Aug 26, 2021 – Prayer Focus
Thursday, August 26, 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!
“Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? For this is Your rightful due.
For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.”
Jeremiah 10:7
We sing: There is None Like You
There is none like You. No one else can touch my heart like You do.
I could search for all eternity long and find… there is none like You.
There is none like You. No one else can touch my heart like You do.
I could search for all eternity long and find there is none like You.
Your mercy flows like a river wide, and healing comes from Your hand.
Suffering children are safe in Your arms. There is none like You!
There is none like You. No one else can touch my heart like You do.
I could search for all eternity long and find… there is none like You.
Oh, I could search for all eternity long and find…there is none like 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!
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 Manifestation of the Spirit of the American Revolution – Part 29
“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God,
bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ”
2 Corinthians 10:4-5
As we continue with “AMERICAN MARXISM”, by Mark Levin, we recognize that it is a powerful weapon in the armory of the saints. Through the information we are receiving, we are further equipping ourselves for the battle which is being engaged at home and in the nations of the world!
The forces of darkness are unrelenting in their attempt to change the ending of “the Book”…but do as they may, the result will always be the same…God is victorious and we who are with Him will be as well! We win! Pray.
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To better understand the philosophical underpinnings of the Antifa, BLM, and similar anti-American movements, let us take a brief look at Marx in this context.
Marx, with his emphasis on historic materialism, wrote: “The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie [the capitalists, the owners of property and the means of production] and Proletariat [laborer, the industrial working class]…”Marx argues that “not only are [the proletarians] slaves of the bourgeois class, and the bourgeois State, they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overseer, and above all, the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.” Consequently, the proletariat’s fate is at a dead end. Unless, of course, he adopts the revolution prescribed by Marx. It is the only way out. Pray.
If the proletariat is to eliminate economic classes and transform society into an egalitarian paradise, he must wipe clean the present from the past—first, by overthrowing the existing regime and smashing capitalism, replacing them with a centralized proletariat state, and once society and the culture are cleansed of the past, the state will wither away and what follows is an amorphous utopian state powered by the people through the collective. As Marx declares: “Of course, in the beginning this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property and on the conditions of the bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production.” Again, Marx insists that the individual’s realization and salvation are discovered through his identity with the proletarian revolution and, then, the perfected existence under the people’s collective will, which somehow and some way develops from a police state that precedes the withering away of the state altogether. How do we know when we have reached the “workers’ paradise” beyond a theoretical construct? Marx does not tell us. Pray.
The impracticability and, in fact, the impossibility of this ideology appears to be strangely alluring to those who crusade for it. Moreover, the paradise each promises, once the revolution succeeds in dissolving the status quo and existing state, fails to move beyond the point of a centralized police state, in which the individual is indeed expendable and “the masses” are compelled to serve the purposes of the party or individuals in charge of that state. Examples of such states: China, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba. Pray.
Seventy years ago, Eric Hoffer wrote an iconic book, The True Believer, on the nature of mass movements. Hoffer explained that mass movements are built of deeply flawed individuals with deeply flawed ideas. He noted that “a mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.
- People who see their lives as irremediably spoiled cannot find a worthwhile purpose in self-advancement…
- They look on self-interest as something tainted and evil; something unclean and unlucky.
- Anything undertaken under the auspices of the self seems to them foredoomed. Nothing that has its roots and reasons in the self can be good and noble.” Pray.
Moreover, most mass movements are angry and gloomy movements, hostile toward well-adjusted, happy, and successful individuals. Again, this is evident in the Antifa and BLM movements, among others. Hoffer observed that “not only does a mass movement depict the present as mean and miserable—it deliberately makes it so.
- It fashions a pattern of individual existence that is dour, hard, repressive and dull.
- It decries pleasures and comforts and extols the rigorous life.
- It views ordinary enjoyment as trivial or even discreditable, and represents the pursuit of personal happiness as immoral….
- The prime objective of the ascetic ideal preached by most movements is to breed contempt for the present….” Pray.
Indeed, there is a kind of psychotic pleasure and excitement in wrecking the present-day society, including if not especially one as free, humane, tolerant, and virtuous as ours. “What surprises one, when listening to the frustrated as they decry the present and all its works,” wrote Hoffer, “is the enormous joy they derive from doing so. Such delight cannot come from the mere venting of a grievance…. By expatiating upon the incurable baseness and vileness of the times, the frustrated soften their feeling of failure and isolation…. Thus by deprecating the present they acquire a vague sense of equality.” Pray.
The “cause” itself becomes the reason for one’s existence. As Hoffer pointed out, “the means a mass movement uses to make the present unpalatable strike a responsive chord in the frustrated. The self-mastery needed in overcoming their appetites gives them an illusion of strength. They feel that in mastering themselves they have mastered the world….One gains the impression that the frustrated derive as much satisfaction—if not more—from the means a mass movement uses as from the end it advocates….”
This also explains why “the end” of such revolutions is never in sight. Even when the revolutionaries have seized power, the revolution perseveres, for the cause has no end as it is ultimately unachievable… as man and society are not perfectible. But the true believer’s appetite for revolution is insatiable. Pray.
Nonetheless, as Hoffer points out, and as Marx advocated, “the radical has a passionate faith in the infinite perfectibility of human nature. He believes that by changing man’s environment and by perfecting a technique of soul forming, a society can be wrought that is wholly new and unprecedented….”
And, of course, brainwashing and idolatry to the cause are the lifeblood of mass movements. For example, when presented with statistical evidence that law enforcement is not systemically racist, “It is the true believer’s ability to ‘shut his eyes and stop his ears’ to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy.
- He cannot be frightened by danger nor disheartened by obstacles nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence….
- And it is the certitude of his infallible doctrine that renders the true believer impervious to the uncertainties, surprises and the unpleasant realities of the world around him….Pray.
It’s obvious that in order to be effective, a doctrine must not be understood, but rather believed in. The devout are always urged to seek the absolute truth with their hearts and not their minds.”
Thus, Hoffer is describing a fanatic and fanaticism. “The fanatic’s passionate attachment is the essence of his blind devotion and religiosity, and he sees in it the source of all virtue and strength. Though his single-minded dedication is a holding on for dear life, he easily sees himself as the supporter and defender of the holy cause to which he clings….” When the fanatic is confronted with facts, statistics, history, experience, ethics, faith, or what have you, it is of no consequence. He has found his calling and he will not be dissuaded from it. Again, “the cause” is greater than all things. Pray.
Hoffer explains it this way: “The fanatic cannot be weaned away from his cause by an appeal to his reason or moral sense.
- He fears compromise and cannot be persuaded to qualify the certitude and righteousness of his holy cause….
- His passionate attachment is more vital than the quality of the cause to which he is attached.”
- He continues, “To live without an ardent dedication is to be adrift and abandoned. He sees intolerance as a sign of weakness, frivolity, and ignorance.
- He hungers for the deep assurance which comes with total surrender—with the wholehearted clinging to a creed and a cause.
- What matters is not the contents of the cause but the total dedication and the communion with the congregation.” Pray.
We pray:
- That the philosophical underpinnings of the Antifa, BLM and similar anti-American movements will be seen for the sham that they are, and be thoroughly rejected by our citizens! Pray.
- That individuals will find their “true actualization”…liberty, happiness, fulfillment…through the relationship with Jesus Christ, Who is the TRUTH! Pray.
- Set the captives free, Lord…and open the eyes of the spiritually blind who have been deceived. Redeem our nation…and especially those who claim to know You, from the clutches of darkness! Pray.
- We pray for the removal of faux leaders, including Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, and all those who are collaborating with them for evil. Pray.
- We pray for the people of Cuba, and Afghanistan, and those in every nation, including our own, who are attempting to throw off the shackles of evil, so that they and their children are able to live in freedom! 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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