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Should we be praying prayers of judgment found in the Psalms on people like Vladimir Putin?

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But I want to focus first on this question of praying psalms of judgment on our enemies, or praying Psalms of judgment on someone like Vladimir Putin,

who is causing so much bloodshed right now by his invasion of Ukraine.

A colleague of mine wrote to me, very astute, theologically, deep in the word, known the Lord for many, many years.

And he said, Mike, what do you think?

Do you think that we should start praying the imprecatory Psalms, Psalms of imprecation, which

means Psalms of cursing?

Do you think we should start praying these Psalms over Vladimir Putin and basically say,

Lord, either stop him or take him?

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