It would seem that many things fly within the orbit of our prayer for God's "kingdom come...will be done...on earth as it is in heaven"--personal ethical issues, social moral matters, global concerns. Maybe a juster earth is about to be birthed on account of the daring and spontaneous uprisings in the Arab world. I'm thinking in particular about North Africa.
George B. N. Ayittey, a native of Ghana, is president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington D.C. and wrote in the summer edition of Foreign Policy about the worst dictators in the world. (Is there a best dictator somewhere?)
Anyway, all credit is due George B. N. Ayittey for the file below to a short presentation. All I did was to put the pictures and captions into a PowerPoint visual. Take it to your next prayer gathering and push the file through your digital projector for a prayer focus on world justice/righteousness. Breathe out prayers of hope for "Thy kingdom come...will be done...on earth...like heaven."
Perhaps you have updated intelligence on these dictators and more powerful images. You might have a few names to add. Go ahead and edit, adapt, sharpen the impact. Use more powerful images. But please credit Mr. George B. N. Ayittey.
Mr. Ayittey is sassy and insulting about some of these dictators (The Hebrew prophet Amos sassed on and on about King Jeroboam, see 7:10-ff). And there is much about dictators to sass and insult, for they have insulted their countries and God's world. Is there a prayer for such dictators? Do they have a prayer? See them, know them, mind them, imagine how they have crushed their people and sold them for shoes.
Is there a prayer for such? "Thy kingdom come...will be done...on earth...like heaven."
