Jun 5, 2021 – Prayer Focus
Saturday, June 5, 2021 – 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!
“You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power;
For You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created.”
Revelation 4:11
We sing: Thou Art Worthy!
Thou art worthy, Thou art worthy, Thou art worthy, O Lord.
To receive glory, glory and honor, glory and honor and power.
For Thou hast created, hast all things created,Thou hast created all things.
And for Thy pleasure they are created; Thou art worthy, O Lord!
(repeat)
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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.
Strategic Focus for Saturday
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 26
The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission Report – Part 5
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
not of works, lest anyone should boast.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:8-10
When our Founding Fathers committed themselves to fight for independence, they did so on the basis of a set of principles…for which they were willing to risk “their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.” Would that all Americans today be as committed as they were! Pray.
While our Founders’ principles are both true and eternal, they cannot be understood without also understanding that they were formulated by practical men to solve real-world problems. For the Founders’ solution to these problems, we must turn to the Constitution. Today, as we continue with our review of the 1776 Commission Report, we will be in Chapter III: A CONSTITUTION OF PRINCIPLES.
III
A CONSTITUTION OF PRINCIPLES
It is one thing to discern and assert the true principles of political legitimacy and justice. It is quite another to establish those principles among an actual people, in an actual government, here on earth. As Winston Churchill put it, in a not dissimilar context, even the best of men struggling in the most just of causes cannot guarantee victory… they can only deserve it.
The Founders of the United States, perhaps miraculously, achieved what they set out to achieve.
- They defeated the world’s strongest military and financial power and won their independence.
- They then faced the task of forming a country that would honor and implement the principles upon which they had declared their independence. Pray.
The bedrock upon which the American political system is built is the rule of law. The vast difference between tyranny and the rule of law is a central theme of political thinkers back to classical antiquity.
- The idea that the law is superior to rulers is the cornerstone of English constitutional thought as it developed over the centuries.
- The concept was transferred to the American colonies, and can be seen expressed throughout colonial pamphlets and political writings.
- As Thomas Paine reflected in Common Sense: “For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other. But lest any ill use should afterwards arise, let the crown at the conclusion of the ceremony be demolished, and scattered among the people whose right it is.” Pray.
To assure such a government, Americans demanded a written legal document that would create both a structure and a process for securing the rights and liberties and spell out the divisions and limits of the powers of government. That legal document must be above ordinary legislation and day-to-day politics. That is what the founders meant by “Constitution,” and why our Constitution is “the supreme Law of the Land.”
We pray:
- That the rule of law and the Constitution of the United States will continue to be the foundations upon which this nation is based. Let those who would come against our founding principles be removed. Pray.
Their first attempt at a form of government, the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was adopted in the midst of the Revolutionary War and not ratified until 1781.
- During that time, American statesmen and citizens alike concluded that the Articles were too weak to fulfill a government’s core functions.
- This consensus produced the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which met in Philadelphia that summer to write the document which we have today.
- It is a testament to those farmers’ wisdom and skill that the Constitution they produced remains the longest continually operating written Constitution in all of human history. Pray.
The meaning and purpose of the Constitution of 1787, however, cannot be understood without recourse to the principles of the Declaration of Independence – human equality, the requirement for government by consent, and the securing of natural rights – which the Constitution is intended to embody, protect, and nurture. Pray.
Borrowing from Proverbs 25:11, Abraham Lincoln famously described the principles of the Declaration as an “apple of gold” and the Constitution as a “frame of silver” meant to “adorn and preserve” the apple.
- The latter was made for the former, not the reverse. Pray.
Founding Father Alexander Hamilton posited:
“The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment;
on the uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias, and prejudice;
and on that love of country
which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.”
Pray.
The form of the new government that the Constitution delineates is informed in part by the charges of the Declaration levels at the British crown. For instance, the colonists charge the British king with failing to provide, or even interfering with, representative government; hence the Constitution provides for representative legislature. It also charges the king with concentrating executive, legislative, and judicial power into the same hands, which James Madison pronounced “the very definition of tyranny.” Instead, the founders organized their new government into three coequal branches, checking and balancing the power of each against the others to reduce the risk of abuse of power. Pray.
The Preamble and First Article of the Constitution of the United States of America (1787)
The intent of the framers of the Constitution was to construct a government that would be sufficiently strong to perform those essential tasks that only a government can perform (such as establishing justice, ensuring domestic tranquility, providing for the common defense, and promoting the general welfare – the main tasks named in the document’s preamble), but not so strong as to jeopardize the people’s liberties. In other words, the new government needed to be strong enough to have the power to secure rights without having so much power as to enable or encourage it to infringe rights. Pray.
More specifically, the framers intended the new Constitution to keep the 13 states united – to prevent the breakup of the Union into two or smaller countries – while maintaining sufficient latitude and liberty for the individual states. The advantages of union are detailed in the first 14 papers of The Federalist (a series of essays written to urge the Constitution’s adoption), and boil down to preventing and deterring foreign adventurism in North America, avoiding conflicts between threats, achieving economies of scale, and best utilizing the diverse resources of the continent. Pray.
While the Constitution is fundamentally a compact among the American people (its first seven words are “We the People of the United States”), it was ratified by special conventions in the states. The peoples of the states admired and cherished their state governments, all of which had adopted republican constitutions before a federal Constitution was completed. Hence, the framers of the new national government had to respect the states’ prior existence and jealous guarding of their own prerogatives. Pray.
They also believed that the role of the federal government should be limited to performing those tasks that only a national government can do, such as providing for the nation’s security or regulating commerce between the states, and that most tasks were properly the responsibility of the states. And they believed that strong states, as competing power centers, would act as counterweights against the potentially overweening central government, in the same way that the separation of powers and checks and balances the branches of the federal government. Pray.
We pray:
- That American families will read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States together, and that parents and grandparents will proudly teach the younger generations our history. Pray.
- That as we go through the 1776 commission report, we will have a deeper understanding of the rich inheritance that we have been given, and our responsibility to protect it. Pray.
- That our national Champion and rightful President, Donald John Trump, will return to lead this nation forward. Pray.
- That he will remember God’s promises to him, and continue to stand until they come! Pray.
- 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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