Today, we conclude the novena for our nation. This novena has been nine days of prayer for asking for God’s intervention to help our nation return to the ethics and values of our founding and guiding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

In today’s prayer, I am praying that our nation repent and return to the founding ideas in our Constitution. The Preamble to the Constitution:

The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

If you would like to learn more about the Preamble to the Constitution, watch my explainer video.

Scripture gives us the responsibility to pray and intercede for leaders and all people with the result that there can be peaceful and quiet lives. God gave us this responsibility. It is our part to do as citizens!

1 Timothy 2:1-2

“I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.” -NIV biblegateway.com

For the format of this novena prayer, I am using II Chronicles 7:14. As you know, God knew that nations would often forget who and how His people should be. Therefore, in this verse, he gave them instructions on how to recalibrate are return to him, thus giving their nation a chance to be who and how He made them to be. The instructions are in II Chronicles 7:14:

“If MY people who are called by my name will HUMBLE THEMSELVES and PRAY, and seek my face and TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land.” (KJV)

Here is today’s novena. Today we are praying for the return of our nation to the founding values, ethics, and the responsibility to pray.

Our Father,

Through your Son, Jesus Christ, you have given us the honor and grace to call ourselves by your name. You gave those of us in the United States a nation founded upon the ideas that all people are created equal in Your image and that You endowed all people with natural rights. Along with those rights, you gave us responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is to pray for all people and for leaders in particular so that we all can live peaceful and quiet lives.

Therefore, we are praying and seeking Your face, the face of the only wise God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our nation desperately needs Your help and intervention.

For my part in the falling away from our responsibility to pray and intercede as You have instructed us. God, I am truly sorry, and I humbly repent of seeing some others as people that I can look down upon and not doing all I can for the general welfare of people.

I am humbly praying that You will hear from heaven, move in the hearts and souls of Your people, and forgive our sins. Please, in Jesus’ Name, heal our land.

Amen.

Thank you for praying this novena for our nation. Please continue to pray for our nation each day.

A novena is simply nine days of prayer for a specific need. This novena is asking for God’s intervention to help our nation return to the ethics and values of our founding and guiding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

In today’s prayer, I am praying that our nation repent and return to the founding ideas in our Constitution. The Preamble to the Constitution:

The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

If you would like to learn more about the Preamble to the Constitution, watch my explainer video.

Today, we are remembering our constitutional mandate to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity“. In the year 2024, our nation has not been securing the blessings of liberty. Instead, our nation has been marked by government initiated acts of intimidation, fear, and violence against people in our country and outside our borders.

Scripture gives us the responsibility to pray and intercede for leaders and all people with the result that there can be peaceful and quiet lives. God gave us this responsibility. It is our part to do as citizens!

1 Timothy 2:1-2

“I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.” -NIV biblegateway.com

For the format of this novena prayer, I am using II Chronicles 7:14. As you know, God knew that nations would often forget who and how His people should be. Therefore, in this verse, he gave them instructions on how to recalibrate are return to him, thus giving their nation a chance to be who and how He made them to be. The instructions are in II Chronicles 7:14:

“If MY people who are called by my name will HUMBLE THEMSELVES and PRAY, and seek my face and TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land.” (KJV)

Here is today’s novena. Today we are praying for the return of our nation to the founding value of securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity and the responsibility to pray.

Our Father,

Through your Son, Jesus Christ, you have given us the honor and grace to call ourselves by your name. You gave those of us in the United States a nation founded upon the ideas that all people are created equal in Your image and that You endowed all people with natural rights. Along with those rights, you gave us responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is to pray for all people and for leaders in particular so that we all can live peaceful and quiet lives.

Therefore, we are praying and seeking Your face, the face of the only wise God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our nation desperately needs Your help and intervention.

For my part in the falling away from our responsibility to pray and intercede as You have instructed us. God, I am truly sorry, and I humbly repent of seeing some others as people that I can look down upon and not doing all I can for the general welfare of people.

I am humbly praying that You will hear from heaven, move in the hearts and souls of Your people, and forgive our sins. Please, in Jesus’ Name, heal our land.

Amen.

I’ll be back tomorrow, Lord willing, with Day 9 of the novena for our nation.

Day 7 Novena for our nation:

A novena is simply nine days of prayer for a specific need. This novena is asking for God’s intervention to help our nation return to the ethics and values of our founding and guiding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

In today’s prayer, I am praying that our nation repent and return to the founding ideas in our Constitution. The Preamble to the Constitution:

The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

If you would like to learn more about the Preamble to the Constitution, watch my explainer video.

Today, we are remembering our constitutional mandate to “promote the general Welfare“. Another word for “welfare” is “well-being”. Our nation’s leaders have been working hard on UNpromoting the general welfare: SNAP withheld, ACA insurance credits lost, federal employees put on leave and unpaid, humans who look hispanic being cruelly detained in concentration camps, etc.

Scripture gives us the responsibility to pray and intercede for leaders and all people with the result that there can be peaceful and quiet lives. God gave us this responsibility. It is our part to do as citizens!

1 Timothy 2:1-2

“I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.” -NIV biblegateway.com

For the format of this novena prayer, I am using II Chronicles 7:14. As you know, God knew that nations would often forget who and how His people should be. Therefore, in this verse, he gave them instructions on how to recalibrate are return to him, thus giving their nation a chance to be who and how He made them to be. The instructions are in II Chronicles 7:14:

“If MY people who are called by my name will HUMBLE THEMSELVES and PRAY, and seek my face and TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land.” (KJV)

Here is today’s novena. Today we are praying for the return of our nation to the founding value of promote the general Welfare and the responsibility to pray.

Our Father,

Through your Son, Jesus Christ, you have given us the honor and grace to call ourselves by your name. You gave those of us in the United States a nation founded upon the ideas that all people are created equal in Your image and that You endowed all people with natural rights. Along with those rights, you gave us responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is to pray for all people and for leaders in particular so that we all can live peaceful and quiet lives.

Therefore, we are praying and seeking Your face, the face of the only wise God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our nation desperately needs Your help and intervention.

For my part in the falling away from our responsibility to pray and intercede as You have instructed us. God, I am truly sorry, and I humbly repent of seeing some others as people that I can look down upon and not doing all I can for the general welfare of people.

I am humbly praying that You will hear from heaven, move in the hearts and souls of Your people, and forgive our sins. Please, in Jesus’ Name, heal our land.

Amen.

I’ll be back tomorrow, Lord willing, with Day 8 of the novena for our nation.

Day 6 Novena for our nation:

A novena is simply nine days of prayer for a specific need. This novena is asking for God’s intervention to help our nation return to the ethics and values of our founding and guiding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

In today’s prayer, I am praying that our nation repent and return to the founding ideas in our Constitution. The Preamble to the Constitution:

The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

If you would like to learn more about the Preamble to the Constitution, watch my explainer video.

Today, we are remembering our constitutional mandate to “insure domestic Tranquility“. Another word for tranquility is peaceful. Scripture gives us the responsibility to pray and intercede for leaders and all people with the result that there can be peaceful and quiet lives. God gave us this responsibility. It is our part to do as citizens!

1 Timothy 2:1-2

“I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.” -NIV biblegateway.com

For the format of this novena prayer, I am using II Chronicles 7:14. As you know, God knew that nations would often forget who and how His people should be. Therefore, in this verse, he gave them instructions on how to recalibrate are return to him, thus giving their nation a chance to be who and how He made them to be. The instructions are in II Chronicles 7:14:

“If MY people who are called by my name will HUMBLE THEMSELVES and PRAY, and seek my face and TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land.” (KJV)

Here is today’s novena. Today we are praying for the return of our nation to the founding value of tranquility and the responsibility to pray.

Our Father,

Through your Son, Jesus Christ, you have given us the honor and grace to call ourselves by your name. You gave those of us in the United States a nation founded upon the ideas that all people are created equal in Your image and that You endowed all people with natural rights. Along with those rights, you gave us responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is to pray for all people and for leaders in particular so that we all can live peaceful and quiet lives.

Therefore, we are praying and seeking Your face, the face of the only wise God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our nation desperately needs Your help and intervention.

For my part in the falling away from our responsibility to pray and intercede as You have instructed us. God, I am truly sorry, and I humbly repent of seeing some others as people that I can look down upon.

I am humbly praying that You will hear from heaven, move in the hearts and souls of Your people, and forgive our sins. Please, in Jesus’ Name, heal our land.

Amen.

I’ll be back tomorrow, Lord willing, with Day 7 of the novena for our nation.

Day 5 Novena for our nation:

A novena is simply nine days of prayer for a specific need. This novena is asking for God’s intervention to help our nation return to the ethics and values of our founding and guiding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

In today’s prayer, I am praying that our nation repent and return to the founding ideas in our Constitution. The Preamble to the Constitution:

The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

If you would like to learn more about the Preamble to the Constitution, watch my explainer video.

Today, we are remembering our constitutional mandate to “establish justice”. This mandate is taken directly from Micah 6:8:

Micah 6:8

“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” -NIV biblegateway.com

The word “justice” in Hebrew is “sedaqa”. It means to do what is right, true, and moral. It can refer to rulers in the land, but as Micah 6:8, we see that God expects ALL of us to behave justly- to do what is right, true, and moral each day.

For the format of this novena prayer, I am using II Chronicles 7:14. As you know, God knew that nations would often forget who and how His people should be. Therefore, in this verse, he gave them instructions on how to recalibrate are return to him, thus giving their nation a chance to be who and how He made them to be. The instructions are in II Chronicles 7:14:

“If MY people who are called by my name will HUMBLE THEMSELVES and PRAY, and seek my face and TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land.” (KJV)

Here is today’s novena. Today we are praying for the return of our nation to the founding value of life.

Our Father,

Through your Son, Jesus Christ, you have given us the honor and grace to call ourselves by your name. You gave those of us in the United States a nation founded upon the ideas that all people are created equal in Your image and that You endowed all people with natural rights. Along with those rights, you gave us responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is to “establish justice”.

Therefore, we are praying and seeking Your face, the face of the only wise God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our nation desperately needs Your help and intervention.

For my part in the falling away from our responsibility to act justly, God, I am truly sorry, and I humbly repent of seeing some others as people that I can look down upon.

I am humbly praying that You will hear from heaven, move in the hearts and souls of Your people, and forgive our sins. Please, in Jesus’ Name, heal our land.

Amen.

I’ll be back tomorrow, Lord willing, with Day 6 of the novena for our nation.

Day 4 Novena for our nation:

A novena is simply nine days of prayer for a specific need. This novena is asking for God’s intervention to help our nation return to the ethics and values of our founding and guiding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

In today’s prayer, I am praying that our nation repent and return to the founding idea that all people of have, because of the gift our God, the unalienable right to liberty. Our Declaration of Independence says:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Today, we are remembering and praying about our unalienable right to the pursuit of happiness. In order to be happy, we must feel safe. One facet of our safety in the United States is our right to speak out, write what we think, worship in any way we feel led, and trust that we have due process in any area of our lives. These unalienable rights are codified in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights.

The right to pursuing happiness is a core natural right. It is also reinforced in the Bill of Rights in our Constitution. (You can check out the YouTube lessons where I explain the Bill of Rights.)

For the format of this novena prayer, I am using II Chronicles 7:14. As you know, God knew that nations would often forget who and how His people should be. Therefore, in this verse, he gave them instructions on how to recalibrate are return to him, thus giving their nation a chance to be who and how He made them to be. The instructions are in II Chronicles 7:14:

“If MY people who are called by my name will HUMBLE THEMSELVES and PRAY, and seek my face and TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land.” (KJV)

Here is today’s novena. Today we are praying for the return of our nation to the founding value of life.

Our Father,

Through your Son, Jesus Christ, you have given us the honor and grace to call ourselves by your name. You gave those of us in the United States a nation founded upon the ideas that all people are created equal in Your image and that You endowed all people with natural rights. One of these rights is to have a liberty. However, we have personally and nationally fallen from some of the foundational values.

Therefore, we are praying and seeking Your face, the face of the only wise God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our nation desperately needs Your help and intervention.

For my part in the falling away from our values, God, I am truly sorry, and I humbly repent of seeing some others as people that I can look down upon.

I am humbly praying that You will hear from heaven, move in the hearts and souls of Your people, and forgive our sins. Please, in Jesus’ Name, heal our land.

Amen.

I’ll be back tomorrow, Lord willing, with Day 5 of the novena for our nation.

Day 3 Novena for our nation:

A novena is simply nine days of prayer for a specific need. This novena is asking for God’s intervention to help our nation return to the ethics and values of our founding and guiding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

In today’s prayer, I am praying that our nation repent and return to the founding idea that all people of have, because of the gift our God, the unalienable right to liberty. Our Declaration of Independence says:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

We Americans all know the Scripture that is engraved on our Liberty Bell (Leviticus 25:10):

“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”

The right to liberty, freedom, is a core natural right. It is also reinforced in the Bill of Rights in our Constitution. (You can check out the YouTube lessons where I explain the Bill of Rights.)

For the format of this novena prayer, I am using II Chronicles 7:14. As you know, God knew that nations would often forget who and how His people should be. Therefore, in this verse, he gave them instructions on how to recalibrate are return to him, thus giving their nation a chance to be who and how He made them to be. The instructions are in II Chronicles 7:14:

“If MY people who are called by my name will HUMBLE THEMSELVES and PRAY, and seek my face and TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land.” (KJV)

Here is today’s novena. Today we are praying for the return of our nation to the founding value of life.

Our Father,

Through your Son, Jesus Christ, you have given us the honor and grace to call ourselves by your name. You gave those of us in the United States a nation founded upon the ideas that all people are created equal in Your image and that You endowed all people with natural rights. One of these rights is to have a liberty. However, we have personally and nationally fallen from some of the foundational values.

Therefore, we are praying and seeking Your face, the face of the only wise God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our nation desperately needs Your help and intervention.

For my part in the falling away from our values, God, I am truly sorry, and I humbly repent of seeing some others as people that I can look down upon.

I am humbly praying that You will hear from heaven, move in the hearts and souls of Your people, and forgive our sins. Please, in Jesus’ Name, heal our land.

Amen.

I’ll be back tomorrow, Lord willing, with Day 3 of the novena for our nation.

Day 2 Novena for our nation:

A novena is simply nine days of prayer for a specific need. This novena is asking for God’s intervention to help our nation return to the ethics and values of our founding and guiding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

In today’s prayer, I am praying that our nation repent and return to the founding idea that all people of have, because of the gift our God, the unaleinable right to life. Our Declaration of Independence says:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

We followers of Christ know that from the time God created Adam and breathed into him the breath of life, God has placed value on our human lives. We humans have a responsibility to treat other humans with that “unalienable right to life”. Thus, treating humans in a dangerous or inhumane way is antithetical to our founding values as a nation and the values of our God.

For the format of this novena prayer, I am using II Chronicles 7:14. As you know, God knew that nations would often forget who and how His people should be. Therefore, in this verse, he gave them instructions on how to recalibrate are return to him, thus giving their nation a chance to be who and how He made them to be. The instructions are in II Chronicles 7:14:

“If MY people who are called by my name will HUMBLE THEMSELVES and PRAY, and seek my face and TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land.” (KJV)

Here is today’s novena. Today we are praying for the return of our nation to the founding value of life.

Our Father,

Through your Son, Jesus Christ, you have given us the honor and grace to call ourselves by your name. You gave those of us in the United States a nation founded upon the ideas that all people are created equal in Your image and that You endowed all people with natural rights. One of these rights is to have a safe and healthy life. However, we have personally and nationally fallen from some of the foundational values.

Therefore, we are praying and seeking Your face, the face of the only wise God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our nation desperately needs Your help and intervention.

For my part in the falling away from our values, God, I am truly sorry, and I humbly repent of seeing some others as people that I can look down upon.

I am humbly praying that You will hear from heaven, move in the hearts and souls of Your people, and forgive our sins. Please, in Jesus Name, heal our land.

Amen.

I’ll be back tomorrow, Lord willing, with Day 3 of the novena for our nation.

Day 1 Novena for our nation:

First, let me acknowledge that the tradition of praying a novena is a Catholic tradition. I am not attempting to engage in cultural appropriation, but showing a respect for a part of the body of Christ that knows the necessity of setting aside prayer times for specific needs.

This novena (9 days of prayer for a specific need) is for our nation to return to the ethics and values of our founding and guiding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

In today’s prayer, I am praying that our nation repent and return to the founding idea that all people are created equal. We followers of Christ know this. We revere the Scriptures and a founding and guiding Scripture is Genesis 1:27:

So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

We were all created in His image. Thus, there is no such thing as “less than” in His sight.

I am using II Chronicles 7:14 as the structure of this novena’s prayer. As you know, God knew that nations would often forget who and how His people should be. Therefore, in this verse, he gave them instructions on how to recalibrate are return to him, thus giving their nation a chance to be who and how He made them to be. The instructions are in II Chronicles 7:14:

“If MY people who are called by my name will HUMBLE THEMSELVES and PRAY, and seek my face and TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land.” (KJV)

Here is today’s novena. Today we are praying for the return of our nation to the founding value of equality.

Our Father,

Through your Son, Jesus Christ, you have given us the honor and grace to call ourselves by your name. You gave those of us in the United States a nation founded upon the ideas that all people are created equal in Your image and that You endowed all people with natural rights. However, we have personally and nationally fallen from some of the foundational values.

Therefore, we are praying and seeking Your face, the face of the only wise God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our nation desperately needs Your help and intervention.

For my part in the falling away from our values, God, I am truly sorry, and I humbly repent of seeing some others as people that I can look down upon.

I am humbly praying that You will hear from heaven, move in the hearts and souls of Your people, and forgive our sins. Please, in Jesus Name, heal our land.

Amen.

I’ll be back tomorrow, Lord willing, with Day 2 of the novena for our nation.