Now that 2021 is upon us, do you feel the need to detox from everything that happened in 2020?

If so, I want to encourage you today by reminding you that our God is the God of the new:

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• He is the God of the do-over; the God who restores things better than they were before.
• He is the God of healing; the God who releases new hope, help, and faith into us His children whenever we need it.
• He is mindful that we are but dust, but underneath us are His everlasting arms.

If you feel the need for a brand-new start, I invite you to pray for healing and restoration today—both for yourself and for our entire nation and fellow Americans.

Would you please join with me in prayer for these United States of America and this upcoming year?
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Let’s pray this together:

“Dear Father in Heaven,

We come to You today as the great God who watches over and protects both us, Your children, and our beloved nation.

Father, You are God who lifts up one ruler and brings another down (Psalm 75). You are the God who causes a nation to be born in a day. You, and You alone, are King and Judge over all the nations; and You sit in the heavens and laugh at Your enemies in all the nations as they plot against You.

Abba Father, in Jesus’ name, we thank You today:

• We thank You for divinely ordaining the birth of America in 1776.
• Thank You for creating this nation as a place to which Your people still come, from all over the world, to escape religious persecution.
• Thank You for the freedoms You have given us here.
• Thank You that Your hand has been on America since her birth—and that Your hand always will be on America.

Father, in Jesus’ name, we lift up our beloved nation to You today.

In 2021, Father, many wicked forces may attempt to bring her down, and to carry her further into evil. But Father, we come to You alone and claim the promise of 2 Chronicles 7:14: that if Your people, who are called by Your name, will humble ourselves, pray, seek Your face, and turn from our wicked ways, then You will hear from Heaven, forgive our sins, and heal our land.

Father, we ask You first for a mighty outpouring of repentance on the Church—on “We Your people.” That is the first condition of Your promise; so we ask that You would:

• Help us in the Body of Christ to humble ourselves, pray, seek Your face, and TURN from OUR wicked ways in every area.
• Cleanse us and purify us, Father God.
• Convict us of our sins and bring us into genuine repentance.
• Help us to TURN from our wicked ways, turning after You and beginning to work only righteousness.
• Pour out Your Spirit on us—even more than You did in past revivals like Azusa Street, Cane Ridge, or any other time in our nation’s history.

And Father God, as we Your people turn from our wicked ways and worship only You—in Spirit and in truth, in word and in deed—then we ask You to heal our land:

• Establish righteous leaders here in our nation at every level of government.
• Forbid and prevent the seating or establishment at any level of ANY wicked leader at any level of government in this land.
• Give our leaders wise counsel. Bring them godly counselors and deliver them from every false prophet, false counselor, and from every whispering of the wisdom of the world.
• Pour out Your Spirit of wisdom, understanding, and revelation upon our leaders.
• Dethrone every dark force and let the plots and machinations of the enemy be foiled and come to nothing. Let them dry up and disappear like smoke.
• Heal every racial tension. Annihilate every plot of the enemy to pit one race against another in these United States.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we pray for every family who lost loved ones in 2020.

Comfort them, Father, and heal their hearts. Show Yourself to them as the Father of the fatherless and the Protector of widows and orphans. Be to them their glory, and the Lifter of their heads—the Restorer of their place of authority.

For every person who was ill in 2020, Father, we ask for total and complete healing.

We declare physical healing, mental healing, emotional healing, and spiritual healing from the top of their head to the bottom of their feet, in Jesus’ name. We ask that any lingering aftereffects of the COVID virus would be totally and completely gone, and that You would utterly destroy this virus in America and around the world—preventing it from impacting Your people or this great nation any more at all.

Father God, in Jesus’ name, we also ask You to bring godly prosperity in America again:

• We pray for every person whose finances were decimated in 2020, and we ask that they would be restored.
• In Jesus’ name, we ask that this year they would prosper in their finances better than they ever have before.
• Restore the years the locusts have eaten, Lord, and force the enemy to repay seven times what he stole in 2020.
• Let the economy roar to life even better than we ever dreamed of in 2020, Father—and don’t permit the enemy to steal, kill, or destroy our economy, our jobs, or our families’ personal finances in any way.

For every godly church whose membership and attendance dwindled away in 2020, Lord, we boldly ask for TOTAL restoration.

Bring back Your people, Lord, into Your house; and let Your people again say, “I was glad when they said to me, come, let us go up to the house of the Lord!” Fill the seats, the aisles, the balconies, and the children’s areas with worshipers again, Lord, and forgive us for forsaking the assembling of ourselves together.

For every church that suffered financially because its members suffered in 2020, Father, we ask that You would provide all their needs richly. Provide for every mission project, every staff payroll, every mortgage and rent payment, every utility bill, and every other need that Your churches have.

In 2021, Father God, we ask also for the restoration of our freedoms:

• Pour out Your warrior Spirit upon us, Father God. Let us fight for freedom in every arena with the wisdom and power of Your Spirit.
• Help us to rise up and refuse to be controlled by wicked forces.
• Wake people up to the stunning and horrifying inroads that socialism and communism made into America in 2020, Lord.
• Let us RISE UP en masse to reject socialism, communism, and every other “ism” that is not from You and does not line up with Your Word.

Father, Your Word says that “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty”; and we call on You, pointing out to You that Your Church in America is still alive and well and Your Spirit dwells in us.

So while we thank You, Lord, for the spiritual liberty we have in Christ Jesus, we also ask:

• That we Your people would rise up and fight for political, physical, and religious liberty in every sphere.
• Let us refuse to tolerate anything less than godly freedom and godly laws, Lord.
• Let us love righteousness and hate and reject lawlessness, but give us the discernment to know the difference between yielding to wicked forces in government compared to submitting to godly leaders and government.

Father, we thank You that You have good plans for America.

Lord Jesus, all power in Heaven and earth has been given to You. Therefore, we ask that in 2021, Your Kingdom would come and Your will would be done here in our nation as it is in Heaven:

• Let souls be saved for Your glory.
• Let individuals, marriages, and families be healed and restored.
• Let Your people prosper.
• Let godly government be established, and only godly government.
• Unify and purge Your church, and let us lead the way in returning to You.
• Let hope and faith arise again in Your Body, in Jesus’ name.

Pour out Your Spirit upon all flesh, Father. Bring peace and prosperity to these times for Your glory. Help us to keep our eyes on Jesus, the Author and the Finisher of our faith—and let us abide in Your perfect love, which casts out all fear.

Thank You, Father. We’ll give You all the glory. In Jesus’ mighty name we pray, amen.”

Beloved, God’s blessings do not depend on the politicians, the pundits, or the propaganda.

The blood of Jesus speaks a better word than any human tongue could utter! So in 2021, let’s remember that God’s blessings depend on our prayers, our obedience, and our faith. Let’s link our faith together; believe and obey like never before; and seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.

If we will, then we will be blessed. We will remain hidden, safe, and secure in the shadow of the Most High no matter what wickedness may rage around us.

Jamie Rohrbaugh is an author and speaker who equips people to walk in the manifest presence and power of God. Jamie blogs for a global readership at FromHisPresence.com, where she writes about radical prayer, the prophetic word, the supernatural lifestyle, inner healing, and Kingdom wealth. She is a frequent contributor to Charisma Magazine, The Elijah List, Spirit Fuel, and various other ministry outlets. You can contact her here or download her free ebook containing 555 names of God for prayer and worship here.  (Photo Credit: Getty Images.)