The effort, which will begin Sept. 24 and conclude Nov. 2, consists of 40 days of prayer that intensifies to 40 hours of prayer to complete the vigil.
“Our problems are God-sized problems,” ERLC President Richard Land said. “They are problems of the heart. They are problems of the spirit. They are problems of the soul. And they are well beyond our ability to solve them. The only way they are going to be solved is if we have revival.

“If we’re going to have a revival that will deepen into an awakening and become a reformation--and I believe that’s what we must have in America--it starts with each of us in our own hearts and in our own families and in our own churches and in our own communities,” Land said.

Visit the 40/40 Prayer Vigil Website.

The ERLC and NAMB have provided an online prayer guide to aid people as they pray for such needs as revival in their lives and churches, a restoration of morality in the culture and wisdom for voters in this year’s election. The prayer guide may be accessed and downloaded at ilivevalues.com/prayer.

The Southern Baptist Convention is America’s largest non-Catholic denomination with more than 16.2 million members. The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is the SBC’s ethics, religious liberty and public policy agency with offices in Nashville, Tenn., and Washington, D.C.