National Day of Prayer 2022

A prayer for the United States, the ecclesia, and our spheres of influence

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Join us in prayer as we look and pray across three fronts, seeking divine intercession and God's mercy, faithfulness, and love with thanksgiving to God.

Please pray with us as we pray the Lord would reignite his perfect presence and infuse His utmost grace in the children of God in America, in their businesses, territories, and in the leadership under which they live and serve.

Stand on the lookout with us as we pray the ecclesia in America moves into divine alignment with God’s will as He blesses pastoral leadership and ministry, America’s intercessors, and all of the churches, missions, and ministries served and operated by God’s people in America.

Keep watch with us as we pray for healing, restoration, mercy, and Christ encounters for any individual or household suffering within the boundaries of the territories occupied and ruled by God’s people in America.

Believe Him for your prayers and declarations. Believe every Word He gives us. He will make it so!

Don’t change yourselves to be like the people of this world, but let God change you inside with a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to understand and accept what God wants for you. You will be able to know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect. - Romans 12:2 (ERV)

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Prayer Points

United States of America

· Businesses of the children of God

· Government, workplace, home, community leadership

· Our kingdom territory

Ecclesia

· Pastoral leadership and ministry

· America’s intercessors

· Churches, missions, ministries

Our Sphere of Influence

· People experiencing homelessness

· Mental health

· Healing

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Father, Paul said it best in his letter to the Ephesians. We lift up that prayer and the petitions of our hearts alongside our fellow Americans to You today:

Father, out of Your honorable and glorious riches, strengthen Your people. Fill their souls with the power of Your Spirit so that through faith the Anointed One will reside in their hearts. May love be the rich soil where their lives take root. May it be the bedrock where their lives are founded so that together with all of Your people they will have the power to understand that the love of the Anointed is infinitely long, wide, high, and deep, surpassing everything anyone previously experienced. God, may Your fullness flood through their entire beings. - Ephesians 3:14-21 The VOICE

We pray for the United States of America

We seek blessings upon the businesses owned and operated by the children of God. May You fill us with Your might, Your love, Your mind.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:11 (TLB) - All this is why we are constantly praying for you, so God will make you worthy of the great calling you have received from Him and will give you the power to accomplish every good intention and work of faith.

Godly leadership and divine direction over local, state, and federal government, our workplaces, homes, and communities.

• Proverbs 2:6-8 (ERV) - The Lord is the source of wisdom; knowledge and understanding come from his mouth. He gives good advice to honest people and shields those who do what is right. He makes sure that people are treated fairly. He watches over his loyal followers.

• Proverbs 21:1 (MSG) - Good leadership is a channel of water controlled by God; he directs it to whatever ends he chooses.

Protection, favor, and increase in, from, and through Your children's spheres of influence.

• Jeremiah 29:7 (NIV) - Seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.

We decree Your favor lasts for a lifetime. Your love and promises to bless and prosper us lasts through generations. You will never leave us or forsake us. Your hand of victory, righteousness, justice, love, and mercy are upon us.

We pray for the Ecclesia in America

We seek blessings over the church in the form of Your increased presence and provision for loving and righteous pastoral leadership and pastoral ministry, that the leadership of the ecclesia will abound in Your grace and share that grace with Your flock.

• Jeremiah 3:15 (TLB) - And I will give you leaders after my own heart, who will guide you with wisdom and understanding.

• Titus 1:8-9 (ERV) - An elder must be ready to help people by welcoming them into his home. He must love what is good. He must be wise. He must live right. He must be devoted to God and pleasing to him. And he must be able to control himself. An elder must be faithful to the same true message we teach. Then he will be able to encourage others with teaching that is true and right. And he will be able to show those who are against this teaching that they are wrong.

Bless America’s intercessors with spiritual insight, courage, endurance, and power.

• 1 Timothy 2:1-2 (TLB) - Here are my directions: Pray much for others; plead for God’s mercy upon them; give thanks for all he is going to do for them. Pray in this way for kings and all others who are in authority over us, or are in places of high responsibility, so that we can live in peace and quietness, spending our time in godly living and thinking much about the Lord.

• 2 Timothy 4:1-5 (VOICE) - Go out and preach the word! Go whether it’s an opportune time or not! Reprove, warn, and encourage; but do so with all the patience and instruction needed to fulfill your calling because a time will come when some will no longer tolerate sound teaching. Instead, they will live by their own desires; they’ll scratch their itching ears by surrounding themselves with teachers who approve of their lifestyles and tell them what they want to hear. They will turn away from the real truth you have to offer because they prefer the sound of fables and myths. But you must stay focused and be alert at all times. Tolerate suffering. Accomplish the good work of an evangelist, and complete the ministry to which you have been called.

We decree powerful, obedient ministries that draw the lost and wavering into Your arms and equip and encourage the Church in Your truth.

We pray for those within our sphere of influence (territory)

We seek covering, protection, refuge, and a life of stability and opportunity found in the hope and love of Jesus for all who experience or are at risk of homelessness in America.

• Job 5:15-16 (MSG) - But the downtrodden are saved by God, saved from the murderous plots, saved from the iron fist. And so the poor continue to hope, while injustice is bound and gagged.

• 1 Samuel 2:8 (MSG) - He puts poor people on their feet again; he rekindles burned-out lives with fresh hope, restoring dignity and respect to their lives— a place in the sun! For the very structures of earth are God’s; he has laid out his operations on a firm foundation.

We seek Your grace and mercy to produce in us sound minds where peace, life, and health reigns, increasing our capacity to love and overcome, and prospering our bodies, minds, and spirits.

• Isaiah 57:19 (ERV) - I will teach them a new word: peace. I will give peace to those who are near and to those who are far away. I will heal them." The Lord himself said this.

• Psalm 62:1 (ERV) - I must calm down and turn to God; only he can rescue me.

Please pour out healing through reconciliation, where faith and hope arise to bring oneness and wellness, understanding, connection, and rest for the people of this country.

• Romans 12:12 (NLT) - Rejoice in [your] confident hope. Be patient in trouble and keep on praying.

• Acts 3:19 (VOICE) - So now you need to rethink everything and turn to God so your sins will be forgiven and a new day can dawn, days of refreshing times flowing from the Lord.

• Hebrews 12:14 (ICB) - Try to live in peace with all people. And try to live lives free from sin. If anyone’s life is not holy, he will never see the Lord.

We decree our territory and everything in it protected by the mighty hand of the Living God. We are and will remain strong, healthy, at peace, and full of God's wonder working love.

We give You many thanks, Yahweh Nissi (Lord Our Banner)

Thank You Father for Your unending love and unfailing faithfulness.

Thank You for the gift of these beautiful territories - the land that feeds, sustains, houses, protects, and enriches us.

Thank You for the people who have called these United States home. Thank You for our freedoms, friendships, and connection to You as Lord. Thank You for the remnant who still worship, love, seek, and obey You.

Thank You for hearing us, meeting us in our place of need, causing us to thrive in Your love and rest peacefully in Your grace.

Thank you for Your promises, protection, and continued blessings over Your people and our territory - this nation, and the far reaches of our influence.

Thank You for Your perfect loving plans for us and the good work You are doing to bring us to the glorious finish You have set forth from before time began.

We decree You are God alone.

Your magnificence brings life and wellness to this world.

Your Presence is what we seek to know and live for.

We love You for Your love for us.

We love You from the deepest parts of our innermost beings to the farthest reaches of our greatest shouts.

You are and will forever be God of America and our great great God!

So be it!

And now just as you trusted Christ to save you, trust him, too, for each day’s problems; live in vital union with him. Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from him. See that you go on growing in the Lord, and become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. Let your lives overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all he has done. - Colossians 2:6-7 TLB

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We stand on the lookout in agreement with you and the Word of God, watching expectantly for our great great God to move on His promises to His children in America!

Listen, stay alert, stand tall in the faith, be courageous, and be strong. Let love prevail in your life, words, and actions. - 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 (VOICE)