Gracious Heavenly Father, we love You and praise You! Grateful for your presence here among us in the heart of every believer who calls Jesus Christ Lord! Today, I lift before You our media…and not just the radio, television, and newspaper outlets, but…EVERY new form of communication available today.
So Father, we pray for those who spend countless hours trolling the internet, looking for every opportunity to comment on, and often critique, the actions and mistakes of others. Predators who prey upon the lonely and unprotected. We pray for a change in the mocking spirit that appears in every nearly thread online. I pray that those who post their opinions would remember the responsibility that comes with that privilege, and consider the harm that can be inflicted with the turn of a phrase.
Father, I pray that our children would be protected from the cynicism that seems to riddle every television program today. Everyone and everything is fair game, and lives are being ruined daily as the misery of others is offered up as cheap entertainment. We pray for discernment in the minds of those who consume YouTube, the TV networks, NetFlix, Hulu, and every other means our enemy can use to fill our minds with toxic waste. Father, I pray that you would heal the seared consciences of those who produce such programming, that they would understand the damage they are causing our marriages, our families, our communities, and our nation.
I pray for the print media, and for broadcast radio. I pray, Father, that You would raise up a generation of communicators with a heart for their fellow man, and a heart for God. People that would use words in these very intimate media to heal and encourage, rather than divide and inflame.
I lift before You Father, our news media. May they be concerned, not with ratings, not with personal or political agendas, but instead be consumed with a quest for the truth, that we might be able to see and hear all sides of an issue without the need to win a battle by shouting down those of differing positions.
And finally, I pray for our children, texting and emailing and Tweeting and Facebooking and Googling and Skype-ing and four-squaring and tumblering! Father, we have more means of connecting today than at any other time in history, but we have far fewer meaningful connections than ever before. I pray that we all would be wise consumers of the media…but even more…I pray that we would learn to turn it all off, pull out the ear buds, and listen together for Your still, small voice in authentic relationship—face to face—with others who know You as King! For You ALONE are worthy of our attention…our worship, and our praise FOREVER…AMEN!



