Jun 10, 2021 – Prayer Focus
Thursday, June 10, 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!
The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms;
He will thrust out the enemy from before you, and will say, ‘Destroy!’
Deuteronomy 33:27
We sing: Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
What a fellowship, what a joy divine, leaning on the everlasting arms.
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine, leaning on the everlasting arms.
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms!
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms!
What have I to dread, what have I to fear, leaning on the everlasting arms?
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near, leaning on the everlasting arms.
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms!
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms!
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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 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 31
The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission Report – Part 10
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female;
for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians 3:28
All Christians are “sons and daughters of God” and ONE in Christ Jesus. There are no exceptions, no inequalities; no matter what their race, status, or sex, all stand on the same footing before the Father, united in His Son! Today, we look at two sensitive topics addressed in the 1776 Commission Report: Racism and Identity Politics. Both have had an impact on our nation, and are still rearing their ugly heads today! Let us read and pray into them!
Racism and Identity Politics
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, passed after the Civil War, brought an end to legal slavery, entitling blacks to a new equality and freedom, where they could vote and also hold elective office in states across the Union, but it did not bring an end to racism, or to the unequal treatment of blacks everywhere.
Despite the determined efforts of the postwar Reconstruction Congress to establish civil equality for freed slaves, the postbellum South ended up devolving into a system that was hardly better than slavery.
- The system enmeshed freedmen in relationships of extreme dependency, and used poll taxes, literacy tests, and the violence of vigilante groups like the Ku Klux Klan to prevent them from exercising their civil rights, particularly the right to vote.
- “Jim Crow laws” enforced the strict segregation of the races, and in some states gave legal standing to a pervasive subordination of blacks. Pray.
It would take a national movement composed of people from different races, ethnicities, nationalities, and religions to bring about an America fully committed to ending legal discrimination.
The Civil Rights Movement culminated in the 1960s with the passage of three major legislative reforms affecting segregation, voting, and housing rights. It presented itself, and was understood by the American people, as consistent with the principles of the founding. In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. said:
“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.”
Pray.
It seemed, finally, that America’s nearly two-century effort to realize fully the principles of the Declaration had reached a culmination. But the heady spirit of the original Civil Rights Movement, whose leaders forcefully quoted the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the rhetoric of the founders and of Lincoln, proved to be short-lived. The Civil Rights Movement was almost immediately turned to programs that ran counter to the lofty ideals of the Founders.
The ideas that drove this change had been growing in America for decades, and they distorted many areas of policy in the half century that followed.
- Among the distortions was the abandonment of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity in favor of “group rights” not unlike those advanced by Calhoun and his followers.
- The justification for reversing the promise of color-blind civil rights was that past discrimination requires present effort, or “affirmative action” in the form of preferential treatment, to overcome long-accrued inequalities.
- Those forms of preferential treatment built up in our system over time, first in administrative rulings, then executive orders, later in congressionally passed law, and finally were sanctified by the Supreme Court. Pray.
Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963
Today, far from a regime of equal natural rights for equal citizens, enforced by the equal application of law, we have moved toward a system of explicit group privilege that, in the name of “social justice,” demands equal results and explicitly sorts citizens into “protected classes” based on race and other demographic categories.
Eventually this regime of formal inequality would come to be known as “identity politics.” The stepchild of earlier rejections of the founding, identity politics values people by characteristics like race, sex, and sexual orientation and holds that new times demand new rights to replace the old. This is the opposite of Dr. King’s hope that his children would “live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” and denies that all are endowed with the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Pray
Identity politics makes it less likely that racial reconciliation and healing can be attained by pursuing Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream for America and upholding the highest ideals of our Constitution and our Declaration of Independence. Read and pray into these defenses of our founding principles.
On the American Revolution
- “Pivotal to any account of our history, the [1619] project asserts that the Founders declared the colonies’ independence of Britain ‘in order to ensure slavery would continue.’ This is not true. If supportable, the allegation would be astounding – yet every statement offered by the project to validate it is false.” – Victoria Bynum and others’ Letter to the Editor, New New York Times, December 20, 2019. Pray.
- “No insincerity or hypocrisy can fairly be laid to their charge. Never, from their lips, was heard one syllable will attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural stepmother country; and they saw that, before the principles of the Declaration of Independence, slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth. Such was the undoubting conviction of Jefferson to his dying day.” – John Quincy Adams, An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport at Their Request, on the 61st Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1837 Pray.
On the Constitution and slavery
- Don E Fehrenbacher, in The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery, concludes: “In short, the Constitution as it came from the hands of the framers dealt only minimally and peripherally with slavery and was essentially open ended on the subject. Nevertheless, because it substantially increased the power of the national government, the Constitution had greater proslavery potential and greater anti-slavery potential than the Articles of Confederation. It’s meeting with respect to slavery would depend heavily upon how it was implemented.” Pray.
- Likewise, Sean Willentz in No Property in Man: Slavery and Anti-slavery at the Nation’s Founding concludes: “In hindsight, the slaveholders’ victories can look utterly one-sided and forbidding, just as northern critics and southern supporters of the Constitution at the time claimed they were. Judging from what we now know about what happened in Philadelphia, though, the Constitution’s proslavery features appear substantial but incomplete. Above all, the convention took care to prevent the Constitution from recognizing what had become slavery’s main legal and political bulwark during the northern struggles over emancipation, and the legitimacy of property in man. While they had no choice in the moment not to tolerate and even protect slavery where it existed, they would prepare for a nation in which there was no slavery, which would mean refusing to validate slavery’s legitimacy in the Constitution. And during the decades to come, that exclusion proved the Achilles’ heel of proslavery politics.” Pray.
- Bernard Bailyn, in Faces of the Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence says: “To note only that certain leaders of the Revolution continued to enjoy the profits of so savage an institution, and in their reforms failed to obliterate it, inverts the propositions of the story. What is significant in the historical context of the time is not that the liberty loving Revolutionaries allowed slavery to survive, but that they – even those who profited directly from the institution – went so far in condemning it, confining it, and setting in motion the forces that would ultimately destroy it…a successful and liberty loving Republic might someday destroy the slavery that it had been obliged to tolerate at the start; a weak and fragmented nation would never be able to do so.” Pray.
- Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789 – 1815, writes: ”The Revolution almost overnight made slavery a problem in ways that it had not been earlier. The contradiction between the appeal to liberty and the existence of slavery became obvious to all the Revolutionary leaders… Given the mounting sense of inconsistency between the Revolutionary ideals and the holding of people in bondage, it is not surprising that the first anti-slave convention in the world was held in Philadelphia in 1775. Everywhere in the country most of the Revolutionary leaders assumed that slavery was on its last legs and was headed for eventual destruction. Perhaps the main reason many were persuaded that slavery was on its way to extinction was the widespread enthusiasm throughout America for ending the despicable slave trade.” Pray.
The claim here is not that progressivism is akin to slavery or fascism, but that its intellectual grounding is just as much a denial of the Declaration’s principles.
- Woodrow Wilson on “Socialism and Democracy” in The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volumes 5 +7, argued that popular politics should be separated from administration and that the real decisions of governing should be made by unelected administrators immune from politics, and noted that his understanding of democracy was little different from socialism: “It is very clear that, in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principles there are, upon the strict analysis, none.” Pray.
“A careful reading of the basic documents of the civil rights movement shows that much of the movement was conservative and backward looking. At least in its earliest stages, and to a significant extent thereafter, its defining aspirations came from America’s own stated ideals. Often participants in the movement attempted to identify those ideals and to insist that the nation should live up to them.” – Cass R. Sunstein, “What the Civil Rights Movement Was and Wasn’t,” Pray.
We pray:
- That as Americans, we would embrace and celebrate our uniqueness and diversity, while at the same time, recognize our oneness as citizens of this great nation… and allow no one or nothing to divide us. Pray.
- That we will experience a spiritual awakening in this nation that will cause us to not only “lean on God’s everlasting arms” but to reverence and obey His Word, coming out of the darkness, into His glorious LIGHT! Pray.
- That President Trump will continue to declare that we re ONE NATION UNDER GOD, and when he does, he will be heard and affirmed by all Americans. 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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