May 12, 2021 – Prayer Focus
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 – 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!
“He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature,
and He upholds the universe by the word of His power.”
Hebrews 1:3
We sing: Oh, the Glory of Your Presence
Oh, the glory of Your Presence!
We Your temple give You reverence.
Come and rise from Your rest and be blessed by our praise, as we glory in Your embrace…
as Your Presence now fills this place!
Oh, the glory of Your Presence!
We Your temple give You reverence.
Come and rise from Your rest and be blessed by our praise, as we glory in Your embrace…
as Your Presence now fills this place!
Come and rise from Your rest and be blessed by our praise, as we glory in Your embrace…
as Your Presence now fills this place!
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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 duly elected President, Donald John Trump,
and to pray for that which pertains to our nation!
We pray for his protection, for our First Lady, Melania, and their marriage
and for all the members of their family.
We cover them all with the Blood of Jesus.
We ask that in every situation and decision, President Trump will be led by the Holy Spirit!
Pray.
We pray for ourselves and our loved ones, and corporately put on the full armor of God!
We lift up Repeka Nuusa and Deborah Cole…to be healed totally of cancer that is attacking them!
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 for the Survival of the Nation! – Part 5
“Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant,
then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.”
Exodus 19:5
When we read the above Scripture, our hearts burn in anticipation of the promise God is making to us…to be His “special treasure!” For our part, we simply need to obey…and in that we will inherit the promise. Speaking at the 2017 Western Conservative Summit, Os Guinness shared the following reflections on covenant, which we will read and pray into today and tomorrow. May it be a source of strengthening, solace and sobering for us all! Pray.
Covenant is the key to both freedom and the Constitution.
It’s no secret this is a solemn moment for humanity and for America. The American Republic is going through its gravest crisis since the Civil War, our Western civilization is in serious decline, the search for a new world order is faltering, and as we see what’s coming in terms of singularity and super-intelligence and things like this, you can see unprecedented challenges for humanity. But I want to address one aspect that I think is the key to understanding America’s greatness and also to restoring it…it’s called the American Covenant.
I was born and grew up in Nanjing, China, capitol of the ancient Ming Dynasty and then China, before the communists took over. In the 15th century, Nanjing was the capital of the most powerful, prosperous country in the world. The city had been brutalized in the Rape of Nanking, and threatened by the looming Red Army, but it still had its magnificent city walls and all its greatness in history. Then suddenly, in one century, what the Chinese considered a “cultural backwater” (Europe) prevailed over them, and for five centuries was, to their humiliation, dominant over them! Pray.
The Chinese had a famous discussion, asking themselves what had gone wrong?
- Was it European guns… the European economy? No.
- Was it European law and politics? Partly, but not fully.
The conclusion was that it was European religion. But that was not precise enough. Obviously the European religion was the Christian faith, and it had been dominant since the 4th century, not the 16th. It was many Jewish scholars who pointed out that, of course, it was the Reformation, and its impact was felt all the way to China.
2017 (was) the 500th year celebrating the Reformation. Many people think only of the divisions; others think more positively of the internal changes in the Church: the recovery of the Gospel, the supremacy of Scripture, the reemphasis on lay people. But many people miss the extraordinary impact of the Reformation on the rise of the modern world and no country has been more affected than America.
I often reduce it to some of the famous “C’s”.
- Calling and its impact on purpose, dynamism, entrepreneurialism, and the rise of capitalism;
- Conscience and the burst of upsurge in human rights;
- Commitment to the people of God. Thank God for the reversal of the awful Medieval anti-Semitism. Christian evangelical Zionists actually preceded Jewish Zionists in longing for the restoration of Israel for their homeland. Pray.
One of the key things that’s often missing in that list is Covenant. Many Americans do not realize that Covenant is the key to both freedom and to the Constitution and therefore to constitutional freedom.
The Exodus is the master story of Western freedom, but you can see it in the English Revolution and in the American Revolution. They had very different roots and very different results. Just what was it about “covenant”?
The covenant at Sinai is unique in its features and influence. When you study political science, you see that people divide politics up in terms of governments; monarchies corrupted into tyranny; aristocracies corrupted into oligarchy; and democracies corrupted into mob rule. Those are studies of governments per se, but, in the last 50 years, there’s been a movement to look at their founding. When you look at the founding of a nation, you get a different three.
- The first one would be organic societies connected by kinship and blood, such as African tribes or Scottish clans.
- Then hierarchical governments, kingdoms and empires connected by power, conquest and force.
- The third, and of course the one important here, is covenantal governments and societies, those connected by a strong and binding agreement of the people. Of course, that goes back to Sinai. Pray.
There are other covenants, covenants in the Middle East, covenants in the Book of Genesis, but the covenant at Sinai is unique in its features and influence. It was a covenant with God as a partner and it was a covenant with all the people.
- Look at Athens. The Athens demographics included only 20% of the men. Not the rest of the men, not the women, not the children, not the visitors and the foreigners, and certainly not people in other parts of the empire, just 20% of the men.
- Whereas, the Sinai Covenant includes men, women, children, and those who were born and as they put it, “those yet unborn,” because it was an intergenerational project. It covered not some narrow legal idea, but the whole way of life of the Jewish people.
There were three features that put a stamp on politics later and are the roots of the American experiment.
- The Sinai Covenant was a freely chosen consent. This is actually the origin of the idea of the consent of the governed. Three times it says in Exodus that, even when the Master of the Universe is proposing how they live, that decision is only ratified when all the people say, “All that the Lord says we will do.” That’s consent of the governed.
- It was a morally binding pledge. Not a narrow legal contract but a broad and morally binding pledge. They are keeping a promise to the Lord and to each other.
- It was the reciprocal responsibility of everyone for everyone. We think of it in terms of “love your neighbor as yourself.” This has been profoundly influential. As the Rabbis put it, there wasn’t just one covenant, there were 600,000 covenants. When that was said, another Rabbi quickly said, “No, 600,000 times 600,000” as all the people made a covenant to the Lord and made a covenant to each other. Pray.
The Sinai Covenant has been incredibly influential down through history. BUT…when the Jews lost their king and the temple and the land, they still had the Covenant. And despite their scattering and the viciousness of their persecution, the Covenant held them together. Pray.
Then came the second great period of influence, the Reformation.
- The catholic centuries had not been covenantal, but hierarchical. In many ways, they borrowed the structures of imperial Rome with the Pope reflecting Caesar. When they were corrupted, they were oppressive…think of the Inquisition.
- But Calvin, Zwingli, Knox, and Cromwell…they went back to taking the Sinai Covenant seriously as a political arrangement in their time.
The English Revolution was called the “Lost Cause.” It failed. But what was the “Lost Cause” in England became the winning cause in New England…the USA!
- Covenant came across in the churches, in marriages, in townships, and in states.
- The Constitution of Massachusetts, written by John Adams and others is a “covenant.”
- You can also see the third great period of influence, the 18th century, when covenantalism appears in a somewhat secularized, nationalized form called the United States Constitution: “We The People” Pray.
We pray:
- That Americans will realize that the roots of the crisis in our nation is the failure of our people to keep covenant with a covenant-keeping God! Pray.
- We declare that the United States of America is a covenant nation, and that we are covenant keepers, as is our God! Pray.
- For the total defeat of all enemies of the American Republic, foreign and domestic. Pray.
- We bind and cast out the evil spirits involved with the coronavirus “plandemic” …and the attempted control of our population with vaccines and health passports! Pray.
- In gratitude for the letter we sent to President Trump having reached his office. May we receive a speedily and affirmative response from him. Pray.
- For an “appointed place” and an “appointed time” for our meeting with President Trump! Pray.
(Resources: Os Guinness-the 2017 Western Conservative Summit)
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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!
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