A group from Ireland wrote this song. I'm sure they are envisioned for God to visit Ireland, in much the same way we are envisioned to have God visit America. The words to this song express what is in my heart concerning God and our country. If we repent and turn back to God, God says He will heal our land. Does America need healing? The answer is obvious. This is why we pray for the church and pray for the country.
I think about the three girls who were rescued in Ohio from horrific situations. Each girl was taken into the home of a man who tortured them and abused them. One young woman was there for a decade. I believe God allowed these girls to be found, and their captor caught and put in prison. This is an answer to prayers that God would set people free from their captors. We don't know how many more children and young adults are being held captive right at this moment, but God does. And we have the responsibility and privilege to pray that God will expose the evil deeds that are hidden. We pray for kidnappers and murderers to be caught. That is an expression of God's mercy, for if people can commit serious crimes and get away with them, they will not fear God, and neither will the people who are watching.
There has been another report that 105 children that were taken by pedophiles have been found. The pedophiles were arrested. The interesting thing about this one is that the children who were taken and used for the sexual purposes of the pedophiles, either were runaways or they came from foster homes. Basically, these children came from homes where they really weren't wanted, and the pedophiles are skilled in detecting children who are in this situation. Now these 105 children are free, but do they have a loving home to go to? That is something to pray about in our society. We need to get back to the basics and build loving, secure homes. But that takes the grace of God, and will never happen apart from humility. Only when we can give up our rights to ourselves can we work together to build strong, healthy marriages.
Read the words to this song. See how they apply to our church and country.
Come set Your rule and reign
In our hearts again
Increase in us we pray
Unveil why we're made
Come set our hearts ablaze with hope
Like wildfire in our very souls
Holy Spirit come invade us now
We are Your Church
We need Your power
In us
We seek Your kingdom first
We hunger and we thirst
Refuse to waste our lives
For You're our joy and prize
To see the captive hearts released
The hurt; the sick; the poor at peace
We lay down our lives for Heaven's cause
We are Your church
We pray revive
This Earth
Build Your kingdom here
Let the darkness fear
Show Your mighty hand
Heal our streets and land
Set Your church on fire
Win this nation back
Change the atmosphere
Build Your kingdom here
We pray
Unleash Your kingdom's power
Reaching the near and far
No force of hell can stop
Your beauty changing hearts
You made us for much more than this
Awake the kingdom seed in us
Fill us with the strength and love of Christ
We are Your church
We are the hope
On Earth
Song by Rend Collective Experiment
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