Day 14 of 40 Days of Prayer

15“Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves. 16 You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit. 18 A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit. 19 So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire. 20 Yes, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by their actions.

21 “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. (Matthew 7:15-21 NLT)

Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for the many blessings you have given your children and this nation.  We want to give you all the honor, glory and praise that only you deserve.  We thank you that we can freely come to the throne of grace and seek forgiveness for our sins against you and each other. Lord, we want to cleanse our hearts of all the worldly things that are getting in the way of worshiping you, we want to be in complete obedience and follow your will and not our own. We want to bear good fruit; we want people’s lives to be left better than before we met them.  We pray that people would seek you because they can see you  in us and they want to have your love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and self-control in their own lives. We pray for our leaders to bear good fruit and not the bad fruit that has fallen off the tree, full of moral decay and rot. Only you can change a heart, so please Lord, soften the hearts of the lost, the wayward and our leaders – challenge them to seek after you and your will instead of their own. We pray for a passion to be stirred in all believers, a passion for you, a passion to follow after you with their whole hearts and not just lip service – to be counted as a laborer and leading many to salvation. We pray for a reconciliation of lives to you, that people would check themselves against your Word and account for their thoughts, words, and actions – and if a heart softening, nudge, or change would be needed that they would make a move into obedience with you. We see the changes happening Lord; we see eyes, ears and minds opened to you and your truth. We thank you for the revelations happening in lives and in our nation. We thank you that your son Jesus told us 'that it shall be done for us as we believed', so Lord we are believing that our nation would continue to be blessed by you, that we would continue to see your favor and hand upon our land; that many would come to a saving knowledge of you, that the truth would be spoken with great boldness and that your name would be made Holy in the lives of all the people.  In your son Jesus’ name we do pray ~ AMEN