Chorus of prayer

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NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, September 12th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

This has certainly been a hard week for the United States of America. But as we close today, we do not close in despair!

EICHER: We do not. We close in hope, and for that we combed through the archives and found some of the prayers listeners have sent us for our country and spiritual revival in it. Even though these came a year ago, they are more than timely today.

BROWN: We’ve selected a few of those and set them within a hopeful rendition of the 18th century hymn: How firm a foundation, recorded by the worship team at Providence Church, Austin, TX.

SOFIA ELLIOT: Father, I grieve at the wickedness and the turning our back on you in so many ways. Lord, there are so many people who hate you. So many people have turned away from your word and your truth. Please, would you cause a revival in our country. I love you, Father and ask these things in the name of Your Son. Amen.

MUSIC: How firm a foundation, O saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in his excellent Word!
What more can he say than to you he has said
Who unto the Savior for refuge have fled?

BRAD SHED: We ask for a profound change in the spiritual landscape of our land and move on people's hearts. Lord may we truly come together to see you do a revival in our land, where our hearts cry out to you to come and move. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

MUSIC: Fear not, I am with you. Oh, be not dismayed,
For I am your God and will still give you aid;
I'll strengthen you, help you, and cause you to stand,
Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand.

KIM TURKINGTON: Father God, for those of us who fear you, who walk with you and who love you, Lord that You are our hope, that we wait in hope for you, because you are our help and our shield. So Lord, we just offer you our praise and our worship. And through this time of uncertainty in our land, Lord, we know that we can be secure and we can rest in you, because you never change. You're the same yesterday, today and forever, and we trust you Lord, and we just rest in who you are, and we praise you. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.

MUSIC: When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie,
my grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply;
the flame shall not hurt thee; I only design
thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.

CARLOS WHITFIELD: And we pray that more people than ever before will be opened, will be awakened, will be enlivened by the proclamation of the gospel, and respond, Lord, with saving faith. This is a desperate desire we have, and we lift it up to you, father in Christ's name.

MUSIC: The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose,
I will not, I will not desert to its foes;
that soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I'll never, no, never, no, never forsake.

NATHAN FAHLIN: The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.

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