Yesterday my wife and I responded to a call to pray for our state. We have been following a national movement that is “painting” the borders of every state with prayer and a call for a return to the Godly declarations of its founders. Prayer warriors are covering as many parts of the border of each state and its capitol as possible and praying for, not only their state, but their bordering state(s) and the nation.
We drove up to the Arkansas-Missouri border yesterday. We got a late start and it was a long and exhausting round trip drive but it was worth it. It always feels good when you know God is calling you to do something and you go out of your comfort zone and accomplish it. We added our prayers to thousands of others across this nation who have been doing this for the past few weeks. We are considering driving to some or all of the other state lines bordering Arkansas… Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
At the first landing at Cape Henry, Virginia on April 28, 1607 Robert Hunt made this declaration which we echoed (shared in part here for brevity): “We do hereby dedicate this land, and ourselves, to reach the people within these shores with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to raise up Godly generations after us, and with these generations take the Kingdom of God to all the earth… From these very shores the Gospel shall go forth, not only to this new world, but the entire world.”
2 Chronicles 7:14 (NLT) - “Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.”