Father in heaven,
We come before you, Lord, to thank you for America. Thank you that before the foundation of the world, you selected us to live here; to raise our families here, and represent you to those around us who’ve never met you. We are grateful for this privilege, Lord, and stop to give you praise.
Just as you selected men and women in Scripture to fulfill strategic roles in your plan for the nations, you also intentionally called us to live here in the United States in this season of time… for this hour.
Your destiny for us was to enter this nation’s history during the twentieth century and lead it into a new era. We are Millennium Ministers assigned to take your unfailing and unchanging message of hope to a nation that has been captured by an insidious addiction to constant diversion.
John Winthrop, Puritan leader and governor of Massachusetts, desired that the New World become a beacon of light to other nations. He longed for this land to be the shining city set on a hill that Jesus referred to in Matthew chapter five. But we are not that. So we come to you this morning, Lord, and ask for your intervention. Return us to our foundation, to our heritage, and to your destiny for us as a nation and to your destiny for us as your church.
We can only become that shining city when the hearts of America’s people turn to you. Help us see, Father, that it is not our productivity that you want. You don’t want the work of our hands our industry, rather you want the surrender of our hearts. Politics will not cure America’s heart. Science, technology, law, or philosophy won’t fix it either only a revival sent from you for your church can restore America from within.
We are desperate for you, Lord. America will never fully shine from atop that hill until your church experiences the freedom in Christ you intended. You came to set us free, yet we have bound ourselves to our own culture’s excesses and temptations. Forgive us, Lord, we come now in repentance and ask for your restoration.
“… A city on a hill cannot be hidden.” (Matthew 5:14)