June 4, 2023 – Prayer Focus
Sunday, June 4, 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!
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
John 1:5
We sing: The Battle is the Lord’s
The battle is the Lord’s and He will conquer all His enemies.
With His right hand and His holy arm, He will obtain, He will obtain, He will obtain the victory!
The princes of the earth and of the sky shall see His holy power, His holy power, His holy power!
The battle is the Lord’s and He will conquer all His enemies.
With His right hand and His holy arm, He will obtain, He will obtain, He will obtain the victory!
Break forth and sing for joy, sing praises to the Lord for He is coming!
For He is coming! For He is coming!
The battle is the Lord’s and He will conquer all His enemies.
With His right hand and His holy arm, He will obtain, He will obtain, He will obtain the victory!
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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 David Clements, as he undertakes the assignment to connect with President Trump ,
to see the declaration of a National Day of Repentance in which all Americans can take part!
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 376
The Returning of President Trump to the White House! – Part 266
“I am the vine, you are the branches.
He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”
John 15:5
Jack Phillips, who owns Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, has become America’s most famous baker! After Phillips, who holds traditional views on marriage and sexuality, refused to make a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple in 2012. At that time, he said:”I’m not judging these two gay men who came in. I’m just trying to preserve my right as an artist to decide which artistic endeavors I’m going to do and which ones I’m not.” From that moment on, he found himself accused of unlawful discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. He suffered years of cruel harassment, death threats, and losing a substantial part of his business. Finally, five years ago today, on June 4, 2018, this humble cake artist won a victory for religious freedom at the US Supreme Court, which ruled 7-to-2 in Jack’s favor, saying that Colorado had displayed clear and impermissible hostility toward Jack’s religious beliefs and violated the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. His win was an extraordinary victory – a blessing from God! Pray.
Now, someone with a perverted mind has taken him all the way back to the Supreme Court to force him to bake one of his custom cakes…this time to celebrate a “gender transition.” Once again, he’s been forced to defend his refusal to do something that goes against his Christian faith. Pray.
After spending a week in court, he said that the request was “a trap” and in violation of his religious beliefs. In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Phillips described his experience at trial this past week. After spending nearly a decade fending off “My experience this week has been trying, at best, we’ve closed down our bakery just so we could be in this trial. My wife had to testify, my daughter had to, I had to. This case started the day the Supreme Court decided they were going to hear our case. It was a very busy, very crazy day at the shop,”
Phillips explained. “In the middle of all of this chaos, we got a phone call from an attorney in Denver asking us to create a cake pink on the inside with blue icing on the outside.” He was told “it was two colors, a color scheme, a combination, designed to celebrate a gender transition.” The customer, Autumn Scardina, an attorney, requested the cake in 2017 in honor of her gender transition. “We told the customer, this caller, that this cake was a cake we couldn’t create because of the message, the caller turned around and sued us. This customer came to us intentionally to get us to create a cake or deny creating a cake that went against our religious beliefs.” He added: “This customer had been tracking our case for multiple years. This case was just a request to get us to fall into a trap.” Phillips said that in November 2020, he had a conversation with Scardina, who said “if the case were rejected or dismissed, that they would be back the next day to request another cake order and then sue me and charge me again.” Pray.
Kristen Waggoner, of the Alliance Defending Freedom, said that this “was an obvious type of setup.” At the trial, and in other testimony, this attorney confirmed that Jack was contacted in an effort to make a test case and to ‘correct the errors’ of Jack’s thinking, In Scardina’s testimony during a deposition in 2019, she said. “I truly believed that — I want to believe that he’s a good person. I want to believe that he could be, sort of, persuaded to the errors of his thinking,“ During the trial this week, Scardina was asked if this was “some sort of test” or a “setup,” something she denied, saying: “…it wasn’t a test, more of a challenge of the veracity. It was more a calling of somebody’s bluff. I wanted Mr. Phillips to be telling the truth. I think he’s a good man. I think he is a good Christian; and I think his beliefs are noble, valid, are entitled to protection.” Pray
In opening arguments, a lawyer representing Phillips, Sean Gates, said his refusal to make Scardina’s cake was about its message, not discriminating against Scardina, echoing assertions made in Phillips’ 2012 legal battle over his refusal to make a wedding cake for two homosexual men. Noting that he could not create a cake with a message he disagreed with, Gates said. “The message would be that he agrees that a gender transition is something to be celebrated.” Pray
Phillips has objected to making cakes with other messages he opposed. “This doesn’t stop until the Supreme Court again affirms that no one should be forced to create expression, or to speak a message that violates their conscience…all creative professionals deserve to have their rights protected.” Waggoner said that since Phillip’s Supreme Court victory, “we can see the disturbing trend has continued–of weaponizing the law to become an arm of cancel culture and to ruin anyone who simply disagrees.” It is “a pattern of activism,” and Phillips is being specifically targeted. “This attorney not only sent him hateful emails, but asked for another cake where it was Satan smoking a marijuana joint to again trap Jack. It is a tremendous pattern of harassment and targeting designed solely to ruin him so we need the Supreme Court to affirm the First Amendment rights of all creative professionals.” Pray
It is unclear, at this point, when the court will issue its opinion in the case, but Phillips hopes it will end here. He said: “As a husband and a father, it was incredibly difficult to watch my wife in deposition and in trial, where opposing counsel was grilling her and trying to trap and trick her, and you just have to sit there and watch it play out—both with my wife and daughter,” Phillips said. Pray
Colorado punished Jack for saying what he believes, but he courageously stood firm—confident in the rights the Constitution guarantees him and every American. After years in litigation, that win should have been the victorious end to his story. But it wasn’t. While this incredible victory protected Jack in that case, and has been cited hundreds of times since in other religious freedom cases, the Supreme Court didn’t rule on the free speech violation—so the harassment against Jack hasn’t stopped. Jack is now facing his third lawsuit— from an activist attorney who is using Colorado’s law to punish him for expressing his beliefs, and trying to force Jack to change his views. Pray.
His story could be any of ours! The winds of hostility are clearly rising against Americans who hold beliefs that the government disagrees with. On this 5th anniversary of Jack Phillips’ victory at the US Supreme Court, Jack is still standing and fighting for his freedom in the courtroom. He has lived what the apostle Paul wrote to the early Christians: “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer” Romans 12:12. His unshakeable commitment to his faith reminds us of the words of Peter and John in Acts 4:19-20. After being told to be silent about their faith by the local rulers, they responded: “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” Pray.
God willing, the end result will be a landmark win that protects everyone’s right to say what they believe without fear of government punishment. That’s why each one of us must advocate for our precious freedoms, and protect our rights which will help keep the door open for the spread of the Gospel. May we stay grounded in our faith…abiding in Christ, as John 15:5 says. Jack’s freedom should matter to all of us. His rights are our rights. With our help, and God’s blessing, he will receive justice once again…for himself and for all Americans, and we will see a restored culture that honors our constitutionally-protected freedoms. Pray.
We pray:
- For Jack and his legal team to prevail once again before the SCOTUS, and for a ruling that will settle this matter once, for all! For the protection of Jack and his family, and the prosperity of his business going forward! 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.
- That the members of Congress will fully investigate and try the “usurper” Biden, along with Obama, Clinton, Comey and all the corrupt individuals concerned, convicting them of treason and restoring righteousness and justice for all!! 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! Prepare us for our NEXT STEPS in this Battle to Save America! Pray.
(Resource: FOX News)
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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!
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