It Is Prayer Time In America

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.

Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.

II Chronicles 7:14, 15

By Annie Haills McIntyre

About 100 years ago, Daniel Webster, one of Americas greatest statesmen, uttered this solemn warning: "If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering; but if we and our posterity neglect it's instruction and authority, no man can tell how suddenly a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity."

Are we of this hour not "fools and slow of heart" to see and read the signs of a dying civilization?  The drumbeat of eternity is heard in the stream-lined shriek of the present anti-aircraft siren.  Armageddon seems not so very far away to the spiritually alert.  

IT IS PRAYER TIME IN AMERICA!

On being asked what was the chief cause of the depression, Congressman Clyde Kelly replied, "Spiritual bankruptcy.  We have been worshipping the golden calf. The results are seen all around us."  Senator Clapper said: "There are too many dust covered Bibles, prayerless homes, deserted churches without even a semblance of a prayer meeting.  There is a wide spiritual ignorance and desecration of the Lord's Day.  These formed part of the religious background of the past decade."

As a mother and homemaker who realizes that the strength of a nation lies in fiber of it's home-life, I say to you that the greatest need in the world today is a return to the old fashioned meetings for prayer - which differ much from many of the prayer meetings of the sleeping church.  It is Prayer Time in America!

If we turn to God again and pray, we will have deliverance. It will not be sufficient to become a little religious, to go to church and say a few formal prayers.  It is time to "Seek God while He may be found" and to keep on seeking Him until He be found.  It is time to confess our sins and pray for an old fashioned revival of religion.  Sin is old fashioned, and to meet and overcome its force, it will take nothing short of an old fashioned power sent down from Heaven.  The true church is not dead - it may seem almost so - but there is still some salt on hand, and It IS Prayer Time in America!

God has revealed Himself unto us in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ.  To get back to God, we must cast ourselves by faith, as helpless sinners, at the feet of Jesus Christ, accept Him as our personal Savior and sin-bearer, and allow His atoning Blood shed on the Calvary's cross to cleanse us from all sin.

When we do this, God has promised to make us new creatures with new desires; "Old things are passed away; behold all things are become new."  II Corinthians 5:17  For "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."  John 3:16.  "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."  Romans 5:1.   

IT IS PRAYER TIME IN AMERICA!

We do not need more religion.  We need more truly regenerated men, women, and children who have had a vital touch from God and who have been lifted above the beggarly elements of this world into a realm of spiritual life and power, enabling them to live for the Glory of God and to pray on and on until He answers.

The Bible says, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man [or a nation] soweth  that shall he also reap.  For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting."  Galatians 6:7-8. 

"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God."  Psalm 9:17

Our beloved country that was founded and settled by a praying, God-fearing people, has become a crime-ridden, pleasure-loving, God-forgetting nation.  Hence, we are staggering under the great burden of a great moral and spiritual depression.

America is sick - heart-sick because she is sin-sick.  Her bloodstream needs a transfusion of new life - a flow of power from on high.

God used men and women of prayer to call America into being.  America can be healed if she who has departed from her God returns to Him and prays.  It is Prayer Time in America!

May God's righteous ministers all over our land call their congregations to prayer.  Call them to come often to the "House of Prayer" for prayer.  "For judgment must begin at the House of God."  "If we would judge ourselves we should not be judged."  

When men and women become sore distressed over the plague of their own hearts, and confess their sins, and turn again - then will the Church of the Living God be able to pray effectively for an old fashioned revival of religion.  It is Prayer Time in America! 

God's covenant is in II Chronicles 7:14-15, "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 ask you, does the moral and spiritual land of America need healing?)  God, in the verses above, is talking to Christians.  There are four things for them to do - do NOW and do wholeheartedly:

               1.  Humble themselves, 

               2.  and pray, 

               3.  and seek God's face,

               4.  and turn from their wicked ways.

               When Christians take these four steps, God says what He will do:

               1.  He will listen (hear what we are praying).

               2.  He will forgive our sins.

               3.  He will heal our land.

               

Is it not high time that we "who have named His Name, depart from iniquity"   and pray?

It is not "to arms" but "to knees," for It is Prayer Time in America!   

"Call unto Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not"  Jeremiah 33:3.

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