“And His name will
be the hope of all the world.” – Matthew
12:21 (citing “The Lord’s Chosen Servant” passage from Isaiah 42:1-4). NLT
Our National Day of Prayer is set for
Thursday, May 2, 2013. A national day of prayer was called in 1775 by the
Continental Congress. In 1952, Congress
passed a bill calling for a National Day of Prayer. President Harry S. Truman signed the bill
into law. In 1988, the law was amended
to make the National Day of Prayer the first Thursday in May, annually. The
2013 observance will be the sixty-second consecutive annual National Day of
Prayer.
“Pray for America” is the theme and the
cry for the 2013 National Day of Prayer.
How desperately our nation needs the earnest, seeking, intercessory
prayers of Christian people. Mrs.
Shirley Dobson, wife of the minister who has led in Faith for Families is
serving as chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force. She urges that prayer leads us to know God
better, to experience a fuller relationship with Him, to model ourselves after
Christ, and to give ourselves to continued prayer. In his book, Prayer on Fire, Fred Hartley
states: “Prayer is what we
do. It is our initiative to meet
God.”
May we pray earnestly for these areas of
America, seeking God’s forgiveness, intervention and leadership in (1)
government, (2) business, (3) education, (4) the media, (5) the military and
national and international affairs, (6), churches and (7) families.
Let us join in community groups and pray individually. May we invest in hope through prayer and ask
God to transform our nation to one that fears Him and seeks His will and
way. –Ethelene Dyer Jones 04.28.2013.
