Came across something I posted in 2020 to Facebook. Reading back through it, it seems more relevant today, especially seeing the slippery slope of sin and depravity we continue to go down.

March 15, 2020

Father God, we come before You Lord God Almighty a broken and sick people.  What is going on with a physical sickness in our Nation and across the world is an outward symbol of our moral bankruptcy.  God, we are a people who need to repent!  We are blind to our own sin and we need the light of Your Word to shine on the darkness in our own souls, minds and hearts and illumine our moral depravity and bring us to true repentance. 

We are a people and Nation who has cut its ropes from its spiritual mooring and is adrift like a ship in a storm.  We have children who literally don’t know right from wrong because they have not been taught.  They do not know that there is the source of moral authority we can turn to, learn from and be wise.   We are a people who think our heart is the moral arborator of all things when in fact we are wicked and depraved sinful people.  We have people who think that they are women when in fact they are biologically created men and go to extremes to try and change.  In our ignorance affirm the biological confusion in children. 

We are people who don’t recognize sin.  We watch movies and TV shows and read books saturated with sin (having other gods, idol worship, taking God’s name in vain, ignoring the sabbath, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, lust, profanity, pornography, disrespecting parents, stealing, bearing false witness, lying, coveting and envy) and call it entertainment.  We call adultery an affair, we call sex outside marriage a decision between two consenting adults.  Instead of recognizing murder as a grievous sin, we see it as entertainment.  We foster hatred in our hearts, bear grudges, we nurse grievances and our mouths pours forth profanity and gross immoral sinful language that we cover under the freedom of speech.  We forget that there is a God to whom we will give an account. 

We have people in our nation who champion the right to murder children in the womb and now, God forbid, even murder them after they have been born.  We have a city that lights up their tallest building to celebrate a law that permits people to murder babies up to the very moment of birth.  It’s considered lawful and a right to kill a human being created in God’s image.  What’s wrong with us?  We have nations in our world that want to stop treating the elderly and hasten their deaths. 

We are a people who worship creation over the Creator.  People who want to protect animal rights over and above the right of a human created in God’s image to have life.  We turn to money and possessions thinking that will satisfy us.  We’ve made an idol of our body, focusing to the extreme on what we eat, exercise, what we wear and feel free to reveal parts of our body that should be reserved for a husband and wife.  We view pornography in the privacy of our own home and expose our children to it and wonder why they are engaging in sex at younger and younger ages.  We choose sex over true intimacy and relationship.  We worship and think of self over and above all else. 

Lord, even as Christians who know You, who read Your Word, we need to examine our own hearts and recognize our sin and repent.  We are tempted to a check box mentality Christianity.  If I go to church, if I read the Bible, if I go to Bible study, if I say a quick prayer then all well.  But how often, we fail to let the truth from Your Word penetrate our hearts, expose our sin and bring us to repentance?  How much are we caught up in the world and fail to see it?  How often do we spend timing doing something we want to over and above reading and studying the Bible?  How often do we override that conviction of the Holy Spirit and do that which is wrong before You?  Do we fail to share the Gospel of Christ with those who are perishing because we are uncomfortable in doing so?  Do we fail to share the Gospel or confront a fellow Christian caught up in because we know of sin in our own lives and don’t want someone to call us a hypocrite?  Do we cower under the banner of unity when we see a believer in error that should be corrected?  Are we so prideful?  Do we think that our righteousness is something we’ve achieved instead Christ’s righteousness being credited to our account?  Do we think we are achieving holiness because we are a super Christian rather than knowing that the Holy Spirit is at work in us and using God’s Word to expose sin and grow us in godliness?  Do we live in such a way that others would praise us instead of You?  Or do we live to honor and glorify God?  Do we have the biblical knowledge and wisdom to discern erroneous teaching?  Do we substitute and accommodate worldly human wisdom in place of the Gospel of Christ?  Where You have revealed unity in Christ do we seek to divide?  Do we fail to confront those who are caught up and believe a false god and false religion?  Do we fail to confront sin and tell ourselves we are loving them even though they are bound for hell?  Do we have the truth of God, know what sin is, the need for repentance that the Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life?  Do we know that there is no other name under heaven or earth by which man can be saved, but we choose to remain silent?  Do we know we should reach out and help others but choose not to because it’s inconvenient?  Shouldn’t we remember that it wasn’t convenient for Christ to go to the cross?  The pain He endured we deserved.  The death He died, He died on our behalf so that we could repent, believe in Him and be saved. 

Father God…we are a sinful, unrighteous, unholy, morally depraved people.  We are deserving of Your righteous, just judgment.  You are Holy, Holy, Holy…You are the One True and Living God.  You are Just in Your Judgment.  You alone are Wise.  You are All-Knowing…there is nothing hidden from Your sight.  All things are exposed, open and laid bare before You…including our hearts, our true motives, our hidden thoughts.  You are our Creator…You have given us life.  We are called to Worship our Creator…You alone are worthy of our worship and praise.  You alone are to be honored and praised and glorified.  You are the God who Delivers us, most importantly from our bondage to sin.  You are the Law Giver…Jesus Christ was the One and Only who could fully obey Your Law.  The Sinless Lamb of God given to take away our sin.  You have revealed Yourself in the Bible.  May we humbly ask Your Holy Spirit to open our blind eyes to see.  To unstop our ears that are deaf to You.  To take our sinful hearts and darkened minds to see You as You have revealed Yourself in Scripture.  Help those who are dead in their sin, be alive to You in Christ.  You are the God who saves the least likely.  You are able to save the one that we think is too far gone to be saved.  Because salvation is a work of God, not of man lest we should boast. 

Father God…while You are the Righteous Just Judge and Holy in Your Wrath, we humbly ask You for Mercy and Grace.  For Mercy where we deserve judgment.  Grace to endure.  We ask that You would protect people from getting this virus.  That You would help those affected to recover and protect their family and those around them.  We ask that the Great Physician would give wisdom to our doctors and scientists and help them to know how to treat us and how to prevent us from getting sick.  We thank You for the gift of medicine, doctors and nurses…but we know that ultimately, all healing and heath is from You.  We ask that You will give our President, Vice-President and our Nation’s leaders wisdom in helping our people.  We pray that You will restrain our tendency to panic and hoard supplies and food and instead make us a generous, kind and caring people.  Help us to be a compassionate and caring people.  Help us to daily remember our dependence upon You…our deep and desperate need for You.  Not just in the midst of an epidemic, but most importantly for our forgiveness, salvation through Christ Jesus the Lord and to grow in holiness and wisdom.  Most importantly Lord…we thank You Lord…that as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ that we have peace.  We do not need to fear.  You know our end from the beginning.  Our death is a divine appointment.  With Paul, we can say to live is Christ and to die is gain.  It’s only because of Jesus Christ and the forgiveness that is found in Him that we have peace.  We come to You Lord God our Father in the Name above all names…our Great Shepherd…the Lamb of God…our Merciful High Priest…the Sinless Son of God…the King of kings, Lord of lords…the Son of God who took on flesh and was born of a woman.  The Lamb of God who is Worthy.  The Just who justifies sinful man.  The One who will Judge the world in Truth and Righteousness.  The One who has Authority over creation and nature and can calm the storm.  The One who can Heal with a word.  The One who can raise the dead, yet cry at His friend’s grave.  We come to You in the Mighty, Glorious, Marvelous, Matchless Son of God…Jesus Christ the Lord…amen!