First Sunday Meditation: Prayer For Local And National Elections

"Don't be afraid, for I am with you.

Do not be dismayed, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you. I will help you.

I will uphold you with my victorious right hand."

Isaiah 41:10

"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please,

but the opportunity to do what is right."

Reverend Peter Marshall Sr.

(1902-1949)

Scots-American preacher 

Twice-elected Chaplain of the United States Senate

"So let me remind you again, remember to pray,

ask God to show you how to pray, remember to cast your vote

and do not be afraid of the battle. They that be with us are

more than they that be with them."

-Derek Prince

ALMIGHTY GOD,  our Heavenly Father, we come to You

in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, redeemed by His blood,

committed to serve and follow Him.

We come to You as Your believing people;

 Your representatives in this earth,
the agents of Your government in the earth.

We lift up to You this nation of ours, the United States.

We thank You for the many centuries of special grace

and mercy that You have granted to this nation.

We thank You for the godly seeds that have been sown over

 the centuries by men of faith who have followed in Your footsteps-

labored, sacrificed, prayed, and given for Your kingdom.

Lord, we desire that these godly seeds shall develop 

 into a harvest that shall be reaped for Your purposes.

We ask You to extend Your grace and mercy to this nation.

We ask You to send a mighty visitation of the Holy Spirit that

will overthrow the strongholds of Satan and uplift and glorify

the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We ask You for a mighty floodtide of spiritual revival that

will sweep across this nation, casting down everything that

opposes itself against the knowledge of God.

And we commit to You now specifically the forthcoming

elections and all of the political processes involved.

We take our stand in Jesus' name against every satanic

principality and power that would seek to exercise 

control in these elections.

We break their power; we release the elective and the

governmental processes from their control 

and we put them in Your hands.

We pray that You will guide and overrule.

That You will raise up the men and women of Your choice;

put down those who will oppose and stand against 

Your purposes, and bring Your purposes to fulfillment in this nation.

Lord, we do believe that You have a special destiny for the

United States, and we pray that nothing that Satan will do

will be able to hinder that destiny.

We also pray, Lord, for the relationship of the United States to Israel.

That You will keep Your hand upon it and that You will guide and

overrule, to the benefit of Israel. That this nation will not turn

against Israel or take its stand among the enemies of Israel.

That You will graciously use this nation continually to

support and uphold Your people, Israel, and their state.

Lord, we ask all these things, believing them to be Your will

and believing them to be for Your glory, in the precious,

all-prevailing name of Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Savior.

Amen.

"God's Heart For America"

An Important Message For Our Times

Derek Prince

"Prayer for Local and National Elections"

Taken from UPDATE 7

Derek Prince Ministries

(October 1980)