Feb 20, 2025 – Prayer Focus
Thursday, February 20, 2025 – The 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call
“A CALL TO THE WALL…ONE NATION UNDER GOD”
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We begin our hour by praising and giving thanks to God!
“You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power;
for You created all things,
and by Your will they exist and were created.”
Revelation 4:11
We sing: My Tribute
How can I say thanks for the things You have done for me?
Things so undeserved, yet You gave to prove Your love for me.
The voices of a million angels could not express my gratitude.
All that I am and ever hope to be, I owe it all to Thee.
To God be the glory! To God be the glory! To God be the glory for the things He has done!
With His blood, He has saved me, with His power, He has raised me,
to God be the glory for the things He has done.
Oh, just let me live my life, let it be pleasing, Lord to Thee
and if I gain any praise, let it go to Calvary!
Oh, with His blood, He has saved me, with His power, He has raised me
To God be the glory for the things He has done!
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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.
We will now spend the next 10 minutes praying for President Trump,
asking that he serve his entire 4 year term as our 47th US President to the GLORY OF GOD!
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!
ENGAGING IN A WARFARE OF LOVE: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, GOD’S CHAMPION FOR WORLD EVANGELISM AND COMPASSION MINISTRY – PART 32
“Blessed are those who keep justice, and he who does righteousness at all times!”
Psalm 106:3
As we reviewed Vice President JD Vance’s stirring speech over the past few days, we saw that it caused quite a stir on the global scene, due to his warning to Europe about its “retreat from ‘fundamental values” of faith and freedom. Today, we take a final look at it, through the eyes of Ben Johnson, senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand. Read and rejoice in the TRUTH being boldly spoken by our VP! To God be the GLORY!
Vice President J.D. Vance debuted on the international stage Friday morning with a powerful speech aimed at awakening foreign elites to their violation of pro-life advocates’ rights, censorship of Christians, and “running in fear of your own voters.” Vance fearlessly faced down the assembled powers of Europe at the Munich Security Conference, highlighting one nation’s Orwellian prosecution of pro-life Christians for the crime of silent public prayer, and the members’ collective determination to preserve “Our Democracy,” without respecting civil liberties or the will of the people. After mentioning President Donald Trump’s intention to reach “a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine” to end the nearly three-year-long war between the two Orthodox Christian nations, Vance pivoted to the true specter haunting Europe. “The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia; it’s not China; it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within: the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America,” said Vance. (The vice president’s wording shed light on President Trump’s use of the phrase “the enemy within,” which Democrats attempted to morph into a promise to use the U.S. military against American citizens.) Pray.
Vance placed two unalienable rights at the heart of his critique: the right to life and freedom of religion as he called out Europe’s ‘Backslide Away from Conscience Rights’ “Perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons, in particular, in the crosshairs,” said Vance. “A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith-Connor, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and veteran, after he admitted he was praying silently outside an abortion facility in Bournemouth for his son, Jacob, who had been aborted 22 years earlier. “Adam was found guilty of breaking the government’s new buffer zones law, which criminalizes silent prayer,” said Vance. Although Smith-Connor spoke not a word and stood with his back to the abortion facility, police prosecuted him for violating a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) that bans any hint of disapproval within 150 meters (almost 500 feet) of an abortion facility. The case bears similarities to that of Isabel Vaughn-Spruce, whom courts convicted twice of the same “crime” of silent prayer inside a “buffer zone.” Vance also noted: “Last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called ‘safe access zones,’ warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime in Britain and across Europe.” The Scottish government’s letter threatens anyone who prays “in a private place (such as a house)” if the prayers “can be seen or heard within the Zone and are done intentionally or recklessly.” Vance proceeded to highlight yet more cases of European nations stifling free speech and religious liberty. “I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago, the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Quran burnings that resulted in his friend’s murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden’s laws to supposedly protect free expression do not, in fact, grant — and I’m quoting — a ‘free pass’ to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief,” he said. The threat extends to online speech, “where EU Commission commissars warned citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest, the moment they spot what they’ve judged to be ‘hateful content,’ or to this very country where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of ‘combating misogyny’ on the internet.” He spoke of how, in years past, the U.S. government (under the Biden-Harris administration) encouraged and engaged in censorship. “The prior administration threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so-called ‘misinformation’, for example, the idea that coronavirus had likely leaked from a laboratory in China. Our own government encouraged private companies to silence people who dared to utter what turned out to be an obvious truth,” noted the vice president, reminding listeners of the precedent in quashing disfavored speech by the Soviet Union. Pray.
The EU’s problem with freedom extends beyond criminalizing speech to disregarding citizens’ votes, Vance diagnosed. “I was struck that a former European commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted that the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election. He warned that if things don’t go to plan, the very same thing could happen in Germany, too.” Indeed, Romanian nationalist candidate Calin Georgescu won the first round of the nation’s presidential election. But on December 6, the nation’s Constitutional Court chillingly annulled the election, alleging that foreign intelligence boosted social media messages to favor Georgescu, thereby stealing the election. Former European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton seemingly threatened a similar future if the populist Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) wins the German elections, saying, “We did it in Romania, and we will obviously do it in Germany if necessary.” That seems particularly ironic, since “everything from our Ukraine policy to digital censorship is billed as a defense of democracy,” said Vance, yet “we see European courts canceling elections.” “No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants,” Vance continued, noting the terrorist attack that took place in Munich the morning he arrived. He highlighted eight-and-a-half years of efforts to cancel Brexit, the 2016 popular referendum to leave the European Union just months before President Trump’s first election, largely based on open borders and stifling economic regulations imposed by Brussels. “Contrary to what you might hear a couple of mountains over in Davos, the citizens of all of our nations don’t generally think of themselves as educated animals or as interchangeable cogs of a global economy.” Vance warned the Eurocrats, literally, “There is a new sheriff in town” in the White House. “In America, you cannot win a democratic mandate by censoring your opponents or putting them in jail, whether that’s the leader of the opposition, a humble Christian praying in her own home, or a journalist trying to report the news.” Pray.
The VP also previewed a new foreign policy, requiring Europe to step up its own defense, largely provided by the U.S. taxpayer since the end of World War II. At the time, Americans saw the arrangement necessary to prevent Western Europe from being overrun by Soviet troops. More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Americans have finally reconsidered whether they should police squabbles between European nations that bear little impact on our national interests. “President Trump has made abundantly clear, he believes that our European friends must play a bigger role in the future of this continent,” the vice president declared. That will mean Europe paying more for its own defense, like any other nation. Vance closed his exhortation for Europeans to reclaim their ancestral rights to freedom of speech and religion with the words Pope John Paul II told his native Poland shortly after his election as pontiff: “Do not be afraid.” In an echo of the Polish pontiff’s address, Vance delivered the best speech delivered by anyone associated with the Trump administration since President Donald Trump’s remarkable address in Warsaw in July 2017. “We put faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, at the center of our lives,” declared President Trump, who culminated the speech by leading the crowd in a chant of, “We want God!” Pray.
Conservatives lauded the vice president’s address. “This is American leadership like we’ve never seen before,” said Aaron Baer, president of the Ohio-based Center for Christian Virtue. Douglas Carswell, a former Member of Parliament, now president of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, called Vance’s address “the most consequential speech in Europe since Thatcher at Bruges. And essentially an updated version of it.” Perhaps the highest praise came from British pro-life advocate Adam Smith-Connor who said that he was “deeply moved” and “tremendously grateful that the vice-president is showcasing the deterioration of fundamental freedoms in the U.K. and … holding the U.K. accountable for prosecuting innocent people…These laws do nothing to protect women. They are targeted to go after peaceful expression.” His attorney, Jeremiah Igunnubole of ADF International, agreed, “The policing of people’s very thoughts in ‘buffer zones’ is the most extreme example of censorship across the West. While crime festers on the streets of England, it’s unbelievable that police time and resources are focused on criminalizing peaceful Christians, who simply want to pray. Nobody can deny that we are riding roughshod over freedom of speech and of thought. I thank VP Vance for issuing this wake-up call to our government — we must restore basic standards of human rights.”
The dangers Vance highlighted are not going anywhere. Thankfully, for the next four years, neither is the Trump-Vance administration’s principled, faithful leadership on these issues. Pray.
We pray:
That the right to life and freedom of religion will be treasured and advanced throughout the world as the cry “Let my people go!” boldly resounds through the voices of the righteous. Pray.
In gratitude for the principled, faithful leadership President Trump and VP Vance are giving, not only to the United States but to the world. 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 – and in particular, Godly men – 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: Ben Johnson, The Washington Stand)
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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!
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