Our nations are in a time of confusion and uncertainty.  Our politicians are struggling to bring order out of seeming chaos. The embarrassment of a nation that once had an empire on which the sun never set, that gave the world what was called the "mother of parliaments" and took the Christian Message of love, hope and life, in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ around the world, is clear for all to see.   Much of what has been said by our politicians in recent weeks has confirmed our belief that something is very wrong with 21^st century British society.

Until our Nation understands that our problems stem from spiritual and moral failings rather than the worship of mammon that leads to financial bankruptcy, nothing will improve.   It is plain for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear that since we as a family of nations and the rest of the western world turned from a Christian basis of laws and governance to a secular agenda there has been an increasing spiral downwards in national, local and family life.

Laws that encouraged, strengthened and gave boundaries to family, community and national life, have been replaced by laws many of which do the opposite.  Our financial system that once was the envy of the world has been exposed for its greed and corruption and the lie that we can have today and pay sometime in the future, has also been exposed through individual and national debt the like of which we have never seen.

So is there any hope?  YES!!  As Christians we believe that God has given us the Bible, His word as a light to our feet and a lamp to our path.  If we as a nation and we as the church in the nation just took the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount taught by Jesus, for our rule book, things would be very different.  If we as the church and we as a nation would humble ourselves repent of the fact that we have by our words and actions told God we do not need Him, repent of our greed, our selfishness and our idolatry and would seek Him with all our hearts and minds He will come and heal our land.   That is our hope, for God is a very present help in time of trouble.    

We call upon the Body of Christ to stand together in truth, humility, prayer and worship at this time of huge political change across our family of nations. 

We continue to pray

• For those in authority over us.
• For our Queen and her advisers.
• For our new Prime Minister David Cameron, for Nick Clegg and all in political leadership, both national and local, that they will have wisdom, humility and generosity of spirit. 
• For blessing on Gordon Brown and his family.

We pray in the confusion and uncertainty, that the values of God's Kingdom, righteousness, truth, justice, humility, integrity and hope, will be increasingly released through His people......

• Politically
• Financially
• Socially
• Environmentally

We give thanks to God for all those who voted, for the willingness of people to stand for election, that there is peace in our streets and that above all that Jesus Christ is Lord and in Him we put our trust.                                                  

The WPC team

Some scriptures for reflection at this time: Psalm 64 and Psalm 73