Encouragement to Pray!

   An encouragement & invitation to join in corporate prayer from Connection! and an invitation to join Dale Gentry's national prayer movement:

  ^{Zechariah 8:20-22 "}The Lord Almighty says, “The time is coming when people from many cities will come to Jerusalem.  Those from one city will say to those from another, ‘We are going to worship the Lord Almighty and pray for his blessing. Come with us!’  Many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to worship the Lord Almighty and to pray for his blessing."

Citing Zechariah 8:20-22, Jonathan Edwards said that God’s rich promises encourage us to expect great success from corporate prayer. He said: “That which God abundantly makes the subject of His promises, God’s people should abundantly make the subject of their prayers.” He concluded that when believers persevere in united, concerted prayer, God will grant a fresh revival, which “shall be propagated, till the awakening reaches those that are in the highest stations, and till whole nations be awakened.”  (excerpted from today's Connection! email devotional.)

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Here is today's prayer from Dale in case you are not familiar with his ministry.  Click here if you wish to sign up to receive these emails.

Good Wednesday morning everybody! It's time to pray America! "Dear Father God.........as we near the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade.............we ask you to forgive us for the fifty four million babies that have been aborted since that ruling by the Supreme Court in 1963..............we repent on behalf of those seven Supreme Court members who handed down that horrific opinion.............and according to Daniel 9:20 we also repent on behalf of our nation and congress for not overturning this death decision..............and as we near the 50th anniversary of the Madalyn Murray O'Hair challenge to prayer being removed from our public school system............we repent for the Supreme Court ruling removing Christian prayers from our schools............we know as a nation that these two individuals changed the course of our nation.............releasing death and violence on this land.............Lord we need another spiritual awakening in this nation............come and heal our land...........we cry out for revival from the White House to the least house..............please pour out Your Spirit upon this nation...............please awaken the church to seek you with their whole heart, mind, soul, body and strength.........we ask these things in Jesus name............amen."