Spiritual life of our nation

Help us, Father, with all prayer and petition to pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, to be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints.

Do not let us be overcome by evil, but help us to overcome evil with good. Open our eyes, that we may behold wonderful things from Your law. May we once again honor You as our God and be blessed by You.

O God, we know that righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. We confess O Lord, that as a nation we have taken our eyes off Jesus and have become entangled in the sins of this world, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. We are gossips, slanderers, haters of You, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. Yet You loved us so much You gave your only Your Son that whoever believes in Him might be saved.

We confess as well, the sins of pornography, abortion, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, child abuse, homosexuality, and adultery. We know, O Lord, that among us are people who habitually commit these sins.

We confess all these sins, Father, and ask you to forgive us, and to show us the way You would have us go.

Lord, we know You are not slow about Your promise, as some count slowness, but are patient toward us, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

Pour forth Your Spirit upon this nation, O God, and draw all men unto Yourself. Let a revival break forth across this nation, the likes of which has never been seen. Let people from all races, from all socioeconomic statuses, all ages, and from all parts of the country come to You and have their eyes opened to the Truth. Let them see that Your Son is the way, the truth, and the life.

Let the unbelievers in this land not be blinded by the god of this world so that they may see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of You, O God. Let them call on the name of the Lord and be saved.

In the name of our Savior, Jesus the Christ, we pray. Amen.