May 13, 2021 – Prayer Focus
Thursday, May 13, 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!
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
John 14:6
We sing: Way Maker
You are here, moving in our midst. I worship You! I worship You!
You are here, working in this place. I worship You! I worship You!
You are Way Maker, Miracle Worker, Promise Keeper, Light in the darkness. My God, that is Who You are!
You are Way Maker, Miracle Worker, Promise Keeper, Light in the darkness. My God, that is Who You are!
You are here, turning lives around. I worship You! I worship You!
You are here, healing every heart. I worship You! I worship You!
You are Way Maker, Miracle Worker, Promise Keeper, Light in the darkness. My God, that is Who You are!
You are Way Maker, Miracle Worker, Promise Keeper, Light in the darkness. My God, that is Who You are!
Even when I don’t see it, You’re workin’. Even when I don’t feel it, You’re workin’.
You never stop, You never stop workin’. You never stop, Jesus!
You are Way Maker, Miracle Worker, Promise Keeper, Light in the darkness. My God, that is Who You are!
You are Way Maker, Miracle Worker, Promise Keeper, Light in the darkness. My God, that is Who You are!
That is Who You are! That is Who You are! That is Who You are! That is Who You are!
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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 Thursday
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 6
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us,
not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”
2 Peter 3:9
As we continue our series on covenant, we stand firm in our faith…trusting in God, Who is “Way Maker, Miracle Worker, Promise Keeper, Light in the darkness.” and He always keeps His promises. Let us take a moment to corporately give thanks to and for the “original Promise Keeper.” My God, that is Who You are! Pray.
The United States of America was conceived and brought forth from the heart of God, Who created us “a covenant nation!” Because of His faithfulness to His covenant, through good times and bad, He has supernaturally sustained us in our relationship with Him. He is a “covenant-keeping God” Who honors His promises and delivers His people! We pray:
- That we would be a people who honor our covenant with God, and never take His salvific grace for granted. Pray.
- That we would worship and give Him the honor that is due Him, and teach our children to do the same. Pray.
Today, we move deeper into understanding what God can do when a nation is in covenant with Him…(especially in a time of crisis!) At this hour, the enemy is trying to destroy our nation from within, operating in the same dark spirit that manifested through anarchy and terror in the French Revolution. It is attempting to duplicate those horrors here. Its intent is to remove God and all who serve Him from this land…and to replace our covenantal relationship with Him…by making a covenant with death! This is a demonic attack against the purposes of God for this nation…and those who carry the Spirit of the American Revolution within them will NOT tolerate it! Pray.
The “plan-demic,” along with the loss of life, the side effects of the experimental shots and the destruction of our economy, are all instruments of darkness being used against us! Our beloved President, Donald Trump, was well-intentioned and following the science when he initiated Operation Warp Speed. But things that were beyond his understanding, complicated by the rapid development of the “vaccines,” have now produced what is an existential threat to our nation and our people.
With no natural way to deal with the situation, our dependence on the Lord has increased exponentially…and is at a totally new level. Because of our covenant relationship, we are assured that He has everything under control, and that he will provide an “antidote” to preserve His children and protect us from the enemy!
We pray:
- We, “who dwell in the secret place of the Most High abide under the shadow of the Almighty, say of the Lord, “He is our refuge and our fortress; our God, in Him we will trust. He will deliver us from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence.” Pray.
- Standing in the authority of Jesus Christ, “We, the people” say: “NO!” to every demonic attack against our citizens and our land. We bind and cast the spirits behind these assaults into the abyss, and in their places, we release LIGHT, LOVE and a LONGING for relationship with the Father into each American heart. Pray.
- We bless President Trump and call him to take his place as the God-appointed, God-anointed leader of the United States of America. Pray.
The crisis in America today is over “freedom” and “promise-keeping”…based on the covenant. Of course, all systems of government have their strengths and weaknesses. The same is true of covenantalism as we can see in the Scriptures.
The great strength of American covenantalism is the root of “freedom”: both the basis of freedom rooted in the fact we’re all made in the image of God and beyond that, the bringing together of faith and freedom again. For Americans, “faith and freedom” rolls off the tongue like a cliche. “Faith, family, freedom, future,” all happy F’s.
When you read Tocqueville, he says for most of European history, Christian history, those who loved religion squelched liberty (think of the oppressive medieval church) and those who loved liberty fought religion. The difference in this country, he adds, was that the spirit of religion and the spirit of liberty went hand in hand. Why? The covenantal arrangements. Liberty didn’t come out of thin air, it didn’t come out of natural law; it came out of the covenant. Pray.
If that’s the strength, then here is the weakness. As we can see in Scripture, Exodus is soon followed by Numbers, and then by Judges. With no king in authority in Israel, people did what they liked. In other words, covenants depend on “promise-keeping”. The Lord keeps His promise but we often do not keep ours. Pray.
In today’s so-called “post-truth era,” there is a crisis of truth…of keeping our word, of being trustworthy because we are true to our word. It is easily seen that the “promise-keeping” is breaking down. Thus, our great strength is “freedom”…and our great weakness is the crisis of “promise-keeping.” Pray.
Then, there is the great requirement of “transmission”…of “handing it on”.
- As the Jews said, what did Moses talk about on the night of the Passover? Hundreds of years of captivity and tonight they’re going to be free!
- But does he talk about freedom? No. Does he talk about a Promised Land flowing with milk and honey? No.
Does he talk about bracing for the dangers of the desert? No.
- He talks about children. Passing onto children.
Both faith and freedom absolutely require a handing-on from generation to generation. One of the great tragedies in America is the collapse of civic education and the collapse of that handing-on in families and in public schools. Pray.
We have to acknowledge that the Founders’ understanding of covenantalism and constitutionalism has been repudiated. At its inception, the United States was a covenant nation, but today, America increasingly a nation based on its Constitution…but without God. The question is: what holds it together?
We know how it happens.
First, in the middle of the 1960s, there was a fateful left-lurch.
- America, even in liberal circles, was spelled with a capital “L” liberalism.
- After the 60s came a left-liberal movement that repudiates the covenant and the Constitution… and much of the American republic.
Second, there was a movement of historians who said they saw through the agenda of the Founding Fathers.
- “Entitled plantation owners from Virginia wrote these grand ideas about freedom in order to protect the status quo for themselves.”
Thirdly, repudiating covenantalism is the claim of the Progressives, from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama.
- They said that the Founders were men of genius but men of their times, and “we’re in a different time.”
Pray.
So, what is the deepest crisis in America today? It’s obviously not Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals. It goes far deeper than so-called “coastals” and “heartlanders”, and globalists and nationalists. All those divisions have their place.
I suggest to you, as a visitor looking at your wonderful country, that the deepest roots of the current divisions are between the heirs and allies of 1776, the American Revolution warts and all, and the heirs and allies of 1789 and the French Revolution. If we trace back many of these things: multiculturalism, political correctness, social constructionism, the sexual revolution itself, they go all the way back to thinkers, the sexual revolution to Marquis de Sade and many of them beyond him, to Jean Jacques Rousseau.
We cannot “make America great again” without understanding what made America great in the first place.
In other words, the crisis in America today is freedom and promise keeping based on the covenant.
The question is: Is there a chance to “re-covenant” America and if so, what would it take?
It will take leadership. When Lincoln became president, he went from Springfield to Philadelphia to make a great speech in Independence Hall. There, with his incredible understanding of where America had come from and with all the challenges he faced on the verge of the Civil War, he called for a new birth of liberty in the light of his great vision for America.
- I’ve lived here several decades. I have not heard a top statesman express Lincoln’s deep understanding. We need leaders with vision and courage. We cannot make America great again without understanding what made America great in the first place. Pray.
That requires a monumental choice. Alexis de Tocqueville, who wrote Democracy in America, was obviously a great admirer of this country and a disappointed lover of his own country. After a lifetime of comparing America and France, he made an interesting remark: “With a revolution, as with a novel, the hard part to invent is the ending.”
Your Framers wrote a brilliant first chapter and many brave and courageous chapters have been written since then. But the chapter this generation writes will be decisive for America.
- Remember the words of Moses over the covenant: “The choice is yours between life and death, blessings and curses.”
- John Winthrop put it this way on the heaving decks of the Arbella: “Either a city upon a hill, or a story and a byword throughout the world.”
What we see in Washington and across this country is a tragedy beyond words. It didn’t have to happen, but it did. For a solution, I think we have to go back to the very roots of the problem…fundamentally…freedom through the covenant.
Freedom is not a cliché. Freedom is the dividing issue of our time, and I would say from the bottom of my heart: “America, America, the choice is yours, but so also will be the consequences. God be with you all!”
Pray.
We pray:
- For the peace of Jerusalem and the Holy Land of Israel – which is the 1st covenant nation. 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 – message at 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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