As I was praying about this week’s prayer focus, I was drawn to the story of Joshua and the walls of Jericho. There were some interesting highlights from the Holy Spirit as I read:
And the armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while they continued to blow the trumpets. (Josh 6:9)
There are three points to remember as we pray this week.
1. The armed warriors went in front.
2. The priests followed, blowing their trumpets announcing (in advance) praise and victory.
3. The rear guard corralled the rest of the people.
There are a ton of insights the Lord showed me in those three things which I won’t go into here, but if you want to read further into what He showed me, you can click here to read it all.
However, one of the things was who we are and our role. WE are the rear guard. That word isn’t what I thought it was. It is the word “asaph” which actually means to gather together.
As intercessors and watchmen, we are gathering together those who are following, but can get distracted and start going the wrong way. We are put here for a specific purpose. Yes, some of you may be part of the armed guard that goes in front. Others may be the praisers who declare victory in advance. But I sensed many were part of that important rear guard who draws people in and keeps them moving forward.
And remember, it was all for the purpose of taking the city.
The Lord finished by saying, “Shout! For I have given you the city!” That made me want to shout!
Remember, they shouted in advance prophesying the victory just as we do now.
This week we SHOUT!
Father, we come before you and symbolically march around our city, state and nation in prayer and praise in advance to declare victory against this onslaught of unrighteousness and injustice. We surround our nation not only with prayer, but praise. May it reach to the heavenlies and tip the bowls of prayer for an outpouring upon our nation for revival and repentance.
We contend for revival, repentance and restoration!
We declare again over our nation and come into agreement with what the first settlers declared. We reaffirm it today as we say: “We do hereby dedicate this land, America, and ourselves to reach the people within these shores with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And to raise up godly generations after us and with these generations take the Kingdom of God into all the earth. From these very shores the Gospel will go forth. Not only to this new world, but to the entire world.”
Lord we reaffirm that dedication of America to You to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we SHOUT today the victory that the walls that would try to prevent that are coming down!
Open the eyes of the blind so that they can see and hear and know the Truth!
We declare that the walls of “Jericho” the place of ungodliness and resistance to You, fall now. We declare that the fortresses that have been built to protect unrighteousness and illegal actions, crumble to the ground as we walk in over them to take the city and our nation.
We take back the city of Washington, D.C. and declare the fence that has been erected around the White House and Capitol is a false sense of security to the unrighteous and fraudulent leaders who hide behind it. We say COME DOWN now! We declare that righteousness will prevail and justice will be heard once again in our court rooms, governmental offices and our land. We pray RESTORATION to the prophetic destiny of America.
We declare the stolen authority of leaders who were put into office because of fraudulent votes NULL AND VOID. We take this authority back first in the spirit to pave the way for what we are taking back in the natural realm.
We pray also for Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) that he will stand strong against threats and pressure to vote for S.1 which would permanently remove America’s right and hope for fair elections and integrity in the vote. Lord, we lift him up and pray for protection over him and his family. We pray that they will not be able to coerce him to vote for this ungodly bill and we pray now for a reversal of these heinous bills and executive orders that these thieves have implemented against us, our freedom and our nation.
We declare that You have given us the City! You have given us this nation. And Your Word will prevail. And now let’s SHOUT!
Joshua 6:9-10 & 16