Apr 18, 2019 – Prayer Focus
Thursday, April 18, 2024 – The 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call
“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!
Jesus said to him, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
John 4:16
We sing: The Way
Through every battle, through every heartbreak, through every circumstance,
I believe that You are my Fortress, Oh, You are my Portion, You are my Hiding Place,
Oh, I believe You are the Way, the Truth, the Life! I believe You are the Way, the Truth, the Life!
I believe through every blessing, through every promise, through every breath I take,
I believe that You are Provider, Oh, You are Protector, You are the One I love.
Oh, I believe You are the Way, the Truth, the Life! I believe You are the Way, the Truth, the Life!
I believe You are! Oh, You are! Oh, You are!
It’s a new horizon and I’m set on You, and You meet me here today with mercies that are new.
All my fears and doubts, they can all come too, because they can’t stay long when I’m here with You.
It’s a new horizon and I’m set on You, and You meet me here today with mercies that are new.
All my fears and doubts, they can all come too, because they can’t stay long when
I believe You are the Way, the Truth, the Life! I believe You are the Way, the Truth, the Life!
It’s a new horizon and I’m set on You, and You meet me here today with mercies that are new.
All my fears and doubts, they can all come too, because they can’t stay long when
I believe You are the Way, the Truth, the Life! I believe You are the Way, the Truth, the Life!
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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 Thursday
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 679
The Returning of President Trump to the White House! – Part 579
“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God,
a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
2 Timothy 2;15
Sadly, the ability to rightly divide the word of truth is something that has drastically declined in our nation! Lies are rampant, and it seems there are more people willing to compromise the truth for their own benefit, rather than speaking the truth for the nation’s best interests. A major issue facing the House of Representatives is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows warrantless surveillance of foreigners but is also routinely used to spy on American citizens. John Daniel Davidson, of The Federalist provides his insight into today’s focus. Let us read and pray into it!
The whole point of Section 702 is to spy on Americans. Why would the intelligence community want to reform it? As it stands now, the law, which is set to expire on April 19th, allows US intelligence agencies to spy on foreign nationals based overseas, but it also lets the FBI comb through the massive amounts of data the intelligence community collects and gather information about American citizens. These are known as “backdoor searches,” and an unlikely coalition of conservative Republicans and left-wing Democrats want to change how these searches are conducted. Specifically, they want to require that the FBI obtain a warrant before searching Section 702 data for information about Americans — a reasonable reform. The intelligence community, and the members of the House Intelligence Committee (over whom they have influence), oppose this. Why? The most straightforward answer is that the main purpose of the intelligence community’s surveillance programs isn’t to spy on terrorists or foreign adversaries overseas, it’s to spy on American citizens. So of course the intelligence community opposes FISA reforms that would make it harder to spy on Americans. Pray.
Whatever the original justification of Section 702 was in the wake of 9/11, the intelligence community argued that massive government surveillance capabilities were necessary to keep Americans safe from terrorist attacks. (The purpose of it now is to enable the FBI to surveil Americans, especially Americans who express views and opinions the government deems to be a threat.) In an earlier era, this warrantless spying would have been understood as a clear violation of Americans’ constitutional rights (specifically our Fourth Amendment rights). But we’re in a new era now, and the intelligence agencies have no qualms about violating our rights without pretending it has anything to do with national security. They also have no qualms about openly defying efforts to reform their ability to spy on Americans. Pray.
In a widely circulated thread on X, Elizabeth Goitein (Senior Director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice) detailed the efforts of lawmakers on the right and left to propose reasonable reforms to Section 702, including not just a warrant requirement but also closing the data broker loophole, which allows government agencies to purchase Americans’ data from brokers. But the intelligence community and the lawmakers on the Intelligence Committee dug in their heels, rejecting multiple compromise reform bills. These bills wrote Goitein, “would have passed if IC/intel committees were willing to concede that Section 702 should not be used as a means of warrantlessly accessing Americans’ communications.” But rather than bring one of these bills to the House floor, Speaker Mike Johnson went with a bill backed by the intelligence agencies “that masquerades as reform but is carefully designed to preserve the status quo when it comes to backdoor searches.” The reformers were willing to go along with this bill if they could offer amendments to prevent backdoor searches and close the data broker loophole, however, it was reported that Speaker Johnson thwarted attempts to amend the bill. Pray.
How bad is warrantless spying by our government? Pretty bad. In April 2022, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its annual report that showed the FBI made more than 3.4 million search queries of the NSA database in 2021 on U.S. citizens. About 1/3 of these were “non-compliant searches,” which means they fell outside the normal rules and regulations. In other words, they were illegal. But that’s not all. As the X account @TheLastRefuge noted, from November 2015 to May 2016, the FBI and contractors for the DOJ/FBI conducted more than 1,000 illegal searches targeting Republican primary candidates. Under these circumstances, it’s entirely reasonable to ask for reforms to Section 702 to ensure that Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights are not violated, or that the intelligence community is not weaponized against democracy itself, as it clearly has been. Pray.
But again, don’t expect Speaker Johnson or members of the Intelligence Committee, much less the intelligence community itself, to see it that way. They don’t want to reform Section 702 because they use it to spy on Americans all the time. An even more cynical view of all this would be what Darryl Cooper said on X: “The FISA system is not meant to stop the intelligence community from inappropriately spying on us, which they’ll do with or without it. FISA is there to give the intelligence community legal and political cover when they get caught.” It’s time for ordinary Americans to wake up and realize what our government is doing to us. Under the pretext of keeping us safe from foreign terrorists, the intelligence community has erected a vast surveillance apparatus that targets American citizens, and it will not under any circumstances allow that apparatus to be reformed…which is why it should be dismantled completely. Pray.
We pray:
That our elected officials, at every level, will return to placing truth and righteousness above personal gain. Pray.
That the FISA warrants will be strictly limited and monitored, so that JUSTICE will be served, and INJUSTICE vanquished! 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.
(Source: John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist)
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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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