[Pegita]

Unto You, O Lord, we return with praise and thanksgiving for Your steadfast goodness and mercy to us, individually and as a nation ... none of which is merited, Merciful Father, yet such is Your love.

We continue to look to You, O Lord, for Your blessings upon those in authority over us, that they would be mindful that each must given an account to You. May it be, O God, that they fear Your rebuke and are constrained to act in accordance with Your wisdom and guidance, providing the citizenry with justice in accordance with law and not whim.

Cause them to fashion thoughts and words and deeds that speak of a standard of justice that acknowledges the law abiding and rewards not the law breaker, for You would have us live within the bounds of moral truth and justice. Open the hearts and the eyes and the ears of the people, that they might be guided by the Holy Spirit into the Truth ... cause them, O God, to accept nothing less than the Truth.

Encamp around our military, that they would be shielded from harm in their task of bringing liberty and freedom to a hungry people. Still the voices of our own whose words give aid and comfort to the enemy, yet we know that in Your time, each of us will stand before You to give an account of our every word and deed ... may this thought be so overwhelmingly frightening that many will flee to the protection of Your Shed Blood.

In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may it be thus, O Lord, may it be thus, Amen ...

[Pegita]

Unto You, O Lord, we return with praise and thanksgiving that Your love is from everlasting to everlasting.

Look with mercy upon our beloved country this night, Merciful Father. Let us not be ensnared by beguiling voices that would lead us astray, but may we be in effectual, fervent prayer for those in authority over us. Cause them to do what is right and just in Your sight, that our countrymen would be well served.

Hear our prayer, O Lord ...
Hear our prayer, O Lord ...
Incline thine ear to us
And grant us thy peace. Amen ...