DOMINION MANDATE DAILY DEVOTIONAL

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020

PRAYING FOR THE NATION

BIBLE READING: 2 CHRONICLES 7: 13 - 14

This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may increase in number there: and do not decrease. Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper. Jeremiah 29: 4-7(NIV).

Aside from living a life of honesty and integrity, the best gift you can give to your nation is the gift of constant intercession for her. As a believer, the spiritual, political, legal, environmental, social, technological and economic situations in your nation should move you to repentance, intercession, prayers and supplication, and not unfounded criticisms. We seek for the well-being of our nation.

2 Chronicles 7:13-14(NIV); When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague to devour the people, if my people who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land. Concerning issues that bedevil nations in which believers reside, God is saying, stop passing the buck! Take responsibility in prayer and turn things around for good in your nation.

Each nation has a prophetic destiny; inheritances, and seasons of manifestation on the global stage written in God's destiny books. It will take the intense intercession and prayers of the saints in the nation for that destiny not to be aborted, because the evil one is working tirelessly to thwart that destiny. Luke 18:1 (KJV), Men ought always to pray and not faint. If we faint in the place of prayer our nation can be overrun by evil.

Contemplate on the following texts: Jeremiah 15:1(NIV); Then the Lord said me: even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart will not go out to these people, send them away from my presence! Let them go! Ezekiel 14:12 - 14(NIV); The Word of the Lord came to me: son of man, if a country sins against me by being unfaithful and I stretch my hand against it to cut off its food supply and send famine against it and kill its people and their animals. Even if these three men- Noah, Daniel and Job- were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the sovereign Lord.

From the texts we just read, we can see that it will take (men and women) believers, versed in the art of spiritual legislation to unlock the destiny of a nation.The five men mentioned above had at one time or the other influenced heaven on behalf of their nation. Like Israel, any nation that carries a special mandate from heaven attracts unusual satanic attacks.

Satan's first target is the spiritual leadership of that nation that has what it takes to reshape the spiritual and moral compass of that nation. (Zechariah 3:1-2). The greatest assault of Satan now is on prominent church leaders whose voices are like a compass to navigate the nation out of sin and bring revival to the spiritual, political, legal, environmental, and social, technological and economic climates of the nation.

In this season of fasting and prayer, let us intelligently engage the courts of heaven to bring a restraining order against satanic onslaught on our nation and then unlock her destiny.

PRAYER:
Father, I come to you as your son/daughter by the blood of Jesus on behalf of my nation. I repent of every iniquity, transgression and sin that has given the enemy access to hinder Your destiny for her. I speak peace and prosperity to every aspect of her national life in Jesus name, Amen!

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