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Election results prayer

I realize this morning that I didn’t mentally prepare myself for the results of this election. My 14 year old daughter has been asking me for months what is going to happen if Donald Trump is elected, and I have been answering her saying that I don’t think he will. She is scared, she is nervous, this beautiful wonderful little brown girl knows in her heart that his presidency has more likeliness for her harm than her good. I can’t fix that for her. I don’t know how to protect her from her rights being in jeopardy.

I know only one thing, and that is that my God is still on the throne. I know that I made it through this election period with my faith and my dignity intact. I know that I have not made a political candidate an idol.

As a Christ follower I know how to recognize the fruit of the Spirit in another believer and am confident in my belief that the President Elect has none of them. I also understand that the foundation of my faith in Jesus is the need and acknowledgment I have to repent, to receive forgiveness from my perfect savior who died for me. A need that all of humanity has, a need that Donald Trump has rejected.

As a Christ Follower I still have a duty, a duty to pray, to pray for our nation and its leaders.

This is my prayer:

Lord I come in desperation for a nation that is divided. I know that you are in control, and you are not shaken by any earthly thing. I pray for the hearts of those of us who are mourning. I pray safety from the hate that is becoming common. But God, my God, you alone have the ability to change a heart. So my highest prayer is for Donald Trump himself. Lord I pray that you humble his heart, strip his pride, show him in an undeniable way that he has a need for forgiveness, and bring him to his face in repentance. You have taken even the most lowly of people and given them a new heart, new eyes, and made them a true servant of you, a mouthpiece for your glory and not their own. I pray for a conversion so powerful that Donald Trump can have a testimony, with change so evident that not a soul on earth can argue about what God can do. I pray the blood of Jesus over him, abolish the hate, abolish the selfishness, abolish the pride. Lord put a stop to the plans of the enemy, put roadblocks up in the way of those who are devising plans that will harm your people and your kingdom. Remind every person on earth that you do have a plan, and that this man is no Messiah. We have a Messiah and He will come again, give us the wisdom and discernment to know who has a heart for you and who pretends. And God, be my strength because I am disheartened. Help your Spirit that dwells in my heart remind my head that you are still in control and what you have promised to me and my children is still true.

In your mighty, and matchless name, Amen.