Red, White, and Blue in the Face!

In the United States it is a National Day of Prayer. I recently posted this prayer and felt it was appropriate to re-post.

Blessed be God, blessed be His Holy Name!

Almighty God, Father of all nations and peoples these are days of shame for us and for our nation. Hear our pleas and prayers for the United States of America. Our nation grand and glorious sustained through generations past by the lifeblood of those whose faith in You never flagged is sorely tried now by its faithlesness. We who profess belief in God as Creator and Guardian of all that is good have not turned our backs but certainly have turned our faces while Your Holy Name has been mocked, spat upon, and dragged through the mire of the public square. How we have allowed ourselves such shameless, faithless cowardice we cannot rightly expalin, nevertheless we turn to you O God and beg your mercy on us and on our people. There is nowhere we can turn but to You and no one who can truly bring good from our sin but You. In times past men have raised their hands and hearts to heaven seeking Your aid, Your strength, and Your guidance and hearing them you responded in the Fullness of Your Love. We pray in thanksgiving for all the sustenance You have given to make this nation great among all nations in times past and we thank You for keeping it in Your Loving Hands. If we but remain faithful to You, to Your Word, to Your commandments we will remain in Your care but it is painfully true that only You can give us the fortitude and right judgement even for the smallest acts of faith and Christian love. In thanksgiving we bow low to You, sovereign Lord, and beg Your help for us, for our nation, for the world who look to us in many ways as we look to You. Help us, strengthen the faith of those who have even the slightest of faiths; with Your Love soften the hardened hearts of those who demean Your Name; with Your Love open the eyes of those who do not see Your gift in the unborn child; with Your Love help us to heal the wounds that we ourselves have rendered, bring us together in Your Name and for Your purpose. Help America and all who truly believe that it is only in Your Holy and Blessed Name that true freedom and justice will prevail. Give us Your strength and courage, Your wisdom and fortitude, Your counsel and mercy and help us stand for You that we may not, for the sake of our own false pride, fall from You.

Our prayers rise to you O God with the souls of those little ones we have abandoned to die at the hands of the merciless who deceive the frightened, the desperate, the unloved, the injured and who convince them that death will bring them life. Change every heart, send Your Holy Spirit to convert the faithful to greater faith and the faithless to begin a faith.

Lord God hear us as we beg Your Love, Your Justice, Your Mercy upon us and our nation. Hear us as we pray in the Name of God the Son, the Name above all Names, the Name of Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior to all mankind.