Mar 9, 2023 – Prayer Focus
Thursday, March 9, 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!
“Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs 22:6
We sing: Draw Me Close to You
Draw me close to You, never let me go.
I’ll lay it all down again to hear you say that I’m Your friend.
You are my desire, no one else will do,
‘cause nothing else can take your place, to feel the warmth of your embrace.
Help me find my way, lead me back to You!
You’re all I want! You’re all I ever needed! You’re all I want! Help me know You are near.
You’re all I want! You’re all I ever needed! You’re all I want! Help me know You are near.
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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 Thursday
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 288
The Returning of President Trump to the White House! – Part 178
“My son, if sinful men entice you, do not give in to them.”
Proverbs 1:10
Barry Black is America’s first black Senate Chaplain. Besides being black, Chaplain Black, who is 74, became the first Seventh-day Adventist to become Senate Chaplain. In 2003, he was nominated for the position by then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and is the upper chamber’s 62nd chaplain, after a long career in the US Navy, where he rose to the rank of Rear Admiral. He says this Bible verse saved him from a life of crime, and he can’t help but wonder where his life would have ended up if it were not for the saving grace of God rescuing him from a life of violence as a teenager growing up in Baltimore, Maryland. Pray.
In an interview with The Christian Post, Black said that he wouldn’t be ministering today if God hadn’t rescued him from gang violence. “I see the hand of God throughout my life. I ended up as a teenager getting involved with a gang that could have caused me a tremendous amount of difficulty. Two of the gang members actually ended up getting life in prison for murdering someone. I was in the right place at the right time — not with them. Reflecting on Proverbs 1:10, which was a Bible verse my mother gave me a nickel to memorize that kept me out of some of the troubles. So were it not for the grace of God, I would have probably been an accessory to murder and spent a lifetime, or at least 20 years, in prison.” Pray.
Chaplain of the United States Senate, Barry Black
As Black looks back on what it’s been like serving nearly 20 years of his life ministering to staff on Capitol Hill, he sees an outcome that once seemed unlikely for a child growing up in a mostly single-parent home in the 1950s and ’60s. He ‘never wanted to do anything but ministry.’ As a long-distance truck driver, Black’s father was absent for much of his upbringing. As a result, his mother was left to raise him and his siblings by herself. His mother became a devout Seventh-day Adventist, hosted Bible studies in the home, and raised her children in the faith. She took Black and his seven brothers and sisters to Berea Temple of Seventh-day Adventist Church on Madison Avenue to attend services. His mother also enrolled Black and his siblings in a private Christian school and paid what she could for tuition and received support from a church program to cover educational expenses tuition. “We belonged to a church that emphasized and supported Christian education.” Pray.
From the earliest days of his childhood that he can remember, Black wanted to be an ordained minister. “I’ve never wanted to do anything but ministry. I think the primary reason is that when my mother was pregnant with me, she was baptized, and she asked, as she was being immersed, that the Holy Spirit would place a special blessing and anointing upon me as an unborn child.” He was born about a month after his mother’s baptism, on November 1, 1948. Pray.
“I later showed tendencies toward interest in public speaking. I have a very extroverted and outgoing personality, even as a first-grader, second-grader, and third-grader,” he said. “So I never had an arrival in my vocation of affection. I’ve always wanted to be a minister, and I think it’s because of my mom’s prayers.” Pray.
But when Black entered his teenage years he gravitated toward the streets and found brotherhood and fatherhood in a gang. “I think that growing up, when you rarely see your father, it’s problematic because everyone needs an adult male role model,” he said. Despite falling in with the wrong crowd as a teen, Black stressed that he had several male role models in his life, including teachers, neighbors, and members of the church. “I was very blessed. I did a lot of talking to my heavenly Father because my mother had always instilled in me and my siblings’ lives morning and evening worship in our home and taught us to talk to God as we would talk to a friend,” Black recalled. “I was fortunate because I belonged to a very large church, probably 800 members. There were enough adult male role models who enabled me to make up for the deficit of not having that at home. Moreover, the church school that I attended also had a number of male teachers and they served as role models as well.” Pray.
Children born into poverty can fall into a multi-generational cycle of financial struggles and government dependence, but Black and his siblings were able to break free from poverty and take advantage of opportunities to prosper. “Whatever the environment is, growing up in poverty taught me a number of things. It taught me, first of all, that there’s always something you can be thankful for. And no matter how difficult things have been in my life, since I was in poverty, I look back and I remember how little it really takes to live quite well. We subsisted on beans and rice most days, except on the weekends. So that lets me know how little someone actually needs.” “Secondly, growing up in poverty also has helped me to learn how thankful you are when you finally manage to get out of that cycle of poverty and pathology, and it causes you to appreciate a lot more what you have after you leave that spot on the socioeconomic ladder.” Pray.
Working as Senate chaplain has been a rewarding vocation, he added, because there is a wide variety of people to tend to from varying denominations and religious traditions, including non-Christians to whom he is able to minister. “You also have that in the military. As a Senate chaplain, you have kind of a chain of command and you have a majority leader. A majority where you’re reporting to people to some extent is not quite the same as in the military. But to some extent, you have many different Christian denominations worshiping together, and studying together in the same way that you do in the military. The primary difference is the military will involve moving. You would go out on a ship for a six-month deployment away from the base. Or in my case, you may have an unaccompanied tour for a year.” Reflecting on his role as a chaplain in the Navy and the Senate, Black said, “both vocations are pretty much the same when it comes to the ministry.” Pray.
Black said his everyday workday as Senate chaplain varies, but over the years, it has been rewarding. “My day-to-day routine is very much the routine of a pastor who is responsible for several thousands of people. I provide for Christians because I’m a Christian. I facilitate for non-Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, and people from the Islamic tradition,” Black said. On an average workday, Black will arrange meetings to visit people in the hospital and the workspace. “I advise lawmakers, particularly regarding military issues. Because I’m a retired two-star admiral with a significant amount of experience and particularly in the sea services: Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and Merchant Marines. I teach Bible studies, prepare sermons and preach. I write books and articles. I’ve written six books. … I represent many chaplains, the Department of the Senate, in churches around the nation,” he continued. “I officiated weddings and funerals. I do marriage preparation and marriage enrichment. So I do the work of a full-time pastor. … That’s one of the things that’s exciting about this. Each day is different and rewarding.” Pray.
“I’m very passionate about my country. I feel that America is very special. I think that God has blessed us with spacious skies and amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain, rivers flowing all over for transportation, to huge oceans buffering us from invasions from without. It’s a very special place …a nation that is built on ideas…a very special country, with a very special government. And that makes it a very rewarding experience to have had the opportunity to provide ministry at the epicenter of what’s going on in government.” Pray.
We pray:
- Thank You for placing this man in this position at this hour, Lord. Let him always put You first as he gives Godly counsel to all. Pray.
- Bring other Godly people into the Congress as support staff, who will speak Your life to and nurture our Representatives and Senators. 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 finally investigate and reject the “usurper” Biden and all the corrupt things pertaining to his faux administration, 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: Nicole Alcindor in The Christian Post)
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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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