Prayer for our country and the election

Lord, I am to love others; You have loved me, laying your life down for me; I can love other people, all people (John 15:12). You have told me to make petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving for all people and that includes all those in authority - my boss, the mayor, the governor, the president; and I make these prayers, petitions and request that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness (I Timothy 2:1-2). In my life, in people's lives, in the lives of everyone in our nation, keep Christians united in temper and affection; there are dangers and temptations towards strife often in church people, but keep us far from this (Ephesians 4:3). O God, you are good and your ways our eternal, you grant people to reign in our present lives (Daniel 2:37-38), but ultimately you have an eternal kingdom that will never be destroyed (Daniel 2:44-45). You are the only one that establishes our leaders and you will make all things work out in your sovereign control for our ultimate best. But keep our hearts focused on the future outcome you have for and the eternal kingdom you have set up for your people. 

Amen. 

Daniel 2:44-45 when Daniel came forward to give an interpretation of a dream of Nebuchadnezzar he remarked first that Nebuchadnezzar was one God had established to be king and rule over all (Daniel 2:37-38 - 37 You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength and the glory; 38 and wherever the sons of men dwell, or the beasts of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has given them into your hand and has caused you to rule over them all. You are the head of gold.) but his reign is not eternal and one day a new kingdom, an eternal kingdom will be established, "44 In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. 45 Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will take place in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.” O God, you are good and your ways our eternal, you grant people to reign in our present lives, but ultimately you have an eternal kingdom that will never be destroyed. 


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