Praying For Repentance From Lethargy And Complacency
Day 5 - October 1, 2024
Tom Roy President of Shepherd Coach Network, Former Chaplain of the Chicago White Sox, and NCCAA Baseball World Series Chaplain View Website
Devotion For Day 5
‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth”
America has always been seen as “the land of opportunity” and, until more recently, a Christian nation. When did things begin to slide toward what Will Graham describes as “spiritual complacency”? It seems much like what the Israelites experienced when time after time God provided, rescued, and led them. Through it all, they still allowed themselves to slip away from Him in favor of other second-rate things.
One anonymous author describes our situation well: “Complacency is a blight that saps energy, dulls attitudes and causes a drain on the brain. The first symptom is satisfaction with things as they are. The second is rejection of things as they might be. ‘Good enough’ becomes today’s watchword and tomorrow’s standard. Complacency makes people fear the unknown, mistrust the untried, and abhor the new. Like water, complacent people follow the easiest course — downhill.”
What will draw God’s people back to the foot of the Cross? What needs to happen for us to cry out to the Father for mercy, and to bring an awakening to our land? Father, forgive me for my apathy and for being satisfied with less than Your best for my life. Forgive Your church for being lukewarm instead of on fire with the gospel of Jesus! We cry out to You, asking for Your Holy Spirit power to restore the light of the life of Jesus in our midst so that we might bring honor and glory to Your name as a nation once again!
Prayer Topics
- Ask the Holy Spirit to prompt you when/if apathy and complacency creep into your day-to-day life.
- Ask the Lord to give you a renewed passion to pursue His purposes for your kingdom life!
- Pray that the Devil will be thwarted from any attempts to slow down or distract God’s people.
- Ask the Father to awaken His people and pour out fresh fire on His church for the sake of the gospel!
