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  (CLIP) A PLEA FOR DESPERATE PRAYER
  by Lee Dodd
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Summary: This sermon addresses the moral decay and spiritual darkness
prevalent in society, emphasizing the urgent need for a revival and
intervention from God to save the nation from its downward spiral. It
highlights the historical pattern of nations rising and falling due to
moral decline and the lack of fervent prayer and fear of God. The
speaker calls for a return to passionate prayer warriors like John Knox
and questions the current state of the church's lukewarm love and
unconcerned prayers, warning of the consequences if there is no divine
intervention.

Topics: "Moral Decay", "Urgent Need for Revival"
Scripture References: Isaiah 59:2, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Matthew 24:12, James 5:16, Revelation 3:16

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This sermon addresses the moral decay and spiritual darkness prevalent
in society, emphasizing the urgent need for a revival and intervention
from God to save the nation from its downward spiral. It highlights the
historical pattern of nations rising and falling due to moral decline
and the lack of fervent prayer and fear of God. The speaker calls for a
return to passionate prayer warriors like John Knox and questions the
current state of the church's lukewarm love and unconcerned prayers,
warning of the consequences if there is no divine intervention.

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And never have there been so many churches and yet so little truth.
Lives are abundant. Lusts have saturated the country leading to all
manner of perversions.

Violence is everywhere. More than 17,000 murders last year outside the
womb. More than 800,000 murders last year inside the womb.

I'm not sure there's ever been a time that our nation has been so dark
and drunk with lust and sin. It's a moral freefall that confronts us in
the world today. A moral freefall.

And because of this our nation is dying a slow death, saints. Apart from
the intervention of God, America is a goner. And we see this throughout
history, don't we? Nations rise and fall.

Kingdoms rise, spread, and fall. It happened with Greece. It happened
with Rome.

It happened with the Assyrians. It happened with the Egyptians. And it
may just happen in the West.

Now I know there are little pockets of life here and there. I trust
there's one right here in Denton, Texas to some degree. But so much of
the modern church is lethargic, inactive, and ineffectual.

I'm reminded of Bloody Mary in the 16th century who said she feared the
prayers of a single man more than she feared invading armies. And who
was that man? John Knox. John Knox the reformer.

And where are the John Knoxes of our day? Where is the fear of God
anywhere? Where are the mighty men and women of God in the closet who's
fearing our prayers? So the church, for the most part, by all
appearances, has a love that is waxing cold. Prayers that have grown
unconcerned. And again, apart from the intervention of God, the church
will remain quiet, ineffective, sleepy.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/xKUiBwZKSa8.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/lee-dodd/clip-a-plea-for-desperate-prayer/
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