Aug 27, 2021 – Prayer Focus
Friday, August 27, 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!
“Blessed be the Name of the Lord, from this time forth and forevermore!
From the rising of the sun to its going down, the Lord’s Name is to be praised.”
Psalm 113:2-3
We sing: Blessed be the Name of the Lord
Blessed be the name of the Lord! He is worthy to be praised and adored!
So we lift up holy hands in one accord, singing:
Blessed be the name, Blessed be the name, Blessed be the name of the Lord!
Blessed be the name of the Lord! He is worthy to be praised and adored!
So we lift up holy hands in one accord, singing:
Blessed be the name, Blessed be the name, Blessed be the name of the Lord!
Blessed be the name, Blessed be the name, Blessed be the name of the Lord!
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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 Manifestation of the Spirit of the American Revolution – Part 30
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind,
that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
Romans 12:1-2
AMERICAN MARXISM, Mark Levin’s bestseller, is impacting our lives and the lives of over half a million Americans who are reading it! Today, we continue to pray and read in Chapter 2 about “Breeding Mobs”. As we grieve over the brainwashing involved in seducing the masses into these systems, we ask God to bless and protect this brilliant and patriotic American who has done the research and pulled together this material so that we might learn…and live…as well as live and learn! Pray.
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The “fanatic” comes from all walks of life and all backgrounds. For example:
- multi-billionaire George Soros pours enormous sums of money into radical causes and groups;
- professional athletes such as Colin Kaepernick and LeBron James are vociferous vilifiers and disparagers of American society;
- many college and university professors are purveyors of revisionist American history and radical anti-American ideologies;
- college and university students from middle-class and wealthy families are increasingly militant opponents of the civil society;
- and, of course, various communities are ever more radicalized by racial, economic, educational, and other distinctions and disparities. Pray.
Eric Hoffer, author of The True Believer, a book on the nature of mass movements, sees the fanatic and the mass movement as centered on an intense if not obsessive hatred. “Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life,” explained Hoffer. “Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.” Indeed, the dangerousness of this hatred, when tied to a cause, can have calamitous societal and human consequences. It leads to scapegoating, balkanization, violence, and, in its more aggressive form, ethnic cleansing. This hatred seeks to malign, debase, debauch, and, ultimately, topple the status quo and the civil society. For example, the “American founding”, (the “1619 Project,” which is addressed in Chapter 4), the Constitution, capitalism, law enforcement, etc. Pray.
Hoffer described the model by which the groundwork is set for the rise of mass movements:
1) by discrediting prevailing creeds and institutions and detaching from them the allegiance of the people;
2) by indirectly creating a hunger for faith in the hearts of those who cannot live without it, so that when the new faith is preached it finds an eager response among the disillusioned masses;
3) by furnishing the doctrine and the slogans of the new faith;
4) by undermining the convictions of the ‘better people’—those who can get along without faith—so that when the new fanaticism makes its appearance they are without the capacity to resist it. In the end, if such mass movements succeed, the result is totalitarianism (a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.) Pray.
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt argued these mass movements are the foundation for violence and despotism: “The attraction of evil and crime for the mob mentality is nothing new. It has always been true that the mob will greet deeds of violence with the admiring remark: ‘it may be mean but it is very clever.’ The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents….”
In point of fact, mass movements are the necessary precursors to building revolutions and overthrowing governments. There is a commonality and essential methodology to this counterrevolution and societal transformation—the promotion of the “the collective” into which all revolutionaries or “social activists” are to be absorbed. Pray.
Unbeknownst to most, this subject, loosely called “social movement theory” among academics, is widely analyzed, debated, taught, and promoted by the professoriate throughout that nation’s colleges and universities. Moreover, revolution and mass movements are frequently romanticized and glamorized as righteous and irreproachable responses to an oppressive, inequitable, unjust, racist, and immoral society.
This matters greatly because education on the college campus too often takes on the form of indoctrination and brainwashing. Ideas that saturate and engulf not just students, but the culture and society, manifest themselves in America’s streets, corporate boardrooms, politics, and newsrooms. Pray.
Frontiers in Social Movement Theory (1992) is a compilation of essays authored by numerous social activist scholars, who have essentially built their arguments on the writings of (those like) Marx. The book’s preface sums up its overarching premise: “social movements are instrumentalities to abolish, or at least weaken, structures of political and social domination.’
One essay emphasizes the significance of the collective identity. “Participation in social movements frequently involves an enlargement of personal identity for participants and offers fulfillment and realization of self. Participation in the civil rights movement, women’s movement, and New Left, for example, was frequently a transformative experience, central to the self-definition of many participants in their later lives.” The construction of a collective identity is the most central task of ‘new’ social movements.”
Group identity is necessary and critical to the success of the movement.
- When people bind their fate to the fate of a group, they feel personally threatened when the group is threatened. Solidarity and collective identity operate to blur the distinction between individual and group interest, undermining the premises on which such utilitarian models operate.
- For a movement to effectively mobilize, it must be viewed and must become the identity through which the individual views himself. “Collective identity is a concept at the cultural level, but to operate in mobilization, individuals must make it part of their personal identity. Solidarity centers on the ways in which individuals commit themselves and the resources they control to some kind of collective actor—an organization or advocacy network. Adopting a collective action frame involves incorporating a product of the cultural system—a particular shared understanding of the world—into the political consciousness of individuals. Individual and sociocultural levels are linked through mobilizing acts in face-to-face encounters.”
- The collective identity of social movement organization is a shorthand designation announcing a status—a set of attitudes, commitments, and rules for behavior that those who assume the identity can be expected to subscribe to. It is also an individual announcement of affiliation, of connection with others. To partake of a collective identity is to reconstitute the individual self around a new and valued identity. Pray.
In essence, therefore, the individual is being reinvented and remade, he is being conditioned and programmed, into a devoted social activist or revolutionary tied inextricably to the cause through the movement. As regards a social movement, collective identity refers to that identity or status that attaches to the individual by virtue of his or her participation in movement activities.
One of the most powerful motivators of individual action is the desire to conform and be integrated into activist networks. Integration into these networks makes it more likely that the individual will value the identity of ‘activist’ and choose to act in accordance with it.” Pray
In addition to collective identity, the movement’s collective beliefs must be drilled into the individual.
- Collective beliefs and the way they are formed and transformed are the core of the social construction of protest;
- Interpersonal networks submerged in multiorganizational fields are the conduits of this process of meaning construction.
- Collective beliefs are constructed and reconstructed over and over; in public discourse, during the mobilization of consensus, and in the process of consciousness-raising during episodes of collective action.
Because collective beliefs are formed and transformed in interpersonal interactions, attempts to change the mind of a single individual would not be very effective in changing the collective beliefs unless that individual is influential in his or her interpersonal circle. Incoming information is processed and anchored in existing collective beliefs through interpersonal interaction. Only when actors are able to direct this interaction so that their message becomes anchored in existing beliefs can they transform collective beliefs. Thus every actor will be able to mobilize consensus more easily in some groups or categories than others. Pray.
And then there is class consciousness, including class and group identity, as yet another means to absorb the individual into the mass movements and revolutions. Empirical studies have demonstrated that class consciousness has developed in a variety of societies and historical periods, and that it has affected major revolutions and social movements. It has been one of the key determinants of social and historical change.
Society and culture are broken down into classes that are in a constant state of competition and conflict.
- Class consciousness influences the very nature of class conflict and helps determine the kinds of social structures—unions, political parties, workers’ associations—that will be erected and that affect the outcome of class conflict.
- Consequently, groups are dominated and oppressed by looking at society’s and the culture’s structural and historical prejudices and inequities, and the effect on their political influence.
- Group interests become paramount because systems of domination have no meaning outside the accumulation and defense of such interests. Pray.
We pray:
- For a full and complete halt to the influence of those who are advancing Marxism in our nation. Apprehend and remove faux leaders, including Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, and all those who are collaborating with them for evil. Pray.
- Lord, open people’s eyes to their true “collective” identity, as children of God, and redeem them from the clutches of Marxism’s “group think”, in all its ugly forms! Pray.
- For the United States to be restored to our foundational principles and fulfill her destiny to serve You in the end-time harvest of souls! Pray.
- For the people of Cuba, Afghanistan, and 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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