Yes, Proverbs 21:1 indicates that the Lord guides king’s hearts however the Lord pleases.
On the other hand, consider the kings of the ancient Israelites who did evil in the eyes of the Lord, the Lord ultimately turning these kings and the Israelites over to invading armies.
And given that it has been said that the Constitution is our king, the problem is that many patriots evidently do not understand how evil Constitution-ignoring Obama is because many patriots are evidently not familiar with the roughly two pages of constitutionally limited powers of the federal government.
I have read that one of the slogans from the Revolutionary War by Patriots was “No king, but King Jesus.”
We have rejected God and look at our nation. All the problems discussed so frequently here at FR are just “symptoms” of the problem. Yes, symptoms of the problem - a sickness of the individual soul and the soul of the nation.
People wanted a messiah, a savior, an earthly king. And God, apparently, has allowed us as a nation to have the leadership we collectively deserve.
Can we save ourselves without God (and I don’t mean Allah or any other impostors from hell)? NO we can’t!!
15 “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, 16 in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. 17 But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them, 18 I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 20 that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
(Deuteronomy 30:15-20)