GAME DAY! My Election Day prayer. Blessings to you all!
Dear Heavenly Father,
You are Lord of all creation, the one and only true living God, the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob. You know everything from beginning to end before it happens. There is nothing You do not know. And You are everywhere at once. You are not penned in by time or space. And You are all-powerful. There is no act too small or too great for You to accomplish, in an instant, by Your Will, by Your Word. If You Will it to be so, so it is. There is no one, no thing that can stand in Your way.
We are Your children, born again of the Spirit, reconciled to You through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, dying in our place, taking the punishment we deserve and giving us instead that which we do not deserve – eternal life in heaven, in fellowship with You forever.
We stand convicted of transgressing Your Holy Law. We have removed You from Your rightful place as the top priority in our lives to chase after our selfish indulgences. We’re sorry for our personal sins and the collective sins of our nation that have brought us to this point of judgment. We bring these sins before You and confess them openly to You. We ask You to reconcile us back to Yourself, and we pray for Your mercy, grace and forgiveness.
It is with great sadness that we observe the intentional destruction of our once great nation by infiltrators from within, but we also acknowledge that it took this depth of evil to wake us up from our comfort, to shake us off our foundation, to remind us that it is You and You alone who are our provision. We have arrived in this state because we, Your church, those who profess to have put our faith and Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, we have not been light and salt in this world. We have been apathetic or ignorant at best, and at worst, complicit in the undermining of our society, allowing You to be systematically removed from every facet of our culture.
You have been patient with us, very patient, but You are a righteous God, a just God, and the time has come for You to act. We deserve judgment, but we are awake now, Lord, and we pray that You do not give us what we deserve. Instead, we pray for a reprieve, for grace, for You to hear our prayer, forgive our sins, and heal our land.
You are a good and gracious God, a loving God, a forgiving God, our Father in heaven. You love us, Your children, and You want only what is best for us. You are the perfect parent. When necessary, you give us the discipline we need, and you balance that perfectly with grace, forgiveness and comfort, always with the loving intention of convicting us, not condemning us, that we might confess our sins, repent, and return and be restored in right relationship with You.
It is therefore with great faith and optimism that we look forward to the work set before us with this election today. Let this be the pivotal moment that America turns back to You. We ask that You guide us and strengthen and enable us to shine Your light in the darkness, to be bold, in a loving manner, to expose the evil and corruption that has plagued our nation for so long, and that You would cause Your people everywhere to take a stand, to show up, to exercise our civic responsibility, our duty, to vote for those candidates and measures that are just and fair and righteous.
Lord, God, we pray for You to restore us to being once again One Nation Under God, that we would place You first in everything we think and say and do. We humble ourselves, Lord, and we bring this prayer before You. We seek Your face, and we turn from our wicked ways that have brought us to this point of near destruction. We ask that You hear us from heaven, that you forgive us our sins, and that you heal our land!
In the mighty name of Jesus we pray,
Amen