Day 1534 Jan 16 2024 Transformation Michigan – “PRIESTHOOD OF THE BELIEVER”
A Historical Year – Dutch Sheets
I believe 2025 will prove to be one of the greatest years of change in America’s history. I believe, in fact, that President Trump’s first day in office could end up being one of the most significant days of change EVER in our country. My guess is that he and his team will make a statement, hitting the ground running. I suspect that hundreds of executive orders have already been written, awaiting only Trump’s presidential signature. For many of us, they can’t come quickly enough.
There will be tremendous opposition, of course, but the opposition will fail if we, the Church, continue to feed the flames of revival and reformation with prayer.
Revival and Reformation: What Is the Difference?
As we think about these two phenomena, here are some things to realize and remember:
• Revival is described in Mark 16:15–20; reformation is described in Matthew 28:18–20.
• Revival rebirths; reformation rebuilds.
• Revival can spring forth quickly; reformation is a process.
• Revival changes hearts, inscribing with them God’s ways and laws; reformation transforms minds and thoughts, planting God’s laws in the psyche of a nation.
• In the context of revival, Jesus is Savior; in the context of reformation, He is King and Lord.
• Revival saves and heals individuals; reformation saves and heals societies and nations.
• Revival comes through the preaching of the gospel (Mark 16:15–20); reformation results from teaching what Christ commanded (Matthew 28:18–20).
• Revival releases power, signs, and wonders; reformation implements God’s ways and wise methods.
• Revival fuels and steers reformation; reformation can and should be the long-term fruit of revival.
The Fuel of Revival
Only transformation in millions of people’s hearts (revival) will provide sufficient momentum to reform a nation to God’s ways. We can try to reform a nation to His ways through good laws or education, but this will not fully produce the needed changes. Racism is a good example.
Well-meaning laws and educational changes have not produced the desired changes. Heart changes from God, on the other hand, produce the needed desire and willingness for a nation to be transformed. The new birth creates a hunger for the bread of God’s Word, a thirst for the river of His Spirit, and a desire to emulate and please Him. This is why I say revival must feed and steer reformation.
God Uses Unbelievers
A word of caution: When we speak of reformation, it is unbiblical to suggest that God uses only Believers. Many of His principles and laws work regardless of who applies them. God spoke of Cornelius as “devout” before he was born again. He acknowledged Cornelius’ prayers and generosity, saying they had built a memorial in Heaven, and used his home in which to pour out His Spirit on the Gentile world (see Acts 10).
Jesus does not reject unbelievers, nor did He suggest that they shouldn’t be leaders, whether in government, business, or any other endeavor. Certainly, the ideal and God’s desire is for everyone to be born again through Jesus. But while on Earth, Jesus demonstrated God’s heart to all people. He loved them, ate with them, ministered to them, treated them respectfully and kindly, and even blessed them. (The exceptions to this were the proud hypocrites and those who oppressed others.)
Matthew 9:9–13 (NASB) tells us: “As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called Matthew sitting in the tax collector’s office; and He said to him, ‘Follow Me!’ And he got up and followed Him.
“Then it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and began dining with Jesus and His disciples. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, ‘Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?’ But when Jesus heard this, He said, ‘It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. Now go and learn what this means: “I DESIRE COMPASSION, RATHER THAN SACRIFICE,” for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.’
How God Used Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin called for prayer at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on June 28, 1787. Franklin proposed that the Assembly begin each morning with prayers, asking for God’s assistance and blessings. He also requested that a member of the city’s clergy officiate. His motion was made during a contentious period when the Convention was at risk of breaking up over a dispute between large and small states. Franklin believed that God governs human affairs and that the Convention would fail without His help. He also referenced daily prayer during the contest with Great Britain.
Though many believe Benjamin Franklin became a Believer later in life through the ministry of George Whitefield, he was probably not yet born-again when he called for this prayer! God can and will use individuals in our government who do not know Him—from Trump downward—to reform our nation. I do believe many of them who don’t know the Lord will become Believers, but they do not have to be born-again for Him to use them. Pray for God’s wisdom to flow through ALL of them, AND for their salvation.
As we enter this great season of change, we must be diligent to fervently pray for our nation, calling forth the promised revival and reformation.
Pray with me: Father, we pray once again for the Jehu anointing to rest on President-Elect Trump, his cabinet, and all who are working with them. We ask that You give them the determination, wisdom, and strategies necessary to sweep away the “house of Ahab” and its ungodly ideologies in America. Give them Your agendas, not their own.
We ask that President-Elect Trump would have a powerful encounter with You, and that he would be filled with Your Spirit. Make him a man of prayer, just as the prophetic word from Kim Clement said. Place an insatiable hunger in him for Your Word. Teach him to hear Your voice, and to know Your ways.
And we ask You for a third great awakening, a spiritual revival the likes of which has never been seen. We cry, “Revival, revival, revival!” Pour this out not only on America but throughout all the earth. We ask for Ezekiel’s river to increase until it flows at its deepest level (Ezekiel 47). And we ask this all in the great and holy name of Jesus.
Our decree: We decree that America is being revived and reformed by the power of Holy Spirit.
PRAYER ALERT FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP – ELEVATED WARNING FOR JANUARY 19th…BE ON ALERT! – https://joehoft.com/breaking-exclusive-pray-for-trump -prophesy-of-attempt-on-trumps-life-on-jan-19-received/ – During the final 30 days before the Inauguration, the members of the 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call family have been on alert, praying that President Trump will be alive to be inaugurated as our 47th President on January 20th, 2025 and then serve his full term to the GLORY OF GOD!
Ps Loan learned that there will be a public rally at 3 PM in Washington, DC on January 19th at 3 PM in the Capital One Arena, home to the NBA’s Washington Wizards and the NHL’s Washington Capitals. This presents a serious danger of exposure to him:
“An emergency prayer call from 2-5 PM on Sunday while the rally takes place.” – We invite as many intercessors as can to join us in prayer for our President.
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A Scripture verse: “Thou, oh Lord, are a Shield about him; Yo u’re the Glory and the Lifter of his head!” Psalm 3:3
A song: Lord, Have Mercy on Us!
Lord, have mercy on us. Come and heal our land…Cleanse with Your Fire, heal with Your Touch…Humbly we bow and call upon You now…Oh, Lord, have mercy on us. Oh, Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, protect and preserve President Trump’s life, for Your Glory and the good of this nation!
Ps Ioan Peia and Maureen Bravo – 247NationalStrategicPrayerCall
ANNOUNCEMENT:LANSING CAPITOL PRAYER – JANUARY 30TH 10AM
- Room 426 Prayer and Worship will be moving to a new location on the last Thursday of the month. The 4th floor is being renovated.
- In the meantime the 426 group will be having a prayer and lunch gathering to celebrate on Thursday, January 30, to celebrate what the Lord has done. This will be held in the Freedom Embassy on the 6th floor in The Louie building that is at the southeast corner of Allegan and Capitol kiddy corner across from the Capitol from 10:00 to 1:00. Let me know if you are able to come. We are wanting to know for catering purposes.
- The Apostolic Regional Prayer Team will be gathering on the first Friday of the month from 11:30 to 1:00 in Room 161 in the Capitol directly across from the Speaker’s office.
NEED A RSVP FOR LUNCH AND PRAYER ON JANUARY 30th – EMAIL rw247365@Gmail.com
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EVOLUTION BLINDNESS –
BIOLOGY – The Couch’s spadefoot toad of the Sonoran Desert is an example of how God takes care of creatures under extreme conditions. This toad lies dormant in the hot desert eleven out of twelve months each year. It has built-in sensors that tell it when a violent desert rainstorm occurs. The toad can detect vibrations of pounding rain miles away. It somehow knows to emerge from the sand when it rains so that the male toads can call for females as soon as pools of water form. Shortly afterwards the egg-laying is completed and the toads return to the sand, safe from the heat of the burning daytime sun. Most of the time the desert pools rapidly dry up, killing the eggs. Only under ideal conditions will some of the eggs hatch– nine days later. The young toads have at most a few weeks to eat enough food to survive before burying themselves in the sand for the next eleven months while awaiting another rainstorm. Such survival instincts and mechanisms were probably not required before the Fall, when the world was designed as a paradise. In the current world, with its severe climates, such instincts and abilities seem to have been specifically designed for animals such as the spadefoot toad. How could this ability to adjust to such harsh weather conditions have evolved? Unless all of the abilities, instincts, and timing of the toads’ reproductive cycle were in place, the toads could never have survived the first severe season. “The wild animals honor me…because I provide water in the desert and streams in the wasteland…”
“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom.” (Isaiah 40:28)
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