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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.”
