A Prayer for the President

Our Father in heaven, we
confess that you alone are God and that all authority in heaven and on earth belongs
to you.[1]
Your dominion is an everlasting dominion, and your kingdom endures from
generation to generation.[2]
You change times and seasons; you remove kings and set up kings.[3]
You execute judgment, putting down one and lifting up another,[4]
and no one on earth wields power without having received it from you. Therefore, we acknowledge
that it is by your will that Donald Trump has come to be the president of the
United States. We pray that he may
recognize this as well and that the thought of it would humble him and cause
him to tremble under the weight of so great a responsibility, remembering that
he shall one day have to give an account for the sacred trust you have given
him. May he see himself as your servant, called to do your will. May he seek
you with all his heart, and find you. Hear him, when he prays to you.[5]
And please hear us, too, as we pray on his behalf. G…