PRAYER FOR TODAY SUNDAY 2ND JULY 2023 – A PRAYER FOR GOD TO TURN HEARTS BACK TO HIM IN AMERICA

DAILY PRAYER AND SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY.

Engage these Daily Prayer and Scriptures for today. Take to God all that you desire in prayers, while you watch restfully as he steps into situations to bring out beauty and colour in your live. Today, as you commune with God, know that God has settled all that concerns you, Just believe and pray with faith in your heart. Remain blessed in Jesus name, Amen.

Today’s Prayer is Authored by: Lynette Kittle

Prayer Focus For Today 2nd July 2023: A Prayer for God to Turn Hearts Back to Him in America

“Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord”—Acts 3:19
Many might agree that America is currently in a state of distress, with Christian values being tossed by the wayside. Although various politicians and organizations diligently work to keep Christian beliefs within our national foundation, only so much can be done to try and transform people with policies and laws. Real transformation only comes from the inside out, when the hearts of Americans are softened and turned toward God.

Without real heart changes, just like the law of the 10 Commandments didn’t keep people from straying away from God, only hearts transformed and made new by the gospel of Jesus Christ turn back to Him. 

2 Corinthians 5:17 describes the transformation that takes place, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
Because real change comes only from within, what does it take for hearts to be turned back toward God?

Turning hearts back to God takes prayer. First and foremost must be prayer. As 1 Timothy 2:1 encourages, “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people.” 

Turning hearts back to God takes repentance from sin. In Acts 26:20, the Apostle Paul describes the process for people to turn back towards God.

“First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, then to the Gentiles, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.” 
 
Likewise, 2 Timothy 2:25 explains how “Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth.”

Turning hearts back to God takes believing in Jesus Christ. Again, Paul explains what needs to happen, “The Lord’s hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord” (Acts 11:21).

 
Turning hearts back to God takes humbleness before God. 2 Chronicles 7:14 urges, “If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

Turning hearts back to God takes seeking God. To “seek” God doesn’t mean to do so in a half-hearted kind of way, expecting God to put forth all the effort but rather, to seek Him until we find Him, being unwilling to give up until we do.

Deuteronomy 4:29 explains, “But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

PRAYER FOR TODAY.

Let’s pray:

Dear Father,
Thank you that 1 Timothy 2:4 tells us Your desire is for all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. Today, we come to You, as Your word instructs us to do, making prayers, petitions, intercessions, and thanksgiving for the people in America.

We repent from the evil and wickedness pervading our nation for the sinful, rebellious attitudes and actions against You and You alone. Move across our land, O Lord, to soften and transform hearts to believe and receive the forgiveness, You so freely and generously give to all who come to You through Jesus Christ. In humbleness, we turn away from sinfulness and turn towards You, seeking You wholeheartedly, as Your word commands us to do. 
 
Thank You that in Ezekiel 11:19, we find that when we return to You, You will remove the stones from our hearts and give us a heart of flesh.
In Jesus’ name, Amen

This Is the Assurance of Answers to Your Prayers – Matthew 7:7-11

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will YOUR FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN GIVE GOOD THINGS TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!