Pray for our Nation Below you will find a few verses for reflection as you pray for our nation and its leaders. JOHN 14:25-7 Sing to the Lord with grateful praise; All this I have spoken while still with you. But the make music to our God on the harp. Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send He covers the sky with clouds; in my name, will teach you all things and will remind he supplies the earth with rain you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave and makes grass grow on the hills. with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as He provides food for the cattle the world gives. Do not let your hearts be and for the young ravens when they call. troubled and do not be afraid. His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of the warrior; ROMANS 12:2 the Lord delights in those who fear him, Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be who put their hope in his unfailing love. transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is— Extol the Lord, Jerusalem; his good, pleasing and perfect will. praise your God, Zion. ISAIAH 45:22-25 Turn to me and be saved, PSALM 130 all you ends of the earth; Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord; for I am God, and there is no other. Lord, hear my voice. By myself I have sworn, Let your ears be attentive my mouth has uttered in all integrity to my cry for mercy. a word that will not be revoked: If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Before me every knee will bow; Lord, who could stand? by me every tongue will swear. But with you there is forgiveness, They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone so that we can, with reverence, serve you. are deliverance and strength.’” All who have raged against him I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, will come to him and be put to shame. and in his word I put my hope. But all the descendants of Israel I wait for the Lord will find deliverance in the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, and will make their boast in him. more than watchmen wait for the morning. Israel, put your hope in the Lord, PSALM 147:1-12 for with the Lord is unfailing love Praise the Lord. and with him is full redemption. How good it is to sing praises to our God, He himself will redeem Israel how pleasant and fitting to praise him! from all their sins. The Lord builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the exiles of Israel. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit. The Lord sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground. PSALM 91:9-16 God will help her at break of day. If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; and you make the Most High your dwelling, he lifts his voice, the earth melts. no harm will overtake you, The Lord Almighty is with us; no disaster will come near your tent. the God of Jacob is our fortress. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; Come and see what the Lord has done, they will lift you up in their hands, the desolations he has brought on the earth. so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. He makes wars cease You will tread on the lion and the cobra; to the ends of the earth. you will trample the great lion and the serpent. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire. “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; him; I will be exalted among the nations, I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. I will be exalted in the earth.” He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, The Lord Almighty is with us; I will deliver him and honor him. the God of Jacob is our fortress. With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.” PSALM 24:1-6 PSALMS 90:13-17 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, Relent, Lord! How long will it be? the world, and all who live in it; Have compassion on your servants. for he founded it on the seas Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, and established it on the waters. that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? us, Who may stand in his holy place? for as many years as we have seen trouble. The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, May your deeds be shown to your servants, who does not trust in an idol your splendor to their children. or swear by a false god. May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; They will receive blessing from the Lord establish the work of our hands for us— and vindication from God their Savior. yes, establish the work of our hands. Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, God of Jacob. PSALM 46 God is our refuge and strength, PSALM 9:7-10 an ever-present help in trouble. The Lord reigns forever; Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way he has established his throne for judgment. and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, He rules the world in righteousness though its waters roar and foam and judges the peoples with equity. and the mountains quake with their surging. The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Those who know your name trust in you, God, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek the holy place where the Most High dwells. you. God is within her, she will not fall; .