Children's Meeting
A Prayer for President Barack Obama
Together with all the people of our nation and the concerned citizens of our world, we pray for the new President of the United States, Barack Obama. Many other people are praying for him right now, and we join our voices with them.
We ask God that Barack Obama lead our country with a right mind, making responsible decisions and continuing in his honest and straightforward leadership.
For him and his staff and all the people and nations he has dealings with, God, please bless them with integrity, so that they can be honest about their intentions and their needs, and so that they can come to agreements with one another that are grounded in truth.
We pray especially that President Obama will make peaceful decisions for us, since his decisions will affect many people.
Furthermore, we pray that no harm comes to him or his family or friends, and that Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and Sasha and Malia have a fun, safe, fulfilling, amazing, life-changing experience in the White House.
by Anna Lee Foster, Rose Kingma, and Sarah Peterson
January 25, 2009
We wrote this prayer the Sunday after President Obama's inauguration. In Children's Meeting, we studied I Timothy 2:1-2, where Paul writes to Timothy and other believers:
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings and all those who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity.

