Today is the National Day of Prayer. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln requested this nation "to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion."
As a servant of the Gospel, I have come to recognize, and at an alarming rate, that there stands in our midst an adversary and that our lives are surrounded with adversity. Whatever manifestations of adversity are found in your life and whatever confrontations you have with the adversary, the common denominator to determining your altitude of peace is the attitude of your heart when found on your knees. The attitude of a pray-er acknowledges God’s sovereignty, and man’s depravity. God’s wise will and man’s foolish plans. God’s sure strength and man’s fallible weaknesses. God gave us the vehicle of prayer for one purpose: Unity. For it is in prayer which we will be united to our Creator and His will, and it is in prayer which we can be united as a church. And this is the altitude of peace, found in a humbled heart and on bended knees, which can face any adversary and adversity which comes its way. My prayer on this National Day of Prayer would be that you would continue, steadfastly, in prayer for and with each other everyday and that we would humbly submit to our Creator, Jesus Christ, and His perfect will for our lives and for the future of this blessed nation.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12
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