A Prayer for Our Nation
By Tammy on Oct 23, 2008 in Lifestyle of Worship
Dear Sweet Father in Heaven,
You are so holy, so worthy, so faithful, so glorious, so mighty, so exalted and so deserving of all our praise. We ask in this extremely important season in our nation that Your Kingdom would come and that Your will would be done. We ask that you would align every heart in this nation with the heartbeat of Heaven; that every heart would see with Your eyes and hear with Your ears; that every single individual who acknowledges Your name, Jesus, would see from higher places; that the veil of deception would be removed from all hearts and minds to embrace Your Throne Room perspective on how to pray; to embrace Your perspective on the real issues, and not on the issues that the media or natural circumstances would have us focus on (read “Choose Life” on this site for more details).
We thank you that every person that calls You by name, Jesus, who knows You intimately, will have every single provision needed from the supply of Heaven, in which there is no lack and in which there is only good, as we proceed in this new season. We thank You, Jesus, that every person will understand that we must stand for those who can’t stand up for themselves (the unborn), and about defending the religious freedoms and moral standards that You put into place when this nation was founded; religious freedoms and moral standards for the purpose of bringing Your people abundant blessing.
We ask, Oh Lord, for your mercy and forgiveness on behalf of this nation, on behalf of the church, and on behalf of individuals for allowing the enemy to lie, steal, kill and destroy from Your Kingdom and from Your people. We have allowed the enemy to kill unborn, innocent lives by the millions; lives that were carefully knit together in each womb and created for Your glory with Kingdom purpose and destiny. We repent for allowing him to remove prayer from our schools, our public assemblies, our courtrooms and our government. We repent for allowing him to remove Your commandments from this nation; commandments fulfilled in Christ Jesus and meant to protect and bring blessing. We repent for allowing him to steal the truth about how this universe was created for Your glory, and for confusing and teaching our children and youth to push You out their lives. We repent for allowing him to destroy the family in our nation; for the 40% of boys in this nation growing up without fathers; for the 50+% of families having to struggle through the pain, rejection, devouring and complications of divorce and multiple parents; for allowing the redefining and legalization of what constitutes the marriage union. We repent for allowing him to steal our children’s innocence and purity at younger and younger ages through a God-hating media and through condoning sexual sins of all kinds at all ages in the interest of entertainment and individual rights.
We repent for teaching people a seeker sensitive and greasy grace gospel in our churches. We repent for being hypocritical and divisive in our churches. We repent for not loving the world with Your love and caring for the poor and needy with Your compassion. We repent for not loving You with our whole hearts, souls, minds and strength and for not loving others as ourselves. We repent for allowing rejection, offense and bitterness to define how we relate to one another instead of walking in the fullness of Christ; His infinite love, mercy and compassion, and as co-heirs in Him; sons and daughters of the Most High God ruling, reigning and taking dominion over the earth on behalf of the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than on behalf of building our own selfish kingdoms. Thank you, Jesus, for covering every one of these sins and those sins unmentioned by Your sacrificial blood on the Cross and Your great love. Help us to walk in true repentance and change our ways according to Your leading; to willingly choose to follow You and all of Your ways.
Father God, help Your people to learn to walk in forgiveness, regardless of the offenses. Heal our orphan hearts. Help us to fall so in love with You, and be so Spirit-filled through our worship, prayer, intimacy and time with You that we are victorious in every area of temptation and sin. Deliver Your children from evil…from the evil of the real enemy, Satan, and the powers and principalities that we wrestle against. Deliver us from deception. Deliver us from busyness and schedules that keep us from spending time with You. Deliver us from not spending time together as families. Deliver us from doing church and religion and not being in relationship with You. Deliver this nation from the atheistic, humanistic agenda that has a foothold in nearly every sector of our society. Deliver us from the evil of our flesh and our self-centeredness. Deliver us from our own agendas. Deliver us from fear and from building our foundations on things of no eternal value. Deliver us from anger. Deliver us from anxiety and worry. Deliver us from greed, lust, corruption, indulgence and materialism. Deliver us from being dependent on anyone but You. Deliver us from misrepresenting You. Deliver us from religious spirits. Deliver us from our ignorance of the spirit realm. Deliver us from opening doors in our lives that enable the enemy to gain footholds and power over us that he was never intended to have. Deliver us from indifference. Help us to learn to abide in You, Jesus; to be filled with Your Spirit and filled with Your Word, walking in the authority that is only ours through You; to worship You above all things, empowering You to sit on the Throne of our lives and of our nation.
Father God, we decree that You are Lord of this nation; that You are King of all Creation. Jesus, we decree that You rule and reign over this nation; the United States of America. Oh Lord, send a move of Your Spirit to draw, enable and empower Jesus to be the love of this generation; to be the love of this nation. Send a move of Your Spirit that would unite hearts in this nation to once again be one nation under God with liberty and justice for all. Send a move of Your Spirit that unites hearts to be focused on being one heart with You, Father God. Unite hearts to hear what You are saying, to see what You are doing, and to rise up in the authority of Jesus Christ in us, the hope of glory, to call forth and bring Your Kingdom to come and Your will to be done on earth just as it is in Heaven.
Father, let Your Kingdom advance on the earth and empower Your people (from the youngest to the oldest) to push back the darkness; Jesus be the Light in us that shines in this darkness because You are the only Way, the only Truth, and the only Life. Father, let Your Church arise and release the cutting edge of all that is good and all that brings You glory; music, media, art, dance, literature, science, medicine, architecture, entertainment, technology, etc. into every single arena of society. You created all that is good; the enemy has stolen and corrupted the things You have given us, and man has been the vessel. Let Your people arise and once again release all that is good from Heaven, stewarding it with Your heart, Your will, Your love and Your compassion, and taking back all that belongs to You and Your Kingdom. Thank You, Jesus, for making a way for us to be forgiven, sanctified, and holy vessels that carry Your glory, Your anointing, and Your authority here on the earth. Let the Truth of Your Word and the Truth of Your Kingdom cover this land. Let Your true Church arise in the United States of America. For the Kingdom, the power, and the glory belongs to You alone, Lord, forever and ever. In Your Beautiful, Anointed and Mighty Name we pray, Jesus, Amen!

