Dec 16, 2022 – Prayer Focus

Friday, December 16, 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! 

 “So speak and so do, as those who will be judged by the law of liberty. 

For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.”

James 2:12-13

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. 

For us to receive and put on the full armor of God as we begin this hour, 

that we might be protected as we stand in the gap and pray for our nation! 

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 BATTLE TO SAVE AMERICA! – Part 222

The Returning of President Trump to the White House! – Part 104

 “As I live,” says the Lord God, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, 

but that the wicked turn from his way and live. 

Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?”

Ezekiel 33:11

As we conclude Chapter 9 and move into Chapter 10 of Jonathan Cahn’s THE RETURN OF THE GODS, we continue learning about the Possessor, the one who separated Israel from God! 

Baal and Zeus In later days Baal, in his incarnation as Baalshamen, or Baal Shamim, was identified with the god Zeus, head of the Greek pantheon. An ancient Nabatean text says this: “…they regarded as god the lord of heaven, calling him Beelsamen, which is in the Phoenician language “lord of heaven,” and in Greek “Zeus.” Syriac writers referred to Baalshamin as Zeus Olympios. Both gods appeared as idols standing in the same position, with arms lifted up and ready to hurl a thunderbolt to the earth. Zeus was presented as Zeus Belus, and Jupiter as Jupiter Belus, which could be translated respectively as “Zeus Baal” and “Jupiter Baal.” And so when the gods were cast out of the Greco-Roman world, Baal Shamin, or Jupiter Belus, was one of the exiled deities. Pray.

The Anti-God To the nation of Israel, Baal was the embodiment of paganism and of all pagan gods. He was the epitome of all that was not God and all that warred against Him. Baal was the “other’ god, the “substitute” god, the “instead of” God. He was Israel’s anti-God. He was the god that Israel turned to when it turned away from God. He was the god who separated Israel from its God, who drew it away, who made it forget the God of its foundation. Pray.

So if Baal was the god of the turning away, the god of the falling, the apostasy god, what would happen if he returned to the modern world? What would happen if he came back to possess a nation, a civilization? What would happen if Baal came to America?

Chapter 10 The Possessor Returns

Baal Comes to America How does a god of the ancient Middle East make his way into a twentieth-century Western nation? How would Baal come to America? What would be the sign of his coming? Baal was the god of apostasy. His mission was to take a nation that had known and been consecrated to God and turn it away from God, estrange and alienate it from the God of its foundation. As Baal was the chief of the “other” gods in Israel’s apostasy, he would be the first in America’s apostasy and the one to lead the way for the others. The turning of a nation away from God and to the gods often begins with the smallest of steps and an almost imperceptible shifting. But any opening is enough for Baal to get in and then push the door further ajar. In the case of ancient Israel, it would seem a little thing to add prayers to Baal alongside the worship of God to increase one’s prosperity. But it would not stay little. Pray.

The Once and Other America In the mid-twentieth century the majority of Western nations were still viewed as Christian or Judeo-Christian, and America was decidedly and proudly so. It stood in clear opposition to Marxist ideology and the atheism of Soviet Russia and Communist China. America was a nation in which even liberal newspapers would publish summations of sermons preached throughout the city the previous Sunday. Its leading magazines could advocate for Christian morality and Christian revival. Its entertainment was expected to uphold biblical and Christian values and to never attack them. And it was not a strange thing for its television stations to sign off at night with a sermonette or prayer. It was a nation in which the majority of those on the political Left and Right saw themselves as sincere followers of Jesus or God and in which politicians would freely cite God and Christian values in their public discourse. America in the mid-twentieth century was a nation in which children were not only allowed to pray in public schools but actually led in prayer by their teachers, and where teachers read the Word of God in their classrooms. And it was an America that declared itself “one nation, under God.” It was into that nation that the spirit of Baal came. Pray.

The Ancient Amnesia How does that spirit come into a nation that has known of God? The Book of Judges reveals how it began in the case of ancient Israel: “They forgot the LORD their God, and served the Baals and Asherahs.” In the Book of Jeremiah, written in the last days of that apostasy, the voice of God laments over the nation’s spiritual condition: “Their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.” The mission of Baal is to cause a nation that has known God to stop knowing Him and then to forget Him, and then to forget that it ever knew Him. The spirit of Baal caused Israel to forget the God of its foundation and become estranged from Him. By the end of the process, it could no longer remember or imagine what it was like to have known Him. Pray.

The American Amnesia And so when Baal returned to the modern world, his mission would be the same—to cause America and the West to forget its God. How would he do that? After the destruction of Israel, or Samaria, in 722 BC, the Bible gave a requiem for the fallen kingdom: “And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed idols, became idolaters.… So they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.” The people were drawn away from the Word of God, the laws of God, and the ways of God. In the case of America, Baal would use the same strategy. He would first seek to separate the nation from the Word and ways of God. Pray.

The Banishing of God Though the seeds of America’s turning from God can be found in earlier days, it would become most noticeable and would achieve critical mass in the 1960s. It was at the beginning of that decade that America removed prayer from its public schools. The act was soon followed by the banning of God’s Word from the instruction of the nation’s children. The Bible had always been part of the American public school system, from its beginnings at Massachusetts Bay. Thus the change was a monumental one—and with regard to the spirit of Baal, a strategic one.

Children of Baal When Baal was unable to possess one generation of Israelites, he would focus on the next—the nation’s children. Since children represent the future, if he could take hold of America’s children, he could take hold of America. So by removing prayer and the Word from the education of America’s children, he was weakening the transmission of faith to the next generation. He could then separate the entire nation from prayer, from the Word, and from faith. By causing God’s ways to become alien to the nation’s children, he could cause the alienation of America from God. Pray.

The Baalization of America Baal’s American agenda was not limited to its school system. It would permeate every sphere of American culture. Its major newspapers would no longer publish summations of the past Sundays’ sermons, its leading magazines would no longer endorse Christian values, its entertainment would no longer uphold biblical morality, its politicians would speak less openly of Christian values, and its television stations would no longer promote prayer or present the ways of God in a positive light but would now war against them. Praying to God or mentioning the name of Jesus in the public square would be increasingly viewed with hostility. The nation was becoming increasingly alienated from the ways of God. Pray.

A War of Tablets The law that God gave Israel was a safeguard against the gods and the ways of paganism. The very first of the Ten Commandments was, “You shall have no other gods before Me.” So for Baal to gain possession of Israel, he had to separate the people from the Law of God and, as it was summed up, the Ten Commandments. The writer of 2 Kings confirms what happened: “So they left all the commandments of the LORD their God.” The Ten Commandments and the Law were also at the foundation of Western civilization. In the case of America, they were specifically cited as the cornerstone on which the new society was to be built. So for Baal to gain possession of America, he would do just as he did to ancient Israel. He would cause them to put away the Ten Commandments and depart from the ways of God. So in 1980, the Supreme Court ruled that it was no longer legal to display the Ten Commandments in public schools. They were what the American school system had once taught and lifted up as the nation’s moral foundation. Now it was illegal to even make them visible in public. But the conflict would not end in the halls of America’s public schools. The nation would strike down the Ten Commandments more than once. The Ten Commandments would come under governmental judgment and be banished from the public square. Pray.

We pray:

• That we would humble ourselves before our Sovereign God, asking Him to forgive our unfaithfulness and to extend His scepter to the United States once again! Pray. 
• For President Trump: 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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