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Pray for the Safe and Righteous Continuation of your Civil Government

Intercession 5.14 | KJV

For the safe and righteous continuation of my nation’s civil government, that a blessing may attend it, that peace and truth may be established in our days and secured to posterity, and that the hopes of our adversaries and all their aiders and abettors may be extinguished.

Lord, preserve to us the lamp which thou hast ordained for thine Anointed, Psalm 132:17(KJV) that the generation to come may know thee, even the children which shall be born, that they may set their hope in God and keep his commandments. Psalm 78:6-7(KJV)

Let the Protestant faith abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth which may preserve it, so we will sing praise unto thy name for ever. Psalm 61:7-8(KJV) Thus, let the Lord save Zion and build the cities of Judah, and the seed of thy servants shall inherit it, and they that love thy name shall dwell therein. Psalm 69:35-36(KJV)

Let their design who would make a captain to return into Egypt, Numbers 14:4(KJV) be again defeated; and let not the deadly wound that hath been given to the beast be healed any more. Revelation 13:11-12(KJV)

Let our eyes see Jerusalem, the city of our solemnities, a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down: Let none of the stakes thereof be removed, nor any of the cords thereof be broken, but let the glorious Lord be to us a place of broad waters and streams; for the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king, he will save us. Isaiah 33:20-22(KJV)

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Pray for your Head of State

Intercession 5.13 | KJV

For all orders and degrees of men, and all I stand in any relation to.

For my nation’s sovereign lord the king, that God will protect his person, preserve his health, and continue his life and government long a public blessing.

Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness, Psalm 72:1(KJV) that he may judge the poor of the people, may save the children of the needy, and may break in pieces the oppressor. Psalm 72:4(KJV)

Let his throne be established with righteousness, Proverbs 25:5(KJV) and upheld with mercy. Proverbs 20:28(KJV) Give him long life and length of days for ever and ever, and let his glory be great in thy salvation; and make him exceeding glad with thy countenance: through the tender mercy of the Most High let him not be moved. Psalm 21:4-7(KJV)

Clothe his enemies with shame, but upon himself let the crown flourish, Psalm 132:18(KJV) and continue him long, very long, a nursing father to thine Israel. Isaiah 49:23(KJV)

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Pray for the Healing of your Nation’s Unhappy Divisions and Success Against your Nation’s Enemies

Intercession 5.12 | KJV

For the healing of my nation’s unhappy divisions and the making up of its breaches.

For the divisions that are among us, there are great searchings of heart; Judges 5:16(KJV) for there are three against two and two against three in a house. Luke 12:52(KJV) But is the breach wide as the sea, which cannot be healed? Lamentations 2:13(KJV)

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Jeremiah 8:22(KJV) Lord, heal the breaches of our land, for because of them it shaketh. Psalm 60:2(KJV)

I beg in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that there may be no divisions among us, but that we may be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 1 Corinthians 1:10(KJV)

Now the God of patience and consolation grant us to be like-minded, one towards another, according to Christ Jesus, that we may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Romans 15:5-6(KJV) and promote the common salvation. Jude 1:3(KJV)

Lord, keep us from judging one another and despising one another, Romans 14:10(KJV) and give us to follow after the things which make for peace and things wherewith one may edify another; Romans 14:19(KJV) that living in love and peace, the God of love and peace may be with us. 2 Corinthians 13:11(KJV)

Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory, but every thing in lowliness of mind; Philippians 2:3(KJV) and grant that my moderation may be known unto all men, because the Lord is at hand. Philippians 4:5(KJV)

For victory and success against our enemies abroad who seek our ruin.

Rise, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let those that hate thee flee before thee, but return, O Lord, to the many thousands of thine Israel. Numbers 10:35-36(KJV)

Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man. Through God let our forces do valiantly; yea, let God himself tread down our enemies, Psalm 60:11-12(KJV) and give them as dust to our sword and as driven stubble to our bow. Isaiah 41:2(KJV)

Let us be a people saved by the Lord, as the shield of our help and the sword of our excellency; Deuteronomy 33:29(KJV) and make our enemies sensible that the Lord fighteth for us against them. Exodus 14:25(KJV)

Those who jeopard their lives for us in the high places of the field, Judges 5:18(KJV) teach their hands to war and their fingers to fight; Psalm 144:1(KJV) give them the shield of thy salvation, and let thy right hand hold them up, Psalm 18:35(KJV) and cover their heads in the day of battle. Psalm 140:7(KJV)

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Pray for the Moral Decency and Civility of your Nation

Intercession 5.11 | KJV

For the success of all endeavors for the reformation of manners, the suppression of vice and profaneness, and the support of religion and virtue, and the bringing of them into reputation.

O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the just, O thou righteous God that triest the hearts and reins. Psalm 7:9(KJV) Spirit many to rise up for thee against the evil-doers and to stand up for thee against the workers of iniquity. Psalm 94:16(KJV)

Let the Redeemer come to Zion and turn away ungodliness from Jacob; Romans 11:26(KJV) and let the filth of Jerusalem be purged from the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning. Isaiah 4:4(KJV)

Let all iniquity stop her mouth, Psalm 107:42(KJV) and let the infection of that plague be stayed by executing judgment. Psalm 106:30(KJV)

Let those that are striving against sin never be weary or faint in their minds. Hebrews 12:3-4(KJV)

Cause the unclean spirit to pass out of the land, Zechariah 13:2(KJV) and turn to the people a pure language, that they may call on the name of the Lord. Zephaniah 3:9(KJV)

Make your people high above all nations in praise and in name and in honour by making us a holy people unto the Lord our God. Deuteronomy 26:19(KJV)

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Pray for the Continuance of your Nation’s Outward Peace and Tranquility

Intercession 5.10 | KJV

For the continuance of my nation’s outward peace and tranquility, its liberty and plenty, for the prosperity of its trade, and a blessing upon the fruits of the earth.

Let God himself be a wall of fire round about us and the glory in the midst of us; Zechariah 2:5(KJV) yea, let his gospel be our glory, and upon all that glory let there be a defence; and create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. Isaiah 4:5(KJV)

Peace be within our borders and prosperity within our palaces, Psalm 122:7(KJV) the prosperity both of merchandise and husbandry, that Zebulun may rejoice in his going out and Issachar in his tents. Deuteronomy 33:18(KJV)

Appoint salvation to us for walls and bulwarks; and, in order to that, let the gates be opened, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. Isaiah 26:1-2(KJV)

Make our officers peace and our exactors righteousness; let violence never be heard in our gates, wasting or destruction in our borders, but let our walls be called Salvation and our gates Praise: Isaiah 60:17-18(KJV) Never let our land be termed Forsaken and Desolate, but let the Lord delight in us, and let our land be married to him. Isaiah 62:4(KJV)

Let our peace be as a river and, in order to that, our righteousness as the waves of the sea. Isaiah 48:18(KJV) Let that righteousness abound among us which exalteth a nation, and deliver us from sin, which is a reproach to any people. Proverbs 14:34(KJV)

Never make our heavens as brass and our earth as iron, Deuteronomy 28:33(KJV) nor take away thy corn in the season thereof and thy wine in the season thereof; Hosea 2:9(KJV) but give us rain moderately, the former and the latter rain in due season, Joel 2:23(KJV) and reserve unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest, Jeremiah 5:24(KJV) giving us fair weather also in its season. Let our land yield her increase and the trees their fruit, that we may eat bread and be full and dwell in our land safely. Leviticus 26:4-5(KJV)

Abundantly bless our provision and satisfy our poor with bread, Psalm 132:15(KJV) that they which have gathered it may eat and praise the Lord. Isaiah 62:9(KJV) Blow not thou upon it, for then when we look for much, it will come to little; Haggai 1:9(KJV) but bless our blessings, that all nations may call us blessed and a delightsome land. Malachi 3:10-12(KJV)

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Pray Earnestly for National Mercies and the Blessing of the Gospel Ministry in your Nation

Intercession 5.9 | KJV

I must pray earnestly for national mercies.

For the favours of God to my nation and the tokens of his presence among us, as that in which our happiness is bound up.

O the hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble, be not thou a stranger in my land or a wayfaring man that turns aside to tarry but for a night; but be thou always in the midst of your people: We are called by thy name, O leave us not. Though our iniquities testify against us, yet do thou it for thy name’s sake; though our backslidings are many, and we have sinned against thee. Jeremiah 14:7-9(KJV)

Turn us to thee, O Lord God of hosts, and then cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. O stir up thy strength and come and save us. Psalm 80:2-3(KJV)

Show us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation; Psalm 85:7(KJV) yea, let that salvation be nigh them that fear thee, that glory may dwell in our land. Let mercy and truth meet together, righteousness and peace kiss each other: Let truth spring out of the earth and righteousness look down from heaven; yea, let the Lord give that which is good: Let righteousness go before him and set us in the way of his steps. Psalm 85:9-13(KJV)

For the continuance of the gospel among us and the means of grace, and a national profession of Christ’s holy religion.

O let the throne of Christ endure for ever among us, Psalm 45:6(KJV) even the place of thy sanctuary, that glorious high throne from the beginning. Jeremiah 17:12(KJV)

Let our candlestick never be removed out of its place, though we have deserved it should, because we have left our first love. Revelation 2:4-5(KJV) Never do to us as thou didst to thy place which was in Shiloh, where thou didst set thy name at the first. Jeremiah 7:12(KJV)

Let us never know what a famine of the word means; nor ever be put to wander from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth, to seek the word of God. Amos 8:11-12(KJV)

Let wisdom and knowledge be the stability of our times and strength of salvation, and let the fear of the Lord be our treasure: Isaiah 33:6(KJV) Let the righteous flourish among us, and let there be those that shall fear thee in our land, as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations; Psalm 72:5(KJV) that there may be abundance of peace, Psalm 72:7(KJV) and the children which shall be created may praise the Lord. Psalm 102:18(KJV)

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Pray for the Nations of the World and for your Own Nation

Intercession 5.8 | KJV

For the nations of Europe and the countries about me.

Thou, Lord, art the Governor among the nations: Psalm 22:28(KJV) Who shall not fear thee, O King of nations? Jeremiah 10:7(KJV) Thou sittest in the throne judging right; Psalm 9:4(KJV) judge the world therefore in righteousness, and minister judgment to the people in uprightness. Psalm 9:8(KJV)

Lord, hasten the time when thou wilt make wars to cease to the ends of the earth; Psalm 46:9(KJV) when nation shall no more lift up sword against nation, nor kingdom against kingdom, but swords shall be beaten into plough-shares, and spears into pruning-hooks, and they shall not learn war any more. Isaiah 2:4(KJV)

Make kings nursing fathers, and their queens nursing mothers, to the Israel of God. Isaiah 49:23(KJV)

And in the days of these kings, let the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, even the kingdom of the Redeemer. Daniel 2:44(KJV) And whatever counsels there are in men’s hearts, Lord, let thy counsels stand, Proverbs 19:21(KJV) and do thou fulfil the thoughts of thy heart unto all generations. Psalm 33:11(KJV)

For my own land and nation, the happy islands of Great Britain and Ireland, which I ought in a special manner to seek the welfare of, that in the peace thereof, your church in this land may have peace.

I must be thankful to God for his mercies to my land.

I bless thee that thou hast planted me in a very fruitful hill, Isaiah 5:1(KJV) and hast not made the wilderness my habitation or the barren land my dwelling, Job 39:6(KJV) but the land I inhabit yields her increase. Psalm 85:12(KJV)

Lord, thou hast dealt favourably with my land. Psalm 85:1(KJV) I have heard with my ears, and my fathers in the faith have told me, what work thou didst for your church in their days, and in the times of old; Psalm 44:1(KJV) and as I have heard, so have I seen, for I have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. Psalm 48:8-9(KJV)

Thou hast given your church a pleasant land, Jeremiah 3:19(KJV) it is Immanuel’s land, Isaiah 8:8(KJV) it is a valley of vision; Isaiah 22:1(KJV) thou hast set up thy tabernacle among us, and thy sanctuary is in the midst of us. Ezekiel 37:26-27(KJV)

We dwell safely under our own vine and fig-tree, 1 Kings 4:25(KJV) and there is peace to him that goeth out and to him that comes in. 2 Chronicles 15:5(KJV)

And because the Lord loved my people, therefore he hath set a good government over us, to do judgment and justice; 1 Kings 10:9(KJV) to be a terror to evil-doers and a protection and praise to them that do well. Romans 13:3(KJV)

I must be humbled before God for my nation’s sins and provocations.

But my nation is a sinful people, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers; Isaiah 1:4(KJV) and a great deal of reason we have to sigh and cry for the abominations that are committed among us. Ezekiel 9:4(KJV)

Iniquity abounds among us, and the love of many is waxen cold. Matthew 24:12(KJV)

We have not been forsaken nor forgotten of our God, though our land be full of sin against the Holy One of Israel. Jeremiah 51:5(KJV)

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Pray for the Relief of Suffering Churches and Persecuted Christians

Intercession 5.7 | KJV

For the relief of suffering churches and the support, comfort, and deliverance of all that are persecuted for righteousness’ sake.

I desire in my prayers to remember them that are in bonds for the testimony of Jesus, as bound with them, and them which suffer adversity, as being myself also in the body. Hebrews 13:3(KJV) O send from above and deliver them from those that hate them, Psalm 18:16-17(KJV) and bring them forth into a large place. Psalm 18:19(KJV)

O let not the rod of the wicked rest upon the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous should put forth their hands unto iniquity. Psalm 125:3(KJV)

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake as in the ancient days, as in the generations of old, and make the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed of the Lord to pass over. Isaiah 51:9-10(KJV)

For the oppression of the poor and the sighing of the needy, now do thou arise, O Lord, and set them in safety from them that puff at them. Psalm 12:5(KJV)

O strengthen the patience and faith of thy suffering saints, Revelation 13:10(KJV) that they may hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. Lamentations 3:26(KJV)

O let the year of thy redeemed come, Isaiah 63:4(KJV) and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. Isaiah 34:8(KJV)

O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion; and when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad. Psalm 14:7(KJV)

O let not the oppressed return ashamed, but let the poor and needy praise thy name. Psalm 74:21(KJV)

Lord, arise and have mercy upon Zion, and let the time to favour her, yea, the set time, come; Psalm 102:13(KJV) yea, let the Lord build up Zion and appear in his glory. Lord, regard the prayer of the destitute and do not despise their prayer. Psalm 102:16-17(KJV)

O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: By whom shall Jacob arise, for he is small? Amos 7:5(KJV) O cause thy face to shine upon that part of thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake. Daniel 9:17(KJV)

Let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before thee, and according to the greatness of thy power, preserve thou those that for thy name’s sake are appointed to die. Psalm 79:11(KJV)

Let those whose teachers are removed into corners, again see their teachers, though they have the bread of adversity and the water of affliction. Isaiah 30:20(KJV)

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Pray for the Defeat of the Enemies of the Church

Intercession 5.6 | KJV

For the breaking of the power of all the enemies of the church and the defeating of all their designs against her.

Let all that set themselves, and take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, that would break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from them, imagine a vain thing. Let him that sits in heaven laugh at them and have them in derision; speak unto them in thy wrath, and vex them in thy sore displeasure. Psalm 2:1-5(KJV) Give them, O Lord, what thou wilt give them; give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Hosea 9:14(KJV)

O my God, make them like a wheel and as stubble before the wind; Psalm 83:13(KJV) fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Lord, Psalm 83:16(KJV) and that men may know, thou whose name is JEHOVAH, art the Most High over all the earth. Psalm 83:18(KJV)

Put them in fear, O Lord, that the nations may know themselves to be but men, Psalm 9:20(KJV) and wherein the proud enemies of thy church deal proudly, make it to appear that thou art above them. Exodus 18:11(KJV)

Let them be confounded and turned back that hate Zion, and be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it groweth up. Psalm 129:5-6(KJV)

Let no weapon formed against thy church prosper, and let every tongue that riseth against it in judgment be condemned. Isaiah 54:17(KJV)

Make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people, and let all that burden themselves with it be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth should be gathered together against it; Zechariah 12:3(KJV) so let all thy enemies perish, O Lord, but let them that love thee be as the sun when he goes forth in his strength. Judges 5:31(KJV)

Lord, let the man of sin be consumed with the Spirit of thy mouth and destroyed with the brightness of thy coming: 2 Thessalonians 2:8(KJV) And let those be undeceived that have been long under the power of strong delusions to believe a lie, and let them receive the truth in the love of it. 2 Thessalonians 2:10-11(KJV)

Let Babylon fall and sink like a millstone into the sea; Revelation 18:21(KJV) and let the kings of the earth that have given their power and honour to the beast, Revelation 17:17(KJV) be wrought upon at length to bring it into the new Jerusalem. Revelation 21:26(KJV)

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Pray for the Health, Purity, and Holiness of the Church

Intercession 5.5 | KJV

For the amending of every thing that is amiss in the church, the reviving of primitive Christianity and the power of godliness, and, in order thereunto, the pouring out of the Spirit.

Lord, let thy Spirit be poured out upon thy churches from on high, and then the wilderness shall become a fruitful field, Isaiah 32:15(KJV) then judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it. Psalm 94:15(KJV)

Let what is wanting be set in order, Titus 1:5(KJV) and let every plant that is not of my heavenly Father’s planting be plucked up. Matthew 15:13(KJV)

Let the Lord whom I seek come to his temple like a refiner’s fire and fullers’ soap, and let him purify the sons of Levi and all the seed of Israel, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering unto righteousness, pleasant to the Lord, as in the days of old, as in former years. Malachi 3:2-4(KJV)

Let pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, flourish and prevail every where; James 1:27(KJV) that kingdom of God among men, which is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Romans 14:17(KJV) O revive this work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known, Habakkuk 3:2(KJV) and let these times be times of reformation. Hebrews 9:10(KJV)