National Day of Prayer to be held May 4

COLUMBUS – A National Day of Prayer will take place May 4 at noon on the Colorado County Courthouse lawn, 400 Spring St.

The theme for this year’s National Day of Prayer is “pray fervently in righteousness and avail much,” in reference to James 5:16b NKJV.

“Our humble, fervent, heartfelt, and passionate prayers put God’s abilities in action,” said National Day of Prayer Task Force President Kathy Branzell. “These are the prayers that we want to pray with our eyes wide open, so we don’t miss a moment of God’s heart and hands moving. Even as our words hang in the air, He is already answering, touched just as Jesus was on earth by the faith with which someone asks and believes. He takes our intercession and impacts not just the course of time, but the course of souls and the Kingdom. God uses our prayers to write the history books of tomorrow.

The National Day of Prayer, designated by the United States Congress, became public law in 1952 and has been observed annually on the first Thursday of May throughout the United States since.