Shalom, to you my Friend and Co-Minister in the Great Commission...
Is there hope for America? Is there redemption? And if so, how would it come?
The year was 1863. The nation was in the midst of a terrible civil war. The Union was in trouble, continual losses threatened its very survival and the future of America as we know it. Then Lincoln was led to call for a national day of prayer and repentance. Two months after that day came the turning point of the war-the Union victory at Gettysburg and the fall of Vicksburg. Even more remarkably, the turning points in both these events were set in motion on the very day after the national day of prayer.
Roe v. Wade had long established abortion on demand as the law of the land. In September, 2020, I and a man of God named Kevin Jessup were led to call for and convene a national day of prayer and repentance throughout the nation and on the Washington Mall. It was called The Return. Central in the prayers prayed that day was for God to overturn Roe v. Wade. That overturning would begin the day President Trump nominated Amy Barrett to the Supreme Court, the deciding vote in the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Trump set it all in motion on the very same day of The Return!
I was asked by Lou Engle to help him in his vision for a national day of prayer and repentance on the Washington Mall in October of 2024, just before the presidential election-the Million Women event. I told him that I believed that the event would come against the spirit of Ishtar, the principality of sexual immorality and the confusion, merging, and destruction of gender. It took place on Yom Kippur, the Biblical day in which a nation is to cast out its sins. Near the end of the event, I led the gathering in a prayer of casting out, and to the driving back of the spirit and agenda of Ishtar, then lifted a hammer and smashed the Altar of Ishtar on that stage. Ishtar's agenda had never been turned back. But less than thirty days after that event, Donald Trump won the election and promised to turn back the agenda of gender confusion and destruction.
Is there hope? Yes. Do the prayers of God's people make a difference? Big time! They can even change the course of a nation and a world. For with God, nothing shall be impossible. The promise remains: If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray... Let us be that people. Let us pray for a massive return and revival for America. And may God greatly bless you this month as you do! And let's change history!
Your brother and co-laborer
in His love and service,
Jonathan
