Two years ago, Bill Keith, one of my Twitter connections, @bpkeith , started a grassroots National Day of Prayer. Alarmed, as so many of us are, by the declining state of the nation, he felt moved to connect with others in a focused, sincere appeal to God to heal our land.
 
This year he is again issuing a call to prayer; for tomorrow, Oct. 29th ~

Twitter National Day of Fasting and Prayer
We are inviting our readers throughout this nation and around the world to join us on October 29 for a National Day of Fasting and Prayer for our nation. That is one week before the crucial mid-term election on November 4 that will determine the future of this great Republic far into the future. Please join the team and let’s take a stand for this great land.
Our battle cry is II Chron. 7: 14. Read it, memorize it and stand on it.
Best to all. ~~ Bill

About the Day of Prayer
 

Two years ago — before the national mid-term elections — our nation was facing so many issues that I felt it was time to call people to prayer for this land. I sent out word to my followers on TWITTER and asked them to join me. Many of them RETWEETED my call to prayer and a total of 85,000 learned about the special day.
However, this year the prayer warriors who have joined me have RETWEETED the call to more than 900,000. Of course that does not mean that all of them will fast and pray on October 29, unless we encourage and inspire them to do so.
Hence, I’m asking each person to tell all your followers about this blog and ask them to join us for the day of prayer.
 
Prayer List
• Please pray for our nation and for the upcoming election on November 4 that people will vote their conscience and nothing else.
• Pray for those who are running for the Senate and House of Representatives.
• Pray they will hold fast the sanctity of life and of marriage.
• Pray they will realize the consequences of socialized healthcare that has wrecked our healthcare system in this land.
• Pray that they will oppose the tyranny of taxation.
• Pray that they will promote racial tolerance rather than racial division.
• Pray that they will be dedicated to the Constitution and oppose executive and judicial actions by fiat that are not approved by Congress.
• Pray that they will close our southern border and protect our land and oppose blanket amnesty for millions of illegals in this land.
• Pray that they will understand the dangers of a $17 trillion deficit.

Prayer has been an American tradition since our founding. At this point, so many of us have worked so hard to turn things around in the last few years, with very limited results. Late in the day now, we’ve come to realize that our faith in our fellow citizens has been misplaced. Instead, for the last several decades our country has been pushing aside is the one True Source of help and hope that sustained us all along. It’s time to turn back!
 

The following prayer, judging by the rather archaic language, is from a much simpler time in American history. But its pleas are crucially relevant today ~

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Your will. Bless our land with honorable industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord and confusion; from pride and arrogancy, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in Thy name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that, through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth. In the time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail; all which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

 
Thank you for joining us in this appeal to heaven. May God bless America – again.