As we reminded ourselves in Sunday's WorldMovers class, our prayers of repentance and intercession need not to become finger-pointing sessions. Like Daniel interceding for backslidden Israel, we need to say "Lord, we have sinned against you..." (Daniel 9:8).
Nevertheless, we would be remiss if we did not ask ourselves, "Why have these sins happened?" as we look to further sanctification in ourselves collectively as the body of Christ. In that context, I discovered a fact about Souder that was not covered in the World article. Although many others in his freshman class, the newly elected Congressman made a pledge to serve no more than two additional terms beyond his original election (a total of six years). Had he kept that pledge, he would no longer have been in Washington when the affair that ended his career there began. And speaking of that Republican freshman class of 94, four other congressman, in addition to Souder, broke their pledges on term limits and stayed longer than the six years they promised.
Repenting of our individual and corporate unfaithfulnes in many areas, let us WorldMovers humbly continue to pray for
+the Souder family,
+our particular congressmen and women (notably Grijalva and Giffords),
+for upcoming elections
+for others who are geographically separated from their families (soldiers on deployment, for example)
+and for restoration of the sanctity of marriage within the body of Christ.
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