Evangelicals and Conservative Christians are calling for a National Day of Prayer, July 5. In an e-mail sent to Family Research Council supporters, Tony Perkins said the focus of the day will be on “praying that God would turn our hearts — and the hearts of our political leaders — toward him … and restore respect for life, marriage, and faith in the halls of power.”
According to a news report in the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, the hope the initiative, named “Call 2 Fall,” will involve tens of thousands of churches, with people praying on their knees for at least “three to five minutes,” Perkins said.
In the meantime, here’s a Prayer for the month of July, my friend Mike sent me.
“The Nation here established, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal has acknowledged that Name above every name and reverenced it, has built its altars, reared its temples, and raised its steeples, emblems of a faith that points to the skies and wings its sure and certain way to God.
“Make that faith of the fathers, we pray, real to us in these tempestuous days. Save us from a freedom of speech so empty that we have nothing worth saying, from a freedom of worship so futile that we have no God to adore, from freedom from want and fear with no creative idea as to how to use our plenty or our security for the redemption of our social order and for the salvation of our own souls. Let all that is low and unworthy in us sink to the depths.
“Let all that is high and fine in us rise to greet the morn of a new day confident that the best is yet to be.
“Amen”
- Rev. Frederick Harris Brown, Chaplain, US Senate
(Source: Congressional Record-Senate, 78th Congress, first session, 89/5, July 5, 1943, 7160.)
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This Call2Fall promotion is a political gimmick. Check their website carefully.
Count me out on this one. I will skip church this Sunday.