Prayer for Mercy and Grace. The Window is Still Open.

Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you in the name of your son Jesus Christ. We thank you for you, and we thank you and praise you for your unchanging nature and character. We thank you for your Word that you have faithfully given to us throughout the ages so that we might know you, and hear you, and see you. Without your Word we cannot know you or understand your ways. You are such a faithful God in righteousness, holiness, justice, compassion. Everything good comes from you. Every breath that we breathe, and every step that we take is from you. You hold all things together through your son Jesus Christ. We come before you this day on behalf of our nation. Lord Jesus, we petition you to pour out your Spirit on this country. Your spirit of conviction. Your Spirit of humility, your Spirit of faith and your Spirit of repentance. Lord Jesus, we pray for your will to be done for this country. We ask for mercy and grace. We confess that we have forgotten you in our daily lives, we have neglected your Word, we have turned away to our own ways of thinking and doing. We have pushed you out of all of the areas of our lives, our schools, our government, our courts, our churches, and this by our pride and sinful nature. You cannot bless us if we do not honor you, and if we do not stop and turn around. We pray today that you would in your most merciful kindness deal with our pride. We are calling things that you consider evil and wicked as good. And we are calling things that are good and right and true as evil. We as a nation are backwards and stiff necked because of our pride. We as a nation are apathetic and have turned toward ourselves rather than outward looking to you for answers in humility and godly sorrow for our sins. Our sins are grevious and our hidden sins are obvious. Each one of us has turned to our own way, and you are warning us as a nation, as individuals to stop and turn around and face the reality of the gospel of Jesus Christ. But we resist your gospel truth about your son Jesus Christ because of our pride. We know this because of the way that we talk to each other, the way that we run from each other, the way that we teach in our churches, the way that we live in our homes when the doors are closed. Every good thing comes from you Lord God please unstop our ear, and open up our blind eyes. You are willing Lord. We praise you and thank you that you are willing still. The window of your mercy and grace is still open. May we be shaken Lord Jesus so that what remains is faith in you. Thank you Heavenly Father and in your Son's name Jesus we pray.