Oh Lord, You are my God!

Who would not want to be loved flawlessly, fiercely by Your pure and everlasting love? Who would not want to experience perfect love, absent of spite, discontent, control, hatred, and fear? And yet… the pull of death over life, of sin over holiness, of what is right in our own eyes over what is right in Your eyes… it is heartbreaking! I look around me, especially this time of year – Satan’s high day is approaching, and I see the celebration of death everywhere. People are in love with it, fascinated by it. It’s lure and deceit are perplexing in comparison to all You are and all You give. How did Lucifer become so flawed when you made him so perfectly? If sin and darkness are not entities, why is our fallen nature so drawn into them? Blind eyes are so tragic!

Clothe me in Your light, I pray! Hide me in Your love. Guard my heart, O Guardian of my soul, so that the lure of sin has no power over me! I choose You. I press on towards the prize, the mark, and I choose to overcome! I choose to fill my heart with praise for You, my mind with thoughts of You, my eyes with all things holy and beautiful from You. I choose to hear Your voice above all others. Lord Jesus, I choose You! You are my light and salvation. I have never been so perfectly loved outside of You. Your grace, provision, peace, and care for me are beyond measure. I want more of You!

Ready me, I pray, for the next step in my faith journey. May I fully embrace obedience to You so that I can truly discover freedom, power, strength, authority, confidence , wisdom and discernment in You – walking by Your might and not my own. You are an amazing God! I long to see You face to face. I long to trace the shape of Your face with my fingers and look deeply into Your beautiful eyes. I long to live by your rhema word!

Lord, you know what happens in this world and in this nation on and after election day. You know the impact. You know! Your Spirit is moving among Your people, clearly and visibly in many ways! Yet I dread what is coming and am sad to know we are the generation the enemy saw as weak and vulnerable to attack. For Your children, a greater time of trust lies ahead. We will learn to trust You in ways we never have before. One might think I would be excited by that, but I sense the heartbreak that will accompany it. O Lord, please keep us faithful! Keep us in the palm of Your hand and center of Your heart, I pray, by Your power. We cannot do this on our own! We want to bring glory and honor to You all the days of our lives, but we know our weaknesses too well. I am grateful, Lord, that You know our weaknesses better than we do ourselves, and Your word promises to keep us by Your strength, by Your blood!

I pray for this nation – one nation under YOU – that You would keep us by that same power AS one nation under You! I pray for Donald Trump that he may give his whole heart to you and lean into Your protection and guidance. He will need it for the dark days that lay ahead, more than ever. I pray we – Your righteous ones – will take our place in these elections by Your power, that You would move us to vote, speak out, guard, move forward, take what You have given and fiercely defend and contend for it! I pray for those You have chosen, all of them, to be rightfully elected this November.

Lord, I stand in Your authority, with You and with my brothers and sisters of every nation, tribe, and tongue, against the wiles of the forces in high places. May the enemy’s plans utterly fail! May his arrows and weapons fall short and explode in his own face. May he be confused and scattered! May he turn on himself and devour his own. May all his plans for every election throughout our nation completely fail, and may the shockwave of Your hand and holiness reverberate around the world so that ALL will know it was by Your mighty hand that this evil was overthrown. And Lord, may we move in with a holy passion and aggression to cleanse our nation of this stain – to overthrow the high places of Ba’al and Asher, to tear down their strongholds and strengthen YOUR kingdom. May Your kingdom fill the void left behind when the walls come crashing down.

May we bow down in worship of You and disrupt the plans of the enemy to hasten his own day! We are weary of hell rising up. We pray, bring heaven down! May hell be defeated soundly by this generation as we draw the line between the world and THE WORD, and may Your holiness fall upon us all. Revive and restore us unto You, our great God, Everlasting Father, Eternal One. Amen