AUG 9 DAILY TOPIC: General Welfare Prayer for Israel Prayer for National Government Officials State Focus: Indiana and Iowa Daily prayers at Calendar RandRPrayer.org/ Mon - Sat 8:30 am PT/9:30 am MT/10:30 am CT/11:30 am ET 712 432-1699 Access Code 338083# PRAYER FOR GENERAL WELFARE We ask for Your guidance in how to best promote the well-being of our citizens. We thank You, Father, for founders who referred to You as Providence itself. Help us, O God, to truly honor our national motto: “In God We trust.” Bring us to a full understanding of the founders’ Constitutional intent behind allowing government the power to promote the general welfare. We ask You to help us reverse the trend to look to government to provide for us, take over for us, and then take us over. As Your church, we pray for Your guidance in how best to help the least of our neighbors. Father, the question in America used to be, Ask what you can do for your country. It now seems to be, What have you done for me lately, country? We repent from our tendency to look to Caesar for our daily bread. Help us, O God, to return to trust in You over any earthly or material source. And help us to be Your hands and heart in tending to the true needs of the least among us. It is better to trust the Lord than to put confidence in princes (Psalm 118:9). PRAYER FOR ISRAEL Lord, we pray for the peace and prosperity of Jerusalem and ask for an end to the violence and suffering. We pray for justice, and Your sovereign righteousness over Israel. We pray for mercy and Your Kingdom to rule over the land. Please protect the soldiers and civilians from bloodshed. Give wisdom to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Knesset (The legislature of Israel). May Israel remain strong, not dividing the land You gave as an inheritance to Your chosen people. May the United States continue to fully support Israel, the nation that gave us salvation through Jesus Christ. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, may they prosper that love thee (Psalm 122:6). PRAYER FOR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS Lord God, we ask for Your blessing and wisdom on the lives of these leaders in our nation. EXECUTIVE President Barack Obama Vice-President Joe Biden THE PRESIDENTS CABINET Transportation: Secretary Anthony Foxx Energy: Secretary Ernest Moniz Education: Secretary Arne Duncan Veterans Affairs: Acting Secretary Sloan Gibson Homeland Security: Secretary Jeh Johnson SUPREME COURT Chief Justice John Roberts JUSTICES Ruth Bader Ginsburg Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan Stephen G. Breyer Anthony Kennedy Samuel A. Alito Antonin Scalia Clarence Thomas TODAYS STATE FOCUS We direct our prayers to the states of Indiana and Iowa and their leaders. WE DECLARE THE 1851 PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIANA: “We, the People of the State of Indiana, grateful to Almighty God for the free exercise of the right to choose our form of government, do ordain this Constitution.” INDIANA GOVERNOR Mike Pence [R] INDIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL Greg Zoeller [R] INDIANA SENATORS Dan Coats [R] Joe Donnelly [D] INDIANA REPRESENTATIVES DEMOCRATS Pete ViscloskyAndré Carson REPUBLICANS Jackie Walorski Marlin Stutzman Todd Rokita Susan Brooks Luke Messer Larry Bucshon Todd Young WE DECLARE THE 1857 PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF IOWA: “We, the People of the State of Iowa, grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation of those blessings, do ordain and establish a free and independent government...” IOWA GOVERNOR Terry Branstad [R] IOWA ATTORNEY GENERAL Tom Miller [D] IOWA SENATORS Chuck Grassley [R] Tom Harkin [D] IOWA REPRESENTATIVES DEMOCRATS Bruce Braley David Loebsack REPUBLICANS Tom Latham Steve King We ask that You turn their hearts towards You, Lord. We ask that You soften their hearts, Lord, to recognize and receive truth. Lord, we ask that You grant them the understanding and knowledge that come from the fear of You. We ask that You grant them wisdom and discernment, Lord, and that You make them bold to do what is right in Your sight. Lord, we ask that You direct their hearts to do Your will. In Jesus name, Amen.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 07:17:45 +0000
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