Mar 15, 2022 – Prayer Focus
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 – 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!
“Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
Luke 15:10
We sing: Softly and Tenderly
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, calling for you and for me.
See on the portals He’s waiting and watching, watching for you and for me.
Come home, come home, ye who are weary come home!
Earnestly, tenderly Jesus is calling…
calling, “O sinner come home!”
O what a wonderful love He has promised, promised for you and for me/
Though we have sinned He has mercy and pardon, pardon for you and for me/
Come home, come home, ye who are weary come home!
Earnestly, tenderly Jesus is calling, calling, “O sinner come home”
Come home, come home, ye who are weary come home
Earnestly, tenderly Jesus is calling…
calling, “O sinner come home”
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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.
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.
That as the REDEMPTION of the AMERICAN REPUBLIC takes place, those leaders that God anoints and appoints will take their places in the governments of each state and in our nation’s Capitol!
Pray.
For a miraculous conclusion to the investigations into the 2020 elections,
and proof of fraud and collusion to remove Joe Biden (and company) and restore President Trump
to his rightful office so that he can lead this nation once again and work to restore the global balance!
Pray.
That Russian aggression in Ukraine will cease and war there will be ended.
Pray.
Strategic Focus for Tuesday
WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
THE REDEMPTION OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC – Part 74
WAR in HEAVEN – Part 3a
“Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon.
And the dragon and his angels fought back, but he was defeated,
and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan,
the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.”
Revelation 12:7-9
We continue in our study of Derek Prince’s book War in Heaven, and today, we will see when rebellion began and who the first rebel was! We cover ourselves with the Blood of Jesus as we begin today!
CHAPTER 4 – LUCIFER CHALLENGES GOD
“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.” Luke 10:18 Jesus is here describing for His disciples a scene He had witnessed in heaven, many centuries before His incarnation as the Son of Mary. He was warning them of the danger of pride. The scene He described was God’s judgment on a created archangel named Lucifer.
Lucifer had occupied a position of unique honor in heaven. God had said to him: “You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering: the sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were created. You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; you were on the holy mountain of God; you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you.” Ezekiel 28:12-15 Pray.
This account raises two possible questions.
- First, from what area of heaven was Lucifer cast out?
- Second, to what area was he cast down?
Personally, I do not believe that Lucifer had access to the third heaven or could ever have conceived his rebellion there. My impression of the third heaven is that it is a place of such total holiness that no kind of sin could ever begin to exist there. But that is just a personal impression! I have not found any passage in Scripture that describes the specific location to which Lucifer and his angels were banished, but apparently they set up their rival kingdom in another area of the heavenlies, probably somewhere in mid-heaven.
As I pointed out in chapter 1, in Scripture at least three different areas are called “heaven.”
- First, the visible heaven above us.
- Next comes the mid-heaven described in Revelation 8:13; 14:6; and 19:17.
- Finally, the third heaven is the highest of all and is the sacred place of God’s dwelling, the place that Solomon refers to in 2 Chronicles 2:6 as the “heaven of heavens”: “But who is able to build Him a temple, since heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him?” Pray.
In Ezekiel 28:14, Lucifer is described as the “anointed cherub who covers.” It seems that Lucifer had covered with his wings the place of the manifestation of God’s glory in His heavenly temple, just as the cherubs in the tabernacle of Moses covered the mercy seat and the place where the visible glory of God appeared. This is described in Exodus 37:9: The cherubim spread out their wings above, and covered the mercy seat with their wings. They faced one another; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat. Pray.
Lucifer was perfect in beauty, but he was a created being. Pride motivated him to challenge God and to claim a place of equality with God. Apparently Lucifer had authority over a company of angels, and he had succeeded in alienating some of those under him from their loyalty to God. He led them to join him in his rebellion against God. In response, God cast Lucifer and his partners in rebellion from His presence. To describe Lucifer’s activity in turning some angels against God, Scripture uses the word trading, which could also apply to persistent plotting: “By the abundance of your trading you became filled with violence within, and you sinned…You defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trading.”
Ezekiel 28:16, 18 Pray.
This word trading is also applied to someone who goes about as a talebearer or a slanderer. In other words, it could describe someone who peddles both goods and gossip. In various other books of the Bible
(e.g., Leviticus, Proverbs, Jeremiah) this word is translated as either a “talebearer” or a “slanderer.” For example, Leviticus 19:16 says: “You shall not go about as a talebearer among your people.” In Proverbs 20:19, this practice of being a talebearer is closely linked with one who flatters with his lips. We are warned against both kinds of persons: He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with one who flatters with his lips.” Apparently, this exactly describes what Lucifer did. He went among the created angelic beings, promoting and organizing rebellion against God. I personally picture Lucifer as saying to the angels under him such things as, “God does not really appreciate you. You have a position that is far below your potential and far below what you should have. If I were to take over, I would understand your merits and your value and I would promote you. I would give you a much more responsible position in the government of the universe.” Pray.
Obviously all this did not happen suddenly, or even in a few days. We have no way to measure the time it took Lucifer to promote his rebellion, but it was long enough for him to organize a carefully planned revolt against God and to persuade an estimated one-third of the angels to join him. This estimate is based on a statement concerning Satan in Revelation 12:4: “His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth” It interprets the phrase the stars of heaven as referring to the whole company of angels. But this interpretation could be questioned. Pray.
Perhaps you have never envisaged behavior like this among angels in heaven. As I mentioned earlier, however, the rebellious acts that it produced originated in heaven and not on earth. Furthermore, the devil has never had to change his tactics either in heaven or on earth for one simple reason: because they still work! As a master of slander or talebearing, he continues to seek to undermine various forms of authority that God has established, both in the Church and in the world. Pray.
When Lucifer was cast out of heaven, he did not terminate his rebellion, but he continued it by setting up a kingdom of his own in opposition to God’s Kingdom. In Luke 11:17-18, Jesus reveals that Satan has a kingdom of his own: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls. If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?” Pray.
Kingdoms in the Heavenlies In Colossians 1:16, Paul outlines the governmental structure of God’s Kingdom in heaven as it was originally established through Jesus in His eternal nature: “For by Him [Jesus] all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.” Note these four descending levels of authority. In each case, where appropriate, an alternative English translation is supplied in parenthesis:
- Thrones
- Dominions (lordships)
- Principalities (rulerships)
- Powers (authorities)
Pray.
One major feature of Lucifer’s rebellion was to take over the original governmental structure of God that he was familiar with and to use it against God. In Ephesians 6:12, Paul lists the main governmental structure of Satan’s rebellious kingdom: For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. In this list Paul makes no mention of “thrones” or “dominions.” The implication is that these two highest ranks did not associate themselves with Lucifer in his rebellion. Rebellion is depicted as beginning at the level of “principalities” (rulerships) and “powers” (authorities). Pray.
Pride: The Original Sin Let us return to our passage in Ezekiel 28:17, which describes Lucifer’s rebellion: “Your heart was lifted up [you became proud] because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor” Lucifer’s heart was lifted up in pride because of his beauty and this was the reason that he was cast out of the mountain of God. I believe it is vitally important for all of us to realize that the first sin in the universe was not murder, nor adultery, but rather pride. It was pride that produced rebellion. Pray.
Furthermore, it was pride arising from the blessings of which God Himself was the Author. It was God who gave Lucifer his power, his authority, his beauty, his wisdom – all those were gifts from God. Yet Lucifer’s wrong attitude turned them into instruments for his own destruction. Pray.
I look back now over more than sixty years in Christian service and I am shocked to realize that men and women called and equipped by God are still today making the same tragic error that Lucifer made. Pray.
I am reminded continually of a Chinese pastor who spent more than twenty years in prison for his faith. He said, “I’ve seen many Christians have a good beginning, but few have a good ending.” How quickly and easily, as God’s servants, we tend to forget that every success in our ministry should prompt us to self-humbling in response to God’s unmerited favor! Pray.
In Isaiah 14:12-15, the prophet analyzes the motive behind Lucifer’s rebellion. It was an ambition to be equal with God: “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like [or equal to] the Most High.’ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.”
As quoted above, Lucifer made five successive declarations prefaced by the phrase I will. He said, “I will ascend into heaven… I will exalt my throne… I will sit on the mount of the congregation… I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.” Finally comes the climax, “I will be like [or equal to] the Most High, like God Himself.” Lucifer’s self-promoting ambition was the cause of his fall. Pray.
We pray:
- Thank You, Lord, for the teaching that Derek Prince shared and for Your Holy Spirit giving us an understanding of the spiritual warfare in which we are engaged. Pray.
- Guard and protect us, our families and the members of our 24/7 family with the Blood of Jesus! Train us for the battles we must fight, for Your GLORY! Pray.
- Cover President Trump with the Blood of Jesus as we intercede for him! Work in his heart and mind and help him make the crucial decisions that will facilitate his return to the White House. Pray.
- Lord God, protect our nation. Do not allow us to be drawn into a war, but let us seek Your peace and solutions to the conflict at hand! Pray.
- Let the light of Christ flood the nations, drawing all men to You! Pray.
- That our homes will get in order so that they might be places for Your HABITATION and sanctuaries for others! Pray.
- That we will joyfully release the LOVE of GOD from our hearts over this, our beloved nation. Pray.
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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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