National Day of Prayer

Today is the National Day of Prayer in the United States.

Prayer used to be about God. Today prayer is about ME. Maybe about US. Not about God. Not about duty. Not about repentance.

Resources for the National Day of Prayer

• A Proclamation by President John Adams, March 6, 1799
  • Notice that the emphasis is on our need to repent before God.
• Presidential Proclamation -- National Day of Prayer, 2015 | The White House
  • Notice how prayer is seen as an offense against "religious freedom"
  • Prayer is, at best, something that is self-empowering, not really God-centered
• National Day of Prayer - Obama vs. Bush
  • Hypocrisy is better than hostility
• National Day of Prayer Proclamation George W. Bush, 2002
• Thomas Jefferson, Conspiracy Theory and the Day of Prayer
• Government-Sponsored Prayer
  • The government used to acknowledge that God is God and the government is not
• Two Prayers - Two Americas
• National Day of Prayer, 2008
• Prayer of Jabez as told by Charles H. Spurgeon
• America: To Pray or Not to Pray: David Barton
  • America's Decline since the government began opposing prayer
• Hindu Prayers in the Senate
• National Day of Prayer, 2006

Why Daily Prayer - read the Bible and Pray Daily

 Q.98 of the Westminster Shorter Catechism:

Prayer is

• an offering up of our desires unto God
• for things agreeable to His will,
• in the name of Christ,
• with confession of our sins,
• and thankful acknowledgement of His mercies.

 
From the Westminster Standards in 180 Days.

• Day 145: How to Pray, part 1
• Day 146: How to Pray, part 2
• Day 147: How to Pray, part 3
• Day 148: The Lord's Prayer, part 1
• Day 149: The Lord's Prayer, part 2
• Day 150: The Lord's Prayer, part 3 - "Thy Kingdom Come"
• Day 151: The Lord's Prayer, part 4 - "Thy Will Be Done"
• Day 152: The Lord's Prayer, part 5 - "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread"
• Day 153: The Lord's Prayer, part 6 - "Forgive Us Our Debts"
• Day 154: The Lord's Prayer, part 7 - "Lead us Not into Temptation"
• Day 155: The Lord's Prayer, part 8 - "For Thine is the Kingdom"

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