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A Prayer for This Presidential Election
Townhall.com ^ | March 13, 2016 | Matt Barber

Posted on 03/13/2016 7:33:11 AM PDT by Kaslin

Father God, Son and Holy Spirit, Maker of heaven and earth, You are the First Cause of these United States of America.

You are sovereign.

You knew before time began who You would appoint as our 45th president. You ordained that this soul might be a tool of Your judgment, holy and merited, or a gift of Your mercy, wholly undeserved.

Please come, Holy Spirit, and dwell among Your people. Though we deserve Your wrath, we entreat Your mercy. Do not abandon us in our time of need.

Like Israel of old, America’s own, today, is a life marked by pride, selfishness, murder, idolatry, hypocrisy, greed, lust and every form of moral privation.

We have called evil good and good evil and have turned from Your face to our own treasured wickedness.

We have danced with the prophets of Baal and have made sacrifice to Moloch.

We repent. We need You now, alone and together, as much as at any time in our fleeting history.

Kyrie Eleison, Christ Jesus.

You are God, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We confess that Your ways are not our ways and that Your thoughts are not our thoughts. As the heavens are higher than the earth, Your ways and thoughts are higher than our own.

And so we humbly seek wisdom in all we do and say. We covet Your spiritual discernment, Holy Spirit, and ask that, as we, a nation founded on Your principles and to Your glory and Honor, endeavor to elect our next chief executive, that You might direct our path, and that Your will might be done on this earth, as it is in heaven.

You use broken people, dear God – sinners who sin.

King David, a murderer and adulterer, was fallen.

But he humbled himself.

He repented.

And was a man after Your own heart.

You anointed, 150 years before he lived, Cyrus the Great, a pagan king debauched beyond redemption in the eyes of Your people, as the conduit through which You might free Your beloved from 70 years of captivity.

Cyrus humbled himself before You and was used mightily.

And the great Apostle? Saul of Tarsus murdered Your bride. He mocked her and held the executioner’s cloak as Christ’s followers were martyred in Your name.

But even then he was blinded by the Light of the World and made to see with the clarity of spiritual crystal.

He was made to love with a love that belied his fleshly character and, from Saul to Paul, was used by You to lead billions to the foot of the cross.

Have You chosen for us a King David, Lord? Is he a man, like all men, who has hated his brother and coveted his neighbor’s wife, yet, by Your grace and through Your stripes, has been healed and, while yet imperfect, has repented and revealed, by way of earthly fruits, that he is a man after Your own heart?

Or have You chosen for us a King Cyrus? A man, or a woman, who has yet to display through word or deed a heart broken and a will surrendered – a life marked by humility and repentance?

If You have chosen a candidate Cyrus, Abba Father, please surround him with men like Daniel.

And if You have chosen a candidate Saul, will You, we pray, break his or her heart and give to us a President Paul? If done before the eyes of the world, oh what a testament to the transformative power of Christ!

Who have You chosen, Father?

We cannot know.

But Your way is the right way, perfect and good.

If we are under Your judgment, let us be judged.

And if under Your blessing, let us be blessed.

We pray for the 45th president of the United States, that You might reveal Your will and purpose, and bless his or her soul.

And we pray for each candidate who falls short of the goal.

Remind us to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us.

Guide us all, as we cast our ballots.

We pray that You might bless us with a David, a Cyrus or a Paul.

And humbly ask that You spare us our just deserts – an unrighteous leader, an Ahab or a Jezebel.

Yet either way, Thy will be done.

Because Your ways are higher than our ways. And Your thoughts, higher than our own.


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1 posted on 03/13/2016 7:33:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Remind us to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us...

was never too good at that one.

Don’t plan on starting now.

Plan on fighting back HARD against our enemies.

You’re a better man than me.


2 posted on 03/13/2016 7:40:33 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: Kaslin

Thank you for your heartfelt prayer. Helps me know how to pray too. This is our nation on our knees.


3 posted on 03/13/2016 7:43:08 AM PDT by georgiegirl
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To: Kaslin

Shorter version, “God Save Us”.


4 posted on 03/13/2016 7:43:57 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Kaslin

Thank you for your heartfelt prayer, but the nation that has killed 60 million babies is under judgement from YHWH. He is done with the United States of America.

We have been under judgement ever since the 1962 School Prayer ruling. The first official Muslim Brotherhood front organization founded in the U.S. was the Muslim Students Association (MSA), established on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois in 1964. The Muslim Brotherhood is a type of the Assyrian that YHWH used to bring judgement on the 10 tribes that made up Israel. Al Qaeda is an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Their 9/11 attack was a perfect fulfillment of Isaiah 9:8-13.

Since the 1973 Roe v. Wade things have really gotten worse. Since then we have never won a war, before then we never lost one. With Obama we finally got Isaiah 3:4-5 “I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. The people will be oppressed, everyone by another and every one by his neighbor; The child will be insolent toward the elder and the base to the honorable.”

All this moral decay was initiated by Judges, just as the moral decay in Sodom and Gomorrah was, according to the Jewish sages, initiated by Judges. That puts us as “in the days of Lot” (Luke 17:28-37). The “great sign in the heavens” from Revelation 12:1-2 actually occurs on September 23-24, 2017. See the image at: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_1y_hLqVXf4/maxresdefault.jpg

So Ted Cruz is “in this race to show this country the face of the God that we serve”, as his wife has stated, which is part of the Dominion Heresy (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Theology), that believes that Conservative Christians need to take control of the secular government and rule over the non-Christians, for the good of all, of course.

Now if you believe that anything that we, as humans, can do will change the judgement to come, then you are not paying attention. But you are paying attention, so now you know why it is not a good idea to support Ted Cruz.

As for Donald Trump, I view him as a type of Samson, whom YHWH raised up to bring down the Temple of Dagon on the Philistines. Read Judges 13-16 and then look at the characteristics Donald Trump shares with Samson: Doesn’t drink, ever; has really wild hair; is really harsh if you treat him badly or unfairly; ran around with a lot of foreign women.

Now look at Donald Trump’s slogan: “Make America Great Again”. Alexis de Tocqueville said: “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” Donald Trump knows that in a country overrun with Philistines one can not campaign on “Make America Good Again”. However, if you look at what he says he will do, how offended he is by people lying about him, how offended he is with dirty tricks, how he hates the corruption in American government, etc. you know that he is trying to do is make America good again. So Donald Trump is bringing people out of the shadows, so to speak, and giving them hope that things can be better. This puts them out in the world where the Holy Spirit can bring believers into contact with those who are to be saved. So that is the spiritual aspect of the Trump campaign.

On the Bible Prophecy side, how is YHWH going to convince the Iranians that 2017 would be about the last time they, with their allies, can wipe out the United States and attack Israel to wipe it off the map?

How about we elect Donald Trump and he starts to make the American Military so strong that no one will want to mess with us? How about if he starts to root out the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the Government? In fact, the threat of having Donald Trump in the Whitehouse may well trigger the attack that is described in Ezekiel 38:10-13, which YHWH does not stop, so that the attack in Ezekiel 38:14-23, which YHWH will stop can take place. Then the End will come.

When the world gets to these critical points, there isn’t anything one can do to change the course set by YHWH for the world. It is much easier if you focus on that narrow way YHWH has for you to do as your part in His magnificent Word.


5 posted on 03/13/2016 7:46:57 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: Kaslin

DT needs to ascertain and ENSURE we are ready for CWII and WWIII before he takes us there: you don’t just spring this on the voters over the weekend. Is he truly committed to defeating the Left both here and planet-wide? Is our side READY, today? If so, let’s get it on. If not, we’re trapped into ignoble brawling for as long as the eye can see.


6 posted on 03/13/2016 7:49:48 AM PDT by txhurl (Voted for Cruz, and another Bush, apparently!)
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To: Kaslin

Amen


7 posted on 03/13/2016 7:59:05 AM PDT by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: Kaslin

That has been the Prayer of my heart for quite some time now.

Thank you, Dear Kaslin, for posting that.

Agreeing in Jesus Name, Amen.


8 posted on 03/13/2016 8:02:53 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Kaslin

Another short one: God have mercy on us and on the USA!


9 posted on 03/13/2016 11:04:43 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: txhurl

Sadly what happened in Chicago this past Friday was what I consider to be a “two-minute warning” to not only DT, but to both the voters and this country as a whole.


10 posted on 03/13/2016 11:07:05 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: SubMareener

It is NEVER too late for a person and a country to REPENT and BELIEVE, to BELIEVE and REPENT. God is patient, slow to anger, rich in mercy.


11 posted on 03/13/2016 11:10:43 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl

Amen


12 posted on 03/13/2016 11:18:38 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin
Amen! I protested vigorously and often during the Clinton years, and have turned to prayer since 2008 after reading Ecclestiases 10:20:

Do not curse the king even in your thoughts,and do not curse a rich person even in your bedroom,for a bird of the sky may carry the message,and a winged creature may report the matter.

That verse has gotten me through the last 8 years, though I find myself having to repent often for forgetting not to "curse the king".

I am struggling mightily now, especially in the past couple of weeks, over the remaining choices. I voted in MI this week after prayerfully considering my choices, and will continue to pray in the upcoming months.

my most frequent prayer concerns hillary - 3 simple words - "Please, Lord, no"

13 posted on 03/13/2016 11:42:47 AM PDT by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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Lord, Thy will be done this election.

ff

14 posted on 03/13/2016 1:24:49 PM PDT by foreverfree
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