Jan 17, 2019 – Prayer Focus

24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call Thursday, January 17, 2019 

“A CALL TO THE WALL…ONE NATION UNDER GOD” 

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We have received several warnings about pending threats against the 24/7 call. We will not tolerate any demonic interference! We are taking measures to protect as well as to defend our 24/7 family and the call. At the top of every hour, the facilitator will take the first 3 minutes to bind all forces of evil and cast them down into the abyss. They will then pray a shield of protection over the call and our 24/7 family 

*The key assignment for the 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call is to intercede hourly 

for the safety and security of our President and to pray for that which pertains to our nation!

We pray for the protection of our President, Donald Trump and cover him with the Blood of Jesus. 

Thank You for instructing and guiding him, giving him wisdom through Your Holy Spirit. 

We bless his wife, our First Lady, Melania, their young son Barron and each of their family members. 

We also cover our Vice President Mike Pence, his wife Karen and their family with that Precious Blood,

and include all those in the Trump Administration who are serving You and our nation! Thank You, Father!

Strategic Focus for Thursday 

WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES

The Shedding of Innocent Blood – Part 2

For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.

 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. 

My frame was not hidden from You,When I was made in secret, 

And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 

Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written,

The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.

Psalm 139:13-16

For Christians, who know and believe what God speaks about life in the Bible, here are ten reasons why we know what is happening in abortion, and why it is wrong. Our threefold aim in this focus is:

• To make it clear that none of us will not be able to defend ourselves with the claim of ignorance. All of us know it is wrong! See how relevant God’s Word is to our present situation re: abortion:

Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. 

If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? 

Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?

Proverbs 24:11–12

• To solidify our conviction to resist this horrific evil.
• To intensify our prayer toward gospel-based soul-renovation in our land, because sinful hardness of heart, not innocent ignorance, is at the root of this carnage.

A biblical principle of justice is that the more knowledge we have that our action is wrong, the more guilty we are, and the more deserving of punishment. 

When it comes to abortion, we know what we are doing – all America knows. We are killing children. Both pro-choice and pro-life people know this. 

What the Supreme Court did 46 years ago in Roe v. Wade was to make “abortion on demand” untouchable by law. The way this was done was with two steps.

• One step was to say, laws may not prevent abortion, even during the full nine months, if the abortion is “to preserve the life or health of the mother.” 
• The other step was to define “health” as “all factors — physical, emotional, psychological, familial and the woman’s age — relevant to the well-being of the patient.”

So, for 46 years, “any perceived stress” gave legal ground for eliminating the child. We have killed over 60 million babies. What increases our guilt as a nation is that we know what we are doing. Here’s the evidence: 

1. Abortionists will admit they are killing children. Many simply say it is the lesser of two evils, that It’s simply a matter of justice for women and would be a greater evil to deny women the equal right of reproductive freedom.
They believe that women should be no more encumbered by the consequences of an unplanned pregnancy than men, that equal freedom from the burden of bearing unwanted children is the basis for abortion…and that means willfully killing children

We pray:

2. “When the unborn are wanted, they are treated as children and patients. When they are unwanted, they are not children.” Of our 50 states, 38 of them treat the killing of an unborn child as a form of homicide under “fetal homicide laws.” It is illegal to take the life of the unborn if the mother wants the baby, but it is legal to take the life of the unborn if she doesn’t. In the first case the law treats the fetus as a human with rights; in the second case the law treats the fetus as non-human with no rights. Humanness is thus defined by the desire of the strong. Might makes right. We reject this right to define personhood in the case of Nazi anti-Semitism, Confederate race-based slavery, and Soviet Gulags. When we define the humanness of the unborn by the will of the powerful we know what we are doing.
We pray:

3. Fetal surgery treats the unborn as children and patients. High risk pregnancy specialist, Dr. Steve Calvin, in a letter to the Arizona Daily Star, wrote, “There is inescapable schizophrenia in aborting a perfectly normal 22 week fetus while at the same hospital, performing intrauterine surgery on its cousin.” When the unborn are wanted, they are treated as children and patients. When they are not wanted, they are not children. We know what we are doing.
We pray:

4. Being small does not disqualify personhood. The five-foot-eight frame of a teenage son guarantees him no more right to life than the 23-inch frame of his little sister in her mother’s arms. Size is, we know, morally irrelevant. One inch, 23 inches, 68 inches — does not matter. It is morally irrelevant in deciding who should be protected. We know what we are doing in killing the smallest.

We pray:

5. Not having a developed reasoning power does not disqualify personhood. A one-month-old infant, nursing at his mother’s breast, does not have reasoning powers. But only a few dare argue that infanticide is therefore acceptable. Most know better. Outside and inside the womb the infant cannot yet reason, but, in spite of that, is a human person. We know what we are doing.
We pray:

6. Being in the womb does not disqualify human personhood. Location or environment does not determine a right to life. “How does a simple journey of seven inches down the birth canal suddenly transform the essential nature of the fetus from non-person to person?” We know what we are doing.
We pray:

7. Being dependent on mommy does not disqualify personhood. We consider persons on respirators or dialysis to be human beings. The unborn cannot be disqualified from human personhood because they are dependent on their mother for food and oxygen. In fact, we operate on the exact opposite principle: The more dependent a little one is on us, the more responsibility we feel to protect him, not the less. We know what we are doing.
We pray:

(Those last four observations, points 4 through 7, are summed up under the acronym SLED: Size, Level of development, Environment, Degree of dependence — none is morally relevant for the definition of human life.)

8. The genetic makeup of humans is unique. The genetic makeup of a human is different from all other creatures from the moment of conception. The human code is complete and unique from the start. Once that was not known. Now we know.
We pray:

9. All the organs are present at eight weeks of gestation. At eight weeks of gestation all the organs are present. The brain is functioning, the heart pumping, the liver making blood cells, the kidney cleaning the fluids, the finger has a print. Yet almost all abortions happen later than this date. We know what we are doing.
We pray:

10. We have seen the photographs. The marvel of ultrasound has given a stunning window into the womb that shows the unborn, for example, at 8 weeks sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking, responding to sound. We know that they are children.
We pray:

11. When two legitimate rights conflict, the higher value should be protected. That is a principle of justice. The right that protects the higher value should prevail. We deny the right to drive at 100 miles per hour because the value of life is greater than the value of being on time or getting thrills. The right of the unborn not to be killed and the right of a woman not to be pregnant may be at odds. But they are not equal rights. Staying alive is more precious and more basic than not being pregnant. We know what we are doing when we kill a child.
We pray:

(Portions adapted from an article by John Piper) 

When will God’s people learn to stand in their full authority and decree the end of this merciless practice of abortion, taking in place in what is supposed to be a civilized society? “If My people”…if “we, the people”, would only rise up as one united voice, and cry out in repentance for this national sin, God would bring conviction to the perpetrators, so that they could no longer stand their guilt and would fall on their faces crying out for mercy! 

“Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. I will set My face against that man, and will cut him off from his people, because he has given some of his descendants to Molech, to defile My sanctuary and profane My holy name. And if the people of the land should in any way hide their eyes from the man, when he gives some of his descendants to Molech, and they do not kill him, then I will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut him off from his people, 

and all who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry with Molech.”

Leviticus 20:1-5

We, the Ekklesia take a stand today, and we call for an end to the merciless practices of abortion, child abuse, and the murder of our children in school systems, on the streets and through child sex trafficking.

We pray: 

• That You would forgive us as a nation for the innocent blood shed, here and in all countries where this horrible agenda of killing babies has been perpetrated.
• That the Blood of Jesus would cover the innocent blood that has been shed by unborn aborted babies who have been killed. 
• That Holy Spirit would bring conviction to those who shed innocent blood until they can no longer stand their guilt and fall on their faces crying for mercy!
• That the destinies of every child conceived would be free to be lived out in Your world. May all of Your beautiful children be saved from the hands of evil men.

We conclude with this familiar prayer asking for cleansing of our nation of the innocent blood that’s been shed: 

“Jesus, I plead your blood over my sins and the sins of my nation. 

God, end abortion and send revival to America.”

– Lou Engle

For bulletin inserts and other pro-life resources, go to:

https://www.lifemattersww.org/CHURCHES/Sanctity-of-Human-Life-Sunday

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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! 

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