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Leading us in prayer today is Christopher McCluskey, President of Professional Christian Coaching Institute (PCCI) and co-host of the top-rated podcast, Professional Christian Coaching Today. Chris is also a popular keynote speaker, thought leader, media personality, executive coach and author.
Brothers & sisters, join me today in praying for healing on the grand scale of our culture — not necessarily one specific mountain of culture like the Family, the Church, Media, Arts & Entertainment, Business, Government or Education, but ALL of culture.
It seems to me we have been sliding into a new kind of ‘Dark Ages’ on a grand scale, fostering increasing conflict and hatred and destruction. We are in need of cultural healing. Of reconciliation and new growth. We are in need of a new ‘Renaissance’ in our humanity; we are sinking into barbarism.
A cornerstone of cultural healing is healthy dialogue. We need to dramatically improve the quality and effectiveness of our communications with each other. We need to stop shouting vitriol and flaming on social media, and begin talking and asking and listening to understand, not simply to respond.
James 1:19 urges, “Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.”
Wisdom from Proverbs 18:13 bluntly states, “He who answers a matter before he hears it — this is folly and a disgrace to him.”
We desperately need to come together; be fully present with each other in the Spirit of Love; to ask the questions that are begging to be asked; to actively and reflectively listen — seeking to understand and not simply to respond — and to then work together for the healing of our broken culture on every mountain.
Join me in praying for healing of our culture.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, I thank You for the opportunity to come together with my brothers and sisters all around the world and to lift to You our current broken state.
We know we’re in a fallen world. We know that we’re to be cooperating with You and the ongoing redemption of this world until all things are made new.
But Lord God, we find ourselves in a very unique and extremely painful and shameful state now, as we see ourselves sliding into a time of barbarism again, and anger and destruction on a scale that we’re not used to seeing present-day.
Lord, we know that this grieves You even more than it grieves us, and we’re overwhelmed by it every day in the media.
Heavenly Father, by your Holy spirit, hear the prayers and petitions of your children. Heal our land. Heal our culture. Lead us into a greater capacity for listening in your Holy spirit, by your Holy spirit.
Grant us the ears to hear as You hear and to hear what You’re wanting to say to us, and then and only then, use us as those mouthpieces, those vessels that You have in this broken world to bring healing.
We pray in Christ’s name. Amen.
Christopher McCluskey
Christopher McCluskey is President of Professional Christian Coaching Institute (PCCI), the world’s largest Christian school aligned with the standards of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). PCCI has trained thousands of life & leadership coaches in more than 60 countries and in many of the world’s most influential ministries and businesses. Frequently cited as the ‘Father of Christian Coaching’, Chris pioneered the industry in the 1990’s and co-hosts the top-rated podcast, Professional Christian Coaching Today. He is a popular keynote speaker, thought leader, media personality, and executive coach. He and his wife, Rachel, are best-selling authors of the marriage classic, When Two Become One, and are blessed with 7 children, a wonderful son-in-law and the cutest grandson you’ve ever seen.
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