A Prayer for Newly Elected Leaders

(adapted from Psalm 37)

Heavenly Father,

Today we pray for those have been newly elected to public office to provide leadership to our community, our county, our state, and our nation.

We pray for your truth to guide them in the decisions they will be asked to make in the coming days.

We pray for your wisdom to instruct them and we pray that their trust might be in your perfect leading.

Help them to do good, O Lord.

Help them to live each day in the knowledge of your grace and provision.

Help them to trust in you and to not fret in the face of evil, but to be patient as you handle the conflicts, allowing those who look to you to refrain from anger and wrath and to enjoy great peace in your joy.

Enable them, O God, to know the wealth of your resources as the sustaining provision for each day. Help them to be generous in spirit and action, conscious that your mercies sustain and bless them in such efforts.

May every action taken be pleasing to you, O Lord. For in that measure, we are judged most perfectly.

In times of trouble, may we know you as our stronghold and salvation, our refuge and deliverer. Help each of us to ever trust you, love you, and serve you, O God, as we remember your promise to make our righteousness shine like the dawn, and our earnest pursuit of justice to be like the light of the noonday sun.

Thank you God for reminding us that there is indeed a future for those men and women of peace, to those willing to turn from evil and to do good.

Thank you God for these who have been entrusted with such a responsibility for leadership and may we as a people respect them, and encourage them in all those endeavors that will ever be ordained in your sight as righteous and good and worthy of your blessing.

Through Christ Jesus our Savior, we pray.

AMEN