Post by thenexttweety on May 1, 2007 13:56:36 GMT -5
On May 3, you are invited to participate in Meet At City Hall from 12:20 pm to 12:40 pm during the National Day Of Prayer. At thousands of city halls across the country, individuals will gather to pray for a moral rebirth in our country. The National Day of Prayer is an annual event established by an act of Congress which encourages Americans to pray for our nation, its people and its leaders.
Your participation in Meet At City Hall is very simple. Simply show up at your local city hall at 12:20 pm on May 3. There will be others present. Spend the 20 minutes in prayer.
If you want to help promote Meet At City Hall, we suggest you invite members of your Sunday School class or church to join together and organize, as you desire. You can invite some public officials, local pastors, church choirs, etc. to participate. The amount of organization and promotion is entirely up to you. Let us unashamedly take our Light from underneath the basket and set it on a table.
As part of our preparation for the National Day of Prayer, it is vital that each of us takes some time to ready our heart so that we might approach God's throne of grace unhindered by sin. After all, if we are to seek the Lord's forgiveness and blessing upon our nation, we must begin with personal repentance. Only as we come before Him with broken and contrite spirits will our petitions on behalf of America prove powerful and effective (James 5:16).
Therefore, we are calling on everyone who will be leading a time of intercession on May 3rd to set aside three minutes for silent group reflection prior to commencing with your prayer observance. During that period, we request that you ask those in attendance to humbly and expectantly come before our Heavenly Father, asking Him to cleanse all unrighteousness and restore us to Himself. David intimately understood the importance of acknowledging our individual and corporate sin, and we believe his words recorded in Psalm 139:23-24 demonstrate our desperate need for the Lord's purifying, redemptive power: "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." May we make David's cry our own. Then, as we participate in this year's NDP events, we can lift up holy hands to our God, confident that He will hear our pleas for His mercy and bring healing to this land.
Your participation in Meet At City Hall is very simple. Simply show up at your local city hall at 12:20 pm on May 3. There will be others present. Spend the 20 minutes in prayer.
If you want to help promote Meet At City Hall, we suggest you invite members of your Sunday School class or church to join together and organize, as you desire. You can invite some public officials, local pastors, church choirs, etc. to participate. The amount of organization and promotion is entirely up to you. Let us unashamedly take our Light from underneath the basket and set it on a table.
As part of our preparation for the National Day of Prayer, it is vital that each of us takes some time to ready our heart so that we might approach God's throne of grace unhindered by sin. After all, if we are to seek the Lord's forgiveness and blessing upon our nation, we must begin with personal repentance. Only as we come before Him with broken and contrite spirits will our petitions on behalf of America prove powerful and effective (James 5:16).
Therefore, we are calling on everyone who will be leading a time of intercession on May 3rd to set aside three minutes for silent group reflection prior to commencing with your prayer observance. During that period, we request that you ask those in attendance to humbly and expectantly come before our Heavenly Father, asking Him to cleanse all unrighteousness and restore us to Himself. David intimately understood the importance of acknowledging our individual and corporate sin, and we believe his words recorded in Psalm 139:23-24 demonstrate our desperate need for the Lord's purifying, redemptive power: "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." May we make David's cry our own. Then, as we participate in this year's NDP events, we can lift up holy hands to our God, confident that He will hear our pleas for His mercy and bring healing to this land.
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord..." Psalms 33:12
