Glorified and Magnified Father of our Beloved Lord Christ
We come before you petitioning that you might continue to be faithful in pursuing your own reputation and renown. We confess that our only hope is for you to have as your chief end the establishment of all that makes manifest your character and name. Consistent with this therefore we pray that you would destroy all that would try to diminish your splendor and all that works to make men think low, degrading, and unworthy thoughts of you.
Before we ask for our nation we pray that you would make your people mindful that before we belong to the American tribe we belong to the Christian tribe. We beg of thee gracious Father, that you might make your Church in America aware again that the way we can best serve our country is by remembering that we belong to you before we belong to America.
We confess before you Father that it is because the Christian tribe in America has chased the wind that you have turned this country over to the whirlwind. The sins of this nation that our fellow pastors lament over in their prayers this afternoon are sins that they and we are responsible for, if only because we have not been diligent in knowing you and making you known. We are guilty of the sins we lament in prayer because many pastors in the Church today preach a God that is unknown to you.
We ask again Father that the Church will repent. We ask that you would deliver us from chasing a ethical nation that has little or no connection to an ongoing awareness that ethics only finds any real meaning when ethics are understood in relation to the death of Christ for sinners. As your people we ask that we might bring men to Christ before we shove ethics on them.
As we gather this afternoon to pray for the nation we know that we best do that by praying for the Church. Grant your Church the ability to resist the wickedness of our President, our Congressmen and Senators and our Judges. We ask them that you would favor them by showing them their sin and the remedy for sin. Grant us grace to resist the wickedness of our Governor and state legislators until such time you are pleased to grant them the grace of seeing their sin and rebellion against you and a repentance unto life. For those handful of civil magistrates that are in Christ we pray that you would protect them and give them a spirit of boldness and courage. Most importantly grant these faithful civil ministers of yours a Church where they can attend to hear Christ Crucified proclaimed and the whole counsel of God set forth systematically.
We close Father by imploring once again that in your wrath that is so manifest against us as Americans you might yet remember mercy. Be pleased to destroy your opposition by granting your enemies repentance so that they might be your friends. For those enemies who refuse to repent we pray that you might remove them from their positions as cultural gatekeepers so that men who tremble before you might rule in their stead.
We cast ourselves upon your mercy that is given to your Church for the sake of Christ.
In His name we pray.
AMEN
