Father God,

Today, I pray against the growing divisions in our culture arising from our society’s loss of the ability to communicate well. While the effects of Babel were to separate groups of people out geographically across the world, the present epidemic of miscommunication is separating even those who share a common language. Whether within families, between neighbors, or across groups of people within a nation, there is a loss of understanding, a growing distortion of communication, and from that a growing angst against others individually and collectively.

I pray that You would remove the fingers and influence of the enemy who is working through this chaos of poor communication to divide family member from family member, neighbor from neighbor, group from group. I pray that Your presence would come into our midst and drive back the spiritual forces that have deceived us into these patterns. I pray that Your presence would uncover our hidden sinful patterns that have taken root which undergird the patterns of miscommunication. I pray that You would root out our sinful nature which perpetuates these miscommunications and through humility and repentance to restore clear godly communication one with another.

I pray that we would learn to love one another well through speaking and listening as those indwelt by the Spirit who calls us to walk justly in peace one with another.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.