He arrives at this office of chief guardian of the execution of law in a nation divided against itself, about the purpose of law itself.
Father, just as our original colonists believed that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom (2 Cor. 3:17), our nation was dedicated by the pilgrims to You; and that dedication was enshrined by our Founders, that we would be bound by Natural Law:
We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which the Constitution is founded. —James Madison
Since all sin and fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23), civil laws are necessary. Our hearts are troubled today by the many among us in these days want to live only by civil law, and by inflicting myriad man-made statutes on the People, preferring not to live by keeping the Law of God in their hearts and minds:
We… know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious…—1 Timothy 1:9
We pray for the salvation of the lost among us who want the civil law to defy the law of God:
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. —2 Timothy 3:1-4
And we lift up the agitators and anarchists among us, who want no laws at all to constrain them, and those who pay and finance their disruptions:
…the law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.”—Romans 4:15
But Hallelujah! Lord, none of our man-made laws can overturn nor erase Your powerful Eternal Law that surrounds us, underpins us and dwells within us. Your Divine Law is like a magnet to a scrap of metal. We are drawn to it, and when the people pray, you heal our land and reestablish right law:
“It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.” —Luke 16:17
We pray according to Your promise, Lord, that the efforts of the faithless to live outside of the laws of Your Creation are bound to fail, and those who understand the true intention of our Constitution:
Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.”—Galatians 3:11
And so, we lift up this courageous man, Jeff Sessions, and pray that he is truly anointed by You to take up this momentous position and power, and dispense lawful power and justice through the presence a mediation of the Holy Spirit.
The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become what God intends he should become. —Ronald Reagan
We pray for responsible, intelligent, knowledgeable, diligent and Godly men and women to serve as his undersecretary, deputies and staff. We pray that they are able through your miraculous outworking, strength and comfort in times of trouble to locate the most efficient levers of intervention in the civil strife around us, bringing order and justice aligned with our Consitution, that our Nation may continue to serve You in a world of resurgent abandonment and slavery to sin.
Although we have sinned as individuals and as a nation, we as intercessors repent in sorrow for the scandalous transgression of Your moral law, the flouting of the civil law, the ignorance of the law and the widespread licentiousness that have infected our society.
We humbly ask for a healing of our legal system and a cleansing of our courts, our jurisprudence and our schools of law, and a renewed respect for Your Divine Law and the Constitutional Rule of Law underpinning our freedoms, according to Your Will, precious Lord.