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-- Psalm 122:6

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Prayers for Our President and Nation

URGENT: We, the American people, are being tested as never before. Two major hurricanes have slammed into the Gulf, leaving millions homeless and in desperate need; Supreme Court Justices are retiring, placing the burden of replacing them squarely on the shoulders of President George W. Bush; Washington is at an all-time high for partisanship; our economy is hanging in the balance - NO President has ever faced so many challenges within such a short period of time - four-and-a-half years - and handled them all - and kept our nation's economy growing. Not to mention being the Commander of the greatest battle our nation has ever faced - the battle against pure hatred and evil!

President Bush is a professed believer in Jesus Christ - he even confessed Jesus to be his best friend during the primaries. It would be worth your time and effort to think back to that time during the RNC's choosing of a presidential nominee and the first election back in November of 1999 and follow the events that lead up to now.

Without a doubt in my mind, I wholeheartedly believe that this administration has been Satan's target right from the second that profession was uttered! I also firmly believe that President Bush was pre-destined by God to be president for this time in our history.

But all that said, President Bush needs our prayers to help direct his course and strengthen his resolve. He's made of flesh and blood with human emotions and physical attributes, just like we are. He needs our support in every way we can give it, and prayer is still the most powerful!

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Throughout America’s history, her presidents have made frequent and passionate calls for prayer. In his first Inaugural Address, George Washington called for supplications to God, asking Him to guard the freedom and happiness of all Americans.

Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations and whose providential aide can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes; and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success, the functions allotted to his charge.
-- George Washington, April 30, 1789

Abraham Lincoln called for prayer on many occasions, but perhaps the most notable cry came on March 3, 1863 at the height of the Civil War, when he asked the Senate to join him in repentance, fasting and prayer for America. With these words, Lincoln stirred the Senate to action:

We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in National Proclamation of Prayer and Repentence

In addition to the tradition of presidents calling for prayer, the Scriptures encourage prayer for our leaders:

I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone-- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior…
-- I Timothy 2:1-3

Government Leaders to Pray For:

Cabinet Members:
Secretary of State--Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of Defense--Donald Rumsfeld
Secretary of the Treasury--John Snow
Attorney General--Alberto R. Gonzales
Secretary of Commerce--Carlos M. Gutierrez
Secretary of Agriculture--Mike Johanns
Secretary of Education--Margaret Spellings
Secretary of Health and Human Services--Michael O. Leavitt
Secretary of Veterans Affairs--Jim Nicholson
Secretary of Energy--Samuel W. Bodman
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development--Alphonso Jackson
Director of Homeland Security--Michael Chertoff
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency--
National Security Advisor--Stephen J. Hadley
White House Chief of Staff--Andy Card
Federal Emergency Management Agency--Michael D. Brown
Director, Office of Management and Budget--Joshua Bolten
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff--Gen. Richard B. Myers
Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy--John Walters
Director of the Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives--James Towey
Director of the Secret Service--Ralph Basham
Head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation--Robert S. Mueller, III
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency--Michael Vincent Hayden
Director Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms-- Carl J. Truscott
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board--Ben Bernanke

Members of the Congress in the House of Representatives and the Senate
All Branches of the Armed Forces
The U.S. Supreme Court, Federal and Appellate Courts

What to pray for America's Leaders:

• Protection for each one, their families and loved ones
  Physical protection
  Spiritual protection
  
• Clarity of thought
  Pinpoint focus in daily affairs
  Insight and judgment in moments of crisis
  
• Godly wisdom
  Reliance on God’s word and principles
  Spiritual insight into every situation
  
• Earnest pursuit of God and His Word
  Pursue the heart of God
  Keep the discipline of Scripture reading and prayer
  Be a part of a local spiritual fellowship for accountability and support

The following Scriptures adapt well to prayer for leaders. Exodus 23:22, Nehemiah 8:10, Proverbs 3:5-6, Proverbs16:32, John 8:32, Romans 12:2, II Timothy 1:7, Hebrews 13:6, James 1:5, James 4:7.

PRAY THE SCRIPTURES!
Scriptures to Pray for the President, Our Leaders and the Nation.

The following Scripture verses have been adapted to be prayed back to God. Use them to pray for the President, members of his cabinet, the Supreme Court Justices, leaders of Congress or local officials. They are also appropriate to pray for church leaders and pastors.

I pray that You, O Lord will continually bring goodness and sweetness into the President’s life rather than sorrow, causing him to know that taking joy in You makes him strong.
--Nehemiah 8:10

I pray that the President will delight himself in You, Lord, knowing that You will give him the desires of his heart.
--Psalm 37:4

I pray that the President will trust in You, Lord, with all his heart, and lean not on his own understanding. I pray that in all his ways he will acknowledge You, and You will direct his paths.
--Proverbs 3:5-6

I pray that you will always help the President to have a gentle answer that turns away wrath, keeping him from harsh words that stir up anger.
--Proverbs 15:1

O Lord, remind the President continually that You alone are His strength, and that it is You who allows him to accomplish any high and lofty goals.
--Habakkuk 3:19

I pray than when the President faces obstacles he will remember that victory comes not by might nor by power, but by Your Spirit.
--Zechariah 4:6

I pray that the President will always love You O Lord, with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his mind, and with all his strength and that he will love his neighbor as himself. Make him aware that there is no greater command than this.
--Mark 12:30-31

O Lord, grant that President Bush remembers often Your deep and abiding love for him, knowing that he will ultimately be victorious spiritually because You died for him.
--Romans 8:37

I pray that President Bush will put bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and evil away from him with all malice. I pray also that kindness, tenderheartedness and forgiveness will characterize him, just as they do God and His Son Jesus Christ.
--Ephesians 4:31-32

I pray that the President will turn to you for his strength, knowing that he can do all things through Christ who strengthens him.
--Philippians 4:13

I pray that you will grant the President the passion and the will to do all his work heartily, remembering that he is serving You and not men.
--Colossians 3:23

O faithful Lord and God, strengthen and protect the President and guard him from the evil one.
--II Thessalonians 3:3

I pray that the President will submit willingly to You, O God, resisting the devil so the enemy will flee from him.
--James 4:7

I pray that the President, by doing good, may silence the ignorance of foolish men.
--I Peter 2:15

I pray, God, that President Bush will resist the temptation of pride and will humble himself under Your mighty hand, that in Your time you may lift him up.
--I Peter 5:6

Lord, I ask You to help President Bush to confess his sins before You, remembering that You are faithful and just and will cleanse him from sin and forgive him for all unrighteousness.
--I John 1:9

O God, let the President always be confident in approaching You, remembering that You hear his prayers when he asks in accord with Your will. May he always pray this way, with confidence. -- I John 5:14-15

Additional suggested Scriptures:

Give attention to Your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy, O Lord my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying in Your presence.
--II Chronicles 6:19

So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He answered our prayer.
--Ezra 8:23

I call on You, O God, for You will answer me; give ear to me and hear my prayer.
--Psalm 17:6

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His inheritance.
--Psalm 33:12

Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile.

Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.
--Jeremiah 29:7

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
--Jeremiah 29:12

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
--Matthew 7:7-8

One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.
--Luke 6:12

And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.
-- Ephesians 6:18

Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel's hand.
-- Revelation 8:3-4

Prayer for America
Written by Dr. Barry Black
Chaplain, United States Senate

Gracious God,
You have been good to us beyond our deserving, making our Nation a land of liberty.Help us to protect our freedoms with diligence and integrity. Lord, bless our military as it advances freedom’s cause around the world. Bless also the institutions of power and influence in our society – the government, the churches, the media, the schools and the families. May each bring glory to Your name. Forgive us when we stray from right paths. We place our trust in You, O Lord, believing that Your hand will sustain America. Let no shadows obscure the pathways which we should tread.
We pray in Your holy name.
Amen.

Additional Prayer Quotations:

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray. Too often instead of worshipping God, we construct statements as to how prayer works. Are we worshipping or are we in dispute with God- 'I don't see how You are going to do it.' This is a sure sign that we are not worshipping.
--Oswald Chambers

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.
--D.L. Moody

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbor on our knees.
--Charles Brent

Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.
--E.M. Bounds

When a Christian people feel themselves to be overtaken by a great public calamity, it becomes them to humble themselves under the dispensation of Divine Providence, to recognize His righteous government over the children of men, to acknowledge His goodness in time past, as well as their own unworthiness, and to supplicate His merciful protection for the future.
--President John Tyler, upon the death of President William Henry Harrison, April 13, 1841

Content supplied, with permission, from The Presidential Prayer Team