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Within twenty-four hours of the installation of the Ten Commandments monument at the Arkansas State Capitol it was destroyed. (It has since been reinstalled.) As a nation - a world- the foundation of godly principles have been eroded. My girls and I are deep conversationalists. We love to sit and solve the problems of the world, and reminisce over historical events. Often our conversations have led us to the delayed judgement of God toward the injustices in the world, innocent blood shed, and complete disregard of Him and His Word. I weep over the amount of innocent blood shed that has come through the abortion industry and cry "how long?" We have come to a place in time that we can even kill a baby on a table after birth and "label" it legal... This mindset and hardness of heart does not come overnight. It is the result of year after year of turning from God and His laws until we are conditioned to accept more and more levels of evil. How can we call ourselves anymore a civilized people? Sometimes it seems as if the world as a whole has turned it's back to God. The fundamental principles found in God's Word are there not only to govern but to protect and guide. If all the hearts of all man would turn to God's Word as their guide the world could return to a place of peace. "If My people"... All people... All of God's people, all of us, need to come in unity and as a whole, humble ourselves, pray, seek His face, and turn from any wicked ways. This. This is how our land can be healed. Every person turning to God in humility & repentance. A return in the moral fabric of our country to the basics of God's laws and ways would heal our land. In our Women's study group we have been studying Nehemiah and his leadership in the rebuilding of the wall in Jerusalem. Nehemiah 1:4-11 is a record of his prayer after he heard the news of Jerusalem's devastated state. This is the prayer I want to pray now for our nation. Nehemiah includes himself in the sins of the people and in prayers for repentance. What an incredible servant leader and example. ~ Nehemiah's Prayer ~
As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven. And I said, “O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father's house have sinned. We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses. Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples, but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’ They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand. O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Nehemiah 1:4-11 My prayer for our nation, our state, our churches, our leadership, all people, is that we could all follow Nehemiah's example and lead others by praying the prayer given here. My heart hurts for our nation. We can put labels on everything or we can just call it sin in need of repentance whatever the sin is on every level..this nation needs to bow before God and pray...only He can heal our land. “If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.” ― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
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