California-based megachurch Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, Pastor Jack Hibbs is calling on Americans, especially Christians, to join Tennessee’s month of prayer and fasting for the nation next month. During a sermon on Sunday, Hibbs told the congregation that Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill calling on state residents to participate in 30 days of prayer and fasting for the state and the nation starting July 1.
According to The Christian Post, Hibbs invited the congregation to stand and extend an invitation to “every pastor in America and every Christian church in America” to “join Tennessee.” Moreover, Hibbs lamented that California’s Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom “won’t say such a thing.”
“We don’t need our governor to say such a thing,” he continued. “We’ve got ears to hear what the Spirit is saying, and the Holy Spirit is calling Tennessee and its governor and its people to pray for America.”
Declaring that “we in California can do the same thing,” Hibbs stressed his call to “the church in America,” adding: “Let’s all be Tennesseeans this month of July and pray and fast as the Lord leads you.”
“Maybe God is waiting for America and its churches to wake up,” he implied before asking the church to join him in prayer, calling on God to “pour out your Holy Spirit not only on Tennessee but on California.”
The megachurch pastor also asked the congregation to share footage of that portion of the service on social media and urged them to “pray all the month of July.”
Lee signed the law on April 16, after it had been approved by the House of Representatives and the Republican-controlled Senate earlier this year.
“We, as public servants in the Tennessee General Assembly, seek God’s mercy upon our land and beseech Him not to withdraw His Hand of blessing from us,” the resolution stated. “We recognize our sins and shortcomings before Him and humbly ask His forgiveness.”
Asking “the Lord Jesus to heal our land and remove the violence, human trafficking, addiction, and corruption,” the resolution requested that “the Holy Spirit fill our halls of government, our classrooms, our places of business, our churches, and our homes with peace, love, and joy.”
In closing, the resolution called on those who are “physically able and spiritually inclined to do so” to participate in the “season of prayer and intermittent fasting as we begin a new fiscal year as a means of seeking God’s blessing and humbling ourselves to receive His grace and mercy, transforming ourselves, our communities, our State, and our Nation.”
The document also pointed out how, in the past, both state and national founders “trusted in the omnipotent hand of Providence to guide and bless our land.”
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