American Reformation Church Prayer Journal 14
ARC Prayer Meeting
One of the tools American Reformation Church uses to disciple and mentor the saints that are a part of the Lord’s congregation is the OSA Bible Reading Schedule. It has served our family and ministry well through the years of fighting the battle from within and without.
Currently, in the Old Testament reading, we are in the book of Deuteronomy. It is one of my favorites. Here Moses is summarizing the Exodus by recounting God’s dealings with the children of Israel a second time.
In some ways, it is a comedy/tragedy adventure as God’s people continued to anger the Lord and frustrate Moses to his core. Moses and the Lord went back and forth on how to deal with this rebellious and stiff necked people. At one point, God told Moses to stand down, Israel had crossed the line. God was going to wipe them out and start over with Moses to create another nation worthy to bear the fruit of God’s love, care, and salvation.
Moses, as he did time again, fell on his face to intercede. He prayed:
O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin, lest the land from which You brought us should say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.” Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm (Deuteronomy 9:26-29).
It took a bold faith on Moses part to address Almighty God in such a manner. Yet, he gave a strong appeal. Amazingly, the Lord stood down and the people were spared. Eventually, however, the Lord prohibited the adult generation to whom the promise was given to possess the land flowing with milk and honey to waste away in the wilderness for forty years. Only Caleb and Joshua, because they were of a different spirit, out of that entire generation, were allowed to possess the Promise land.
America is ripe for God’s judgments to increase. By all accounts we are ready to implode from within and be attacked from without. We are committing the same abominations that nations previous to us flaunted before a holy and just God. It did not go well with them (Leviticus 18).
One thing is for sure, America cannot continue on the course we are on. Soon, our nation is going to break one way or another. We will either double down on our abominations and the totalitarian government it creates or we will humble ourselves, pray, seek God, and turn from our wicked ways and the Lord will grant a reprieve.
ARC and saints abroad, let us gather together to pray and intercede. Let’s give God a reason to be merciful to a nation begging for His judgments.
