The Word of God for wisdom:
Proverbs 8:11 (MSG)
For Wisdom is better than all the trappings of wealth; nothing you could wish for holds a candle to her.
The Word of God for inspiration:
Psalm 56:3-4 (AMP)
3 What time I am afraid, I will have confidence in and put my trust and reliance in You. 4 By [the help of] God I will praise His word; on God I lean, rely, and confidently put my trust; I will not fear. What can man, who is flesh, do to me?
The Word of God for encouragement:
Joel 2:12-17 (NLT)
12 That is why the Lord says, "Turn to me now, while there is time. Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning. 13 Don't tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead." Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish. 14 Who knows? Perhaps he will give you a reprieve, sending you a blessing instead of this curse. Perhaps you will be able to offer grain and wine to the Lord your God as before. 15 Blow the ram's horn in Jerusalem! Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. 16 Gather all the people— the elders, the children, and even the babies. Call the bridegroom from his quarters and the bride from her private room. 17 Let the priests, who minister in the Lord's presence, stand and weep between the entry room to the Temple and the altar. Let them pray, "Spare your people, Lord! Don't let your special possession become an object of mockery. Don't let them become a joke for unbelieving foreigners who say, 'Has the God of Israel left them?'"
My observation:
The choice word for today is the word "Now". If there ever was a time we needed to pray for revival in America, the time is now.
The question I have is similar to the one that the Psalmist asked. What can man, who is flesh, do for me? The time is far past for putting our trust in man. It is time for God's people to put their trust and reliance in the Lord. Why do we continually turn to man, when they have failed us so often. It is now time, it is past time to turn to the Lord.
God has extended a personal invitation to each of his children to come back to him. Will you accept his invitation from the loving heart of a God who can do anything but fail?
Joel 2:12 (MSG)
But there's also this, it's not too late— God's personal Message!— "Come back to me and really mean it! Come fasting and weeping, sorry for your sins!"
My prayer:
Father God, Sovereign Lord, I praise and thank you that you are a God who does not change. I am so thankful that what you have done in the past for your people you are willing and able to do again. Father, if ever we needed to hear from heaven, we need to hear from you today. Father, now is the time, and we are the people who need to return to the Lord.
2 Chronicles 7:13-15 (ESV)
13 When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, 14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
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