"Lord, we are sure there are many groups around this nation praying for this country and we bring America before you, Lord. If things are going to happen or change in America, it is going to be by your grace and your mercy; it's going to be by your goodness. It won't be by force of arms. It won't be by a group rising up and just taking control but it will be by the Sovereign hand of God.

        Father, this morning we seek to move your heart on behalf of America. Father, have mercy we pray. God in Heaven, have mercy upon America. Have mercy upon this nation. Let the blood of Christ cover the corporate sins of America. They are great, Lord. We have greatly sinned; there is no question of the sin of America, but every nation on this planet has sinned, Lord. There isn't a nation, like there isn't a person who has not sinned and America has transgressed in many ways, but we ask for mercy, we ask for leniency upon the corporate sin of America. Cover it, Lord. Wash it in the blood of Christ. We confess the sin of this nation before you, Lord.

        America has deep sins. Her hands are scarlet in the blood of others and in wickedness at times. But God, wash her clean from her filthiness and from her sins and restore once again the pride of America, restore once again the joy of being an American, restore once again the honor and the integrity that were found in this nation when you so blessed it and put your favor on it, God.

        Prosperity sometimes leads to backsliding, Lord, and surely America has run the other way in many ways. But then, God, too, there is the other side of the balance. There is more gospel coming out of America than almost anywhere on the planet. Lord, remember the men and women that have died for this nation, that have shed their blood all around the world and in other foreign nations for freedom and for the right for individuals and nations to preach the gospel.

        Lord, I ask you to remember this morning America's good deeds. Lord, I bring before you the good deeds this nation has done. Everyone is trashing it; everyone is downing this country, but I bring before you this morning all the good things that America has done: the peoples she's fed, the nations she's set free, the hundreds of thousands of men that have died in service of this nation to free other nations. God, don't let their blood be in vain.

        Let the blood of the martyrs of America cry out to you, Lord, for the preservation of this nation and the future. God, I pray that you will overrule and override the plans of the evil one for America. God, overrule the satanic plans for America, in high places, Lord: in the government, in the media especially, God, I pray blow out the media, God. Chop that thing off at the root, Lord. The evil, wicked, satanic influence in the media of this nation that is polluting and destroying the children, God, cut it off, I pray, in the Name of Jesus.

        Lord, work a miracle in this nation for the remnant, for the preservation of freedom on this planet. We thank you for it, Lord. We thank you for it, God.

        Lord, once again, the blood of the martyrs of America cries out to you. Men and women that died at Valley Forge, and died at Bunker Hill, that died birthing this nation, their blood even now generation after generation cries out to you, Father for freedom - freedom from oppression, freedom from demonic power. God, remember the heroes of this revolution. Remember, Lord, the men and women that have died for this nation to set her free that the gospel could be preached. This nation was founded for your honor and your glory.

        And just because others have perverted it, it doesn't change the founding charter; it doesn't change the blood of the martyrs; it doesn't change what the Holy Spirit started in this nation and will complete. That which you have begun you will complete, God.

        We may have to stand up and fight once again for this country, but so be it, Lord. Put it upon the men and women of America, the Christian men and women of America to rise up in a fighting spirit for this nation in prayer. God put some strength, put some backbone into these gutless ministers; give them the guts to stand up and rebuke the demonic powers, to stand up against the politicians, to stand up against the evil that is coming out of Washington, God.

        God, give us some Holy Ghost Jeremiahs. Give us some men and women of backbone and courage that will stand and publicly rebuke the Congress, rebuke the Senate, rebuke the White House, God. Send prophets into Washington, God, to lie on the steps of the Capitol and rebuke this nation, to prophesy to this nation once again the will of God Almighty. Raise them up, God. Send them in there even as martyrs unto your cause to rebuke the evil that lies at the center of this thing.

        We ask it in the Name of Jesus, for the preservation of goodness, that our children can grow up in a land that is morally free, that homosexuals will not rule the Boy Scouts Organization and force it out of existence. God, give these Christians some guts. Tell them not to worry about offending anybody. America goes to Hell in a hand basket while they are worried about offending somebody! Let them offend a few people, God; let there be a gnashing of teeth; let people want to kill them for what they say. That's the gospel way. They wanted to kill Christ; they wanted to kill Jeremiah; they wanted to kill every man that truly preached the truth.

        Give them the fire, God. Give them the fire not to just laugh and roam the aisles, but the fire to discern and rebuke people openly, publicly, that the fear of God would come upon this nation once again. Thank you, Jesus.

        There's a time for everything. There's a time for confrontation. There's a time for rebuke. There's a time for gentleness and love. There's a time for everything, Lord. We thank you that the times and the seasons are in your hand, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

        Grant us freedom in this nation. Lord, a most precious thing - freedom: moral freedom, religious freedom. Thank you, God. I hear Alexander Hamilton. I hear bones rattling in the graves of the American Patriots, God. May the sound of those bones reach heaven. May that sound trigger the war-horses of Heaven to come forward and to once again revive this land with a spirit of a revolution in God of freedom, of a desire to stand against tyranny.

        It is not demonic rebellion; it is the desire to stand against demonic tyranny - the enslavement through sorcery, the enslavement through slight of hand, the enslavement through twisting even our Constitution to be used against us to enslave us: freedom from pornographers - what trash - freedom from homosexuals - what trash, dear God - freedom from the desecration of our flag and our symbols.

        Father, the spirit of Paul Revere rides up and down the eastern seaboard crying, "Awake, awake." I pray that men and women would begin to hear spiritually the voice of Paul Revere in this nation crying, "Awake, awake, awake."

          . And I pray that more men in America will join the NRA and support this group who is trying to protect our second amendment of freedom and right to bear arms. 

        I fear a disarmed civilian population, Lord. I pray that we will not go that way that Canada has gone. I pray a reversal in those nations, Lord. Reverse what the enemy has done in England, Australia, Canada, India, God, disarming the free world nations. God, I pray, reverse it, in the Name of Jesus. Send some common sense into those men. All it does is encourage evil; there are more break-ins now in Australia than they've ever had. Crime is on the rise in Australia. There is no one in the home to defend the home. They know there are no guns. The criminals are going nuts in that nation now breaking in. It encourages evil, God; it doesn't protect.

        I pray, reverse these trends, Lord. Reverse these trends. Lay it on people's hearts to pray like Praying Hyde - day and night. God, raise up some mighty intercessors around this planet - men and women that know how to get a hold of God and pray for what's right. God, raise them up.

       It's time to step aside. You sat in the church too long. In the Name of God, go and open up the cabinet for a war minister now. In the Name of Jesus, let the Churchills rise in the church. You sat in the place of power too long, go in the Name of Jesus. You've made compromise with the enemy over and over and over until the nation is weak.

        God, raise up the warriors you've been preparing to defend freedom once again, to stand around this planet and block tyranny and evil as it rises. For surely we stand as Churchill stood watching the rise of Hitler knowing what was coming. We stand on the precept, the edge of another cataclysmic generation, aware of the coming confrontation.

        God, it will take men of prayer and men of weapons, men of war to turn back the evil that's upon us. I pray, I pray, I pray for that fighting spirit to come upon the men and women of these nations, that spirit of intolerance, zero tolerance toward evil. Zero tolerance. You want a zero tolerance program? I'll give you one: zero tolerance toward evil; zero tolerance toward the things that God hates. Let's have a zero tolerance on that! Let's not tolerate it. Throw them out of office; throw them out of power; throw them out of position.

        Disarm them, Lord. I don't pray for anybody's blood, but I pray for their disarmament, God. I pray for their neutralization. I pray that their influences be negated in the Name of Jesus. Where are the men and the women of God? Where are the Elijahs of God to stand up and confront the prophets of Baal? It's time for confrontation, God. It's time for Holy Ghost confrontation of evil.

        Lord, I think of the millions of children that are coming up behind us on this planet that need a good earth to live in. God, I think of our children that are coming up behind us that need clean nations to live in and grow up in. Father, look past the sins of this generation and look at the little ones coming up and give this generation the ability to protect them, to turn things around, to provide a place for them that's safe, and clean and pure. We thank you, God.

        Hear this morning, Lord, the cries of groups all across the world that are praying this way, that are crying unto your throne. Hear us, oh Lord. Let it be by your mercy and your grace that these things are accomplished. No one takes one shred of credit for that which you are about to do, oh Father. You and you alone determine the fate of nations and individuals. You raise them up and you lower them at the snap of your finger, God. Nebuchadnezzar can eat grass the minute you say so. It's in your hand. It's in your power, God. Raise up the men, the key men and women that can turn things in your favor that we can praise you and give you the credit and the glory and raise our children in the admonition and the fear of the Lord.

        Let not evil reign over us, Lord. If you must punish us for our sins, then let there be a deep repentance across the nation in the Christian heart. Let them go into sackcloth and ashes. Let them confess their sins, oh God. Give them the grace to confess. Father, I pray, for a spirit of contrition to come upon the Christian nation that Christians around the planet would beat their breast and fall on their face and say, "I dare not even look to Heaven; I've fallen so short." God, let there be a confession of sin across the planet in the hearts of Christians. Let them go on their face in sackcloth and ashes that you may remit their sins and move by your mercy and grace.

        Give them a contrite heart, Lord, I pray. Grant remission, Father. Grant confession of sin to your people. Give them a heart of repentance I pray, this morning. We thank you for it, God. We thank you for a repentant heart in the Christians in this nation that have been watching pornography that have been doing things wrong. Grant them the ability to repent, Lord. Do not harden their hearts as you did with Pharaoh, oh God, but be merciful we pray this morning, and soften the hearts of the Christian nation. Repentance can come that the spirit of contrition would be upon them that they would beat their breast, and turn the other way, even that by your mercy and grace.

        We have repented, but you have given us the grace to repent, for even that is by your hand, oh Lord. We don't just decide to turn around. You offer us the ability and the grace to, and we acknowledge that from your hand as well. All things come from you, all things. We thank you, this morning, God.

        We thank you that there are even twenty-four hour prayer groups rising up around the country that are seeking your face. Bless Mike (Bickle) for his ability, for his turning from the church ministry to go into twenty-four hour prayer. God, may there be hundreds more that follow after and birth a great prayer movement, Lord. All great moves are launched from intercessory prayer.

        Oh God, no matter what anyone else does, let us be on our faces, Lord. Let this group be found on their faces before you praying and interceding to turn the wickedness, to have repentance. God, help us to be found on our face with contrition in our hearts and prayer on our lips in the coming days. Grant us grace, God, to be in proper position, we pray. Thank you for it, Lord.  Mercy Lord, have mercy. Mercy dear God, have mercy."

~ A prayer by Don Franklin @ Carpenters Home Church Intercessory Prayer Meeting 9/12/00 ~

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