Lord, have mercy.
We pray today for our President.
We don’t deserve a good leader, Lord. We deserve a leader who reflects our callous souls and our selfish pursuits. We deserve a leader who would stroke our greed and lead us down a path of lies and gluttony until we consume our very selves.
But Father, will You please have mercy? Will You give America Your grace once more?
Lord, will You guide the heart of our President? Will You draw his heart toward You?
Will You please put spiritual and political counselors around him who will give him good advice? And will You help him listen to them? Will You block him from making harmful decisions, and will You guide him to good ones?
If he does not know You personally as his Savior, will You woo his heart to salvation? Give him discernment, humility, and wisdom beyond his own.
Lord, will You also please make his heart tender toward Israel? Help him to love Your people and work always to protect them.
Guide his hand. Guide his mind.
(I Timothy 2:1-4)
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
April 16, 2009
Lord, have mercy.
The church has not been pure. Many leaders have used Your name selfishly to gain power and wealth. Hypocrisy fills the secret lives of leaders who claim to know you. Truth has been reshaped for the sake of popularity. Promises of earthly health and prosperity lead many away from the truth of Your gospel.
We are weary of trusting leaders, then finding disappointment. We are weary of giving to ministries, but receiving emptiness. We aren’t sure where to find spiritual leaders with authentic faith. We don’t know where to find truth.
Lord, please strengthen our faith shepherds. Provide for them. Encourage them. Protect them. Keep them pure. Help them to honest about their failures, and help them lean into Your strength.
Please, send us more laborers for this harvest. Send us pastors who handle Your Word with accuracy. Send us pastors who love others more than themselves. Send us pastors with humility and strength.
And please, give us the discernment to know truth when it comes to us. And help us receive it.
(Titus 1:7-9)
The church has not been pure. Many leaders have used Your name selfishly to gain power and wealth. Hypocrisy fills the secret lives of leaders who claim to know you. Truth has been reshaped for the sake of popularity. Promises of earthly health and prosperity lead many away from the truth of Your gospel.
We are weary of trusting leaders, then finding disappointment. We are weary of giving to ministries, but receiving emptiness. We aren’t sure where to find spiritual leaders with authentic faith. We don’t know where to find truth.
Lord, please strengthen our faith shepherds. Provide for them. Encourage them. Protect them. Keep them pure. Help them to honest about their failures, and help them lean into Your strength.
Please, send us more laborers for this harvest. Send us pastors who handle Your Word with accuracy. Send us pastors who love others more than themselves. Send us pastors with humility and strength.
And please, give us the discernment to know truth when it comes to us. And help us receive it.
(Titus 1:7-9)
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
April 15, 2009
Lord, have mercy.
We need Your help dealing with our nation’s enemies. As individuals, you have asked us to love them. Yet, you have also given governments the right to intervene with force to stop evil.
It’s hard for our leaders to know how to reconcile those two things, for often they seem opposed to our limited minds. This issue is beyond our understanding, and so we need Your wisdom to guide us.
Lord, please protect America from using her power to take advantage of others. Help us find other means than war to reach the greater good. If ever we must engage, please help us to move with accuracy and altruism. Protect us from all unnecessary violence. And please, give our national leaders wisdom.
As individuals, help us to love those who want to hurt us. Help us to seek their good. Help us rest in the fact that You see all, and then help us trust You to bring justice. Show us when to act, and when to speak, and when to keep still. Above all, keep our hearts in love.
(Matthew 5:44)
(Romans 13:4)
We need Your help dealing with our nation’s enemies. As individuals, you have asked us to love them. Yet, you have also given governments the right to intervene with force to stop evil.
It’s hard for our leaders to know how to reconcile those two things, for often they seem opposed to our limited minds. This issue is beyond our understanding, and so we need Your wisdom to guide us.
Lord, please protect America from using her power to take advantage of others. Help us find other means than war to reach the greater good. If ever we must engage, please help us to move with accuracy and altruism. Protect us from all unnecessary violence. And please, give our national leaders wisdom.
As individuals, help us to love those who want to hurt us. Help us to seek their good. Help us rest in the fact that You see all, and then help us trust You to bring justice. Show us when to act, and when to speak, and when to keep still. Above all, keep our hearts in love.
(Matthew 5:44)
(Romans 13:4)
Monday, April 13, 2009
April 13, 2009
Lord, have mercy.
We need Your help dealing with our nation’s enemies. As individuals, you have asked us to love them. Yet, you have also given governments the right to intervene with force to stop evil.
It’s hard for our leaders to know how to reconcile those two things, for often they seem opposed to our limited minds. This issue is beyond our understanding, and so we need Your wisdom to guide us.
Lord, please protect America from using her power to take advantage of others. Help us find other means than war to reach the greater good. If ever we must engage, please help us to move with accuracy and altruism. Protect us from all unnecessary violence. And please, give our national leaders wisdom.
As individuals, help us to love those who want to hurt us. Help us to seek their good. Help us rest in the fact that You see all, and then help us trust You to bring justice. Show us when to act, and when to speak, and when to keep still. Above all, keep our hearts in love.
(Matthew 5:44)
(Romans 13:4)
We need Your help dealing with our nation’s enemies. As individuals, you have asked us to love them. Yet, you have also given governments the right to intervene with force to stop evil.
It’s hard for our leaders to know how to reconcile those two things, for often they seem opposed to our limited minds. This issue is beyond our understanding, and so we need Your wisdom to guide us.
Lord, please protect America from using her power to take advantage of others. Help us find other means than war to reach the greater good. If ever we must engage, please help us to move with accuracy and altruism. Protect us from all unnecessary violence. And please, give our national leaders wisdom.
As individuals, help us to love those who want to hurt us. Help us to seek their good. Help us rest in the fact that You see all, and then help us trust You to bring justice. Show us when to act, and when to speak, and when to keep still. Above all, keep our hearts in love.
(Matthew 5:44)
(Romans 13:4)
Sunday, April 12, 2009
April 12, 2009
Lord, have mercy.
Our system of national media needs Your healing desperately. America’s airwaves are full of political extremists spewing hatred. Lies are presented as truth. Truths are presented with vicious arrogance.
How are we to know what to believe?
Father, the internet and television are full of violence and immorality. It’s so difficult to live holy lives with so many temptations surrounding us.
Will You please help us? Will You send us options in news and entertainment that are honest, helpful, edifying, humble, and holy? Will You guard our eyes, and our ears, and our minds?
Will You give us discernment to know lies when we hear them? Will You give us humility when we are tempted to follow arrogant speech? Will You help us be shrewd, and yet innocent? Will you help us to be so repulsed by wickedness, that we turn our eyes from it?
Will You send a revival into the media? Will You break the strongholds of blindness and hardness there? Will You clean and heal this deeply-infected part of our land?
(Psalm 101:3)
Our system of national media needs Your healing desperately. America’s airwaves are full of political extremists spewing hatred. Lies are presented as truth. Truths are presented with vicious arrogance.
How are we to know what to believe?
Father, the internet and television are full of violence and immorality. It’s so difficult to live holy lives with so many temptations surrounding us.
Will You please help us? Will You send us options in news and entertainment that are honest, helpful, edifying, humble, and holy? Will You guard our eyes, and our ears, and our minds?
Will You give us discernment to know lies when we hear them? Will You give us humility when we are tempted to follow arrogant speech? Will You help us be shrewd, and yet innocent? Will you help us to be so repulsed by wickedness, that we turn our eyes from it?
Will You send a revival into the media? Will You break the strongholds of blindness and hardness there? Will You clean and heal this deeply-infected part of our land?
(Psalm 101:3)
Friday, April 10, 2009
April 10, 2009
Lord, have mercy.
Our schools have become corrupted. Instead of training children to think and reason effectively, many classrooms serve as havens for godless, relativistic ideology.
The halls of our nation’s schools are full of drugs, immorality, racial tension, and violence. Daily, students walk into situations of mental and verbal abuse. Their spirits are broken, their confidence is torn. They have no refuge.
Many teachers have been indoctrinated by universities that value humanistic reform over educational substance. Thinking they are doing good, they fill the minds of students with the dogma they have learned - and our nation’s children have no one to teach them otherwise.
Father, will You rescue our students? Will You protect, strengthen, and provide them with faith-filled teachers whose mission is to bring light into this darkness? Will You break down (or reform) the powerful organizations within our nation’s education system that stand opposed to good? And will You give us a huge number of Your servants to teach and heal the broken places in our nation’s schools?
(Proverbs 22:6)
Our schools have become corrupted. Instead of training children to think and reason effectively, many classrooms serve as havens for godless, relativistic ideology.
The halls of our nation’s schools are full of drugs, immorality, racial tension, and violence. Daily, students walk into situations of mental and verbal abuse. Their spirits are broken, their confidence is torn. They have no refuge.
Many teachers have been indoctrinated by universities that value humanistic reform over educational substance. Thinking they are doing good, they fill the minds of students with the dogma they have learned - and our nation’s children have no one to teach them otherwise.
Father, will You rescue our students? Will You protect, strengthen, and provide them with faith-filled teachers whose mission is to bring light into this darkness? Will You break down (or reform) the powerful organizations within our nation’s education system that stand opposed to good? And will You give us a huge number of Your servants to teach and heal the broken places in our nation’s schools?
(Proverbs 22:6)
Thursday, April 9, 2009
April 9, 2009
Lord, have mercy.
Many of our leaders have turned from You. They have chosen popularity over integrity. They have followed the masses instead of leading them. They have bowed to pressure for the sake of their careers.
Many of our leaders do not fear You. Many do not value Your truth. They are trying to direct our land without seeking Your help.
Yet still, we know that the hearts of our leaders are in Your hands. So, we pray now for those who have political charge over us.
Will You send a revival of Your Spirit through our governing bodies? Will You win the hearts of our leaders?
Will You send ministers to them to help them? Give them words full of Your Spirit. And please, open the hearts of our leaders to receive the truth when it comes.
Please redeem our leadership, Father - even those adamantly opposed to Your ways. It’s a huge request. It seems impossible. But You are the God of miracles. Win their hearts. Heal our land.
(Proverbs 21:1)
Many of our leaders have turned from You. They have chosen popularity over integrity. They have followed the masses instead of leading them. They have bowed to pressure for the sake of their careers.
Many of our leaders do not fear You. Many do not value Your truth. They are trying to direct our land without seeking Your help.
Yet still, we know that the hearts of our leaders are in Your hands. So, we pray now for those who have political charge over us.
Will You send a revival of Your Spirit through our governing bodies? Will You win the hearts of our leaders?
Will You send ministers to them to help them? Give them words full of Your Spirit. And please, open the hearts of our leaders to receive the truth when it comes.
Please redeem our leadership, Father - even those adamantly opposed to Your ways. It’s a huge request. It seems impossible. But You are the God of miracles. Win their hearts. Heal our land.
(Proverbs 21:1)
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