IDOK DEVOTION FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2010

FOR PRAYER AND PRAISE:

Judy Wilkins is off dialysis and doing well.  For full report see Praises – Answers.

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I so LOVE it when I know we are on the right track!  But there is more!  When we know we are on the right track we KNOW that if we obey, God will do what He is leading us toward!

Yesterday –  Manhattan Declaration.

This morning (Wednesday) I picked up my Our Daily Bread and read Jeremiah 6:16 Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls”. The old paths!  That is what He is calling us to – the old paths will renew and give this Nation LIFE again!  The old paths of righteousness will give renewal, refreshing life to a Nation and to each of us as individuals. THERE IS HOPE FOR US!  We must believe, repent and pray.  I am particularly thinking of this Nation BUT if the Holy Spirit wants to bring this down to your individual heart, LET HIM DO IT!

David McCasland further said in his devotion: “The parts of our lives that we have tried and failed to repair can be restored by the hand of God.  Through faith in Christ, we can be made whole.

But that’s not all!  Then I went to my Journey (LifeWay Publication) and again praying for a nation! This time it was Nehemiah.

So somehow, Nations are accountable for their actions.  God doesn’t look favorably on nations that don’t honor Him or His righteous standards.

But God-honoring people have been able to turn entire nations back to God. Josiah did it with Israel (2 Kings 22).  Jonah did it with Nineveh (Jonah 3). Nehemiah was a servant of a king of a completely different nation, but he turned Israel back to God too (Nehemiah 1-13).  Individual people and their individual prayers for nations are very important.

Even though we may not see how our prayers for our nation work, God wants us to confess and pray on behalf of our nation –so we will.

Amen! So we will.

Lord, turn our nation back to You.  Remove the corruption from our local, state and national government.  Help people to be elected to office who honor You and Your Word.

And to that I say Amen and amen!

ABBA, I am encouraged, grateful, excited, delighted that You are speaking to us.  Yet being delighted and grateful is not enough, we have to DO IT! And that is for what I am praying now.  I pray the Army of Prayers that You are calling will accept Your Call and will be faithful in it.  I pray our IDOKs will accept this Call and will be faithful.  I pray I will.  I pray You will set us on platforms and open means and ways for not only prayer but to put feet and hands, arms and legs to our prayers and get out there and Do Something in the Name and Strength and Anointing of JESUS.

Thank You so much for Judy’s great report!  Thank You for giving life to Ryder.  Again I pray that every day he lives he will give glory and honor to You.  I pray for his family that they will make it their goal to help him honor You.  We pray for Bridgette.  For health directions and for healing by the means of Your Choosing, ABBA. We pray for her mother, her husband, her family, asking that You give them strength and hope and peace.  We pray for all others on our List for Prayer; in each case, LORD, intervene and bring glory to Yourself and rescue, resolution, deliverance, healing, whatever is needed.

And before I send this to post, I pray for America.  I confess this Nation is a Nation that murders babies.  I confess this is a Nation that flaunts the abomination of homosexuality in the streets.  I confess this a Nation drowning in debt and financial irresponsibility. I confess there is murder, rape, incest, pornography, sex trafficking, divorce, fornication, gambling, robbery, hatred, hypocrisy,  lying, cheating, laziness, apathy, idolatry, and more committed every day here in this Nation.  I ask You, ABBA, to arrest these behaviors.  I ask You to have mercy and pour out like we have never seen Your Holy Spirit of conviction for sin. I pray You will convince us of  our depravity of sin, of righteousness in CHRIST JESUS alone and of sure judgment to come on ALL who do not repent.  Father God, please have mercy and grant grace for repentance to the people of America.  Raise up saints to pray and live holy.  Raise up preachers and teachers to deliver Your Gospel to every person in this Nation, to every house, every doorway, every building, street, avenue, ally, corner, under every bridge, and in every cave of darkness.  Wherever there are people move and send someone to tell them JESUS SAVES.  And, ABBA, I pray fear will not keep me from entering these dark places myself to deliver Your Gospel to a soul primed and waiting to hear.   I pray too for Israel, for that Nation to come to the MESSIAH.  Amen and amen in the Name of my Savior JESUS.