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Justice State: FL

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DAY 6 | State: FL

DAILY TOPIC: Justice

  • Prayer for Israel

  • Prayer for National Government Officials

  • State Focus: Florida

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, we pray for the peace and prosperity of Jerusalem, the Biblical capital of 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 Donald Trump

  • Vice-President Mike Pence

THE PRESIDENT’S CABINET

  • Secretary of Transportation: Elaine Chao

  • Secretary of Energy: Dan Brouillette

  • Secretary of Education: Betsy DeVos

  • Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Robert Wilkie

  • Secretary of Homeland Security: Chad Wolf (Acting Secretary)

ATTORNEY GENERAL

  • William Barr

SUPREME COURT

  • Chief Justice John Roberts

JUSTICES

  • Clarence Thomas

  • Brett Kavanaugh

  • Samuel Alito

  • Neil Gorsuch

  • Elena Kagan

  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  • Stephen Breyer

  • Sonia Sotomayor

Lord, we pray for three conservative, constitutional Christians on the Supreme Court that would assure a majority; to see the following decisions overturned…

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 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

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

  • Debbie Mucarsel-Powell

  • Donna Shalala

REPUBLICANS

  • Matt Gaetz

  • Neal Dunn

  • Ted Yoho

  • John Rutherford

  • Michael Waltz

  • Bill Posey

  • Daniel Webster

  • Gus Bilirakis

  • Ross Spano

  • Vern Buchanan

  • Gregory Steube

  • Brian Mast

  • Francis Rooney

  • Mario Diaz-Balart

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: April 5
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Later Event: April 7
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