A Prayer for President Obama
[NOTE: I wrote the following prayer to appear in our bulletin at Lebanon Road this past Sunday. Several have said they appreciated it, so I thought on this Inauguration Day it would be appropriate to reproduce it here. May Christians treat all governmental leaders in a Biblical way.]
Father,
We are grateful for the honor of living in the United States of America. We are thankful that you have blessed us with the privilege of electing our officials at all levels of government. May we never take this lightly.
This week, we will say goodbye to President George W. Bush and we will welcome President Barak Obama. We are grateful that each of these men has given his life to public service, and we respect the rise to the “top” of our system each has made. Thank you, Father, for the good President Bush has done. Though not a perfect man, we are grateful he has served us to the best of his ability.
Now we ask you to be with our new President and each one who will aide him. President Obama needs Your help, and we pray that he will seek You daily. Though he has stood for some things that are against your Holy Word in the past, we know that even kings can be moved by your power (cf. Proverbs 21:1). Mold Barak Obama into the kind of man who will stand with You and who will stand for Christians.
Be with us, Father, that we may support him where he is right, and may lovingly but boldly oppose him where he opposes You. Keep us vigilant, and keep us respectful of the office to which he has attained.
Finally, help President Obama and us understand that You are ultimately in control. Guide this country toward righteousness again, and use us to help bring the USA back to You.
Through Christ,
Amen.
5 Comments
Dave Brumley
Amen brother. Great prayer
To answer your question, my one sentence would be this:
Having publicly confessed Jesus as your savior, please defend your stance on abortion from a Biblical perspective.
Anonymous
be Biblically correct rather than Politically correct. It has been my experience that Politics has yet to be anything close to “correct
Daniel Dalp
blogprophet
great prayer (you mispelled Barack once, though–does that count as not honoring/respecting our leaders, :))
one sentence is not enough, here is what I want to tell him….
http://blogprophet.wordpress.com
btw–the word verification was “mania”, possibly in honor of “Obamamania”
Heather Everson
Amen!!! Very touching!!!
RPugh
I would say this: “As President of the United States, you would like to fix every problem. We would all like you to create plans that would fix everything. But this is impossible. What you need to focus on as President is what this country was founded upon – liberty, justice, and truth. Be a Presidnet who restores this country to be – ONE NATION UNDER GOD again.”