For better or worse, our God is ultimately in conctrol. He can open the eyes of the blind. He can open the ears of the deaf. The most powerful thing anyone can do for someone else is to pray for them. Because through prayer you and I can touch the heart of God who in turn can touch anyone, anywhere regardless of circumstances. The power is not in the prayer itself, but in the power that God releases in response to the prayer.
Effective praying involves praying the scriptures mixed with faith that God will honor His word. When we pray the scriptures, we are in fact praying God’s word. That is telling God that we are more interested in His will for our lives than we are our wills.
Scriptures says that "For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you." One of the reasons we do not see God doing big things as a result of our prayers is because we falter at the very first verse of this passage. The reason is because we cease to pray. Yes, we do get fired up for a few days. We shake the heavens with our prayers, and about a week later, we forget that prayer because we don’t see the results that we want to see, we have the idea that God is not going to act because He does not meet our schedule the way we want Him to. “I want it done now God and if you don’t I will stop praying." At other times we get so caught up in the activities of life. We just get to busy and forget to pray. Paul never stopped praying.
Lord, give our leaders FULL KNOWLEDGE of your will. Soften their heart to your glories, give them the faith and a desire to what is right. Lord, we lift them up to you daily.
May they become great leaders for Christ. May they rule our land in light of your laws. Lord, bring forgiveness to our land, protects us from the storms that sin has brought us. Without your glorious protection,Lord, we are destitute. Thank you for allowing us to live in a land of freedom, where we are free to choose. HElp us to choose you. In Christ Name. AMen
Heavenly Father, I give thanks for our government.
I pray for all men and women having authority over us in any way.
Pour out Your Spirit upon them and make Your Word known to them.
Cause them to be men and women of integrity, obedient concerning us,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, in all godliness and honesty.
Let wisdom enter their hearts, and let knowledge be pleasant to them.
Let discretion preserve them and understanding keep them,
to deliver them from the way of evil and from evil men.
Make their hearts and ears attentive to godly counsel,
doing what is right in your sight.
Let the upright dwell in our government.
Cause there to be a shaking in all areas.
Let those complete and blameless before You stay.
and cut off the wicked. Let the unfaithful be rooted out.
Bring to light what is hidden in darkness,
and expose the secret aims of the hearts.
Let this nation remember from where they have fallen,
repenting, and returning to doing their first works,
setting their hearts and their souls to seek the Lord,
humbling themselves, praying, and turning from their wicked ways.
Then hear them, O Lord, and forgive their sins and heal our land.
Open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light.
Soften the hearts that are hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Deliver them from their destructions.
Father, You have been longsuffering toward us,
not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance.
Raise up a standard in this nation.
Cause the rains of Your Spirit to flood this land
and revive Your work in the midst of us.
Raise up intercessors for this nation
to pull down strongholds over this land.
And let the glory of the Lord be revealed!
1993 - 2013 © Carol Ann Hale Kononova
