Thank you Father for the continued blessings we are certainly undeserving of. Forgive us for our complacency and looking to ourselves, our government and politics to solve our problems, when we should trust you alone. Thank you that we live in a nation where we can influence change. Help us to choose our battles wisely.
We know that you can turn the hearts of leaders any way you please. We thank you that you changed Obamas heart so he would help our Christian brothers and sisters and their children, being murdered in unspeakable ways, if they don't deny you. Please protect all the innocent people and stop the evil that is spreading across Iraq, the Middle East and the entire world.
May we return to our forefathers commitment of fervent repentance, prayer, and the study of Your word. Help us to know you better, learn your wisdom and understanding and find peace and hope in Your Word.
We pray that you select a godly person, ordained by you, to lead this nation as president. Give that person the wisdom of Solomon, the patience of Job, the fearless passion of Paul to speak the truth, and a great love for the people of this country. May that person inspire people to be the best Christian nation we can be and verbally reclaim You as our nations God, just as our founders did. We pray our leaders choose people of integrity and skill to fill every part of government.
Heal our nations from scars that some are trying to inflame. May people grow weary of politicians who divide us rather than unite us for political purposes. Ps 11:3 says: “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” We pray for the dividing to stop that the healing begins.
Father, we see evidence of leaders of this nation who want to cause harm to your people, all people. Stop those who are changing Your just laws and putting sinful laws in place. Help us to reverse the evil that has occurred, not just in the past 6 years, but in this century. May you will be done in our nation and in this world.
Thank you that you hear the prayers of people who deserve judgment rather than salvation. May Your Holy Name be praised in this nation and throughout the world.
Amen.
Now, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it. See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 30:14-20