God of Triumph and Victory,
We praise you for your power, mercy and grace in the lives of your children and in this nation. We praise you for the ways in which you are triumphing over the power of wickedness and evil in our midst. We stand in faith awaiting you to pour out your anger and judgment on evil. Barbarians have tried to invade this nation with their wicked ideas and even outright violence. Other ideologies and nations scorn, scoff, and mock your people – your Church in this nation – consuming this land’s resources, public discourse, and hope, leaving it seemingly desolate.
We confess our nation’s sins, but beg for your forgiveness; may your tenderhearted mercy come to us in our desperation. We pray for holiness in our nation. We pray for dominions of darkness and despair to continue to weaken. We pray for full exposure, even this week, for darkness in this nation to come into the Light. We pray for JUSTICE, JUSTICE, JUSTICE. Show your people and all the world that you will avenge these evil attacks! Father, forgive us for living in such a way that we have pretended like you are the only one with responsibility to reform our culture and bring revival. O God of the breakthrough, for the glory of your name, come and help us! Forgive and restore us; heal us and cover us in your love. Give your people new hearts and put a new spirit within us; remove from us our hearts of stone and give us hearts full of your Love, your Justice, and your Mercy so we can use your Holy Boldness to push back the momentum of evil in this day and age. Demonstrate your glory-power, and come and rescue your condemned children. Lord God, take what these mocking masses have done to us and pay it all back to them seven times over. You are our King Jesus, who commands victories for your Church. Through your Name we trample down those who rise up against us and push back our adversaries. In this season of our nation’s life, we pray in Jesus’s name that you would break the power of the wicked and uphold your righteous children. God, you are our King! You decree victories for us! Through you we will be victorious! In the powerful name of Christ Jesus we pray, Amen!
1 God, won’t you do something?
Barbarians have invaded your inheritance.
Your temple of holiness has been violated,
and Jerusalem has been left in ruins.
2 The corpses of your loving people are lying in the open—
food for the beasts and the birds.
3 The shed blood of your servants has soaked the city,
with no one left to bury the dead.
4 Now the nearby nations heap their scorn upon us,
scoffing, mocking us incessantly.
5 How much longer, O Yahweh, must we endure this?
Does your anger have no end?
Will your jealousy burn like a raging fire?
6 If you’re going to pour out your anger,
pour it out on all these nations around us, not on us!
They’re the ones who do not love you like we do!
7 See how they’ve attacked us, consuming the land,
leaving it desolate.
8 Please, God, don’t hold the sins of our fathers against us.
Don’t make us pay for their sins.
Hurry to our side, and let your tenderhearted mercy
meet us in our need, for we are devastated beyond belief.
9 Our hero, come and rescue us!
O God of the breakthrough, for the glory of your name,
come and help us!
Forgive and restore us; heal us and cover us in your love.
10 Why should all the nations sneer at us, saying,
“Where is this God of yours?”
Now is the time, Lord.
Show your people and all the world that
you will avenge this slaughter and bloodshed once and for all!
11 Listen, Lord! Hear the sighing of all the prisoners of war,
all those doomed to die. Demonstrate your glory-power,
and come and rescue your condemned children!
12 Lord God, take what these mocking masses have done to us
and pay it all back to them seven times over.
13 Then we, your devoted lovers, will forever thank you,
praising your name from generation to generation! (Psalm 79 TPT)
You are my King, God;
Command victories for Jacob.
5 Through You we will push back our adversaries;
Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us. (Psalm 44:4-5 NASB)
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:26 NIV)
The power of the wicked will be broken,
but the Lord upholds the righteous. (Psalm 37:17 NIV)
1 O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;
they have defiled your holy temple,
they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
2 They have left the dead bodies of your servants
as food for the birds of the sky,
the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.
3 They have poured out blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there is no one to bury the dead.
4 We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,
of scorn and derision to those around us.
5 How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever?
How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour out your wrath on the nations
that do not acknowledge you,
on the kingdoms
that do not call on your name;
7 for they have devoured Jacob
and devastated his homeland.
8 Do not hold against us the sins of past generations;
may your mercy come quickly to meet us,
for we are in desperate need.
9 Help us, God our Savior,
for the glory of your name;
deliver us and forgive our sins
for your name’s sake.
10 Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Before our eyes, make known among the nations
that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.
11 May the groans of the prisoners come before you;
with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.
12 Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times
the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.
13 Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture,
will praise you forever;
from generation to generation
we will proclaim your praise. (Psalm 79 NIV)