7. Pray for the protection of those who enter the conflict against evil and untruth as it manifests itself in your own nation and in other countries.

During this election season when many are especially focused on the state and future of our nation, let us cry out in prayer to the King of kings and Lord of lords.

“We thank you for those who live in jeopardy of their lives as they stand in the frontline of the battlefield throughout the nations of the world.  Give them all the skills and instincts necessary for the conflict that confronts them.  Teach their hands to war and their fingers to fight.  Let your salvation be their shield.  Let the powerful interventions of your right hand sustain them.  Cover their heads against the mortal dangers that fly at them in the day of battle.”

Judg. 5:18; Psa. 18:34, 35; 140:7

“Give us your help in all our conflicts.  For any deliverance that comes by human help is utterly useless.  Through God let us do valiantly, for God himself will tread down our enemies.  In your good providence you appoint our deliverers.  Make the nations like dust to their sword, and like driven stubble to their bow.”

Psa. 60:11, 12; Isa. 41:2.

“Let us be a happy people, unique in being saved by the Lord.  Let the Lord position himself as our defensive shield and our brilliant sword.  Make our enemies flee in panic when they see that the Lord fights for us against them.  Rise, Lord, and let your enemies be scattered.  Let all those that hate you flee before you.  Then return, O Lord, to the many thousands of your people that sojourn as strangers through this hostile world.”

Deut. 33:29; Exod. 14:25; Numb. 10:35

Taken from Intercessory prayers for ‘Your Own Land and Nation’ in A Way to Pray by Matthew Henry, edited and revised by O. Palmer Robertson (Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh, 2020 edition), pp. 148, 149.