Nov 19, 2019 – Prayer Focus

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 – The 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call      

“A CALL TO THE WALL…ONE NATION UNDER GOD”      

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We begin our hour by praising and giving thanks to God! 

  “Fear not, for I am with you”

Isaiah 41:10 a

We sing:

Fear not, for I am with you! Fear not, for I am with you!

Fear not, for I am with you, says the Lord!

I have redeemed you, I have called you by name. Child, you are Mine!

When you walk through the waters, I will be there, and through the flame!

You’ll not (NO WAY) be drowned… You’ll not (NO WAY) be burned…

For I am with you

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  The key assignment for the 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call is to intercede hourly for the safety and security of our President, Donald John Trump, and to pray for that which pertains to our nation!

We pray for our President’s protection and cover him with the Blood of Jesus, 

asking that he will respond to every situation by the leading of the Holy Spirit.

We refer those to You who are plotting and planning the demise of our beloved President! 

We say “No!” to them and ask that You expose and foil all their plans! Thank You, Lord! 

We bless our First Lady, Melania, their marriage, their son Barron and all their family members.

We bless our Vice President Mike Pence, his wife Karen and their family 

and all those serving in this Administration. 

We  bless the Federal Reserve Board members.  

May they serve with integrity and honor, doing what’s right for our nation’s economy! 

The 24/7 NSPC is praying for the 2020 National Elections, 

positioning ourselves in intercession before the Lord on behalf of our President and nation!  

COUNTDOWN: 351 days until the election! 

Let us pray into this verse:

“Be not dismayed, for I am your God.  I will strengthen you”

Isaiah 41:10 b,c 

Strategic Focus for Tuesday 

WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

NO WEAPON, NOT A SINGLE ONE!

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, 

and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn.

This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me,” says the Lord. 

Isaiah 54:17 

When we pray that “no weapon formed against you / us will prosper”, the “us” includes all of us, our President and those aligned with him, and charged with seeing to it that the safety and security of this nation remains as the preeminent issue! At this moment in time, we are at war for the very heart and soul of this nation. All these attacks, taking place in the form of impeachment inquiries, harassment and accusations are simply distractions and smoke screens that are designed to cover up their efforts to take down the President and this Government! We are called to align with God in the highest level…the WARFARE OF LOVE!  2,000 years ago, as He gave His life for us on the cross, Jesus pronounced His final determination: “It is finished!”  

We pray:

• That no weapon, not a single one, will be able to penetrate the shield of faith and love that has been erected around this nation, our President and the worshiping warriors who are standing on the wall, day and night, interceding for the United States! Together, we declare about anything that comes against us:

 “It shall not stand, nor shall it come to pass.” 

Isaiah 7:7  

Today, four more individuals will be called to testify before the House Intelligence Committee. 

We pray:

• For truthful testimony from those who are being called to speak! 
• That when they open their mouths, the Spirit of God will cause them to say what He desires, not what they had planned! 
• For each of these by name:
  • Tuesday morning:
    • Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a Defense Department employee,  currently the Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council (NSC).
    • Jennifer Williams is Vice President Mike Pence’s Special Adviser on Europe and Russia.
• Tuesday afternoon:
  • Kurt Volker, the former Special Representative to Ukraine
  • Tim Morrison is the NSC’s outgoing Senior Director of European and Russian affairs and a Deputy Assistant to the President.

Attorney General Bill Barr was the Guest Speaker at the Federalist Society’s 2019 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, DC last Friday. Their theme was “Originalism”…which refers to an originalist approach to the law…ie.. “following the Constitution as written.” Barr’s topic for the evening was “The Constitution’s Approach to Executive Power” and our focuses this week are incorporating excerpts from his powerful, educational remarks. Please read through each section, then pray into it, with our President, our nation and our freedom in mind!

Our beloved President and First Lady!

“The Framers expected that the three branches would be jostling and jousting with each other, as each threatened to encroach on the prerogatives of the others.  They thought this was not only natural, but salutary, and they provisioned each branch with the wherewithal to fight and to defend itself in these interbranch struggles for power.

So let me turn now to how the Executive is presently faring in these interbranch battles.  I am concerned that the deck has become stacked against the Executive. Since the mid-60s, there has been a steady grinding down of the Executive branch’s authority, that accelerated after Watergate. More and more, the President’s ability to act in areas in which he has discretion has become smothered by the encroachments of the other branches. 

When these disputes arise, I think there are two aspects of contemporary thought that tend to operate to the disadvantage of the Executive. 

The first is the notion that politics in a free republic is all about the Legislative and Judicial branches protecting liberty by imposing restrictions on the Executive.  The premise is that the greatest danger of government becoming oppressive arises from the prospect of Executive excess.  So, there is a knee-jerk tendency to see the Legislative and Judicial branches as the good guys protecting society from a rapacious would-be autocrat.

• This prejudice comes out of the English constitutional experience, which started out with a King who held all the cards… all the power, including Legislative and Judicial.  Due to political evolution,  the Legislative power gradually, over hundreds of years, reigned in the King, and extracted and established its own powers, as well as those of the Judiciary.   
• But by 1787, we had the exact opposite model in the United States.  The Founders greatly admired how the British constitution gave rise to the principles of a balanced government, but they felt that the British had an imperfect form of this model.  They saw themselves as framing a more perfect version of separation of powers and a balanced constitution.

Part of their more perfect construction was a new kind of Executive.  They created an office that did not have the power to tax and spend; it was constrained by habeas corpus and by due process in enforcing the law against members of the body politic; it was elected for a limited term of office; and it was elected by the nation as whole.  That is a remarkable democratic institution – the only figure elected by the Nation as a whole.  

This fundamental shift in view was reflected in the Convention debates over the new frame of government.  It was not Executive power that was of so much concern to them; it was the danger of the legislative branch, which they viewed as the most dangerous branch to liberty.  As Madison warned, the “legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.”  And indeed, they viewed the Presidency as a check on the Legislative branch. 

Pray.

The second contemporary way of thinking that operates against the Executive is a notion that the Constitution does not sharply allocate powers among the three branches, but rather that the branches, especially the political branches, “share” powers.  

• The idea at work here is that, because two branches both have a role to play in a particular area, we should see them as sharing power in that area and, it is not such a big deal if one branch expands its role within that sphere at the expense of the other. This mushy thinking obscures what it means to say that powers are shared under the Constitution.  
• The Constitution generally assigns broad powers to each of the branches in defined areas.  
  • Thus, the Legislative power granted in the Constitution is granted to the Congress.  
  • At the same time, the Constitution gives the Executive a specific power in the Legislative realm – the veto power. 
  • Thus, the Executive “shares” Legislative power only to the extent of the specific grant of veto power.  The Executive does not get to interfere with the broader Legislative power assigned to the Congress.

Pray.

In recent years, both the Legislative and Judicial branches have been responsible for encroaching on the Presidency’s constitutional authority.  The Framers fully expected intense pulling and hauling between the Congress and the President.  Unfortunately, just in the past few years, we have seen these conflicts take on an entirely new character. Immediately after President Trump won election, opponents inaugurated what they called “The Resistance,” and they rallied around an explicit strategy of using every tool and maneuver available to sabotage the functioning of his Administration.  What it means is that, instead of viewing themselves as the “loyal opposition,” as opposing parties have done in the past, they essentially see themselves as engaged in a war to cripple, by any means necessary, a duly elected government.  

A prime example of this is the Senate’s unprecedented abuse of the advice-and-consent process.  The Senate is free to exercise that power to reject unqualified nominees, but that power was never intended to allow the Senate to systematically oppose and draw out the approval process for every appointee so as to prevent the President from building a functional government. Yet that is precisely what the Senate minority has done from his very first days in office.  

Congress has largely abdicated its core function of legislating on the most pressing issues facing the national government.  They either decline to legislate on major questions or, if they do, punt the most difficult and critical issues by making broad delegations to a modern administrative state that they increasingly seek to insulate from Presidential control.  Congress’s effective withdrawal from the business of legislating leaves it with a lot of time for other pursuits.  And the pursuit of choice, particularly for the opposition party, has been to drown the Executive Branch with “oversight” demands for testimony and documents.  

I do not deny that Congress has some implied authority to conduct oversight as an incident to its Legislative Power, but the sheer volume of what we see today – the pursuit of scores of parallel “investigations” through an avalanche of subpoenas – is plainly designed to incapacitate the Executive Branch, and indeed is touted as such.  

The costs of this constant harassment are real. Confidential communications and a private, internal deliberative process are essential for all of our branches of government to properly function.  Congress and the Judiciary both have taken great pains to shield their own internal communications from public inspection.  There is no FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) for Congress or the Courts.  Yet Congress has happily created a regime that allows the public to seek whatever documents it wants from the Executive Branch at the same time that individual congressional committees spend their days trying to publicize the Executive’s internal decisional process.  That process cannot function properly if it is public, nor is it productive to have our government devoting enormous resources to squabbling about what becomes public and when, rather than doing the work of the people.”

Pray

We will continue with AG Barr’s lecture notes tomorrow. 

We pray:

• In thanksgiving for this TRUTH TELLER! May he be constantly protected by the angelic host that surrounds him, and remain strong, stand tall and move boldly against those who are corrupted, speaking truth to power and bowing to no man! AMEN! 

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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! 

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