Today on Revive Our Hearts, we're going to be looking at a prayer for urgent times based on Isaiah chapter 63.

Before we do, though, we've asked Kimberly Wagner to cry out to the Lord on behalf of our nations.

And I'm going to be praying for my nation, the United States, but I want to encourage you to pray for whatever your nation is, for God's

intervention in your country. Here's Kim Wagner to lead us.

Father, I come to you on the basis of your faithful and compassionate heart. We need you to display who you are. We're a nation torn apart by injustice,

oppression, cruelty, and violence. We're marked by ethnic and social prejudice. I cry out to you to stand as an advocate for the helpless,

the unborn, and the voiceless. I ask you, Almighty God, to defend those who are abused, those who

are sold through sex trafficking, or marketed by the porn industry.

I cry out to you to abolish these industries that prey on the most vulnerable.

Would you, Father, stir up your church by your spirit to actually display your good and merciful character

and live out the gospel by caring for our neighbors, by respecting one another as the image bearers of you that we are created to be all of equal worth and value.

Oh, Father, would you move in your church and give us grace to love one another well,

to care for the orphan and the widow, to battle for marriages that are headed for divorce,

to battle for the addict's freedom, to provide hope for the hopeless, by giving a credible

witness to the world of your reality. Oh, Lord Jesus, I ask these things in your name

and for your glory, oh God, in Jesus' name, amen.

The prophet Isaiah didn't believe in offering predictable prayers.

Nancy DeMas Walgamuth describes the way he cried out.

He gets honest.

He gets earnest.

And in that honesty and in that earnestness lies our only hope.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Brokenness, The Heart God Revives.

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