O Father, all the nations of the world are in
great, great need of You! Thus, I offer this prayer, based on Your Holy Word:
May Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, give
thanks to You forever; from generation to generation may Your people in every
nation recount Your praise, may we tell of all Your goodness to and Your great
love for Your people. (Psalm 79:13)
May Your people who are called by Your name humble
ourselves, and pray and seek Your face and turn away from our wicked ways so
that You will hear from heaven and will forgive our sins and heal our land. (2
Chronicles 7:14)
O Father, as Your Holy Word says, “Righteousness
exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any nation.” (Proverbs 14:34). May
people from every nation acknowledge, with great shame, that their nation is filled
with sin because individual citizens are filled with sin. Therefore, You cannot—and
will not—exalt any such nation, even our own nation. O Father, help us to cry
out to You for cleansing and restoration, as David did in Psalm 51:1-2. May his
prayer be our prayer:
Have mercy
on me; have mercy on us, O God, according to Your steadfast love;
according to
Your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions;
blot out our transgressions.
Wash me, wash us, thoroughly
from our individual and collective iniquity,
and
cleanse each and all of us from sin!
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