Nov 21, 2019 – Prayer Focus
Thursday, November 21, 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!
“In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
Psalm 16:11
We sing:
In Your Presence, that’s where I am strong…In Your Presence, O Lord, my God!
In Your Presence, that’s where I belong, seeking Your face, touching Your grace, in the cleft of the Rock.
In Your Presence, O God!
I want to go where the rivers cannot overflow me, where my feet are on the rock.
I want to hide where the blazing fire cannot burn me, in Your Presence, O God!
In Your Presence, that’s where I belong, seeking Your face, touching Your grace, in the cleft of the Rock.
In Your Presence, O God!
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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: 349 days until the election!
Let us pray into this verse:
“As for me, You uphold me in my integrity, and set me in Your Presence forever.”
Psalm 41:12
Strategic Focus for Thursday
WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IN YOUR PRESENCE, O LORD!
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me.”
Psalm 23:4
Today is the last of several focuses based on 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”…which refers to an originalist approach to the law..ie. “following the Constitution as written.” AG Barr’s topic for the evening was “The Constitution’s Approach to Executive Power”. This is the fourth part of his remarks, made by a Godly man who honors God and upholds our United States Constitution.
We pray:
- Lord, thank You for an Attorney General filled with courage and integrity! Protect and keep his relationship with our President strong and transparent, so they communicate effectively and work together for all of us!
Please read through each section, then pray into it, for our President, our nation and our freedom!
The impact of the judicial intrusions on Executive responsibility have been hugely magnified by another judicial innovation – the nationwide injunction. First used in 1963, and sparsely since then until recently, these court orders enjoin enforcement of a policy not just against the parties to a case, but against everyone. Since President Trump took office, district courts have issued over 40 nationwide injunctions against the government. By comparison, during President Obama’s first two years, district courts issued a total of two nationwide injunctions against the government. Both were vacated by the Ninth Circuit.
It is no exaggeration to say that virtually every major policy of the Trump Administration has been subjected to immediate freezing by the lower courts. No other President has been subjected to such sustained efforts to debilitate his policy agenda.
Pray.
The legal flaws underlying nationwide injunctions are myriad. To summarize:
- Nationwide injunctions have no foundation in courts’ Article III jurisdiction or traditional equitable powers; They radically inflate the role of district judges, allowing anyone of more than 600 individuals to single-handedly freeze a policy nationwide.
- This is a power that no single appellate judge or Justice can accomplish; they foreclose percolation and reasoned debate among lower courts, often requiring the Supreme Court to decide complex legal issues in an emergency posture with limited briefing.
- They enable transparent forum shopping, which saps public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary.
Of particular relevance to my topic tonight, nationwide injunctions also disrupt the political process. There is no better example than the courts’ handling of the rescission of DACA.
- DACA was a discretionary policy of enforcement forbearance adopted by President Obama’s administration.
- The Fifth Circuit concluded that the closely related DAPA policy (along with an expansion of DACA) was unlawful, and the Supreme Court affirmed that decision by an equally divided vote.
- Given that DACA was discretionary — and that four Justices apparently thought a legally indistinguishable policy was unlawful —President Trump’s administration understandably decided to rescind DACA.
The President coupled that revocation, with negotiations over legislation, would create a lawful and better alternative as part of a broader immigration compromise.
- In the middle of those negotiations — indeed, on the same day the President invited cameras into the Cabinet Room to broadcast his negotiations with bipartisan leaders from both Houses of Congress — a district judge in the Northern District of California enjoined (ordered stopping) the rescission (cancellation) of DACA nationwide.
- Unsurprisingly, the negotiations over immigration legislation collapsed after one side achieved its preferred outcome through judicial means. A humanitarian crisis at the southern border ensued. And just this week, the Supreme Court finally heard an argument on the legality of the DACA rescission.
- The Court will not likely decide the case until next summer, meaning that President Trump will have spent almost his entire first term enforcing President Obama’s signature immigration policy, even though that policy is discretionary and half the Supreme Court concluded that a legally indistinguishable policy was unlawful. That is not how our democratic system is supposed to work.
Pray.
To my mind, the most blatant and consequential usurpation of Executive power in our history was played out during the Administration of President George W. Bush, when the Supreme Court, in a series of cases, set itself up as the ultimate arbiter and superintendent of military decisions inherent in prosecuting a military conflict – decisions that lie at the very core of the President’s discretion as Commander in Chief.
This usurpation climaxed with the Court’s 2008 decision in Boumediene. There, the Supreme Court overturned hundreds of years of American, and earlier British, law and practice, which had always considered decisions as to whether to detain foreign combatants to be purely military judgments which civilian judges had no power to review.
- For the first time, the Court ruled that foreign persons who had no connection with the United States other than being confronted by our military on the battlefield had “due process” rights and thus have the right to habeas corpus (appear in person in court) to obtain judicial review of whether the military has a sufficient evidentiary basis to hold them.
- In essence, the Court has taken the rules that govern our domestic criminal justice process and carried them over and superimposed them on the Nation’s activities when it is engaged in armed conflict with foreign enemies. This “rides roughshod” over a fundamental distinction that is integral to the Constitution and integral to the role played by the President in our system.
As the Preamble suggests, governments are established for two different security reasons – to secure domestic tranquility and to provide for defense against external dangers. These are two very different realms of government action.
- In a nutshell, under the Constitution, when the government is using its law enforcement powers domestically to discipline an errant member of the community for a violation of law, then protecting the liberty of the American people requires that we sharply curtail the government’s power so it does not itself threaten the liberties of the people.
- Thus, the Constitution deliberately sacrifices efficiency; invests the accused with rights that essentially create a level playing field between the collective interests of the community and those of the individual;
- It dilutes the government’s power by dividing it and turning it on itself as a check,
- At each stage the Judiciary is expressly empowered to serve as a check and neutral arbiter.
- None of these considerations are applicable when the government is defending the country against armed attacks from foreign enemies. In this realm, the Constitution is concerned with one thing – preserving the freedom of our political community by destroying the external threat.
- The Constitution is not concerned with handicapping the government to preserve other values.
- The Constitution does not confer “rights” on foreign enemies.
- The Constitution is designed to maximize the government’s efficiency to achieve victory – even at the cost of “collateral damage” that would be unacceptable in the domestic realm.
- The idea that the judiciary acts as a neutral check on the political branches to protect foreign enemies from our government is insane.
Pray.
The impact has been extremely consequential.
- For the first time in American history our armed forces is incapable of taking prisoners.
- We are now in a crazy position that, if we identify a terrorist enemy on the battlefield, such as ISIS, we can kill them with drone or any other weapon.
- If we capture them and want to hold them at Guantanamo or in the United States, the military is tied down in developing evidence for an adversarial process and must spend resources in interminable litigation.
The fact that our courts are now willing to invade and muck about in these core areas of Presidential responsibility illustrates how far the doctrine of Separation of Powers has been eroded.
Pray.
In this partisan age, we should take special care not to allow the passions of the moment to cause us to permanently disfigure the genius of our Constitutional structure. As we look back over the sweep of American history, it has been the American Presidency that has best fulfilled the vision of the Founders. It has brought to our Republic a dynamism and effectiveness that other democracies have lacked.
At every critical juncture where the country has faced a great challenge:
- whether it be in our earliest years as the weak, nascent country combating regional rebellions and maneuvering for survival in a world of far stronger nations;
- whether it be during our period of continental expansion, with the Louisiana Purchase, and the acquisition of Mexican territory;
- whether it be the Civil War, the epic test of the Nation;
- World War II and the struggle against Fascism;
- the Cold War and the challenge of Communism;
- the struggle against racial discrimination;
- and most recently, the fight against Islamist Fascism and international terrorism.
One would have to say that it has been the Presidency that has stepped to the fore and provided the leadership, consistency, energy and perseverance that allowed us to surmount the challenge and brought us success.
In so many areas, it is critical to our Nation’s future that we restore and preserve in their full vigor our Founding principles. Not the least of these is the Framers’ vision of a strong, independent Executive, chosen by the country as a whole.
Pray.
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Today, another individual will be called to testify before the House Intelligence Committee.
We pray:
- For Fiona Hill, a former Senior Director for Russia at the National Security Council
- For truthful testimony as she is called to speak!
- That when she opens her mouth, the Spirit of God will cause her to say what He desires, not what she might have planned!
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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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