As America approaches the 250th anniversary of our nation's founding, we pause to remember the blessings of God's hand upon our country and the Christian principles that shaped its earliest foundations.

While we thank God for our heritage,

we are reminded that every generation must seek the Lord for itself. The greatest need in America

today is not a political revival, but a spiritual awakening. Join Scott Pauley now as we open

God's word and discover why, more than ever,

it is time to seek the Lord. If I were to ask you today, what is the greatest need of our nation?

Immediately I would get a number of answers. People would say, well, we have great economic needs,

or we have political needs, or there are moral things

that need to be addressed.

But I would say to you, the greatest need of every nation

is always spiritual, because if you get that right,

everything else grows and flows out of that.

And if that is true, then what is the first thing that we as God's people should be doing?

Our first work must be our prayer work.

We need God.

That's exactly the message that we find in 1st Timothy chapter 2.

Beginning in verse number one, Paul wrote,

I exhort therefore that first of all

would you mark that phrase in your Bible and in your heart first of all someone may say first things first

well this is the first work first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and for all that are in authority,

that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who will have all men to be saved

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