Lord, teach us to be humble in our losses and gracious in our victories, remembering that Your providence guides our course. Keep pride from hardening our hearts and disappointment from stealing our hope. In every outcome, help us remain faithful to You and charitable toward one another.
As important choices concerning our nation’s future come before us, grant us wisdom, discernment, and courage. Impress upon our hearts the lasting importance of making our voices heard. Let us never surrender to silence, indifference, or the belief that our participation cannot make a difference.
Because we are created by You, our lives matter, our neighbors matter, and the manner in which we are governed matters. Help us approach the responsibility of voting with prayerful consideration, honest judgment, and a sincere desire to uphold what is right according to Your Word.
Guide us to examine candidates and policies with clear minds and humble hearts. Keep us from hatred, dishonesty, and blind allegiance. Let our convictions be rooted in truth and expressed with love.
May we faithfully fulfill our civic responsibilities, seek justice, defend human dignity, and work for our neighbors’ good. Above every earthly loyalty, keep our allegiance firmly anchored in You. Amen.
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, 2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. Titus 3:1-2 ESV
“And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down – [up] man’s old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.” — Ronald Reagan ‘A Time For Choosing’ October 27, 1964
Hold Fast, Spread the Word and God Save the Republic.
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