Week 1:
Blessings upon the Nation
Thanksgiving: Come before God with thanksgiving for a new year, 2016, and His goodness and faithfulness to us for the past years.
Adoration: Spend time to adore God. He is just. He is righteous. He defends the helpless and the weak. Scripture Reading: Psalm 7:9, Psalm 36:6
Confession: In order to pray for the nation, Christians have to repent and unify. Repentance is more than just feeling sorry for our sins. Repentance is to confess our sins and seeing the sins as God sees it, resulting in a change of our hearts and lifestyles. Let’s humble our hearts and ask God of Justice to burn out our sins. Ask God to convict us of our collective sins by:
(1) Revealing to us the ways we have offended and hurt God and others.
(2) Revealing to us the ways our nation have offended and hurt other nations.
(3) Revealing to us the ways our church have offended and hurt God and others in the community and nation.
Pray against these in our nation:Self-centeredness; greed; lying; conceit; promiscuity; concupiscence; love of pleasure; lack of kinship; drunkenness; envy; competitiveness; hatred; drugs; divorce; heresy; filth defamation dishonouring of parents; lack of insight; betrayal; treachery; presumptuousness; violent temperament; idolatry and so on.
Repentance prayer for the Nation:Holy Father, please free this nation from all the bondages that the dark forces have enchained us. May the blood of the Lord wipe away all the sin of the nation and the sin of the people living in this land. Please remove the pride and the evil desire of the people, help us to stay away from drugs, gambling and gangsters. Help us to refuse to lie, involve in corruption, being selfish, overly selfindulgent and suppress others. May we seek love, justice, holiness and peace then we can live in a harmonious neighbourhood. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.
Week 2:
National Leaders
Adoration: God is sovereign. He is in control of our nation. Christ is the Power and Wisdom of God (1 Cor.1:24)
Scripture Reading: Proverbs 8:15, 1 Timothy 2:1-3
Prayer Points:
(1) God will raise up people who fear His Name for leadership positions in the country.
(2) Christians will have a deep conviction of justice in their hearts and boldly proclaim justice to the nations. Christians will rise up to pray for the national leaders.
(3) Ask for God’s protection upon Christians in leadership position, that they will remain steadfast and honour God in their duties. Christian political leaders and public servants to be wise and bold in using their positions to transform society in a manner that will glorify God.
(4) God to work in the hearts of the national leaders so that they will promote a prosperous and peaceful nation.
(5) God will throw down wicked leaders from their positions.
(6) Corrupted leaders will repent of their corrupted ways.
Closing Prayer:
Lord, may Your people honour Your name, so that Your will be done without hindrances. May our leaders fear You because the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. May the churches in Malaysia arise and shine. Let your gospel be preached throughout the whole nation so that Your name be glorified in Malaysia. Lord, heal this land so that the people and all creations in this land will praise You. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Week 3:
Healing of the Nation
Adoration: God is Yahweh-Shalom—the Lord who gives rest, the Lord is peace (Ps 35:27). Christ is the Hope of Glory (Colossians 1:26). God is Yahweh-Ropheka—the Lord Who heals you (Exodus 15:26). Praise God for His goodness to us, and for
His creation.
Scripture Reading: Psalm 35:27, Colossians 1:26, Exodus 15:26 Ask for God’s healing upon the nation:
(1) Repent of our poor stewardship of creation, and the misuse of the wealth of nature that He has given to us. Repent for being bad examples by our extravagance, waste and pollution while many in the world suffer lack of basic provisions of food, clean water, sanitation and so on.
(2) God’s mercy on the increasing number of poor people, including the urban poor and the Church will be sensitive to care and to reach out.
(3) Mutual respect for each other regardless of race, ethnicity and religion.
Pray against:
(1) Injustices and harmful acts and deeds.
(2) The abuse and exploitation of women and children, including abortion.
(3) Witchcraft and idolatry in the land.
Prayer of Blessings for the Nation: Almighty God, we thank you for establish Malaysia as a nation. We ask of you to have grant your children a heart that desire you and becoming an obedient citizen in this nation. Lord, protect us from the oppression and struggle so that there is racial harmony and we can live peacefully together. May you grant those in authority, humility, mercy and justice so that the nation will be at peace. Lord continues to bless us with freedom of religion and free of speech. Rise up your churches so that we could be the watchman of the nation. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.
Week 4:
Christians to be Light and Salt
Adoration: Jesus died on the Cross for our sins so that we will be reconciled to God. The Lord is our light and our salvation; we need not fear.
Scripture Reading: Matthew 5:13-16, Psalm 82:3.
Pray that Christians will be a people of integrity:
(1) Kindness, gentleness, graciousness and mercy would mark our ways as Christians.
(2) Christians will be defenders of the weak, voice to the voiceless, act responsibly towards the welfare of all regardless of gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion, culture social position or economic status.
(3) Christians will stand with those who face disadvantage, oppression and injustice.
(4) Christians will be purposeful, bold, intentional in loving and caring.
(5) The Church will be restored as houses of prayer for all nations.
Closing Prayer:
Lord Jesus Christ, Whose arms of love were stretched wide upon the Cross so that all may come within Your saving embrace; stretch forth the hands of Your Church today so that she may embrace and care for the rejected, the needy and the lonely people in the society. Amen.
Provided by Board of Laity, SCAC