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How is your standing before god?

Do you know the God to whom this prayer is

directed? Do you know “the Living Savior, Jesus

Christ?” Do you have the gift of God’s presence in

your life?

God has provided the way to right living now and

eternal life in heaven through His only Son, Jesus

Christ. Jesus said when He was on earth, “I am the

way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh

unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). Do you

agree with Jesus, that He is the only way for

anyone to know God? Do you agree that when the

Bible says “all have sinned” (Romans 3:23), that

includes you?

Without Jesus on your side, you stand condemned

before God: “He that believeth on him is not con-

demned: but he that believeth not is condemned

already” ( John 3:18).

The good news is that the whole purpose of Christ

coming to earth was to take the place of sinners

and accept the punishment we deserved for our

sins. “For there is one God, and one mediator

between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who

gave himself as a ransom for all” (1 Timothy 2:5–6).

When you trust completely in Christ as your Savior

from sin and its consequences, God promises to for-

give you and reserve you a place in heaven with Him

forever. “For God so loved the world that he gave his

only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him

should not perish, but have everlasting life”

(John 3:16).

Will you place your faith in Christ today? You can tell

God in a prayer like this . . .

Dear God, I know I’m a sinner. I understand that forgive-

ness comes only through Your Son, Jesus, who died for my

sins. I want you in my life, and I want to spend eternity

with You in Heaven. I now place my complete trust in

Jesus Christ alone as my Savior who took my punishment.

Thank you for loving me and making this possible!

Is there hope for America? Will we become the nation

that we are capable of becoming? Is it possible for our

country to turn to God for moral direction and govern-

ment based on integrity? Or will we slip deeper and

deeper into moral and spiritual decay?

Our first responsibility is to set our own hearts on doing

God’s will. During the days of Micah the prophet, God’s

people kept straying spiritually and nationally. He asked

them, “ . . . What does the LORD require of thee, but to

do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with

thy God?” (Micah 6:8).

When our own hearts are right with God, then we can

join together to humbly seek God’s forgiveness and guid-

ance. Only God can turn our nation from its downward

spiral and put it on the road to righteousness.

A guiding prayer for such a hope was first spoken several

years ago in the Kentucky legislature by Pastor Bob

Russell. His prayer became widely known later that year

when his friend Joe Wright read his version before the

Kansas State House where it caught the attention of the

media and the Internet . . .

Heavenly Father,

We come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and seek Your

direction and guidance. We know Your Word says “Woe to those

who call evil good,” but that’s exactly what we have done. We

have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values.

We confess that . . .

• we have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it

moral pluralism.

• we have worshiped other gods and called it multiculturalism.

• we have endorsed perversions and called it alternative lifestyle.

• we have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.

• we have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation.

• we have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.

• we have killed our unborn and called it choice.

• we have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.

• we have abused power and called it political savvy.

• we have coveted our neighbors' possessions and called it

ambition.

• we have neglected to discipline our children and called it

building esteem.

• we have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and

called it freedom of expression.

• we have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers

and called it enlightenment.

Search us, O God, and know our hearts today. Try us and

see if there be some wicked way in us . . . . Guide and

bless these men and women who have been sent here by

the people . . . . and who have been ordained by You, to

govern . . . . Grant them your wisdom to rule and may their

decisions direct us to the center of Your will.

I ask it in the name of your Son,

the Living Savior, Jesus Christ.

Prayer for America

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When you trust completely in Christ as your Savior

from sin and its consequences, God promises to for-

give you and reserve you a place in heaven with Him

forever. “For God so loved the world that he gave his

only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him

should not perish, but have everlasting life”

(John 3:16).

Will you place your faith in Christ today? You can tell

God in a prayer like this . . .

Dear God, I know I’m a sinner. I understand that forgive-

ness comes only through Your Son, Jesus, who died for my

sins. I want you in my life, and I want to spend eternity

with You in Heaven. I now place my complete trust in

Jesus Christ alone as my Savior who took my punishment.

Thank you for loving me and making this possible!