National Day of Prayer is observed annually on the first Thursday of May, and today is the National Day of Prayer here in the United States. This is a day set aside for prayer for our nation. The prayer theme for 2022 is “Exalt the Lord who has established us” with a theme verse from Colossians, “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving” (Colossians 2:6–7). By the way, many people pray but not to the true God! There’s only one God—the Creator God of the universe.
Here are a few items to consider praying for today as you join with tens of thousands of other Americans in prayer for America today:
We at Answers in Genesis will be praying throughout the day today. Join with us and so many other Americans in lifting this nation, the church, and our leaders up before the Lord.
Pray without ceasing. (1 Thessalonians 5:17)
Now, many may not be aware that the first Thursday of May is also the National Day of Reason. This national day was conceived in order to “provide a positive, useful, constitutional alternative to the exclusionary National Day of Prayer” according to the American Humanist Association. Obviously, the National Day of Prayer is upsetting to them, and they list in detail why Christianity threatens them on their Day of Reason page.
I’ll only include a few of their bullet points below, along with a biblical worldview “translation.” Their main contentions are as follows:
It’s a very troubling list (to mainly attack Christianity), and I couldn’t advocate any more strongly for increased prayer in combatting this sort of mindset. Not just to pray against those (anti-Christian) items, but to pray that the Lord would open eyes to see the destructive culture of death they promote and that they and those they influence would instead turn their hearts to him.
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken
This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.
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