DAY 10 | States: KS & KY
DAILY TOPIC: Blessings of Liberty
PRAYER FOR BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY
Thank You, Father, for guiding our founders in securing the blessings of liberty for us. We ask You to guide us in reclaiming those blessings for ourselves and our posterity. We note that our founders defined liberty as a blessing. On behalf of our nation, and all those who have gone before us, please allow us Your wisdom as we attempt to re-secure the blessings of liberty that were so hard won on our behalf. Thank You for clearly showing us that freedom and fulfillment are found within the boundaries of Your law, Your commandments, and Your precepts. We pray, O God, against the tendency in our culture to define freedom as freedom from boundaries of any kind. As our liberties hang in the balance, we ask, O God, for Your guidance and help in restoring liberty for our children and for generations to come. We pray for the freedom to acknowledge You through our public institutions. We are in moral, relational and economic chaos, and we ask You to help us find our way back to the liberty that only comes from walking with You — as people, as a culture, and as a nation. Where Your Spirit is, there is true liberty. Send Your Spirit, Lord. Permeate our broken and divided land with Your Spirit. Hear the cries of Your people, O God.
The one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing (James 1:25).
PRAYER FOR ISRAEL
Lord, thank you that the President recognized Jerusalem as the Biblical capital of Israel and moved our Embassy. We pray for peace and prosperity in Israel, and ask for an end to the violence and suffering. We pray for justice, and Your sovereign righteousness over Israel. We pray for mercy and Your Kingdom to rule over the land. Please protect the soldiers and civilians from bloodshed. Give wisdom to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Knesset (The legislature of Israel). May Israel remain strong, not dividing the land You gave as an inheritance to Your chosen people. May the United States continue to fully support Israel, the nation that gave us salvation through Jesus Christ.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, may they prosper that love thee (Psalm 122:6).
Day 10 - Amendment 2
2nd Amendment: Guarantees the people's right to own and bear arms for their defense.
Prayer: We pray against the oppression from our leaders that have unlimited power; we also pray that American's will defend against tyranny.
PRAYER FOR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
Lord God, we ask for Your blessing and wisdom on the lives of these leaders in our nation.
EXECUTIVE
President Joe Biden
Vice-President Kamala Harris
THE PRESIDENT’S CABINET
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Secretary of the Interior
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Merrick Garland
SUPREME COURT
Chief Justice John Roberts
JUSTICES
Amy Coney Barrett
Samuel Alito
Brett Kavanaugh
Clarence Thomas
Neil Gorsuch
Elena Kagan
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Sonia Sotomayor
Lord, we ask for their courage to do what is right in your sight and to overturn the following decisions ...
1947: EVERSON V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
"Wall of Separation" Between church and state
(RULING: Ruled as Constitutional allocating taxpayer funds (to bus children) to religious schools because it did not breach the "wall of separation”: between church and state. Decision held that the establishment clause of the First Amendment applied to state, local and federal government. Bottom Line: Distributing public funds to parents to cover the cost of busing their children to religious schools did not breach the wall. And, finally, it was this ruling that established the vernacular ‘wall of separation’ which set the precedent for the next two Supreme Court decisions removing prayer and bible reading from our schools.)
Where did the term Wall of Separation come from?
Establishment Clause Definition
1962: ENGEL V. VITALE
Removed prayer from public education
(RULING: Unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools. PLAINTIFF: Steven Engel, New York parent / DEFENDANT: William Vitale, the school board president)
1963: ABINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT V. SCHEMPP
Removed the Bible from public education
(RULING: Declared school-sponsored Bible reading in public schools in the United States to be unconstitutional. PLAINTIFF: Edward Lewis Schempp and family / DEFENDANT: Abington School District)
1968: EPPERSON V. ARKANSAS
Opened the door for evolution to be taught as fact in public schools
(RULING: Creation and Intelligent Design were ruled as religious studies in government schools. Government schools are to remain neutral https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/393/97/)
1973: ROE V WADE: OVERTURNED BY THE GRACIOUS HAND OF THE LORD - JUNE 2022
Allowed Unrestricted Access to Abortion
(RULING: Unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. PLAINTIFF: Norma McCorvey, aka Jane Roe / DEFENDANT: Henry Wade, district attorney of Dallas County, TX, where Roe resided)
2003: LAWRENCE V. TEXAS:
Struck down the sodomy law, thus legalizing same-sex sexual activity in every U.S. state and territory
(RULING: The “Homosexual Conduct” law [prohibiting sodomy] was unconstitutional and violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause that protects a substantive right to personal liberty in intimate decisions)
2015: OBERGEFELL V. HODGES:
Legalized same-sex marriage nationwide
(RULING: The Constitution guarantees a nationwide right to same-sex marriage. State bans on same-sex marriage and on recognizing same-sex marriages duly performed in other jurisdictions are unconstitutional under the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. PLAINTIFF: Jim Obergefell, a same-sex widower / DEFENDANT: Richard Hodges, Ohio’s health director)
TODAY’S STATE FOCUS
We direct our prayers to the states of Kansas and Kentucky and their leaders.
WE DECLARE THE 1859 PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF KANSAS:
“We, the people of Kansas, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious privileges … do ordain and establish the Constitution …” (34th State admitted to the Union on January 29th, 1861)
KANSAS GOVERNOR
Laura Kelly [D]
KANSAS ATTORNEY GENERAL
Kris Kobach [R]
KANSAS SENATORS
Jerry Moron [R]
Roger Marshall [R]
KANSAS REPRESENTATIVES
DEMOCRATS
Sharice Davids
REPUBLICANS
Tracey Mann
Jacob LaTurner
Ron Estes
WE DECLARE THE 1891 PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY:
“We, the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties…” (15th State admitted to the Union on June 1, 1792)
KENTUCKY GOVERNOR
Andy Beshear [D]
KENTUCKY ATTORNEY GENERAL
Daniel Cameron [R]
KENTUCKY SENATORS
Mitch McConnell [R]
Rand Paul [R]
KENTUCKY REPRESENTATIVES
DEMOCRATS
Morgan McGarvey
REPUBLICANS
James Comer
Brett Guthrie
Thomas Massie
Hal Rogers
Andy Barr
We ask that You turn their hearts towards You, Lord. We ask that You soften their hearts, Lord, to recognize and receive truth. Lord, we ask that You grant them the understanding and knowledge that come from the fear of You. We ask that You grant them wisdom and discernment, Lord, and that You make them bold to do what is right in Your sight. Lord, we ask that You direct their hearts to do Your will. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
