FIRST EDITION
Welcome to the first edition of the 714 Prayer Report. Above all else this Report will be a call to prayer. Its publication each Friday will provide Christian citizens of the United States with a reminder to pray for their country. It will also provide news articles and news commentaries that will serve as reminders of what we all need to be praying about.
A Biblical Foundation
The name of the Report is taken from that great verse in 2 Chronicles 7:14 in which God invites His people to get right with Him and earnestly seek Him in prayer. If there has ever been a time when American Christians need to respond to that invitation, this is it! We live in a deeply divided nation. That division is almost right down the middle. The two sides can be described as those on one side who want our nation to be “under God”, and those on the other side who want it to be under government. It can also be described as those on one side who want God to be their God, and those on the other side who want God to be cast off so they can be their own god. Jesus made this memorable statement, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand” (Matthew 12:25). Abraham Lincoln quoted these words in a speech he made while campaigning for the United States Senate a few years prior to the Civil War. He applied the quote to the deep division the country was going through at that time.
It seems that once again our nation has come to a major inflection point in its history. Like never before, believers who love God and love their country need to be on their knees before their Heavenly Father calling on Him for mercy. The urgency of the hour is great.
Underlying Premises
It is an underlying premise of the 714 Prayer Report that many Christians in America are woefully uninformed about what is really taking place in our nation right now. They sense things are not good, but life is busy. So, they press ahead not really understanding the seriousness of the threat we now face. Their ignorance leads to apathy and their apathy leads to complacency. It is sad that many evangelical Christians are not even registered to vote, and many who are registered don’t vote. And perhaps even sadder, many who do vote don’t understand the issues well enough to know how to vote.
The startling reality is this: we are near the end of a nearly one-hundred-year Marxist plot to overthrow our Constitutional Republic. It is a plot that has been very successful, and all those involved in the plot now see themselves within striking distance of achieving their goal. They have the minds of our youth. They have the media and deep state. They have the means of controlling elections. So, they are poised and ready to bring their century-old dream to fruition. As a nation, we are like the man who was asked how he went bankrupt. His response was: “It all happened gradually and then suddenly.”
The reason many Christians are so uninformed, unconcerned, and so prayerless about where we are as a nation is because they depend on the Leftist corporate media as their primary source of news and information. This Leftist corporate media also goes by other names like the mainstream media, the legacy media, and the state-run media. It includes all the alphabet news organizations like ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN. It also includes print and digital media like The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, Newsweek, and many other such publications[1]. The one thing they all have in common is a Marxist globalist agenda. That agenda requires the deconstruction of the Constitutional Republic which has guided our way of life for nearly 240 years. That’s why the 714 Prayer Report will use the designation “Marxist Media” to describe these news organizations collectively.
If you are getting your news primarily from these sources, you are being influenced by a conglomerate propaganda machine. These corporate controlled news outlets all march to the beat of their corporate ownership, which is strongly oriented toward Leftist, Marxist ideals. Consequently, they lie when their lips are moving, and they continually create false narratives about almost everything on which they report. Donald Trump, of course, has famously designated them all as “fake news”, and they are! It is all intended to perpetuate a deceived population and thus further their intended agenda. The power and influence of the Marxist Media should not be underestimated, because in many ways, from a purely human perspective, they pose the single greatest threat to the future of our country.
When Leftist politicians say they want to “fundamentally transform America”, this is what they are talking about. These politicians want power, not to do good for the people, but to destroy our way of life – a way of life based on Biblical, Judeo-Christian ideals. They have as their public information resource their own propaganda machine, the Marxist Media. It is no different than the function served by Pravda at the height of the communist regime in the Soviet Union.
What You Can Expect
The 714 Prayer Report will provide you with brief, reliable summaries of crucial news and news commentary that will provoke you to prayer. It will also provide links within those summaries that will take you to the original sources of that information so you can read it for yourself. In each week’s Report, a link will also be provided to a 5-minute audio podcast that will contain additional commentary on the information in that week’s Report. You should read the Report first and then listen to the podcast.
If you are a pastor, lay leader, or church member, it is hoped you will spread the news about the 714 Prayer Report and make copies available in your church. A printable PDF of every Report will be available for you to download and print. The Report will be copyrighted, but you are free to copy and distribute it as far and wide as you wish. Or you may just want to share the website address.
Finally, it is hoped the 714 Prayer Report will create a strong burden within you to pray for repentance and revival in our churches and for the healing of the divide in our nation. It is also hoped that earnest prayer will serve as a catalyst for you to rise from your prayers and join a mighty army of believers who will be used by God to become involved in all the ways in which He might be pleased, so this country may be turned again to a Godly path. At the heart of our prayers for our nation should be that prayer of Jeremiah near the end of his lamentations: “Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored; Renew our days as of old” (Lamentations 5:21).
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