The God who hears (Psalm 40)

O God, my God,
I put my trust in You alone. All else is folly as the world turns to madness.

Psalm 40
I turned to You, my God, and waited patiently for You. I continued my vigil day and night until You heard my cry and turned to me.

You brought me up from a roaring pit! You pulled me from the muddy ooze, and You set my feet upon a rock. Jesus Christ, Messiah, YOU are the Rock! You are my firm footing.

You put a new song in my mouth and I will sing all the day long. You gave me a song of praise that I can give back to You. Oh that many may see and hear what You have done for me and put their trust in You. You are the One True God.

Blessed are they that trust in You and do not turn to men or false teachings.

Look at all You have done for me! For others! For the United States! Your wonders and your thoughts towards us have not been hidden. None can compare with You! There is more to tell than can be spoken. Great has been Your blessing on us.

You have asked fro obedience. Sacrifice of grain and burnt offereings have not been Your preferrence. You ask for obedience. You graciously give Your attention. You listen to my calls, my cries, and You know the desires of my heart. Thank You.

You have a book and I am in Your Book of Life! You have written everything there is to know about me and YOU have saved me for Your eternal pleasure. It is too much for me to imagine. God of grace and mercy.

Grant me audience to proclaim Your righteousness, to declare Your faithfulness and salvation. Put words of praise to You, and grant eyes to see and ears to hear...O God, grant me an audience to proclaim Your grace, Your mercy, Your righteousness and Your judgment.

Put Your words in my mouth. May they well up from within me as fire that cannot be contained. May I be Your mouthpiece? May I proclaime Your coming kingdom, judgement, and salvation? It is my heart to do so.

To do Your will is my joy. Your Word is my delight. Fill me iwth understanding and focus for each day, that I can truly be Your delight. Lead me in the way You have prepared for me and guide me that my steps not move to the left or the right, and that I do not stumble. To live for You is life.

The world has turned against You...as You said it would. Evil has infiltrated...everywhere I look, evil has permeated the living and guides each entity to its death. Have mercy on us O God of Life.

Iniquity pours out on Your people day and night. Its darkenss pours out and covers our eyes and ears. The murmerings of the evil one pound at our minds and hdearts all the day long. (But he will not prevail.)

Many have secumbed to the sway of evil. They have embraced it with all their being. Evil engulfs me every day. I cannot see, hear or even think at times, because it is so pervasive. O forgive me when my courage fails.

Hurry O God. May it please You to resuce me! ...and all who put their trust in You for their salvation! Hurry to help us!

What about those who see our destruction? ...that seek to sweep me away? Will You disgrace and humiliate them altogether? Many take pleasure in doing me harm. Will You turn them back and put them to confusion. Many jeer at me...but it's really You they try to disgrace. May they be aghast and put to shame. (Selah)

Many seek You. May they be filled with joy, unspeakable!
Be our gladness each day.
May we all rise up and speak of Your love and Your salvation always:
Jesus Christ is great and glorious! He is our strength and salvation!

O God, we are poor and needy. Think kindly on us each day.
You are our helper and rescuer and our only hope.
O God, don't delay!

Maranatha!

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Preparation Prayers: For Your Honor

Father in heaven,
Lord who is Messiah and whose kingdom comes,
Holy Spirit, who leads in all things,

Glory is due Your Name alone. You are Majesty, You alone are glorious.

Psalm 100
1 Make a joyful noise unto raw LORDl, all ye lands.

O LORD, You know that I have been noisy before You. My petitions have filled the space between us as I try to carry the burden You have placed on my heart for this nation. Surely, I have been noisy, but not always joyful. My God, my God, the joy of my petitions have been in the knowledge and faith, the trust that You are my God, and You hear my petition. You are the joy of my salvation. In You I trust. These prayers continue and I can only believe that You have placed them within me. I humbly offer them back to You and I “joy” in the knowledge that You are a merciful God.

2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

Each day, almost without exception, I have sung before Your throne of grace. Thank You for the privilege to sing praises to the Most High God. Thank You for filling my heart with songs of Your praise. You alone are worthy.

3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: It is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

It is true O God. The whole earth testifies that You are God. All Your creation raises its praise and song to You, the Maker. My soul bows before You in humble adoration that You provide a path for me to commune with You.

4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

There are no words that deliver the depth of thanks that is due to Your Name. There is no expression, either verbally, artistically, in deed, or any other manner, that can even know the profound care and love that You pour out on the earth. …I am left vacant, impotent…incapable of offering the thanksgiving before Your thone.

5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

You have said it and I believe it. I will trust in Your goodness and mercy. I stand in Your Truth that will preserve and conquer.

Hezekiah and Sennacherib of Syria
You bring this historic documentation to my attention in the Book of Isaiah, chapters 36, 37. and 38. This is Your Word. I believe this happened — it is true and it demonstrates Your work on behalf of Your servant King Hezekiah and Your management of King Sennacherib,

King Hezekiah and his entire nation was attacked by King Sennacherib. Fear tactics were used. Promises they would “own nothing and be happy” IF they surrendered. The people were repeatedly told not to trust in the true leadership of the nation, but to give themselves up. Just like King Sennacherib, promises are being made if we will surrender our minds and submit to the mandates being issued.

King Sennacherib pronounced that Judah was an outlier. He tried to convince the people that no other nation had been able to stand before his might. His arrogance was profoundly persuasive! His promises were enticing.

Is this not a repeating pattern here in the United States?

Father, tribute IS being made from the false leaders in this nation. I cannot hold back that they are trying to destroy the economy and the heart and soul of this nation: that we are still One Nation Under God.

Fear has gripped so many households and many line up to do whatever they are being told.

But Hezekiah humbled himself before You. He knew that You were the only hope. Many of us are bowing before You. Many are petitioning You. We know that You are our only hope for this nation.

You were at work. King Hezekiah did not have to go to battle. You did it. King Sennacherib left, having heard a rumor that required his immediate attention.

Do You have a good rumor for this nation? You are able to turn this around. You are able to raise up Your might and proclaim Your power.

For Your Sake
Hezekiah did not ask You to save the nation of Judah for his sake. He asked for Your sake. It was for Your honor.

Isaiah 37:20
Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.

O God of all creation, I do not ask that You save the United States for our sake. I ask it for Yours. Everyone is watching. You are Truth. Please raise Truth up where all people can see that You are God.

Please touch the hearts of the people in this land that we see our wickedness, repent, and return to our foundation as One Nation Under God.

...especially for the children, move swiftly,

Maranatha.

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Preparation Prayers: Breakthrough: Captivity captive

O Lord my God,
I come.

You are always there, giving me Your whole attention. You hear every word, every desire of my heart, and You see me with all my imperfections, shortcomings, and failures, and You love me. I shake my heart in disbelief. I am grateful beyond expression.

We are held captive. In the world there is captivity. The chains embrace me. They are embracing this nation. We are being held hostage by imaginations of men. They push fear at us from every direction. The media is the worst, as it brings one message of disaster after another. The media is unrelenting. They seek to to enshroud every person with thier directives and contorl their lives.

Spirit, soul and body
Father, hear my cry to You. You made us spirit, soul, and body. The enemy wants all of us; every particle. Your (our) enemy, Satan, seeks to destroy our bodies, fill our soul —our thoughts and emotions...all so he can have our spirit. He seeks to steal our connection to You where we meet with You, Spirit to spirit.

Prince of the Power of the Air
He uses the media. He has enshrined them, consumed them and they give over their voice to him. He has formed an impenetrable cocoon around them and they are helpless to escape his grasp or his bidding. They are being used to ingeniously embalm us with their messaging. They want to get into the very essence of our physical and emotional being, all to steal our very spirits from You.

Satan is the Prince of the Power of the Air and we seem like helpless victims, bombarded by a constant barrage of lies.

Ephesians 2:2-3
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

The breadth of Satan’s program is as exhaustive as it is complete. He has this world and he wants our souls. Climate change and weather, Government and rulers, Family and faith, the children and education, our bodies and thoughts every social construct.

I can only touch a small fragment of his comprehensive plan to thwart Your dominion over all creation including those of us who dwell here.

But...

You brought captivity captive

Psalm 68
18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them.

19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.

20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death.

21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

Ah…the beginning of that God-breathed psalm:

Psalm 68:1-3
1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered:
Let them also that hate him flee before him.

2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away:
As wax melteth before the fire,
So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God:
Yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

You provided the path to freedom, here and now.

Your promises are sure. Your Word is Truth. You are Truth.

Isaiah 55:11
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

You have set us free.
You hold our worship. He cannot take us. He cannot have us. You have us. You hold us safe.

John 8:36
36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

We are safe in You.

John 10:28-30
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

30 I and my Father are one.

Today, and every day, I will live in the freedom You have secured for me. I will not let the enemy steal my thoughts or thwart Your purpose for me this day. Request: Pour out Truth
I am free. We are free. But many are not aware of their freedom and have fallen hostage.

• Please pour out Your Truth.
• Open their eyes to see clearly.
• Open their hearts to receive Your freedom.
• Remove the chains.

Especially for the children, O God, have mercy and move quickly.
Take us above the clouds where we can breathe and do the work set before us.

Maranatha

Preparation Prayers: At the precipice, eyes on You

Father in heaven,
Lord Jesus,
Holy Spirit,

Praise and glory belong to You O God. What is it that man can add to You? You are the First and the Last. You are consummate.

Isaiah 44:6
Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel,
And his redeemer the Lord of hosts;
I am the first, and I am the last;
And beside me there is no God.

Revelation 1:8
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Why did You make us?
Were You “incomplete” when You made the earth? …were You lonely? …and You made people to keep You company?

Were You bored and then created the earth and us? Did you need adoration, worship? No.

Proverbs 16:4
4 The Lord hath made all things for himself: Yea, heven the wicked for the day of evil.

Romans 11:36
36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

You are indescribable. I cannot understand the greatness of Your heart for people...for me. The expanse of Your wisdom and the vast expression of Your creativity is beyond all comprehension. I cannot grasp or appreciate even the smallest particle of Your being…but You love me still. You want what is best for me. You have a vision for me, for my life, that is beyond anything I can imagine.

Thank You.

Sick, frail, and in a frenzy
This nation is in a frenzy. Emotions seem uncontrollable. Outbursts of mental and emotional hysteria erupt each day. Are all of these a distraction? From what? From truth?

In my mind I see a blanket of clunky actions suspended in the air all over this nation. Like a thick cloud it pours out a rain of dis-ease between people. Hate, lies, and destruction fall in a steady stream upon us. A steady rein (rain) of terror?

This infection seems to capture the minds of people and lures them into destructive behavior. It seems evident that they are from Your (our) enemy. They are like a den of vipers —agitated, enthusiastic and eager to destroy. There is a nervous hysteria about them as they charge ahead to steal, kill, and destroy.

John 10:10
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Are we at the precipice?
Father, this nation is sinking. Above us is this cloud of destruction, crushing us as one lie after another beats down upon us. Below is quicksand and there is nothing to provide a foothold. Where are You? How can we see You.

Matthew 14:13
And immediately Jesus stretched forth his , and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

Jeremiah 30:17
"For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: 'It is Zion, for whom no one cares!'"

I stand here on behalf of this nation: One Nation Under God.

It seems to have disappeared as the fire from the mouth of Leviathan has erupted in devastation. We are blackened from the ash of his corruption, drowning in the mirk of sewage that has come from him.

Please reach out Your hand
I call upon You for You are my God. I cry out to You from this nation of darkness and I flail with my arms, hoping to find Your Hand. Grasp my hand, O God. Pull me out of the quicksand of falsehoods that desire to drown my hope and devour any goodness or mention that You exist.

We are helpless

Job 41:1-2
1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? 2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

We cannot. I know that I am not alone. I know that many are seeking You and Your salvation for this nation.

Hear us. We are helpless. Have mercy.

O God of mercy…especially for the children,

Maranatha