Aug 8, 2025 – Prayer Focus
Friday, August 8, 2025 – 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!
“Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint,
but blessed is he who keeps the law.”
Proverbs 29:18
We sing: Be Thou My Vision
Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart. Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art.
Thou my best thought, by day and by night, waking or sleeping, Thy Presence my light.
Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my true Word, I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord.
Thou my great Father, and I Thy true son, Thou in me dwelling and I with Thee one.
Riches I heed not, nor vain, empty praise. Thou mine inheritance, now and always.
Thou and Thou only first in my heart, High King of heaven, my treasure Thou art.
High King of heaven, my victory won, may I reach heaven’s joys, bright heaven’s sun.
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, still be my vision, O Ruler of all.
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, still be my vision, O Ruler of all.
Still be my vision, O Ruler of all.
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For us to receive and put on the Ephesians 6 “full armor of God” as we begin each hour,
that we might be protected as we continue to “stand in the gap” for our beloved country!
Pray.
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 his protection and ask that he be led by the Holy Spirit
so that he will discern truth and act for the good of the nation.
We bless our First Lady, Melania, their marriage and family, and cover them all with the Blood of Jesus.
Pray.
For those leaders that God has anointed, appointed, and elected,
as they take their places in the governments of each state and in our nation’s Capitol!
May they work together to clean up corruption in our government and restore our electoral system.
Pray.
For God’s blessing and intervention in the life of Joe Hoft and his family,
bringing a miraculous resolution to the issues threatening and attacking him!
Pray.
We will now spend the next 10 minutes praying for President Trump,
focusing our prayers against any demonic attacks against his physical body,
in particular, the issuance of the demonic decree (“fatwa”) by the Iranian Ayatollah,
calling on Muslims to take his life.
Let him remain in good health, so he can serve his entire 4-year term as our 47th US President!
Pray.
Strategic Focus for Friday
WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ENGAGING IN A WARFARE OF LOVE, PRAYING FOR THE SALVATION OF OUR NATION
AND THE RESTORATION OF OUR FOUNDING PRINCIPLES – PART 200
“All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.”
Isaiah 54:13
With the new Texas ”cell phone ban,” students in that state will have to start talking To each other!!! Read and pray!
With August upon us, the month most kids dread after summer vacation, Texas public school teachers like myself are singing a different tune. The Texas legislature has banned cellphone use on all school campuses during school hours. Thanks to this new policy, Texas students will no longer scroll on TikTok during lessons, Google answers during assessments, and violently clash with teachers who ask them to put away their phones. For the first time in years, students will experience what school was like in the dark ages when kids talked to their peers face-to-face, did their work during class, and endured hours of boredom when that work was done. Perhaps students will discover the lost arts of doodling, passing notes, planning outings with friends, and reading actual books from the school library. They may even cultivate real personalities and introduce themselves to one another.
Pray.
After all, the proliferation of smartphones has been extremely corrosive and deleterious for students in the last decade. These pesky pocket-sized screens have effectively ruined Gen Z, turning otherwise healthy, well-adjusted youths into ignorant, anxious, and lonely zombies. Parents may have kept their children out of trouble and trained them to be relatively tolerable in public, but this is only because they unwittingly sedated them with smartphones. From a teacher’s perspective, competing with the smartphone was always a losing proposition. The best we could hope for was to convince at least some of our students to stay off their devices for their own good.
Pray.
I reinforced this message by assigning at least a dozen articles on the negative effects of smartphones, in an effort to help my students reach their potential and recover a part of their humanity. They would often complain about my obvious agenda, but they could never argue that these articles — often loaded with research and expert testimony — were wrong. Once my case was made and my conscience was clear, I could then use different materials to help my students improve their reading, writing, and thinking. The biggest source of my excitement is not the academic boost, but the social benefits that will emerge from a phone-free environment.
Pray.
When I began teaching in 2007 (the year the iPhone came out), I labored tirelessly to keep my classes quiet and focused. I planned extra work, created an assigned seating chart, and kept the students in rows to establish a productive learning atmosphere. Once phones became ubiquitous, however, and schools stopped taking them from students, the whole dynamic of my classes changed. From managing a class of chatty students, I found myself urging students to get off their phones and actually talk to their classmates. Over the years, I saw far fewer students making friends and dating, applying themselves to their schoolwork, and becoming self-advocates. I also noticed a steady loss of innocence, joy, and youthful energy. Yes, schools might have become less rowdy because of smartphones, but they are still stressful and dispiriting places, if not more so than before. With the smartphone ban, this will change, but it would be foolish to assume this transition will be painless and smooth. For the first few weeks, students will struggle with the massive disruption of their habits. Young people who binged shows and media content all summer long will be forced into a detox program for eight hours each weekday. The withdrawal symptoms will be intense, and teachers will not be able to enjoy any “honeymoon phase”… and many kids will struggle to adjust and likely lash out in frustration.
Pray.
Even after these first few weeks, it will take some time for students to build up routines that don’t include checking their phones every other minute. They will need to develop the vocabulary and patience of spoken communication and recover the lost art of empathizing with others. So much of this will be new for them, and there will be plenty of awkward exchanges and misunderstandings….but it will all be worth it. This will require administrators to support this new policy and teachers to resist allowing students to use their phones. Let us willingly enforce this new policy so students can finally learn in their classes this coming year.
Pray.
We pray:
Father, thank You for technology that allows us to communicate effectively. We ask that each generation will learn to use it appropriately and be enabled to think and communicate with others effectively. Pray.
Bless all students at every grade level that are preparing to return to school. May it be one of the best years of their educational life. Pray.
That the people of our nation will stand alongside President Trump, and remain engaged in this BATTLE TO SAVE AMERICA until VICTORY is won! Pray.
Protect and strengthen our 24/7 family and bring in new intercessors, in particular, Godly men and those of the next generation who are called to this assignment with us, to pray for our President and our beloved nation! Prepare us for our NEXT STEPS in this Battle to Save America! Pray.
(Resource: Auguste Meyrat / The Federalist)
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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!
REVIVAL – from Heart to heart!
PARENTAL CARE and CHRISTIAN LOVE for ALL CHILDREN!
UNITE US! FOR THE KING AND HIS KINGDOM, FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION!
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