May Prayer Guide
MAY PRAYER GUIDE
THEME: Praying for Our Country and Leaders
Incorporate the following prayer prompts into your daily prayer time.
Day 1 — Discover | Romans 13:1-2 Ask God to reveal His sovereignty over earthly
authority. Reflect on how you’ve seen God work through leaders, even imperfect ones,
throughout history and in your own life. Where have you seen His hand in your city or
community recently?
Day 2 — Discover | Proverbs 21:1 Pray for fresh eyes to see your local leaders (mayor,
city council, school board) as people made in God’s image who need wisdom and
grace. Ask God to soften any cynicism in your heart toward those in authority.
Day 3 — Deepen | Jeremiah 29:7 Ask God to deepen your investment in your
community. Pray for the peace and prosperity of your city: its schools, neighborhoods,
and vulnerable populations. Where is God calling you to be part of the answer?
Day 4 — Deepen | Proverbs 11:14 Pray for godly counsel to surround your local and
state leaders. Ask God to raise up men and women of integrity in government, and to
remove corruption where it has taken root.
Day 5 — Display | Matthew 5:13-16 Ask the Holy Spirit to show you how to be salt and
light in your civic life — voting, serving, engaging. Pray for courage to speak truth
graciously in public conversations about local issues.
Day 6 — Display | 1 Peter 2:13-17 Pray for opportunities to model respectful
engagement with government to those around you — especially in an era of division.
Ask God to use your posture toward authority as a witness to unbelievers.
Day 7 — Discipleship | 1 Timothy 2:1-4 This week, pray by name for three leaders in
your life — a local official, a school leader, and someone in your workplace or church.
Write their names down and commit to praying for them through the end of May.
Consider sending one of them an encouraging note.
Day 8 — Discover | Daniel 2:20-21 Ask God to reveal His perspective on national
leadership. Meditate on the truth that He raises up and removes rulers. Where do you
need to surrender anxiety about the direction of your country to His sovereignty?
Day 9 — Discover | Psalm 33:12 Pray for a deeper understanding of what it looks like
for a nation to be truly blessed by God. Not just prosperous, but righteous and just. Ask
God to reveal where your expectations of government have displaced your dependence
on Him.
Day 10 — Deepen | Isaiah 1:17 Ask God to deepen your concern for those most
affected by national policy like the poor, the immigrant, the orphan, the elderly. Pray for
legislators to have genuine compassion and wisdom in crafting just laws.
Day 11 — Deepen | Proverbs 29:2 Pray specifically for the President, Congress, and
the Supreme Court. Ask God to grant each branch wisdom, restraint, and a fear of the
Lord. Pray against pride, corruption, and the abuse of power.
Day 12 — Display | Romans 12:18 Ask God to make you a peacemaker in politically
charged conversations. Pray for the ability to hold firm convictions with a spirit of
humility and love and for opportunities to model that to friends and family who are
discouraged or angry.
Day 13 — Display | Micah 6:8 Pray for the courage to advocate for justice and mercy in
your sphere, not just in words, but in action. Ask God to align your priorities as a citizen
with what He calls His people to care about.
Day 14 — Discipleship | Romans 13:6-7; Matthew 22:21 Take 30 minutes this week to
look up your U.S. Senators and Representative. Read about one current bill or issue
they’re working on. Pray specifically and informedly for their work. If you feel led, contact
their office with a respectful, grace-filled message on an issue you care about. Civic
engagement is discipleship.
Day 15 — Discover | Psalm 2:1-4, 10-12 Ask God to expand your view of His global
kingdom. Pray for eyes to see where He is at work among the nations even in places of
conflict and chaos. Ask Him to deepen your trust that He is not absent from the world
stage.
Day 16 — Discover | Acts 17:26-27 Reflect on the reality that God has set boundaries
and times for every nation so that people might seek and find Him. Pray for a heart that
longs for every nation to know Christ, not just to be politically stable.
Day 17 — Deepen | Psalm 10:17-18 Pray for the oppressed around the world. Those
who are living under authoritarian regimes, those fleeing war, those without access to
clean water, food, or safety. Ask God to deepen your global awareness and your
willingness to respond.
Day 18 — Deepen | Isaiah 58:6-7 Pray for international aid organizations, missionaries,
and men and women working in crisis zones. Ask God to provide resources, protection,
and open doors. Pray that His people would be the most generous and sacrificial
presence in every place of suffering.
Day 19 — Display | John 17:21 Pray for the global Church to be visibly unified in its
response to the world’s crises. That its love and service would be a witness to nations
and leaders. Ask God to use your church’s generosity and mission involvement as a
display of His kingdom.
Day 20 — Display | Isaiah 52:7 Ask God for boldness to talk about global concerns
through the lens of the gospel. Pray for opportunities to share with others particularly
younger generations why Christians should care about justice, peace, and the nations.
Day 21 — Discipleship | Psalm 67:1-2 Reflect on the persecuted Church in Africa or
the unrest and war in the Middle East. Bring it to your small group, family dinner table,
or a friend. Pray together. Consider giving sacrificially toward a missionary or relief effort
in these specific areas as a tangible act of kingdom citizenship.
Day 22 — Discover | Isaiah 61:1-3 Ask God to reveal where His heart breaks for your
generation. Consider the specific injustices, cultural wounds, and societal fractures He
is grieved by. Pray for the ability to see the world through His eyes, not just your own
political or cultural background.
Day 23 — Discover | Lamentations 3:22-23 Pray for fresh awareness of God's
faithfulness in a world that feels unstable. Ask Him to quiet your fear about cultural
trends and to renew your confidence in His new mercy every morning.
Day 24 — Deepen | Proverbs 31:8-9, 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Pray for Christians in positions of
influence: in politics, law, medicine, education, media, and business. Pray for them to
speak up for the voiceless with wisdom and courage. Ask God to deepen your own
willingness to use whatever platform He’s given you for His purposes.
Day 25 — Deepen | John 15:13 Pray with gratitude and grief for the men and women
who have given their lives in military service. Lift up by name any service members you
know who are currently deployed or in harm’s way. Ask God to protect them, strengthen
them, and remind them that they are not forgotten.
Day 26 — Display | 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 Pray for the Church to be a clear, compelling
voice of reconciliation in a polarized culture. Ask God to make City Awakening, and you
personally, known more for what you’re for than what you’re against.
Day 27 — Display | Matthew 5:9 Ask God for opportunities to be a peacemaker in
genuinely divided spaces in your life like a family gathering, a workplace conversation,
or a neighborhood disagreement. Pray for the Spirit’s wisdom to know when to speak
and when to simply love well.
Day 28 — Discipleship | Ephesians 6:18 Gather your household, small group, or a few
friends for a focused 15–20 minute prayer time specifically for government and world
events this week. Use a current news source and a Bible passage side by side. Practice
praying informed and faith-filled (not anxious or partisan) prayers together. Model what it
looks like to be a church that intercedes for the world.
Day 29 — Deepen | Revelation 11:15 Pray with eschatological hope. The kingdoms of
this world will one day become the kingdom of our God. Ask God to fix your eyes on
that ultimate reality as you navigate the noise of today’s politics and headlines.
Day 30 — Deepen | James 1:27 Pray about issues surrounding the family like foster
care, poverty, addiction, and fatherlessness in your community. Ask God to deepen your
church’s practical ministry to vulnerable families. Where might He be calling you
personally to step in?
Day 31 — Commission | 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Return to where you started. Pray for all who
are in authority. Ask God what He is calling you to carry forward from this month. For
example, a name to keep praying, a cause to pursue, a posture to maintain. Commit to
being a person of prayer for the world He created and loves.