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How to Pray for America in This Historic Moment
We are living history. The election of a new president and the transition of power in this nation are always historic. Both the House and the Senate have proven veterans and newly elected leaders. This is historic.
At this time in history, how do we pray for America? Last week, I spent two days in Washington, DC. I attended meaningful meetings and heard convictional, dynamic, elected leaders speak and converse with us about the future of America. Again, we are living history.
Beyond the political pundits and talk show hosts, beyond the rising challenges of violence and danger in our nation, we have God. Yes, we are one nation under God!
I want to tell you how I am praying for America daily. In fact, not only am I praying daily, but thousands of members in the church I pastor are praying with me each week in their time of prayer with our church.
Call out to God for the United States of America
The Scripture Text We Are Praying Daily:
Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3
With confidence in the authority of Scripture and a deep belief in the power of prayer, we stand on the words of Jeremiah 33:3.
7 Things We Are Praying for America
1. Father, we cry out to You alone: Give America a nationwide spiritual awakening, resulting in millions coming to Christ.
2. Father, we cry out to You alone: Wake up and revive Your Church in America, beginning with waking up and reviving our church.
3. Our God, we cry out to You for a safe and orderly transition of power between the administrations of President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump. Lord, please protect President Obama and his family, Vice President Biden and his family, President-elect Trump and his family, and Vice President-elect Pence and his family in these days of transition and in the future.
4. Lord, as we have prayed for you to raise up the leader You desire for us to have over the next four years, we thank you and pray today for our future President, Donald Trump, beginning with his inauguration on January 20.
5. Father, give President-elect Trump wisdom in his choices for America’s leadership and grant Vice-President elect Mike Pence and both houses of Congress the wisdom to assist the President-elect in these decisions.
6. Lord, grant our nation unity. We must come together. In Jesus’ name, we pray against division and disorder, asking for unity in America.
7. Father, grant mercy upon the United States of America.
These are my thoughts and prayers. If these will serve as a guide for you, use or share them. If not, come up with your own ways to pray for America.
In this historic moment, there has never been a greater need for prayer. Join me. Join us. Let’s see a great spiritual movement of prayer emerge in our nation in an unprecedented manner.
Now is the Time to Lead and to Pray,
Ronnie W. Floyd
Senior Pastor, Cross Church
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Dr. Ronnie Floyd is the Senior Pastor of Cross Church, immediate past President of the Southern Baptist Convention, and founder of the Cross Church School of Ministry.
To request an interview with Dr. Ronnie Floyd
contact Gayla Oldham at (479) 751-4523 or email gaylao@crosschurch.com.
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Dr. Ronnie Floyd is the President & CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.
How to Deal with Where Things Are in America
The collision of mindsets and ideologies in America is real. Regardless of what our nation experiences or discusses, these varying mindsets and ideologies surface and collide. Some say this ongoing collision of mindsets and ideologies will lead us to eventually implode.
When I was a young leader walking through a challenging time, someone gave me advice I have never forgotten: Remember things are never as good or as bad as you think. Truth about the situation lies somewhere in between the two.
This is very applicable for where things are in America today. All of this is illustrated through the present campaign for the presidency of the United States of America. In this time of competing platforms, parties, and personalities, how do we deal with where things are in America?
4 Suggestions for This Season in America
1. Seek the real truth.
Refuse to settle for media reports, political pundits, and social networking to determine the truth about something. Information is available, so seek it out for yourself rather than hearing everything from a skewed perspective.
Spinning the truth does not make something the truth. Truth is only truth. Seek it. Discover it. Share it.
2. Determine to make a difference.
For those of us who know Christ personally, we are citizens of God’s Kingdom first and America second. Therefore, we need to determine to make a difference. The necessity is upon us to do so.
Making a difference is not about making your own rules and leading others astray in them, but making a difference for the good and furtherance of our future.
In this volatile climate in America, determine to make a positive difference.
3. Have a good attitude.
Regardless of what goes on in America, those who have a relationship with God will one day win for all eternity. Knowing this, the situation in America today should not determine our daily attitude.
We need to set our thermostat daily with a good attitude. Keep perspective about everything. This is not and never has been easy, but it is imperative for us to have a good attitude.
Refuse to sound forth your negativity before others both privately and publicly.
4. Talk to God about our nation daily.
When we pray for America daily, it changes the way we hear things, see things, and talk with others about our country. We need to pray specifically and passionately.
As followers of Christ, this is imperative. Otherwise, we will join in the chorus of differing mindsets as they sing forth their view of truth and personal perspective.
I think we should use this Scripture to pray daily about where we are in America:
We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding…. Colossians 1:9
This is my prayer daily: “God, I appeal to You for You to overflow me with spiritual understanding; the ability to put things together biblically, spiritually, and practically.”
Choose to make a difference.
Now is the Time to Lead,
Ronnie W. Floyd
Senior Pastor, Cross Church
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Dr. Ronnie Floyd is the Senior Pastor of Cross Church, immediate past President of the Southern Baptist Convention, and founder of the Cross Church School of Ministry.
To request an interview with Dr. Ronnie Floyd
contact Gayla Oldham at (479) 751-4523 or email gaylao@crosschurch.com.
Visit our website at http://ronniefloyd.com
Follow Dr. Floyd on Twitter and Instagram @ronniefloyd
Dr. Ronnie Floyd is the President & CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.