May 13, 2020 – Prayer Focus
Wednesday, May 13, 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!
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
Proverbs 3:5-6
We sing: You are My Hiding Place
You are my hiding place. You always fill my heart with songs of deliverance.
Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You…I will trust in You! Let the weak say I am strong in the strength of the Lord.
You are my hiding place. You always fill my heart with songs of deliverance.
Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You…I will trust in You!
Let the weak say I am strong in the strength of the Lord.
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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 from the coronavirus 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 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: 175 days until the election!
Let us pray into this verse:
“Uphold my steps in Your paths, that my footsteps may not slip.”
Psalm 17:5
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!
Walking in Righteousness
“Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?”
Psalm 94:16
Our lovely First Lady Melania Trump offered this prayer at the beginning of the National Day of Prayer Service held in the White House Rose Garden. We are so very grateful that President Trump has been given such a “gift” as this wonderful woman of God! May her heart continue to be a beautiful reflection of her Heavenly Father’s, and may she be a joyous support for her beloved Donald all the days of their lives!
Let us read her heartfelt words and then invite several people to pray into the words she has spoken:
“On this National Day of Prayer, let us take a moment to extend our deepest sympathy to those who have lost their loved ones to COVID-19. Let us pray for the ill, the ones who are suffering, and those who are serving on the front lines. When evil darkens our world, give us light. When despair numbs our souls, give us hope. When we stumble and fall, lift us up. When doubts assail us, give us faith. When nothing seems sure, give us trust. When ideas fade, give us vision. When we lose our way, be our guide that we may find serenity in Your Presence and purpose in doing Your will. Amen.” Pray.
As we reflect on our First Lady’s message, we see it is sprinkled with words such as: LIGHT, HOPE, LIFT UP, FAITH, TRUST, VISION, GUIDE, SERENITY and PURPOSE IN DOING GOD’s WILL! It expresses the heart of God for our people, those her husband so diligently cares for and serves! He is a good President, a good leader, one who is surrendered to God and honors Him publicly! We are blessed with the depths of goodness found in Donald Trump!
In contrast, what if the Democrat candidate that opposed him in the elections of 2016 had won? What would we do when the depths of depravity began manifesting through her and all those aligned with her in the darkness? Would we feel compelled to compromise all we believe in and stand for as Christians? Would we “go along to get along?” Pray.
Pastor Mario Murillo posed this question: Is there a verse in the Bible that tells you to obey evil government or laws? He exhorted us to realize that there is NO such verse…and wrote an article to prove that the Bible tells us what we must do in the face of wicked government and laws.
There is a weak and pathetic heresy many believers have come to accept as truth…which has now become a widespread “excuse” for submitting…when we should disobey. Here is the question that was posed to Mario:
“How do you justify your argument against obeying the government when you read Romans 13:1-7. The government Paul was talking about was even more oppressive than anything we can imagine. You could truly be martyred for your faith under the Roman government. And, what was Paul’s response? Did he call for governmental reform? Did he call for us to protest the government? Did he demand his rights and call on the government to recognize his rights? None of the above, he said, in the face of a brutal government, to obey. He didn’t say obey if your rights are recognized, he said obey. The church of today has to realize that the government is not our arena as Christians.
Never, in the history of the church, has God used the government to bring about change.”
Murillo says that this “defense of submission to evil government” is riddled with error and falsehoods. Here are his responses to selected quotes. Please read and pray into each one.
1-.“You could truly be martyred for your faith under the Roman government.”
- First, the writer tells us to obey evil laws, but then mentions martyrs. They never would have been martyred had they not broken the law by being Christians. Pray.
2- Then he asks, “Did (Paul) call for governmental reform? Did he call for us to protest the government? Did he demand his rights and call on the government to recognize his rights? None of the above…”
- The truth is, Paul did all of the above. In Acts 16:37, Paul said to them: “They have beaten us openly, uncondemned Romans, and have thrown us into prison. And now do they put us out secretly? No indeed! Let them come themselves and get us out”. Pray.
3-The heresy that has sidelined the Body of Christ in the hour when we are most needed: “The church of today has to realize that the government is not our arena as Christians. Never, in the history of the church, has God used the government to bring about change.”
- Totally untrue. William Wilberforce was a Christian who used his faith in Jesus to abolish slavery in England. In fact, believers throughout history have created child labor laws, health regulations, and have exposed injustice, and corruption. It is safe to say that Christians are more responsible for influencing government, bringing about reform by forcing laws to be changed, and standing up for justice, than any other group in history. Pray.
So how did the person asking the question get it so wrong? By doing what so many do…isolating one set of verses, taking them out of context, and arriving at a conclusion that looks “holy”, but is in fact, pure and simple “fear”.
As we read further, let us see how all this applies to many of our American brothers and sisters during this shutdown!
Let’s look at the verses that have been violated:
- “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing. Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.” Romans 13:1-7
It seems to say that we are to honor government in every form, right? No…that’s wrong.
To demonstrate what Paul is saying, some parents leave the house, and leave the oldest child in charge. The child is given strict instructions not to open the door for anyone, except for a postal messenger whom they are expecting to deliver an important package that day. The parents tell the child, “He will have blonde hair. He is wearing blue jeans and a white shirt. Don’t let anyone else in.” So later, a man with black hair, a blue shirt, and black slacks knocks on the door claiming to be the messenger with the package. Do they let him in? Of course not.
Lost in all the quoting of this verse on submission to government is the most important part: The description of the ruling authority. The Bible tells us what they are wearing!
Let’s look again and pray into what Mario is saying:
”They are not a terror to good works.”
- Any government that terrorizes the innocent is not of God. How can you say that Hitler was God’s will for Germany? Hitler and other tyrants are in fact the ones being warned that there were God-appointed governments who would destroy them: “But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.” That is why the just powers of the world rose up and destroyed the Nazis. Pray.
They praise good works.
- Authorities that are endorsed by God do not hate or oppose Christian activity. They are the ones who—even if they are not Christian themselves—do not insult soul winning or fight the work of God. They are the cops, teachers, politicians who are glad that children are getting out of gangs and off of drugs. Pray.
You must be subject for the sake of conscience.
- When it becomes tricky, is when the government is a mixture of right and wrong. Jesus said of the Pharisees,
“Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, but do not do”
Matthew 23:3.
Do what they say, but don’t partake of their hypocrisy. Watch them for that moment when they cross the line and come between you and your God. Just as our conscience should drive us to obey the law, we should also know when our conscience tells us not to obey an evil law. Pray.
Peter reached that “tipping point” when they tried to silence him! Speaking to those very same Pharisees:
“So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard…we ought to obey God rather than men.””
Acts 4:18-20, 5;29
God does not endorse evil government…He will have no part in it.
“Can a corrupt throne be allied with you—a throne that brings on misery by its decrees? The wicked band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death”
Psalm 94:20
There is your answer. A corrupt throne (government) cannot be allied with God. Pray.
Some laws can be evil and cannot be allied with God. In fact, evil laws are the worst form of sin because they provide “legitimacy” to evil.
- Matthew Henry said, “Iniquity is daring enough even when human laws are against it, which often prove too weak to give an effectual check to it; but how insolent, how mischievous, is it when it is backed by a law! Iniquity is not the better, but much the worse, for being enacted by law; nor will it excuse those that practice it to say that they did but do as they were bidden.” We can’t use the excuse that we were just obeying the law.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Pray.
The laws being created by Democrats, using the coronavirus as an excuse, are far worse than the virus itself. Unlike the virus, those new laws become permanent. It is time for the church to wake up and take action, beginning with voting the evildoers out of office and quit calling our submission a godly thing… it is cowardly!
Pray.
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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!