Challenge:
Thirst for God: A country can change when people begin to thirst for God.
“The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent. But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.”
2 Peter 3:9-10
“As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him?”
Psalm 42:1-2
2 Peter 3:9-10
“As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him?”
Psalm 42:1-2
Preparation:
• Praise God for who He is
• Confess your sinfulness and need for cleansing
• Allow His Spirit to draw you near
• Listen as He speaks to you
Requests:
• Show the nation its need for His truth
• Help reveal the emptiness of false beliefs
• Reveal to people their desperate need for relationship with Him
• Cause people to see the need for biblical answers to our nation’s problems
• Draw the nation to Himself
• Create an intellectual thirst for His word
• Turn the hearts of the lost to His church for spiritual guidance
Thanksgiving:
• Thank God for hearing you
• Trust that God is at work to accomplish His will
Optional Readings:
Psalm 119:81