Grace and peace from God, our Father, through Jesus Christ, our risen ruling, one day soon returning Lord and the only Savior, brothers and sisters and good evening, friends. For today's Wednesday in the Word, I'm going to be reading a short prayer. Well, it's actually a more lengthy prayer for President Trump and Vice President Vance and truly all those elected to represent us as civil magistrates in the United States of America. Almighty God and merciful Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, blessed be your name, for you are the God of heaven. As Daniel prayed, so do we. Let your name, God, be blessed forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to you. It is you who changes the times and the epochs. You remove kings and establish kings. You give wisdom to wise men and knowledge to men of understanding. It is you who reveal the profound and hidden things. You know what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with you. To you, O God of our fathers, we give thanks and praise. God, we know there is no authority except from you, and those which exist are established by you to be rulers who are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. And we know, Lord, that fear of proper authority is to remind us that you are the sovereign over our lives. So help us to do what is good as citizens, and we pray for those who govern, that they would depend on you and your wisdom and truth. May these men serve humbly as those who understand they are ministers of yours, O God, to do us good. We pray we do not do evil, but good. And pray the civil magistrates you've appointed to do not bear the sword for nothing. May they truly understand they are each a minister of yours, O God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. We praise you for the sanity of hearing the president declare the truth. There are two genders, two sexes, male and female. In accord with Genesis 1, 26 and 28 and other scriptural texts and obvious common sense, truth, reason and science, general revelation and special revelation. We pray that policy would continue to reflect this reality that is good and from you. We pray that President Trump and J.D. Vance and others around them might be consistent on this as well. Please allow these civil magistrates of our nation to pay homage to the son, Jesus, our Lord, now and increasingly throughout their tenure. Oh God, please surround them with those who fear you, who are competent counselors and wise men, advisors, so their plans succeed. We pray as your word commands for all who are in authority, so that we might lead tranquil and quiet lives in all godliness and dignity in accord with 1 Timothy 2.2. May we, your church, honor you, O Lord, above all, and hold to your word and the gospel, seeking first your kingdom without shame, according to Matthew 6.33. May we be more devoted to faithful, humble, bold gospel proclamation, because the days are evil. Help us to be more zealous and appropriately committed to adorning the gospel through the good deeds you have called us to walk and since before the foundation of the world, as you tell us in Ephesians 2.10. We ask and pray you'd be gracious and protect our nation, the people of our nation from all enemies, foreign, domestic, internal, and external, spiritual, and earthly. We pray for the salvation of many of our fellow citizens who are neighbors and friends who are far from you and without hope and without Christ. Draw them, God, we pray. Convict them by your spirit and through your word. For many other fellow citizens who are your chosen children, trusting in Christ alone, please bless and protect them from sin, false teachers, evil ideologies, and wolves who hate you. Protect all of us who are your chosen children in this nation from all manner of unholiness and unrighteousness. May we not be lazy or naive or careless in our own efforts to be and make disciples of the Lord Jesus. Please exalt Christ, the Lord, the only Savior all across this nation. Please grant all across our beloved nation true revival and renewal, new birth by your spirit, sound conversion, sincere repentance of sins, the gift of faith in Christ, the joy of new life, baptism, the new life. commitment, accountability, submission to true local churches and church officers, a commitment to your saving gospel and your sufficient scriptures, and a zeal to live all of life unto all of Christ. Please end the horrific, utterly detestable, totally unjust, and wicked practice of child murder that is abortion, Father. We hate this child's sacrifice to false gods, so please make efforts succeed to abolish this stain across our nation. Please refrain and even end or restrain, Lord, and even end the other wicked things glorified in our nation by so many still we pray against the love of money, the praise of sexual perversions and abominations, the casting off of a refusal to enforce righteous laws. any hatred of others based on God-given good differences, male-female, the bribery of corruption, double standards in lawfare against law-abiding citizens. We grieve in our trouble that some near the president and vice president seem to hold these falsehoods and sinful airs. So we pray their foolish voices would be silenced and influence increasingly marginalized by all in our nation. May we do our part in praying, preaching, planning, supporting efforts that would honor you. Yet first and foremost, God, help us to be your people, O God. Help us to seek first your kingdom and your righteousness, to live fully to your glory according to the whole counsel of your word, and step with your spirit. Help us, God, to love you supremely and love one another sacrificially in a way that honors you. Help us, God, not be distracted or foolish. We confess our sins to be short-sighted, and we need you greatly, even more than we know. So help us, please. Be glorified among us and through us as your blood-bought people. Thank you for the many blessings and gifts and mercies you have given to our nation. We know every good gift comes from you, from your hand, Father, according to James 117. So we thank you. We give you the glory today. Even as we entrust all these things to you in the name of our crucified, risen, reigning, one day returning Lord Jesus. Amen. Well, brothers and sisters, I hope this prayer encourages you and blesses you. You can also find it on band. And again, what this was, was praying the Bible by and large. It's such an important exercise for all of us to pray the Bible, to read the scriptures, to take them in, and to pray them back to God. And honor the Lord. And let us be a praying people who continue to pray and trust all things to the Lord in prayer. He is good. He is faithful. He is kind. He invites us to call upon Him. And indeed we must and we should. We are dependent upon Him for everything. And so let us cry out to Him with confidence that He is the God who hears our prayers and loves us. May the Lord bless you and keep you. God bless, brothers and sisters.