Scripture to Pray for US 

and for us (church)

Abiding in God includes repentance:

Pray for our nation, for the church, for ourselves.

2 Chronicles 7:12-14 "Then the LORD appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,  if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land."   

"Behold the kindness and severity of God" (Rom 11:22). "It is Gods kindness and mercy that leads us to repentance" (Rom 4:2). "Lord have mercy on me" (Luke 18:13).

Is it difficult for us to humble ourselves and receive forgiveness or confess sin? Ask God for the grace we need grace each moment.

It is God's Grace working in us (not just an old experience but a present and ongoing effect in our lives and relationships that enables us to accept one another and ourselves in all our brokenness and sin and be transformed together.

For prayer and meditation:

1. We are watchmen for God and responsible to speak and warn the people He tells us are in danger: Ezekiel 3:16-21

Pray for those in authority that we may live godly peaceful lives and all men be saved 1 Timothy 2:1-8

2. We can follow these examples of Corporate and representative repentance by just reading these Scriptures: Daniel 9:3-19 and Nehemiah 1:4-11

3. Judgment can be averted. A famine was ended by the leader hearing God and making restitution for sin after seeking God 2 Sam 21:1-21.   So we pray and ask God to guide our leaders to do justice and mercy and humbly keep covenant. Judgment can at least be postponed by righteous leaders renewing covenant: 2 Kings 21:11-13 (read the whole story in ch 21 and 22).

4. Ezekiel 16:48-50; 59-63 although they were prideful and selfish the Lord kept covenant with Israel and atoned for all their sins. So it is not “IF GOD.” it is “IF MY PEOPLE”... God so loved the world he gave His Son, so He is well able to SAVE our nation.

-PD