Don’t forget imprecatory prayers; the Psalms have a lot of them which one can use to understand the concepts, as well as pray directly.
Pray that God will crush his enemies.
I recently started including this in my prayers more.
The Psalms are so wonderful. The Pilgrims and the Reformed of those days practiced exclusive Psalmody.
God’s own Psalms, divinely inspired, God-breathed.
The Psalms are certainly inspired, but we have moved from the Old to the New Covenant. We no longer pray for the destruction of our enemies. Rather, as Jesus put it in Matthew 5:
“43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Or to put it with even greater clarity, from Luke 6:
“27 “But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29 Whoever hits you on the cheek, offer him the other also; and whoever takes away your coat, do not withhold your shirt from him either.”
In this Covenant, we pray for God to bless our enemies. However, we are encouraged to pray to God to “deliver us from evil” - and I do so, every single day. (I.e.: you can pray that Obama & his family will be blessed, & even that they will know the greatest blessing of all, new life in Christ. It’s not inconsistent, however, to pray at the same time that God will deliver us from the evil Obama is inflicting. Both prayers can be answered, & are not mutually exclusive.)