My Prayer For The Nation

Father, I come to you now and I ask that you would be with our nation. We have forgotten that we were founded on Your values. Now we only seek after what feels right for "us" and don't care about what it does to others or that it goes against Your word. The students are being taught the lies of evolution theory as a fact with little or no mention of the truth of Your creation. They are being taught that they came from monkeys and then get in trouble because they act like one. They are taught to practice "safe sex" and given condoms at school. Students are now sexually active by the age of 11 or 12 and having babies and getting STD's. Our youth now have "friends with benefits" and practice oral sex and think it's OK. The schools have forgotten that they used to set Wednesdays aside so students could go to church and started having games on Wednesdays. The schools have placed themselves above family by having practices during Thanksgiving and CHRISTmas break. We have taken You out of our schools and wonder why a "loving God" would allow school shootings. Parents are no longer trying to be parents but "buddies" so that their children will think that they are "cool". Parents let their children dress in ways that "show off" their bodies and cause the opposite sex to sin by lust and think nothing of it. Parents now are scared to tell their kids what to do so the kids get away with back talking and doing whatever else they feel like. We as a nation complain because we have no money but have no problem paying for our cigarettes, alcohol, porn, cell phones, internet, and going to casinos. And all of this while not giving you the tithe that You ask of us. We have forgotten that Your Word says a worker is worthy of their wages and expect to be paid to sit at home. We reward those on welfare by giving them free health care and giving them more money each time they have a child. We have the misconception that it is our money so we'll do what we want, we forget that You are THE one who provides it for us. We put higher value on animals and trees lives than we do on humans. We murder and call it abortion and that it's our choice. And the saddest thing of all of this is that we as Christians are sometimes guilty of all of this as well. There are way too many "Christians" who do not even attempt to glorify You with their lives. Some of us look no different from the world, we forget that You have called us to be Holy (set apart) just as You are Holy. We lie, cheat, steal, gossip, and put ourselves before You and wonder why bad things happen to "good" people. We'll praise You while we are at church (that is IF we bothered to go) and then leave unchanged and act like the rest of the world.

So, Father, where I have wronged You in these things, please convict my heart so that I repent, and when I sin, make me so miserable that I can't even eat or sleep until I do repent. Help me to be sorry I hurt you and NOT just sorry I GOT CAUGHT. Father, change our hearts, or come back soon!

In Your beautiful, holy, righteous, just and perfect name I humbly ask and pray, AMEN.

Seeking His face,

Tyson Murphy