Nov 20, 2019 – Prayer Focus
Wednesday, November 22, 2019 – 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!
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony,
and they did not love their lives unto death.“
Revelation 12:11
We sing:
Seated above, enthroned in the Father’s love. Destined to die, poured out for all mankind.
God’s only Son, perfect and spotless one, He never sinned but suffered as if He did.
All authority, every victory is Yours! All authority, every victory is Yours, Savior!
Savior, worthy of honor and glory, Worthy of all our praise, You overcame!
Jesus, awesome in power forever, Awesome and great is Your name, You overcame!
Power in hand speaking the Father’s plan, You’re sending us out, light in this broken land.
All authority, every victory is Yours! All authority, every victory is Yours!
Savior, worthy of honor and glory, Worthy of all our praise, You overcame, You overcame!
Jesus, awesome in power forever! Awesome and great is Your name, You overcame!
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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 President, Donald John Trump, and to pray for that which pertains to our nation!
We pray for our President’s protection and cover him with the Blood of Jesus,
asking that he will respond to every situation by the leading of the Holy Spirit.
We refer those to You who are plotting and planning the demise of our beloved President!
We say “No!” to them and ask that You expose and foil all their plans! Thank You, Lord!
We bless our First Lady, Melania, their marriage, their son Barron and all their family members.
We bless our Vice President Mike Pence, his wife Karen and their family
and all those serving in this Administration.
We bless the Federal Reserve Board members.
May they serve with integrity and honor, doing what’s right for our nation’s economy!
The 24/7 NSPC is praying for the 2020 National Elections,
positioning ourselves in intercession before the Lord on behalf of our President and nation!
COUNTDOWN: 350 days until the election!
Let us pray into this verse:
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
Romans 12:21
Strategic Focus for Wednesday
WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
OVERCOMERS!
“Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved,
he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.”
James 1:12
Our focuses this week are incorporating excerpts from Attorney General Bill Barr’s Lecture at the Federalist Society’s 2019 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, DC last Friday. The theme was “Originalism”, .ie. “following the Constitution as written.” AG Barr’s topic for the evening was “The Constitution’s Approach to Executive Power”. Today we are covering the third part of his remarks, which have been very enlightening! Barr is a committed Christian, a strong Constitutionalist and a good man! We are tremendously grateful that such a man has been placed as our ATTORNEY GENERAL at this hour in our nation.
We pray:
- May God preserve, protect and defend AG Bill Barr from the “arrows” that are being shot at him by those who seek to take down this Administration and destroy our nation!
Read through each section, then pray into it, with our President, our nation and our freedom in mind!
“In recent years, we have seen substantial encroachment by Congress in the area of executive privilege. The Executive Branch and the Supreme Court have long recognized that the need for confidentiality in Executive Branch decision-making necessarily means that some communications must remain off limits to Congress and the public. There was a time when Congress respected this important principle as well. But today, Congress is increasingly quick to dismiss good-faith attempts to protect Executive Branch equities, labeling such efforts “obstruction of Congress” and holding Cabinet Secretaries in contempt.
One of the ironies of today is that those who oppose this President constantly accuse this Administration of “shredding” constitutional norms and waging a war on the rule of law. While the President has certainly thrown out the traditional Beltway playbook, he was upfront about that beforehand, and the people voted for him. I am talking about fundamental constitutional precepts. The fact is that this Administration’s policy initiatives and proposed rules, including the Travel Ban, have transgressed neither constitutional, nor traditional norms, and have been amply supported by the law and patiently litigated through the Court system to vindication.
The fact of the matter is that, in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of “Resistance” against this Administration, it is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law.
Pray:
This highlights a basic disadvantage that conservatives have always had in contesting the political issues of the day.
- In any age, the so-called progressives treat politics as their religion. Their “holy mission” is to use the coercive power of the State to remake man and society in their own image, according to an abstract ideal of perfection. Whatever means they use are therefore justified because, by definition, they are a virtuous people pursing a deific end. They are willing to use any means necessary to gain momentary advantage in achieving their end, regardless of collateral consequences and the systemic implications. They never ask whether the actions they take could be justified as a general rule of conduct, equally applicable to all sides.
- Conservatives, on the other hand, do not seek an earthly paradise. We are interested in preserving over the long run the proper balance of freedom and order necessary for healthy development of natural civil society and individual human flourishing. This means that we naturally test the propriety and wisdom of action under a “rule of law” standard. The essence of this standard is to ask what the overall impact on society over the long run if the action we are taking, or principle we are applying, in a given circumstance was universalized – that is, would it be good for society over the long haul if this was done in all like circumstances? For these reasons, conservatives tend to have more scruple over their political tactics and rarely feel that the ends justify the means. And this is as it should be, but there is no getting around the fact that this puts conservatives at a disadvantage when facing progressive holy war, especially when doing so under the weight of a hyper-partisan media.
Pray:
The prime source of the erosion of separation-of-power principles generally, and Executive Branch authority specifically, is the Judicial Branch. In recent years the Judiciary has been steadily encroaching on Executive responsibilities in a way that has substantially undercut the functioning of the Presidency. The Courts have done this in essentially two ways:
- First, the Judiciary has appointed itself the ultimate arbiter of separation of powers disputes between Congress and Executive, thus preempting the political process, which the Framers conceived as the primary check on interbranch rivalry.
- Second, the Judiciary has usurped Presidential authority for itself, either (a) by, under the rubric of “review,” substituting its judgment for the Executive’s in areas committed to the President’s discretion, or (b) by assuming direct control over realms of decision-making that heretofore have been considered at the core of Presidential power.
Pray:
The Framers did not envision that the Courts would play the role of arbiter of turf disputes between the political branches. By giving each the Congress and the Presidency the tools to fend off the encroachments of the others, the Framers believed this would force compromise and political accommodation. The “constitutional means” to “resist encroachment” take various forms. Conspicuously absent from the list is running to the courts to resolve their disputes.
When the Judiciary purports to pronounce a conclusive resolution to constitutional disputes between the other two branches, it does not act as a co-equal. If the political branches believe the courts will resolve their constitutional disputes, they have no incentive to debate their differences through the democratic process — with input from and accountability to the people, and will not even try to make hard choices needed to forge compromise. The long experience of our country is that the political branches can work out their constitutional differences without resort to the courts.
Pray:
The prospect that courts can meaningfully resolve interbranch disputes about the meaning of the Constitution is mostly a false promise. How is a court supposed to decide, for example, whether Congress’s power to collect information in pursuit of its legislative function overrides the President’s power to receive confidential advice in pursuit of his executive function? Nothing in the Constitution provides a manageable standard for resolving such a question.
Apart from their overzealous role in interbranch disputes, the courts have increasingly engaged directly in usurping Presidential decision-making authority for themselves, by expanding both the scope and the intensity of judicial review. We have lost sight of the fact that many critical decisions in life are not amenable to the model of judicial decision-making. They require what we used to call prudential judgment, and call into play the “precautionary principle”, which is that it is better, when assessing imperfect information, to be wrong and safe, than wrong and sorry.”
Pray:
It was once well recognized that the courts should not be substituting their judgments for the prudential judgments reached by the accountable Executive officials. This outlook has now gone by the boards. Courts are now willing, under the banner of judicial review, to substitute their judgment for the President’s on matters that only a few decades ago would have been unimaginable – such as matters involving national security or foreign affairs.
The Travel Ban case is a good example. There the President made a decision to temporarily suspend entry to aliens coming from a half dozen countries pending adoption of more effective vetting processes. The common denominator of the initial countries selected was that they were unquestionable hubs of terrorism activity, which lacked functional central government’s and responsible law enforcement and intelligence services that could assist us in identifying security risks among their nationals seeking entry. There were clearly justifiable security grounds for the measure, the district court in Hawaii and the Ninth Circuit blocked this public-safety measure for a year and a half on the theory that the President’s motive for the order was religious bias against Muslims. This was just the first of many immigration measures based on good and sufficient security grounds that the courts have second guessed since the beginning of the Trump Administration.
Pray:
The Travel Ban case highlights an especially troubling aspect of the recent tendency to expand judicial review. The Supreme Court has traditionally refused to inquire into the motivation behind governmental action. For example, if a police officer has probable cause to initiate a traffic stop, his subjective motivations are irrelevant. Just last term, the Supreme Court appropriately shut the door to claims that otherwise-lawful redistricting can violate the Constitution if the legislators who drew the lines were actually motivated by political partisanship.
What is true of police officers and gerrymanderers is equally true of the President and senior Executive officials. With very few exceptions, neither the Constitution, nor the Administrative Procedure Act or any other relevant statute, calls for judicial review of executive “motive.’ They apply only to executive “action”. Attempts by courts to act like amateur psychiatrists trying to discern an Executive official’s “real motive” — often after ordering invasive discovery into the Executive Branch’s privileged decision-making process — have no more foundation in the law than a subpoena to a court to try to determine a judge’s real motive for issuing its decision. The courts’ indulgence of such claims, even if they are ultimately rejected, represents a serious intrusion on the President’s constitutional prerogatives.
Pray:
Lord, we are humbled and repentant that we have allowed our government to act as it has, with infighting, power struggles and a lack of unity that has compromised what is for the good of the nation!
- Forgive us and free us from the power of sin and self.
- Cause our hearts to turn back to You again, so that we might again be “one nation under God!”
- Bless our President, who is taking the brunt of what this sin has caused! Protect and guide him, we pray!
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Today, three additional individuals will be called to testify before the House Intelligence Committee.
We pray:
- For truthful testimony as they are called to speak!
- That when they open their mouths, the Spirit of God will cause them to say what He desires, not what they had planned!
- For each of these by name:
- Wednesday morning:
- Gordon Sondland is the Ambassador to the European Union is considered an important witness since he is one who actually spoke to President Trump directly
- Wednesday afternoon:
- Wednesday morning:
- Laura Cooper is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and is responsible for overseeing US military aid to Ukraine
- David Hale is the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs.
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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!
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