Tensions are high, and all eyes are on the November elections. What will the results mean for our nation? It is a critical time in history for both America and our world.

While leaders determine a nation’s course, God is sovereign and can be trusted. Let’s humbly seek His Presence and His intervention on behalf of America. In a posture of unity, let’s agree that He is the only one who can turn the tide in our nation.

Our battle is not against flesh and blood but principalities, powers, and spiritual wickedness in high places, and the battle belongs to the Lord. He has permitted us to come boldly to His throne for mercy and grace in our time of need; this is a time of great need. Intercessors must lift our voices with one heart and mind and stand in the gap for America.

Day 3: Pray for Revival

Then, we will never abandon you again. Revive us so we can call on your name once more. Turn us again to yourself, O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. (Psalm 80:18-19 NLT)

Do we look like the early Church after Christ ascended, or have we become unrecognizable? Are we working hard like Ephesus in the Book of Revelation 2, yet we have lost our first love? Are we like Sardis, who had a reputation for being alive but was dead? Jesus’s message to both churches was clear: Repent! It has been said countless times, “As goes the Church, so goes the nation.” We can’t blame the government for everything. We must be honest and admit we have set a bad example through our apathy and hypocrisy. Then, we must take accountability for our failures and repent from them. Our pride has brought us low, but the Scriptures say God will not reject a broken and contrite heart (see Psalm 51:17). Revive us again, Lord.

Ask God to search your heart, examine you, and cleanse you from hidden faults. If there are things you know you shouldn’t be partaking in, repent.

Billy Graham envisioned the Native Americans rising from being a “sleeping giant” to reach America for Christ. His grandson, Will Graham, speaking to Natives more recently, said: “God is waking the Sleeping Giant, and I believe God will use you to bring the last great revival.” Pray for the revival of all the 574 Native tribes and that they will become evangelists and revival carriers to America and our world.

Pray for God’s manifest presence and resurrection power to fill His churches, our nation and the nations (see Romans 8:11).

Pray for the Church to move in her God-given authority (see Matthew 16:18-20).

Pray for Jesus Christ to be exalted in America. Pray that He would have supremacy in all things (see Colossians 1:18).

Taken from The Battle for America: Contending for Breakthrough by Intercessors for America.

Intercessors for America informs, connects, and mobilizes a growing number of people to pray and fast for the nation. Since 1973, IFA has been speaking into governmental issues that are based on the Word of God. Its goal is not to be political, but to uphold biblical positions on issues facing our nation. For more information, visit IFApray.org.