God's Last Call to America: Pray, America, Pray

By Grace Mwiruki

Violence, lawlessness, natural disasters, pandemics, etc. All we have to do is to ask for God's intervention. And God, who is all-powerful, will heal our land and keep our country in peace. 

When you pray for America, you are indirectly praying for yo

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Mar 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9781647738464

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Grace Mwiruki

God’s

Last Call

to America

Pray America, Pray

God’s Last Call to America

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Copyright © 2021 by Grace Mwiruki

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Godwin Mwiruki

my husband, my best friend

Acknowledgements

My utmost appreciation to You, my Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, for saving me. Thank you for healing me and for your continual work of sanctification. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for wisdom, guidance, and strength to make it through life victoriously.

Much thanks to Trilogy Publishing for taking my work and for welcoming me into their family.

Thank you to all my sisters and brothers in Christ who have sowed seeds of greatness in me by praying or encouraging me in one way or another.

Finally, thank you Godwin, my wonderful husband, for being the first editor of this work. Thank you for the encouragement and for letting me soar! I once heard a story of a missionary who went to a certain village. He didn’t say much, but he lived close to the villagers; he was very kind and got involved in their lives. He treated all the people so nicely, fed them when he could; he comforted them and did all kinds of good deeds for the village and its inhabitants. Then, after a while, came another missionary. This one came preaching with passion that Jesus saves, heals, comforts, and so forth. But these villagers told this latter missionary that, as far as they were concerned, they had been living with Jesus all along. That was in reference to the former missionary! I know the Lord Jesus and do thank Him a lot for you in my life. But if I were in the same shoes as those villagers, I would have said the same, referring to you! I am truly blessed by having you as my loving husband. Thank you for your many prayers, for loving me into wholeness, and for loving me in spite of. I hope in heaven there will be a special reward for those husbands who truly loved their wives as Christ loved the church. If so, then your reward awaits you.

Contents

Acknowledgements

How PrayerCan Save Our Nation

Introduction

A New Prayer Group

Chapter 1:

We Must Humble Ourselves

Pride Blinds

We Must Pray

Pray for Leaders

We Must Seek God’s Face

Chapter 2:

Lack of the Fear of the Lord

Unforgiveness

Let God Be the Judge

Prejudice

Immorality

Chapter 3: Lessons from Ancient Israel

Israel Suffered the Consequences

God Loves Our Nation

God’s Patience Has A Limit!

Leaders Are Crucial, Vote Wisely

Chapter 4: The World Turned Upside Down

They Were United and Loved One Another

They Were Committed to the Word

They Were Empowerd by the Holy Spirit

They Prayed Together

They Raised Their Voice In Prayer

Chapter 5: Why Pray for America?

We Pray So America Has Peace

We Pray Because the Battle Is Spiritual

We Pray to Gain Discernment

We Pray to Foresee the Enemy’s Plans

We Pray Because America Is a Leader

We Pray to Become Bold

We Need a Revival!

Chapter 6:

Where Should I Start?

No Fire Fighters Prayers

Don’t Stop at Ten

Why Pray If These Are Last Days?

Watch Out Lest You Fall

A Word to Pastors

A Word to Immigrants

A Word to All

How to Pray for America

We Serve A Mighty God!

About the Author

How Prayer

Can Save Our Nation

MORAL DECAY. VIOLENCE. NATURAL DISASTERS. FAMILY DISINTEGRATION.

All you have to do is watch the news to know that we need the Lord’s intervention now more than ever. Scripture states that the effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much (James 5:16), and author Grace Mwiruki not only knows that verse, she lives it. Grace has seen God move mightily in her native Tanzania and here at home. In God’s Last Call to America, you will learn how to pray effectively according to God’s will as found in His word.

You’ll also discover:

Why our prayers may be hindered

How the early church experienced God’s miracles and how present day Christians can regain that power

Why we should continue to pray for America despite spiritual warfare and opposition

What we can learn from ancient Israelites’ disobedience to God and more

This essential guide to prayer challenges Christians to pray effectively so God can not only heal our land, but He can heal us too.

Introduction

Back in 1985, my country of origin, Tanzania, elected a new president when our first president stepped down after more than twenty years in office. Hon. Ali Hassan Mwinyi was only the second president since the nation’s independence from Great Britain in 1961. With the regime change, I sensed that our country was likely to experience some rough times. It seemed to me that the transition would be drastic.

Although I was scared, I didn’t share my fears with anyone. Instead, in the following year, 1986, I decided to fast for several days to pray for our country. The desire of my heart was for my country to remain peaceful. I remember not having much to say during my prayer sessions, but God, who weighs the depths of our motives, heard my heart’s cry and answered me.

On my second day of prayer, God spoke to me in a dream. In the dream I saw our prime minister at the time walking freely in the streets of the nation’s capital.

Although I didn’t know much about hearing from God at the time, I felt a sense of peace. Years later, I realized that the Holy Spirit was using the dream to show me there would be peace in the nation, because such dignitaries do not walk by themselves in the streets.

As it turned out, around the time I was fasting and praying for the nation, others in our home church became aware of the need to pray for the nation. And a group of people committed themselves to actually do so. Even though I didn’t consider myself to be an intercessor, I decided to join the group. Not too long afterward, even more people joined in this commitment to pray for the nation. We ended up with four groups, and each group prayed for the country for an entire week, thus covering each month in prayer.

Every three months we would go to a place of retreat to fast and pray specifically for the nation. Honestly, I didn’t know what I was getting myself into! Those people were really into praying, and talking about praying, for the country. I wondered what we were going to be doing all that time during the prayer retreat. Well, those people prayed! I marveled at the fact that they didn’t engage in vain repetitions, trying to have many words, but their prayers were powerful, backed up and packed with the Word of God! I was intimidated at times as I struggled to keep up, but I resolved not to quit.

It was kind of like a boot camp when we went on those prayer retreats. We woke up very early in the morning to pray, which was a big challenge for me because I am not a morning person. We carried just water and our Bibles. We mainly prayed for the country and only prayed for our individual needs at the very end of the retreat when we were about to leave to go home. All in all, we had great times during those three days away from everything.

In 1997, our family moved to the United States for my husband to attend seminary. Coming from an intense prayer atmosphere, I desired to keep the momentum by praying for America. Because shortly after we arrived, I began to sense that the United States needed prayer too. Innocently, my husband and I went to talk with our pastor at the time. We told him the nation would not avoid the consequences of drifting away from God unless there was intercessory prayer. The pastor looked at us as if he had pity on us, and with pride in his tone he said, This is America! Wow, or perhaps more appropriately Woe. The message was clear to us: the super-power needs no prayer! Because we didn’t know what else to say, we decided to pray for America in our own home.

After two years, we moved to another congregation in the area and thought maybe that one would be more open to praying for the nation. We attended the church for a considerable amount of time and, to our surprise, there was no mention of the church’s need to pray for the nation despite the challenges it was facing, some of which were as obvious as the Egyptian plagues before the Israelites’ exodus from Pharaoh’s bondage. We were shocked but, given the lesson we had learned from the previous pastor, we didn’t suggest the church begin praying for the nation.

We had been members of this latter congregation for about two years when the September 11th terrorist attacks occurred in 2001. We hoped that crisis would provoke prayers for the nation, since that was an obvious vicious attack on the country. To our shock and amazement, things went on as usual. There was a slight increase in church attendance for two Sundays, but that was it. We said to ourselves, Truly, this is America!

A New Prayer Group

A few years later, we moved to another city, far away from where we had been but in the same state. It happened that the congregation we were part of in this new place was far from our home. However, I soon became aware of a group of ladies from another congregation close to where we lived who met once a week for prayer. I soon joined the group.

Most of these ladies were older than I was, ranging in age from their sixties to their eighties while I was in my early forties. They looked at me as a kid among them! When they met, they usually asked for prayer needs from each member of the group and prayed through those requests. They mostly prayed for matters in their own lives and families—a granddaughter and her boyfriend, a trip