On this "President's Day" we see on the news that Libya is "on fire" ... US citizens are being held by Somalian pirates ... a government "contractor" is being held in Pakistan being charged with murder ... Congress is dealing with significant budget challenges ... and those are only a few of the things we know - our President is expected to deal with each. I disagree with President Obama's policies on many fronts ... but it must be an overwhelming job on days like this ... what can I do today that would be constructive? I could give my opinion or complain but one of the best things I can do is obey scripture and pray! So I will ...
LORD JESUS,
I pray for President Obama to have wisdom from your Spirit. Give him courage to lead ... wise counsel from those surrounding them ... protect him and his family ... surround him with your amazing grace! AMEN!
1 Timothy 2: 1-10 (The Message)
"The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know. Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation. This is the way our Savior God wants us to live. He wants not only us but everyone saved, you know, everyone to get to know the truth we’ve learned:that there’s one God and only one, and one Priest-Mediator between God and us—Jesus,who offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to set them all free. Eventually the news is going to get out.This and this only has been my appointed work: getting this news to those who have never heard of God, and explaining how it works by simple faith and plain truth.Since prayer is at the bottom of all this, what I want mostly is for men to pray—not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. And I want women to get in there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashionsbut doing something beautiful for God and becoming beautiful doing it."
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