Apr 29, 2019 – Prayer Focus

Monday, April 29, 2019 – The 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call 

“A CALL TO THE WALL…ONE NATION UNDER GOD” 

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We will not tolerate any demonic interference on the 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call. 

We are taking measures to protect and defend our 24/7 family and this call. At the top of every hour, 

the facilitator, in agreement with those on the line, will bind all forces of evil and cast them down into the abyss, then pray a shield of protection over the call and our 24/7 family!

*The key assignment for the 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call is to intercede hourly 

for the safety and security of our President Donald John Trump 

and to pray for that which pertains to our nation!

We pray for our President’s protection and we cover him with the Blood of Jesus. 

We bless our First Lady, Melania, their son Barron and each of their family members.

We cover our Vice President Mike Pence, his wife Karen and their family 

and all those serving in this Administration.

We also bless the members of the Federal Reserve Board along with those who are part of our nation’s banking system which impacts our economy! May Jerome H. Powell, Richard H. Clarida, 

Randal K. Quarles, Michelle W. Bowman, and Lael Brainard serve with integrity and honor!

The 24/7 NSPC is calling the Body of Christ nationwide to pray for the 2020 National Elections,

mobilizing intercessors and positioning ourselves in prayer before the Lord

on behalf of our President and nation! 

COUNTDOWN: 555 days until the election! 

Let us pray into this verse: 

“Those who love Your law have great peace, And nothing causes them to stumble.” 

Psalm 119:165

Strategic Focus for Monday 

WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES

UNDERSTANDING THE CENSUS CITIZENSHIP QUESTION 

“Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “When you take the census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give a ransom for himself to the Lord, when you number them, that there may be no plague among them when you number them. This is what everyone among those who are numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs). The half-shekel shall be an offering to the Lord. Everyone included among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to the Lord. The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give an offering to the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves. And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves.”

Exodus 30:12-16

The scripture above, connecting a census with health, is especially appropriate today, in light of the recent outbreak of measles in the United States. A disease that was virtually “eradicated” years ago has now had a resurgence, as illegal aliens crossing our border have brought that and a variety of other diseases (plagues) with them, which have now been transmitted to our general US population! The CDC said there are 681 measles cases reported across 22 states, and it is working around the clock to protect Americans! There is no telling how many have gone unreported, due to illegal status and immigration concerns!

We have less than two years before “Census Day” arrives, that day of counting every person in the United States (including its territories). It sounds simple…count every living person…but since the first census in 1790, it has been a difficult and time-consuming process, one that once involved US marshals riding out on horseback to interview every household and now has evolved to what will be done in the spring of 2020: answer the census via a secured web connection.

The 2020 census has been in the news because of the decision by Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to re-incorporate a “citizenship question” on the short form. Prior to 2010, there were always two forms—the “short form” which had a small group of questions that went to every household, and the “long form” which had more questions and went to a sample of about 4 million households every year, helping to reduce the response burden but still yielding much-used data on education, income, housing. It asks about citizenship and naturalization.

We are Constitutionally bound in this country to have the federal government conduct a census at least once every 10 years. That was later amended by the 13th (1865) and 14th (1868) Amendments to the Constitution. The methods by which the enslaved would be counted were also included, and there were specific questions about the slaves held by households on the actual scheduled list.

The first count of persons living in the newly organized and constituted United States of America occurred in 1790, as required by the Constitution to count “all persons.” At the time, US Marshals were the primary census takers, going from home to home and asking for the number of:

• Free white males under age 16 and ages 16 and older
• Free white females
• Other free persons
• Slaves

Wood engraving print by Thomas Worth of a census taker talking to a group of men, women and 

children—including an African-American. Published in Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 19, 1870.

By 1800, questions were added to get more age detail on “free” and “white” males and females, along with the other questions posed in 1790. The number of questions began to grow; and in 1810, questions about manufacturing, with 25 broad product categories encompassing more than 220 kinds of goods produced, were added. This was considered of such importance that Congress authorized $2,000 for the Treasury Department to prepare a statistical report on it.

It wasn’t until the 1820 census that a question about “foreigners not naturalized” was asked. By 1850 (sixty years after the first census), more than a dozen questions were asked across two “forms”—one for free persons and one for those considered slaves. Questions were also asked about literacy and who in the household could not read or write. Subsequent censuses would ask about naturalization until it was dropped in the 1960 census.

Census questions multiplied decade after decade. During the mid-1900s, the Census Bureau began taking on more and more surveys—“sampling” the population rather than asking everyone. These surveys supplemented what Congress wanted to know about the people living and working in their communities. By 1920, the forms used by the census takers or enumerators were all printed by typeset, but the census taker wrote in all the answers as they interviewed the householder. Legible handwriting was essential!

For our 2010 census, only 10 questions per person were on the census form:

1. How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment or mobile home on April 1, 2010?
2. Were there any additional people staying here April 1, 2010, that you did not include in Question 1?
3. Is this house, apartment or mobile home: owned with a mortgage, owned without a mortgage, rented, or occupied without rent?
4. What is your telephone number?
5. Please provide information for each person living here. Start with a person here who owns or rents this house, apartment or mobile home. If the owner or renter lives somewhere else, start with any adult living here. This will be Person 1. What is Person 1’s name?
6. What is Person 1’s sex?
7. What is Person 1’s age and date of birth?
8. Is Person 1 of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin?
9. What is Person 1’s race?
10. Does Person 1 sometimes live or stay somewhere else?

The “census citizenship question” was debated in the Supreme Court last Tuesday. Although millions of illegal aliens might choose to go uncounted, the SCOTUS’ conservative majority seemed ready to uphold the Trump Administration’s plan to inquire about US citizenship on the upcoming 2020 census. There appeared to be a clear divide between the court’s liberal and conservative justices in this case that could affect how many seats states have in the House of Representatives and their share of federal dollars over the next 10 years. States with a large number of immigrants tend to vote Democratic. The lower courts had ruled that Ross’ explanation was a “pretext” for adding the question. 

Justice Kavanaugh, the court’s newest member, suggested Congress could change the law if it is so concerned that the accuracy of the once-a-decade population count will suffer. “Why doesn’t Congress prohibit the asking of the citizenship question?” he asked near the end of the morning session.

Secretary Ross’s position is that the Justice Department wants the citizenship data and the detailed information it would produce on where eligible voters live, to improve enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The conservatives Justices listened silently when Solicitor General Noel Francisco, the Administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, defended Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ decision to add the citizenship question, while the four liberal Justices “peppered” Solicitor General Francisco with questions about the Administration plan. The liberals lack the votes to stop it without support from at least one conservative Justice. God forbid!

During the next 18 months, we will all receive notification that this once-in-a-decade opportunity / requirement is here. The questions to be asked as part of the 2020 census will include age, sex, ethnic origin, race, household relationship, whether the housing unit is owned or rented—and, most likely, whether or not the person is a citizen of the United States. The full set of questions, and how they are presented, can be found in the Questions Planned for the 2020 Census and American Community Survey booklet from the US Census Bureau issued just this past March.

(Information contributed from IFA and the Indiana Business Review) 

We pray: 

• We give thanks to the Lord for this proposal of Secretary Ross to count the citizens of the US in this census…as in the God-ordained census of the Children of Israel in Exodus 30. In this respect, we are realigning with the will of God to take a census in our nation! 
• If we count the illegals as we do the citizens of the nation (what the liberals want to do), we will suffer the consequences (the plagues/sicknesses that are besetting our nation now). We pray that the SUPREME COURT will not allow the illegals to be counted as citizens for our representative distribution in Congress! 
• Father, we ask that You would help the Justices of our SUPREME COURT to make the righteous decision in the census case, one that will preserve and protect the rights of citizenship in America. 

• That You would put in place those Justices and judges throughout our entire Judicial System who will adhere to the original intent of our founding documents and follow the wisdom of our Founders in the way they set up our system of government! 
• We give thanks for this opportunity to reflect on the wisdom of our Founders and the way that they set up our system of representation. We are equal before God, and both rich and poor offer the same “ransom” and answer the same questions. 
• We can not say “ONE NATION UNDER GOD” without saying “We, the People”...and we cannot say that without a census of who we are! We thank God for those who are legal immigrants and part of this nation, and ask Him to add those He wants to be part of.
• That this focus will help us understand the importance of the census, helping us to pray effectively and equip us to speak about it authoritatively when we are engaging in public conversations.

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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! 

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