Final Prayer for Repentance, Tuesdays, Noon Eastern, May 20, 2025

Prayer for Repentance, Tuesday Noon Eastern [audio]
May 20, 2025

Thank you for joining together today in prayer. We are praying that God will grant us repentance as a nation and as a culture. 

Today will be our last day to do these online prayer times. A deep thanks to all of you who have been faithful to join week after week. I have been praying for repentance for years and years and we have been doing these online gatherings since December of 2023. I pray that we will continue to join together on Tuesdays, noon Eastern, but we will do it before the Lord, not together online. If you are in Christ, then you are a priest, part of the Royal Priesthood. You do not need anyone to lead you in prayer. Be bold before the Lord because He has clothed you in the righteousness of Christ. Remember to pray for the saints, that we will begin to fulfill the Royal Law and that we will see many come to Christ through the work of His people in this land.

Okay, with that, let’s pray.

O Lord, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, please hear our unified prayer this day. We praise you and honor you and bring before you our adoration, for you are the only true God, creator of all things, holy and just, faithful and true, merciful and mighty. Your Word magnifies the name of Jesus, saying:

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. (Col 1:15-16)

You are our king, our lord, you are our God. You are Yaweh and you are zealous for your Name, you are zealous for your Word and you are zealous for your people.

And because, dear Father, you love your people with amazing grace, we come before you with hearts that are heavy with lament for the state of our nation. We have become so obsessed with ourselves that we no longer give you much thought, let alone acknowledge you in the daily life of this nation. We no longer lift your Name in praise in our schools, we no longer lift your Word in honor in our governmental agencies, we no longer follow your moral guidance in our music and movies and entertainment, which consumes most of our lives. We no longer work and labor as if unto You. A godly work ethic is hard to find. Indeed, workers are getting harder and harder to find. 

We acknowledge before you that we, as a culture, have turned away from you. Lies and deception seem to be everywhere. It is getting more and more difficult to trust what we see and hear and read. Fakes and deception take on the cloak of reality. We can’t trust the news or the internet. Those with power in government and labor lie to us continually. We have turned good into evil and evil into good. We have flipped the words “justice” and “compassion” on their heads, and we now affirm that which are abominations in your eyes. We protest for evil, we fight for wrong, we chant for that which is detestable. The innocent are slaughtered in the womb and we cheer the right to do so. The criminal is made to be the victim and those who stand for truth, the enemy. 

You have blessed us with such bounty, such beautiful land, and yet we have spurned you like a spoiled child. You gave us wisdom and solid foundations, and yet we despised sound wisdom and chased after folly. We have amassed debts beyond reasonable repayment. They stand like an avalanche ready to bury and smother us. 

Powerful foreign enemies prowl like lions, probing and planning for ways to destroy. Mighty forces await their chance to pounce. But these are nothing compared to the spiritual forces that are scheming and entrenching themselves, looking for footholds. A demonic worldview spreads throughout our land; like a cancer it ravages the mind and heart, stirring up hatred, pitting one against another, fomenting animosity and hostility, distrust and skepticism, seeking to destroy all things that are good and true and beautiful, because the enemy hates You, O Lord. 

Please, dear Father, we beg of You, bring us to repentance. Sweep our land with lament and remorse at our sin. Break our hearts before you. Bend our knees in humble confession and give us a contrite heart. You did this to Nineveh, so many years ago, do so to us. May our land be filled with praise and adoration, may our lips pour forth honor and devotion and worship to the only true God of the universe.
Return us to our senses, O Lord. Stop the cancer of the enemy. Remove our folly. May our foolishness become wisdom and our unrighteousness become uprightness. May we walk before you in humbleness and joy. May our leaders praise your name, may our courts rule with true justice, may our words be filled  with truth and trust restored; may violence cease and hatred quenched.

O Lord, we see your warning signs. Our nation is now filled with insanity; it is filled with uncertainty; it is filled with volatility and unrest. We can see that we are increasingly like a house of cards. We know that you could merely raise a finger and it could all come crashing down into a pile of rubble. 

But, Lord, if you should rise and instead sweep us with a deep repentance; bring us back to our senses, then we could be a light to the nations; we could make righteousness desirable; we could lead those in tyranny to freedom; we could halt the rise of human trafficking; we could stop the incessant flow of pornography from our nation. 

O Lord, hear the pleas of the remnant you have left in this land. Heal the body of Christ, spur us on to love our neighbors so that we might spur on this repentance. Have mercy upon us, dear Father in Heaven.

All for your glory and your glory alone. Soli deo gloria. Amen. 

Thank you again for your faithfulness in joining together. I will be joining you each Tuesday, as we all lift our voices before the Lord. 

May the Lord fill you with His joy today.