Aug 18, 2025 – Prayer Focus
Monday, August 18, 2025 – 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!
“The Lord will give strength to His people;
The Lord will bless His people with peace.”
Psalm 29:11
We sing: Peace, Wonderful Peace!
Far away in the depths of my spirit tonight rolls a melody sweeter than psalm.
In celestial-like strains it unceasingly falls o’er my soul like an infinite calm.
Peace, peace, wonderful peace, coming down from the Father above.
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray, in fathomless billows of love.
Ah, soul are you here without comfort and rest, marching down the rough pathway of time?
Make Jesus your friend ‘ere the shadows grow dark; O accept of this sweet peace so sublime.
Peace, peace, wonderful peace, coming down from the Father above.
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray, in fathomless billows of love.
Peace, peace, wonderful peace, coming down from the Father above.
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray, in fathomless billows of love.
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For us to receive and put on the Ephesians 6 “full armor of God” as we begin each hour,
that we might be protected as we continue to “stand in the gap” for our beloved country!
Pray.
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 his protection and ask that he be 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 those leaders that God has anointed, appointed, and elected,
as they take their places in the governments of each state and in our nation’s Capitol!
May they work together to clean up corruption in our government and restore our electoral system.
Pray.
For God’s blessing and intervention in the life of Joe Hoft and his family,
bringing a miraculous resolution to the issues threatening and attacking him!
Pray.
We will now spend the next 10 minutes praying for President Trump,
focusing our prayers against any demonic attacks against his physical body,
in particular, the issuance of the demonic decree (“fatwa”) by the Iranian Ayatollah,
calling on Muslims to take his life.
Let him remain in good health, so he can serve his entire 4-year term as our 47th US President!
Pray.
Strategic Focus for Monday
WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ENGAGING IN A WARFARE OF LOVE, PRAYING FOR THE SALVATION OF OUR NATION
AND THE RESTORATION OF OUR FOUNDING PRINCIPLES – PART 210
“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”
Romans 15:13
During their Alaska Summit, Russia’s Putin told President Trump that he would end the war if Ukraine surrendered all of the Donbas region to Russia. In exchange, he would freeze the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia frontlines and not launch new territorial attacks. Following that meeting with Putin, and a series of calls with Zelenskyy and leaders of the EU and NATO, President Trump declared that he is “now ready to zoom past a ceasefire and get straight to a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.” Today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Washington, DC, to meet with President Trump today. We pray for their time together, asking that it be a productive and edifying meeting which will allow the peace process to move forward even further. Pray.
Following his summit with Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, (which both presidents said laid the groundwork for future negotiations), President Trump called to brief his European counterparts and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Voicing support for President Trump’s initiative to hold a trilateral summit involving Kyiv, Washington, and Moscow, they issued a joint statement on Saturday, backing President Trump’s push to negotiate an ending to the war in Ukraine, and pledging to keep up pressure on Russia until a peace deal is secured. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, European Commission President Ursula von de Leyen, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Finnish President Alexander Stubb,German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have traveled to Washington where they will also meet with President Trump and Zelenskyy today.
During his calls to them, after the Friday meeting in Alaska, President Trump told European allies that Putin reiterated that he wants the key Luhansk and Donetsk regions, and appeared open to the possibility of ending the stalemate in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, along with a freeze along the front lines. A US official confirmed that President Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s offer. Pray.
Steve Witkoff, Assistant to the President and US Special Envoy for Peace Missions, was in the room during Friday’s AK Summit. Pray into these highlights of his interview with FOX News’ Shannon Breem.
Q. There are reports that the President supports a Putin proposal, which would essentially give over Donbas to the Russians. It’s a place where six and a half million Ukrainians were living prior to the start of this war. So why reward an attack on a sovereign country?
A. The President as a mediator was looking for ways to solve the crisis. He understands that it is for the Ukrainians to decide how they might land swap, how they might make a deal with the Russians on different territories there, but that’s why Zelenskyy and the Europeans are coming to the White House… to make those decisions themselves. I think the President supports a peace deal, and he got through almost all of it in Alaska. I was personally surprised at the amount of wins that we had that day. It was right down the line. We agreed on much more robust security guarantees the Russians agreed on enshrining legislatively language that would prevent them from, or that they would attest to, not attempting to take any more land from Ukraine after a peace deal… where they would attest to not violating any European borders. So we got through quite a bit and there’s a whole lot more. Pray.
Q. But it’s understandable that President Zelinsky would be very cautious about promises potentially from the Putin administration. He says giving up those particular regions would provide Russia a perfect staging ground for future attacks. So how do you factor that very real concern into these conversations?
A. Look, he’s a strong president for his country and we were on the phone with President Zelenskyy moments after the Alaska Summit ended, and I can tell you that I spoke to him personally, gave him my view. The President obviously was making the presentation and everybody recognized …how much progress we had made in demonstrating that the Russian Federation was going to make significant accommodations, well beyond what we thought before that summit started, so it was absolutely acknowledged as a win. What happens in a negotiation is you try to move one side towards the middle, then you try to move the other side towards the middle. The President achieved that, beyond whatever what everyone’s expectations were, and now we’re immediately moving to a meeting with the Ukrainians and the Europeans and hopefully, we can narrow the issues down even further and get ourselves well along the way towards the codification of a peace deal Pray.
Q. President Trump told Brett Baer on the plane that he would be very unhappy if he came away from this without a ceasefire. So how do you call this a win if you didn’t get that?
A. A ceasefire is a condition, precedent, generally speaking, before a peace deal. In that context, the President has always talked about a ceasefire… until he made a lot of different wins in this meeting and began to realize that we could be talking about a peace deal. The ultimate deal here is a peace deal. We were talking about much more robust security guarantees than anyone ever managed imagined before, including about the EU admission. There was all kinds of subject matter discussed here that began to lead the President to the assumption that we could finish this thing with a peace deal and really end the killing almost immediately…and that’s what we went for. That’s what real deal makers do, and that’s what he did…and it was it was really an amazing feat! Pray.
Q. So let’s talk about the optics of this: of course, the President’s critics were unhappy, but some supporters worried about what signal or message this sent…the red carpet, the hugging…looking very collegial at this meeting. Wall Street Journal editorial board says this. “The Russian achieved one of his major goals from the summit, which is the start of his rehabilitation as a world leader. This summit ended his isolation from the West and he gave up nothing for it. He also appears to have gained more time to continue bombing Ukrainian cities and slowly taking more territory.” Why give him those optics?
A. From our standpoint, we’re concerned with outperforming where we thought we were going to perform and we did. We moved the Russians significantly past where we thought they were going to end up. I had 6 separate sessions with with President Putin before this and I thought that we had some measure of success, but this was epic. What we achieved that’s just a flat out fact. So that’s what I think we ought to be focusing on what the end result is and we are a whole lot closer to eliminating death on the battlefield in Ukraine and Russia. Isn’t that the overall goal? I think we did what we were supposed to do better than what people estimated. Pray.
Q. So let’s talk about the security guarantees. What does that mean? In practicality, what is the US willing to commit to that effort to give Ukraine the assurances it needs to come to the table?
A. It means that the United States is potentially prepared to be able to give Article 5 security guarantees, but not from NATO, directly from the United States and other European countries. That is big, really big…
Q. Does it need boots on the ground? What does it mean,logistically?
A. That’s part of the discussion that we’re going to have throughout the day. There will be breakout sessions, to see the specifics of what the Ukrainians feel that they need. Remember, as mediators, we were at this summit to advance the Ukrainian position, and we did that…and successfully. Now it’s for us to drill down on the granular details of exactly what the Ukrainians need to give them a sense of security in the future. (And by the way, what the Europeans need as well.) We were fully committed to be there for that purpose. Pray.
We pray:
That refreshing waters of peace might spring forth in today’s meetings, extinguishing the raging fires of
war and quenching the thirst for peace for the people of both nations! Pray.
That the Spirit of the Lord will hover over this meeting, and cause a level of cooperation that has not been seen before, and which will lead to the forging of a lasting peace. 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, in particular, Godly men and those of the next generation 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.
(Resources: FOX News)
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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!
UNITE US! FOR THE KING AND HIS KINGDOM, FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION!
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