National Day of Prayer

As many of you know today has been set aside for prayer for our nation. This morning I had the privilege of starting the day in prayer with 15 other believers. Among this group was my mother, my wife's parents and two of my own children. It was a unique experience to be praying with the generation before me and the generation behind me.

I pray that my parents trust in Christ will be faithfully passed on to my children through me. I thought again this morning about the importance of passing on the "baton" of faith. I pray that even this morning's prayers will "mark" my children and help them to see that there is only one place that is worthy of putting our faith and trust. With the days to come being so uncertain, pray that the next generation will learn of God's Holy Name and trust in Him and love Him with all their heart, soul, mind and strength.

Please pray today for the leaders of our nation! Here is a prayer written by R.C. Sproul to help guide us in our prayers today:

"Our Father and our God, indeed You are our God, and Your sovereignty extends over all things. That as God, Your relevance and Your dominion can never be restricted merely to the realm of the spiritual or the religious, but that your sovereignty extends over all creation, over every aspect of our life and of our culture, over our government, over our church, over our schools, over our health, over our wealth, over our thinking, our planning, and our crying. And so we, as your people, are pleading with you to have mercy upon us, to give us leaders who have a regard for You, who will regard Your name as holy, and who will understand that in whatever office they hold, they are to be your servants, for you have ordained them. And we ask that you would bring new life to your church and that we may begin our repentance at our own house and in our own churches as we plead with you to have mercy upon us as a nation, as a people, as a culture that the light of Christ may be rekindled with great glory and intense brightness in our land, and that there would be a revival of a knowledge of Thee without which our land will mourn and our people will perish. And we ask these things in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen."