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As plans continue for America’s 250th anniversary, I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of intercessors in this moment.
There’s no shortage of celebrations. Every community in America is talking about the founding of our nation. There will be fireworks, concerts, reenactments, media coverage, and patriotic events everywhere you turn. Some of it starts on Sunday with Rededicate 250.
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But I don’t believe this is a moment for believers to simply celebrate from the sidelines. Many of you are already part of IFA rededication events taking place around the country—on county courthouse steps, in your community, at your statehouse. That’s amazing, and we are beginning to see the flood of pictures and testimonials from these!
For years, many of us have prayed about the direction of this nation. We’ve watched the rapid moral shifts in our culture. We’ve seen confusion spread in our schools, division deepen in our communities, and hostility toward biblical truth increase in ways many of us never imagined we would see in America.
At times, it can feel overwhelming.
But intercessors were never called to respond to difficult times with passivity.
Throughout Scripture, when nations were in trouble, God raised up people who would pray with persistence and stand in faith even when circumstances looked impossible. Intercessors have always carried the assignment of seeing beyond headlines and recognizing the deeper spiritual battle taking place underneath what everyone else sees.
That assignment remains today.
Rededicate 250 on Sunday is not just another national event. In many ways, I believe it is a national call to prayer from the highest office for the nation at a pivotal time in our history.
And prayer cannot be treated like a ceremonial addition to the celebration.
It must become the foundation underneath it.
I am convinced that believers across America should approach this season differently than the world does. While others are remembering history, we should also be asking the Lord what He desires for the future of this nation. While others celebrate freedom, we should be praying that future generations will still understand where true freedom comes from.
Intercessor, this is not the hour for the Church to pull back in discouragement or exhaustion. I believe this is the moment to engage spiritually in a serious and intentional way.
Overall, it is time for intercessors to step forward with renewed clarity and renewed faith.
Pray over your family.
Pray over your church.
Pray over your community leaders and elected officials.
Pray over the next generation, which is growing up in extraordinary confusion and spiritual pressure.
Pray that truth would become clear again in this nation.
Pray that the Church would walk in courage instead of fear.
And pray that America would not lose the spiritual foundations that helped shape her beginning.
One thing history shows us over and over again is that God responds to praying people. Some of the greatest turning points in nations began quietly, long before the public could see what was changing.
That is why your participation in Sunday’s Rededicate 250 — wherever you are — matters, dear intercessor.
Not everyone will stand on a stage in Washington, D.C. Not everyone will lead a national gathering. But every believer can participate in prayer, repentance, worship, discipleship, and faithful obedience right where they are.
And perhaps that is where the most important work happens anyway.
As America celebrates 250 years of faith this Sunday, my encouragement to every intercessor is simple: do not merely observe this moment.
Participate in it deliberately.
Enter into it prayerfully.
Stand in the gap faithfully.
And believe that God is still able to move powerfully in the history of nations. Because, as we know, history belongs to the intercessors. This is our moment.
Although Sunday may pass, this moment of rededication won’t. I’m inviting you to participate in IFA’s Rededicate America event this July, in which intercessors will come together for our own ground-up rededication. Don’t miss your chance to join us for this once-in-a-lifetime event! Click here for more information or to register.
Share your prayers for America in the comments.
(David Kubal is IFA’s President and CEO)
