The following is an excerpt from our daily devotional Fellowship With the Father, written by IFA contributing writer Remco Brommet.

The U.S. barely began the process of reopening the country in 2020 when one act of fatal police brutality against an unarmed black man caught on camera set the nation ablaze with protests, riots, looting and arson in a matter of hours. Since then, lawlessness and anti-police sentiment has spread like a fast-moving wildfire. It brings to mind Jesus’ dire prediction in Matthew 24:12, that in the last days lawlessness will abound and love will grow cold.

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To my dismay, the flashpoint for this was in Minneapolis, where I once led a movement of prayer unifying tens of thousands from hundreds of churches in united prayer and Marches for Jesus for spiritual revival.

This has prompted me to pray intensely that the riotous expression of anger over racial oppression, fanned into flames of looting and arson by paid protestors and anarchists, would awaken a desperate hunger for God in the hearts of His people. A hunger that would transcend our theological quarrels, our denominational, socioeconomic, and racial divides, our differences in ministry vision, worship culture and size, and galvanize His people to cry out with one voice to the Lord for an outpouring of His Spirit in our hearts with self-abandoning, self-sacrificial, unconditional, unifying love.

The Bible urges us to see beyond the riots of flesh and blood and recognize the spiritual battle behind it for the soul of our nation: One nation, under God. The indivisibility, liberty, and justice for all flows from being that one nation surrendered to God. And we must be one nation under God because with all the wealth of resources we have a key role to play in the world, especially in taking the gospel to the ends of the earth.

So I urge you to do battle in prayer. Here are some insights and scriptural points to guide you:

• Don’t allow the world’s news to black out heaven’s news – ask for and keep God’s perspective.
• The stakes have never been this high. This is the most embattled election in history because it will determine America’s place in the world economic and political sphere versus that of the anti-Christian nations of China and Russia.
• No movement will resolve racial prejudice that does not have authority over the devil. The church is the only movement that can through the spiritual weapons that God has given us.
• Remember the power of prayer that is beyond compare: “For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.” (2 Corinthians 10:3,4).
• Likewise, “we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm…..praying at all times in the Spirit with all prayer and supplication.” (Ephesians 6:12,13, 18). The panic prayer “O God, keep us safe and make this go away” is not going to cut it.

Satan fears your prayers because they move the mighty hand of God. He has decreed for things to work that way in the spiritual realm. It is therefore only way to defeat racism and every other divide that is destroying our nation’s soul. We simply cannot afford to stick our heads in the sand and go back to business as usual. The access to the throne of grace is free and 24/7. The power of prayer is greater than any other power. The responsibility to use it, however, is entirely ours.

Today’s Prayer Assignment

Enter the battle today with the invincible weapons of prayer. Here are some pointers:

• Draw an imaginary circle around yourself and ask the Lord what must happen within that circle to effect lasting change for the good of His kingdom.
• Ask Him to forgive you, and all His people for prayerlessness, lovelessness and disunity from the blatant to the subtle.
• Call upon the Lord to move mightily, first in His people, then overflowing to the nation, with His unifying, healing, unconditional, forgiving, reconciling love.
• Call upon His holy arm to thwart the plans of Satan against the US and against God’s people through the anarchistic, socialistic, supremacist and hateful ideologies that have flourished while the church was asleep and are now coming out in the open.

Listen to the Holy Spirit in recognition that these things are so much bigger than we are, and we need His insight to pray. He desires your prayers, so He will speak to you. Remember the imagery from Day 11. They will land on the altar of heaven before the Throne of God and return to earth in the form of mighty deeds (Rev. 8:3-5).

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Remco Brommet is a pastor, spiritual-growth teacher, and prayer leader with over 40 years of experience in Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the U.S. He was born and raised in the Netherlands and pastored his first church in Amsterdam. He moved to the U.S. in 1986. He and his wife, Jennifer, live north of Atlanta. When not writing books, he blogs at www.deeperlifeblog.com and assists his wife as a content developer and prayer coordinator for True Identity Ministries. Jennifer and Remco are passionate about bringing people into a deeper relationship with Christ. Photo Credit: zbindere/Getty Images Signature via Canva Pro.