How do you pray for a nation that has clearly abandoned God and His Word? Even to the extent of displaying its wickedness on the executive mansion with a display of rainbow lights? Our country has shaken its puny fist in God’s face. I’m serious - how do we pray for such a nation? That is exactly what I asked God in prayer tonight. How to pray for this nation, and that if it was too late for revival that He protect and nourish the remnant of His faithful until He comes for them.
We pray for the people of this nation, that God would call out and save as many as possible before the end.
We pray that the nation turns to God
Malachi 4:6"He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse."
Ezekiel 36:26"Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Most importantly: Revelation 3:20 ESV Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
We need to pray for a revival, men and women of good conscience united praying for all to turn to God.
Because a nation consists of people. Think of the children, the little ones scandalized by all this. Please pray, if for no other reason, for their sake.
Remember that the sodomites and other blasphemers of today are unknowingly flashing the sign of God’s covenant with Noah on the White House, Niagra Falls, and other places. They do not even realize the irony of the symbol they have chosen as it refers to a time when God destroyed the earth because of man’s wickedness. I hate, loathe and despise the pictures I’ve seen of this gay symbol degrading everything, but then I remember what it really symbolizes that they don’t understand and think of how God laughs at them when they shake their fist in his face. (Psalm 2)
Genesis 6 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7 So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” ….
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. 13 And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them...
17 For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
After the flood, the rainbow, the sign of God’s covenant promise.
12 And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 15 and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
The Day of the Lord - the next time the Lord destroys the earth because of man’s wickedness, it will be with fire, not a flood.
2 Peter 3:4-13
4 They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, 6 and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. 7 But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
2 Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
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The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
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“Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”
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He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.
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Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
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“As for me, I have set my King
on Zion, my holy hill.”
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I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
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Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
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You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
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Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
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Serve the Lord with fear,
and rejoice with trembling.
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Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.