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Vision States: WI & WY

DAY 31 | States: WI & WY

DAILY TOPIC: Vision

  • Prayer for Israel

  • Prayer for National Government Officials

  • State Focus: Wisconsin and Wyoming

PRAYER FOR VISION

Thank you, Lord, that in You America can once again become a “City on a Hill” — Your beacon to the world. We petition You, Lord, to lead us according to Your plan, in Your timing, with the power of Your Holy Spirit. We know You are infinitely bigger and brighter than the darkness before us. We ask that You remind us to keep our eyes and minds focused on what is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent and worthy of praise. Help us to elevate conversations and relationships to those higher things. May You be the prompter and completer of any daunting tasks before us. In You only may we find our voice to speak, our strength to move. God in Heaven, we pray that America may become a great beacon of Your standards. As the world sees Your ways and Your love demonstrated in this great country, may they be drawn to Your Son.

  • I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland (Isaiah 43:19).

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

  • Presidential Prayer Team

  • Intercessors for America

  • The Heritage Foundation

  • The Salt & Light Council

  • National Organization for Marriage

  • Reclaiming America for Christ

  • Issues4Life Foundation

  • Americans for Truth

  • Christian Coalition of America

  • Christians United for Israel

  • Messianic Jewish Alliance of America

  • Concerned Women for America

  • Faith and Freedom Coalition

  • Traditional Values Coalition

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 State

  • Secretary of the Treasury

  • Secretary of Defense

  • Secretary of the Interior

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 Wisconsin and Wyoming and their leaders.

WE DECLARE THE 1848 PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF WISCONSIN:

  • “We, the people of Wisconsin, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, domestic tranquility …” (30th State admitted to the Union on May 29th, 1848)

WISCONSIN GOVERNOR

  • Tony Evers [D]

WISCONSIN ATTORNEY GENERAL

  • Brad Schimel [R]

WISCONSIN SENATORS

  • Ron Johnson [R]

  • Tammy Baldwin [D]

WISCONSIN REPRESENTATIVES

DEMOCRATS

  • Mark Pocan

  • Ron Kind

  • Gwen Moore

REPUBLICANS

  • Bryan Steil

  • Jim Sensenbrenner

  • Glenn Grothman

  • Sean Duffy

  • Mike Gallagher

WE DECLARE THE 1890 PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF WYOMING:

  • “We, the people of the State of Wyoming, grateful to God for our civil, political, and religious liberties … establish this Constitution.”(44th State admitted to the Union on July 10th,1890)

WYOMING GOVERNOR

  • Mark Gordon [R]

WYOMING ATTORNEY GENERAL

  • Peter Michael [R]

WYOMING SENATORS

  • Mike Enzi [R]

  • John Barrasso [R]

WYOMING REPRESENTATIVES

  • Liz Cheney [R]

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 30
Citizens and Voters State: WV
Later Event: January 1
Thanksgiving States: AL & AK