Righteous God of Justice,
Thank you for the Bible, your Word, which makes us wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Thank you that all Scripture is God-breathed, useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, and equipping your children for every good work. Thank you for your patience and mercy in dealing with us, giving all time to come to repentance. We know that, like the thief on the cross, even if we live a life completely filled with iniquity, your grace can meet that confessed sin and wipe it clean. Thank you that you hear the earnest prayers of your righteous people and those prayers have great power. Today we ask you to judge us as individuals, your Church, and this nation according to your principles of righteousness. Where we have sinned, cause us to confess and repent of that sin. Where we have been unfruitful, cause us to sink our spiritual roots deep in your rivers of living water. Where we have lived in sin, wickedness, corruption, untruths or other sorts of darkness, bring us to a place of crying out to you for healing, forgiveness, and restoration. Let us be like Nineveh in Jonah's time that repented; not the Nineveh of Nahum's time that was utterly destroyed. May we not be stubborn and unrepentant, storing wrath up until your righteous judgement is revealed; may we not have itching ears that accumulate teachers that suit our own passions and turn away from your Truth. You warn us that in the last days there will come times of difficulty as people become lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. May we avoid and not become such people. Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved! Rend the heavens and come down that we would quake and tremble at your presence! No eye or ear has seen or perceived a God besides you who acts for those who wait for him. We appeal to You for worldwide revival, the destruction of strongholds, and the uncovering of truth in our land and in other nations. We ask for grace and mercy, but we also appeal for justice. Pour out Your Spirit in a great deluge of power and glory. Do this until we your People, your Church, and this nation are once again a Light to the world, a carrier of the life-giving Gospel, and a beacon of Truth. In the powerful name of Christ we pray, Amen.
"But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
and he judges the world with righteousness;
he judges the peoples with uprightness." (Psalm 9:7-8 NIV)
"One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: 'Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!' But the other criminal rebuked him. 'Don’t you fear God, he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.' Then he said, 'Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.' Jesus answered him, 'Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.'" (Luke 23:39-43 NIV)
"In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 Tim. 3:12-17 NIV)
"The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results." (James 5:16 NLT)
"But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed." (Romans 2:5 NIV)
"For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths." (2 Tim. 4:3-4 ESV)
"But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people." (2 Tim. 3:1-5 ESV)
"Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!" (Psalm 80:19 ESV)
"Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence— as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence! When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him." (Isaiah 64:1-4 ESV)
h/t https://www.givehim15.com/post/february-1-2021
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