Today we continued our series of messages in Colossians. The conclusion was a prayer for God's blessings on America. Here are the things included in that prayer:
· God bless America with a conviction of our own sinfulness.
· God bless America with enough pain and difficulty to awaken our need for God.
· God bless America with a love for Jesus Christ and desire to be like Him in all things.
· God bless America with a compassionate heart for the spiritually lost, the financially challenged, the forgotten, forsaken, the last, the least, and the lonely.
· God bless America with a caring heart for the world…that is poor, uneducated, the hurting and helpless…diseased and downcast.
· God bless America with a love for the things that God cares about most rather than just what profits and benefits us.
· God bless America with a clear sense of stewardship of our many blessings and an openness to sharing our blessings rather than hoarding them.
· God bless America with a moral compass to know what is right and wrong before God and the personal integrity to do what is right.
· God bless America with another chance to be a nation where the cross is central, Christ is worshipped and the church is making a difference in our land and in our world.
· Dear God…not because we deserve it…not because we’ve earned it…but I pray that as our hearts as your people…called by your name…humble ourselves and pray and turn back fully toward you…in your grace…that you would heal our land…we ask as we join together today…may Christ be exalted in us.
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