Guidance In Prayer

I have been wondering how to pray for guidance during this political campaign in order to discern more effectively the candidates, and the answer came during my prayers this morning the form of Psalm 12.  I invite everyone to pray it with me until Election Day, 2016/.

Psalm 12

Help, O Lord, for good men have vanished:

truth has gone from the sons of men.

Falsehood they speak one to another, 

with lying lips, with a false heart.

May the Lord destroy all lying lips,

the tongue that speaks high-sounding words,

those who say: "Our tongue is our strength:

our lips are our own, who is our master?"

"for the poor who are oppressed and the needy who groan

I myself will arise," says the Lord.

"I will grant them the salvation for which they thirst.

The words of the Lord are words without alloy,

silver from the furnace, seven times refined.

It is you, O Lord, who will take us in your care

and protect us for ever from this generation.

See how the wicked prowl on every side,

See how the wicked prowl on every side,

while the worthless are prized highly by the sons of men.

I believe this prayer holds the answer as to how we are to pray.

~~~^j^~~~

Thanks be to God!!

Cathy