Pray For Your Authorities

Based on Psalm 72

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 1 Tim 2:1-2

Rather than criticising those who are in authority over you, why not pray for them? Pray that they will be able to make good decisions and live a morally upright life. Think of how good it would be if our leaders were empowered by prayer to rule well! It would be like rain falling on the parched ground which is so dry that the grass can be harvested for hay. New spiritual life would grow where before the church was dry and lifeless. Such a leader would receive honour from other nations because of the blessings that God would bring on that nation for the sake of the righteous leader and the prospering church. In such a nation God's people would be able to prosper and obey the commission of Christ, and God would value the humble of that land and protect them. Such a leader would be blessed in the history books, because God is great and capable of doing wonders.
It doesn't matter who your authorities are, pray for them, not because they deserve it but because you need them to be good leaders and Jesus died for us all.
Pray for your authorities; this was the last song of King David.