Do you pray for the president? If you and I would spend less time criticizing the president and more time praying for him, we would have a better nation and a better world.
You may not agree with him, but you can certainly ask God to help and strengthen him.
You can pray for the President in a number of ways.
You can ask that God would bless him with wisdom and discernment.
Only God knows if Barack Obama is a true Christian.
You can pray that God will save him if he is not.
You can pray for his protection and for the protection of his family.
You can pray that his advisors will be honest and not just political.
You can pray the same things for all our elected officials, federal, state and local.
Let's pray whole-heartedly for President Obama, and for all other people in authority over us.
As I said above, you can be totally opposed to everything the President stands for and still love him and pray for him.
After all, 1 Timothy 2:1-2 commands us to pray for all people, especially our leaders: "Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence (NKJV).
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As the above verses point out, it is only as our leaders and our nation are blessed that we can "lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.
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