I want to encourage you to go to the twelve23 website and read and consider signing up to Pray each and every day for our Country. So log onto their site, read all about it, and if you are concerned with what you see happening around us in our Country at such a rapid pace... PRAY!The twelve23 movement has numerous ideas, plans, and actions which we will be taking in the coming months. Though it is tempting to rush into action, we strongly feel that we must first follow the model of prayer that has been set before us by so many great American leaders. While there are countless examples to choose from, few are greater than that of our first president, George Washington. Located inside of the United States Capitol’s prayer room is a stained glass window that depicts an image of President Washington kneeling before God. Surrounding him are the words of Psalm 16, “Preserve me, O God, for in Thee do I put my trust.” As Christian people and community leaders, it is time for us to once again bend a knee to God and place our trust in Him. This simple action is the first step toward seeing our nation transformed.
twelve23 PRAYER MOVEMENT FOR AMERICA
Do you want to be directly in the middle of one of the most powerful influences in the history of our nation? If so, we invite you to participate with thousands of others in a grassroots effort called the twelve23 Prayer Movement for America.
The concept is extremely simple, yet incredibly powerful. Here is how it works. Beginning October 1, 2010 and concluding Tuesday, November 2, 2010, we are asking Christians around the world to pray for the United States and their own faithfulness every day at 12:23 p.m. and/or 12:23 a.m.
America’s mid-term elections are Tuesday, November 2, 2010. On this day, millions of Americans will exercise their constitutional freedom by voting for the candidate of their choice. This is a wonderful privilege! Knowing this is an extremely important election and knowing that our nation needs God more than ever, we invite you to commit to praying and to get others committed to participating as well!
A prayer guide written by Christian leaders from different denominations across the nation will be made available as a written booklet, or you can receive guided prayers daily via internet. As a participant, you have a choice of either using this prayer guide or simply saying your own prayer each day at 12:23 a.m. or 12:23 p.m.
The agenda is simply to pray. The goal is to transform our nation. The number of people that participate depends upon you.
The United States Pledge of Allegiance eloquently states that we are a “Nation under God.” Every monetary coin and bill produced in our nation powerfully states, “In God We Trust.” On the Rotunda walls of the United States Capitol are four paintings which include two prayer meetings, one baptism, and one Bible study. References to God are inscribed on the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, the Supreme Court, the National Archives, the Senate and House office buildings, and the Library of Congress. Inside both Senate and House buildings are plaques that read, “In God we trust.” On the outside metal tip of the Washington Monument, towering 555 feet above the ground, is a Latin phrase which reads, “Laus Deo,” meaning, “Praise be to God.” Inside the memorial’s cornerstone lies a Bible. Depictions of Moses and the Ten Commandments are located throughout the Supreme Court, including above the Judge’s bench. Inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., are the words, “God who gave life gave us liberty.” The United States Supreme Court in 1892 heard the case, Church of the Holy Trinity vs. United States, and in a unanimous decision, the Court concluded that “this is a Christian Nation.” Again in 1931, Justice George Sutherland reviewed that decision and declared that Americans are a “Christian people.”
Given these facts and the fact that the United States was formed and founded upon Judeo-Christian ethics and thoughts, it is time for Christians in America to exercise our right to pray and to humbly acknowledge our dependence and need for the same God and Savior – Jesus Christ -- that our founding fathers bowed to in the chambers of Congress back in 1776.
Based upon the Christian Old Testament and Hebrew Talmud, the time has come for us to be leaders by adhering to 2 Chronicles 7:14 which states, “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 I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
We invite you to pray with us October 1 – November 2, 2010. Can you imagine if tens of thousands of Christians across America and around the world humbly submitted to God each day for one month at 12:23 a.m. and/or 12:23 p.m.? How would our nation be changed? How would God respond to our prayers?
He might just heal our nation!
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