Apr 7, 2024 – Prayer Focus
Sunday, April 7, 2024 – The 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PS IOAN!
“A CALL TO THE WALL…ONE NATION UNDER GOD”
1-712-770-4340 Code: 543555 # (Ongoing call…24 hours a day!)
We begin our hour by praising and giving thanks to God!
“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples;
but the Lord will arise upon you, and His glory will be seen upon you.
And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.”
Isaiah 60:1-3
We sing: Shout to the North
Men of faith, rise up and sing of the great and glorious King.
You are strong when you feel weak, in your brokenness complete.
Shout to the north and the south, sing to the east and the west;
Jesus is Savior to all, Lord of Heaven and earth.
Rise up, women of the truth, stand and sing to broken hearts,
Who can know the healing power of our awesome King of love.
Shout to the north and the south, sing to the east and the west;
Jesus is Savior to all, Lord of Heaven and earth.
We’ve been through fire, we’ve been through rain, we’ve been refined by the power of His name;
We’ve fallen deeper in love with You, You’ve burned the truth on our lips.
Shout to the north and the south, sing to the east and the west;
Jesus is Savior to all, Lord of Heaven and earth.
Rise up, Church, with broken wings, fill this place with songs again
of our God, Who reigns on high, by His grace, again, we’ll fly.
Shout to the north and the south, sing to the east and the west;
Jesus is Savior to all, Lord of Heaven and earth.
Shout to the north and the south, sing to the east and the west;
Jesus is Savior to all, Lord of Heaven and earth.
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For us to receive and put on the Ephesians 6 “full armor of God” as we begin this hour,
that we might be protected as we stand in the gap for our country!
Pray.
The key assignment for the 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call is to intercede hourly
for the safety and security of our duly elected President, Donald John Trump,
and to pray for that which pertains to our nation!
We pray for his protection, his restoration to his rightful office, and that he is led by the Holy Spirit
so that he will discern truth and act for the good of the nation.
We bless our First Lady, Melania, their marriage and family, and cover them all with the Blood of Jesus.
Pray.
For all those working to expose the fraud and corruption of our elections!
Let those leaders that God anoints and appoints
take their places in the governments of each state and in our nation’s Capitol!
Pray.
We will now spend the next 10 minutes praying specifically for President Trump
so that those planted by globalists, socialists, and the Deep State around him will be taken down.
Pray.
Strategic Focus for Sunday
WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
THE BATTLE TO SAVE AMERICA! – Part 668
The Returning of President Trump to the White House! – Part 568
“Arise, for this matter is your responsibility. We also are with you. Be of good courage, and do it.”
Ezra 10:4
The Supreme Court in Florida has upheld a protective pro-life law which allows an even stronger protection to take effect. But the court also authorized a ballot initiative that could erase nearly all pro-life laws in America’s third most populous state.
In a near-unanimous (6-1) ruling, the Florida Supreme Court approved a bill prohibiting abortion after 15 weeks gestation. The Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality Act “protects babies in the womb who have beating hearts, who can move, who can taste, who can see, and who can feel pain,” said Governor Ron DeSantis (R), who appointed five of the seven sitting justices, when he signed the bill in April 2022. The ruling also paves the way for a more protective pro-life law, which extends human rights to six weeks post-gestation, to take effect next month. “Good news for life!” said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. “This ruling by the Florida Supreme Court upholds the state’s 15-week protection of unborn life and allows the state’s new heartbeat law — protecting unborn babies at six weeks — to go into effect in May.” Pray.
Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel called the ruling the “culmination of 35 years of work.” Staver, who has argued before the court, told “Washington Watch” that the issue began with a 1989 ruling when “the activist liberal Florida Supreme Court at that time twisted this 1980 constitutional amendment that had nothing to do with abortion, but was about the privacy of your documents, to apply to abortion.” In the case — Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida v. State of Florida — the majority ruled that Florida’s Supreme Court had wrongly interpreted the word “privacy” in an unrelated statute through the lens of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which has since been overturned. The 1989 Supreme Court decision “associated the language of the Privacy Clause with Roe’s understanding of privacy; but it did not justify how that concept of privacy aligned with our constitution’s text,” the court ruled Monday. The earlier court “also did not ask how Florida voters would have understood the text of the provision and how that understanding would be informed by Florida’s long history of proscribing abortion.”The decision removes a roadblock to the Heartbeat Protection Act, signed by DeSantis last April, which protects unborn children from abortion the moment a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat, usually around six weeks. Legislators, noting the legal action over the 2022 law, included a provision in the heartbeat bill that it would not take effect until one month after justices upheld the less protective law. The Heartbeat Protection Act will take effect on May 1. Pray.
However, a second and narrower ruling, in a 4-3 vote, allowed a coalition of abortionists and their lobbyists to put forward a measure, Proposition 4, which would insert a constitutional right to virtually unlimited, late-term abortion in the state constitution. In that ruling, justices approved the language of a ballot initiative intended to expand late-term abortion. The amendment is supported by “Floridians Protecting Freedom,” who describes itself as a coalition of “over 200 local, statewide, and national organizations” but lists just six groups, including Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and the 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Proposition 4 states: “No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider. This amendment does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.” Opponents say the language is “misleading” and unconstitutionally vague. For instance, Staver noted that the term “healthcare provider” encompasses “about 58 different categories, which includes non-medical personnel such as a 911 operator, a massage therapist, an orthotic shoe fitter, the assistant to the orthotic shoe fitter, a tattoo artist, and the list goes on.” The inclusion of an exception for the patient’s “health” builds on the precedent established in the 1973 Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton, allowing an abortion for virtually any reason, including mental and financial reasons. “Really, no abortion would be prohibited through all nine months of pregnancy up to and including birth if this passes,” Staver said. Pray.
In a powerful dissent, Justice Jamie Grosshans wrote:
“A voter may think this amendment simply returns Florida to a pre-Dobbs status quo. It does not.
A voter may think that a healthcare provider would be clearly defined as a licensed physician specializing in women’s health. It is not.
A voter may think that viability falls within a readily apparent time frame. It does not.
A voter may think that the comma is an insignificant grammatical tool that would have very little interpretive purpose. It will not.
And, critically, the voter may think this amendment results in settling this issue once and for all. It does not.
Instead, this amendment returns abortion issues back to the courts to interpret scope, boundary, definitions, and policy, effectively removing it from the people and their elected representatives. Perhaps this is a choice that Floridians wish to make, but it should be done with clarity as to their vote’s ramifications and not based on a misleading ballot summary.” Pray.
Pro-life advocates have dug in for a long fight against the amendment, saying “this measure will bring dangerous late-term abortions back to Florida, and allow girls who aren’t old enough to get their ears pierced on their own get an abortion without parental consent. This measure eliminates every abortion health regulation on the books.” The ballot initiative will prove an uphill fight. Staver said “I presented part of the oral argument at the court, and the chief justice really got the concern nailed down. He said the voters aren’t being informed that this law can impact other existing laws that recognize the humanity of the unborn child, laws that are criminal, civil wills and trusts, guardianship laws, and the “silver lining” in the Proposition 4 ruling is “we could bring another challenge to have the court rule on the personhood of the child based upon the Florida constitution itself.”
In the meantime, pro-life advocates rejoice over the collective impact Governor DeSantis’s political and judicial decisions will have on the unborn. “Thousands of lives will be saved by this law,” said Live Action founder Lila Rose. Pray.
We pray:
That Proposition 4 will be seen for the evil that it is, despite the the false summary presented on the ballot, and will be totally rejected by FL voters! Pray.
That Floridians will speak the truth about what this proposition truly is about, and boldly stand for life and all it entails, unafraid of what others think! Pray.
That the people of our nation will stand alongside President Trump, and remain engaged in this BATTLE TO SAVE AMERICA until VICTORY is won! Pray.
Protect and strengthen our 24/7 family and bring in new intercessors (like our dear Samoan brothers and sisters) who are called to this assignment with us, to pray for our President and our beloved nation! Prepare us for our NEXT STEPS in this Battle to Save America! Pray.
(Resource: Ben Johnson, The Washington Stand)
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Listen to the song ahead of time, then either sing or pray it!
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HINENI, ADONAI! HERE I AM, LORD!
ENGAGING IN A WARFARE OF LOVE! THE BATTLE OF THE BRIDE!
KADIMA! ONWARD…FORWARD!
“LAYNA!” LIGHT AND TRUTH!
BE STRONG…COURAGEOUS…BRAVE!
UNASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST!
GOD’S CHAMPIONS FOR LIFE!
MARANATHA! COME, LORD JESUS!
BE READY! REVIVAL IS COMING!
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
ONE NEW MAN!
VICTORY!
STANDING IN THE GAP!
REVIVAL – from Heart to heart!
PARENTAL CARE and CHRISTIAN LOVE for ALL CHILDREN!
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