Pre-Election Prayer with Joni Eareckson Tada
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Colson Center
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🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Joni Eareckson Tada notes that everyone’s trust is broken. She points out that we don't trust the news anymore, we don't trust people's motives or what they say.
The prophet Isaiah wrote with a similar backdrop. He wrote, "See, darkeness covers the Earth, thick darkness over the peoples." Isaiah was called to intercede on behalf of Israel. It is with this backdrop that Joni calls us to pray for the United States of America during election week.
Joni stands on the themes and background of the prophet Isaiah, quoting, ‘But the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your dawn.’"
Join us in praying for our nation, that all might come to see their need for Christ and would find purpose in the light of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is John Stone Street, President of the Colson Center. |
| 0:04.0 | For several weeks now, each and every Wednesday, we have held an online national prayer time for our nation and for the church. |
| 0:13.0 | It's a crazy election season, and we all know we need to pray. |
| 0:17.0 | Well, I ask my friend, my hero, Johnny Erickson Tata, to join us as well and lead us in a time of |
| 0:24.3 | prayer for the nation and for the church to, as Chuck Holston used to say, be the church. Johnny agreed |
| 0:31.1 | to share time with us, and she's going to walk through what the world needs from the church |
| 0:36.4 | right now. She's going to talk about the most |
| 0:38.6 | vulnerable among us, and she's going to talk about the need for God's people to pray, for God's |
| 0:45.2 | direction, God's empowering, and God's mercy. So I'm very, very honored that Johnny would lead us |
| 0:52.0 | in this prayer time. Now, I'm so glad that you've joined us as well, |
| 0:55.5 | and I want to invite you to take this and share it widely. Put it on your social media page. |
| 1:01.8 | Send the link as an email to your friends and to your family. Use it in your small group. |
| 1:07.3 | I hope this encourages you. It certainly encouraged me. And please, don't forget to join us. |
| 1:11.6 | We'll wrap up our weekly Wednesday morning prayer times this Wednesday, the day after the election, |
| 1:17.6 | 1030 Eastern, with my friend Ed Stetzer of Wheaton College. |
| 1:22.6 | Thanks so much for joining us, and thank you for praying with us and with Johnny Erickson Tata for the |
| 1:28.0 | church and for our nation. |
| 1:30.2 | Hi, I'm Johnny Erickson Tata of Johnny and Friends and welcome to this special pre-election |
| 1:37.8 | Day edition of the Colson Center Prayer Initiative. |
| 1:42.0 | Tomorrow friends, we elect our nation's leaders, and I hope you are ready to |
| 1:47.2 | pray because we are asking God to mercifully and powerfully mobilize his people, including you and me. |
| 1:55.0 | We want to be mobilized to advance across this nation all things that are true and good, |
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