Monday, August 21, 2017

For Your People Bear Your Name

Daniel 9: 19

O Lord, hear. O Lord, listen and act! For Your own sake, do not delay, O my God, for Your people and your city bear Your Name.

O my Father, You know how the Nations of the World blaspheme Your Name in how this Nation, which is called by Your Name as Christian, has fallen from the high principles and standards it was founded upon. And having abandoned its very foundation, now finds itself adrift among the Nations and foundering.

Father, it is You Who sets up and puts down all authority, how much more are You concerned for the leadership of the Nations. Now You have granted us to have elected a President who is not a politician, but a businessman, and who I hear may even be a Christian. 

I pray, dear Father, that You would lead him and guide him in his every choice, every decision he is to make, both in his personal life and for this Nation, to begin to lead us as a Nation back to those high moral standards with which we began. 

And protect him from the attacks of the enemy, who has deceived his minions into believing that evil is good, and white is black; and is slandering his good character, and blocking the news of what his administration is already accomplishing to benefit all of us in this Nation. 

Please surround our President with men and women who understand Your ways to support him in doing Your work from the very top of our government; and continue to wake up Your church to do Your work from the grassroots up. 

And I implore You, almighty sovereign God over all, to block the machinations of the enemy in thwarting the good You desire for all of us, in Your great mercy and love for us all; that Your Name will be honored and respected publicly, that all people of this World will see Your beauty and goodness and bring all glory to You alone.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!