In an interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer, the US President Barack Obama said that he has been doing "a lot of praying" recently as he has faced difficult choices on Libya and other crises at home and abroad.
"I am praying that I'm making the best possible decisions, and that I've got the strength to serve the American people well," he admitted to Sawyer.
Obama has never shied away from sharing about the role faith plays in his life, despite the fact many have accused him of not truly following Christianity. Bizarrely enough, according to a 2010 poll conduced by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, one in five Americans incorrectly believes that Obama is actually a Muslim.
However, at the National Prayer Breakfast held in Washington last month, Obama shared how the shooting tragedy in Tucson, had deepened his faith and that the experience of fatherhood made him personally even more reliant on God.
"My prayers sometimes are general: Lord, give me the strength to meet the challenges of my office," he smiled. "Sometimes they're specific: Lord, give me patience as I watch Malia go to her first dance. Where there will be boys, Lord, have that skirt get longer as she travels to that dance."
The US president also said that,"My Christian faith ... has been a sustaining force for me over these last few years -- all the more so when Michelle and I hear our faith questioned from time to time. We are reminded that ultimately what matters is not what other people say about us but whether we're being true to our conscience and true to our God."