Day 26

Forty Days of Prayer for Our Country- Day 26

The last few days we have read some of the daily essays that Dr. Jim Denison publishes.  You can read more and subscribe to his daily email about faith and culture at  http://www.denisonforum.org/  I read it daily and can recommend it.

Our challenge at the bottom of today's post involves reading something else he wrote about the presidential candidate's faith.

Scripture:

I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.  

 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.  As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.  John 17:14-18

Thought for the day:

Across our country, people will not just be voting on candidates.  Several states have key moral issues before them.  Today and tomorrow, we will focus on them.  Here are today's issues to pray over:

The question of whether doctors can participate in a patient's suicide is on the ballot in Massachusetts.  Oregon and Washington State are the only two places where this is currently legal.

Voters in Montana will consider a measure to require that parents be notified before their minor daughter has an abortion. In Florida, efforts to ban public funding for abortion and clear the legal path for the enactment of parental-consent and notification laws for minor abortions are on the ballot.

Protection from religious discrimination for churches and religious groups that provide social services, such as adoption agencies, is before voters in Florida.

Prayer: 

Father, so often we do not understand why people in the world want to do the things they do.  Your son asked that we not be taken from this world but instead he prayed for us to be sent to the world.  Help us to accomplish your purposes of righteousness in our country, in our day.  In Jesus name, Amen.

Prayer Points for Today:

- Use the information in today's "Thought" above to pray for the states with key moral issues on their ballots.

- Pray that we, as God's people, would take the stands we need to but also show love of Christ to the "world."

Memory Verse for the Week:

"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."  Jeremiah 33:3

Challenge:

The link below is to a 30 page guide to the candidate's faith written by Dr. Jim Denison.  It is neither a condemnation nor an endorsement of either candidate.  Dr. Denison often uses the candidates own words to help us see where each of them stand.

http://assets.denisonforum.org/pdf/denison-forum-faith-of-the-candidates.pdf