Sovereign Lord, we thank you for our nation, and its godly heritage. So long as we have walked in Your ways You have faithfully poured out Your bounties upon us.
So long as we have acknowledged and served You, You have kept us a free people.
But in our prosperity we have forgotten that all we are and have we owe to Your love and grace. Many in our land have forgotten the God who made them. Many deny even the basic concept of law. Selfishness and greed, distrust and thanklessness, hatred and indifference to suffering abound. Immorality and perversion, profanity and blasphemy are on every hand. But we identify with this people, O Lord. You have placed us among them. It is partly because of our failures that our nation and society are as we see them now. Had our salt not lost its savour, corruption would have been restrained. Had we all continued to beget life in the Spirit, we would not be the minority that we are in our society.
Because our light has shone but dimly. darkness has encroached upon our nation.
Because of our silence, the clamour of iniquity has grown loud in our land.
Because of our weakness, violence has increased in our streets.
Because of our division, the united force of our enemy have met little resistance and have taken men captive at their will.
Therefore O Lord, hear our confession and pardon our iniquity . Restore to Your church all that we have lost through sin. Turn away Your wrath from out land. Stem the tide of evil and stay Your hand of judgement.
Wake believers to a new ministry of prayer and fasting for our nation, with authority and confidence and power. May there come in the church a putting away of all that offends You, and a mighty crying out for deliverance. We cry for righteousness to reign, for holiness to preserve our nation!
Save and guide the leaders of our government. Where corruption exists, expose it and purge it out.
Pull down the ungodly and raise up leaders who will be led by the Spirit of God.
Establish truth in our educational systems, integrity in our news media and righteous judgement in our courts.
Heal our homes and cement family relationships.
We lift up the name of Jesus! May it move in power throughout the land! Let Your face shine with peace and joy upon our land, for Your own glory, Lord. Comfort and sustain our brothers and sisters in other countries, especially those who are persecuted.
We pray, O Lord, that the Holy Spirit will renew the church in truth and wisdom, faith, holiness love and power; that there will be such a visitation of the Sovereign Spirit of God that all His fruit will appear in all His people, and that all His gifts may enrich the Body of Christ. For only then will the whole earth become a fit instrument in His hands, that the whole earth may hear His voice.
Move the whole church to take the whole Gospel to the whole world, that we may see in our time the final great harvest that will signal the return of Our Lord Jesus in power and great glory.
In His mighty Name we pray!
AMEN