Jan 15, 2023 – Prayer Focus

Sunday, January 15, 2023 – 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! 

“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? 

Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified 

in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

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 Sunday 

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 245

The Returning of President Trump to the White House! – Part 135

“Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.”

Proverbs 20:1

We are pressing in, moving forward in our study of the forces of darkness that have had permission to invade our land! As we learn, let us also cause these idols to be destroyed and removed from us forever! Chapters 34 and 35 of THE RETURN OF THE GODS will take us deeper into understanding what the enemy’s plan is!

Chapter 34 The Wondrous Gate The return of the goddess had ushered in the sexual revolution, but the revolution that was now about to begin would require its own entrance. The goddess would need a portal through which to enter and by which to bring back into Western civilization that which had been kept out. She would need to come to the gate.

Ishtar at the Gate Ishtar had always been drawn to gates. Among her most prominent symbols was a pair of standards referred to as gateposts. And one of the most famous of all archaeological remains is that of the Ishtar Gate that opened the way to the city of Babylon. So too gates played a central role in her descent to the underworld. She demanded their opening. She would open them one way or another. It was her nature; she was the trespasser of boundaries. What she was now about to force open was the long-closed door, the locked gateway of Western civilization. She would have to come to the gateway to do it. In the late twentieth century, America was the leading power of Western civilization and of what could still be called Christian civilization. She would come to its gateway. Pray.

The Goddess in New York City America had one gateway above all others. It was the gateway through which millions entered and departed the nation, and through which trade, commerce, commodities, culture, and ideas poured in and out. It was the gate by which its most iconic statue lifted up its lamp “beside the golden door.”1 The gate was, of course, New York City. So the goddess who, in ancient times, was always drawn to the gate would now, upon her return, come to the central gate of American and Western civilization, New York City.

An Offering of Firstfruits One of the ancient inscriptions of her mythology tells of how she approached a “wondrous gate”: In the evening, she came forth with authority and stood in the street before a wondrous gate. She made an offering of firstfruits. So now again, the goddess would come “in the evening” and stand “in the street” before America’s “wondrous gate,” New York City. In the myth she makes an offering of “firstfruits.” Firstfruits refers to an offering or sacrifice that marks a beginning. So the goddess would now lift up her offering at the gate of America, the firstfruits, the beginning of a movement that would transform American culture and the world. So there, at America’s gateway, she would begin the opening of the ancient door. It would not open freely. But she was the goddess who boasted of the power to force open what had been closed to her. Pray.

Open Your Gate In the mythology of her descent to the underworld, she stands at the gate and calls out: “Gate-keeper, ho, open your gate! Open your gate that I may enter!” She would not be kept out. So in the summer of 1969, the goddess came to the gate and to Stonewall. That night, her spirit would indwell the multitude, who would then demand that long-closed door be opened to them. That night, it would all begin. And the movement that would transform world culture would begin, as it had to, at the gate. Pray.

Chapter 35 The Eshdam 

Ishtar dwelled in a place called the “eshdam”. What was it? And could it have pinpointed the exact location in which the explosion had to take place? 

The Tavern Eshdam was the ancient Mesopotamian word for a tavern, pub, or inn. The tavern was especially linked to the goddess. She was the protector of the eshdam, the patroness of taverns. Of the goddess’s special relationship to the tavern, one writer observed: “From this period and into the first millennium BCE, the tavern or alehouse was Inanna / Ishtar’s special province and one that she personally safeguarded.” The ancient hymns that sing her praise make a point of noting the connection between the two. The goddess sits in the eshdam and there makes her living. The connection between the two was so strong that the eshdam could be seen as her home. One writer notes it may be that images of “her home,” as the tavern was sometimes called, automatically enlisted that aspect of Inanna [Ishtar] which specifically protected the local pub. And could it have pinpointed the exact location in which the explosion had to take place?

The Stonewall Eshdam The goddess not only dwelled in the tavern but would use it for her purposes. So upon her return to the modern world, it was not only that she would enter by the gate, but that she would be sure to find an eshdam, a tavern, to use for her purposes. And so it was no accident that on that evening in the last days of June 1969, the workings of the goddess would converge as they had in ancient times—on an eshdam. In this case, the eshdam was called Stonewall. Stonewall was the fulfillment of the ancient Mesopotamian word. It was a tavern, a bar, an alehouse. It was the natural setting for the goddess’s dwelling and workings. There was hardly another place on earth more fitting by which to make her entrance. It had to begin there. Pray.

House of Ale Ishtar’s ancient eshdams were known for one alcoholic beverage in particular —beer. The word can more specifically also be translated as beer house or alehouse. The goddess dwelled in a house of beer. So Stonewall was especially known for one beverage above all others— beer. Visitors described it as being heavily saturated with the smell of beer. So as soon as one walked through its doors, one was met with the aroma of the eshdam. Beer was also central in the sacred libations offered up to Ishtar and the gods. Fermenting vats were used in religious rituals, spells, and incantations. The liquid was believed to possess magical powers. The eshdam or alehouse was believed to be a supernaturally charged space in possession of the goddess. So on that hot summer night of 1969, the eshdam would again become supernaturally charged and possessed by the goddess. Pray.

House of Altered Gender Another element of the eshdam was sexuality. The goddess confessed to using the eshdam to procure sexual relationships. So at Stonewall the element of sexuality was ever present. It was the issue of sexuality that distinguished Stonewall from most other bars in the city. And it was that issue of sexuality that ignited the explosion.

The goddess connects her altering of gender to a particular place: “When I sit in the alehouse [eshdam], I am a woman, and I am an exuberant young man.” Thus in the presence of the goddess, the eshdam became the place where the lines of gender were blurred and broken and where the nature of sexuality was altered, where a woman became a man and a man, a woman. And so it was with Stonewall; it was the eshdam where the lines of gender were blurred, crossed, and broken. It was the eshdam in which sexuality was altered and from which that altering would spread to the world. Pray.

Judgment House The eshdam would play another role in Ishtar’s mythology: “The holy Inanna [Ishtar] made enter [her] eshdam, She stood in judgment, decreed [their] fate.” The goddess is described as entering the eshdam or alehouse to bring vengeance. The eshdam thus becomes the goddess’s ground on which to redress her grievances, punish offenses, and exact retribution. On the night the riot began, the eshdam of Stonewall again became the site where offenses were punished, grievances redressed, and scores evened. That night, the multitude, inflamed by the spirit of the goddess, attempted to enter her eshdam and stand in judgment against a civilization they believed had sinned against them. Pray.

Go Down to Your Alehouse One Mesopotamian text says this of the goddess: “Harlot, you go down to the alehouse.” So in the summer of 1969, the goddess known as “the harlot” went “down to the alehouse”—Ishtar went down to Stonewall. Though it might come across as strange to Western ears, in ancient Mesopotamian texts the word for tavern or alehouse is, at times, joined to the Mesopotamian word for holy. The goddess is spoken of as possessing the “holy eshdam,” the “sacred alehouse,” the “holy tavern.” The tavern became something akin to her temple, hallowed ground. And so, the bar known as Stonewall would become enshrined as a holy place. It was no accident that the movement that disseminated the ways of the goddess would hallow as its sacred shrine its temple, Stonewall, its “sacred alehouse,” the “holy eshdam.” Pray.

We pray:

• For those who indulge inordinately in alcohol. Release them and allow them to break those chains of bondage and be freed completely, so they are no longer a prey for the demonic! 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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