Dec 10, 2022 – Prayer Focus
Saturday, December 10, 2022 – 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!
“Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
Hebrews 4:16
We sing: Lord, have mercy on us!
Lord, have mercy on us. Come and heal our land.
Cleanse with Your Fire, heal with Your Touch.
Humbly we bow and call upon You now.
Oh, Lord, have mercy on us. Oh, Lord, have mercy on us.
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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.
Pray.
For the restoration of Donald Trump to his rightful office.
In every situation and decision, let our President be led by the Holy Spirit,
so that he learns the truth and acts accordingly, for the good of the nation.
Pray.
For protection, provision, and peace
for all working to expose the fraud and corruption of our elections!
As the SAVE AMERICA movement gains momentum, let those leaders that God anoints and appoints
take their places in the governments of each state and in our nation’s Capitol!
Pray.
Strategic Focus for Saturday
WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
THE BATTLE TO SAVE AMERICA! – Part 216
The Returning of President Trump to the White House! – Part 98
“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its savor, with what shall it be salted?
It is no longer good for anything, but to be thrown out and to be trodden underfoot by men.”
Matthew 5:13
Knowing that we are “the salt of the earth,” as we continue praying into THE RETURN OF THE GODS by Jonathan Cahn, let us consider the ancient salt. It was found in riverbeds and marshes and had to be cleansed of impurities before it was able to be of use because it absorbed the elements from the environment in which it was found. So too, with us. We are in the world, but not of it! We must be cleansed of its influence in our lives, in order to be of use to the King and His Kingdom! Pray.
PART II: THE SPIRITS Chapter 3 – The Shedim
Planet of the Gods THE GODS WERE everywhere. They haunted the ancient world. The fact that in the past two thousand years they have not been everywhere is an exception to the rule. For most of recorded history the gods were in every land and enthroned on the pinnacle of every major culture and civilization, from the god Enlil of Sumer to Ra of Egypt, Amarok of the Arctic, Kukulkan of Central America, Wotan of northern Europe, Dionysus of Greece, Obatala of Africa, Tiamat of Babylon, Bixia of China, Oro of Polynesia, Ahura Mazda of Persia, Perun of Russia, Shamash of Assyria, Dagda of Ireland, Juno of Rome, Shiva of India, and a countless multitude of others. Wherever there were people, there were gods. They reigned over nations, over cities, over cultures, over nature, over the underworld, and over the heavenlies. Their presence permeated the lives of their subjects. The people were bound to them. That the gods could appear in every land, transcending the many differences, distinctions, and barriers of culture, to become a near universal part of human life is a strange and peculiar phenomenon. To modern sensibilities, the phenomenon of the gods is the product of man’s imagination, his projections, his fears, desires, and fantasies. That is certainly part of the story. But what if there was more to it? What if there was another dynamic in the mix, another realm? Pray.
The Devastators In the Book of Deuteronomy, Moses speaks of a people departing from God and turning elsewhere: They sacrificed to shedim, not to God, to gods they did not know, to new gods, new gods that had come. In turning away from God, they worship other gods. Those other gods are identified as the shedim. In all the Hebrew Scriptures the word appears only once more, in the Book of Psalms: They served their idols, which became a snare to them. They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to shedim. The word shedim again stands for the gods and idols of the nations that the people of Israel turned to when they turned away from God. What does it mean? Shedim comes from the Hebrew root word shud, which means to act violently, to lay waste, to devastate, that which brings destruction. In ancient Babylonian writings, the word shedim or shedu speaks of spirits, protective or malevolent. The latter case would match the root word from which the word shedim derives. A malevolent spirit would lay waste and devastate and bring destruction. Pray.
The Daimonia When the ancient Jewish scholars rendered the Hebrew Bible into Greek, in a translation known as the Septuagint, they had to find the right word in Greek to stand for shedim. The word they used could refer to a spirit, a principality, an occult entity—a god. The word was daimonion. It is from this that we get the word demon, a malevolent or evil spirit. In the Jewish world, the shedim are demonic spirits. So the Septuagint translates Deuteronomy 32:17 this way: “They sacrificed to daimoniois, not to God, but to gods they did not know, to new gods, new gods that had come to them.” And Psalm 106:36–37 is rendered: “They served their idols, which became a trap for them. They even sacrificed their sons and daughters to daimoniois.” Writing to the believers in the city of Corinth, the apostle Paul spoke of the sacrifices offered up on the altars of the Gentile or pagan world: “…the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to daimonia and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with daimonia.” So Paul writes that when the Gentiles offered their sacrifices to their gods, they were actually offering them to the daimonia, the same word used in the Septuagint to stand for the Hebrew shedim, the dark or malevolent spirits. Pray.
The ancient Greeks viewed the daimonia much the same way that the Babylonians viewed demons—as spirits that could be good or evil, while in the Bible the word is used only to signify spirits of evil. The words of the apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians are strikingly similar to the words of Moses in Deuteronomy 32 and of the psalmist in Psalm 106. All three Scriptures speak of the spirits, the shedim, the daimonia, as being worshiped and offered sacrifices. In Deuteronomy and Psalms, those sacrificing to the shedim are Israelites who have turned away from God. In 1 Corinthians, those sacrificing to the daimonia are of the pagan world. Pray.
The Entities All three reveal a connection that is far-reaching and profound. When the Israelites offered up their children as sacrifices, they were doing so on the altars of specific gods. Likewise, the idols to which the Gentile world offered up sacrifices represented specific deities, gods of the pagan world. In other words, the gods of ancient Canaan and Phoenicia to which the Israelites sacrificed were not simply figments of pagan imagination but actual spiritual entities. Likewise, the gods that the Gentiles worshiped and sacrificed to in the first-century Roman Empire, gods with such names as Jupiter, Apollo, Vesta, and Bacchus were not simply the imagined or invented characters of pagan mythology—but were connected to spiritual entities, the daimonia, demonic spirits. Pray.
From the Old Testament Hebrew to the New Testament Greek, the revelation is clear and consistent—behind the gods of the pagan world were the shedim, the daimonia, the spirits. Worship is connected to spirituality. Spirituality is connected to the Spirit or to spirits. Spirits, as revealed in the Bible, can be either of light or of darkness. Spirits of light are called angels. Spirits of darkness are called demons. And while angelic entities are, by nature, joined to the worship of God, demonic entities are, by nature, at war with the worship of God. They would thus lead one away from the worship of God, even if through the means and form of other gods. Pray.
The Ancient Key Could that which the Scriptures reveal about the shedim and the daimonia provide the key to the phenomenon and mystery of the gods? Could it be the reason behind their universality, why they have transcended the vast spectrum of human culture and have manifested in every land on earth? Could it be the key behind the many similarities and convergences between the cult of the gods and the world of the occult, the overlapping of the ancient pagan rites to the gods and witchcraft? This is not, of course, to suggest that mythology is real. Mythology is mythology. But is it possible that the mythological worlds of pagan worship contain connections to the spiritual realm, shadows of the shedim and the daimonia? Could one be affected by the other? Could the mythology of the gods contain revelation concerning the realm of the spirits? And could the realm of the spirits employ the mythologies of the gods? In other words, is it possible that the mythologies of the gods have, in varied ways and degrees, followed the spirits, the shedim and the daimonia? And is it possible, as well, that the shedim and daimonia, the spirits, have, in some way and to varied degrees, followed the gods and utilized their mythologies for other purposes? (Note: From this point forward, when the gods or a specific god is spoken of as possessing agency, consciousness, and will, it is referring to the spirits and principalities that lie and operate behind them.) Pray.
If the gods are spirits and the spirits are gods, then what happens when people or nations are given to them? Is it possible for entire peoples, nations, or civilizations to become possessed? Pray.
We pray:
- For a supernatural awareness of the power of God and His power in us to defeat the darkness attempting to overwhelm and destroy our nation! Pray
- For frustration, confusion and division among the Democrats during these last days of holding the majority in the House, so that they can accomplish nothing else destructive to our people and nation! Pray.
- For President Trump, as he presses onward (KADIMA!) during this tumultuous time! Guard, guide and govern his every word and action; protect him from all enemies, without and within; help him discern rightly about counsel given by those who advise him. Pray.
- In thanksgiving for all the conservative candidates who will “stand in the gap” with us and our President, engaging in this BATTLE TO SAVE AMERICA, and rejecting the “usurper” and those pulling his strings in this faux administration, removing them from office! Pray.
- Protect and strengthen our 24/7 family and bring in new intercessors who are called to this assignment with us, to pray for our President and our beloved nation! Pray.
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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!
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