National Day of Prayer to reach 110 million households: 'We’re praying for an awakening in America' - Rev. Samuel Rodriguez says there are 2 major issues plaguing American society

Here's an excerpt from the link above:

Co-host of this year’s NDP broadcast is the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, senior pastor of New Season Church in California and president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

Rodriguez told The Christian Post in an interview that National Day of Prayer “is more important now in 2023 than ever before in American history.”

“As a nation, we've never been down this road. It's a road of moral relativism, a road of cultural decadence, unprecedented strife and discord," Rodriguez said. "The 2023 National Day of Prayer carries an incredible amount of spiritual and moral weight as it pertains to the advancement of this idea we call the American experiment."

“We’re praying for an awakening in America. We are praying for unity. We are praying for repentance. We are praying for hope. We are praying for truth, to overcome the lies, for love, to silence hate and for America's problems to become America's testimony.”

Rodriguez said he believes there are two major issues plaguing American society as a whole: protecting children "from architects of darkness" and coming together in unity.

“Our children and our children's children are targeted by ideological and social constructs that are counterintuitive to God's purpose with respect to life,” Rodriguez said. “We are so divided politically. We're so divided culturally. We're so divided ideologically. We must come together around this idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

Rodriguez added that he and others will be "asking God to show up," believing that "the most important outcome that we can experience out of this National Day of Prayer is an awakening.”

Salient point emphasized above.  As Solzhenitsyn famously said of Russia: "We have forgotten God.  That's why all this has happened."  Rev. Rodriguez went on about God and the things we need (he thinks) from Him if we are to survive as a nation.  But our focus and our goal should be to glorify Jesus Christ as Lord of all; He is the offended Deity.  If Rodriguez thinks we need to come together around life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as he says, then he's off target.  God is simply not going to be used as a means to an end.  Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is not scripture.

If each of us Doves were asked to cite the two MAJOR issues plaguing American society, I wonder how many of us would come up with the two that Rodriguez offers.  I know I wouldn't.

I believe in prayer, and I believe God wants us to pray.  But our "awakening in America" will not come if our end goal is anything but national submission to Jesus Christ.  And in this article, anyway, Jesus is not even mentioned.  Matt Potter, a co-founder of Pray.com comes close with mentions of our "Lord and Savior" and the necessity of a "personal relationship" with Him.

Matthew 24:5 again comes to mind.

Hope to see you soon.

Steve