Dec 6, 2021 – Prayer Focus
Monday, December 6, 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!
“Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God;
whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies –
in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. “
1 Peter 4:11
We sing: Be Glorified
With ev’ry beat of my heart, ev’ry song that I sing, ev’ry prayer that I pray, ev’ry off’ring I bring,
In ev’ry thought that I have, ev’ry word that I say,
Be glorified!
From the start of each day ’til the end of the night, let me bring praise, let me bring light.
Lord, I offer my life as a sacrifice
Be glorified!
This is my prayer. It’s the cry of my heart. Lord, I want my life to reflect who You are!
O Lord, please stir up the fire and burn anything, ’til all I desire is You.
With ev’ry breath that I take and ev’rything that I do, let me lift up Your Name and bring honor to You
Let the words of my mouth only speak truth.
Be glorified!
This is my prayer. It’s the cry of my heart. Lord, I want my life to reflect who You are!
O Lord, please stir up the fire and burn anything, ’til all I desire is You.
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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!
May he hear the truth about the “vaccines” and act accordingly, leading our people out of darkness.
Pray.
We pray for Governor Ron De Santis’ wife and Florida’s First Lady, Casey DeSantis,
who has been diagnosed with breast cancer! We ask for her complete healing and full restoration!
Pray.
For protection, provision, and peace for Professor / Patriot David Clements and his family!
Pray.
Strategic Focus for Monday
WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
The Restoration of the American Republic – Part 26
“Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you,
for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands,
and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.”
Genesis 26:3
Having marked the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower in 1620 last year, we celebrated the subsequent founding of the Plymouth colony by English Separatists / Pilgrims, who “sojourned in this land”, trusting that God was with them, blessing them, as He’d promised! They were the men and women who held the First Thanksgiving, the 400 Anniversary of which we have just celebrated this year in our nation! Pray.
The Pilgrims, whose whole life purpose was to glorify God as they entered this new land, faced terrific hardships during their first years here in the New World! But, we will see how God worked in their midst, turning what began as an experiment in “Common Ownership” to be abandoned for the practice of holding “Private Property.” We thank God for their industrious and committed sacrifices to begin this country! Pray.
One of the telling incidents in American history, at least within conservative circles, is the disastrous experiment with a common storehouse in the Pilgrim colony, in 1621-23. What is less known about this incident is how the little colony ever made such a terrible decision in the first place. It is said that “HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF” if we fail to learn from it…and what we are seeing today with the uptick in socialist leanings is an indicator that many failed to learn! Pray.
Let’s take a peek back at history:
In Governor William Bradford’s diary, we read about the settlers’ initial arrangement:
- The land was held in common.
- Crops were brought to a common storehouse and distributed equally.
- For two years, every person had to work for everybody else (the community), not for themselves as individuals or families.
At that time, they did not have private property or the profit motive that has made abundance possible.
- The “common property” approach killed off about half the settlers.
- Everybody was happy to claim their equal share of production, but production only shrank. Governor William Bradford describes how young men refused to work in the common fields in order to lay up produce for a common storehouse. Slackers showed up late for work in the fields, and the hard workers resented it.
- All goods were divided equally among families.
The disincentives of the socialist scheme bred impoverishment and conflict, until, facing starvation and extinction, Bradford altered the system.
- The Governor and his council decided to divide the common property into private plots. He assigned families their personal plots of farmland (according to family size) and the new owners could produce what they wanted and then keep or trade it freely.
- He abolished the common storehouse.
- Immediately, men and women returned to the harvest fields. Any idea of common holdings was gone!
Pray.
Communal socialist failure was transformed into private property/capitalist success … something that’s happened so often historically, it’s almost monotonous. The “people over profits” mentality produced fewer people, until profit, earned as a result of one’s care for his own property and his desire for improvement, saved the people.
The fact of the matter is that the colonists had never wanted to inaugurate a system of totally common property. The group of British “adventurers” that had supplied the Pilgrim exiles in Holland with traveling money and capital, had insisted that the colony be made a part of the joint-stock company. The assets of the colony, therefore, were the assets of the company, headquartered in Britain, and the agricultural products were to be shared equally among company members, both colonial and British. Since Governor Bradford was the chief agent of the company in New England; he was compelled to impose the common storehouse system.
In the original negotiations, it had been understood that profits would be shared by all members of the company, but the colonists had not agreed to the sharing of houses, gardens, and other improved lands. (They were informed of these terms only as they were about to leave for North America, and as they left, they sent back word to the merchant adventurers that their agents who had agreed to such terms had not been empowered to do so.) However, the continuing dependence upon the company for resources during the first year of the colony’s existence compelled them to give in to the company’s terms. Sound familiar? Pray.
Their story did not end until 1627 when the bickering British directors sold out their interests in the colony to the settlers for £1800. The settlers spent a decade and a half in paying off their debt, but persisted, and were finally free and clear, 15 years later, in 1642. Freedom! Pray.
In 1627, shortly after buying out the British directors, Governor Bradford supervised the division of the colony’s assets among the settlers.
- First, they divided livestock. There were few animals, so the 156 people (less than 40 families) were divided into a dozen companies; each company received a cow and two goats.
- In January of 1628, the land was divided, this time by random lot. Complaints about unequal housing were forestalled by requiring those who received better housing to make an equalizing payment to those receiving poorer housing. Peace was preserved.
Pray.
The Pilgrims, like we, had no intention of allowing “socialism”, even in its most “subtle” form, to creep in and destroy all that they had dreamed of and hoped for! Four centuries later, their experience provides us with one of history’s most decisive verdicts on the critical importance of the private property. We should never forget that the Plymouth colony was headed straight for oblivion under a communal, socialist plan but saved itself when it embraced something very different. Pray.
Over the centuries, socialism has crash-landed into lamentable bits and pieces too many times to keep count. No matter what shade of it you pick, it all fails…central planning, welfare statism, or government ownership of the means of production. Then, some measure of free markets and private property turn the wreckage into progress. Pray.
There is no instance in history when free markets and private property produced a disaster that was cured by socialism. None. Pray.
A few of the many examples that echo the Pilgrims’ experience include Germany after World War II, Hong Kong after the Japanese occupation, New Zealand in the 1980s, Scandinavia in recent decades, and even Lenin’s New Economic Policy of the 1920s. The reality is: Socialism flops even when it’s the “pretend” or “voluntary” variety. Imagine the odds against it succeeding when it’s compulsory!
Two hundred years after the Pilgrims, the Scottish cotton magnate Robert Owen thought he’d give socialism another spin, this time in New Harmony, Indiana. He established a community he hoped would transcend such “evils” as individualism and self-interest. Everybody would be economically equal in an altruistic, fairy-tale society. It collapsed utterly within just two years, just like all the other “Owenite” communes it briefly inspired. Fortunately, because Owen didn’t have guns and armies to “glue” it together, people just walked away from New Harmony in disgust. They learned from socialism, even if today’s socialists don’t. Pray.
Yes, Socialism flops even when it’s the “pretend” or “voluntary” variety. Imagine the odds against it succeeding when it’s compulsory! The use of force prolongs the agony but doesn’t breed any less bitterness, resentment, or decline. It magnifies the calamity, in fact. Pray.
Consider this: People who raise beef, pigs, and poultry don’t do so because they want to help you out. Those who grew fruit and vegetables didn’t go to the trouble and expense out of some altruistic impulse or because of some nebulous “sharing” fantasy. Such charity is laudable, but it’s not an engine of production or prosperity. For that, you need profit, incentive, and private property. Pray.
When God instilled a measure of peaceful, productive self-interest into the human mind, He knew what He was doing. In North Korea and Venezuela, socialist regimes work to see that almost nobody makes a profit or owns a private business. There won’t be anything like widespread Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners in either country this year, and that’s no coincidence. If only that lesson was taught in schools these days; but the polls that suggest young people are attracted to socialism strongly suggest maybe it isn’t. Pray.
Let us give prayerful thanks for private property and the profit motive that has made abundance possible. Let us stand in agreement with our President Donald J Trump, that America will never become a Socialist nation! Pray.
We pray:
- That as we release the LOVE of GOD from our hearts over this nation, that He will be glorified and we will experience His HABITATION in our midst! Pray.
- We release the LOVE OF GOD over those faux leaders, including Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, and Fauci, and all who are now children of darkness, that they might be saved and enter into His Glorious LIGHT! Let them either be moved or removed, in Jesus’ Name! Pray.
- For an “appointed place” and an “appointed time” for our meeting with President Trump! Pray.
(Resource: FEE Foundation for Economic Education)
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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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