Let's Pray: 30 Days of Prayer for Our Nation

"America has drifted."

Choco De Jesús, firmly believes this. However, the U.S. Missions executive director also recalls that in the Bible, in every crisis, God moved individuals to pray.

August 1 marks the beginning of AG U.S. Missions’ new prayer initiative, Let’s Pray. Let’s Pray is a daily prayer calendar with prompts for each day of the month to pray over the unity, healing, deliverance, and revival of America.

As believers, we hold the mantle of prayer, and our nation needs covering more than ever before. We must reconvene in the upcoming days to cry out to the Lord to touch this country. Second Chronicles 7:14 says, “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” May it be laid upon your heart to pray alongside us in Jesus’ name.

The Let’s Pray initiative focuses on six main prayer themes – unity, healing, deliverance, freedom, revival, and America.

First is the invitation to pray for unity across America. Our country is gearing up for a period of transition, causing division and hostility to become a widespread epidemic. Pray for harmony and for the common goal of salvation and discipleship to band our country together through families, the church, and neighboring communities.

Pray for healing. Loneliness and hate have swept through our nation and taken captive impressionable minds. Pray for healing — that restoration would occur, and that deep wounds of bitterness and contempt would dissolve. Pray also for physical healings, as many Americans deal with chronic illnesses and injuries, or are facing the challenges brought on by heart disease, cancer, stroke, or a host of other maladies.

Pray for deliverance from addiction and hopelessness. Many Americans are trapped by the hands of the evil one, and we must pray for the fog to be lifted and for all people to come to know full peace, salvation, and transformation.

Pray for freedom. The chains are heavy, and the need is great. Many people battle pain, bondage, depression, addiction, condemnation, and fear. Pray that all these would be eradicated in Jesus’ name.

Pray for revival. What else can Christians do except for call on the name of the Lord our God for a radical display of His power? Let revival once again claim churches, street corners, businesses, schools and colleges, homes and families, refugee camps, and our very own hearts.

Lastly, pray for America itself, for our nation to be truly Christian — representing, proclaiming and fostering an atmosphere of peace and godliness and boldly proclaiming faith in the one true God. May the Lord bless America and continue to lead this country and its people to be a light for all others.

U.S. Missions, alongside our districts and churches, has been commanded to seek, save, and send, but before that comes prayer. The Bible states in Romans 8:34 that Jesus is “at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.” All we have to do is lift up our voices alongside Him.

Join us in praying for these specific needs and others with the Let’s Pray booklet. Walk through the month of August, day by day, bringing the concerns of our nation to our ever-listening Father. In the words of De Jesús – “Prayer works, prayer is powerful when people come together.” We need you.

Click here for an invitational video from De Jesús and here for a downloadable version of Let’s Pray so you can follow along in the upcoming weeks.

1 John 5:14 says, “If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”

Lift up your voice, and pray, so that the gospel may be displayed.

Cassidy Ozias

Cassidy Ozias grew up as a missionary kid with Assemblies of God World Missions in Northern Asia. She now works for Assemblies of God U.S. Missions as the communications and media network coordinator after graduating from Evangel University with a BA in English: Writing.