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:
“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.
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