Dear brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus, part of the growing repentance remnant, cleansing as His Bride, getting ready for His soon return as our Bridegroom,
I'm adding prayers below to yesterday's message on the name of the school: COVENANT:
There was, as you may already have seen on the news, a HORRIFIC shooting of six people, three children, the other day in a Christian school outside of Nashville. Pray for the grieving; that's number one.
And there are other issues: the shooter was a militant transgender woman with a manifesto; she could have been responding to prior calls for a “Trans Day of Vengeance. ” Tennessee recently passed a law banning child mutilation under the guise of “gender-affirming care,” something the left described as a genocide. This clearly could have played a role in the shooter’s psyche; additionally she was being treated for "emotional illness."
Given all that, I see a deeper Truth. The name of the Christian school was The Covenant. There was a point in time when the United States was part of a Covenant. From the Hugeonots who were martyred in Florida, to the first who landed in Virginia in 1607, to the Pilgrims, to Pastor Winthrop calling inhabitants to be "a city on the hill," to the Founders, perhaps even as late as Lincoln, we were tied uniquely to the Covenant of the Living God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
But now our Covenant is shot! The Living God Who gives either blessings or curses has rightfully judged our nation. This conditional judgment now will wake us up to sincere repentance, personally and as a nation, or worse judgments will follow.
NDR is calling for a repentance cleanse for 40 days, including signing a New Covenant, and then a National Day of Repentance on Sunday, April 30, 2023. Please join this repentance cleanse and sign the New Covenant: www.globalrepent.com
And here is a key portion of Pastor Winthrop's sermon in 1630:
Thus stands the cause between God and us. We are entered into covenant with Him for this work. We have taken out a commission. The Lord hath given us leave to draw our own articles. We have professed to enterprise these and those accounts, upon these and those ends. We have hereupon besought Him of favor and blessing. Now if the Lord shall please to hear us, and bring us in peace to the place we desire, then hath He ratified this covenant and sealed our commission, and will expect a strict performance of the articles contained in it; but if we shall neglect the observation of these articles which are the ends we have propounded, and, dissembling with our God, shall fall to embrace this present world and prosecute our carnal intentions, seeking great things for ourselves and our posterity, the Lord will surely break out in wrath against us, and be revenged of such a people, and make us know the price of the breach of such a covenant.
Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck, and to provide for our posterity, is to follow the counsel of Micah, to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God. For this end, we must be knit together, in this work, as one man. We must entertain each other in brotherly affection. We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others’ necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience and liberality. We must delight in each other; make others’ conditions our own; rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, as members of the same body. So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. The Lord will be our God, and delight to dwell among us, as His own people, and will command a blessing upon us in all our ways, so that we shall see much more of His wisdom, power, goodness and truth, than formerly we have been acquainted with. We shall find that the God of Israel is among us, when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies; when He shall make us a praise and glory that men shall say of succeeding plantations, “may the Lord make it like that of New England.” For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.
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Pray a hedge of protection around our children:
"No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. this is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me," declares the LORD.
(Isaiah 54:17; NIV)
Pray for the light of the gospel of Christ to penetrate the darkness of this world.
"In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ who is the image of God, should shine on them."
(2 Corinthians 4:4; KJV)
Pray for our schools:
“May there be peace within your walls and security within your towers!”
(Psalm 122:7; ESV)
Pray for those who are being used by the enemy:
“To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.”
(Acts 26:18; NIV)
Pray For Nashville as the City Mourns
In the wake of another school shooting, Nashville turned to prayer Monday night, March 27th, opening her church doors for vigils around the city, mourning the loss of the 3 nine-year-old children and 3 adults who lost their lives in the attack.
The suspect, Audrey Hale, left behind a Twitter post saying she no longer wanted to live and that she planned to die by suicide. Audrey was in the midst of a gender transition. Though we do not know if she took hormones as part of her gender transformation, we know there needs to be more research on how hormones can affect an individual’s mental health. As a nation, we face a mental health crisis like we have never known. There are many broken and wounded people all around us. For some communities, trauma has become so embedded that the result is a rise in mental health issues, which in some cases erupts into more violence, perpetuating the cycle. More trauma has been released on untold families due to this school shooting. And now these families and children need our prayers.
Psalm 127 reminds us, “Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.” We are in a battle for our nation’s children! It is time to join ranks with other believers to cover our schools, our churches, our police, our cities, our states, and our nation in prayer. Locked doors did not keep this lone shooter out, nor did the threat of a responsive police force. Ephesians 6 says, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” It is time to take this battle on for our children!
Pray with us:
We war for the protection and the healing only Jesus can bring! Lord, bring comfort to these traumatized school children, parents, and the shooter's family. Help us be vigilant to the needs of the broken and hurting as we seek You on how to keep our children safe. Let us not be complacent but give us a fighting spirit! In Jesus' Holy Name, Amen.
Contributed by,
Marion Farrar
Tennessee General, Reformation Prayer Network
Founder, Nashville Women's Conference
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