PRAYING

......For God's favor!

Peoples shall yet come, inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying,”Let us continue to go and pray before the Lord, and seek the Lord of hosts” (Zech. 8:20-21)

Almighty God, already mayors and politicians are whispering about cities out of control, problems that defy solutions, spiraling crime, and endless lists of unsolved crimes. Secretly, they seek out intercessors. Some tragically turn to witches and psychics. We have failed our cities, Lord. We have seen faith as such a narrow and private thing. The Great Awakenings took captive whole cities. They turned back waves of crime. They empowered your church. Shut down critics. Would You send us another Great Awakening? Let block after block come under the influence of Your convicting grace. Hush the liberalism of our campuses. Halt the polluting influence of Hollywood. Claim another generation for Your glory. May they raise the cross. Invade our prisons with a renewal that turns back alternative religious movements and turns convicts into bold Christians. Let the courts rule justly. Send a revival into the ranks of liberal judges who continue to lead the judicial revolution that is destroying the nation. Save them. Let congressmen and senators weep in Your presence. Bring the nation to a place of repentance. Raise up new leaders who will sustain the changes that a great awakening brings. Amen.

Today’s Quote

When we ask of the Lord coolly, and not Fervently, we do as it were, stop His hand, and restrain Him from giving us the very blessing we “pretend” that we are seeking.

INTERCEDE

Prayer Exercise:

Go to a courtroom. Watch and listen. Sit and intercede.