A Prayer for Our Next President
[First drafted October 15, 2020 by Phil Miglioratti]
Regardless of which candidate wins,
Christ-followers must be prepared to follow these instructions the Holy Spirit gave
to the pastor of the Church in Ephesus
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"Most of all, I’m writing to encourage you to pray with gratitude to God.
Pray for all people with all forms of prayers and requests
as you intercede with intense passion.
And pray for every political leader and representative,
so that
we live tranquil, undisturbed lives,
as we worship the awe-inspiring God with pure hearts.
It is pleasing to our Savior-God to pray for them.
He longs for everyone to embrace his life and
return to the full knowledge of the truth."
First Letter to Timothy
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To the God who reigns and rules over all,
We give thanks you have heard our prayers as we have voted for our next President.
(Lord, do red and blue prayers cancel each other?)
May the accuracy of the vote be clear and may the one we have chosen be your response to our need as a nation.
As you walked in the Garden asking "Where are you?"... walk with the President into every room and each decision; building a relationship of intimate communion and immediate conversation.
Holy Spirit, put Godly desires into the heart of this man: to love and obey Almighty God, to be a truth-in-love servant leader like Jesus, to daily (hourly!) ask for knowledge-discernment-wisdom to move good (and God) ideas forward ... to the blessing of every citizen.
Oh Lord, reveal to our President any values or views that are not in line with your will for his life or our nation. "Expose sin (wrong actions; a deceived heart) and reveal how the world does not understand God’s righteousness and his judgments." (John 16:8; paraphrased from TPT)
Provide our President with an Esther and a Daniel; women and men who know you, seek your guidance, and believe in liberty and justice for everyone. Guide the President's choice of those who will serve in the White House, on his cabinet, among his advisors.
And, "teach us" (your Church) "to pray." May we resist partisan/politicized petitions so that you can give us prayers that connect to the root causes of our social problems, explore the truth of the issues we debate, and give us a renewed passion to express a unity of the Church Jesus prayed for ... so that our nation may rediscover the good in the Gospel.
We present this prayer in the name (the authority) of Jesus, by the leading of the Spirit, unto the glory of the Almighty, All-wonderful God.
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Lord God,
Thank You that You loved us so much that You died to save us from our sins.
I agree with Phil's prayer for the president. Let him and the vice president seek You with all their hearts and minds and serve You with all their strength. We pray this for all who work with them too.
Let Your eye and hand be on America to the end of days, so that this nation will fulfill the plans and purposes You planned even before we existed.
Please make us faithful in praying for the president and his administration. Guide us in our prayers. Guard our hearts and thoughts when we pray, so that we glorify You with our hearts as well as our minds, so that our prayers are acceptable to You.
Help us all to act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God in wisdom and discernment.
We pray for peace - Your peace - in the land and the nation.
Make this nation a blessing in Your kingdom for Your people in the land and all over the world.
Let Your kingdom come, Your will be done and Your Name be glorified.
In the Name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.
Pray for many to pray this prayer for our next President...
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Sri Lanka,
Thank you so much for your prayers and encouragement. May God bless you all for your kindness and love.
Lord God, thank You for the love and support from Your people in Sri Lanka. We are so very grateful for every prayer. Please bless our brothers and sisters and their families and especially Sudarman who took the time to write to us to inform us of their very welcome prayers and support at this time of uncertainty.
Give them Your peace and joy. Let Your wonderful Presence be with them always.
Let Your will be done in America, and in Sri Lanka and all over the world.
God bless Sri lanka and America.
We praise You in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eph 3:20, 21 ESV Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer for A New President
Pastor Greg Asimakoupoulos
Once a year, for the past decade, I have given the invocation in our state Senate or House of Representatives in Olympia. The closest I’ve ever come to offering a prayer over a president took place when our family lived in the Land of Lincoln. To my delight, I was invited to give the opening prayer in the chambers of the Illinois state Senate.
When I referenced the Chicago Cubs in my invocation, I had no idea that one of those listening to my prayer would be elected President within several years. I also was unaware that as a southsider, Barack Obama was a Chicago White Sox fan.
I doubt I’m the only person of the cloth who has ever pictured what it would be like to be clothed with the privilege of praying at the inauguration of a new president. All the same, it doesn’t take an invitation from POTUS to seek the face of the Creator on behalf of our commander in chief.
Here’s my prayer as this country prepares to inaugurate its 46th president on January 20th.
Almighty God,
In this pivotal season in the history of our nation, we come before You with gratitude and anticipation. Thank You, sovereign Lord, for a glimmer of light in the corridor of darkness that has defined the past year. For the long-awaited vaccine, we give You thanks. Please make the distribution of it efficient and its impact efficacious. Temper our enthusiastic hopes with guarded realism as we give ourselves permission to picture a more normal way of life.
As we inaugurate our 46th President, we celebrate a peaceful transition of power. It is our desire, O God, that divisions among us would morph into a spirit of cooperation, compromise and unity. Would You orchestrate the soundtrack of our lives so that the symphony of unity and cooperation will once again be heard in the chambers of Congress? Would you cause the hallways and mess halls of office buildings on Capitol Hill to be abuzz with the sounds of civility, friendship and laughter?
We are grateful that the one we elected to serve us for the next four years is one who takes his faith seriously. Cover Joseph R. Biden with Your hand of protection. Grant him health and energy for the task before him. Infuse him with skillful insight and measured determination to face the challenges that await. Give him wisdom. Guard his heart. Guide his choices. Strengthen his resolve to resist temptations to short-circuit the lengthy and cumbersome process of bipartisan engagement. Imbue him with patience to trust the DNA of our democracy.
God, bless America. Not because we deserve Your blessings, but because we stand in need of that which You alone can provide: forgiveness for past wrongs, a sense of Your presence today and faith in what the future holds.
In the meantime, would You teach us how to balance the virtues of unconditional tolerance and unconditional love with the conditions and consequences associated with Your principles and Your blessings?
Remind us once again that the direction of our nation is not as dependent on the one who inhabits the White House as it is on those who live in our homes.
Remind us, as well, of the lessons we learned this past year in the vice grip of the virus. May we never forget how much more meaningful relationships are in comparison to riches. Or how much more valuable opportunities are when compared to objects that gather dust or start to rust. Or how fragile health is even in a country marked by world-class medical care.
Lord, would you give us the courage we need to make necessary changes in worn out routines and self-destructive patterns of behavior. Continue to be our help and our hope for our good and Your glory. This we pray in Your holy name. Amen.
Greg Asimakoupoulos is a Wenatchee native living on Mercer Island, where he is the Faith/Values columnist for the Mercer Island Reporter.
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A prayer for our time
In response to our divided and divisive culture, God’s word calls us to hold three principles in balance:
As a result, followers of Jesus are to be bold in declaring and defending unpopular truth, gracious with those who disagree, and humble in dependence on our Lord. In other words, we are to be like Jesus.
If we will ask the Spirit of God to make us more like the Son of God, he will answer our prayer to the glory of God.
A breakfast I’ll never forget
I’ll close with an example.
George P. Shultz died last Saturday at the age of one hundred. He was one of only two people ever to hold four Cabinet positions in the US government, including secretary of state under President Reagan, where he helped end the Cold War. A graduate of Princeton, he served in the Marine Corps during World War II before receiving a doctorate from MIT. In addition to his remarkable government service, he taught at MIT, the University of Chicago, and Stanford.
I was privileged to sit next to Mr. Shultz and his wife at a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, ten years ago. They were enormously polite and most interested in me and my work. We talked for perhaps thirty minutes before the program began.
As conservatives, they were deeply concerned about the direction of our country under the Obama administration. But the humility, respect, and grace with which they discussed the president and his policies left a lasting impression on me.
It was no wonder that we were talking at a prayer breakfast—Dr. Shultz was a “faithful eight o’clocker” at his church in California.
That morning, I heard President Obama, other well-known political leaders, and Randall Wallace, the screenwriter for Braveheart and the director of Secretariat. But I was moved most deeply by George Shultz. I left the breakfast with this conviction: if this man of faith who had lived and worked at the highest levels of global leadership could combine Christian courage and compassion, I could endeavor to do the same.
So can you.