A great crisis in American history came at the Constitutional Convention called in Philadelphia to ratify a constitution for the new country that was being born. The delegates got angry with one another, and because they couldn’t resolve their conflicts, they couldn’t agree on a thing and picked up their hats and coats and started to leave. Suddenly Benjamin Franklin spoke up.

“What a minute, gentlemen,” he is reported to have said. “This country was conceived in faith in God. Many of us here believe in prayer. Let us get upon our knees and pray to Almighty God and see whether God shall give to us the answer to our dilemma.”

Upon their knees those men went, and out of that prayer meeting came the Constitution of the United States of America.

What dilemma in your nation—or in your life—is compelling you to get down on your knees and seek God’s answer?

Would You show us the way back to You, Father? Help us see one another as made in Your image. May we come together and pray for Your will in our lives and in our land.