[Yosemitest]

As a sidenote, I, also like your photo of the White House.

Alan Keyes said something worth reading.

...he (Barack Obama) pays lip service to our founding principles,
yet encourages the lying delusion that those principles will be remembered
and reliably acted upon without respect for God's authority.
America may be a nation in which people with a great variety of beliefs can live in liberty,
but America cannot live as a nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition of human natural equality, once the truth of God's Creation has been discarded,
the existence of his authority effectively denied.
Obama invokes "God's grace upon us."
But can a nation benefit from God's grace when the people of the nation refuse to live with minds renewed and hearts transformed by it;
when those who, by the receiving of grace, transcend the law
yet refuse to stand up boldly and freely to preserve the right intention of law in words and deeds that reflect the commands and example of their Lord?
Whatever words he speaks in the service of his power and ambition, Obama has articulated views and pledged himself to policies
that resist and reject the renewing influence of grace.
Where God commands respect for life,
he champions murder of the innocent,
and calls it freedom of choice.
Where God commands respect for the family, as it reflects and perpetuates his image in our nature,
Obama champions its destruction, and calls it tolerance.
In his rhetoric Obama uses the name of God,
but in his views and politics he stubbornly denies, disregards and rejects God's authority.
So I pray for him,
that someday he will have the ears to hear the commandment
that is also a warning:
Thou Shalt not take the Name of the Lord Thy God in vain.
… this people draw near me with their mouth,
and with their lips do honor me,
but have removed their heart far from me,
and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men.
– Isaiah 29:13

This people honors me with their lips,

but their heart is far from me.
But in vain they do worship me,
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
– Matthew 15:8-9

[Blogger]

Yosemitest,
I do not agree with Obama. I think it is a detestable thing he is in the White House and will never pray prayers that support his moral and economic agendas unless his heart were to dramatically change. But, I do pray for that change.

Study Revival and Spiritual Awakening. There were times in the 1700s when they would burn Bibles and persecute Christians at universities in America. God changed hearts and revival and spiritual awakening occurred. I’m not saying God will do that here. America may be getting what she has asked for. But, I don’t know that for sure and so I am asking for God to change his heart. Period.