Lord,
We come to You today to ask forgiveness for the many sins of this nation.
Forgive us for not keeping the Sabbath Holy, as You declared, but instead we have turned Sunday into a day of sports and recreation.
Lord, Your word states You are a jealous God. Please forgive us for tolerating other religions, such as Islam, and their disrespect of You and Your nation.
Forgive us for not raising the children of this nation to love and respect You as their Lord. We have not told them there is a clear right and wrong. Forgive us for allowing prayer to be taken out of public schools, and allowing man’s politics to teach them a false history of this nation and other national propaganda.
Forgive us for electing officials with good economic plans and deplorable morals, with no respect for You Lord.
Forgive us for being a divided body. For not standing together as one family, united under one Holy God. Lord, may we now come together working to further Your kingdom.
Lord, forgive us for thinking Your money, is our money. Lord that what we have gained on earth, somehow has come from our own strength. Forgive us for storing up our treasures here on earth, and not in heaven. Please give us an eternal mindset.
Forgive us for turning sex into a casual, adulterous, careless act, with no regard for what You intended of these binding relations. There are many secrets in many hearts, in Your church, and outside of Your church. The devil has crept in, and has a stronghold in many of our lives. Lord, may the sacred unity of a man and a woman be forever upheld, and for whatever we are at fault in, either personally or as a nation, we repent.
Forgive us for allowing minority groups of sinners to speak louder than the believers in this country. They are like yapping little dogs! Lord, we ask you to muzzle them, and help us to become a bold and outspoken representation of You, Your word, and Your saving grace to this community and to the nation.
Lord, please forgive us for running to You in the bad times, and forgetting You in the good times. Yes, Lord you are the God of the valley, but also the God of the mountain. Please Lord, be in our loves everyday, not just in tragedy.
Lord, now I will ask You to speak to all the hearts gathered here today. Lord, tell us what else we need to repent of, either personally, as a church or as a nation. May we confess those sins to you now.
Luke 18: 10-14
10"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11The Pharisee stood up and prayed about[a] himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'
13"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'
14"I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
In closing, we are sorry for all the sins of this nation. Please accept our humble prayer of repentance to You. Please move in a mighty way across this Nation. Please Lord, honor this 40 days of prayer and fasting. May all we do bring glory to You!
In Jesus Name, Amen
Jennifer Ziolo
Christian
Good Shepherd Church
Lancaster, Ohio
