Week 6 A Prayer of Repentance for our Nation

Week 6: A Prayer of Repentance for our Nation
by Adrianna Anderson

Father, music was meant to glorify you and express a heart of love and gratitude for who You are. Lord our nation has strayed from glorifying You in its music to being slaves to sensual words with impure meanings in songs today. We have allowed the music of today to capture our hearts and lead us astray. We have meditated on words that do not glorify You. We have been ensnared by the culture and glamor of society through artists who do not know You. Forgive us Lord and help us to remember that as a man thinks in his heart so is he. Help us to meditate on songs and music that are honoring to you. Please help our children who can be so easily deceived in this area. Convict them by your Spirit that even a little worldly music can entangle their hearts and cause them to turn away from You.
Father, this nation has earned millions of dollars off of ungodly entertainment. Even though our nation is in terrible decline financially this area goes unaffected. Lord, our priorities are wrong and it is evident in the choices we make. Lord will you raise up godly producers that will make films that bring the message of hope to the screen? Will you cause them to share the gospel through television programs, plays, and musicals? Show those that don’t know You that ungodly entertainment won’t fill the void in their heart and that only You can. Help us to glorify You in what we watch and spend our money and time on. Help us to set godly standards in our homes of what will be permitted and what will not be permitted as it pertains to entertainment. Help us not to compromise this area of our lives. In Christ’s name we pray, Amen.

"They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.” 2 Peter 2:19

"Don’t you realize that this sin is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough?" 1 Corinthians 5:6 NLT

"I will refuse to look at anything vile and vulgar. I hate all who deal crookedly; I will have nothing to do with them." Psalm 101:3

"Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another. It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak." Romans 14:19, 21