God, You reign over the affairs of heaven and earth. You set up earthly leaders and remove them. Everything happening on earth is working to bring about the end that You declared before the beginning of time. It is never about the greatness of earthly nations but Your eternal Kingdom. Your Kingdom is hitched up to Jesus not to an earthly nation, world leaders, or political parties.
The hearts of world leaders are in Your hands and you turn them wherever You will. For example, You raised King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to take Your people, in Judah, into captivity because of their sin so that they would repent so that You would restore them. Later, You raised up King Cyrus, of Persia, who gave a decree for Your people to return to Jerusalem in preparation for You sending Jesus, the promised Messiah.
God, what You are doing in the earth today in raising up and removing leaders is preparing for the second coming of Christ and the consummation of Your Kingdom. Help every follower of Jesus to see that we are not in the earth to make a temporary nation great in history. You have placed us here, in this moment of history, to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom so that people from every nation, tribe, people group, and tongue are represented in it.
Help the Church of Jesus Christ here in the United States to not be distracted from Jesus and His mission by politics and elections. Give us wisdom to use the privileges that we are afforded as U.S. citizens for the advance of the gospel and not for our personal ambition and gain. Make us like the children of Issachar who understood the days and times in which they lived and knew what to do. May we not get bogged down in the weeds of earthly, temporal matters of the city of man but to be focused on Your heavenly and eternal Kingdom. Amen!
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