Jun 19, 2020 – Prayer Focus
Friday, June 19, 2020 – 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!
“For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians 3;26
We sing: WHO YOU SAY I AM
Who am I that the highest King would welcome me?
I was lost but He brought me in. Oh His love for me! Oh His love for me!
Who the Son sets free, oh, is free indeed. I’m a child of God. Yes, I am!
Free at last, He has ransomed me. His grace runs deep.
While I was a slave to sin Jesus died for me. Yes, He died for me.
Who the Son sets free, oh, is free indeed. I’m a child of God. Yes, I am!
In my Father’s house, there’s a place for me. I’m a child of God. Yes, I am!
I am chosen Not forsaken. I am who You say I am.
You are for me Not against me. I am who You say I am.
I am chosen Not forsaken. I am who You say I am.
You are for me Not against me. I am who You say I am.
I am who You say I am.
Who the Son sets free, oh, is free indeed. I’m a child of God. Yes, I am!
In my Father’s house, there’s a place for me. I’m a child of God. Yes, I am!
In my Father’s house, there’s a place for me. I’m a child of God. Yes, I am!
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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.
Let him 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 pray that the “elite medical establishment” will no longer block our doctors from prescribing hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus. Let the doctors be free to practice as You lead!
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 pray for the mass media, which is being used and exploited by the “father of lies.”
We ask that it either reverses course and reports accurately or be taken down.
We pray for the Federal Reserve Board members, to use their power to boost our nation’s economy.
Let them act in accord with what is good for the USA!
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: 138 days until the election!
Let us pray into this verse:
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:10
Strategic Focus for Friday
WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
OUR TRUE IDENTITY
“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.”
1 John 3:1-2
We are living in an extraordinary time…and it is a time when so many are trying desperately to discern and “understand” truth, and are undergoing an identity crisis. Many are asking: questions such as: “Who am I” and “What is my purpose in life?”
Each of us has a lens through which we view the world, which is formed and developed by our life experiences, good and bad, traumas and triumphs, all part of our personal story. The lens doesn’t determine truth, but reveals our “perspectives” about truth (our ways of understanding the “world” around us).
The ability to understand the truth about our true identity is rooted in our ability to understand Who Jesus is. Once we know Him, everything else begins to unfold! Look at this powerful exchange between Jesus and Peter:
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 16:15-19
Jesus asked this question to all of His disciples, but it was Peter who boldly spoke up and answered Him. Peter spoke truth… to TRUTH…and TRUTH spoke back to him, blessing him with the mantle to lead the church which would finally emerge at Pentecost!
We pray:
- That above all else in life, we would each come to KNOW Who Jesus is and what He did for us! Through that discernment, which leads to salvation (Jesus), may we each serve His purposes for our lives and fulfill our destinies. Pray.
- We are eternally grateful to have a President who knows, loves and serves God and our country. Pray.
Not only is there an identity crisis in this nation, but there is a lack of understanding about what TRUE IDENTITY is. Suni Piper offered reflections on it in a recent IFA post, saying we are in the midst of a crisis of identity! She is right! Today, we are using what she wrote as a foundation for our focus.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
John 8:32
An age-old question, one that was asked of Jesus by Pontius Pilate, is “What is truth?” The definition of truth has been so drastically skewed by people’s perspectives and individual world views, many of which have been formed by the heavy influence of the media, culture, and the attitudes of the communities in which we live! As people struggle to determine the truth about the issues we are faced with today, they filter the information through all those things. As believers, our responsibility is to embrace truth, and as we do, freedom is released into our lives.
“When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.”
John 16:13
TRUTH is our mandate…our hope…the anchor to which our faith is held…and the only lens through which Truth can clearly be discerned is through the lens of our Triune God! As believers in Jesus Christ, THE TRUTH, we need to receive and believe what God says about us, so our identity needs is firmly established in HIM!
“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
John 10:10
We pray:
- That we will not only treasure the TRUTH we know, but have the courage and HOLY BOLDNESS to speak the TRUTH in love, offering the TRUTH to all those who are lost and need to know the Love of God. Pray.
- That our President, who now has the TRUTH, will undauntedly continue to uphold the standard of TRUTH over this nation. Pray.
“Perspectives” lead people to “affirm” false narratives, and the lie of “less than” has crippled and blinded many. When negative words spoken over someone communicate the message “you are not enough…you are less than…” When someone takes those words in, they accept that they are “less than,” they are open to being oppressed by both poverty and orphan spirits. Satan wants us to feel pinned down, crippled, inferior, overcome, defeated, hindered…to live a life in conflict, battling those lies! Like someone fighting with one arm tied behind their back, people are hindered by not having the truth! When they know who they are in Christ, they are open to receive all that He has…and be all they can be!
In her book, The Armor of God, Priscilla Shirer (of WAR ROOM fame) flips the conversation by talking about our salvation inheritance…rather than orphan and poverty spirits. She makes three critical points:
- “If (we forget the benefits of salvation) we’ll likely live a lifestyle well below our actual means. We’ll live within the meager restraints of our earthly resources instead of cashing in on the wealth of our Father.
- Understand that living in light of this salvation inheritance enables you to not only stop living below your spiritual station in life, but it also protects your mind-set, lifestyle, and the choices you make…all of which will be based on your wealthy spiritual income status.
- A new way of looking at things will begin changing the outcome of the battles you face against the enemy, deflecting all his attempts at thwarting you from reaching your destiny.”
“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”
2 Corinthians 10:4-5
When we walk in Truth, with the confidence of who He says we are, we overturn all the lies coming against us. We are overcomers who change the atmosphere everywhere we go, simply because we carry His Presence. We know the Truth: we are HIS; we belong to Him! How dare anyone come against us and tells us we are less!
This doesn’t mean we won’t walk through minefields or battle stereotypes, racism and ignorance. Even in the midst of all these things, we are triumphant, for God has made us to be “more than conquerors.” When we walk with confidence in our identity in Him, it not only affects how we carry ourselves but how others see us!
The choice is ours: to allow the lie or allow God to define us!
We pray:
- That people will see themselves as God sees them, and having come to that awareness, they will begin to see others in the same light! Pray.
- That we will model what we want others to do, speaking and acting as representatives of Christ at all times, not giving the enemy an inch in our lives! Pray.
- That we would be LIFE BEARERS, championing the cause of Christ in every arena of society! Pray.
“I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days “
Deuteronomy 30:19-20
The forces of dark and light are fighting to destroy the very core of who we believe we are. They are battling against the Church, trying to silence the voices of triumphant people who are speaking the Word with power and authority as we worship God and WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY into this nation!
In “God is Revealing and Exposing the Works of the Enemy,” Nate Johnston wrote:
- “This is the secret. We are called to raise our voices right now, more than ever before. We are called to war and to be the restorers of the streets and injustices, but if we go to war without drinking, empty and without oil, we fall into the trap of enlisting for a diversion of the fight we were created for.
- What sources of sustenance will you drink from in this time: Media or Heaven? One has solutions…restoration, justice, peace and power…and the others don’t.”
Believers can no longer afford to stay silent. Lives are at stake and it’s time that the Church as a whole finds and recaptures her strength, her voice, and her authority. We call upon the Church…the whole BODY OF CHRIST…to come and stand with us on the wall…to be watchmen and to press in and pray for truth, speaking out even when they are misunderstood or maligned. We must create the framework for identity that speaks life, promise, hope and truth… to feed others the meat of His Word… so that they too will know how to STAND and be able to share the “good report” of being redeemed and redefined by HIM!
Remember the twelve spies who went to explore the Promised Land. ALL saw the beauty and promise set before them, but ten of the men were consumed by the “giants” and the “strength” of the city. Two men, Joshua and Caleb, had God-sight, and looked through the lens of the Lord and were able to “see-through” their fears. The spies brought back their report of “the land flowing with milk and honey”, but the people became fearful due to the bad report, and lamented and cried out to go “back to Egypt,” (where they had been enslaved!) Unknown giants and the fear of death paralyzed them, keeping them shackled…rather than delivering them into the Promise! Their terror kept their eyes on their circumstances…rather than on God, Who was certainly MORE than “able.”
As believers, we must battle any mentality that keeps us ensnared to our old way of living, to our life before receiving Christ. He has promised us a transformed life, not the one of this world. So who are we allowing to define us…the world, the media, our community, our family, our friends…or our God?
A small lie can stealthily infiltrate the narrative and cause our sight to become skewed. The Israelites were stuck by their perspective: “to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers and so we seemed to them”. Their lens kept them from seeing with God’s eyes. Seeing themselves as “less than” they perceived their world through that same filter and were “separated” from the good report, because of their own fears, doubts and insecurities.
We’ve been given freedom in Christ, Who has broken our chains and freed us from bondage. Like the Israelites, some people think it is better to go back to slavery than to embrace our NEW IDENTITY in Christ Jesus. Our freedom has been hard-won by Christ… “bought at a price,” yet many allow their ancestors, family or cultural identity to block them from embracing their “true identity”…their NEW IDENTITY in Christ! We, the Church, His Ekklesia, must rise up, step in and help people to break free of the narrative that says anything other than God says we are! “I am who you say I am”!
We pray:
- That believers will receive the report of the Lord, in every circumstance, and not allow fear to rob them of their destiny in Christ Jesus! Pray.
- That the praying Church will move from a defensive posture to an offensive posture, and follow our Commander-in-Chief into battle. Pray.
- Standing with our President, we will rejoice as we see the giants in our land slain and defeated!! Pray.
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The link is here so you can listen to the song ahead of time and be familiar with it. Please do not play it on the call.
Either sing it 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!