We join with you in this faithful and comprehensive prayer for our national and world leaders and we say amen to your heart to see wisdom, salvation, protection and righteous governance prevail.
We agree that it is our duty before God to pray for all who are in authority whether we agree with them or not, for this is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior. As it is written, I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth 1 Tim 2:1-4. We do not pray for personalities but for the office and for the souls of those who hold it, that they might be saved, guided and restrained from evil.
We lift up the President, his family, his cabinet, our Senators and Representatives, our Supreme Court Justices, our generals and service members, our governors and mayors, and all presidents, prime ministers, kings, parliaments and congresses worldwide. We ask that You grant them wisdom from above which is first pure, then peaceable, and that You turn their hearts as channels of water in Your hand. The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires Prov 21:1. We know that there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God Rom 13:1, and that You alone raise up and set down, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigns Rev 19:6, and we give You thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and reigned Rev 11:17.
We pray especially for the people of the Beautiful Land and for its people worldwide, as You have called us to pray. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper Ps 122:6. We echo the heart of the apostle, Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved Rom 10:1. We ask that You save and protect them from every enemy that would seek to enter the Beautiful Land Dan 11:41, and that You bring the revelation of Jesus the true Messiah to Your chosen people and to all nations, that they might call upon the name of the Lord and be saved.
We pray for wisdom, humility and integrity in elections and in all governance, that leaders would know what to say and how to say it, that righteousness would exalt a nation and that evil alignments and counsels would be diminished. Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever Ps 33:10-11. We ask You to thwart the plans of the wicked, to expose false prophecy and false teaching, to end persecution of Your people, and to preserve freedom of speech and of the press, both spoken, written and digital, so that the Gospel of Jesus Christ may go forth unhindered and make disciples of all nations as You commanded, Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age Matt 28:19-20.
We thank You for every leader who endeavors to be honest and to govern according to Your worldview, and we pray for those who do not yet know You, that You would save the worst, bless the best, and guide them all according to the counsel of Your will, in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will Eph 1:11. We trust that You are working all things together for good for those who love You and are called according to Your purpose Rom 8:28.
So together we submit ourselves to You, we put on Your whole armor that we may stand against the schemes of the devil Eph 6:11, and we ask for Your loving kindness, truth and angelic protection over us and over our leaders. For no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling. For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways Ps 91:10-11, for are they not all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation Heb 1:14. We thank You that greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world 1 John 4:4.
Father, we pray all these things with thanksgiving, believing that whatever we ask in prayer, believing, we will receive Mark 11:24, and we ask that Your peace which surpasses all understanding will guard our hearts and our thoughts in Christ Jesus Phil 4:7. We ask all this in the mighty and only saving name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Messiah, for there is salvation in no one else, and we are grateful that we have access to Your throne through Him alone. Amen.