Prayer for our President for we are called to pray for our leaders!

We are commanded in 1 Timothy chapter 2, 

1I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

  A great  preacher  and Chaplain to our government, Peter Marshall, prayed this prayer for our president in 1947. It still applies today! 

                            We pray, Lord Jesus, for our President. 

We are deeply concerned that he may know the will of God,

and that he may have the spiritual courage and grace to follow it.

 

Deliver him, we pray, from all selfish considerations.

Lift him above the claims of politics, and his party.

Fill him with the Spirit of God that shall make him fearless to seek, to know, to do the right.

Save him from the friends who, in the name of politics or even friendship, would persuade him from that holy path.

 

Strengthen and empower his advisers. 

Bring them, too, to their knees in prayer.

May their example and their influence spread, that we, in these United States, 

may yet have a government of men who know Thee, the Almighty God, as their Friend, 

and who place Thy will first in their lives as well as in their prayers.

 

Hear and answer, we pray Thee, 

forgiving us all our unworthiness;

cleansing us from every ignoble thought and unworthy ambition

that we may be renewed in spirit and mind and heart, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 

Amen.