Are We Praying for Team Obama?

I couldn't bring myself to watch the State of the Union address last night.  I find myself talking to the TV way too much when I listen to Obama.

I heard it twice this morning from two different people, "You know what's strange about Obama is that 65% of Americans don't trust Obama but I bet if the election was held tomorrow he would get elected again!"

Isn't that strange??  People don't trust him to make the right decisions....but they LIKE him so darn much they would elect him again anyway!!

Must be a charisma thing....

So while most of us probably believe Obama has been a disaster for our nation....are we remembering to pray for him and his team every day??

I admit I'm guilty.  I don't pray for him very often.

Author and speaker, Joel Rosenberg, had this to say today....and I wholeheartedly agree with him.

Last night, the President delivered his annual "State of the Union" address. Some of you loved it. Some of you were infuriated. Some of you ignored it. Many of you feel deeply pessimistic about the direction our country is heading and powerless to make things better. I share your concerns.

However, the Scriptures tell us we are not powerless, and that we serve an Almighty God. 

“I am God Almighty; walk before Me, and be blameless." (Genesis 17:1) 
"Nothing will be impossible for God." (Luke 1:37) 
“I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted." (Job 42:2) 
As Christians, we know the Lord is sovereign -- and this sovereign God commands us in the Scriptures to pray for our leaders. 

“First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity,” the Apostle Paul wrote in I Timothy 2:1-3. “This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

Whether we agree with them or not — whether we like them are not — we are to pray for wisdom and discernment so our leaders can distinguish truth from error, fact from fiction. We are to pray for patience and for courage for our leaders, so they don’t act rashly, but that they act with determination when the time is right. We are to pray that they govern well, protecting life and liberty, above all. We should also pray that they turn to the God of the Bible in prayer, as well, to receive “wisdom from above” and not earthly wisdom (see James chapter three).

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll reveals “deep pessimism” among the American people about the current status and the future of the country.

Only 28 percent believe the country is headed in the right direction 
63 percent say America on the wrong track 
71 percent are dissatisfied with the state of the economy 
How are you doing this week? Are you praying faithfully for President Obama and his national security and foreign policy team? Are you praying for leaders in Congress, and in our military? Or in frustration and despair are you sniping at them and complaining?

Weighty decisions lie before our leaders. When it comes to 55 million abortions, and a $17 trillion debt, and so many Americans without jobs and health care and adequate retirement savings, and Iran getting close to nuclear weapons, and tensions in the Korean Peninsula, among so many other challenges, the fate of many lies in the balance.

I am encouraged to see many people telling me they are praying seriously and faithfully. Yet in tracking my email and Facebook and Twitter traffic, I see many people sniping at our leaders, taking potshots at them, and making snarky, cynical, unkind, un-Christian statements.

Is that you? Hopefully not. But if it is, make a change. Ask the Lord to forgive  you for disobeying him and having an ungodly approach towards  your government leaders. He will forgive you (see I John 1:9).

Let me encourage you. Start praying daily — indeed, several times a day — for your leaders, according to the Scriptures. Pray for them in the morning with your family. Pray for them in the evening at dinner, and before you go to bed. 

Pray for Him to turn this nation around, and get us back on the right track. 
Pray for the Lord to grant us in His mercy a Third Great Awakening. 
Pray for the Lord to end abortion in America and forgive us of this terrible sin. 
Ask the Lord to show you what else to pray for, and to pray according to His will, not your own. 
Our God is a prayer-hearing, and prayer-answering God, a wonder-working God. Let’s look to Him and trust Him more, especially in such dark times.