Pray that as King David humbled himself and asked God for a clean heart that we as a nation, and as the ecclesia of God, would ask Him for a clean heart and to renew a steadfast spirit within us.
Scripture:
“Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they areimmorality, impurity, indecency, Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects, with peculiar opinions, heresies), Envy, drunkenness, carousing and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
~ Galatians 5:19-21
Reflection:
It’s a frightening reality that Apostle Paul was describing the prevailing sin within the church of his day. Sadly the body of Christ is still facing the same moral decay and there is a warning! The heart of the matter is the heart of man, which is deceitful above all things and the wages of sin is death.
Darkness of the soul covers the earth today as never before. The world has never seen such corporate greed, moral sluggishness, governmental apathy and corruption at all levels of administration, sexual perversion and modern day slavery of women and children in the porn industry and sex trafficking.
Envy led Cain to murder his brother and God heard the cry of Abel’s blood for justice. There is much Blood spilt on the earth today deafening Gods ears for justice. We are in the days where good has become evil and evil good.
Is there hope for America and the nations of the world whose hearts have turned away from God and His ways? Yes! Yes! Yes! Where sin abounds HIS Grace abounds even more. If we His People will humble ourselves, turn from our wicked ways (REPENT) and pray, then HE will hear from heaven and heal our land.
Prayer:
Father on this Day of Atonement we humble ourselves and repent from the wicked ways of our hearts and ask You to change our hearts. Give us new hearts and write Your laws afresh with the fire of Your spirit and truth. We confess our sins of the heart of greed instead of generosity, hate instead of love, envy instead of selflessness, immoral thoughts of lust and perversion instead of holiness and the fear of the Lord, pride instead of humility, worshipping idols and false gods of witchcraft and divination instead of loving You with all our hearts and all our soul and all our strength.
We receive your correction and forgiveness of sins by the atoning Blood of Jesus. Give our nation a new heart and write Your laws upon it once again. Send revival and revive us in the midst of our years and forget not Your covenant of mercy O God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for we are Your people and You alone are our God.
Continue in prayer using the 4 prayer points as the Lord leads you.
