Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Friday, March 13, 2009 11:46:04 PM
‘Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing?’ The answer is that ‘we will not have this Man reign over us’ [Luke 19:14].
http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2009/03/13/how_im_praying_for_the_president
Obama has made himself an enemy of the cross while professing to be a man of faith. We are commanded to pray on behalf of all men and for those in authority [1 Timothy 2:1-2]. But how do we deal with the fact that the American people elected him and his ilk to power? We who had a birthright of liberty have sold it for a mess of pottage. We have become the heathen nation that rages against the Almighty and His Anointed.
Intolerance of Christianity is increasingly seen in public policy, because the progressives see us as the suppressors of human rights. Reputations and businesses of anyone who supported California’s Proposition 8 are being sought after with malicious intent. Western society is failing from inward corruption, and those who are supposed to be salt and light are seen as the enemies.
A healthy, thriving church is a blessing to any nation, but a nation in love with itself and at war with God does not deserve the blessing of a sound church. What we are seeing today with the perversion of marriage and the exaltation of deviancy is not what will bring the wrath of God; it is the wrath of God. [James White]
We Evangelicals have failed to pass on to our young people an orthodox form of faith that can take root and survive the secular onslaught. Ironically, the billions of dollars we’ve spent on youth ministers, Christian music, publishing, and media has produced a culture of young Christians who know next to nothing about their own faith except how they feel about it. Our young people have deep beliefs about the culture war, but do not know why they should obey scripture, the essentials of theology, or the experience of spiritual discipline and community. Coming generations of Christians are going to be monumentally ignorant and unprepared for culture-wide pressures. [Michael Spencer; http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html]
The rate of degeneration of our society will continue to increase barring an outpouring of God’s Spirit bringing repentance and revival to our land. So this should be the focus of our prayers that God would grant us humiliation and repentance over our sins. Believers can look at the first part of Daniel 9 as a pattern for prayer that God hears and answers.