DAY 11 | States: LA & ME
DAILY TOPIC: Our Rights
Prayer for Israel
Prayer for National Government Officials
State Focus: Louisiana and Maine
PRAYER FOR OUR RIGHTS
Thank You for founders who established this country on the fact that our rights come from You. We ask for Your divine intervention against all attempts to re-define those rights on man’s terms. Lord, it seems new “rights” are claimed at every turn in our culture. Please give the American people discernment to know the difference between our God-given rights vs. desires or privileges. We ask You to intervene in the mind-set that we are entitled, and turn us once again into a grateful nation. Father, thank You that Your truth and our rights are eternally and inalienably linked. May this fact become self-evident to Americans once again. We petition You on behalf of our beloved country.
“Now we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully” I Timothy 1:8.
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 LEADERS
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 Agriculture: Sonny Perdue
Secretary of Commerce: Wilbur Ross
Secretary of Labor: Secretary Alexander Acosta
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Alex Azar
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Ben Carson
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 states of Louisiana and Maine and their leaders.
WE DECLARE THE 1921 PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF LOUISIANA:
“We, the people of Louisiana, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political, economic, and religious liberties we enjoy… do ordain and establish this constitution.” (18th State admitted to the Union on April 30,1812)
LOUISIANA GOVERNOR
John Bel Edwardsl [D]
LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL
Jeff Landry [R]
LOUISIANA SENATORS
Bill Cassidy [R]
John Kennedy [R]
LOUISIANA REPRESENTATIVES
DEMOCRATS
Cedric Richmond
REPUBLICANS
Steve Scalise
Clay Higginsy
Mike Johnson
Ralph Abraham
Garret Graves
WE DECLARE THE 1819 PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF MAINE:
“We the people of Maine… acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe…and, imploring God’s aid and direction.” (23rd State admitted to the Union on March 15, 1820)
MAINE GOVERNOR
Janet Mills [D]
MAINE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Aaron Frey [D]
MAINE SENATORS
Susan Collins [R]
Angus King [I]
MAINE REPRESENTATIVES
DEMOCRATS
Chellie Pingree [D}
Jared Golden [D]
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
