A Challenge for the National Day of Prayer

It’s our National Day of Prayer.

What would happen if our entire nation prayed for souls?
What if, instead of praying over health care and guns and civil rights and freedom of religion and safety against terrorism and Christians in politics (all good things to pray about)–
what if we exhausted ourselves crying over lost people?

What if we focused, not on what they do, but why they do it–
what if we were grieved by our own sinful hearts instead of grieved over the disruptions into our personal liberties and intrusions into our excessive lives?

What if we were willing, like Paul–to be poured out as a drink offering?
To be sacrificed for a greater cause–
for a national and global reawakening?

Are we willing to pray like that?

2 Tim. 4:5-7
“But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardships, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry. For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”