Like a lawyer intercedes for his clients in a court of law, we petition God.

Like an assistant carrying out the orders of her boss and becoming the go-between of him and the other employees, we can ask for God’s will to be done here on earth as it is in heaven.

Intercession is delegation. It is mediation. It is carried authority through representation.

Behind the greatest evangelist of the Second Great Awakening — Charles Finney — knelt a man of intercession: Daniel Nash.

Finney, through his passionate appeals for people to come to God, saw hundreds of thousands of conversions happen all over New York and beyond in the early 1800s. Unknown to most, this move of God contained a secret weapon. Nash.

It is easy to feel overwhelmed and not know where to start when praying for government. 

There is so much going on and so many needs that you could find yourself praying 24/7 and still not include everything burdening your heart.

There is nothing that fills us up or fulfills us more than God’s presence.

There is nothing that gets us into the presence of God faster than thanksgiving and praise.

There is not a greater lost art in the Body of Christ than breaking out of selfishness into thankfulness and praise toward God.

Entering his presence with thanksgiving opens the gates of our hearts. When we are with Him, we are complete, whole, and free.

We see things.

We discern things.

We know something is not right.

When we watch the news and see corruption, political games, or injustice in our cities - we shudder.

Our eyes are wide open.

In 2010, out of concern for the direction of our country, My wife Patti and I founded the Sachse Tea Party. On March 7, 2011 we received a notice from the IRS that we had been singled out…

In this post we will look at the second bullet point, wisdom. If we are going to stand on the Word of God, then we must seek the wisdom to understand and articulate Biblical truth and a Biblical worldview. This begins with humility…

There are many prayer guides and devotionals, but there are three specific things that each believer should include in his or her personal prayers before engaging the civil society…

John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”[i] It follows then that if the leaders and the people turn their backs on God, not only will they forfeit God’s blessing, but it will corrupt our system of government, which protects us from tyranny….

It has been said: “If you want to change the world, draw a circle around yourself and start with everything inside the circle.” We agree with this, so if Christians wish to change the direction of our nation, we should begin by examining ourselves. This process begins with prayer…