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Text of
National
Prayer of Repentance
Almighty
God, we thank You and praise You for Your unending
mercy and grace poured out upon our nation. You have delivered us in
times of
war, reunited us after conflicts among ourselves, and filled our lives
with
such abundance, Your blessings overflow our borders.
Yet still,
we take You for granted. We come before You now, in desperate need of
Your
forgiveness. We confess that the liberty You so graciously gave us has
become a
license to do as we please. Our culture mocks You; our highest courts
are esteemed
above Your Word. We’ve traded genuine spirituality for
temporary pleasure, true
virtue for hollow celebrity. We teach our children self-indulgence, yet
stand
mystified at the blood on their hands. We lust after material things,
yet
wonder why our souls are empty.
Revive us,
O Lord. Your Presence is our only hope. Impart to us Your passion for
good over
evil. As we humble ourselves and seek Your face, forgive us O God, and
heal us.
Make us one, that America
would be the land You envisioned from the beginning…a beacon
of hope lifted to
the world, a people free to serve You and one another, in genuine love.
In the name
of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—in the name of Jesus
we pray. AMEN.
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Our Dream…
That
together as the
Body of Christ, we bridge every break within our ranks and
humbly bow before
heaven as one people in prayer—that
genuine
repentance would revive every pulpit and
every parish in America,
reminding us
that the power to be Christ’s witness does not come from the
strength of the
human spirit, but from the fire of the Holy Spirit.
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