Thursday, December 11, 2008

Thoughtful Thursdays - Our Nation

Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation

'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free. Amen!'

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,' and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'One nation under God.'

6 lovely comments:

Misty said...

Beautiful... I second that. It's a beautiful thought, isn't it?

Jillian's Bella Rosa Antiques said...

Hear hear! I pray the same for our nation as well. Not everyone is willing to write about these feelings on their blogs. I fall short sometimes on blogging about what is really important.

Jillian

Liz Harrell said...

Lovely, amen.

Sweet Simplicity said...

AMEN! Its so easy to forget to pray for the leaders of our country. Thanks for the reminder.

Mother Hood said...

Thank you for the reminder to pray for the leaders of our nation. And let's not forget the leaders of our churches!

Unknown said...

I love this. I know God is going to take care of us. We live in a great nation an we have a GREAT God!

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