Jun 20, 2021 – Prayer Focus
Sunday, June 20, 2021 – 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!
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.”
Proverbs 3:5-6
We sing: Trust and Obey
When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word, what a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will, He abides with us still, and with all who will trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Not a shadow can rise, not a cloud in the skies, but His smile quickly drives it away.
Not a doubt or a fear, not a sigh or a tear, can abide while we trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Then in fellowship sweet we will sit at His feet. or we’ll walk by His side in the way.
What He says we will do, where He sends we will go. Never fear, only trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
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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.
We ask that in every situation and decision, President Trump will be led by the Holy Spirit!
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 for the Survival of the Nation! – Part 41
The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission Report – Part 20
“He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”
Philippians 2:8
Today, as we continue to look at the factors that contributed to the decline of American education, let us consider the verse above, speaking of Christ’s obedience. Contrast that with the actions of those who have rejected God and refused to obey His commandments, and are trying to influence others in the same way!
Here on the 24/7 NSPC, we are mindful of something that AW Tozer once said:
“Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.”
Our responsibility is to trust God and obey our directive to go before Him on behalf of our President and nation and intercede as He shows us. As we trust and obey, He will show us the way. Together, we’ll STAND and see the deliverance of our nation from the fraud and corruption that has assaulted it. May we soon see the VICTORY. Pray.
As the twentieth century continued, progressive views reached their logical apex: there is no ultimate or objective truth, only various expressions of different cultures’ beliefs. Wittingly or unwittingly, progressives concluded that truth is an ideological construct created by those with inordinate wealth and power to further their own particular agendas. In such a relativist environment, progressive education may as well impose its own ideological construct on the future. They did not call it indoctrination, but that is what it is. Pray.
Since the 1960s, an even more radicalized challenge has emerged. This newer challenge arrived under the feel-good names of “liberation” and “social justice.” Instead of offering a comprehensive, unifying human story, these ideological approaches diminish our shared history and disunite the country by setting certain communities against others. History is no longer tragic but melodramatic, in which all that can be learned from studying the past is that groups victimize and oppress each other.
By turning to bitterness and judgment, distorted histories of those like the journalists behind the “1619 Project” have prevented their students from learning to think inductively with a rich repository of cultural, historical, and literary referents. Such works do not respect their students’ independence as young thinkers trying to grapple with social complexity while forming their empirical judgments about it.
- They disdain today’s students, just as they doubt the humanity, goodness, or benevolence in America’s greatest historical figures.
- They see only weaknesses and failures, teaching students truth is an illusion, that hypocrisy is everywhere, and that power is all that matters. Pray.
A few reforms of note have been attempted to improve America’s civic educational system, but they fail to address the key problems.
The first was embraced with good intentions. Common Core appeared to be a promising way for the federal government to supply a framework to improve the nation’s schools.
- The Constitution leaves education to the states and localities and denies the federal government any authority to impose what it wants to be taught in the nation’s schools. To surmount this obstacle, the federal government used significant federal funding to entice states to adopt Common Core.
- Nevertheless, within a few years it became clear that students in states that “voluntarily” adopted Common Core suffered significantly lower academic performance and fewer marketable skills than students who had been educated outside the Common Core regime.
- This system of micromanaged “standards” proved to be a recipe for bureaucratic control and sterile conformity instead of a pathway towards better instruction. We learned from the failed Common Core experiment that one-size-fits-all national models are a blueprint for trivializing and mechanizing learning. Pray.
A more recently proposed remedy is called the “New Civics” (or “Action Civics”).
- The progressive approach to education rests on the faulty notion that knowledge concerning long-term human and social concerns is divided between “facts” (scientific data separated from judgments about right and wrong) and “values” (preferences about moral matters, such as justice, which are said to have no objective status).
- Most students, yearning to make the world better, find the study of “facts” boring and meaningless. The New Civics approach is to prioritize a value-oriented praxis over fact-based knowledge. As a result, New Civics uses direct community service and political action (such as protesting for gun control or lobbying for laws to address climate change) to teach students to bring change to the system itself.
- Under this guise, civics education becomes less about teaching civic knowledge and more about encouraging contemporary policy positions.
However well-intended, the New Civics only aggravates the already inherent problems of progressive education.
- Dispensing with ideas that transcend and inform history, students lack criteria for judging what a politically healthy nation looks like and they cannot defend what practical actions actually would improve the health of their community.
- A well-formulated education in political and moral principles is the necessary source of the knowledge citizens need to make wise judgments about voting, demonstrating, or any other civic activity.
- By neglecting true civic education, the New Civics movement only compounds the mistakes of today’s conventional education in civics. Pray.
WHAT IS AUTHENTIC EDUCATION?
There are many aspects of formal education. The importance of professional education and technical training is not in dispute. There is no question that one crucial purpose of education is to equip individuals with the knowledge and skills they need to provide for themselves and their families. More fundamental is the broader and deeper education called “liberal education.”
Education liberates human beings in the true sense:
- liberation from ignorance and confusion;
- from prejudice and delusion;
- from untamed passions and fanciful hopes that degrade and destroy us as civilized persons;
- it helps us see the world clearly and honestly;
- it reveals, in human nature, what is right and good for human beings. Pray.
Authentic education is not “value-neutral” but includes moral education that explains the standards for right and wrong. It takes up the hard but essential task of character formation.
- Such an education can form free men and free women, self-reliant and responsible persons capable of governing themselves as individuals and taking part in self-government. Pray.
- Such an education starts by teaching that all Americans are equal members of one national community. The unique character and talents of each person should be recognized and developed. The wide experiences and the varied backgrounds of our citizens should be respected and honored. The truths that equality and liberty belong by nature to every human being without exception must be taught as the moral basis of civic friendship, economic opportunity, citizenship, and political freedom. Pray.
- Such an education respects students’ intelligence and thirst for the truth. It is unafraid both to focus on the contributions made by the exceptional few, or acknowledge those that are less powerful, less fortunate, weaker, or marginalized. Pray.
- With the principle of equality as a foundation, such an education can incorporate the study of injustice and of tragedy in human affairs, including the American story’s uglier parts, and patiently addresses the ways injustices can be corrected. Pray.
Rather than learning to hate one’s country or the world for its inevitable wrongs, the well-educated student learns:
- to appreciate and cherish the oases of civilization: solid family structures and local communities;
- the representative, and limited government;
- the rule of law and the security of civil rights and private property;
- a love of the natural world and the arts;
- good character and religious faith. Pray.
In the American context, an essential purpose of this honest approach is to encourage citizens to embrace and cultivate love of country. Thoughtful citizens embrace their national community not only because it is their own, but also because they see what it can be at its best. Just as students know their family members have good qualities and flaws, good education will reckon the depths and heights of our common history. Pray.
We pray:
- That we will trust and obey God as we unite and stand against those who seek to divide us in any way, knowing that we are all Americans, and share in a common history and destiny! Pray.
- That we will see a return to authentic education, that embraces the true essence of American history and teaches our students to love and respect our country and to be grateful they were born here! Pray.
- That President Trump will continue to seek ways to “remove the leaven” from our education system and restore righteousness and truth to the lives of our youth! Pray.
- That he will set an “appointed place” and an “appointed time” for our meeting with him! Pray.
(Resource: 1776 Commission Report, Appendix 4)
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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!
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