2 Chronicles 20- Principles of Praying for a Nation in Crisis

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1. August 5-- Call Host: Sue Rowe

Let our sense of alarm drive us to seek the Lord and His perspective on the crisis we are in (2 Chron. 20:3) Jehoshaphat did not seek the counsel of others first but God's. Let's humbly seek help from the Lord for His guidance as to how we should pray and act.

2. August 12-- Call Host: Lisa Crump

Fast corporately and unite with others in prayer (2Chron. 20:3) He proclaimed a fast for all Judah and the people came together to seek the Lord's help. All prayer networks and movements in the USA need to come together to pray and fast for the nation and its deliverance for breakthrough to come.

3. August 19-- Call Host: John Robb

Acknowledge and declare God's sovereign rule and power, remembering His past deeds (2 Chron. 20:6-7) Let's reflect on who God is- that He is incomprehensibly great, much greater that His creation of hundreds of billions of stars- and that He has intervened throughout history when His people have called on Him for deliverance.

4. August 26-- Call Host: Dai Sup Han

Claim His promises (2 Chron. 20:9). Jehoshaphat refers to God's promise to King Solomon in 2 Chron. 7:14. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God. Let's claim the rich promises of Scripture that He brings to our hearts and minds for a divine reversal for the USA.

5. Sept 2-- Call Host: Dave Kubal

Describe situation of concern, asking for His intervention and deliverance humbly and dependently (2 Chron. 20:10-12). Let's bring the actual facts of the situation to God in prayer, not trying to save ourselves but placing our focus on Him in complete dependence. 

6.  Sept 9-- Call Host: Wesley Tullis

Involve the youth and children (2 Chron. 20:13). Children and youth are close to the Kingdom and often have a simple faith that makes them powerful intercessors. Let's share the critical situation our nation is in with them, asking that they join us in intercession over the coming months. Let us also learn to pray like children ourselves, trusting God in new and stretching ways!

7. Sept 16-- Call Host, Dave Butts

Wait for prophetic counsel and direction, letting God give us His strategy of prayer and action (2 Chron. 20:14,16). Jahaziel, a Levite from priestly class, therefore, an intercessor. As in the New Testament, all believers are now a "royal priesthood". We can also prophesy (cf. I Cor. 14 where God's people prophesied one by one and participants, even unbelievers, proclaimed that "God is really among you!" Let's get in sync with the Lord and speak out what He is putting on our hearts as far as His strategy for handling our nation's crisis. E.g. Joshua or David who sought God and got His unique strategies in battle. George Washington Carver who sought God for revelatory understanding and inventions resulting in more than 100 uses of the peanut. What is the Lord saying to us regarding what our corporate strategy as prayer leaders and intercessors ought to be?

8. Sept 23-- Call Host: John Robb

Take up our positions in faith and stand firm to see His deliverance, not being afraid or discouraged because the battle is ultimately God's (2 Chron. 20:15, 17). We fear or get downcast when we fail to see that the Lord is with us and is going to handle our battles for us in His own time and manner. Elisha asked the Lord to open the eyes of his servant to see that more with were him than were with their enemy. So we need to see things from His perspective, stand strong, and not be afraid.

9. Sept 30-- Call Host: Kay Horner

Worship and praise God in humble expectation v.18-19. Some bowed down and others stood up and praised God with a loud voice (the Pentecostals of the Old Testament!) We all have our unique and different styles and ways to worship and praise the Lord, but the main thing is to do so with all our hearts, celebrating His goodness and releasing our faith in Him together.

10. Oct 7-- Call Host: Dallas Eggemeyer

Implement the strategies of action God gives with praise and thanksgiving, realizing that faith-filled praise throws the evil one and his subjects into confusion and defeat (2 Chron. 20:21-24). "As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes" against Judah's enemies. Psalm 149 states that the praise of God in our mouths binds the kings with fetters and is the glory of all His saints. This pertains also to ruling principalities under the control of the prince of this world. We have been given spiritual weapons with divine power to destroy strongholds (2 Cor.10:4) "Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven" Jesus promised us (Mt. 28:18) Our real struggle is not against flesh and blood but against these powers of spiritual evil. Let's use the weapons He has given us so that powers of darkness that intend harm to our country through animating our human enemies (ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, North Korea and possibly even China and Russia) will be bound and overthrown!

11. Oct 14-- Call Host: Sara Ballenger

Exercising the principles of 2 Chronicles 20 when we face overwhelming difficulties will result in great victory, plunder, joy and peace (2 Chron. 20:25-29). God's people went from likely national disaster to a divine turnaround that gave them not only deliverance from their enemies but resulted in huge, unforeseen abundance of great value to the nation and its people. Let's trust God together that the Lord will use this current national distress for ultimate good for the USA and that peace and rejoicing will once again characterize our land.