Thought For Today - 1/20/09

Today is January 20, 2009. Today is the day that Barack Obama will become the 44Th President of the United States of America.

We as Christians are instructed to pray for our leaders according to 1 Timothy 2:1-6,

I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men—the testimony given in its proper time. (NIV)

Here is my prayer for him. It is found in Ephesians 3:14-19,

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom His whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen President Barack Obama with power through His Spirit in President Barack Obama inner being, so that Christ may dwell in President Barack Obama heart through faith. And I pray that President Barack Obama, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that President Barack Obama may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Much love,
Joseph