I've been wanting to write this up for a while now, but have been really busy. I came across it in a book entitled How to Pray for Your Loved Ones. The book has many chapters devoted to different areas of prayer focus. This one in particular is a prayer for our country... and I thought it very appropriate in this day.
"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in our nation as it is in heaven!
I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God. (Ezekiel 11:19, 20 NIV)
No one from the east or the west or from the desert can exalt a man. But it is God who judges; He brings one down, He exalts another. I will cut off the horns of all the wicked, but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up. (Psalms 75:6, 7, 10 NIV)
The righteous will never be uprooted, but the wicked will not remain in the land. (Proverbs 10:30 NIV)
To show partiality in judging is not good: Whoever says to the guilty, "You are innocent" - peoples will curse him and nations denounce him. But it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and rich blessing will come upon them. (Proverbs 24:23-25 NIV)
Every morning I will put to silence the wicked in the land; I will cut off every evildoer from the city of the Lord. (Psalms 101:8 NIV)
Confuse the wicked, O Lord, confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city. (Psalms 55:9 NIV)
For lack of guidance a nation falls, but many advisers make victory sure. (Proverbs 11:14 NIV)
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. (Proverbs 14:34 NIV)
America who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. America will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust." Surely he will save America from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover America with his feathers, and under his wings America will find refuge; his faithfulness will be her shield and rampart. She will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. A thousand may fall at America's side, ten thousand at her right hand, but it will not come to her. She will only observe with her eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.
If America makes the Most High her dwelling - even the Lord, who is our refuge - then no harm will befall her, no disaster will come near her tent. For He will command his angels concerning America to guard her in all her ways; they will lift her up in her hands, so that she will not strike her foot against a stone. She will tread upon the lion and the cobra; she will trample the great lion and the serpent.
"Because America loves me," says the Lord, "I will rescue her; I will protect her, for she acknowledges my name. She will call upon me, and I will answer her; I will be with her in trouble, I will deliver her and honor her. With long life will I satisfy her and show her my salvation." (Psalms 91 NIV)
The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance. (Psalms 33:10-12 NIV)
In Jesus' Name, Amen."
