Today is our National Day of Prayer – and we surely do need it!
 

 
 
Recently Ken Ham at Answers in Genesis asked (and answered) the question: Is America Under Judgment?

… after listening to the 2nd inaugural address by the head of this nation, President Obama, it’s obvious this nation is already under judgment!
 
… With the president’s strong support, we will now see an escalation of legislation around America to legalize “gay” marriage. Furthermore, there are indications that people who speak out against what the Bible clearly calls sin and an abomination will be treated as criminals.

 
Let’s not forget that that same president just last week asked God to bless Planned Parenthood. And the military, under this commander-in-chief, has decided that sharing one’s faith is a court martial offense. Has our nation ever been more in need of divine intervention?

With such a flagrant defiance of God’s clear Word, I maintain that these anti-God movements show that America is under judgment. I think of the passage:
 

Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. (Romans 1:24–26)

 
The fact that men and women are abandoning the roles God created for them is a sign that God is judging. As Romans 1 above declares, He “gave them up.”
As we observe the terrible degeneration of our culture before our eyes, I believe we are getting a glimpse of what it was like in the evil days of Noah:

“Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5).

Ever more militant in pushing their agenda, the (INtolerant) LGBT lobby even tried to undermine this year’s National Day of Prayer by forcing the event’s honorary chairman, Pastor Greg Laurie, to step down, demonizing him as “homophobic.”
Thankfully, Laurie has declined to be bullied:

“If people want to make it all about that I’m not going to back down. In the immortal words of the great theologian Tom Petty, ‘I won’t back down,’ I won’t. I’m not going to apologize.”
 
Laurie paralleled the efforts of gay rights activists to that of the palace officials who sought to stop Daniel (in the Old Testament) from praying and passed a law that resulted in him being thrown into the Lion’s Den.
 
“Here is something that we need to learn from that. The Devil does not want us to pray. It’s been said that Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees,” said Laurie. “I’ve had people try to stop me from praying this week. And we have these activist homosexual groups who have alerted their people to petition the Pentagon.”

 

 
Tomorrow’s prayer will be prayed simultaneously at 12:00 EST. Please join in ~

Father, we come to You to pray for our nation, the United States of America.
 
How You have blessed us through the years, Lord! We rightly sing, “America, America, God shed His grace on thee.” Yet we see trouble in our culture today. We see the breakdown of the family, crippling addictions, and random acts of horrific violence.
 
Lord, we need Your help in America. In recent days, we have done our best to remove Your Word and Your counsel from our courtrooms, classrooms, and culture. It seems, as President Lincoln once said, that we have “forgotten God.” But Lord, You have not forgotten us! You can bless and help and revive our country again.
 
Scripture tells us that “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs 14:34). Lord, in Your mercy, we ask that You would exalt our country again. We have had a number of great awakenings in America. We have experienced times of refreshing, and revivals that changed not only the spiritual but also the moral landscape. As the psalmist said, “Will You not revive us again, so that Your people may rejoice in You?” (Psalm 85:6).
 
That is our prayer for America today, Lord. Send a mighty spiritual awakening that will turn the hearts of men and women, boys and girls, back to you. You have told us if we will humble ourselves and pray, and seek Your face and turn from our wicked ways, that You will forgive our sins and heal our land (2 Chronicles7:14).
 
Forgive us today, Lord, and heal this troubled land that we love so much.
 
We ask all of this in the name of Jesus Christ.
 
Amen.