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Barack Hussein Obama II, is the First African-American President in the History of the United States of America elected November 4, 2008
Born Aug. 4, 1971 – the President-elect of the United States and the junior United States Senator from Illinois. Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama worked as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught Constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003, won a primary victory in March 2004, and was elected to the Senate in November 2004. Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel. On February 10, 2007, he announced his candidacy for President of the United States, and on June 3, 2008, he was named the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party after a 17-month-long campaign. He became President-elect after defeating Republican presidential candidate John McCain in the general election on November 4, 2008 and will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009.
PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRIES LEADERS:
My Heavenly Father;
Thank YOU for YOUR love and faithfulness. YOU are Lord over all and all things are in YOUR hands. YOU are Sovereign, All Powerful and Almighty God. YOU are patient and kind, not giving us what we deserve but lavishing us with YOUR mercy and grace that we may turn to YOU with all our heart.
We come to YOU in faith asking for YOUR work to be accomplished in and through our new president elect Obama.
We put our faith and trust in YOU and ask for YOUR wisdom and guidance to be upon the hearts of our leaders and the direction of our country.
JESUS, YOUR Name is above all names, YOU are the KING Who is above all kings, YOU are the LORD Who is above all lords.
Before YOU all people and nations stand or fall. YOUR loving hand of grace is extended to all who will receive YOU. YOU are faithful to YOUR word and YOU do not change.
Heavenly Father, we look to YOU and pray our president elect Obama and the leadership in our great nation through his term of office.
We ask that YOU not allow evil to rest in the hearts of those making decisions that will affect Israel and all of YOUR people.
We pray for the peace and protection of Israel and of all YOUR people.
Please help president elect Obama to truly know YOU and be led by YOUR Holy Spirit.
May the words he has spoken to the public of his faith in YOU find deep root in his heart to bear fruit for YOUR glory.
Please visit him in the quietness of his soul and draw him to YOURSELF to know the great responsibility he has before YOU, first and foremost.
May president elect Obama walk in the fear of the Lord and may he see his need to seek to please YOU and not to lean upon his own understanding or the wisdom and influences of the world.
Please surround president elect Obama with God-fearing men and women.
Please guide YOUR people to pray and come together in love and unity with prayers for our leaders in our nation and all over the world, according to YOUR will.
We put our hope and trust in YOU, not in what we see, feel or think. Though we are weak, yet YOU are strong. Because of our humanity, we can be moved, but YOU are unmovable – YOU ARE GOD ALMIGHTY!
YOU are THE SOLID ROCK upon which our once Godly nation once began.
YOU are still God and YOU are still in control so that we can boldly say, IN GOD WE TRUST!
Thank YOU, Heavenly Father for hearing our prayers and for reminding us to hold up our leaders before YOU in prayer.
In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen ~
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