A month of praying for our government leaders:
Saturday, May 2: Lord, we pray that the decisions of those in authority may enable us to live quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and holiness.
“..that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness” (1 Timothy 2:2).
Sunday, May 3: Lord, give our leaders hearts that are obedient to you. May they be willing to do what you ask of them rather than seeking approval from men.
“Peter and the other apostles replied: ‘We must obey God rather than human beings!’” (Acts 5:29).
Monday, May 4: Pray that our leaders would desire and seek out Godly wisdom and knowledge and turn away from the counsel of the wicked.
“Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night” (Psalm 1:1-2).
Tuesday, May 5: Ask the Lord to enable our leaders to do what is right in His eyes.
“He followed the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord” (2 Chronicles 20:32).
Wednesday, May 6: Ask the Lord to reveal any areas of evil or corruption that need to be removed.
“In everything he followed the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. The high places, however, were not removed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there” (1 Kings 22:43).
Thursday, May 7: Lord, we pray that our leaders would live lives that are above reproach.
“Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect” (1 Timothy 3:2-4).
Friday, May 8: Ask the Lord to be the defender and protector of our leaders, that He would always keep them on their guard.
“…for their Defender is strong; he will take up their case against you” (Proverbs 23:11). “The Lord protects and preserves them—they are counted among the blessed in the land—he does not give them over to the desire of their foes” (Psalm 41:2).