Prayers for our President Barack Obama and the Nation

Mr. President,

The Lord gave me a word for you today. He knows your frustration. He knows your struggle. He says to keep your eyes on him, he is your rock, he is your fortress. It is in him you continue to trust.
This is the scripture you are to stand on daily.
Mark 11:23-24 (New International Version)
23″I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. 24Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Keep you head up and stay in prayer as the nation continues to pray for you.

Saundra Jackson
www.divaconsultant.com

Almighty God, Our Father, everything we see and everything we can’t see exists because of You alone. It all comes from You, it all belongs to You, it all exists for Your glory. History is your story. The Scripture tells us, ‘Hear, oh Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one’ and You are the compassionate and merciful one and You are loving to everyone You have made.

Now today we rejoice not only in America’s peaceful transfer of power for the 44th time, we celebrate a hinge-point of history with the inauguration of our first African American president of the United States. We are so grateful to live in this land, a land of unequaled possibility, where the son of an African Immigrant can rise to the highest level of our leadership. And we know today that Dr. King and a great cloud of witnesses are shouting in heaven.

Give to our new president, Barack Obama, the wisdom to lead us with humility, the courage to lead us with integrity, the compassion to lead us with generosity. Bless and protect him, his family, Vice President Biden, the Cabinet and every one of our freely elected leaders.

Help us oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us. When we presume that our greatness and our prosperity is ours alone, forgive us. When we fail to treat our fellow human beings and all the earth with the respect that they deserve, forgive us. And as we face these difficult days ahead, may we have a new birth of clarity in our aims, responsibility in our actions, humility in our approaches and civility in our attitudes–even when we differ.

Help us to share, to serve and to seek the common good of all. May all people of good will today join together to work for a more just, a more healthy and a more prosperous nation and a peaceful planet. And may we never forget that one day, all nations, and all people will stand accountable before You. We now commit our new president and his wife Michelle and his daughters, Malia and Sasha, into your loving care.

I humbly ask this in the name of the one who changed my life–Yeshua, Esa, Jesus, Jesus–who taught us to pray:
Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Transcript courtesy Federal News Service

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, thou who has brought us thus far along the way, thou who has by thy might led us into the light, keep us forever in the path, we pray, lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee, lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee. Shadowed beneath thy hand may we forever stand — true to thee, O God, and true to our native land.

We truly give thanks for the glorious experience we’ve shared this day. We pray now, O Lord, for your blessing upon thy servant, Barack Obama, the 44th president of these United States, his family and his administration. He has come to this high office at a low moment in the national and, indeed, the global fiscal climate. But because we know you got the whole world in your hand, we pray for not only our nation, but for the community of nations. Our faith does not shrink, though pressed by the flood of mortal ills.

For we know that, Lord, you’re able and you’re willing to work through faithful leadership to restore stability, mend our brokenness, heal our wounds and deliver us from the exploitation of the poor or the least of these and from favoritism toward the rich, the elite of these.

We thank you for the empowering of thy servant, our 44th president, to inspire our nation to believe that, yes, we can work together to achieve a more perfect union. And while we have sown the seeds of greed — the wind of greed and corruption, and even as we reap the whirlwind of social and economic disruption, we seek forgiveness and we come in a spirit of unity and solidarity to commit our support to our president by our willingness to make sacrifices, to respect your creation, to turn to each other and not on each other.

And now, Lord, in the complex arena of human relations, help us to make choices on the side of love, not hate; on the side of inclusion, not exclusion; tolerance, not intolerance.

And as we leave this mountaintop, help us to hold on to the spirit of fellowship and the oneness of our family. Let us take that power back to our homes, our workplaces, our churches, our temples, our mosques, or wherever we seek your will.

Bless President Barack, First Lady Michelle. Look over our little, angelic Sasha and Malia.

We go now to walk together, children, pledging that we won’t get weary in the difficult days ahead. We know you will not leave us alone, with your hands of power and your heart of love.

Help us then, now, Lord, to work for that day when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, when tanks will be beaten into tractors, when every man and every woman shall sit under his or her own vine and fig tree, and none shall be afraid; when justice will roll down like waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around — (laughter) — when yellow will be mellow — (laughter) — when the red man can get ahead, man — (laughter) — and when white will embrace what is right.

Let all those who do justice and love mercy say amen.

AUDIENCE: Amen!

REV. LOWERY: Say amen –

AUDIENCE: Amen!

REV. LOWERY: — and amen.

AUDIENCE: Amen! (Cheers, applause.)

END.

Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you in the Mighty name of Jesus. As I praise you and exalt your holy name, I lift up our newly elected president, Barack Obama to You. I know that President Elect Obama’s heart is in Your hands, so I ask you to guide him, as the head of this great nation in the way You would have him to go.

Father God, I pray that You would send your angels to surround our President Elect with wise counsel – men and women of integrity who place Your agenda and the good of this nation above their own and whose motives are for that which is right.

I pray O Father, that You would give our leader discernment, understanding and knowledge so that our nation may know a strong stability internally and abroad.

I give you thanks and praise for our president according to Your Holy Word and thank You Father for working in and through his leadership so that we might lead peaceable lives in godliness and honesty.

In Jesus Mighty Name, Amen

Scripture:

1 Timothy 2:1,2
Romans 13:1 NAS
Proverbs 21:1 NAS
Proverbs 16:10 AMP
Proverbs 8:15 NIV

Psalm 91

1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. [a] 2 I will say [b] of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” 3 Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence. 4 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. 5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. 7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. 8 You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. 9 If you make the Most High your dwelling— even the LORD, who is my refuge- 10 then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent. 11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 12 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. 13 You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent. 14 “Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. 15 He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

Direct my thought, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate Blood of the Lamb, and purge my heart by  Thy Holy Spirit…Daily frame me more and more into the likeness of Thy Son Jesus Christ.

George Washington
1st U.S. President

To All Our Fellow Americans:

Our President Barack Obama

We are pleased to announce the arrival of Prayers to our President Barack Obama and our Country. You are invited to participate in this unique and meaningful opportunity by contributing your prayers for the newly elected president and the country.

Three years ago no one could have predicted even that Barack Obama had the prospect of taking the oath of office as President of the United States in January of 2009. For many, an African-American rising to the most powerful position in our country is one of the most significant milestones of the Civil Rights Movement. For others, it is the opportunity to support someone who represents a modern, culturally diverse and progressive vision of what America can and should be in the twenty-first century.

We hope that you will want to contribute your own words, thoughts, perspectives and dreams in a prayer for this new era in our history to the book, Prayers to President Barack Obama. If you decide to contribute a prayer for the book or if you decide not to, we still want to know the concerns and issues that you would like most for the new President to address.

The ‘polls’ section and the political cafe in the ‘discussion’ section of the web site First Black President Elected are the places where you may also share your concerns and views on current political, social and economic issues. We would like to keep our prayer site free of negative energy.

Blessings to all

Saundra Jackson

My Prayer for President Elect Obama

Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you in the Mighty name of Jesus. As I praise you and exalt your holy name, I lift up our newly elected president, Barack Obama to You. I know that President Elect Obama’s heart is in Your hands, so I ask you to guide him, as the head of this great nation in the way You would have him to go.

Father God, I pray that You would send your angels to surround our President Elect with wise counsel – men and women of integrity who place Your agenda and the good of this nation above their own and whose motives are for that which is right.

I pray O Father, that You would give our leader discernment, understanding and knowledge so that our nation may know a strong stability internally and abroad.

I give you thanks and praise for our president according to Your Holy Word and thank You Father for working in and through his leadership so that we might lead peaceable lives in godliness and honesty.

In Jesus Mighty Name, Amen

Scripture:

1 Timothy 2:1,2
Romans 13:1 NAS
Proverbs 21:1 NAS
Proverbs 16:10 AMP
Proverbs 8:15 NIV

Psalm 91

1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. [a] 2 I will say [b] of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” 3 Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence. 4 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. 5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. 7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. 8 You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. 9 If you make the Most High your dwelling— even the LORD, who is my refuge- 10 then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent. 11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 12 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. 13 You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent. 14 “Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. 15 He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation.”