Doing Battle With Prayer.

Liberty Counsel has introduced a program encouraging their supporters to adopt a liberal. Among the liberals in need of prayer, with their own definition of why they need prayer, are: President Obama, Senator Snowe, Governor Schwarzennegger, Mayor Bloomberg, and the Unknown Liberal, to be selected by the pray-er. From their website (http://lc.org/media/9980/adopt_a_liberal.htm) they state: Please pray daily for the liberal(s) of your choice, so each can become a good influence on our Nation's culture. Prayer is powerful! It allows God to change the minds of those for whom we are praying. In fact, we fully expect that many of our adoptees will "graduate" from this prayer program with vivid testimonies of God having changed their lives and worldviews!

This follows Jim Wallis' call for his supporters to pray for Glenn Beck to change his mind on health care reform.

What do you think of using prayer in this highly public and politicized manner? Could this lead to public proclamations from one group or the other about which prayers were answered and, thus, showing which group God likes best? Or, do you think it is primarily a ploy by each group to pump up support from among their own faithful?

Maybe, we could pray for folks not to mis-use prayer?