[Please bear in mind, this was originally written by Pastor Ron in 1998 - no matter how much it fits with today!]
"In a day when leadership is being scrutinized analyed, and scandalized, I thought it good that, as a [people], we offer purposeful prayer on their behalf [our leaders] and fulfill the biblical directive that we pray for those in authority over us (II Timothy 2: 1,2). As your pastor, I want to ask you to join with me in believing for healing, repentance, and blessing. Here's my prayer:
Dear Father,
We come before You today mindful of our deep need for dependence upon You. We thank You for [the] leaders You have raised up to lead us who, without hesitation, have decided to follow You, embrace Your ways, and uncompromisingly commit themselves to Your soveriegn will, hand, and rule.
Too often our commitments are both convenient and shallow. Give us boldness to believe for a spiritual awakening, a national stirring of conscience and a deep and rich hunger for righteousness to reign.
May we possess a conscience capable of discerning rightness, honesty, and truth, as well as attending boldness to it.
May our hearts be renewed in the true spirit of liberty, by delivering us from blinding pride, selfish indulgence, and slackened morals.
I specifically pray that You will heal us, O Lord, from the cowardice which has made us more afraid of righteousness than sin.
Today, O Father, I pray for our leaders and friends, from the White House to your house. I pray that you will cleanse their hands, purify their hearts, and then strengthen them to do Your work.
Fill them with wisdom from above that gives them vision and direction, and energize them daily by Your Spirit to do Your will.
Enlarge their hearts to know You more and give them their hearts desires as they serve you faithfully, wholeheartedly, and humbly.
In Jesus' Strong Name,
Ron Mehl"