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 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).
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)
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.
