All nations before Him are as nothing, and they are counted by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.
Please pray for your government. Psalms 25:21 … Pray that our leaders will be men and women of integrity. It is He who sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in. You are here: Home >> Scripture Prayers >> Praying For The Government.
(That’s why He can use you and me.) The apostle Paul instructed Timothy in his first letter to this young leader to, “pray for all that are in authority” (1 Timothy 2:1-2). I was invited to offer the invocation before a meeting of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government this week. In Europe, as well another parts of the world, politicians are facing major crises which are both major challenges and also major opportunities for God’s people to recover credibility both for the gospel and the Church. Eastern religions and ideas are popular (go to a garden supply store and see all the images of Buddha there!)
13:3-4). Scarcely shall they be planted; scarcely shall they be sown; scarcely shall their tree take root in the earth, when He will also blow on them, and they will wither, and the whirlwind will take them away as stubble” (Is. Church and Christian organizations have a major role to play in bringing social cohesion, including the outcasts, showing hospitality and compassion. Despite the variety of perspectives on the issues of global warming, we can all agree on the fact that Scripture gives a clear mandate for us to look after this amazing planet God has given us. Pray that they would govern with wisdom for the common good, or the “welfare of the city” (Jer 29:7), not for personal gain, or under the pressure of lobby groups, or for the advantage of a favored few.
Many local governments, for instance, choose to begin their meetings with a prayer. Politicians truly need wisdom.
Here we need clear thinking on the place of religious freedom and freedom of conscience, the foundational freedom for all other freedoms.E. Praying scriptures for the government. The soft powers of Christianity–love, truth and justice–overturned the Roman Empire in the first centuries and can recover lost ground in our secularized world again.These crises are being experienced in the following fields:A. Social. This implies that churches and Christian organizations need to step up to the challenge of engaging with public issues and learning how to become constructively involved in finding responses to the pressing questions of the day.
This scripture prayer was compiled to help you pray for the government. Here a strong civil society is needed, with initiatives taken by citizens, not just politicians. 5. Praying For The Government.
Love the brotherhood. This is the prayer. (Which is anti-Christian in attitude–Brother Andrew spells that word as follows: I Sincerely Love All Muslims!) Copyright 2017 Youth With A Mission (YWAM) | He can accomplish His purposes through unbelieving politicians regardless of their willingness to be used by Him. Practiced in most settings, prayer is protected under the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause, which prohibits the government from interfering with a person’s practice of their own religion.
A Norwegian politician once asked Alv Magnus, former leader of YWAM Norway, “Why is it that you Christians always come with answers to the questions we’re not asking, but not to the questions that we do ask?”3. We pray for our leaders to lead with a godly purpose and plan for our nation. Secularism has not fulfilled the spiritual needs of the community and many are looking again for spiritual reality–but not necessarily in the church. We are reprinting this article from our archives.
And Muslim communities, including mosques, are sprouting all over the western world. Paul advises his young disciple Timothy and those fellowshipping with him to: “make supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone, for kings and for all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior” (1 Tim 2:1-3).Peter instructs his readers, and us today, to “submit to every human authority for the Lord’s sake, whether it be to the king, as supreme, or to governors, as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and to praise those who do right….Honor all people. Their concern must be for the wellbeing of all.Political issues are not usually black and white, cut and dried. This week's focus: Government.
A prayer for local government. Gorbachev is perhaps a modern example of a King Cyrus.As we pray, be mindful how God views those in authority: “The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His anointed, saying, ‘Let us tear off their bonds and cast away their ropes from us.’ He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord ridicules them” (Ps. Empower those serving in government who love You to stand up for what is right and speak truth in love, no matter the consequences.
And many Christians are tempted to vote for such parties because they are anti-immigrant, hence anti-Islam. The early Christians had to live under tyrants like Nero.