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WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO IMPACT THIS NATION?
Yesterday, I posted the foundations we need to build again in our society. Did you read them all? If not, check them out again under WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR OUR CHILDREN? I listed five points, but I want to post the last point again today in case you didn’t get to the end.It truly amazes me that as we see what is happening to our society and what lies ahead for our future generations that many families are carrying on with their lives as if nothing disastrous is happening.
As we put down our stakes to strengthen our families, we must also pray. There is nothing more powerful than prayer. This is why the devil seeks to keep us from the place of prayer. He gets us distracted by our busy lives, so we don’t make time to gather our families, morning and evening, to pray together.
Can you imagine what could happen if every God-fearing family began to pray together each day for this nation? God has promised to heal our land if we will humble ourselves and pray.
2 Chronicles 7:14 is worth quoting again: “If my people, which are called by my name,
shall HUMBLE THEMSELVES,
and PRAY
and SEEK MY FACE,
and TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS;
then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
I am challenged by Jeremiah 10:25: “Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the FAMILIES that call not on thy name.” Wow. This Scripture says that if we are not a family who calls upon the name of the Lord, we might as well be a heathen family.
J. R. Miller states: “Christ must be our guest if our home is to be a fit place either for our children or for ourselves. If there is no sincere prayer in it, it is not a true home at all. It is only a heathen lodging-place!”
Dear mothers, I know your lives are so busy. Maybe you are like me. I can never fit in everything that is on my list for the day. I rarely get through a quarter of it! But I put a priority on our times for prayer and Bible Reading. I make those times happen, morning and evening, and everything else has to fit around them. It doesn’t matter if other things don’t get done. But it does matter if we miss our times of meeting with God each day. They are more important than anything else. I make them happen.
The devil hates it if you pray. He hates it even more when you gather your family to pray. That is even more powerful where “two or three” or five or six or ten or twelve are gathered together in unity in His name. Don’t let the devil have his way in your home. Give God the preeminence.
Praying families are nation changing families!
Praying families are world changing families.
You can help turn this nation back to God as you pray. And encourage other families to pray. Let’s become a nation of praying families. Amen?
Bless you today,
Nancy Campbell
