The USA is the third largest nation in the world in both area and population.
It is the biggest Christian nation in the world with more than a third of the population being church members and another half of the population being nominally Christian.
America is now the world's only supper power. It spends the same amount on its army as the rest of the world put together.
It is the world's riches country and buys a huge amount of food and other goods from other countries. Being rich and powerful makes the USA very important to the world. It must use its wealth and power carefully or the whole world could suffer.
Prayer networks, and numbers involved, increased significantly in the 1990s. There has been increased prayer by students before schools for their schools and prayer walking.
The impact of Billy Graham; arguably the Evangelical of the 20th Century. God gave him grace to remain humble and true to his high calling as an evangelist. He has preached the gospel to more people and witnessed to more leaders than any person who has ever lived.
The USA's role in the world during the 1990s has been unique as the sole superpower. Many of the things it does has an effect not just in its own country, but on the whole world. The US President, wields awesome power. Pray for the President-George Bush, his choice of leadership team, the American parliament so that decisions may be wisely made and well balanced praying that they think not just what is best for their own country but the whole world.
Globalization of the modern world is largely driven by US technology, TV and culture. The good things are - the Internet, people speaking English, information availability that empowers people and exposes evil. There are bad things too - many countries and many people want to be like the USA this can lead to a loss of their own culture and individuality. As American companies grow around the world they exploit poor countries to make themselves rich. Pray for a limit to the greed and evil and the enhancement of the good in these changes now taking place.
Pray that America can help make a Iraq a safe country which is no longer a threat to other countries or its own people.