O Sovereign Lord,
The psalmist asked: “Why do
the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?” (Psalm 2:1). You responded
that “the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers took counsel
together, against the Lord and
against his Christ.” They want to be free of You, Your ways, and Your
commandments. They cried, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away
their cords from us.” That is what we are witnessing today in our nation.
The attack is upon us and has of late accelerated. The war is intense because,
for all its faults and failures, this nation has been singularly blessed of
God. Now the enemy seeks to destroy the nation by closing our churches, destroying
our economy, dismantling our homes and families, and making situational ethics the
law of the land.
The pandemic is a cover for this attack
with its unreasonable and draconian requirements supposedly to slow the spread
of the disease while confusing us with alarming but conflicting information. But
at what cost? More lives are being harmed by the cure than the cause. This
unconstitutional and unlegislated tyranny is trying our very sanity and testing
our duty to fear nothing but God only. At the same time, gangs of thugs riot in
our cities while evil politicians scheme in our legislatures. Their plans would
destroy the republic, replacing it with socialism.
Our Father, as Your children in
Christ due to His sacrifice on our behalf, we call to You. We are few, but we
know You and now turn to you, seeking your face in our trial. We humble
ourselves before You and confess that we have not lived up to the principles of
our Christian covenant. We have fallen victim to worldly ease and given
ourselves to the selfish pursuit of prosperity and pleasure. We have taken Your
gracious gifts for granted and made them our gods, rejecting self-denial and devotion
to our King and His kingdom. We yearned for your blessing, but in return, our
obedience and service to Christ, His church, and His cause are woefully
lacking. We have, like Israel of old, ignored You, and our ears are dull to Your
Word of truth.
O Sovereign Lord, You purpose all
things for Your glory. In light of this, we ask, “Are You warning us by these
things that we may be restored? Or are we in the last hour before Christ’s
return? Is Your wrath judging our nation and bringing our once glorious
republic to a disgraceful end like that of Israel of old?” Indeed, in our distractions
and diversions, we have allowed our hands to be filled with the innocent blood
of millions of aborted babies and have murdered innocents in our lawless streets.
They are crying out for justice, and we take little note. In our seeming
helplessness we have excused ourselves. Thus, we have tolerated the ruin of our
neighbors with drugs, human trafficking, and immorality by those who would
destroy our Christian principles. Lord, awaken us to the power we possess in
praying in the Spirit. Enable us to pray without ceasing.
You, who sit in the heavens, laugh
at Your enemies and hold them in derision. You speak to them in your wrath and terrify
them in Your fury. Of old, You set Your King, our Savior, Jesus, on Zion, Your
holy hill. In Your eternal decree, You said of Him, “You are my Son; today I
have begotten you. Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and
the ends of the earth your possession.” We ask, “Will You not again make righteousness
to exalt this nation? Will you return the honor on the godly men who sacrificed
so much to make this land a hope and bastion of freedom in the world?” This
nation has been the home of great revivals and great churches standing for the truth,
spreading the gospel of grace, and sending missionaries to the ends of the
earth on the promise that You have ransomed a people for Yourself out of every
tongue, tribe, kindred, and nation.
We now stand in grave danger from
this beast-system of powerful globalists that threaten us today. O Lord, “break
them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel” so
that they may be wise and warned and, by your grace, may serve Christ with fear
and trembling.
With the psalmist of old, we
pray, “O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O
God! For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised
their heads. They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together
against your treasured ones. They say, ‘Come, let us wipe them out as a nation.’
O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind. As fire consumes
the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze, so may you pursue them with
your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane! Fill their faces with shame,
that they may seek your name, O Lord”
(Psalm 83:1–5, 13–16).
Amen!
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