Father God, We come before You seeking Your protection over our communities, our families, and our nation. Shield us from the grip of pornography and the indecency that spreads harm, distorts truth, and weakens hearts. Lord, it grieves us that such darkness has taken root so deeply, even within our own land. We ask You to break the power of this evil and shatter the chains that bind so many; men, women, and young people alike. Bring freedom where there is bondage, clarity where there is confusion, and healing where there has been hidden hurt. Guard our youth with Your strength and surround them with wisdom and protection. Help us, as a people, to remove what makes temptation so easily accessible and to stand for what is pure and life-giving. Replace destructive desires with a deep hunger for goodness, truth, and righteousness. Renew our minds, strengthen our spirits, and draw us closer to You.
“You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.” James 4:4
“If I were the devil … I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting, so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. I’d threaten TV with dirtier movies and vice versa. … I’d have judges promoting pornography — soon I could evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and then from the houses of Congress. And in His own churches I would substitute psychology for religion, and deify science. I would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls, and church money.” – Paul Harvey’s 1965 Broadcast “If I Were the Devil”
Hold Fast, Spread the Word and God Save the Republic.
Operation World Pray for France : The accelerating decline of religious faith since the 18th Century has seen France’s Catholic and mainline Protestant legacies plummet in recent years, even as atheism has grown. Hostility toward organized religion as well as the privatization of spirituality mean that regular attendance in any church is below 8%. Some surveys show that over 30% of French people are non-religious. Most French have a profound ignorance of, or indifference to, the gospel, many having never meaningfully encountered it. Yet, the relativism of postmodernity has generated acute emptiness and existential angst; as many have noted, this in turn has created a spiritual hunger that has grown rapidly in recent years. Pray that such hunger might overcome the suspicion toward religion. Pray that Christians would be prepared to patiently and relationally share Jesus with those who seek.
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