The vast majority of faithful American Christians have long wanted this day to dawn; that is, the inauguration of President Donald Trump. And many (no, not all) prayed earnestly and expended substantial effort to bring this hope to reality. We did so for two reasons.
1) Because it meant an end to the shameful, sinister administration of Joe Biden and the malevolent minions who pulled his strings. After all, this a wicked administration had doubled down in the gleeful killing of preborn children; continually mocked God and attacked basic rights of Christians; invited (and generously enabled) foreign drug lords and sex traffickers to invade our communities; forced girls to shower with boys; lied daily to the American people while weaponizing government agencies to persecute those who fought back against those lies; playing the patsy to terrorist nations; celebrated (and again, enabled) sexual perversion; failed to intervene in the increasingly violent anti-Semitism that has swept American cities and college campuses; and so on.
And 2) The inauguration of President Trump means a critical new chance for the United States to reverse this evil, suicidal plunge into deeper decadence, lawlessness, and economic ruin. No, the new president is not a perfect example of leadership. Until the government is on the shoulders of Jesus, that will always be the case. Nevertheless. President Trump’s experience, convictions, specific proposals, and the team he has assembled around him are more than sufficient to give American Christians hope — hope for a renewal in our nation of law and order, of a respect for God and for religious freedom, and a resurgence of our most noble ideals and principles.
And, by God’s authoritative power and enduring grace, He has brought this day to pass. May President Trump and his administration now make the very most of it. And may you and I pledge to continue in prayer for God’s purposes to be fully realized in and through these men and women.
But can this inauguration day perhaps also serve as an inauguration day for you and me as well? A day where the Lord invests us with a bold new purpose, enacted in practical ways? Of course! So, how about joining hands (as it were) and expressing to our Lord the following common prayer?
“Father, thank You for rescuing America and the world from the disaster of a Kamala Harris presidency. Thank you for being merciful to America in giving Donald Trump both a strong electoral and popular victory. Thank You for taking away control of the Congress and Senate from the party that loves abortion and giving it to the Republicans. But we entreat You now to guide these political officials, guard them, inspire them, oversee them, and move them to willingly serve Your righteous standards — in their personal lives as well as their public responsibilities. Furthermore, we pray that You quickly bring those who do not know you as Savior to a thorough conversion of heart and faith.
“We pray especially that the new administration diligently pursues the priorities of justice, the sanctity of life, and religious freedom. And we ask that those who would seek to thwart Your purposes (wherever they be, whatever their ideologies or political labels) would find only failure and disappointment. Indeed, may their failure be a challenge to their souls, encouraging them to reconsider the empty meaning of their lives.
“We pray on this inauguration day for the peace of Israel and also for the spiritual awakening of all the people of the Middle East, Jew, Muslim, indifferent, or otherwise lost. Yea Lord, may people throughout the world realize early in 2025 that they are loved by the God who sent Jesus as a sacrifice for mankind’s sins. Lord, Your grace reached us when we were dead in our sins. We had nothing to offer you but our critical need of salvation. Therefore, we appeal to Your mercies as we ask our forever family of born-again saints increase and increase all the more in the coming year.
“And now to our own inauguration day. Father God, let us begin anew. Help us to see the urgency of stepping up our sanctification standards as we move into a new era of personal growth and Kingdom service. Help us, dear Lord Jesus, to pursue the exhortations of Ephesians 4: 22ff; namely, to rid ourselves of the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit and rather to be renewed in the spirit of our minds, putting on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.”
“And finally, let us learn with new understanding and zeal to make habitual the directives of Ephesians 6:10 ff. ‘Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Stand firm therefore, having belted your waist with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having strapped on your feet the preparation of the gospel of peace; in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. With every prayer and request, pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be alert with all perseverance and every request for all the saints.’”
My friends, it is Inauguration Day for President Donald Trump. Let’s make it an inauguration day for us as well!