Prayer For Obama, A Man of Conviction -- BP post by Pax4evr

My Friends, if there is anyone in this world at this point in time who needs corporate prayer, it is the candidate running for presidency of the USA, Senator Barak Obama... Although I was previously inclined toward a personal rationale for nonalignment with his aim, the unfairness that he has been subjected to has forced me to support counteractions to help level the "playing field." It seems only right that no man should be convicted of words uttered by someone else -- yet Obama has been so convicted. In the Land of the Free, why should the freedom of association be taken away from someone just because he is aspiring to the highest political office in the land? Yet for Obama, this has happened. The gross unfairness of it all is alarming and cuts deeply. It seems as if detractors could not find enough "dirt" in the candidate's life, so they have to smear him with someone else's. Thus, we as a nation truly need prayer to prevent this evil from pervading our minds and come against what God would have in store for our country so it can be a source of true Goodness and Righteousness of its Creeds: Not as exhibited in the feigned religiosity of the current administration -- if he actually posses the mentality to distinguish the difference -- a pathetic "cross" the country has had to bear for eight years. To relieve us from this bondage, the following petition is raised, while others of like minds are invited to add your own thoughts:


Supreme Master of the Universe, God of our Fathers and Mankind,

We beseech Thee this day to come into our lives and fulfill your true Aim for this World. Father you have directed one such of your servants to seek the nomination for leadership of this United States of America. He has been beset upon all sides with the types of persecutions that have been suffered by your very Son. I detect the same viciousness that was aimed against Jesus, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandi, the Prophet Jeremiah of the Scriptures, and any of your Leaders sent into this Life to help bring forth your Kingdom here on earth. Lord, I look at the repeatedly straying Israelites of the Old Testament, the Inquisitor Catholics of the Middle Ages, the Puritans of the recent Past, and the Religious Right of the Present and find that history keeps repeating itself with evilness in the hearts where these people malign your Great Purpose. It forces me to ponder: When do these people ever learn? Lord, as Saint Frances of Assisi, let me ask: Lord, please help me become an Instrument of Thy Peace to contradict the evil of the world.

In this vein I pray your protection on Barak Obama, a good man, who wants to lead this country into Thy Righteousness -- not the misthinking on the Political Right. Father, I can see your Hand upon his mandate for the Great Freedoms that this Country was designed to purvey. I can see your Face in his ability to attract people of many faiths, many cultures, and many countries into a Movement of Brotherhood. I can detect your Strength in his tendency for intergenerational, interracial, and international appeal. I can feel Your Love in the generosity, altruism, and dedication behind his smile and his charismatic mannerisms. I see Your Guidance in the articulation of his intellect. Now, father, I ask that you bless him, sustain, him, renew and invigorate him; bless his helpmate, his children, and all sides of his family and friends. Dear Master, please extend your Care and Courageousness to his followers, his planners, and political advisers. Lord, lead us all in the Path of Righteousness for His Name's Sake. And Father, though we all walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, let us all fear no evil. For Thou, Lord, please stay with Him and shall lead us all to the Life Everlasting. Amen!!.