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.