Dear Heavenly Father, Creator of the universe and all good things,

We are so very grateful for Your hand on this nation, The United States. From its inception Your hand of direction and blessing was on it. You led our founders in righteous direction and gave them Your way to set government in three branches: The Lord is our judge; the Lord is our lawgiver; the Lord is our King; He will save us. We want that bedrock. We plead for that firm foundation – You – above all others.

As we move forward now with Donald John Trump as our President, we ask three things.

We ask for protection on the gatherings this weekend and going forward. We ask You will put a dome over those gathered for his swearing in and that any nefarious plans of harm above, on or under the earth will be revealed and foiled. We pray every effort for delay, hurt, or destruction will fail in plan and form; that they will trip and fall and be unable to rise. We ask that You and You alone will direct the weather. We ask for spiritual protection: that attacks of any and every type will boomerang back on those sending and intending them. We ask You to rebuke and cast out lesser gods who bring evil to each state, city, and town as well as over our nation. Cast them all out, we pray, never to show their filthy heads again. Replace them in Your righteousness.

We implore protection for righteous leaders and servants in this government, for them and their families and loved ones. We ask that the craft of plans to trip them or entrap them will come to nothing.

We pray that any person, regulation, or rule that is there in an effort to weaken, wound, or impoverish this administration will be revealed and ousted, losing all authority, control, and influence.

We ask for wisdom. You know all the things necessary for righteousness in a nation and we ask for those to be implemented. You know all that is not only unnecessary, but even destructive for a righteous nation and we ask they will be destroyed. Along with wisdom, we pray for insight, discernment, and knowledge. We pray that You will shine Your light on knowledge that has been hidden or interwoven with deceit so that we will know truth and be freed from the slavery that has been the result of those lies. You know all that’s going on in this world of ours, so we ask You to reveal what will help and what will move this nation to what You intended for it to be. We ask for Your strong hand in this matter.

We ask for Your Holy Spirit and Jesus to be present in every corner of government; and also in every part of our families, churches, education, business, media, and entertainment. We pray that Jesus will be lifted above all else. We ask forgiveness for the awful things this nation has taken part in, done from the least to the greatest. We all implore Your forgiveness. We pray for the sifting necessary to purify us completely. And we ask for mercy in this process. We pray You will give Your people pockets of Goshen and that You will deliver us from the evil one and every form of evil. And we thank You for what You are doing and how you are moving. We will watch You while You are watching us. You are not tame and You are beyond our idea of mighty and we love that about You. And we love You.

In Jesus’ blessed Name,

Amen

References: Isaiah 33:22; Celebration Hymnal C. 1997 by Word/Integrity.