June 4, 2021 – Prayer Focus
Friday, June 4, 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!
“The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Zephaniah 3:17
We sing: Mighty to Save
Everyone needs compassion, a love that’s never failing…let mercy fall on me.
Everyone needs forgiveness…the kindness of a Savior…the Hope of nations!
Savior, He can move the mountains. My God is mighty to save, He is mighty to save!
Forever, Author of Salvation, He rose and conquered the grave, Jesus conquered the grave!
So take me as you find me, all my fears and failures and fill my life again.
I give my life to follow everything I believe in…and now I surrender…I surrender!
Savior, He can move the mountains. My God is mighty to save, He is mighty to save!
Forever, Author of Salvation, He rose and conquered the grave, Jesus conquered the grave!
Savior, He can move the mountains. My God is mighty to save, He is mighty to save!
Forever, Author of Salvation, He rose and conquered the grave, Jesus conquered the grave!
Shine your light and let the whole world sing! We’re singing for the Glory of the Risen King, Jesus!
Shine your light and let the whole world sing! We’re singing for the Glory of the Risen King!
Savior, He can move the mountains. My God is mighty to save, He is mighty to save!
Forever, Author of Salvation, He rose and conquered the grave, Jesus conquered the grave!
Shine your light and let the whole world sing! We’re singing for the Glory of the Risen King, Jesus!
Shine your light and let the whole world sing! We’re singing for the Glory of the Risen King!
For the Glory of the Risen King! For the Glory of the Risen King!
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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 lift up the family of our dear sister Deborah Cole…who transitioned into God’s Presence on Wednesday afternoon and now wears the victor’s crown! HalleluYah!
Pray.
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!
The Battle for the Survival of the Nation! – Part 25
The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission Report – Part 4
“But none of these things move me;
nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy,
and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.”
Acts 20:24
As a nation, we have been blessed since our inception to have those who, like the Apostle Paul, spent their lives in the service of the Lord…running their races…witnessing to the infinite grace of God, Who calls His people out of the darkness and into His glorious LIGHT! From the members of the Black Robed Regiment, who led their congregations in battle during the War of Independence…to the Circuit Riders who pioneered and preached the gospel in the West…to those like Billy Graham, who addressed massive crowds in evangelistic crusades…each, in turn, testified to the gospel, showing it to be the very foundation of this nation, memorialized in our founding documents. Pray.
Today, as we continue with the 1776 Commission Report, we will be covering the second part of the chapter on THE MEANING OF THE DECLARATION. Let us read and pray into it with hearts full of gratitude for this great nation!
The core assertion of the Declaration, and the basis of the Founders’ political thought, is that “all men are created equal.” From the principle of equality, the requirement for consent naturally follows: if all men are equal, then none may by right rule another without his consent. The assertion that “all men are created equal” must also be properly understood. It does not mean that all human beings are equal in wisdom, courage, or any of the other virtues and talents that God in nature distributed unevenly among the human race. It means rather that human beings are equal in the sense that they are not by nature divided into castes, with natural rulers and ruled. Pray.
Thomas Jefferson liked to paraphrase the Republican political thinker Algernon Sidney:
“The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs,
nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.”
Superiority of talent – even a superior ability to rule – is not a divine or natural title or warrant to rule.
- George Washington, surely one of the ablest statesman who ever lived, never made such an outlandish claim and, indeed, vehemently rejected such assertions made by others about him. Pray.
As Abraham Lincoln would later explain, there was no urgent need for the Founders to insert into a “merely revolutionary document” this “abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times.” They could simply have told the British king they were separating and left it at that.
- But they enlarged the scope of their declarations so that its principles would serve as “a rebuke and the stumbling block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.”
- The finality of the truth that “all men are created equal” was intended to make impossible any return to formal or legal inequality, whether to older forms such as absolute monarchy and hereditary aristocracy, or to, as yet “unimagined forms” which we have seen in more recent times. Pray.
Martin Luther King Junior at the National Mall, August 28, 1963
This requires not only the consent of the governed but also the recognition of fundamental human rights – including but not limited to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – as well as the fundamental duty or obligation of all to respect the rights of others. These rights are found in nature and are not created by man or government; rather, men create governments to secure natural rights. Indeed, the very purpose of government is to secure these rights, which exist independently of government…whether government recognizes them or not. A bad government may deny or ignore natural rights and even prevent their exercise in the real world…but it can never negate or eliminate them. Pray.
The principles of the Declaration are universal and eternal. Yet they were asserted by a specific people, for a specific purpose, in a specific circumstance. The general principles stated in the document explain and justify the Founders’ particular actions in breaking off from Great Britain, and also explain the principles upon which they would build their new government. These principles apply to all men, but the founders acted to secure only Americans’ rights, not those of all mankind. The world is still – and will always be – divided into nations, not all of which respect the rights of their people, though they should. Pray.
We confront, finally, the difficulty that the eternal principles elucidated in the Declaration were stated, and became the basis for an actual government, only a relatively short time ago. Yet these principles are both eternal and accessible to the human mind, so why were they not discovered and acted upon long before 1776?
In a sense, the precepts of the American founders were known to prior thinkers, but those thinkers stated them in entirely different terms to fit the different political and intellectual circumstances of their times.
- For instance, ancient philosophers taught that wisdom is a genuine title to rule and that in the decisive respect, all men are created equal.
- Yet, they also teach that it is all but impossible for any actual, living man to attain genuine wisdom.
- So, even if wisdom is a legitimate title to rule, if perfect wisdom is unattainable by any living man, then no man is by right the ruler of any other except by their consent. Pray.
“When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution
and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men,
would be guaranteed the unalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
– Martin Luther King Junior
Pray.
More fundamentally, by the time of the American founding, political life in the West had undergone two momentous changes:
- The first was the sundering (separation / splitting apart) of civil from religious law, with the advent and widespread adoption of Christianity. Pray.
- The second momentous change was the emergence of multiple denominations within Christianity that undid Christian unity and in turn, greatly undermined the political unity.
- Religious differences became sources of political conflict and war.
- It was in response to these fundamentally new circumstances that the American Founders developed the principle of religious liberty. Pray.
We pray:
- That as we follow in the footsteps of our Founding Fathers, we will be willing to “pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor” in order to see this nation become what they envisioned and fulfill the plan of God. Pray.
- That the words of the Declaration of Independence and our US Constitution, along with those of Americans like Dr. King, will resonate in our hearts and strengthen and encourage us to go forward (KADIMA!) on behalf of this nation. Pray.
- That the Body of Christ – the EKKLESIA – will awaken and arise, and finding its VOICE once more, proclaim the founding principles and see to it that they are restored and adhered to! Pray.
- That President Trump will speak to the issues concerning this nation, encouraging us that we have a “future full of hope.” Pray.
- That President Trump 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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