Just One More Day to Pray

It is Sunday evening, before the 2008 Elections, and you probably feel like you have done nearly everything that you can do. I believe we will defeat the Alcohol referendum, but again let me say, as important as this issue is to us, it pales in significance to the election of the next President. I have spent the afternoon prayerfully searching the internet about prayer for the 2008 Elections. I am convinced that prayer can make the difference. My hope is that the passion of God’s people will be strong enough that our CRY for MERCY will be greater than the cry for CHANGE. God has given us this charge, to lead His people. Can we move our people to pray for MERCY for our nation like they have never prayed before? Can we pray ourselves with more passion and fervor than we have ever prayed before?

This is my hope, that just as Joel told the people to return to God with all their hearts with fasting, weeping and mourning, that we too may move the heart of God by our cry for MERCY. Who knows? He may turn and have pity and leave a blessing! As we enter our last day before the elections, we can sound a trumpet in Zion! Perhaps it will be enough to move the heart of God and bring an outpouring of His grace and mercy. Perhaps God is speaking to you, about something you can do to tip the scales. Perhaps just one more prayer, one more voice lifted, joining the cry for MERCY will be enough to make our cry greater than the call for CHANGE.

In my prayers this week, I have been encouraged in the Psalms. Often, I have been encourage by the reminders that God hears us! I have also been encouraged as I remember other intercessors, like Abraham who asked God to spare Sodom if enough righteous souls could be found there. I am encouraged that many voices have already been lifted in prayer. That there are many more righteous souls in America raising the cry to God for mercy, and by the hope of 2 Chronicles 7:14 “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves , and pray , and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

Yours for the Hope of Our Nation!