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Healthcare and Healing State: TX & UT

DAY 27 | States: TX & UT

DAILY TOPIC: Healthcare and Healing

  • Prayer for Israel

  • Prayer for National Government Officials

  • State Focus: Texas and Utah

PRAYER FOR HEALTHCARE AND HEALING

Guide us, Lord, to Your model for health care and healing in our country. Thank You for all You have given us through the gifts and talents, compassion and creativity of our health care professionals in America. Lord, we are in desperate need for Your guidance in how best to serve everyone in need of health care. Please lead those who are working to bring that about. Guide and guard them from greed, self interest and corruption. As Our ultimate Healer and Lord, we ask for You to intervene and guide our country to do the right thing in Your eyes for those who need medical help. We beseech You, on behalf of every American to lead us to health care that honors You and Your desires for Americans. God Almighty, we ask You to help us sort out truth from deception, right from wrong, and good from evil in our health care system. Give us Your wisdom and the courage to stand for what is true, right, good, honorable and fair to those who provide health care and those who need it.

  • Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths (Proverbs 3:5-6).

HERE IS A PARTIAL LIST OF THOSE WHO ARE PRESERVING OUR CULTURE AS SALT AND LIGHT IN THE AREAS OF HEALTHCARE AND HEALING:

  • Care Net: Network of more than 1,100 pregnancy centers

  • National Associaltion for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH)

  • Christian Medical and Dental Association

  • Samaritan’s Purse: World Medical Mission and Operation Heal Our Patriots

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 Naftali Bennett 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).

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 Transportation

  • Secretary of Energy

  • Secretary of Education

  • Secretary of Veterans Affairs:

  • Secretary of Homeland Security

ATTORNEY GENERAL

  • Merrick Garland

SUPREME COURT

  • Chief Justice John Roberts

JUSTICES

  • Amy Coney Barrett

  • Samuel Alito

  • Brett Kavanaugh

  • Clarence Thomas

  • Neil Gorsuch

  • Elena Kagan

  • Stephen Breyer

  • 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:
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 Texas and Utah and their leaders.

WE DECLARE THE 1845 PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF TEXAS:

  • “We the People of the Republic of Texas, acknowledging, with gratitude, the grace and beneficence of God. Humbly invoking the blessings of Almighty God, the people of the State of Texas, do ordain and establish this Constitution.”

TEXAS GOVERNOR

  • Greg Abbott [R]

TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL

  • Ken Paxton [R]

TEXAS SENATORS

  • John Cornyn [R]

  • Ted Cruz [R]

TEXAS REPRESENTATIVES

(6th District is currently vacant)

DEMOCRATS

  • Lizzie Fletcher

  • Al Green

  • Vincente Gonzalez

  • Veronica Escobar

  • Sheila Jackson Lee

  • Joaquin Castro

  • Henry Cuellar

  • Sylvia Garcia

  • Eddie Bernice Johnson

  • Colin Allred

  • Marc Veasey

  • Filemon Vela

  • Lloyd Doggett

REPUBLICANS

  • Louie Gohmert

  • Dan Crenshaw

  • Van Taylor

  • Patrick Fallon

  • Lance Gooden

  • Kevin Brady

  • Michael McCaul

  • August Pfluger II

  • Kay Granger

  • Ronny Jackson

  • Randy Weber

  • Pete Sessions

  • Jodey Arrington

  • Chip Roy

  • Troy Nehls

  • Tony Gonzles

  • Beth Van Duyne

  • Roger Williams

  • Michael Burgess

  • Michael Cloud

  • John Carter

  • Brian Babin

WE DECLARE THE 1896 PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF UTAH:

  • “Grateful to Almighty God for life and liberty, we establish this Constitution.”

UTAH GOVERNOR

  • Spencer Cox [R]

UTAH ATTORNEY GENERAL

  • Sean Reyes [R]

UTAH SENATORS

  • Mike Lee [R]

  • Mitt Romney [R]

UTAH REPRESENTATIVES

REPUBLICANS

  • Blake Moore

  • Chris Stewart

  • John Curtis

  • Burgess Owens

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.

Earlier Event: December 26
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