June 3, 2021 – Prayer Focus
Thursday, June 3, 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!
“In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
Proverbs 3:6
We sing: God Will Make a Way
God will make a way where there seems to be no way.
He works in ways we cannot see. He will make a way for me.
He will be my Guide, hold me closely to His side.
With love and strength for each new day, He will make a way! He will make a way!
God will make a way where there seems to be no way.
He works in ways we cannot see. He will make a way for me.
He will be my Guide, hold me closely to His side.
With love and strength for each new day, He will make a way! He will make a way!
By a roadway in the wilderness, He’ll lead me. Rivers in the desert will I see.
Heaven and Earth will fade, but His Word will still remain and He will do something new today!
God will make a way where there seems to be no way.
He works in ways we cannot see. He will make a way for me.
He will be my Guide, hold me closely to His side.
With love and strength for each new day, He will make a way! He will make a way!
With love and strength for each new day, He will make a way! He will make a way!
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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 continue to pray for healing for Deborah Cole…
that she may be healed totally of cancer that is attacking her!
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 24
The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission Report – Part 3
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face,
and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14-15
God has always “made a way” for His own, those who were willing to humble themselves, and come into agreement with Him about what was right and just! He delights in blessing those who belong to Him…and He is still doing that today! For that we give thanks today with grateful hearts! Pray.
“You will also declare a thing, and it will be established for you; so light will shine on your ways.”
Job 22:28
As we read and study this strategic report of the 1776 Commission, established by President Trump, we will pray in agreement with the members who served to bring us this information…that the TRUTH they are declaring might be made known to and received by all our people!
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THE MEANING OF THE DECLARATION
The United States of America is a nation like any other…in most respects. It embraces “a people”, who inhabit a territory, governed by laws administered by human beings.
Like other countries, our country has borders, resources, industries, cities and towns, farms and factories, homes, schools, and houses of worship. Although a relatively young country, our people have shared a history of common struggle and achievement, from carving communities out of a vast, untamed wilderness, to winning independence and forming a new government, through wars, industrialization, waves of immigration, technological progress, and political change.
In other respects, however, the United States is unusual. It is a republic; that is to say, its government was designed to be directed by the will of the people rather than the wishes of a single individual or a narrow class of elites. Pray.
Republicanism is an ancient form of government, but one which is “uncommon” throughout history, in part, because of its fragility, which has tended to make republics short-lived. Contemporary Americans tend to forget how historically rare republicanism has been, in part because of the success of republicanism in our time, which is derived in no small part from the very example and success of America.
Declaration of Independence, by John Trumbull (1819)
In two decisive respects, the United States of America is unique.
- First, it has a definite birthday: July 4th, 1776.
- Second, it declares from the moment of its founding not merely the principles on which its new government will be based; it asserts those principles to be true and universal… “applicable to all men and all times,” as Lincoln said.
Pray.
Other nations may have birthdays.
- For instance: what would eventually evolve into the French Republic was born in 1789, when Parisians stormed a hated prison and launched the downfall of the French monarchy and its aristocratic regime.
- The People’s Republic of China was born in 1949 when Mao Tse Tung’s Chinese Communist Party defeated the Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War.
However, as peoples and cultures inhabiting specific territories, France and China stretch back centuries and even millennia, over the course of many governments.
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the Lord:
“I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts;
and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Hebrews 8:10
There was no United States of America before July 4th, 1776…and there was not yet an “American people”. There were, instead, living in the thirteen British colonies in North America, some two-and-a-half million subjects of a distant king. Those subjects became “a people” by declaring themselves such…and then by winning the independence they had asserted as their right. Pray.
They made that assertion on the basis of principle, not blood, or kinship, or “ethnicity.” Yet this fact must be properly understood. As John Jay explained in Federalist 2:
“Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.“ Pray.
Yet, as Jay (and all the Founders) well knew, the newly-formed American people were not quite as homogenous—in ancestry, language, or religion—as this statement would seem to assert. They were neither wholly English nor wholly Protestant nor wholly Christian. Some other basis would have to be found and asserted to bind the new people together and to which they would remain attached if they were to remain a people.
That basis was the assertion of universal and eternal principles of justice and political legitimacy. But this too must be qualified. Note that Jay lists six factors binding the American people together, of which principle is only one—the most important or decisive one, but still only one, and insufficient by itself. The American founders understood that, for republicanism to function and endure, a republican people must share a large measure of commonality in manners, customs, language, and dedication to the common good. Pray.
All states, all governments, make some claim to legitimacy—that is, an argument for why their existence and specific form are justified. Some dismiss all such claims to legitimacy as false, advanced to fool the ruled into believing that their rulers’ actions are justified when in fact those actions only serve the private interests of a few. But no actual government understands itself this way, much less makes such a cynical claim in public. All actual governments, rather, understand themselves as just and assert a public claim as to why.
At the time of the American founding, the most widespread claim was a form of the divine right of kings. The assertion was that God appoints some men, or some families, to rule and consigns the rest to be ruled.
The American founders rejected that claim. As the eighteen charges leveled against King George in the Declaration of Independence make clear, our Founders considered the British government of the time to be oppressive and unjust. They had no wish to replace the arbitrary government of one tyrant with that of another. Pray.
Having cast off their political connection to England, our Founders needed to state a new principle of political legitimacy for their new government. As the Declaration of Independence puts it, a “decent respect to the opinion of mankind” required them to explain themselves and justify their actions.
- They did not merely wish to assert that they disliked British rule and so were replacing it with something they liked better.
- They wished to state a justification for their actions, and for the government to which it would give birth, that is both true and moral: moral because it is faithful to the truth about things.
Pray.
“All honor to Jefferson to the man who,
in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people,
had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document,
an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times,
and so to embalm it there, that that to-day, and in all coming days,
it shall be a rebuke, a stumbling block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Pray.
Such a justification could only be found in the precepts of nature – specifically human nature – accessible to the human mind but not subject to the human will. Those precepts – whether understood as created by God or simply as eternal – are given, that man did not bring into being and cannot change.
Hence, the Declaration speaks of both “the laws of nature and of nature’s God” – it appeals to both reason and revelation – as the foundation of the underlying truth of the document’s claims, and for the legitimacy of this new nation.
We pray:
- In thanksgiving to Almighty God, who brought forth this nation with a plan and purpose, and will see to it that it fulfills its destiny, according to His will! Pray.
- In gratitude for the grace that God extended to Thomas Jefferson, enabling him to carefully and thoughtfully craft such a truly amazing founding document…the Declaration of Independence. Pray.
- As we consider all that the Founders went through, in order to see the vision of a “City on a Hill” come to pass, may we commit to take our places, in this day and time, to assure that that vision does not die, but is passed on… to be fulfilled. Pray.
- That our President, Donald John Trump will encourage the people of this nation, reminding us that God’s promise stands and that we have a “future full of hope.”. Pray.
- That we will soon have a response to our letter and that he will set an “appointed place” and an “appointed time” for our meeting with him! Pray.
(Resource: 1776 Commission Report)
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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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