Weekly Watch Focus: Preserving Religious Freedom in our Military
FRIDAY, Jul 12, 2013 It has been our privilege to pray for our armed forces over the years. We want to take note of growing hostility toward Christians serving in the U.S. military. Those who are willing to fight for our freedom are presently at risk of losing religious liberties which have been honored in our military for the last 237 years.
Please pray for all the branches of our armed forces, especially for the Christian chaplains. Pray for protection of religious liberties of all our men and women in uniform. May Christian be able to speak freely about their faith, pray, or share the Bible without fear of demotion or dismissal.
2 Cor. 3:17, “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
Gal 5:1, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free,[a] and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”
1 Peter 2:13-17, “Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men— as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God. Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.”
Ps 144:1-2, “Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle—my lovingkindness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and the One in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.”
Prov. 25:26, “A righteous man who falters before the wicked is like a murky spring and a polluted well.”
Ps 119:45, “And I will walk at liberty, for I seek Your precepts.”
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And He went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. On that very day some Pharisees came, saying to Him, “Get out and depart from here, for Herod wants to kill You.” |
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On July 17, 180 A.D., the Roman proconsul of Africa in Carthage had the duty of interrogating seven men and five women accused of the capital offense of “living by the Christian rite (worship and practice).” Punishment under Emperor Trajan was death by be |
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” - Declaration of Independence, 1776 |
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Next week, we celebrate America’s 248th birthday, thanking God for our freedoms and blessings. We thank God for the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and our constitution. |
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Our watch focus this week is for a HEDGE OF PROTECTION for America, Israel, and the nations. Our prayer strategy comes from Psalm 91: “A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you” (Psalm 91:7).
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