2014 Congressional Elections Elections Matter Booklet | Page 23

Prayer for Our Nation’s Leaders Almighty God, you alone reign over all the peoples of the earth. Guide us, we pray, in selecting leaders who will serve with courage, integrity, and humility. Bless our leaders with a vision of, and commitment to, the common good. Give us the persistence as citizens to speak out for justice until all your children have a place at the table. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. A Prayer for Guidance and Support Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to a king’s son. May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. May the mountains yield prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness. May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor. … For he delivers the needy when they call, the poor and those who have no helper. He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy. From oppression and violence he redeems their life; and precious is their blood in his sight. … ONLINE RESOURCES May there be abundance of grain in the land; may it wave on the tops These websites may provide of the mountains; may its fruit more tools during the election be like Lebanon; and may people season: blossom in the cities like the grass of the field. … • www.politico.com Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. Blessed be his glorious name forever; may his glory fill the whole earth. Amen and Amen. • atr.rollcall.com • www.thomas.gov • www.vote ͵