{"id":10649,"date":"2025-11-16T16:17:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=10649"},"modified":"2025-11-16T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:17:42","slug":"desperate-for-change-day-7-intercessors-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=10649","title":{"rendered":"Desperate for Change\u2014Day 7 – Intercessors for America"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Reading Time:<\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The following is an excerpt from our devotional series\u00a0<\/em>Desperate for Change.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not be afraid of them; the Lord your God himself will fight for you.\u201d<\/em> \u2013Deuteronomy 3:22<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday\u2019s devotion also addressed the vital topic of national fear. Fear can paralyze a nation, or cause it to react in inappropriate ways. President Franklin Roosevelt understood that. When addressing a nation mired in the Great depression, he reminded the people that the only thing they had to fear was fear itself. God gives us a very direct command when faced with enemies: \u201cdo not be afraid of them.\u201d don\u2019t give in to fear!\n<\/p>\n

Pray for your fellow intercessor.<\/h4>\n

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There is a very real reason why Israel in Moses\u2019 day was commanded not to fear. God Himself had promised to step in and fight on their behalf. They still had many battles ahead of them, but God had agreed to intervene in those battles for them. This promise can only be appropriated when a nation has committed itself to honor God and follow His ways. Wouldn\u2019t it be great to live in a nation that had so aligned itself with the purposes of God that we could live without fear because God had determined to fight on our behalf?\n<\/p>\n

Prayer Points<\/h3>\n
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  • Ask the Lord to pour out a spirit of repentance on our nation that we might become a nation committed to following His ways.<\/li>\n
  • Ask the Lord to help the United States to so line up with God\u2019s purposes that He will choose to fight on our behalf.<\/li>\n
  • Stand in prayer against all fear, whether in your own life or in the life of our nation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    My Prayer<\/h3>\n

    Father, we turn from fear and turn to You. We indeed have enemies as a <\/em>nation who seek our destruction. We have attempted to stand against them in our own strength, all the while rejecting Your lordship over us. Forgive <\/em>us, Lord. Heal our land. Help us to turn back to You, so that You Yourself will fight for us.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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    David Butts is the chairman of\u00a0America\u2019s National Prayer Committee\u00a0and the president of\u00a0Harvest Prayer Ministries. Photo Credit: PonyWang\/Getty Images Signature via Canva Teams.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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