We are a week away from one of two possible national futures: either a return to American no-nonsense sanity, or World War 3. The choice is ours, as they say.

Or is it? Will we actually have a free election?

At a Crossroads

We’re standing at a crossroads as a nation.

What is evident to most fair-minded people is that the criminal conspiracy of massive voter fraud—which is being carried out as we speak—is so endemic to the left that either we need an overwhelming landslide to overcome it, or we need a miracle.

The former I’m not so sure about. Since the left has been demonically proficient in blunting red tsunamis by wholescale theft of elections (as evidenced in 2020 and 2024), so I’m really only hoping for the latter: that is, we need a miracle.

If it is not evident to you yet, the entire establishment in all branches of government is stacked against free elections. A judge in Georgia, for instance, just ruled that the officials MUST certify the election, even if there are serious and credible evidence of voter fraud. This was in Fulton County (Atlanta), the very epicenter of voter fraud in the last election.

You may have a different view of things, and that’s entirely fine, but I try to see very real existential threats to our nation for what they are, and neither polls, nor rallies, nor debates impress me much.

Votes impress me. And vote counting terrifies me.

So we pray for divine intervention. That is the whole purpose of the One Our Father prayer campaign. We pray and beg God to come to our aid in the most critical moment in our country’s history. I truly believe that only God can save us, and we must turn to Him now with ever greater fervor.

The Prayer of Azariah

Thankfully, we have a very good precedent in how to pray at moments like this. It can be found in Chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel when the three righteous Israelites had been thrown into the furnace of Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar. It is called the Prayer of Azariah, who uttered it in the midst of the flames.

The analogy fits doesn’t it? Our country is burning. It is a furnace of leftist chaos, and we are being overwhelmed by various plagues of biblical proportions. It’s almost hard to keep track of the constantly morphing wickedness and disasters.

But before we point too many fingers at the evildoers (I admit that I am the first to do so), we must acknowledge that we are not entirely guiltless about that wickedness, if only by neglect and decades of turning a blind eye to the cultural poisons that have invaded our society.

That is actually the distinguishing mark of Azariah’s Prayer—its profound humility. He doesn’t explain away sin and doesn’t point fingers at anyone but himself as part of a sinful people. And he is right. Evil enters societies by permission, and we have too long tolerated these evils that have now metastasized like a murderous cancer.

Since the prayer is 20 verses long and another 40 if you add the blessing prayer that follows it, I am only going to link to it so you can pray it on your own. But I will summarize the main elements of it to show you why we all need to pray this prayer now and for the next three weeks.

Maybe God will hear us and have mercy on our nation. Here is the link to Daniel 3:24-45, The Prayer of Azariah:

Elements of the Prayer

  1. Humility: As I noted above, Azariah acknowledges his and his people’s guilt, which is the first step in knowing one’s need for divine mercy: “For we have sinned and transgressed by departing from you” (3:29).
  2. Blessing: He starts the prayer by blessing God and acknowledging Him as righteous Judge of our deeds, “Blessed are you, and praiseworthy, Lord, the God of our ancestors…you are just in all you have done” (Dan 3:26-27).
  3. Consequences: Rather than blaming the Babylonians for his people’s problems, Azariah recognizes the dreaded result of so much sin: “You have handed us over to our enemies” (3:32).
  4. Promises: In the prayer, he reminds the Lord of His own promises to Israel: “For your name’s sake, do not…make void your covenant” (3:34).
  5. Trust: Yet, despite the negative consequences, Azariah trusts in God’s ultimate mercy for His people: “For those who trust in you cannot be put to shame” (3:40).

Would that we—all Americans—might bow down in these next three weeks and make a prayer of such intense devotion as Azariah while he was in the furnace.

Either our furnace is going to get much hotter in three weeks, or we will be liberated by the Angel who joined the three young men in the heat.

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