Genesis

I am concerned America has become a world of fantasy…of make-believe…a place where everything is detached from truth.

Hollywood elites rail about gun violence and climate change, but their movies glorify violence and from their profits, they fly private jets and live in mansions creating carbon footprints many times larger than the average American. America’s political leaders decry the state of our country, but it’s always someone else’s fault. They give speeches about solutions they never intend to implement. They do not intend to threaten the status quo. Living in a “dress up” world does not change reality. America is badly broken. We’ve been deceived by villains. Our future has be jeopardized by the darkness that permeates everything.

We need Your lantern of light to lead us back to You. Rescue us.

AMEN

“The LORD observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.” Genesis 6:5

You created the human race distinct from all other creation and gave us eternal souls. The sanctity of every human life is at the essence of Your creation. I am deeply aware of how much You love me but no more than You love each of us.

America has abandoned respect for the unborn in a mad rush to promote casual sex…recreational sex without consequences. This profanity of human life leads to disrespect for one another. It coarsens our language. It makes public discourse impossible and creates deep divisions among us.

Father, help me be a bridge. Help me represent the sanctity of life with grace and love. Teach me to treat everyone with respect because each of us is created in Your image and is valuable beyond estimate.

AMEN

Scripture: “God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:27

“And the two shall become one flesh.”

A beautiful intimacy You designed to create unbreakable bonds of love between man and woman.  A magnificent gift that undergirds healthy families and functional societies. How can we have been so self-centered and blind to have totally abused and degraded Your amazing plan? The enemy has deceived us into believing that lust is actually love and that monogamy is foolish.  We have been tricked into accepting a counterfeit “love” that mocks Your creation. As You predicted, we have become a people defined by our appetites, mere animals.  We have traded purity and security for disease and dysfunction, yet we stubbornly cling to our immortality.

America cannot survive unless we again embrace Your standard…draw us back to Your perfect plan for stable relationships and wholesome families.

AMEN

Scripture: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” Genesis 2:24

When You finished Your creative work, You declared, “It is very good.” Before mankind decided we could make our own rules, it was perfect and without any kind of blemish.

Since we took control, the earth has been transformed from perfection to chaos.

Father, we are lost, blinded and confused. There is no escape from the desperate situation our rebellion and stubborn refusal to acknowledge Your lordship has created.

My spirit is crushed as I learn more of the depths of depravity the “wisdom” of mankind is capable of reaching.

How desperate is our need? How scant our recognition of our failures? Reveal Yourself mighty in our daily lives. Shine Your light into the depths of our darkness.

Empower me…I want to be part of the solution but I’m helpless without You.

AMEN

Scripture: “The LORD saw how bad the people on earth were and that everything they thought and planned was evil.” Genesis 6:5

The universe was without form or substance…then You spoke and everything came into being. At Your command there was where there had been only darkness and life where there had been no life.

I cannot explain it but my very existence proves Your mighty power.

In the face of all this the human race which only exists by Your grace declares themselves wiser and more capable than it’s Creator.

I am guilty of this hubris when I think I can handle things without You. Forgive me my arrogance…remind me of my insignificance without You. It is You and You alone that gives my existence meaning and hope.

I am just one of untold millions of Americans too often deceived by this lie. Reveal Yourself fresh and new to us…don’t abandon America…rescue her.

AMEN

Scripture:
“In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1

I love You…not for all the mighty things You’ve done, but simply because of who You are. You rescued me; gave me a place in Your family; love me and are my Rock.

Our colleges and universities…especially the elite ones…have become infested with people of great worldly wisdom. They are pursuing the allure of “…you can be like God, knowing good and evil.” But the allure is like a mirage and the harder we chase it, the thirstier and more frustrated we become.

Shine the truth of Your wisdom across this land. Teach us that there is no future in trying to replace Your truth with the wisdom this earth has to offer.

Save us from ourselves and reign again in our hearts. Begin with me!

AMEN

Scripture:
“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:5