Call to Fall
America needs change. Yet the change we need does not come from Washington or Wall Street. It comes from God. It begins with God’s people praying to Him for the change we need:
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 will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)
God promises real change - spiritual healing for our souls and our land - if we will simply humble ourselves in repentant prayer before Him.
Please join churches nationwide on July 5, 2009 for the “Call to Fall” on our knees. This call is nothing new. It follows many biblical and historical examples that led to a national spiritual revival.
We have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws. (Daniel 9:5)
God prescribes a very specific type of prayer that is a necessary prerequisite to healing and renewal. He calls on us to fall to our knees before Him and take responsibility for the state of our nation by confessing our corporate and individual sins.
At the beginning of the War for Independence, the First Continental Congress called for a day of public humiliation, fasting, and prayer throughout the Colonies on July 20, 1775. James Warren wrote Samuel Adams:
Three millions of people on their knees at once, supplicating the aid of Heaven, is a striking circumstance, and a very singular one in America. May the blessings of Heaven follow in answer to our prayers...
That is what we are praying for – a unified effort that crosses all denominational and cultural barriers among God’s people that will hopefully result in God’s hand of judgment being stayed and His blessing being renewed on our lives and our land.
Please join churches across the nation as we kneel in humble prayer, seek His face in repentance, and ask God to forgive our sins and heal our land. America cannot long survive without it. Answer God’s “Call to Fall” on Sunday, July 5, 2009.
Repent, then, and turn to God, soz that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. (Acts 3:19)
