We come before You with grateful praise, acknowledging our need for You and Your faithfulness. While the world around us becomes more turbulent and stressful with each passing day, You are our Rock. Your power and Your majesty are incomparable and Your love is never-ending. How thankful we are to serve a living God who guides us, directs our paths, chastises us, and holds us close, carrying us through our various troubles.
Lord, there are many who desire to hurt George W. Bush, physically, politically, or spiritually. Let them be turned back and confused; confound their wicked plans and let truth, Your Truth, be revealed for all to see. Father, keep the President humble and looking to You rather than to his own understanding or the counsel of others. Fill him with the wisdom of Solomon, the patience of Job, the faith of Abraham, the zeal of Peter, the love of John, and the determination of Paul. Meet his needs and show him Your will. Let others see his compassion and his selflessness and his desire to serve You and his fellow man that his witness might be strong. Bless our First Lady and let her faith be nurtured daily that she might draw closer to You. Comfort her as she sees her husband reviled by so many. We thank You for the loving marriage of our George and Laura Bush and the example of marital devotion and fidelity that is set before our young people. Let them draw ever closer to each other and to You and keep them safe from all harm.
Lord, these words of the Psalmist apply equally to those who serve in our military for they battle a vicious and cowardly enemy who seek to end both their lives and their way of life. Give our troops boldness and courage as they fight the enemies of liberty. Heal those who have been injured in body or spirit. Comfort the families who have lost loved ones and bring them into Your peace that passes understanding.
We pray humbly for our nation, O Lord. We have sinned grievously and deserve Your justice but we plead for Your mercy on America. Revive our people that we might turn back to You, honoring Your commandments and seeking to bring glory to Your Name. We know that the bitterness and envy and strife and division in our land today comes from the prince of darkness. You have defeated him already, O Mighty God, and we cling to this knowledge when our faith waivers because of all the evil we see around us. Strengthen our faith that we might press on towards the goal that You have set before us. In the Name of Jesus. Amen.
Praise God from Whom all blessings flow!
Thank you Kay.
He really NEEDS out prayers and so does Harriet Miers.
Such a good woman and she's his choice.
His legacy rides on her in part and she'll do us all proud.
Thank you.
I feel like I have walked into a fragrant meadow.
"Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."
God of heaven & earth. You alone know all things. You alone are righteous. We place our nation & our president in you hands, asking for undeserved mercy. Asking for renewal by your hand so that we become a nation that honors You.
May our Lord continue to bless and protect President George W. Bush, and keep him and his family from physical and spiritual harm. Amen.
It's unreal what this good man faces daily. Even this thread is not a safe refuge for those of us who love him. I pray especially for those who do not, because their negativity desperately needs to be re-directed.
Thank you, kayak, for posting this thread tonight.