Do you struggle to know what to pray for America? If so, you are not alone. Evil is certainly discouraging, and many people in the Body of Christ are experiencing a frustration that hinders prayer.

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However, if you’re not sure what to pray for America right now, God has a perfect solution!

The Word of God (the Bible itself) is the most perfect vocabulary for prayer in existence. When we pray God’s Word back to Him, He is able to unleash His will on the earth more than at any other time.

To help encourage you as you pray, I wanted to provide some key prayer points from God’s Word. The Psalms are an easy place to start, so let’s look at how we can pray through the Psalms today, starting with Psalm 1 and 2.

As you pray for America today, pray these specific directives from Psalm 1:

1. Pray that our governmental leaders, and all Americans, would not walk in the counsel of the ungodly.
2. Pray that we would not stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.
3. Ask the Lord to change our hearts so that our delight is in His law, in His Word, and in His precepts.
4. Pray that the Lord would open the heart, soul, and spirit of every American to hunger and thirst after the Word.
5. Pray for the godly in America, both in leadership and everyday Americans. Ask the Lord to make us who love Him to be like a tree planted by RIVERS of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season—and that whatever we do will prosper.
6. Pray that the work of every godly politician would prosper. Pray that when they try to pass godly laws, those laws will get passed. When they do any godly work, pray they would be blessed in the doing of it.
7. Pray that the Lord would protect and preserve the way of the righteous, but that the way of the ungodly would perish.
8. Ask the Lord to cleanse and purify our nation, beginning with His Own people—and that He would make us holy to Himself.

And from Psalm 2, let’s pray the following:

1. Ask the Lord to give every unholy ruler, leader, and politician a holy awe, dread, and fear of the Lord.
2. Ask the Father to pour out His Spirit of the fear of the Lord on our nation, and on every person in it.
3. Pray that the Lord would awaken their conscience, so that they would suddenly understand the perilous position they have taken (in that they love lawlessness instead of righteousness).
4. Pray that the name and Person of Jesus would be lifted up above America, and that He would draw all men to Himself.
5. Pray that the United States of America would be fully given unto Jesus for His inheritance.
6. Ask the Lord to awaken Christians with a passion for souls and a willingness to evangelize America, so that we go out and TAKE the territory for Christ that belongs to Him anyway.
7. Pray that the Lord would give us the nation, the same way He promised Christ that this nation would be His inheritance.
8. Pray that every governmental leader in America would be wise, and would listen to the instruction of the Lord. Pray that they would serve Him with fear and tremble before Him.
9. Ask the Lord to bless all those who put their trust in Him.

Beloved, God’s Word is timeless and all-encompassing.

It applies to everything: every nation, every person, and every situation. If you pray God’s Word back to Him, He will hear your prayers and apply His Own Word to everything going on in our nation on any given day. He will even use your prayers to set up future answers, such as future outpourings of revival!

God’s Word really is the absolute best vocabulary for prayer. Join me in praying through these Psalms for our nation today, and let’s stand firm in faith together that He will watch over His Word to perform it!

Did these prayer directives help you today? What else are you praying from Psalms 1 and 2 right now? Leave a comment below!

Jamie Rohrbaugh is the founder and CEO of From His Presence. She is the author of Getting to Know the Sevenfold Holy Spirit, and she seeks to equip you to carry His manifest glory everywhere you go. Her resources have been published by YouVersion Bible Plans and in Charisma magazine, as well as on The Elijah List, Spirit Fuel, and various other ministry outlets. You can find free mentoring on her podcast, Take Your Territory with Jamie Rohrbaugh, which is available through your favorite podcast streaming app. Download her free prayer tool, Praying the Names of God: 555 Biblical Names of God and How to Use Them in Prayer and Worship, here. Photo Credit: Tim Wildsmith on Unsplash.