Throughout the scriptures, you’ll find the lord Jesus and the apostles admonishing the saints to pray. I’m also charging you today not to neglect times of prayer, especially corporate prayer. Don’t be in the habit of excusing yourself from prayer meetings. Do you realize that it’s the prayers of Christians from years ago that created the evangelism opportunities and spread of the gospel in this nation today? As a nation, we have enjoyed their deposits of prayers. The problem, however, is that we’ve been drawing heavily on those deposits and they’re fast running out. It’s high time we went into our prayer closets and started heaping up prayer deposits for the years ahead!
Recognize that prayer helps to position you or the one you’re praying for in God’s will, not only for the present but also for the future. Some of the prayers you prayed for the country today may be for years to come. If you neglect to pray now, you may just be losing an opportunity to put things in place or set things right in the future. God has a timetable and there are cycles in the affairs of men. When the time comes for something to be done, the spirit of God will seek to guide his children into bringing it forth. Often, this happens in the place of prayer (read Daniel 9:2-23). But if you’re not sensitive and you miss the moment and the cycle passes, your praying afterwards may not bring that opportunity back until that cycle returns again. And only God knows the duration of that cycle; one may be four weeks, four years, or even forty or four hundred years. This is why prayer is not something to be handled frivolously. When we pray for our country, we’re dealing with her future and that of unborn generations- and that’s serious business. The spirit of God is prompting us to change our attitude to prayer for our country. Let’s start praying now and secure not only the present but also our future and the future of our great nation.
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