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God’s Command to Pray for our Nation
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Pray
Pray because God Establishes Government
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Daniel Prays for his nation
Daniel Chapter 9
7 Steps on Praying for the Nation
Let the Word of God inspire your prayer.
When you pray according to Scriptures, you know God will answer your prayer.
2. Set your face to seek the Lord
Matthew
When is the last time you prayed to the point of tears?
When is the last time you allowed your prayer to move deep in your heart so that all of your brokenness is offered up to God?
3. Sacrifice anything that gets in the way of prayer.
What gets in the way of Keith’s prayer?
Back in it says he fasted.
He sacrificed something.
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When Samuel and the army faced the Philistines, Israel fasted ().
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When Israel faced a holocaust at the hand of Haman, prime minister of Persia, Esther and the nation fasted for three days ().
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When King Saul was killed in battle, and the nation expected an invasion from the Philistines, Israel fasted for seven days ().
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When Ezra and 4,400 Jews returning from Babylon across the desert were afraid of being attacked by Bedouin tribes, they fasted for 3 days ().
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When Nehemiah heard about the destruction of Jerusalem and its walls, he fasted ().
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Savonarola led the city of Florence, Italy, to fast when faced with the invasion from the King of France.
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All England fasted when they faced the coming invasion by the Spanish Armada.
God answered and sent a storm to destroy the Spanish fleet, and England became the dominant force in the world.
We speak English today and not Spanish because the English Church fasted for God to intervene.
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The Continental Congress called for a day of national fasting and prayer when George Washington was facing the British in the Revolutionary War.
i. Abraham Lincoln called for a national day of prayer and fasting during the Civil War.
4. BEGIN PRAYER BY RECOGNIZING GOD’S GREAT ABILITY TO INTERVENE IN NATIONAL CRISES.
5. CONFESS YOUR PERSONAL SINS AND THE SINS OF YOUR NATION.
Listen to Daniel in
WE have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments.
Notice Daniel didn’t say, they have sinned.
He said we have sinned.
There is no scripture stating that Daniel sinned but we see his prayer stated as WE!!!
We must confess for the Church.
Before we point a finger at the world and tell them to confess drunkenness, drugs, cursing, and vile sexual pleasures; we need to look inward.
The Church is guilty of complacency, pride, compromise, negligence in witnessing and tithing, and we constantly flirt with the world, the flesh and the Devil.
We must confess the Church’s sins before we confess the world’s sins.
6. ASK GOD TO TURN AWAY PUNISHMENT AND PROTECT US
Daniel knew that the nation deserved punishment.
Yet Daniel had the boldness to ask, “O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem” ().
Daniel prayed constantly for God to turn away the punishment of Israel.
This was his constant prayer.
In a later chapter he says, “I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth . . .
till three whole weeks were fulfilled” ().
Don’t pray that America won’t have difficulties,
Pray America will overcome difficulties.
Don’t pray for God to eliminate the terrorists,
Pray for wisdom and strength for us to eliminate the terrorists.
7. WE MUST ASK GOD TO AGAIN BLESS AMERICA
Don’t just pray for God to bless America,
But for you to be a blessing to Americans.
Don’t just pray for revival in America,
Pray for God to revive you.
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