Hope you had a safe and\u00a0blessed Independence Day. Since it is a holiday weekend, I will be taking the rest of the weekend off from my blog to celebrate the freedom this nation still enjoys (and by the grace of God, will increasingly embrace and defend).<\/p>\n
I wanted to repeat a portion of what I wrote on June 12. This is because it is my passion to\u00a0inspire\u00a0you\u00a0to continue to\u00a0take your\u00a0place before God on behalf of our nation, standing in the gap wherever He places you and in the manner in which He leads you. No one is a non-essential partner in this massive prayer initiative; you just have a differing role to play and\u00a0a custom-made\u00a0way in which He uses you.\u00a0And you do<\/em> have a role; you are<\/em> used before the Throne of God in a unique, perfect-for-you approach. This nation needs you to refuse to back off in prayer on her behalf.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is why I pray for America:<\/p>\n As I look at my nation, I must<\/em> pray. It’s in my DNA; it is built into the very fabric of my relationship with God. When I see obstacles in my nation, I am challenged by my rich heritage to stand my ground and trust God. I feel I owe it to the Founders who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to guard, nurture, protect, and defend the fledgling nation. I owe it to Charles Finney, D. L. Moody, William J. Seymour, Billy Sunday, Aimee Semple McPherson, and all the rest, both known and unknown, who took full advantage of their American liberty to\u00a0pour out\u00a0their lives\u00a0for the cause of Christ. I owe it to my dad, who although he never claimed to know God intimately,\u00a0 was willing as a young man to risk his life in the\u00a0service\u00a0of\u00a0a country\u00a0which\u00a0guaranteed that his daughter, yet to be born,\u00a0would bear\u00a0the sacred right to lead her own life, speak openly, and\u00a0worship God\u00a0freely without fear.<\/p>\n I must<\/em> pray. I must pray the Word of God over my nation. I must seek her deliverance when evil threatens her. I must stand my ground even if it takes the rest of my life. I can do no less, so help me God.<\/p>\n God bless you and God bless the U.S.A! Don’t give up on her!<\/p>\n Dorothy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hope you had a safe and\u00a0blessed Independence Day. Since it is a holiday weekend, I will be taking the rest of the weekend off from my blog to celebrate the freedom this nation still enjoys (and by the grace of God, will increasingly embrace and defend). I wanted to repeat a portion of what I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-july2013","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}