1. Thank God for His Mercies to your Nation
During this election season when many are especially focused on the state and future of our nation, let us cry out in prayer to the King of kings and Lord of lords.
“Lord, thank you for planting us on a fruitful hill rather than making the wilderness our habitation or the barren desert our home. Our land yields abundant harvests. You have treated our nation so graciously. We have heard with our ears and our fathers have told us the work you did for them in earlier days. By your special favor we have experienced for ourselves exactly what previous generations told us. Help us to regularly remind ourselves of your mercy to our land whenever we gather together for worship.”
Isa. 5:1; Job 39:6; Psa. 85:12; 85:1; 44:1; 48:8, 9
“How gracious you have been to give us such a pleasant land. It is rightly called "Immanuel’s land." Though we have abused it terribly, it remains a Valley of Vision. For you have set up your tabernacle among us, and your sanctuary remains in our midst. Because of your continual blessing, each family lives safely under its own vine and fig tree. Peaceful security stays with us as we travel back and forth.”
Jer. 3:19; Isa. 8:8; 22:1; Ezek. 37:26, 27; 1 Kings 4:25; 2 Chron. 15:5
“In your loving concern, set over us a good government that practices justice and opposes corruption. Give us governmental leaders who will be a terror to all those who do evil, and will praise and protect those who do good.”
1 Kings 10:9; Rom. 13:3
Taken from Intercessory Prayers for ‘Your Own Land and Nation’ in A Way to Pray by Matthew Henry, edited and revised by O. Palmer Robertson (Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh, 2020 edition), p. 144.