Since 1952, the United States has acknowledged and celebrated an annual National Day of Prayer. This year that day is May 4.
This year’s theme verse, James 5:16b—Pray fervently in righteousness and avail much—is the basis of conversations about family, business, military, and government.
I am thrilled to be part of the conversations with Dr. Angela Chester on Daily Spark TV.
Watch online Thursday, May 4, and let me know what you think!
The image is a bit fuzzy, but the interview isn’t! Tune in to this National Day of Prayer broadcast on May 5 at 12:00 Noon (ET).
Dr. Angela Chester, host of Daily Spark TV, interviews Rev. Ronald Perry, Prophetess Katherine Free, Trish Atkinson, and me on prayer themes related to government, military, media, business, education, church, and family.
Broadcast options include Roku, YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and DRANGELACHESTER.COM.
Praising in prayer is the theme for the 2022 National Day of Prayer, and the verses chosen as the basis for the day are Colossians 2:6-7 (NASB):
6 Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.
I welcome your comments about the National Day of Prayer broadcast!
Our National Day of Prayer, here in the United States, is coming up on May 5. It will be an opportunity for all of us to take some time and think about what prayer is, what it can be for us, and how it saves us.
As I have been thinking and praying about the messages appropriate for this day, it occurs to me that a foundational point is that we never have to beg when we pray to God.
We’ve all heard people pray heartbreaking prayers in which they beg God… maybe to save a sick relative… maybe to pull them out of financial despair… maybe to forgive them for something they haven’t been able to forgive themselves for… or a hundred other things.
I’ve even heard pastors in the pulpit pray begging prayers. Probably you have too. (Pastors, after all, are just as human as the rest of us.)
But if we stop to remember that God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son in order to save us, can we really think that we have to beg for anything?
We can, instead, live from a place of thanksgiving. We can lift up our concerns, trusting that He cares, trusting that He hears us. We can praise Him for what He’s already done and live in faith that our lives have His attention, that nothing of what occurs escapes his notice, that we never fall outside His love.
What will be the focus and content of your prayers when folks all over the nation join their hearts in prayer on May 5?