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Justice State: FL

DAY 6 | State: FL

DAILY TOPIC: Justice

PRAYER FOR JUSTICE

We pray for a true understanding of justice according to Your Word. We pray for Your protection from attempts to redefine justice for political gain. We ask You to convict, transform and protect those who are out of Your will. We ask You to encourage, strengthen and protect those who honor and follow You. We ask You for judges who will follow constitutional principles rather than ruling according to pre-chosen outcomes, political agendas, or with reliance on international law.

  • He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8).

HERE IS A PARTIAL LIST OF THOSE WHO ARE PRESERVING OUR CULTURE AS SALT AND LIGHT IN THE AREA OF JUSTICE:

  • Advocates for Faith and Freedom – Robert Tyler

  • Pacific Justice Institute – Brad Dacus

  • Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund – Chuck LaMandri

  • Christian Legal Society – David Nammo

  • Liberty Counsel – Mat Staver

  • National Center for Law and Policy – Dean Broyles

  • Alliance Defending Freedom – Michael Farris

  • American Center for Law and Justice ACLJ – Jay Sekulow

  • Homeschool Legal Defense Association – J. Michael Smith

  • Liberty Institute – Kelly Shackelford

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 Yair Lapid (Yah–ear Law-pid) 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 6 - Article 5
Article 5 of the U.S. Constitution is one which discusses how the Constitution might be changed, what amendments can be made, and discusses the manner in which the changes can and should be made. The only way that changes can be made to the Constitution, is if new amendments are added to it; no other clause or forms of change can take place, apart from this, when the government, or any one party is attempting to make new rules or amend the Constitution.
Prayer: We pray that those who seek to change the Constitution and make new rules to benefit one party will not succeed.

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

  • 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 state of Florida and its leaders.

WE DECLARE THE 1885 PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF FLORIDA:

  • “We, the people of the State of Florida, grateful to Almighty God for our constitutional liberty, in order to secure its blessings…” (27th State admitted to the Union on March 3rd, 1845)

FLORIDA GOVERNOR

  • Ron DeSantis [R]

FLORIDA ATTORNEY GENERAL

  • Ashley Moody [R]

FLORIDA SENATORS

  • Marco Rubio [R]

  • Rick Scott [R]

FLORIDA REPRESENTATIVES

DEMOCRATS

  • Al Lawson

  • Stephanie Murphy

  • Darren Soto

  • Val Demings

  • Charlie Crist

  • Kathy Castor

  • Alcee Hastings

  • Lois Frankel

  • Ted Deutch

  • Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  • Frederica Wilson

  • Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

REPUBLICANS

  • Matt Gaetz

  • Neal Dunn

  • Katherine Cammack

  • John Rutherford

  • Michael Waltz

  • Bill Posey

  • Daniel Webster

  • Gus Bilirakis

  • Scott Franklin

  • Vern Buchanan

  • Gregory Steube

  • Brian Mast

  • Byron Donalds

  • Mario Diaz-Balart

  • Carlos Gimenez

  • Maria Salazar

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.

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