Praying for our Nation October 19, 2012

Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His. And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings. (Daniel 2:20-21)

Friday, Oct. 19
Pray for the preservation and protection of marriage as God designed it:
• Repent for the widespread infidelity, abuse and divorce among Christians.
• Pray for successful campaigns and the election of candidates who support the institution of
marriage as ordained by God.
And He (Jesus) answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together let not man separate.” (Matt. 19:4-6)
• Pray for the passage of voter referendums supporting traditional marriage and the failure of initiatives to redefine marriage to include same-sex unions.
• Pray that the Defense of Marriage Act will be upheld in the Supreme Court and enforced by future administrations.
Pray against the forces of darkness seeking to redefine God’s design for marriage:
• Come against the spiritual forces that are attacking marriages (e.g., pornography, adultery and divorce) and the institution of marriage (e.g., attempts to redefine marriage).
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light and light for darkness. (Is. 5:20)
• Come against the spirit of perversion and the lie of the enemy that is seeking to ensnare more people, especially young teens, into homosexuality.
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination. (Lev. 18:22; also Lev. 20:13 and Deut. 23:17)
Therefore God gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie ... For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. (Rom. 1:24-27)
Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites...will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor. 6:9-10)
• Come against attempts to impose (through laws and regulations) the acceptance, approval and celebration of homosexuality -- and to label (and criminalize) as hate speech any expressions of the biblical perspective on homosexuality.
Shall the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law, have fellowship with You? (Ps. 94:20)
• Lovingly pray for the deliverance of those caught in the lie and bondage of homosexuality.