Jun 18, 2021 – Prayer Focus
Friday, June 18, 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!
“What may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse”
Romans 1:19-20
We sing: How Great Thou Art!
Oh Lord, my God, when I, in awesome wonder, consider all the worlds Thy hands have made,
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee: How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee: How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
And when I think that God, His Son not sparing, sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in.
That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing, He bled and died to take away my sin.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee: How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee: How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
When Christ shall come, with shouts of acclamation, and take me home, what joy shall fill my heart.
Then I shall bow, in humble adoration, and then proclaim, my God, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee: How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee: How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
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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 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 39
The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission Report – Part 18
Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, “Assuredly, I say to you,
unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me.
But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin,
it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
Matthew 18:2-5
THE INCOMPATIBILITY OF IDENTITY POLITICS WITH AMERICAN PRINCIPLES
Identity politics divide Americans by placing them perpetually in conflict with each other. This extreme ideology assaults and undermines the American principle of equality in several key ways.
First, identity politics attacks American self-government. Through the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances, American constitutionalism prevents any one group from having complete control of the government. In order to form a majority, the various groups that comprise the nation must resolve their disagreements in light of shared principles and come to a deliberative consensus over how best to govern. In the American system, public policy is decided by prudential compromise among different interest groups for the sake of the common good.
- Identity politics, on the other hand, sees politics as the realm of permanent conflict and struggle among racial, gender, and other groups, and no compromise between different groups is possible. Rational deliberation and compromise only preserve the oppressive status quo. Instead, identity politics relies on humiliation, intimidation, and coercion. American self-government, where all citizens are equal before the law, is supplanted by a system where certain people use their group identity to get what they want. Pray.
“What the world needs now is LOVE, sweet LOVE!”
Second, by dividing Americans into oppressed and oppressor groups, activists of identity politics propose to punish some citizens – many times for wrongs their ancestors allegedly committed – while rewarding others. Members of oppressed groups must ascend, and members of oppressor groups must descend. This new system denies that human beings are endowed with the same rights, and creates new hierarchies with destructive assumptions and practices.
- On one hand, members of oppressed groups are told to abandon their shared civic identity as Americans and think of themselves in terms of their sexual or racial status. The consequence is that they should no longer see themselves as agents responsible for their own actions but as victims controlled by impersonal forces. In a word, they must reject, not affirm, the Declaration’s understanding of self-government according to the consent of the governed. If members of oppressed groups want to become free, they must rely upon a regime of rewards and privileges assigned according to group identity.
- On the other hand, members of oppressor groups merit public humiliation at the hands of others. Diversity training programs force members of “oppressor” groups to confess before their co-workers how they contribute to racism. Educational programs based on identity politics often use a person’s race to degrade or ostracize them. Pray.
- These degradations of individuals on the basis of race expose the lie that identity politics promotes the equal protection of rights. Advocates of identity politics argue that all hate speech should be banned but then define hate speech as only applying to protected identity groups who are in turn free to say whatever they want about their purported oppressors. This leads to a “cancel culture” that punishes those who violate the terms of identity politics. Pray.
Third, identity politics denies the fundamental moral tenet of the Declaration, that human beings are equal by nature. This founding principle provides a permanent and immutable standard for remedying wrongs done to Americans on the basis of race, sex, or any group identity.
- Repudiating this universal tenet, activists pushing identity politics rely instead on cultural and historical generalizations about which groups have stronger moral claims than others. They claim this approach offers a superior and more historically sensitive moral standard.
- Unlike the standard based on a common humanity, what Lincoln called “an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times,” their historical standard is not permanent. Rather, it adjusts to meet the political fashions of a particular moment. By this standard, ethnicities that were once considered “oppressed” can in short order turn into “oppressors,” and a standard that can turn a minority from victim to villain within the course of a few years is no standard at all. Pray.
Fourth, identity-politics activists often are radicals whose political program is fundamentally incompatible not only with the principles of the Declaration of Independence but also the rule of law embodied by the United States Constitution. Antagonism to the creed expressed in the Declaration seems not an option but a necessary part of their strategy. When activists are discussing seemingly innocuous campaigns to promote “diversity,” they are often aiming for fundamental structural change. Pray.
CONCLUSION
Identity politics is fundamentally incompatible with the principle of equality enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. Proponents of identity politics rearrange Americans by group identities, rank them by how much oppression they have experienced at the hands of the majority culture, and then sow division among them. While not as barbaric or dehumanizing, this new creed creates new hierarchies as unjust as the old hierarchies of the antebellum South, making a mockery of equality with an ever-changing scale of special privileges on the basis of racial and sexual identities. The very idea of equality under the law, of one nation sharing King’s “solid rock of brotherhood” is not possible and, according to this argument, probably not even desirable.
All Americans, and especially all educators, should understand identity politics for what it is: rejection of the principle of equality proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. As a nation, we should oppose such efforts to divide us and reaffirm our common faith in the fundamental equal right of every individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Pray.
In the “Third Debate with Lincoln at Jonesboro, Illinois,” Stephen Douglas’ made the unsubstantiated claim, echoed today in many textbooks, that the Founders did not include blacks in the Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln responded in the Fifth Debate at Galesburg, Illinois: “The entire records of the world, from the date of the Declaration of Independence up to within three years ago, may be searched in vain for one single affirmation, from one single man, that the negro was not included in the Declaration of Independence; I think I may defy Judge Douglas to show that he ever said so, that Washington ever said so, that any President ever said so, that any member of Congress ever said so, or that any living man upon the whole earth ever said so.“ Abraham Lincoln, “Fifth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Galesburg, Illinois” Pray.
Advocate of Identity Politics, John C. Calhoun, “A Disquisition on Government” wrote: “It is a great and dangerous error to suppose that all people are equally entitled to liberty. It is a reward to be earned, not a blessing to be gratuitously lavished on all alike – a reward reserved for the intelligent, the patriotic, the virtuous and deserving– and not a boon to be bestowed on a people too ignorant, degraded and vicious, to be capable either of appreciating or of enjoying it…A reward more appropriate than liberty could not be conferred on the deserving -nor a punishment inflicted on the undeserving more just, than to be subject to lawless and despotic rule.” Pray.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a fulfillment of the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution, which in turn reflected the acknowledgment that the Declaration of Independence is the foundation of the Constitution. But this pivotal law based on protecting individual rights was reinterpreted by the bureaucracy and subsequently by the courts to define Americans by group identities. Thus came about racial quotas in employment discrimination cases, busing in school segregation cases, and, subsequently, racial redistricting in voting rights cases. Pray.
We pray:
- That Instead of being divided, Americans will reject identity politics and see each other for who we really are…citizens of this one. united, great nation…equal before God and the law. Pray.
- That whenever that spirit of division rears its ugly head, manifesting in identity politics, critical race theory or any form of racism, we will speak out against it and refuse to allow it to operate in our areas of influence. Pray.
- That in the United States, the rights of the individual will always remain superior to the rights of groups. Pray.
- That President Trump will speak out for true civil rights and against all the perverted programs that took its place!. Pray.
- That he will set an “appointed place” and an “appointed time” for our meeting with him! Pray.
(Resource: 1776 Commission Report, Appendix 4)
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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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