Building One Another
FIRST PRAYERS VOL 12 NO 2
January 22, 2013
Dear Friend,
When I hear people speak of various individuals in our government with whom they disagree, hoping they don’t do well, that they don’t succeed, I always think of Paul’s admonition to pray, “for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity.” I Timothy 2:2*
Over the years I have voted for many presidents and many others standing for office. Sometimes they have won their elections, sometimes not. Sometimes I have agreed with their policies. Sometimes I have not. Yet always my “supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings” are for them.
Why?
“First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings should be made for everyone, for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity.”
I Timothy 2:1-2
Our joy, our security, our well-being as a people depends on them. As we inaugurate the President of the United States, as a new Congress meets, as the Supreme Court rules, may all of our prayers be for their well-being, their wisdom, and their work. May they do well.
With joy - E. Stanley Ott