Jul 24, 2021 – Prayer Focus
Saturday, July 24, 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!
“All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and glorify Your Name.
For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are God.”
Psalm 86:9-10
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!
When Christ shall come with a shout of acclamation, and take me home, what joy shall fill my heart.
Then I shall bow in humble adoration and there 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 Saturday
WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
The Activation of the Spirit of the American Revolution – Part 33
“The integrity of the upright will guide them, but the perversity of the unfaithful will destroy them.”
Proverbs 11:3
Earlier this year, Regent University’s Robertson School of Government (RSG) hosted a highly attended virtual conference on the critical topic of election integrity in America. Moderated by former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who serves as Dean of RSG, this event included a timely discussion on every citizen’s right to vote in a free and fair election.
The transcript below echoes our Scripture verse above. It includes an opening prayer from Eric Metaxas, New York Times best-selling author and radio host, followed by a keynote address from Dr. Ben Carson, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Key Topics: freedom of speech, election integrity in a representative democracy, election irregularities, and voter ID. We have edited portions for our 24/7 focus! Let us read and pray into the first part of it today.
Michele Bachmann: Thank you for joining us today …We’re so honored to bring this important information to you today because the focus of this conference is election integrity… the front-burner issue of our day today in the United States. And why would that be? Well, it’s because Americans just experienced the greatest crisis in election integrity at all levels of our government at the federal, state and local levels. We observed chaos, disorder, crisis in swing state after swing state on election night in 2020. Many state election officials condoned voting irregularity. Many state election officials created conditions to be ripe for fraud. Bizarre voting processes never tried before on a mass scale were put into place for the first time in the 2020 election. And it wasn’t just one election irregularity that caused problems. Voter fraud issues were obvious across the board in one state after another, even to the point of judges, governors, secretaries of state, or even commissioners putting into place multiple unconstitutional actions to change state voting laws, to benefit… you guessed it… the same political party. Pray.
Michelle Bachmann Dr. Ben Carson Eric Metaxas
These officials created the conditions for a predetermined outcome and that’s illegal. That is morally wrong. It’s the reason that we have election laws in the first place in this country. Many state legislatures stood down or looked the other way in the face of voter fraud. And many state and federal courts stood down or looked the other way in the face of voter fraud. Pray.
The real victim, however, was you – the American voter – who wondered if their vote counted. But the biggest casualty of all was America’s system of governance. It was given to us 400 years ago through the Mayflower Compact and that beautiful principle is known as Rule by the Consent of the Governed. It’s a biblical principle. It was given to us by the Pilgrims at Pilgrim Rock, a group of people who formed a system of government, whereby the people voted on their leaders, and by extension, on the laws they would live under. Pray.
In 2021, millions of people still question if their vote counted; they wonder if illegal votes were added to other candidates to ensure that they would win. In America, if our vote no longer counts, then our vote no longer matters. Without an honest count of votes, we won’t have a way to remove leaders that we don’t want. And we won’t have a way to get rid of laws that we don’t like. Instead, a permanent group of elites will ensure their own continued power, and that will require you and me to live the way the elites tell us to. In other words, we will have ended the 400-year experiment in America of our government run by the consent of the people. We will no longer have competitive elections and America’s freedoms will effectively have ended. Now that’s sobering, but it’s a real threat. Pray.
Before the 2020 election and after people were intimidated into not questioning the election results, we saw various people lose their jobs if they questioned Georgia or Wisconsin or Michigan or Pennsylvania or Arizona or any other state’s election results. People were actually thrown off social media platforms, cable news even refused to talk about election issues. Newspapers, magazines, websites, all saw the handwriting on the wall, and they decided to be silent on questions about the 2020 election results rather than face the punishments, meted it out by hordes of internet mobs. Even the 45th President, who was candidate for president in 2020, was silenced by the all-powerful media and even by financial platforms. Since the election, President Donald Trump has been “memory hold,” as one of our speakers today, Mark Steyn, likes to say, quoting George Orwell in his famous book, 1984. Today, Donald Trump is not allowed to speak, much less raise legitimate concerns about the last election. Pray.
Here at Regent University, we are committed to free and fair elections. We are committed to constitutionally protected rights of free speech, and we’re committed to academic freedom. We’re committed to religious liberty, and we’re committed to going where the truth will take us. We stand on the Bible at Regent University, and the Bible tells us to let freedom ring. So we will ring the bell of freedom as we discuss election integrity…today, through the stellar voice of Dr. Ben Carson. Now, Eric Metaxas will open our conference in prayer.
Eric Metaxas:
Heavenly Father, we come before you as your body. We come before you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Lord, you have deputized us by the power of your Spirit and by our faith in you and in the work of Jesus on the cross and of his resurrection body from the dead. Lord, you have deputized us to be your body and to participate with you in history and through our prayers in which we enter your throne room as your beloved children by grace, Lord.
We thank you, Father, for allowing us to be part of what you’re doing in history and in eternity. Lord, we know we don’t deserve it. We know it is a gift beyond anything we can imagine. And so, we simply thank you, Father God, for the privilege of being part of what you are doing, Lord. We pray for your anointing as we go about your business. Father, anoint us, guide us, prepare us, Lord, that nothing we do would be to the left or to the right, but that we would simply be walking straight on the path you’ve set before us. Lord, that you illuminate with your Word, Lord God. Show us the way forward, Lord, that we would not get caught up in anything that has nothing to do with you.
Father, today, we ask for your anointing on our speaker Secretary Carson, and for Congresswoman Bachmann. Lord, anoint everyone who is speaking that we would not simply be speaking with our worldly wisdom, but that Your heavenly wisdom would speak through us.
Lord, we know this nation has been a free nation and that this has been also a gift from you. And we ask you Father, by the power of your Spirit, to move in this nation so that we could be a beacon of liberty to the whole world for a long time to come. We open our hearts to you. We ask you, Lord, to use us to help lead your body through this difficult time and to restore the foundations of liberty, of the sanctity of life, of the sanctity of the vote. Father God, lead us now in all that we do this day and going forward. And we do pray, that this day and that what is said and done here today would bring glory to your name, Father. We pray that you would enable us to glorify your name today for your eternal purposes, through what we do and through what is accomplished in this nation for your glory, that we would be a blessing to the whole world. We ask these things in the Name of your Son, Jesus. Amen. Praise the Lord. Amen. Pray.
Michele Bachmann:
Thank you, Eric, for your opening prayer. We appreciate that. I want to welcome our first keynote speaker: Dr. Ben Carson. He is the recent Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He’s a world famous neurosurgeon. He’s an author. He’s a former presidential candidate, and he’s everyone’s favorite gentle giant. Ben Carson will give a keynote address on election integrity, followed by a time of question and answer. Dr. Carson, we can’t wait to hear your thoughts. Take it away, Ben.
Ben Carson:
Thank you, Dean Bachmann. And thank you, Regent University. I have a great relationship with Regent and was on that board of trustees for several years. I am very proud of the courage displayed by the people at the university. So many people are afraid in the states to speak up and particularly on an issue like election integrity. I always say we can’t be the land of the free, if we’re not the home of the brave. This is so important…particularly at a time like this, where we’re talking about the health of our Republic, we need to talk about election integrity. And I look forward to a robust exchange of ideas today, particularly given the fact that so many people for too long have been concerned about some of the discrepancies in the 2020 election, but no one talks about it. Pray.
It’s sort of like someone stole the cookie from the cookie jar and then made a rule that no one can talk about the cookie guy. This is what’s happening, but the Founding Fathers, they wanted a free and a vigorous discussion in the public square.
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Now, such consent is why we have elections, and it follows that election integrity is the foundation of every citizens’ rights to vote in a free and fair election. Now, in order to give our consent to be governed, we, the people must believe in the underlying institutions that facilitate the election of those who govern—meaning that every lawful vote is counted. And only those who are eligible to vote actually do so. This is really one of the cornerstones of American democracy, but to hear people talk about it, you would think otherwise…merely bringing up questionable practices, as has been well documented—all of this voter fraud…if you do that, you get excoriated in the media. Now, why is that? It’s because they have their own narrative to push and they do it by shutting down any conversation about election abnormalities and, yes, fraud. Pray.
I’m beginning to believe the media doesn’t understand the word integrity. They don’t even know what it means. I’ll define it for their sake, since no doubt, this video will probably make the rounds. The Oxford English dictionary defines integrity as, “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.” Does that sound like our media? Just contemplate that Pray.
Even speaking about having honest and morally principled elections causes all kinds of uproars today. Well, I’m not about to be silenced into submission when we’re talking about something that’s so important to our public…so important to our children, our grandchildren, all the people coming after us. Pray.
We’re in a real battle here. Election integrity, in my opinion, is one of the most important issues facing America today. And it’s important that we get it right. Americans must have confidence in our institutions. A recent poll in January found that among Trump voters, 40% said Trump definitely won. And another 36 say he probably won. That’s 76%. Only 7% of Trump voters concede that Biden definitely won the 2020 election. Now, when millions of voters don’t trust that the election is fair, you’ve got a serious issue there. Pray.
In 2018, a poll found that two-thirds of Democrats thought Russians actually changed election totals in the 2016 election. So mistrust of our electoral system is a bipartisan problem. Faith in our electoral process is eroding and it’s incumbent on the leaders to address it, not to stick their head in the sand if they want and say everything’s okay...and not just to grumble if you lost and not do anything about it.
Conservatives have accepted defeat before; they know how to accept it. At every level of elections, we’ve known defeat. Losing is a part of life. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose, but you shouldn’t necessarily get a trophy when you lose, as we’re teaching some of our children …”Everybody’s a winner. Everybody gets a trophy.” That’s not a real world. What have our parents always taught us? They told us that when you fall down, you get back up. It’s part of American ethos … resilience. And so to deny any issues to draw a curtain over the past election is disingenuous at best and nefarious at worst. Pray.
The 2020 election was a national disgrace and the media still refuses to tell the truth about it. We know. It’s a question of how much fraud is acceptable. Some have said, “Well, it’s just a little bit of fraud.” Again, I turn to the definitions because fraud is an intentional act of deceit. So, how many intentional acts of deception should we accept in our elections? For me, the answer lies in ensuring that our election system is secure and sound and that we prosecute fraud when we find it. We don’t just say, “Well, that’s not enough fraud to really affect the election, so it’s okay. Pray.
[Within] the Department of Homeland Security, cyber security officials repeatedly told us, over and over again, that the 2020 election was the most secure election in American history. The cyber security and infrastructure security agency, the CISA, known as “CISA,” is charged with securing our nation’s election infrastructure because the security of our elections is a vital national interest. Yet, while they told us that it was the most secure in history, in the next breath we heard them say,” Oh, we weren’t talking about voter fraud. You see the security of the election infrastructure, physical and cyber products, which is what CISA is responsible for … That’s different from protecting against voter fraud.” The voting machines, the I.T. systems that store the machines—and even the polling locations themselves—comprised the infrastructure we used to put on an election and all within the purview of CISA’s mission. But what isn’t part of CISA’s mission is things like voting multiple times, dead people voting, false registration, buying votes, and ineligible voting. Those are law enforcement issues. So when CISA says we had the most secure election in American history, we need to be clear about what that means. So we’re back to definitions again. Pray.
We pray:
- In gratitude for the grace and dignity, You have bestowed on Michele Bachmann as she has served honorably in various levels of government, and is now convening this forum to bring the truth to all Americans! Pray.
- For Dr. Ben Carson, that he will continue to clearly articulate the situation and circumstances which we are facing as a nation, and help us to understand what must take place to rectify them! Pray.
- We pray for the people of Cuba, attempting to throw off the shackles of communism, to be successful so that they and their children are redeemed by the Lord and able to live in freedom! Cuba Libre! Pray.
- That President Trump will contact us soon regarding an “appointed place” and an “appointed time” for our meeting with him! Pray.
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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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