May 29, 2024 – Prayer Focus
Wednesday, May 29, 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!
“Well done, good and faithful servant;
you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things.
Enter into the joy of your Lord.”
Matthew 25:21
We sing: Find us Faithful
We’re pilgrims on the journey of the narrow road, and those who’ve gone before us line the way.
Cheering on the faithful, encouraging the weary,
their lives a stirring testament to God’s sustaining grace.
O may all who come behind us find us faithful, may the fire of our devotion light their way.
May the footprints that we leave, lead them to believe, and the lives we live Inspire them to obey.
O may all who come behind us find us faithful.
Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us run the race not only for the prize,
but as those who’ve gone before us. Let us leave to those behind us,
the heritage of faithfulness passed on through Godly lives.
O may all who come behind us find us faithful, may the fire of our devotion light their way.
May the footprints that we leave, lead them to believe, and the lives we live Inspire them to obey.
O may all who come behind us find us faithful.
After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone, and our children sift thru all we’ve left behind,
may the clues that they discover, and the mem’ries they uncover,
become the light that leads them, to the road we each must find.
O may all who come behind us find us faithful, may the fire of our devotion light their way.
May the footprints that we leave, lead them to believe, and the lives we live Inspire them to obey.
O may all who come behind us find us faithful.
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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.
May every evil plan of the World Health Assembly, held May 27 – June 1, utterly fail!
Pray.
We will now spend the next 10 minutes praying for President Trump.
Pray.
Strategic Focus for Wednesday
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 720
The Righteous Return of President Trump to the White House! – Part 620
And God spoke all these words, saying:
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.
For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain,
for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them,
and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Honor your father and your mother,
that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife,
nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
Exodus 20:1-17
Louisiana is poised to become the first state to require the display of the Ten Commandments at all schools that receive public funding, including colleges and universities. The big picture: Lawmakers in other states, like Texas, South Carolina, and Utah have recently attempted similar legislation, but none have yet passed any as stringent as Louisiana appears likely to approve. Posting the Ten Commandments on walls of classrooms was common in American schools before the Supreme Court, in Stone v. Graham (1980), declared the practice unconstitutional in a 5-4 per “curiam decision” (an unsigned opinion), as it struck down a Kentucky statute that required display of the Commandments in every public-school classroom. It held that displays of the Ten Commandments serve a “plainly religious” purpose, which ran afoul of the governing “Lemon Test.”
In Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971), the Court held that programs challenged under the Establishment Clause must have a secular purpose. The Court wrote: “The Ten Commandments are undeniably a sacred text in the Jewish and Christian faiths, and no legislative recitation of a supposed secular purpose can blind us to that fact.” Although copies of the Commandments were purchased by private funds, the mere posting provided official state support for religion. Portions of the Ten Commandments could have been regarded as secular in purpose, such as honoring one’s parents, killing, adultery, stealing, false witness and covetousness. But other sections are clearly religious in nature — worshiping the Lord God alone, avoiding idolatry, not using the Lord’s name in vain, and observing the Sabbath. Pray.
Stone v. Graham and its prohibition on the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools remains the law in the United States. Optimism that Stone may be reversed, particularly among states that have reintroduced, or will reintroduce, postings of the Commandments, is derived from a particular detail in the Kentucky statute, and two more recent Supreme Court decisions that punctuate the shifting standards in Establishment Clause jurisprudence. The Kentucky statute required the conspicuous posting in every public-school room of a large blowup of the Ten Commandments. The size and projection of the Commandments undercut any hope of “saving” such postings under the Lemon Test. Pray.
In 2005, in Van Orden v. Perry, however, the Court upheld the placement of a six-foot Ten Commandments monument amidst 21 historical markers and 17 other monuments in a 22-acre park surrounding the Texas State Capital in Austin, against an Establishment Clause challenge. Chief Justice William Rehnquist acknowledged the religious nature of the Commandments, “but simply having religious content or promoting a message consistent with religious doctrine does not run afoul of the Establishment Clause.” Rehnquist distinguished the “passive” nature of the display, (which represented a part of the state’s political and legal history,) from the conspicuous posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools, at issue in Stone, since they “confronted” students. The Court’s ruling in Van Orden, then, suggested a strategy to states wishing to permit postings of the Ten Commandments in public schools: Place the Commandments within a display that includes other historical, legal and cultural documents and milestones, and avoid the conspicuous blowup of the posting that doomed the Kentucky law. This is precisely what the states of South Dakota and North Dakota have done in enacting statutes permitting the “passive” display of the Commandments. The South Dakota law, for example, provides that the Commandments “shall be” presented in the same “manner and appearance generally as other objects and documents displayed,” and cannot be “presented or displayed in any fashion that results in calling attention to it apart from the other displayed objects and documents.” Pray.
Displays of the Ten Commandments in public schools received additional support in the form of the Supreme Court’s decision in 2022, upholding the right of a Washington high school football coach to pray on the 50-yard line after games, against an Establishment Clause challenge. In Kennedy v. Bremerton, the Court, in a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, held that the coach’s prayers were a private expression of his faith and not a government endorsement of religion, even though they, like postings of the Ten Commandments, were offered at a state-sanctioned event, held on state property, funded by state taxpayers. Pray.
The Court’s ruling in Kennedy sounded the death knell of the Lemon Test and its requirement that laws have a secular purpose. The Supreme Court’s evolving Establishment Clause jurisprudence has significantly lowered the wall between church and state and suggests that the North and South Dakota statutes permitting the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools, like those across America, will be sustained if they face legal challenges. Pray.
We pray:
In gratitude for those who have pursued the display of the 10 Commandments in our schools and public arenas. Let them find favor in every situation, that the Lord’s WORD be unveiled once again! Pray.
That the LEMON law be repealed and freedom to speak out and worship be expanded fully across this land! 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: thinkwy.org)
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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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