Declare a Holy Fast

Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord

~ Joel 1:14

Intercessors for America invites you to join us for 21 days of fasting and prayer for this new chapter of our nation. What better way to start 2025 than to call upon the Lord and plead for a protected Inauguration, a peaceful transition, and providential authority for this new administration.

The first seven days of intercessory focus will be on exposing, dismantling, and removing the oppressive and corrupt rot that our Founding Fathers strove to avoid.  The second prayer phase will be for discernment, understanding, and preparation for the new dawn that breaks forth.  The final seven days will be spent entreating and petitioning the Lord to guide this administration and We The People as we reclaim, restore, and rebuild our governing bodies with foundational truth, honesty, virtue, and nobility.

The November 2020 election results rightly left countless millions distraught and filled with dread for the future of our country.  Out of that dread and lament, a national prayer movement launched, which possibly would not have formed otherwise. Four years of faithful, fervent, and travailing prayer sustained us through these long, darkening four years and has now delivered these miraculous election results of 2024. 

When the Lord hears a nation's prayers, it is fitting to thank Him with the same zeal we beseech Him with.

He answered their prayers because they trusted Him. 

~ I Chronicles 5:20

And we must continue to trust Him. As much as the November results were the end of one grueling race, the Inauguration on January 20 will sound the starting gun of the next, far more demanding race.  This next race will require measures of stamina, resilience, and ingenuity not seen in our lifetime.

This newly formed administration will have four short years to deracinate the systemic roots of corruption in Washington, D.C., restore to prominence the biblical principles upon which this nation was established, and, with all excellence, reclaim the form and spirit of governance our Founders gave to us. These heroes of history derived this lasting blueprint through rigorous learning, keen discernment of human nature, and the ardent study of scripture.  

Today, the form of our republic, found mainly in The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, remains a firewall against a full-scale invasion of globalist oligarchical tyranny. But the spirit of our republic, which is Christianity, has been muffled, muzzled, and removed from its rightful place in the public square.  If the form of our republic is untethered from its animating spirit, the eroding tides of secular paganism and cultural Marxism will eventually recast a malformed landscape our Founders would fail to recognize, and Our Heavenly Father could never bless.

The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount.  The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.  I don't think we emphasize that enough these days.  If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.

~ Harry Truman, at the Attorney General's Conference, 1950

These last four years under the Biden administration, as prepared for by the eight years of the Obama administration, was a dry-run of the Totalitarian State of America. Big Tech in the hands of evil men can scrub the internet, obfuscate our search engines, and rewrite history — But they can never erase our memory.  Therefore, we will never forget.

Let those who love the Lord hate evil.

Psalm 97:10

We will never forget the non-scientific, tyrannical abuses inflicted on We The People during SARS-COV-2.  We will never forget the mandates, the lockdowns, the lying, and the firing.  We will never forget when our cities were looted and set on fire, and law enforcement was ordered to let it happen.  

We will never forget President Biden shouting at us from the blood-red stage in Philadelphia.  With clenched fists and gnashing teeth, he declared to the world that law-abiding American citizens were domestic terrorists, white supremacists, and the greatest threat to this country.  We will never forget each door battered down, each political opponent falsely imprisoned, and every life destroyed by the FBI —the new Federal Bureau of Injustice. 

We will never forget the limp, cowardly surrender of Afghanistan that stranded thousands of Americans, handed 80 billion dollars worth of military assets to our enemies, and cost the lives of 13 U.S. service members who were needlessly killed. We will never forget the easing of sanctions against Iran that led to the funding of the October 7 attack and this administration’s unwillingness to broker a peace deal in Kiev.

We will never forget the systematic removal of our southern border that resulted in an invasion of tens of millions of illegal immigrants that now surpasses the era of Ellis Island.  We will never forget the 350,000 children that have crossed our border and disappeared these past four years.  We will never forget the demon's screeching mirth at the countless victims of rape, trafficking, and torture, all under the purview of HHS.  

We will never forget the nearly four million abortions these past four years, nor will we forget the mobile abortion unit that was killing babies outside the Democratic National Convention.

We will never forget being watched, scored, and punished by ESG, DEI, and CRT. We will never forget those who fought to hyper-sexualize our children and, in the twisted name of healthcare, had them sterilized, castrated, and mutilated.

We will never forget Lahaina, Springfield, and Asheville.  We will never forget the Twitter Files, Hunter's laptop, and the Pfizer files.  We will never forget how the DOJ was a punishing weapon against political opponents. We will never forget what subjugation to the NIH, the WHO, and the UN Climate catastrophists has done to cloud our Bill of Rights. 

If you see the extortion of the poor or the perversion of justice and fairness in the government, do not be astonished by the matter. 

~ Ecclesiastes 5:8

Phase Two

Apart from God, the natural lifespan of government is decline, decay, and death.  To cease this predictable devolvement into entropy, one must employ the supernatural. Benevolent governments must employ great men and women of noble character and virtue who cherish and revere their calling as bestowed to them by God for the intent of human flourishing.

And so, this second phase of our heavenward pleading will be for discerning the times, shoring up the cracks in our foundations, and installing those called into their official positions.

He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.  The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

~ Samuel Adams

The form of government alone is wholly unsuited to endow any lasting good upon its citizenry.  But when the spirit of that government, in the traits of wisdom, integrity, and scripture-shaped thought, resides in the officials who serve, the form becomes life-giving and life-sustaining.  

The blessing of this phase is that we do not require our nation's best and brightest to lock themselves away for five months in the Philadelphia State House to imagine a new, unifying structure. Our form is firmly established, tried, and true and only needs to be repositioned as the centerpiece on the table of governance. 

The three pillars of our Constitution are reliable: the Principle of Representation, the Separation of Powers, and the Bill of Rights. Our prayers are for fierce protection and unwavering adherence to what has already been given, not just to America but for the world.

Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.

~ Daniel Webster

The Launching Phase

Just days after Mitt Romney lost to Barrack Obama in 2012, Donald Trump trademarked the slogan, Make America Great Again.  He wasn't sure he would run, but he was sure why Romney lost.  

Inculcated by the education system and propagated by the media, disdain for America's past and distaste for America's present is an infectious blight that should never be given credence.  Everyone is aware that these torturous thoughts of self-hatred only breed the destructive actions of self-harm.  Hence, the list of Never Forgets above. These actions, guided by policy, are only permitted by a patient who despises themselves.

Make America Great Again is not only a catchy phrase; it is a unifying call to love our nation, pledge to make it better, and gratefully guard our life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  And for the believer, these are enhanced by our delight in the goodness of God and desire to honor Him in all we do. 

Whereas we all came to these parts of America with the same end and aim, namely, to advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to enjoy the liberties of the Gospel thereof with purities and peace, and for preserving and propagating the truth and liberties of the Gospel.

~ John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,1643.

And so, we fast and pray that this uniquely formed nation will reawaken to her heavenly roots.  May the Lord grant favor, wisdom, protection, and authority to our President and the incoming administration.  May corruption be eliminated, assessments be discerning, and the rebuilding all be according to Your will.  And may your people be the salt, light, and leaven to spread the love of Christ across this land.

This piece was commissioned by Intercessors for America and will be released in portions.