KNCSB President, Ron Pracht, Calls For Prayer And Fasting
By Ron Pracht
April 2010
In lieu of my article this month, I want to put my complete emphasis on what our convention president, Ron Pracht is saying in the article below. I am wholeheartedly in support of what Ron is proposing and I would encourage you and your church to join us in praying for God purposes to be realized. For this to happen we must come before a Holy God and ask for forgiveness for our disobedience to the Great Commission and the Great Commandment. When statistics seem to indicate that somewhere between 70-80 percent of the churches in North America are plateaued or declining is seems prudent to conclude we are wandering in the wilderness of disobedience. The only solution I know of is to do what Ron suggests below. Bob Mills, Executive Director of KNCSB
A Call to Prayer and Fasting for Spiritual Awakening in KNCSB
Because of the spiritual state of our nation and, specifically the two states that encompass KNCSB, I call on every Kansas-Nebraska Southern Baptist to set aside one day a week to fast and pray for spiritual awakening and revival. Throughout the entirety of Scripture, God calls His people to seek His face above everything else, to get before Him and pray. If we are going to reach the millions of lost people in our two-state area, as well as the billions around the world, we will need a powerful, sovereign move of the Holy Spirit to change our hearts and move us to intentionally connect with the lost who surround us. We need to seek the face of God with broken hearts over the lostness of our nation and the world around us – to see the world through His eyes and heart.
Throughout the Bible, individual believers and the people of God faced many sorrows and sacred moments in their life with God. One common response among them was to seek God’s face in prayer. Another was to respond to the sorrow or sacred moment with fasting. In both cases, when a tragedy struck the people they responded by declaring days or seasons of fasting and praying.
North America is in the grip of lostness. We have lost our moral anchor and our Judeo-Christian moorings are crumbling. We have lost our way. This is a tragedy, especially given the many blessings our forefathers experienced from the hand of God. Our situation is no longer tolerable. We are in dire straits. The breakdown is evident in our broken families, in the immorality in schools and colleges, in the greed in our work places, in the lack of devotion to the things of God in our churches. All this must grieve God. And it grieves us as leaders to see it happen. We must respond. Our initial response must be one of prayer and fasting as in Bible times. This is why I am taking the liberty and the moral responsibility as the president of KNCSB to call us to a season of prayer and fasting.
To help you pray, each week we will provide suggestions to guide you through your day(s) of prayer and fasting. We will also make suggestions for reading and study that will help you see how God has moved in the past and see patterns of spiritual awakening that touched nations. You will find these helps at: www.kncsb.org.
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