This week, a major Christian organization sent out a press release trumpeting that “It’s time to get millions of evangelical voters to the polls.”
Then what? What if these millions don’t vote like they want? Or what if, in spite of their efforts, hardly any show up?
I say we need to get millions of believers on their knees crying out to God for mercy, confessing their sins, and attending Holy Spirit-fired prayer meetings with other believers who are going hard after God in fervent prayer, every day.
What if the next president plays a major role in train-wrecking the country yet we have a Nineveh-style revival that shakes the walls?
Funny how the prayer meeting has been eclipsed by politics and a host of other distractions. Like spending hours watching The Chosen, the news, Youtube videos or whatever the hot new thing is. I don’t think Satan cares if we watch Christian TV or movies. Become a prayer warrior and challenge others to do the same, and you got his attention. What we do reveals what we believe, not what we say. If we really believed the Bible we would have been on our knees crying out to God for mercy like the Assyrians did and would have seen a king-kong sized revival long ago. But we’re too sophisticated and arrogant for that. Instead, the church is coming apart with increasing velocity and we’re teetering on the edge of a cliff. Some might say “Naah, it’s not that bad. The US is too big to fall.” The government is broke, really, bankrupt, and can’t function without borrowing more money every few months. No banker would loan a business more money that ran its operation so foolishly. There will come a day of reckoning, as history shows. Our financial predicament reflects our moral bankruptcy, in the church and out.
So let’s go after God hard, shall we?
We will have our next night of prayer this Friday, August 23, from 7:00pm-11:00pm, US Central time. (Please note the earlier start time).
As before, we will pray for the following, in addition to whatever else God may bring up:
* The sharing of needs and praying for each other.
* That the walls of pride, fear, and arrogance that blind the church from facing its sin, especially sexual sin, would come down, and for conviction and repentance.
* Rescue and healing for those in bondage in sin, especially sexual sin, including healing for wives.
* Marriages and youth.
* That God’s people would be provoked to prayer. We need prayer meetings fired up in every church, every day of the week.
* For new ground, especially in the sexual arena where the enemy continues to destroy lives.
* Specific situations we’re involved with in the US and abroad.
Scripture reading, waiting in silence, and worship will be a part of our time together. Any person from any country who speaks English and has a heart for prayer is welcome. You’re welcome to participate as long as you like; stay for an hour, or the whole four hours. My plan is to participate for the entire four hours.
We will begin promptly at 7:00PM Central time. If you want to come and pray silently instead of out loud, this is fine.
If you’d like to participate, please contact us and we’ll send you the zoom link.
“Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey in breadth. Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”
When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.”
Jonah 3:1-10