Pray for our leaders

1 Timothy 2:1-4 – “Make prayers, requests, intercession, and thanksgiving for everyone – for your leaders and all in authority – so we may lead a quiet and peaceable life of honesty and dignity. For this is good in the sight of God our Savior, Who wants everyone to be saved and come to know the truth.”

Lord, even if we despise someone in a position of authority, You don’t! Your will is for everyone to know the truth about You and be saved. And, who needs saving more than detestable people?

Give us Your prayers to pray, Lord, for our leaders at church, work, school, home, and country. Help us to intercede for those who don’t know You and desperately need You. To be honest, we don’t want to give thanks for unlikeable leaders! Yet we want to thank You for everything, and we choose to obey.

Thank You, Most High God, for the people You have placed in authority over us. Help them to lead with dignity, honor, honesty, and a mind set on You.

(c)2020, Mary Harwell Sayler, from book of Bible verses with contemporary prayers, Kneeling on the Promises of God

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Bible Promise: praying to God With Us

Genesis 28:15 – “Look! I Am with you. I watch over you as you come and go. I will not leave you before I have done everything I promised.”

What joy we have in Your presence, Lord! What empowering promises You have given us to claim!

You, our Heavenly Father, our Loving God, and the Creator of all life in heaven and on earth, have given Your Word to be with us. No matter where we are, You are there.

We need You now, Lord.

We need You now.

 

©2020, Mary Harwell Sayler from her book Kneeling on the Promises of God

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Praying in agreement

And Jesus said:

Truly I tell you,
whatever you bind on earth
is bound in heaven,
and whatever you loose on earth,
from heaven
is already set free.

Again I say: If two of you
on earth will agree
about anything you ask,
whatever you pray for
is finished for you
by My Father Who Is
in heaven.

For wherever
two or three gather
together in My Name,
I Am
there.

©2013 Mary Harwell Sayler prayer-a-phrased today’s Gospel reading of Matthew 18:18-20 by comparing translations found on Bible Gateway.

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