Organizers hope that millions worldwide will participate in the Global Day of Prayer for America on Sunday, praying for the well-being of the United States during what has been labeled a “season of distress.”
The event, subtitled “A Call to Repent and Return to the Fear of the Lord,” is scheduled as a virtual gathering on Sunday, starting at 7 a.m. Eastern Time.
Jason Hubbard, director of International Prayer Connect, whose organization is overseeing the event, said in a YouTube video last Saturday that “we really believe that America, our nation, is in a season of distress.”
“It’s a very critical moment,” Hubbard said. “A very hinge, I think, of history for our nation and our destiny. And we would like to ask you in the nations to join us for a global day of prayer for America.”
“So, we would like to invite you to join us online, together with a watch prayer party. [It] could be your prayer room, could be your church. But, we need your prayers, and we’re asking this year for a Christ awakening, where the Spirit of God would use the Word of God to reawaken God’s people back to God’s Son for all that He is.”
Hubbard said there will be leaders participating in the event who will be representing different nations.
The event’s theme will be centered on 2 Chronicles 7:14, which reads: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
“We want to pray together in agreement that the Father would give His Son this nation as His inheritance from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea, from Washington to Washington,” Hubbard said.
“We believe that little keys open big doors, and we want to take this little key called prayer and put it in God’s hands. As we do that, we can see God open a door of awakening and revival.”
In an entry on the Global Day of Prayer for America website, Hubbard wrote, “God calls us to humble ourselves before Him” in preparation for the worldwide virtual gathering.
“I believe one person can pray, touching and moving God’s heart and releasing his power in a nation,” he wrote, citing the Old Testament prophet Daniel as an example of this.
“We can be assured that if we will humble ourselves before the mighty hand of God, call on his name, pleading according to his will and for his renown, He will release his power in response to our prayers!”
The global prayer event comes as the country is nearing the polarizing November presidential election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, who has survived two recent assassination attempts.
On Sunday, a gunman identified as Ryan Wesley Routh went to the Trump International Golf Club in Florida while the Republican candidate was there. According to authorities, a Secret Service agent spotted Routh with his weapon and opened fire. Routh was charged with federal gun crimes.
Although a motive has not been determined yet, it is believed that Routh was likely attempting to assassinate Trump.
On July 13, Trump was struck in the ear and slightly wounded by a potential assassin’s bullet during a rally in Pennsylvania.
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Watching the day of prayer now and praying along.
Our Father and Our God,
We praise You for Your goodness to our nation, giving us blessings far beyond what we deserve.
Yet we know all is not right with America. We deeply need a moral and spiritual renewal to help us meet the many problems we face.
Convict us of sin. Help us to turn to You in repentance and faith. Set our feet on the path of Your righteousness and peace.
We pray today for our nation’s leaders. Give them the wisdom to know what is right, and the courage to do it.
You have said, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.” May this be a new era for America, as we humble ourselves and acknowledge You alone as our Savior and Lord.
This we pray in Your holy name, Amen.
- Billy Graham
Lord,
We are thankful for the abundant blessings You have bestowed on America. Our forefathers looked to You as Protector, Provider, and the Promise of hope. But we have wandered far from that firm foundation. May we repent for turning our backs on Your faithfulness.
We pray that this great nation will be restored by Your forgiveness.
From bondage, You grant freedom.
Through Your own sacrifice, You offer salvation.
From the state of despair, You offer peace.
From the bounties of Heaven, You have blessed – not because of our goodness – but by Your grace.
You have given us freedom to worship You in spirit and in truth as Your holy Word instructs. May our lives honor You in word and deed. May our nation acknowledge that all good things come from the Father above.
President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that our nation should set apart a day for national prayer to confess our sins and transgressions in sorrow, “yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon… announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
“We have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our own hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own… we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God who made us! It behooves us then… to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”
Help us to pray earnestly for our president and leaders who govern, that they will humble themselves and seek Your guidance so that everything we do will shine the light of Your glory in a darkened world.
May our prayers as a people and a nation be heard and blessed for such a time as this. We make this plea in faith, believing in the mighty name of Jesus our Lord.
Amen
Franklin Graham
A PRAYER BY GEORGE WASHINGTON
Almighty God: We make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, and entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large. And finally that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Amen, amen & amen
Praying to Change God's Mind Tony Evans
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Yes, touching and moving God's heart! ONE Nation UNDER God!
2 Kings 18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.