A Prayer For America

I was hoping for a season of grace.

Perhaps it is still coming.  God seems to do things His way in His time.  I personally think that time is running out quickly - but no one made me an expert.

I had a dream last week where I was in a waiting room in the White House.  There were some mirrors on the wall and I noticed that someone had removed the mirror glass.  I left the room and saw President Obama leaving his office, dressed in a white shirt, black pants and dark tie.  I followed him and said;  "Mr President, there is something private I need to talk to you about."  He kept walking and I followed him and we went into a conference room where there were a bunch of other people.  I noticed that this room also had some mirror frames without the glass, and they happened to be LaBarge mirrors, so I asked again.  "Mr. President, this is really very personal to me.  Our family had a mirror business and we are quite honored to have some of our pieces in the White House, but someone has removed the mirror glass, and that upsets me."  Mr. Obama and I walked over to the waiting room and I said; "See, here as well."  He told me that he would check it out.

This was a week before the election and I wondered when I woke if there was any meaning to my dream.  What came to mind was the idea that looking in a mirror without seeing yourself is like being self deluded.

We are not seeing reality if we think that the day of reckoning will never come, that things will go on the way they always have.  While there are many believers and lots of other fine people here, having the fear of the Lord as a percentage of our population grows less and less.  The overall acceptance of sinful lifestyles grows more and more, even with believers.  It's just as a saying I saw on one of those outdoor church signs - "What the parents tolerated, the children embraced."

A Prayer For America

Father, will you forgive our nation for the tens of millions of innocents that have lost their lives? Will you bless us as we proceed to murder tens of millions more?

Will you forgive us for choosing prosperity over moral truth? Will you bless us when we don't clearly teach our children your will by word and by example?

Will you listen to our prayers for this nation when we don't listen to you? Will you send your Holy Spirit when we close all doors to Him?

Will you look the other way when our government continues to try to divide the land you promised to your chosen people. Will you defend us when we abandon that people in their time of need?

Will you bless us when we worship the false gods we have fashioned in our own image or when we set up idols in our own high places?

Will you bless our land when we forget the truths by which we were founded? Will you heal our land when we don't honor you for your past blessings?

Father, do you honor those who murder? Do you bless those who lie? Do you make whole what we divide? Do you heal what we choose to corrupt? Do you look the other way when we sin? Do you restore what we throw away? Do you remember those who forget you?

Father, today I plead for your mercy on my country. I have no reason to believe that we deserve one ounce but I plead none the less. Do not put us at the mercy of the enemies that hate us. Do not leave us to suffer at the hand of the evil one. It is you Father we trust no matter what your judgment may be.

And may my Lord Jesus become known soon in a hundred million more hearts throughout this land.

Amen.