Divine Appointment

“May God arise, may his enemies be scattered;
    may his foes flee before him.
May you blow them away like smoke—
    as wax melts before the fire,
    may the wicked perish before God.
But may the righteous be glad
    and rejoice before God;
    may they be happy and joyful.” (Psalm 68:1-3 NIV)

[Please join me in praying for our nation and world on Tuesdays this year. This is lightly edited from a post by Jamie Rohrbaugh on January 9, 2023.]

Lord, we thank You that You are, right now, rebuilding the ancient ruins and reestablishing the ancient paths. Specifically, You are:

• restoring the sovereign legality of the Constitution in America

• securing our borders against every unholy invaders

• restoring our judges as at the first (Isaiah 1:26)

• restoring godly wisdom to our people

• teaching every person to distinguish the holy from the profane

• awakening every person to love righteousness and hate lawlessness

• taking evil “wokeness” out of vogue and restoring common sense and Your wisdom from above to our people

• showing corporations the error of their ways and bringing them back to simply doing business righteously, instead of being lobbying organizations for evil

Abba Father, we thank You that “the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong…” (Ecclesiastes 9:11 NKJV).

Appearances don’t matter at all. The only thing that matters is that You are fighting for us, for greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4). You and You alone are the great victor and conqueror over all. You have given us victory by the Blood of Jesus, and You enforce victory for Your people.

The wicked may sometimes appear to be stronger than we are, Father, but that is only an illusion – not the truth. So we thank You, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, and God of angel armies, that in Jesus’ name we are more than conquerors. We rejoice before You, Lord, and we speak Your word over every wicked one in America: “As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God” (Psalm 68:2 NKJV).

Father, 2023 is the year when our freedoms will be restored. By this prayer, we nominate, vote in, establish and decree, in Jesus’ name, that 2023 is America’s year of Jubilee. We shall be free this year from:

• all encumbrances to a righteous legal process

• all hindrances to legal and honest elections

• all unholy leadership

• ungodly “wokeness” and the evil agenda of satan and his forces

• having our rights and liberties infringed upon

• attacks of the minority in the name of “tolerance” and “inclusion”

• every evil thing

In the name of Jesus, we thank You, Father, that America shall be free in 2023. We thank You, also, that 2023 is a year of prosperity. And, in the name of Jesus, we release our edicts that:

• our economic markets shall stabilize

• the cost of goods shall be reduced and be restored to normal

• our national debt shall be reduced or eliminated in a godly way

• unholy government spending will be stopped

• small business owners shall prosper in everything to which they set their hands

• good jobs shall be available to every American

• there shall no longer be any staffing issues or difficulties in our factories, stores, restaurants, and other businesses

• our supply chain shall be freed and flow without hindrance or blockage

• taxes will be reduced

• every American will prosper financially

• the Church will do its job in helping the poor

Father, we thank You, also, that 2023 is the year in which:

• gender-transition surgeries on minors shall become unthinkable and unacceptable

• irrefutable scientific data will emerge to show that abortion and woke gender ideology is absolutely dangerous and false for all people

• the Gospel shall thunder from the pulpits of American churches

• Christians will return to fellowship, to the apostles’ doctrine, to prayer, and to the breaking of bread, just as You prescribe in Acts chapter 2

• Christians shall become such good stewards of Your finances that we shall be known as the blessed and wealthy of the Lord

• revival shall break out on every street corner

• You shall thrust our laborers into Your harvest field at an unprecedented rate, opening doors to allow all who desire to serve You full time in vocational ministry to do so

• Christian churches shall be crowded again with people desiring to hear the Gospel

• You will work with us as we proclaim Your Word; and You will confirm Your Word with signs, wonders, and miracles of every kind

• our sons and daughters, husbands and wives, grandchildren and parents who are away from You will return to You with fasting, weeping, and mourning

• the righteous shall have favor and shall rule and reign over the wicked at every opportunity

Thank You, Abba Father.

Lord, 2023 is a divine appointment for us, Your people, and we look forward to it.

We thank You that You are a rewarder of those who seek You. Therefore, Father, we ask, in Jesus’ name, that You would reward us for seeking You all these years.

We remind You of Your word in Matthew chapter 6, which says that You will reward us openly when we pray and fast in secret. So we ask You to openly reward us for every prayer we have prayed in our prayer closets. We ask You to openly reward us, both individually and corporately, for every fast we have observed in Your name. And we thank You that it is done and it is so, because Your word cannot return to You void.

Salvation belongs to the Lord, Abba Father. Your blessing is upon Your people. And we thank You, in the mighty and matchless name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, that even though You may have raised us up in obscurity, now is the year that You are flaunting Your work to the world. As it is written, so let it be done.

Thank You, Holy One of Israel. We give You all the glory, and we worship You and You alone.

In Jesus’ name we pray, AMEN.

 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” (Matthew 6:5-8 NIV)

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