INVITATION TO NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER IN THE ILLINOIS CAPITOL CITY - SPRINGFIELD

 
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NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER 2021 PRIMETIME RADIO BROADCAST FROM WLUJ CHRISTIAN RADIO

 

PRAYER LEADERS: Pastor Adam Cruse (Living Faith Baptist Church); Pastor Mac Dalton (Radiant Church); Pastor Paul Ayappa (Faith Outreach Christian Center); Pastor Jonathan Franklin (Mount Zion Apostolic Church); Pastor Roy Newman (Fresh Visions Community Church); Pastor Eric Ginder (New Life Tabernacle).

NDP Proclamation:  State of Illinois National Day of Prayer Task Force Leader Pastor Stan Pratt

Worship Music led by Dr. Eddie Pullen, Illinois Baptist State Association (IBSA).

Location: Crowne Plaza, Springfield, Illinois.

Recorded, edited and broadcasted by Great News Radio WLUJ Family of Stations www.wluj.org , from the Mississippi River to the Indiana border.

Sponsored and led by Bernie Lutchman and Business Men in Christ since 2006

NDP 2021: MAY OUR HEARTS BE ALL FOR JESUS

Most Gracious God in Heaven, at the start of Holy Week, we reflect with great gratitude and sadness at what our rebellion, sin and iniquity led to on that Friday, almost two thousand years ago. On a hill far way, as the old rugged Cross exacted brutality and pain from the Suffering Savior, You brought one Final Atonement for all the sin of all the world, past, present and future.

Lord, Your Great Son, Creator of Heaven and earth, bore our sin and shame and carried our pains. He was afflicted for the terminal illness of the consequences of our sins. He was persecuted, flogged and then pierced through for our rebellion. He was crushed for all our outrageous iniquities. But by His Wounds, we were healed. By His Stripes He brought us the roadmap to redemption. By His Sacrifice, we were exonerated from paying a massive debt, for which we had absolutely no hope of even paying the interest.

Father, as the Lord Jesus set His Mighty Eyes towards Jerusalem and never wavered, may WE never waver from our commitment to serve, honor and obey You, as the Bride of Christ we have been set apart to be.

May we, as joint heirs with Christ in the Eternal Kingdom, resolve to set our hearts in motion to love You with all our mind, body and soul.

May our feet be planted on the solid ground of the Gospel of Jesus and the Word of God, which stands forever in the Heavens.

May our hands reach out and serve the least of these and never grow weary from doing good, from our homes to the hopeless.

May our ears listen to the clarion call from the Word of Truth to be ye Holy, as YOU are Holy, so we will not stray from the narrow paths of righteousness.

May our eyes see You in all creation as we worship You in Spirit and in Truth, as one day, even the rocks will cry out.

May our mouths proclaim the Salvation of the Lord, wherever we see the lost, hurting and those who need a hand up or a hope whispered.

May the Sacrifice, which comes at the end of the week which changed the entire course of human history, not be trivialized but studied to show ourselves approved.

May it be honored so that we do not grieve the Heart of the Lord and the Holy Spirit.

May this same Sacrifice by the Good Shepherd Who rescued His wayward sheep, be passed down not just to generations not yet born, but the living who grew up in homes where the Name of the Lord is not well known or revered.

Father, so, as we remember the Savior's suffering and persecution, may we as Christians, even venture to call our current sufferings - our jewels!

May we regard suffering for Christ a significant honor.

May the griefs we endure be the fuel for a life symbolized by perseverance.

May our sorrows and troubles be seen in light of Who He is and What He did for us, for on that great and glorious Day, when we see Him - face to Face - all things which are now murky as in a mirror, we shall see Him as He is - the King of Heaven and the Lord of all.

For it is in His Mighty, Strong, Delivering, Powerful, Liberating and Excellent Name we pray - Amen and amen.

NDP 2021: PRAYER ON THE WONDER AND WORK OF JESUS

Heavenly Father, as the final week of the first quarter of 2021 rolls on, we stand in awe of You and express total praise and gratitude at the reality of our Salvation! We recall the days, when we were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Heaven, and aliens to the Covenant of Promise. No matter what age we were, before we knew the Power of that Promise, we were dead to sin and headed to a place called Hell, reserved for the devil and his minions. We did not even know we were without Hope, without a Prayer, and without the one True God.

But now, because of the Cross, because we repented of our sins, because we bottomed out and ended up face down in the sick muck and mire of this corrupt world, and because You love us so much, You reached out Your Mighty Hand to us. Because when we were so far away from You, Your Grace, Your Love, Your Mercy, Your Compassion and the Precious Supernatural Blood of Jesus brought us up - and near to You, oh God!

You lifted us up from the miry clay. You set our feet upon the rock, like hinds feet. You put a new song in our mouths. A hymn of praise to our God, which we shall sing from Glory to Glory until we see Your Glory Face to face on the other side of Eternity. 

For that, oh Mighty King, we fall on our faces before You in humble worship, because You are worthy. 

We surrender the rest of our few days to You, because You are gracious.  

We commit those same days to the furthering of Your Kingdom's message here on earth, that all our own ends of the earth, even if it is across the street, because You are God.

Father, most Holy Father, we once were hostile to You, Who sit on the Throne, but because of the Atonement on the Cross, You took the Holy Law of Moses and replaced it with Christ, so that we, who trust and believe and accept Him as Lord, will have lives resulting in Peace. Thank You, most Precious Abba, for putting that hostility to death and for raising up the banner of Truth and Love, so that we - aliens in a foreign land - are no longer strangers and heathens in Your midst, but fellow citizens with the saints in Heaven who have gone before us.

So, Lord, as we go through our daily lives this week. As we pray and delight in the Law of the Lord, so that we can be like trees along the running brooks of water, give us a burden for whom You would like us to pray or fast for or reach out to, in our own Acts 1:8 paradigm, so that they too, can experience the love, mercy and kindness of our Jesus.

Help us to love with a perfect love, but also help us to do so in Truth, since Truth without love is deception. So Lord, as we come to thee with this burden on our hearts to see many come to repentance and faith, help us to share, teach and live this fact: 

That to come to You is to come home from exile.

That to come to You is to come to land out of the raging storm.

That to come to  You is to come to rest after long labor

That to come to You is to come to the goal of our desires and the summit of our wishes....the Goal of which is one Divine Person, Who will always be our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Your only Begotten Son. For it is in His Precious Name we pray today, amen and amen.

NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER 2020 BROADCAST

The following is the primetime 8 pm Central Daylight Time broadcast of the 2020 National Day of Prayer Illinois state capitol event, in Springfield, Illinois. It was broadcast from the studios of Christian Radio for Central Illinois - WLUJ family of stations.

The following were the prayer leaders, who prayed for our families, churches, communities and governments (Federal, State, Local) and military, of course:

Pastor Eric Ginder - New Life Tabernacle, Macon, Il.
Pastor Mac Dalton - Radiant Church, Springfield, Il.
Dr. Eddie Pullen - Illinois Baptist State Association, Church Planter
Patrick Groth - Hope Church Spiritual Formation Leader
Pastor John Swinford - Sweetwater Christian Church
Pastor Joseph Krol - Galilee Baptist Church
Bernie Lutchman - President, Business Men in Christ and NDP Springfield Leader.