Praying for Our Leaders in Government
Executive Branch: Pray for the President and his Administration
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that hourly wages have increased 1.7 percent in the first five months of 2025. The Treasury Department reported that, other than President Trump’s first administration, this is the first time that blue-collar wages have risen in that time frame since President Nixon’s administration.
Pray for the president and members of his Cabinet as they work to improve employment, wages, and the economy.
Legislative Branch: Pray for Senators and Representatives in Congress
Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia and Representatives Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ro Khanna of California have introduced resolutions, in their respective chambers, to reinforce that war powers belong to Congress under the Constitution to ensure that the U.S. does not get involved in the Israel-Iran war. Senator Kaine stated, “It is not in our national security interest to get into a war with Iran unless that war is absolutely necessary to defend the United States. I am deeply concerned that the recent escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran could quickly pull the United States into another endless conflict.”
Pray for senators and representatives as they seek to reinforce the separation of powers between federal government branches.
PRAY FOR CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a full committee hearing on Wednesday to hear testimony from witnesses on the alleged cover-up of former President Biden’s cognitive decline. Senator John Cornyn of Texas stated, “This week’s hearing is an important opportunity for the American people to get the answers they deserve about who was really running the country when Joe Biden’s health was obviously declining and the constitutional questions raised by an unfit president.”
Pray for members of the Senate Judiciary Committee as they seek information to ensure the Executive Branch is run according to the Constitution.
Judicial Branch: Pray for Supreme Court Justices and Federal Judges
A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction from a photographer in New York who sued the state for trying to compel her to provide photography services for same-sex weddings. The judge based his injunction on the Supreme Court precedent that decided the state of Colorado could not compel a website designer to create same-sex wedding content. He wrote, “The Supreme Court held that a state public accommodation law may violate a business owner’s free-speech rights under the First Amendment to the extent it ‘compel[s] an individual to create speech she does not believe.’”
Pray for wisdom for the justices of the Supreme Court as they release the final opinions of the current term, which set precedent, and for district judges to uphold the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
