"I am not pleased with you," says the LORD

Malachi 1:9-10 "Now implore God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?"--says the LORD Almighty." NIV
 "How I wish one of you would shut the Temple doors so that these worthless sacrifices could not be offered! I am not pleased with you," says the LORD of Heaven's Armies, "and I will not accept your offerings." NLT

      Oh, Lord!  Is this where Your church is today in America?  There are of course some "Hot Spots" where believers follow hard after You and live it everyday, but as a whole isYour church is lukewarm or ice cold altogether?  We complain that our religious liberties are being taken away, but if we offer our Governmental leaders the same type of "sacrifice" that we offer You, why would they ever want to change things and listen to us?
      As "Christians" we are a sinful nation.  I spoke to two young ladies yesterday who were from the very area where the Pilgrims landed and where the first Great Awakening happened in New England.  They told me that the area is ice cold as far as Christianity is concerned.  And yet when the census was taken, that whole area looked like a red hot spot of folks who call themselves Evangelical Christians.
      Like Daniel, Lord, I ask that You forgive our sins as a nation and bring us back to being a Christian Nation under God.  Our sins are great, Lord: selfishness, greed, envy, lasciviousness, discontentment, complaining, adultery, divorce, pornography, abuse and lawlessness of every kind, total disregard for You and disobedient to Your Word.  Lord, we need forgiveness, repentence and healing!  WE NEED REVIVAL and another Great Awakening!  Until we are willing to confess and repent as a Church, we can ask nothing of You and deserve the same discipline You gave to Israel in the time of Daniel!
      As we prepare for the celebration of Christmas You are totally lost in the celebration and it is supposed to be a celebration of Your Birth!  Instead, it has become a nation wide celebration of secular materialism , glitz, and glamour.  Oh Lord, please forgive us!