Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Praying Friends, before anything meaningful is built, prayer breaks ground in the spirit. Thank you for your prayer.

This issue … every home writes code, either for blessing or brokenness. The future is being formed around the family table.

Seek and you will find. Check out the 1440 opportunity below.

⬇️ P.S. — China is cutting of rare earth minerals supply.

The Legacy Code: How Families Program a Nation's Future

The real strength of a nation isn’t first in its politics, military, or economics. It’s in American families—what’s instilled in the minds and hearts of the next generation.

Jonathan and Sarah Edwards understood this. They focused on Scripture-saturated thoughts, Christ-centered values, and a robust Christian worldview. That parental investment made a GENERATIONAL IMPRINT.

🧬 In A Study in Education and Heredity (1900), A.E. Winship documented the extraordinary legacy of the Edwards family. Their descendants included:

• 1 U.S. Vice President

• 3 U.S. Senators

• 3 Governors

• 3 Mayors

• 13 College Presidents

• 30 Judges

• 65 Professors

• 80 Public Office Holders

• 100 Lawyers

• 100 Missionaries

By contrast, Winship also examined the descendants of a man dubbed “Max,” discovered in New York prisons by Richard Dugdale in 1877. Max, born around 1720, was known for idleness, drunkenness, and irreverence. He was a recluse with no moral compass. His life “programmed” generations of dysfunction:

• 7 Murderers

• 60 Thieves

• 50 Women of Debauchery

• 130 Other Convicts

• 310 Paupers (collectively spending 2,300 years in poorhouses)

• 400 Physically wrecked by indulgent living

🗝️ These parallel legacies reveal a deep truth … families shape the soul of a nation.

They are the hidden architecture behind America's rise or fall. As we pray for the nation, we must pray for its homes—fathers and mothers who impart not just values, but a vision of righteousness that echoes for generations.

Adapted from American Minute.

Last issue — Outside the Walls: Where God Awakens Nations

Past issue — The American Founders weren’t just making a political argument—they were making a spiritual appeal > Appeal to the “Supreme Judge” of the World". Again.

On the pod — America stands apart in world history, an "experiment" unlike any other. Will America Experience Its Full Destiny?

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 prayer voice as the Holy Spirit leads.

The Legacy of American Families

🧬 Father, raise up godly fathers and mothers who will faithfully teach your Word and live out your ways in their homes. Empower them to be strong spiritual leaders who disciple their children in the fear of the Lord, so that generations to come will walk in righteousness and influence our nation for your Kingdom. 📖 “We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength, and His wonderful works that He has done.” — Psalm 78.4 (NKJV)

Brian—Much of education and our culture “hide” from children the praises and ways of the Lord.

🔦 Light that exposes. Judge over All, we thank You for shining your light on the truth and exposing those who have lied about and attacked the presidential administration. We ask for your justice to move swiftly and righteously, in accordance with your Word.

🛡️🗽 Unreasonable and wicked. "That we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith" (Paul in 2 Thessalonians 3.2 NKJV). Jesus, our Deliverer, protect America from those who hate truth, twist justice, and seek to tear down what You have designed and ordained.

🔥 As you pray, tune in to the Father’s heart. Resonate with the sharp prayer edges he surfaces in the Spirit. Leave “white space” in prayer for improvisation.

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Brian Del Turco
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