Freep This Poll: *** Pray For Obama's Failure

World Net Daily ^ | Jan 19, 209

[Yosemitest]

Freep This Poll:

Do you think we should pray for Obama's failure as president?
(There are 18 choices.)

[Xenophon450]

Excessive confiscatory taxes, much more stringent regulations and big government spending will always fail at revitalizing economies. You don’t need to pray, Obama is quite assured to fail all by himself. If Government spending was the way to prosperity, the USSR would still be around and I would be on a boat bound for Leningrad...

[momincombatboots]

Ditto! I would like to add, that the very same God who converted Saul has not lost His touch. God can give Obama a new name, just like He did me.

[Badeye]

Single issue types run into that problem all the time.

Good luck with that.

[chimera]

OK, how's this for balance. First, I wish no ill to befall the Obama family personally. I see nothing moral about wishing any personal tragedy upon Obama and his family.

After that, I hope he sees the error of his ways and repents, especially of his support for the wanton slaughter of the unborn. If he does that, then I personally will take a different view of him. We can then work to convince him to adopt reasonably conservative positions on other issues.

Lacking that, as to his stated agenda and if he pursues it, I hope he fails politically. Fails miserably. I hope nothing he proposes or enacts that aligns with his stated agenda succeeds. Yes, that failure may cause damage to the country. But that damage will be less than if his stated agenda succeeds.

The third alternative may seem harsh, but we as a country are at a point of no return. If we pursue the path Obomba has charted, we may go the route of other tyrannies and failed collectivist societies. Like the Bolshevik Revolution and the ascension and subsequent failure of the USSR, we may suffer through nearly a century of misery only to have the whole rotten edifice collapse and force us to start fresh. If so, better to minimize the suffering and shorten the dark ages.

[Rightly Biased]

Well said,

The 109th psalm comes to mind when praying for leaders that oppress and rule unjustly.

[Yosemitest]

How can he sees the error of his ways and repents, unless his own policies and their results be brought direct into his own life?

I'm not happy about ill befalling another person, or family, but let's remember how education is done. Nothing is more educational than a significant emotional event. And nothing drives us closer to God than the same.

Now let's get started:

Remember that Jesus Christ was the Word, and was the Lord of the Old Testament.
Have you forgotten Job and how the Lord allowed Satan to test him? The whole Book of Job is an example of wishing any personal tragedy upon Job, (a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil), and his family.
Have you forgotten how to instill the fear of God upon the church and all that hear of these things? Read how the husband and the wife were punished in order to educate the masses.
Remember how God smote the gourd in Jonah 4:7 to teach Jonah a lesson?
Can you not understand how even the innocent are burdened in order to glorify the Lord?

We must pray that every policy, law, and executivce order that Mister Obama puts forth, be brought into his family, for the edification of others, as well as Obama.

If he supports homosexuals, them may he and his family be given a reprobate mind to learn the evil of their actions.
If he supports abortion, then may his daughters experience it personally.
If he supports illegal immagration, then may his family experience the pain caused by not upholding the laws against these illegials.
If he supports gun control, then may he and his immediate family experince a need to protect himself or them with a gun, when there is no gun available to protect him.

Do I make my point clear?

[chimera]

I'm not comfortable myself with imprecatory prayer. It's a lot like handling a live grenade. Others can do it if they wish, but personally I don't think that I want to do it, at least right now in this instance.

It's partly personal experience. I went through the usual college-age experiences with humanism and atheism and was persuaded with logic and reasoning to turn away from those. Same on the abortion issue. No ill befell me. It was simply a sincere change of heart. Maybe Obama will have a similar experience.

[Yosemitest]

Maybe ... but not likely.

[Bellflower]

Oh, there is a lot more then this single issue, tons. If this was the only issue it would be enough. If you don’t think so you need to check in with your conscience. It is not luck you need but help from The LORD so that you can discern what is truly important in this life. May The LORD, by His grace, help you.

[Badeye]

I’m fine with my conscience, thanks.

[RDasher]

I plan on giving Obama as much respect as was given to George Bush. Which was none.

[Badeye]

To each their own.