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Visit our Last Days webpage which is particularly relevant considering the current climate of unrest in America.

Pastor Dodge has a video series featuring short-clips of timely encouragement for America, with an urgent call to “Wake Up, America!”

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And thank you for joining us in prayer for America. May our Lord hear our prayers and answer!

A 40 Days of Prayer Closing Note from Pastor Dodge

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Dear Friends,

Thank you for joining us during our 40 Days of Prayer for America and in praying heartfelt prayers for God to break through our country’s current rebellion and to bring forth revival.

Let us continue to seek God’s face in earnest, to come before Him in humility and to continue to pray for our country that we all dearly love. God loves it too and He loves all who live in it.  He wants them all.

During these 40 focused days of prayer,  we asked God to heal our land, turn hearts back to Himself, restore families, rebuild homes, remake marriages, restore communities, break down hostility between groups, and that He would bring revival to each of us, then the church and then to America. We prayed for a wave of revival to break out across America and beyond.

What did God do in your life during these past 40 days? In the lives of those around you?  We’d love to hear your stories! Reach out to us at 612-545-5654 x3 and tell us what God has done, or is doing! Or email us at mail@awakeusnow.com with your story.

If you would like to chat with one of our staff or would like prayer, please reach out by calling Pastor Kevin at 612-545-5654 x4  or Care Minister Bob at 612-545-5654 x5 or staff member Ann at 612-545-5654 x6. Or simple text us at 612-545-5654. Or email us at prayer@awakeusnow.com.

In closing, let us continue to go forth into the world with the Light of Jesus shining. Let us testify to His love with everyone we interact with and let His Light shine forth in the darkness.

God’s abundant blessings,
Pastor Chris Dodge

Epilogue to Our 40 Days of Prayer for America

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Bible Text 

Romans 8:38-39 (KJV) For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

These are the Last Days

In these last times, these last days, Jesus is calling us back to Himself. That isn’t accomplished through mindless religion, or through halfhearted faith, but through wholehearted commitment to Him. It’s about having a true relationship with Him! The times we live in can be pretty unsettling due to the unsure nature of events happening in the world around us. But as Paul said NOTHING can separate us from God’s love, not our hurts or pains, not what’s going on around us, NOTHING can separate us from the love that God has for us because of what the Savior did for us! That is a truth we can hang onto!

We all need a Savior and Jesus is that Savior. What He offers is not a little religious instruction and not merely a little spiritual knowledge. What Jesus offers is Himself and that changes EVERYTHING! It changes you, it changes me and it changes the world!

What is your relationship with God like? Is it personal or do you hold Him an arm’s length away? What qualities might one find in a relationship with God? Openness, honesty, unconditional love, forgiveness, communication, … (add to the list) Are those qualities evident in your relationship with God? How do others, those around you, view your relationship with God?

Prayer: Thank Jesus that because of what He did on the cross, nothing can separate you from the love God has for you. Talk to God about your relationship with Him…. Share and engage in your relationship with Him in a way that others will notice. Let them see His love in you and from there let God begin to change them, too.

By Pastor Chris Dodge

Click the link below to view Pastor Dodge’s Last Days Resources.

https://www.awakeusnow.com/last-days

Day 40 of 40 Days of Prayer for America

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Bible Text 2 Chronicles 6:21

May you hear the humble and earnest requests from me and your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, hear us from heaven where you live, and when you hear, forgive.

A praying remnant can change everything. A remnant of believers has the ear of God, it’s just that simple. And I believe one of the reasons in these desperate days why God has restrained a hand of judgment upon our land is because of a remnant of pray-ers.

We need to understand how serious the times are. We need to understand that this is a serious and difficult day. We need to understand that the church has often fallen asleep, and we need to pray that God would turn the hearts of His people back to Him. Unless the hearts of His people return to Him the nation will never turn back to Him. The nation will not turn because we say, “You’re doing bad and terrible things.” The nation turns when the hearts of God’s people turn to Him in repentance and say, “Lord, have mercy on us.” A heart that is humble before God, is a heart that God can use to change and motivate the hearts of others.

Take Him seriously and understand the critical nature of this hour. Come before the Lord in constant prayer recognizing that politics will not change the future, but prayer turns the nation around. Prayer is heard by God who does incredible things. If the prayer of Elijah could turn Israel back from drought to fruitfulness, then the prayer of a remnant can change our land as well. Rather than spending our time moaning and groaning about what is happening, and what is going on with our morality, and what is taking place in our culture, I believe God is calling us to be on our knees before Him, and to understand when the enemy says, “Oh, one person can’t do anything about this,” that one person with God is a majority! One person with the living God is one who is equipped with power to change the future!

The Lord is calling us to take Him seriously and take prayer seriously. You can vote, you can express your opinions, you can display your flag, but in the end the prayers of God’s people alone can turn the land around, beginning with the church.

Prayer: Join with us as we get down on our knees today to pray for America.

By Pastor Chris Dodge

Day 39 of 40 Days of Prayer for America

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Bible Text:

James 5:16The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

“May you hear the humble and earnest requests from me and your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, hear us from heaven where you live, and when you hear, forgive.”  2 Chronicles 6:21

“The world is shaking today, dear friends, and it’s not because we have gotten so good, it’s because we have wandered so far. And the Lord is using a brutal and evil force to call His children back to himself, that we might understand how deep the root of evil and sin is in this world and how much we need the only One who can redeem and reclaim us and that is the Lord Jesus Christ, the coming King. In Hezekiah’s day, Hezekiah saw that reality, and he took to heart what God was saying. Today God is calling you and me to do the same, to take to heart what we are seeing and what He is saying and to be people who hear His voice and respond to His truth, and follow where He leads.

The Bible says, “The prayers of a righteous man avail much before the living God.” The scripture says that the Lord listens to the prayers of His people. The scripture cries out, “I would that at least one would stand in the gap, but none were found.” But in Hezekiah’s day they were, and one of them was Hezekiah, and that’s what we see in 2 Kings 19. And I believe it has much to say to you and me today. This does not simply speak to the church of Jesus in general, it speaks to His followers in particular. It speaks not only to others, it speaks to you and to me. And God is saying to us in these dangerous days, turn to me all the ends of the earth and be saved. God is saying to us at this time,  look to the one who is the Holy One of Israel, the One who is faithful and just and true, the One who loves His children, the One who desires to deliver them from the sword and from tragedy, from danger, and from the might of the enemy.

A praying remnant can change everything. A remnant of believers has the ear of God, it’s just that simple.

We need to understand how serious the times are. We need to understand that these are serious and difficult days. We need to understand that the church has often fallen asleep, and we need to pray that God would turn the hearts of His people back to Him. Unless the hearts of His people return to Him, the nation will never turn back to Him. The nation will not turn because we say, “We’re doing bad and terrible things.”  The nation turns when the hearts of God’s people turn to Him in repentance and say, “Lord, have mercy on us.” A heart that is humble before God, is a heart that God can use to change and motivate the hearts of others.

Take Him seriously and understand the critical nature of this hour. Come before the Lord in constant prayer recognizing that politics will not change the future, but prayer turns the nation around. Prayer is heard by God who does incredible things. If the prayer of Elijah could turn Israel back from drought to fruitfulness, then the prayer of a remnant can change our land as well. Rather than spending our time moaning and groaning and lamenting about what is happening in our cities,, and what is going on with the pandemic, with our morality, and what is taking place in our culture, I believe God is calling us to be on our knees before Him.  

Understand that when the enemy says, “Oh, one person can’t do anything about this,” that one person with God is a majority! One person with the Living God is one who is equipped with power to change the future!

I believe the Lord is calling us to take Him seriously and take prayer seriously.

Prayer: Join with us as we get down on our knees today to pray for America.

Prayer: Humbly come before God today and prayer earnestly for America. Be assured, He hears your prayers for the prayers of a righteous person are powerful and effective.

By Pastor Chris Dodge

Day 38 of 40 Days of Prayer for America

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Bible verse:

“And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.” Jeremiah 31:34

You and I know how hard it is to forgive someone who has wronged us deeply.  And how even harder it is to forget!  But that’s exactly what God has done for you and me.  On that historic day, when Jesus of Nazareth died on that cross, when the only innocent person to walk this earth was unjustly crucified for crimes he did not commit, that’s the day this NEW COVENANT was enacted.  It was for our crimes (sins committed willfully and unconsciously) against God, that Jesus suffered.

Jesus gives an illustration (parable) of this event in Matthew 18:23-35.  A servant owed his king “a million dollars” and couldn’t pay it back.  When the servant pleaded for mercy, the king forgave that enormous debt!  Like this servant, our debt was enormous and unpayable.  And like the king, God forgave our debt, by paying for it with Jesus’ blood.  Can you imagine how this changed the life of that servant, now freed from that unspeakable burden?  You and I have been freed from an even heavier burden.  That’s his love and mercy toward us.

Fully realizing what Jesus has done for us, changes everything!  God has forgiven our debt and remembers our sin no more!  He forgets our offenses forever!  Incredible.  As we take in the magnitude of this act of love, it causes us to live for God willingly, serving him with our whole lives.  Will you let this reality sink in?  Will you receive this free gift through faith in Jesus Christ, and live out of gratitude to him?

There’s a second part to Jesus’ parable in Matthew 18.  This freed servant now goes to a fellow servant who owes him “a thousand dollars”, but refuses to forgive him, and throws him in prison.  The king hears of this and revokes his mercy towards the original servant.  Jesus’ point is, when we fully realize God’s mercy toward us, we are then to forgive others the relatively small offenses others have committed toward us.  In light of what God has done for you, will you forgive others their debt towards you?  This is one of the most heavenly acts you and I can do, demonstrating God’s mercy to another.  Will you step into this flow – receiving his mercy, and offering it to others?

Prayer:  Lord, let the magnitude of your forgiving and forgetting of my sin, sink in.  Then help me forgive others, demonstrating your love in the lives of people around me.  Give me supernatural power to do this, that these “offenders” around me may experience your vast love as well.  In Jesus’ name.

By Pastor Kevin Schuessler

Day 37 of 40 Days of Prayer for America

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Bible verse:

“’But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,’ says the Lord. ‘I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.  And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already,’ says the Lord.”  Jeremiah 31:33-34 NLT

Jesus, before his arrest and crucifixion promised, “when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative – that is, the Holy Spirit – he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you” (John 14:26).  Jesus also said, “when the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth.  He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard.  He will tell you about the future.  He will bring me glory by telling you whatever he receives from me…the Spirit will tell you whatever he receives from me” (John 16:13-15).

Jesus is connecting what the prophet Jeremiah predicted, with you and me today, as post-Pentecost believers.  He promised that through the work of the Holy Spirit, we would know God, we would know what he Jesus said and did, that he would “write his instructions in our hearts.”  He promised a renewed, intimate relationship – that he would be our God, and we would be his people.

Jesus also said, “when he (the Advocate/Holy Spirit) comes, he will convict the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment” (John 16:8).  Everybody, no matter who they are or where they live, will know who God is, will be convicted of their need for God and be aware of the urgency to confess Christ before the Final Day.  The Holy Spirit is making sure of it.

Prayer: Will you let the Holy Spirit teach you everything about Christ, and will you allow him to draw you into a closer relationship with him?  Will you also pray for others to receive the work of the Holy Spirit in drawing them to God? Make the answers to these questions, your prayer.  Holy Spirit, this is my prayer.  In Jesus’ name.

By Pastor Kevin Schuessler

Day 36 of 40 Days of Prayer for America

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Bible verse:

“Townspeople and farmers and shepherds alike will live together in peace and happiness. For I have given rest to the weary and joy to the sorrowing.” Jeremiah 31:24-25

What an amazing promise from God through Jeremiah, the prophet’s prophecy.  With this NEW COVENANT God promised in Jeremiah 31, which Jesus established in 1 Corinthians 11:25 (“this cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me”), we now experience through faith in him!

This new covenant promises our relationship with God is renewed and forever sealed. He also promises a person to person relational effect.  “Townspeople…farmers…shepherds” were often adversarial toward each other in Jeremiah’s day, fighting for land, for dominance, for wealth, etc.  But as each person’s relationship with God was renewed, it changed the way each related to his neighbor.

God promised he would do this today, and is unfolding this promise even now.  Wall Street financiers, laborers, executives, teachers, artists, farmers, royalty, celebrities, construction workers, etc. – all, no matter their station, can “live together in peace and happiness,” just as Jeremiah prophecies.  For God has given “rest to the weary and joy to the sorrowing” through Jesus on the cross and empty tomb.  He has made irrelevant our station, work status and class, and established us as brothers and sisters in Christ.  He has positioned us as members of his Body, with himself as our Head.

So instead of taking out our “weariness” and “sorrow” on each other, we lean into each other as members of one body.  We compliment each other, help each other, live at peace with each other and even love each other.  That’s what he has in store for you and me, who confess Christ as Lord.  Will you let him give you relational peace with others?

Prayer:  I’m sorry, Lord, for taking out my fatigue and sorrow on others.  I receive your gift of peace to share with others.  I press into you, Lord, to redeem and restore the relationships I’ve blown up.  And place my expectation in you to see this prophecy realized, with rest and joy for us together.  In Jesus’ name.

By Pastor Kevin Schuessler

Day 35 of 40 Days of Prayer for America

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Bible verse:

“‘The day is coming,’ says the Lord, ‘when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,’ says the Lord.”  Jeremiah 31:31-32

What Jeremiah predicted in “the day is coming,” is now here!  The “new covenant” he prophesied, Jesus fulfilled when he said, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many” (Mark 14:24), when he instituted the Lord’s Supper with his disciples.

The old covenant, like a wedding vow between God and his people, kept getting broken as God’s people, committed spiritual “adultery,” by going after other gods and rejecting his way.  This landed them in Egypt as slaves, for 400 years.  But God showed his incredible and tangible love by freeing his people, renewing his relationship with them and taking them to the promised land.  He renewed his vow, in an unbreakable marriage covenant, to love his people like a faithful husband loves his wife.

You and I, as God’s people (through faith in Christ) are also recipients of his new covenant!  What we did to create a barrier between ourselves and God, has been paid for and wiped clean on the cross.  

You are no longer your own, or the world’s, or worse, the evil one’s.  You are part of the Bride of Christ, with an unbreakable promise, that he will love you no matter what.

Will you let “the day is coming” be TODAY?  Will you respond to this new covenant, by placing your trust and love in Jesus Christ?  If so, you will experience him “taking you by the hand” and bringing you out of slavery, from all things evil, to himself, to his embrace!

Prayer:  By the authority of Christ’s name and according to his promise, I declare THIS DAY to be the day I respond by renewing my marriage vow with God.  To love him back, as he has first loved me.  To forsake all other “lovers”, and to live today as Christ’s alone.  I want this for my fellow citizens of this country as well, Lord.  In Jesus’ name.

By Pastor Kevin Schuessler

Day 34 of 40 Days of Prayer for America

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Bible verses:

“For the Lord has redeemed Israel from those too strong for them.” Jeremiah 31:11

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.  In this world you will have trouble.  But take heart!  I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

“But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.” I Corinthians 15:57

Have you experienced that sinking feeling of being overpowered by a bully?  When you knew there was no way to defend yourself or fight back?  The people of Israel experienced this at the hands of the great Babylonian military in the 6th century BC.  Israel was easily overpowered.

Jeremiah, the prophet, predicted something that seemed impossible, that they would be freed from the Babylonians by God himself.  And it happened!

You and I face an even greater adversary, the devil.  He seeks to use every weapon at his disposal to try to crush us, and drag us to hell where he is headed.  We, by our own power, are helpless.  But that’s why Jesus came, “to redeem Israel (believers in Jesus) from those too strong for them”.  Jesus overcame the evil one’s power, and offers you and me the power to overcome as well.  Overcomers by the power unleashed in us through Jesus’ death and resurrection!

Jesus says in John 16:33, even though we experience trouble and pain from the evil one, Jesus says, “take heart,” be encouraged, for he has overcome the world and everything from the evil one!  

There are various forces of evil at work in our world and our country today.  The more we look, the uglier it appears.  This is real.  But what is even more real is the power of God, through Christ’s resurrection!  This same power lives in you and me.  This is the Holy Spirit’s work within us!  Will you turn from obsessing over the evil in our day, and instead, look to Christ to help you overcome?  Will you “take heart” by noticing what he is doing in this country, and in you?

Prayer:  I admit the evil one is too strong for me.  But I receive you, Christ, and your resurrection power in me.  Help me overcome the evil one, day by day, as I rely on you alone, Jesus.  Help our people, the citizens of this country, to find strength and courage, by receiving your overcoming power, Lord Jesus.  This is my urgent prayer.  In Jesus’ name.

By Pastor Kevin Schuessler