American church, it was only a matter of time before things started going downhill spiritually from there. Look at today: most “ministries” and “churches” use some form of this per-version such as the NIV, NASB, NLT, NKJV, CEV, The Message, The Amplified Bible, etc. ALL of which are corrupt! God promises a curse on those who add to or diminish from his holy word! (Deut.12:32; Prov.30:5&6; Rev.22:18&19). Why is America now under a divine curse, where our enemies are taking over? Because of the sin of God’s people of allowing Satan to usurp God’s authority, which is HIS WORD!
As I say, since 1901, it has been all downhill for America. Consider the following “history lesson”:
*the rise of the devilish counterfeit “Pentecostal” movement in 1906 (and later the equally heretical Charismatic “renewal”) with all of its unbiblical doctrines, carnal fleshly practices and fake “sign gifts” like their unbiblical “tongues”, “prophesying” and “slain in the spirit”;
*the feministic “suffragette” movement promoting rebellion against God’s established order of male authority, of MEN leading, with women marching for the “right” to smoke, vote, drink at the bars & dress immodestly, to be just as foolish, vain & immoral as the men to prove “equality” with them;
*the passing of the criminal Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and the start of the internationalist bankster cartel take-over of America’s government and economy;
*the “roaring 20’s” with America’s “cutting loose” with Jazz, alcohol, greed & materialism;
*the Scopes Monkey trial in 1925 by which the Darwinian evolution crowd started infiltrating the schools, along with John Dewey & Humanism;
*the “family planning” movement of the lesbian-sodomite Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) and her racist eugenics agenda that was the model for Hitler in Germany;
*the gradual acceptance of Freudian-Jungian psychology by the schools & society at large, including the churches, which is why guys like James Dobson & his crowd are able to get away with convincing Christians there is any such thing as “Christian” psychology (talk about an oxy-moron!);
*the Stock Market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression of the 1930’s;
*the rise of cults like Catholicism (especially the Jesuits), Mormonism, Russellism (JW’s), “Christian” Scientism, Free Masonry, Church of Christ, Seventh Day Adventism, Islam, New Age Movement, EST, Yoga, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc;
*the growing deadness and apostasy of major “Protestant” denominations like Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Salvation Army, Southern Baptist, etc.;
*the rise of the so-called “word of faith” and “signs and wonders” movements with their love of money & extravagance promoted by egotistical, heretical “wolves in sheep’s clothing” religious con-men like Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, Joel Osteen, Jessie Duplantis, Jerry Saville, TD Jakes, Jimmy Swaggert & Mike Murdock, and false apostles & false prophets like Rodney Howard Brown, John Wimber, Kim Clement, Todd Bentley, and the whole “TBN” crowd;
*the rise of hyper feminism with the pro murder (abortion) movement and its casting off of all restraint against God’s clear order of MALE leadership, which is why we now have Hillary Clinton running for President; but this was preceded by religious feminism with so-called “preachers”, “Bible teachers” and “evangelists” such as Amy Semple McPherson, Katherine Kuhlman, Marilyn Hickey, and Joyce Meyer (even though, according to the word of God, there are no female pastors and preachers in the new testament church any more than there should be women in politics, police or the military!); *the rise of so-called “Christian” entertainment with its use of paganistic styles like rock, rap, hip hop, pop, & country “music” that is nothing more than devil worship set to some sort of beat and tune (just like the children of Israel at the foot of mount Sinai who “sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play” while Moses was receiving God’s law!);
*the wide-spread claiming of unbiblical names, titles, and religious terms like “Reverend”, “Baptist”, “Evangelical”, “Pentecostal”, “Charismatic”, “Methodist”, “Lutheran”, “Presbyterian”, “Episcopalian”, “Calvinist”, “Christian Missionary Alliance”, “Church Of God In Christ”, etc. that is based, not in the Bible, but in carnality and religious pride;
*the rise of the Ecumenical Movement with its false, unbiblical “unity”, where “all roads lead to Rome” (the Papacy) and its one-world religion under the antichrist Pope;
*the lack of evangelistic zeal and the failure to carry out the Great Commission to “go into all the world and preach the gospel” s Christ commands us to do (and we wonder why our nation is now so wicked and sinful! Where is the concern by Christians for the salvation of their lost family members, co-workers, neighbors, etc.? Practically non-existent!)
*the failure to preach God’s law in our “gospel presentations”, the promoting of “easy believism” which is really false believism, as well as not requiring true repentance from sin for salvation.
*and of course, the overwhelming majority (more than 90%) of Christians, pastors, Bible teachers, evangelists, churches, and ministries believing in the unbiblical “pre-trib rapture” fantasy that has lulled the western church to sleep, causing them to believe “we won’t be here” when the beast issues his mark of allegiance to him & the devil, and leaving them ill-prepared for what IS “imminent”: PERSECUTION! Little wonder then, with Christians in America believing in the “Left Behind” fantasy of guys like Tim Lahay & Hal Lindsey, we rarely hear any mention in our churches of the suffering church around the world that is living in the Biblical reality daily of the cost of being a true disciple of Jesus Christ; in places like China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, Mexico, North Korea, etc. where Christians are being brutally and systematically persecuted, raped, beaten, imprisoned and slaughtered for following Christ, just as they were in the Bible, and throughout church history (especially during the thousand year reign of terror of the Popes and their Catholic “church”!)
Yes, it is due to our compromise on God’s absolute truth, which is THE ONLY authority for the church, the WRITTEN word of God called “scripture” (2 Tim.3:16&17) (not the “rhema” so-called “revelation” that the false teachers of today claim to have); because we have forsaken God and his word and made ourselves the authority and thus his enemy, he is now doing with the apostate church in America what he did with apostate Israel: giving us over to our enemies! Very soon, it will be ILLEGAL to be a Christian in America! Go ahead and believe we’re just gonna “fly away” before “all hell breaks loose”. You are being set up for the great “falling away” that is tied in with the rise of “that man of sin” called “antichrist” who will “shew himself that he is God.” (2 Thess.2:1-4) Peter declared, “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God” (1 Pet.4:17). God is going to do a Holy Ghost house cleaning in America! He is going to rid his house (his church) of all the wickedness, idolatry, carnality, worldliness, false practices & beliefs, compromise, complacency, LUKEWARMNESS AND APOSTASY that has filled the American church. And he will use the heathen (like Obama, Hillary, the Bushes & Trump) to do so, just as he used a devilish, prideful, idolatrous, ego-maniacal king named Nebuchadnezzar to CLEAN UP JERUSALEM! All I can say is: WAKE UP CHRISTIANS IN AMERICA! As Jesus told the churches in the Book of Revelation, “REPENT OR ELSE!” If we don’t, a very rude wakening is at hand! I don’t set dates. I just know that A STORM IS COMING, and when it hits, it will do so with a vengeance: like God’s! America has doomed and damned herself. The “blood of the innocents” (our children, unborn and born) cries out to God for judgment, just s Abel’s did. If God wouldn’t forgive the innocent blood that Manasseh shed, even with all of the righteous reforms and true evidence of repentance brought by king Josiah, what makes us think that PRAYER will avert what’s coming our way? America is NOT the promised land, and Americans are NOT God’s chosen people! And don’t forget, while we’ve made 2 Chron.7:14 a cute religious cliche, God says “MY people” and points to “THEIR wickedness”. Not the heathen and all their sin! America’s Christianity has so much prideful unbelief. We refuse to see that “we the people” OF GOD are America’s main problem! Judgment is at hand! Woe is unto us!
9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Thy will be done Father God. We trust in You – The Maker of Heaven and Earth.
Let us open our hearts to hear from you.
Let us be bold enough step out of the boat, keeping our focus on You Father God.
Let us pray and let us be salt and light.
Let us be vessels of Your Glory.
Let us heed Your voice and stand on Your Word.
We stand with Israel.
We choose to trust in You, for you are Good and the One True God.
We are here as a remnant, crying out for forgiveness and for You to heal our land.
Your will, Father.
I accept Your Will.
We come in Jesus’ mighty name and Thank you for You are Good.
This Spiritual Battle – we know You have already Won.
Amen
May the Lord hear our cry and heal our land.