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Make space for King Jesus
Holy Spirit, stir the American Church to elevate our prayer life to meet this hour.
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Kingdom Friend,
Thank you for agreeing in prayer! This week, we learn to create space for the Lordship and Leadership of King Jesus in all of our affairs.
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Benjamin Franklin: “God governs in the affairs of men.”
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "Except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it.
I therefore beg leave to move — that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business.
At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin reminded the delegates they prayed daily at the beginning of the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) ... “And have we now forgotten that powerful friend?”
The delegates were struggling to forge the United States Constitution during that hot summer. There was a turning point when they began to pray each morning.
In our personal lives and in our nation, prayer creates space for the Lordship and Leadership of King Jesus.
Pray AmericanDNA: Make space for the Leadership and Lordship of King Jesus
We can draw on America's founding prayers, covenants, documents, and early experiences as "prayer architecture" for today. Adapt the prayer language below to your voice as the Holy Spirit guides you.
Draw prayer inspiration from Benjamin Franklin’s speech at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia (1787) …
⭐️ Stirred to pray. Holy Spirit, stir the American Church to elevate our prayer life to meet this hour.
⭐️ Unless the Lord builds. Lord we desperately need your building activity in our nation, to sustain American. Be our General Contractor. We align our prayer-borne action with your agenda.
Father, we believe in our heart that we have received, and we count it done. We are grateful. Amen.
To do:
✅ Follow through: Take your phone or tablet into your prayer space and pull up this email. Let’s make every word count!
✅ Prayer groups: Engage agreement prayer with partners or in your prayer group. Increased leverage.
✅ We value people of prayer: Share this newsletter with others. We’re joining with many others in a rising American Prayer Tide!
Current American prayer pulse
💓 Pray for the integrity of national, state, and local elections. Insist in faith that the election will occur this fall and that nothing will stop it. Stand in faith against political violence.
💓 Even now, pray that God will sway the judgment of the American body politic and that his design will be realized on American soil as it is in heaven.
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Brian Del Turco
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