On August 15, 2025, the Church of Grace and Peace will celebrate its 40th anniversary. Having held its first worship service in rented space on August 18, 1985, the church continued in rented facilities for five years until it purchased property on 1563 Old Freehold Road for its permanent location. The site had been a horse farm with the prophetically significant name, “Follow Me Farm”.

When Jesus says “Follow Me”, He calls His followers to a process of personal transformation that reshapes them and enables them to build a Kingdom legacy in their personal lives and in the world around them. Grace and Peace has been calling believers to follow Jesus through this process of transformation for 40 years. Guiding them in intentional studies of the Word of God, personal and corporate prayer, holiness, and missional outreaches, the church has been committed to “building the people that shape the world”.

As we celebrate this milestone on August 18, 2025, we also anticipate another momentous, even miraculous, milestone—our nation’s semi-quincentennial. On July 4, 2026, the United States of America will celebrate its 250th anniversary. In the cycles of history, faltering civilizations begin to collapse at about 250 years. Our nation began to decline as it strayed from its biblical foundations even before the pronounced decay in the late 20th century, reaching a crisis point of almost complete collapse in this decade. Mercifully, God heard the cries of His people and began His rescue mission. This rescue has opened an historic door of opportunity for the Church to restore Kingdom legacy throughout our nation. During our 40-day prayer journey, let us confidently seek God for the transformations that will renew Kingdom legacy to our nation. The cultural transformation of our nation begins with our response to a simple invitation:

Follow Me.

DAY 1: March 5, 2025 

Seek God. . . for a multigenerational kingdom legacy

My people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter hidden things, things from of old—things we have heard and known, things our ancestors have told us. We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done (Ps. 78:1-4 NIV).  

Eighteenth century Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards may be remembered best for his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, which helped ignite the First Great Awakening. But he left behind a family legacy that speaks as powerfully as his sermons.  

Jonathan and his wife Sarah raised eleven children according to biblical principles. In a farewell sermon at the church he had pastored for over two decades, Edwards gave his congregation this advice: “Every Christian family ought to be, as it were, a little church, consecrated to Christ and wholly influenced and governed by His rules.” Edwards conducted his own household according to this counsel and left a righteous legacy. 

When American educator A.E. Winship traced Edwards’s descendants 150 years after his death, he discovered that Edwards’s legacy includes one U.S. Vice-President, one dean of a law school, one dean of a medical school, three U.S. Senators, three governors, three mayors, thirteen college presidents, thirty judges, sixty doctors, sixty-five professors, seventy-five military officers, eighty public office holders, 100 lawyers, 100 clergymen, and 285 college graduates.  

The five generation rule states, “How a parent raises their child — the love they give, the values they teach, the emotional environment they offer, the education they provide — influences not only their children but the four generations to follow, either for good or evil.” The family line of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards bears witness to this. 

Pray: 

Lord, Your word says, Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ             (1 Cor.1:11 KJV). Thank you for the kingdom legacy that Jonathan Edwards left as he followed You in his roles as a revivalist preacher, a husband, a father, and an educator, leading generations of others to do the same. May we, in our generation, follow the example of this 18th century Kingdom builder in our nation. We thank you for the grace and strength for this. 

Declare: 

We will follow Christ in our generation for the sake of future generations. 

Consider:

If someone studied your descendants four generations later, what would you want them to discover? 

DAY 2: March 6, 2025 

Seek God. . . for a Caleb heart 

“Now therefore give me this mountain whereof the Lord spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fenced; if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said. And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, Hebron for an inheritance. Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel (Joshua 14:12-14 KJV). 

In 1975, Loren Cunningham, a missionary leader and founder of Youth with a Mission, asked God a serious question. He had become increasingly concerned with the moral decline our nation was taking, and he sought God for a tactical solution. The questions he asked God revealed Cunningham’s heart cry: “How could we turn our nation around? How could we see basic foundations of morality and goodness restored?”  

The Lord quietly spoke to him, “There are seven areas of society that are like classrooms to disciple nations.” Cunningham grabbed paper and pencil to list the areas as God began naming: family; religion (church and mission); education; celebration (arts, entertainment, sports); public communication (media); economy (including business, science, and technology); government. 

Within three weeks, Cunningham heard from two other Christian leaders, Bill Bright of Campus Crusade and Dr. Francis Schaeffer, founder of L’Abri Fellowship, and learned that God had given them the exact same list of seven shapers of culture. 

Now, fifty years after God gave these three leaders the original list, the legacy now known as the Seven Mountain Mandate flourishes. Two major national prophetic voices, Dr. Lance Wallnau and Johnny Enlow, advance this mandate as God’s template for the church to use to bring about cultural transformation in 21st century America in order to establish an enduring kingdom legacy. Wallnau says, “God is calling us to be braver, more steadfast, and more loving than ever before” in order to accomplish this. In other words, He is calling us to a Caleb heart. 

Pray: 

Almighty God, when Moses assigned Caleb to be one of the twelve spies sent to scout out the land of Canaan, Caleb was undeterred by the giants and defensed cities he saw there. He returned from his mission with a good report, “We are well able to take it.” Forty years later, Caleb himself took the mountain he asked for and overthrew those giants. We look at our nation now and see that the giants of immorality, false doctrines, and false ideologies have taken over the mountains of culture. But we also remember that we are a nation in covenant with You.  In faith, we say we are well able to take down these giants and restore these mountains to this covenant. May these mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord. We ask for Holy Spirit’s help to make us braver, more steadfast, and more loving than ever before in order to build Kingdom legacy once again on these mountains. Amen. 

Declare: 

We will be Caleb-hearted in order to carry the presence of the Lord into all seven mountains of culture in our nation. 

Consider: 

The Seven Mountain Mandate began as God’s answer to one sincerely asked question. What sincere question would you like to ask God?   

DAY 3: March 7, 2025 

Seek God. . . for true north direction 

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me” (Jn. 14:6 NIV). 

According to the Royal Museums Greenwich website, the compasses that navigators have been using throughout history do not actually point north. True north points directly towards the geographic North Pole, a fixed point on the Earth’s globe. However, compass needles point to magnetic North Pole, which shifts and changes over time in response to changes in the Earth’s magnetic core. The influence of the earth’s strong magnetic fields on compass needles, throwing them off course, is called depolarization.  

The strong magnetic fields created by 21st century technology surround us with depolarizing mine fields. Mobile phones, home electronics, electric cables, and even GPS systems, all have the power to turn a compass needle to the wrong direction. 

Spiritually speaking, we fall prey to these same depolarizing mine fields in all seven mountains of culture. Technologies designed to inform bombard us with cultural ideologies and values that have the power to pull us in the wrong direction. There is only one compass that points True North, and that is the Word of God. As we rely on it, we can leave a kingdom legacy that points future generations directly to the One who is the eternally True fixed point, the One who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 

Pray: 

Lord Jesus, we thank You that “the entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever” (Ps. 119;160 NKJV). We thank You that the Bible is Your revelation of Truth. From Genesis to Revelation, penned by men but inspired by Holy Spirit, it is our True North compass. Help us to put down the compasses that our culture has provided, ones that keep us bound to worldly thinking, and daily follow Your Word as our True North guide to kingdom legacy. 

Declare: 

Your Word is a lamp unto My feet and a light unto my path. 

Consider: 

How much do you rely on God’s Word for direction in your day-to-day life? 

Day 4: March 8, 2025 

Seek God. . . for a biblical worldview 

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasant, and perfect will (Rom. 12:2). 

According to the American Worldview Inventory 2023, 87% of born-again Christian believers do not hold a biblical worldview.  Simply put, a worldview provides ideas and beliefs that help us make sense of life and the world around us and gives us direction on how to live out these beliefs in our own lives. Everyone has a worldview. A biblical worldview rests on ideas and beliefs from God’s revealed and unchanging truths in the Bible as our guide for life in this world. History shows that nations thrive when a critical mass of its citizens live out their individual lives with the Bible as their guidebook, and they begin to collapse when a critical mass abandon it.  

The history of ancient Israel demonstrates this cycle.  Hezekiah was a righteous king of Judah. In obedience to God’s Word, he rid the southern kingdom of the pagan shrines and idols that had filled the land. God blessed Hezekiah and the nation for this.  

But after Hezekiah’s death, his son Manasseh took over the throne. He rebuilt the high places his father had destroyed and led the people in these sinful ways. Sorcery and witchcraft filled the land, and pagan altars filled the Lord’s temple. The Bible records that Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from one end to the other with it.  

His son Amon, who became king after his father’s death, was so wicked that his own servants assassinated him two years after he took over Judah’s reign. The throne was empty; Amon’s eight-year-old son Josiah was called to fill it.  

Eighteen years into his reign, Josiah ordered that the Lord’s temple be rebuilt. During this restoration project, Hilkiah the high priest found the Book of God’s Law that Josiah’s father and grandfather had abandoned. When the scrolls were read to Josiah, the young king repented for his sins and those of his nation.  Through a series of reforms, he cleared the land of idolatry and led the people back to following the Word. God prospered the nation under Josiah’s reign when he returned himself and the people to the Book. 

Besides the American Worldview Inventory results, a post-pandemic survey conducted by Dr. George Barna’s research group found that only 6% of the 68% of Americans claiming to be Christians have a biblical worldview. It seems the American Church has lost its guidebook.  

Pray: 

Lord Jesus, forgive us for having neglected Your Word in shaping our worldview. We know that we cannot live like You if we do not think like You. As we recommit ourselves to a diligent study of Your Word, we ask that its Truth transform our minds so that we can think and act Your way every day.  

Declare: 

I will hide Your Word in my heart so that I might not sin against You. 

Consider: 

Our worldview directs our actions and reactions in the world around us. How has the Bible helped shape your worldview? 

Day 5: March 9, 2025 

Seek God. . .for deep understanding of His character and nature 

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people (Heb. 8:10 KJV). 

Perhaps the most fundamental understanding in a biblical worldview is an understanding of who God is. By the grace of God that is ours in the New Covenant, we have Holy Spirit in us as our guide and teacher to lead us deeper and deeper into the knowledge of God and into the understanding of His nature and character.    

Holy Spirit in us guides us into truth as we spend time in the Word, in worship, and in prayer. We really cannot get to know God without studying Holy Spirit’s revelation of Him in the Word. As Holy Spirit unfolds the revelation for us as we read, our intellectual understanding transforms into our internalized reality.  

This intimate knowing of God grows even deeper in times of worship and prayer. Worship leads us into His presence where we taste and see that the Lord is good. Prayer brings greater intimacy as our hearts connect with Father’s heart in a communion of love that joins heaven and earth.  

The awesome truth that the infinite God, who created the world, sent His Son to Calvary to redeem finite man becomes personal. We experience the triune nature of God and more fully surrender our tripartite nature of spirit, soul, and body to the flow of His love for us and for the world He created.  

This shapes our worldview around the One who shaped it all. 

Pray:  

Almighty God, I want to know You more. Please reveal Yourself more to me, even as Moses sought a greater revelation of You. I ask for Holy Spirit to guide me to that deeper knowing during the times I spend with You in Your Word, in worship, and in prayer. May I come to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge so I can pour that love out on the world I occupy.  May it, too, be transformed by Your love. Amen. 

Declare: 

We will grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

Consider: 

What is one thing about God you would like to know better? 

Day 6: March 10, 2025 

Seek God. . .for what it means to be made in His image 

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (Gen 2:7 KJV). 

Our understanding of who God is impacts our view of who we are human beings. A biblical worldview of humanity bases itself on the creation account in Genesis. That account provides some fundamental truths about what it is to be human.  

When God created the first male and female, Adam and Eve, He stamped His image on all humanity through them. Every person on earth carries this Imago Dei. Humans are created to reflect God’s holiness. 

God formed humans with His hands and His breath. Humans are God-breathed creatures that God formed from the dust. They are physical beings who possess soul and spirit. They have free will to make their own choices. They can relate to one another with their emotions; they can use their intellect to solve problems; and they can use their creativity to invent.  

They are finite creatures with authority on earth and destiny in eternity. Creator God delegated authority to them to rule over His creation on earth. These finite creatures, limited to a beginning and an end on earth, have an eternal destiny after the grave. Their destiny for Heaven was lost through the fall of Adam and Eve, but restored through the Cross of Jesus. Those who freely choose to accept Christ’s finished work of the Cross will fulfill their destiny for Heaven; those who willfully reject it choose Hell by default. 

They are fearfully and wonderfully made by Creator God who formed them to live in fellowship with Him and with one another.  

Pray: 

Father God, when You finished Your work of creation on the sixth day, You said it was good, even very good. You are watching over Your creation still. Thank you for the authority You’ve delegated to us as stewards of it. May we bless You with the way we carry out this authority. 

Declare: 

The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods (Ps. 24:1-2). 

Consider: 

How does a biblical worldview of humanity influence the way people view each other? 

Day 7: March 11, 2025 

Seek God. . .for understanding His absolute Truth 

For the Lord is good; his mercy and loving-kindness are everlasting. His faithfulness and truth endure to all generations (Psalm 100:5 NIV). 

The battle between God’s absolute Truth and culture’s relative truths that challenge it may seem to have only begun with our age of postmodernism, but the battle goes back to the Garden, when “the father of lies” challenged the absolute Truth of Creator God to Adam and Eve, the first humans God created. The challenge has continued in various forms throughout history. Pontius Pilate, immersed in Rome’s polytheism, stared into the very face of Jesus, the one who is Truth, and dismissively ask, “What is truth?” The question resounds in our modern culture. 

Yet, God has been revealing His absolute Truth to the world ever since He first created it. His unchanging laws govern the universe, so that all of nature reveals it.  He has written the law of Truth on the hearts of all the humans He created (Rom. 2:14-15), so that even our consciences carry it.  

He sent Jesus to earth as the ultimate revelation of His absolute Truth, and after Jesus ascended, He sent Holy Spirit to earth to guide mankind into it. 

But the enemy’s lies continue to battle against God’s perfect truth today, especially in the minds and hearts of the younger generations.  In her song, “The Truth”, contemporary Christian artist Megan Woods sums up God’s basic Truths revealed from Genesis to Revelation, as the antidote to the lies that bombard the younger generation from culture. Here are some of the lyrics: 

How many times can you hear the same lie before you start to believe it? 

The enemy keeps whisperin' to me; I swear these days it's all that I'm hearin'    

Lord, I don't wanna listen to the lies anymore 

The truth is I am my Father's child; I make Him proud and I make Him smile. 

I was made in the image of a perfect King;  

He looks at me and wouldn't change a thing. 

The truth is I am truly loved by a God who's good when I'm not good enough. 

I don't belong to the lies, I belong to You.  

And that's the truth. 

The victory remains the same from age to age, from generation to generation, and from culture to culture:  Know the Truth and the Truth will set you free.   

Pray: 

Almighty God, thank You that You reveal Your Truth from generation to generation through the laws of Your created universe, through the law that You have written on our hearts, and through Your written Word. We thank You for sending Jesus as Truth in the flesh. We ask that Holy Spirit would be at work in our world to convict it of sin and guide it into all Truth. We thank you that Jesus is the answer to every generation’s question, “What is Truth?” 

Declare: 

“I know who I am 'cause I know who You are,

And I hold Your truth inside of my heart.” 

Consider: 

The lyrics in Megan Woods’s “The Truth” do not name the specific lies that the enemy keeps whispering. What lies of the enemy do you think have been bombarding our younger generation the most in recent years? What do you consider to be the greatest Truth they can learn about God to combat these lies? 

Day 8: March 12, 2025 

Seek God. . .for how to live out the Truth

It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love    (2 Jn 1:4-6 NIV). 

The storyline of the Bible moves from Genesis to Revelation along a central Truth: God is love. He revealed that truth in His Son Jesus, the One who is Truth. If we have a biblical worldview, we see through a lens that unites absolute truth and unconditional love. As the scripture from 2 John shows, when we walk in the truth, we necessarily walk in love. Our steps are even only when Truth and Love are in balance with each other.  

Twentieth-century America provides a clear illustration of this balanced walk in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.  In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, the great Civil Rights leader said, “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” Dr. King’s nonviolent Civil Rights movement had many temporary defeats during his lifetime, but right won out just a few days after King’s assassination on March 29, 1968, with the signing of the Civil Rights Act. 

At his funeral, a recording of Dr. King’s final sermon, given on February 4, 1968, was played: 

“I’d like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to love somebody. . .I want you to be able to say that day that I did try to feed the hungry. . .that I did try in my life to clothe those who were naked. . .I did try to visit those who were in prison. And I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity. . .Say that I was a drum major for justice. . .a drum major for peace. . .a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter.” 

Martin Luther King Jr. has left America a legacy of the law of unconditional love as the more excellent way to live out absolute truth. May we follow it in our day. 

Pray: 

Father God, thank You that Love and Truth not only walk together, but they also talk together. Help me speak the truth in love to the wrongs I see around me, knowing they break Your heart. Give me boldness to “open [my] mouth for the mute, for the right of all who are destitute, [and to] open my mouth, judge righteously, [and] defend the rights of the poor and needy” (Prov. 31:8-9 NIV). 

Declare: 

God’s Absolute Truth and Unconditional Love will balance the steps of my life. 

Consider: 

In his final sermon, Martin Luther King, Jr. mentions some things he would like “for somebody to say that day” about him and how he lived his life. What one thing would you most like “somebody to say that day” about you? 

Day 9: March 13, 2025 

Seek God. . .for transformation through revelation 

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me (Gal. 2:20 NIV). 

It has been suggested that the four different gospel accounts of Jesus depict four aspects of the Savior that correspond to the four faces of the cherubim in Ezekiel’s vision: the lion, the ox, the man, and the eagle (Ezek. 1:10).  

Writing to a Jewish audience, Matthew depicts Jesus as the Messiah, King of the Jews, and traces Jesus’ genealogy through the tribe of Judah back to Abraham. Jesus is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who roars out of Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem. As King, He roars against the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees who distort the law and ignore the essence of it: justice, mercy, and faith.  

Mark writes his gospel to the persecuted church of Gentile Christians in Rome, presenting Jesus to them as the ox, the strong and humble servant. The Greek word for “immediately”, euthus, appears forty times in this concise account, always to introduce a deed that Jesus performs in humble obedience to His Father. Mark’s account encourages the persecuted Church at Rome to follow this example. 

Luke writes the biography of Jesus the man. He traces Jesus’ genealogy back to Adam and Eve, showing that the Son of Man has come to redeem what was lost in the Garden for all mankind. This gospel records the universal offer of redemption expressed by the angels at Jesus’ birth: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, and good will toward men (Lk. 2:13).  

John, the revelator, portrays Jesus as the eagle, the majestic and glorious Son of God; the eternal Word made flesh. This gospel makes the most succinct statement on His redemptive purpose for coming to earth: for God so loved.  This gospel alone records Pilate’s two presentations of Jesus to the throng, first bringing Jesus wearing a crown of thorns and a purple robe, saying, “Behold the man!” Next, at the judgment seat at the hour of preparation for the Passover, Pilate presents him to the Jews, “Behold your King!”  

The Son of Man and the Messiah King carried a cross of redemption for the world. The crucifixion of the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end of history, on that Cross marked history’s turning point from B.C to A.D.   As Christians crucified with Him, we share His view of the world from the vantage point of this victorious Cross.  

Pray: 

Lord Jesus, we are so grateful that we can learn so much about You through the four gospel accounts of Your life. We ask for Holy Spirit revelation as we read, and reread, these accounts throughout our walk on earth. May we come to understand more and more deeply Your aspects of lion, ox, man, and eagle, not just through our reading, but also through our experiences with You. Lord Jesus, we surrender our hearts, praying for Holy Spirit’s help in fulfilling our hearts’ desire: to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, by applying what we read in the gospel accounts to how we live. Help us make this our primary goal in life, as it was for Paul. In Your great name, we pray. Amen. 

Declare: 

I am being transformed daily from glory to glory by the renewal of my mind.  

Consider: 

Which gospel account of Jesus is your favorite? Why? 

Day 10: March 14, 2025 

Seek God. . .for His design for the family

So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them [granting them certain authority] and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subjugate it [putting it under your power] and rule over [dominate] the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and every living thing that moves upon the earth” (Gen 1:27-28 AMP). 

When God gave Loren Cunningham the list of the seven areas of society that shape and disciple nations, He named “family” first on the list. This is significant. Family is the first institution that God established on earth. He designed family to be the foundation of society. In perfect fellowship with Him, the family system that God initiated with Adam and Eve was to be the bedrock of nations and establish His kingdom authority in them.  The enemy attacked this Kingdom plan immediately in Eden but Jesus restored it for us at the Cross. We have regained authority through Jesus to establish His design in our families as it was in the Garden. God’s blueprints for the family system remain intact.  

Pray: 

Father God, thank You that You sent Jesus as “second Adam” to restore us not only to our fellowship with You, but also to our authority over satan’s illegal rule in the earth. We thank You that You designed this authority to be exercised in the context of family and carried from there to every area of society. We recognize that the enemy has infiltrated almost all spheres of our culture with ungodly ideologies that specifically attack the family as the foundation of society.  We ask for Your hedge of protection around our families and we covenant with You to safeguard our households against the influx of these demonic and destructive influences into our homes. Help us, Holy Spirit, establish households according to the blueprint for family that God provided in the Garden. Amen. 

Declare: 

As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord. 

Consider: 

Sociologists say that the four most important influences on children are family, school, peers, and mass media. Would you make any changes to this list, or to the order in which these four are presented? 

Day 11: March 15, 2025 

Seek God. . .for family names known for moral character 

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches (Prov. 22:1 KJV). 

When surnames came into existence in England at the beginning of the Medieval Period, they were assigned to the male head of the household and said something about his character or occupation. The meaning associated with the surname came to be associated with all the members in the family line. For example, an ancestor of William Shakespeare supposedly earned the surname “shake a spear” for being a confrontational and argumentative man. That association remained until William Shakespeare proved in his own life that the “pen is mightier than the sword”. Now, the surname Shakespeare is associated with the legacy of the writer’s contribution to England’s great works of literature instead of his ancestor’s quarrelsome nature. 

Jeremiah speaks of a family name that came to be associated with honoring ancestors’ moral values. During the time of King Josiah, the Rechabites lived as nomads and abstained from drinking wine in obedience to the commandment passed onto them from their forefather Jehonadab (Jer. 35: 6-10). The Lord rewarded this family line for their moral character, promising them that “Jehonadab son of Recab will always have descendants who serve me” (vs. 19, NLT).  

As Christians, we carry the name of Jesus as our inheritance. May we honor it as faithfully in our lives and in our families as the Rechabites honored the commandments of their forefathers in theirs. 

Pray: 

Lord Jesus, we love and worship Your name. Help us to honor You and Your great name more deeply, first in our families and then to this world where Your name is blasphemed every day (Isa. 52:5).   Holy Spirit, help us to live honorable lives that reflect the name of Jesus that we carry as our legacy. 

Declare: 

I will honor the Name of Jesus in my thoughts, actions, and words.  

Consider: 

When you think of the previous generations in your family line, what character quality seems to stand out? 

Day 12: March 16, 2025 

Seek God. . .for Kingdom fatherhood 

The just man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him (Prov. 20:7). 

“Population collapse is our greatest threat to humanity,” DOGE head Elon Musk repeatedly warns. He says he is “banging on the baby drum” to promote a birth rate increase that will “sustain our numbers and not plummet [our world] into a population collapse.” The concern is real. Even the birth rate in the United States has reached an all-time low. At 1.62 births per woman, it falls below the 2.1 birth rate necessary to sustain the nation’s current population count.  

Musk’s “baby drum” beats to the new movement of pro-natalism, an ideology that promotes child bearing, not necessarily within the context of marriage and family, as a means to solve political, economic, and social problems.  

Pro-natalism is not God’s design for population increase. Beginning with Adam and Eve, Jehovah God called man to “leave his father and mother, and [to]cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh” (Gen. 2:24), commanding them to “be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth” (Gen. 1:28). When the flood reduced the world population that Adam and Eve had replenished to almost zero, God covenanted with one man, Noah, to repopulate it through his family line. Later, he covenanted with one father, Abraham, to become the father of many nations (Gen. 17:4), because He knew that Abraham would “command his children and his household after him” to “keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment” (Gen 18:19).  

The Word of God does not align with pro-natalist siring; it aligns with pro-family fathering. Father God is still looking for a “few good men” like Abraham to walk in covenant with Him in their own homes, modeling integrity in the ways they both love their wives as their own flesh and raise their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.  

In their song, “Lead Me with Strong Hands”, Christian worship group Sanctus Real expresses the heartfelt cry of a godly father to Father God for His help in fulfilling this sacrificial calling. This is the cry of a father who is in covenant with Abba Father. The song’s chorus can be adapted as a prayer of intercession on behalf of all men of God who humbly submit to God’s design for living out Kingdom fatherhood in their homes.  

Pray: 

Father, give men the strength to be everything they’re called to be as fathers. O Father, show them the way to lead their families. Please lead them so they can lead their families with strong hands and can stand up for their children when they can’t. Please don’t let these fathers leave their families hungry for love, while they themselves chase things that they could easily give up. Help these fathers show their children that they’re willing to fight for them and to give them the best of their own lives. Father, lead them because they can’t do this alone. Thank you, Father, that you lead them because they can’t do this alone. 

Declare: 

The Lord our God carries us, as a father carries his son. 

Consider: 

What do you think are some of the biggest challenges that fathers today face? 

Day 13: March 17, 2025 

Seek God. . .for a Biblical view of woman as helper 

The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him” (Gen. 2:18 NIV). 

The unbiblical interpretation of the role of woman as a suitable helper for man has dogged both men and women throughout generations. This misinterpretation created a perception of women as subservient to, rather than equal with, men. Women have either run from or cowered to this perception, depriving them of God’s intended purpose for them.  

Correction comes through an examination of the meaning of the Hebrew word for helper, ezer, used in this verse. By definition, an ezer refers to someone who is strong; who rescues and saves; a warrior who is empowered to provide help in military battles; a defender, a protector who surrounds others with shields and cherishes them. The word ezer appears 21 times in the Old Testament, two times describing Eve, and the rest of the time describing God as an ezer to Israel. 

Eve’s legacy to women as ezers plays out powerfully in the lives of Deborah and Jael in the time of Judges. Deborah, the only female judge mentioned in the Old Testament, prophetically instructs Barak, Israel’s military commander, to assemble an army to fight against the attacking Canaanites, led by their king Jabin and their military commander Sisera. Deborah accompanies Barak into the battle, they defeat the armies of Jabin, Sisera flees and seeks refuge in Jael’s tent, Jael lulls Sisera to sleep and drives a tent-pin into his temple while he does so. 

Deborah and Jael are ezers, helpers suitable to the warrior men of Israel. They use their strength and their power against Israel’s enemies to protect and defend the land they cherish. But really, they are doing nothing more courageous that what women as wives and mothers do, alongside their husbands and in defense of their families. These women fulfill the definition of ezer as completely in their homes as Deborah did under the palm tree where she judged, and as Jael did in her tent where she lulled a warrior to sleep with a glass of milk. Eve’s ezer legacy lives on in them all. 

Pray: 

Father God, You created women to be ezers, to stand equally with men, and share with them the authority you delegated to them through Adam and Eve.  Thank you that women can look to You, as the ezer of Israel, for guidance in living out this role righteously.  Help women live out Eve’s ezer legacy in their families, their churches, and their communities. May You be glorified in this. Amen. 

Declare: 

We declare that we honor God’s design of women as ezers in shared authority with men. 

Consider: 

How do you think women today best fulfill their roles as ezers in their homes? 

Day 14: March 18, 2025 

Seek God. . .for His unique qualities in each child 

And Zabad his sons, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle, And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him. And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah [weeping], because it went evil with his house; (And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth-horon on the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-Sherah) (1 Chron. 7:21-24 KJV).  

There is a curious interruption in this tracing of Ephraim’s descendants through his sons. First, it records the two sons, Ezer and Elead, who led a cattle raid against the Gaths, and were killed by them when they retaliated for the attempted theft. Next, the chronicle registers a son born after the family tragedy. Beriah, whose name means “weeping”, memorializes Ephraim’s sorrow for the evil his house had suffered by the misdeeds of his older brothers. 

But then there is a parenthesis in the list of the male descendants. Sherah, a daughter and a builder of cities, appears. Everything about this daughter breaks rank with the mournful march of the men in this genealogy. 

In this family chronology marred by thievery, daughter Sherah gets mentioned, not for the sorrow she causes, but for the legacy she builds.  She is a builder of cities. Besides the two cities, Lower and Upper Beth-horon that she built on a hillside, she also built the city Uzzen-Sherah, which means “Listen to Sherah”. 

Listen to Sherah, the daughter who lived with a vision for a future and a hope, not for a memory of failure and loss. Listen to Sherah, who defied the male-dominant conventions of the culture, and, as a female, took on a construction project for God. And God used her cities well. 

It was on the hill between Lower and Upper Beth-horon that God showed Himself strong on behalf of Joshua and the Israelites as they came against the Amorites to protect them against the Gibeonites. God hurled hailstones against the enemy army there, destroying more warriors with hail than Joshua’s army did with weapons. Joshua needed more time to bring the battle to victorious completion, so he asked God for the sun to stand still. And it did, right between Sherah’s cities of Lower and Upper Beth-horon.  

Solomon restored the cities Sherah built during his reign more than two hundred years later. The Maccabees used them as their base of operation against the Greeks in their time. Today, the foundations of the cities that Sherah built remain on the hill, a legacy to her uniqueness. 

God creates every child with unique giftings like Sherah’s that make room for them. Ephraim’s home, in the midst of unrelentless mourning, somehow made room for Sherah to develop hers. May we seek the grace and wisdom to do the same with the unique children in our lives that are entrusted to us. 

Pray: 

Father God, Your Word records the unique design You have for every child born. You spoke to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born, I set you apart.” You sent your angel to tell Zechariah that his son John would be uniquely filled with the Holy Ghost even from his mother’s womb to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. King David praises You because you created [his] inmost being; you knit [him] together in [his] mother’s womb; he is fearfully and wonderfully made. Father, give us guidance and wisdom to raise children in cooperation with You in order to nurture their unique talents. Open our eyes to see they are all fearfully and wonderfully made. Amen. 

Declare: 

We will nurture every child in our care as fearfully and wonderfully made by Creator God. 

Consider: 

What unique qualities have been part of you since childhood? 

Day 15: March 19, 2025 

Seek God. . .for Kingdom eldership for elderly 

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Now also when I am old and grey-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have declared thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to everyone that is to come (Ps. 71: 17-18 KJV). 

In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, four hobbits leave their peaceful Shire on a dangerous mission to carry One Ring, a ring with powers that have been used destructively by evildoers in the great battle between good and evil in Middle-earth, to Mordor, where the ring will be destroyed. Mishaps along the journey separate the four companions. Two of the hobbits, Merry Brandybuck and Pippin Took, wind up in the Forest of Fangorn, where they encounter Treebeard, the Shepherd of the Forest, and his fellow Ents. 

The Ents are ancient, tree-like creatures who are both wise and strong. Once powerful members of Middle-earth society, the Ents no longer have a place in the larger world. Their numbers have diminished due to death. They live isolated from the affairs of the world around them in their dark woods. 

Pippin and Merry appeal to Treebeard to help them find their way out of the forest and reconnect with their hobbit friends Frodo and Sam in order to complete the mission to Mordor. War is raging in Middle-earth; they urgently need the Ents to help them end it. Treebeard gathers the Ents to decide if they will assist the young ones for the saving of mankind. Reluctantly concluding that “war comes to us all”, Treebeard agrees to help. The Ents wrench their embedded roots from the deep soil, carry the hobbits along on their journey, and use their great strength and aged wisdom to fight on their behalf.  

The great battle against good and evil rages in every age. In our generation, it particularly targets the young. May the older generations rise up like the Ents and use their weapons of godly wisdom and moral strength against the false ideologies, gender confusion, and elimination through abortion in this great battle.  As Treebeard said, this “war comes to us all”.  

Pray: 

Father, Your Word says, “The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness” (Prov. 16:31). Thank You for the place of honor that grandparents, great aunts and uncles, and older members of our families occupy. Help us recognize and enlist the moral wisdom and strength they possess in order to guide our next generations. May their legacy of wisdom and strength endure. 

Declare: 

We will call upon the moral wisdom and strength from our older generations to help the younger generations discover their God-given destiny.  

Consider: 

Have you ever received a word of advice from a grandparent or older person in your family that helped you? 

Day 16: March 20, 2025 

Seek God. . .for a heart for the orphan 

He settles the childless woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD (Ps. 113:9 NIV). 

The Hershey School in Hershey, PA, houses a bronze statue of its founder with an orphan boy wrapped in his arms. The statue’s inscription reads, “His deeds are his monument. His life is our inspiration.” 

More than the chocolate candy empire he built in Lancaster, PA, Milton S. Hershey is memorialized for the legacy of charity that his candy empire allowed him to create. The candy empire began with a bar of chocolate; the legacy began with a school for orphan boys.  

The school was built in the model town, complete with a park, that the chocolatier originally built for the workers in his chocolate factory in the dairy farmlands of Derry Church in Lancaster County, PA. The town is now called Hershey, PA, the park is now famously known as Hersheypark, and the school, originally opened as the Hershey Industrial School, now honors the name of its founder, The Milton Hershey School. 

The boarding school that Milton and his wife Catherine opened in 1910, after they found out that they would not be able to have children of their own, first accepted only “poor, healthy, white male orphans" between the ages of four and eight, and allowed them to stay until the age of eighteen. Four boys were enrolled in its first year. The school broadened its admission parameters throughout the decades, opening the school to both females and males, both whites and non-whites, and both parentless orphans and “social orphans”, children of single or divorced parents. The PK-12 school now educates and houses approximately 1200 students per year, all from low-income households. The school continues to operate on the Christian principles upon which it was founded.  

These are biblical principles that guided Milton and Catherine since childhood. Both from Mennonite backgrounds, Milton and Catherine embraced their religion’s Christian principles: belief in the Truth of the Word and living a life of service and peace based on the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. For them, “religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world” (James 1:27 NIV). The Milton Hershey School in Hershey, PA is a legacy of it. 

Pray: 

Father God, thank you for the heart of compassion for the orphan that Milton and Catherine Hershey shared. Their faith in You and their uncompromising belief in Your Word enabled them to rise above natural childlessness to create a legacy of childrearing for You. Father, may we rise above empty wombs and empty nests to relieve the distress of the fatherless and motherless children around us.  

Declare: 

We will embrace the religion that is acceptable as pure and faultless before You by looking after orphans in their distress.  

Consider: 

Record numbers of unaccompanied minors have crossed the U.S. Southern Border since 2021, creating an unaccompanied child crisis in the United States. Many of the children are brought into migrant labor jobs. What do you think the American Church can do to relieve the distress of these “social orphans”? 

Day 17: March 21, 2025 

Seek God. . .to understand His purpose for the family altar  

And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan. . .and pitched his tent before the city. . .And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel [God, the God of Israel]. And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. [her brothers sought revenge for this defilement by killing Hamor and Shechem, and Jacob knew his household was in danger of retaliation]. And God said unto Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there; and make there an altar unto God” (Gen. 33:18-20; Gen 34:1-2; Gen. 35:1). 

Jacob’s family faced a crisis. Dinah, curious about the foreign culture that surrounded her family’s tent and family altar, wandered into compromise with it. Dinah’s brothers brutally avenged her defilement, putting Jacob’s household in jeopardy. God delivered them from possible destruction by leading Jacob to Bethel, where once again, God instructed him to build an altar on their behalf. In times of family crisis, God calls for a family altar. 

Families in America face a crisis. The enemy is attacking them on every front, with weapons targeted against husbands, wives, and children, in order to destroy the very legacy of family itself. Divorce, adultery, domestic abuse, and abortion assail the sanctity of the marriage covenant between husbands and wives, while forces of darkness defile the purity of children’s mindsets with sexual perversions like pornography, pedophilia, homosexuality, and transgenderism, and false ideologies like revisionism, inherent racism, and secular humanism. If the spiritual walls of defense in the family begin to collapse, they weaken all the others structures in society that depend upon the family. But God has provided a solution: rebuild the family altar. 

This proved to be true in the nation of Uganda. As Mark Daniel notes in his book Prayer Altars, Uganda had been a nation torn apart by war, tyranny, and AIDS. But Ugandan Christians established family prayer altars that transformed their homes, and by ripple effect, transformed their nation. Daniel says that Uganda is now a model for revival, unity, and miracles for other nations to follow. America is awakening to its own need for transformation now as well. May God do here what He did in Uganda. 

Pray: 

Father God, we thank You for the righteous changes You have brought to our federal government. But history shows us that government cannot legislate moral change; only You can do that by changing the human heart. We know we are entering a season of unprecedented revival in this nation, a revival that will transform every part of culture according to Your design and purpose for it. In Uganda, You began that transformation in the family, the first institution You created. May it be so in America. By the intervention of Holy Spirit, help us in America rebuild the family prayer altars that ultimately rebuild a nation. We ask this in Jesus’ redemptive name. 

Declare: 

We will rebuild the protective walls of our families by rebuilding the family altar. 

Consider: 

A Catholic priest created this slogan that became popular in the late 20th century: “The family that prays together, stays together.” Do you think this slogan carries truth for 21st century America? 

DAY 18: March 22, 2025 

Seek God. . .for fire on the altar 

The fire must be kept burning on the altar continuously; it must not go out (Lev. 6:13 NIV). 

In her book, Fire on the Family Altar, prayer mobilizer Cheryl Sacks gives an important principle about building a family altar. The principle appears in this verse:  You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ (1 Pet. 2:5 NIV). Sacks says, “Before you can experience the fire of God [in your home], you need to rebuild the altar of God” in your heart. The altar is built for the fire, but the fire requires a sacrifice for it to fall upon. For Christians, those sacrifices are laid upon the altar of their hearts. 

As born-again believers in Jesus Christ, we are each living stones, and our hearts are altars of meeting with God. We keep the fire on the heart altar burning by offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. On a daily basis, we offer him our bodies as living sacrifices, surrendering them as temples of the Holy Spirit. We offer Him the sacrifice of praise, giving thanks in everything. We quiet our hearts before Him throughout the day in order to remain in communion with Him. We have set times to meet with Him in personal prayer and devotions.  

When all the living stones in a household come together for an established time to meet with God, they build the family altar. Quite simply, Sacks suggests that the dinner table can become the family altar. Grace over the meal before eating, and God-focused discussion over questions that matter to the family after the meal create an altar: What are some struggles individual family members are facing outside the home; What conflicts in the household might need to be settled; What members of the extended family might need encouragement? After discussing the needs, family members can unite in prayer to find God’s solutions for them. In the time that it takes to serve dessert, family members have fulfilled the law of Christ in Gal. 6:2 by bearing one another’s burdens in prayer at the family altar.   

Pray: 

Father God, help us to recognize the importance and the power of the family altar. In our own nation’s history, the slave families in the South knew it, and put themselves in jeopardy of punishment by their masters, to assemble at their family altars to pray for their children’s freedom. We are no less needy in our day. May we build our family altars and invite Your holy presence and power for the revival that will heal our homes and heal our land. We ask for Holy Spirit guidance in this. Amen. 

Declare: 

I will establish and protect my heart as an altar of meeting with God in praise, prayer, and daily devotions. 

Consider: 

How might families create a “virtual family altar” where members of the extended family can assemble? 

Day 19: March 23, 2025 

Seek God. . .for the power of the family altar 

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need (Heb. 4:16 NKJV). 

Jim Cymbala has been pastoring the Brooklyn Tabernacle for 54 years, shepherding a congregation that first consisted of 40 people in 1971 and now consists of about 10,000. During the early years, while Cymbala was attending to all the new church life, the spiritual life of one Cymbala child started to perish. Pastor Cymbala’s firstborn daughter walked completely away from God and family and entered into a hellish downward spiral over a two-year absence. 

Cymbala’s spiritual family at Brooklyn Tabernacle travailed at their prayer altar for his daughter, and she was restored. She is now married and in full-time ministry with her husband. Cymbala concluded from the powerful intervention of prayer that brought his daughter back that “the one channel for all God’s blessings is prayer; Let prayer meetings begin in family altars at home.” 

Now, Cheryl Sacks sends out the same message about the necessity of beginning family altars. Her message does not result from a family crisis. It comes from a personal encounter with God. 

The encounter occurred at a large prayer conference. As Cheryl stood on the platform, readying herself to lead prayer, Holy Spirit spoke to her. “Revival will come to America when the family altar is restored.”  

She challenged the Lord with what she had heard, arguing that it sounded rather “simplistic”. God merely confirmed the message by having someone else at the conference repeat it as a prayer. He then disclosed more of His plan to Cheryl in the days following the conference, even showing her in a vision “fire from Heaven” falling on families as they built their family altars, and then spreading to the family of God, leading to a national awakening of repentance and revival.  

This would not be the first time national revival would come from restored family altars. In the late 1960s and 1970s, when the drug revolution began sweeping away a generation of young people, parents and grandparents throughout the nation turned to prayer. The family altar became a place where they stormed the throne of grace to obtain mercy and grace for the younger generation. God heard their cries and responded, in double measure. He sent both the Jesus Revolution and the Charismatic renewal to rescue that generation and restore Kingdom legacy to them and to the nation through them.  

God is making one “simple” request to His Church in this time: relight the family altar. 

Pray: 

Father God, You have shown us what the power of the family altar did in the recent past with the Jesus Revolution and the Charismatic Renewal, and what it can do in the near future with a promised national revival. We live in the space between these two, a window of opportunity for us to change the course of this nation from death to life with a simple decision. The enemy has come in again like a flood to destroy the youth in our nation; may we flood Your throne of grace for mercy and grace for their rescue. Help us relight our family altars with sincere motives and humble hearts. 

Declare: 

Agreeing with a decree from Cheryl Sacks, we declare, in Jesus’ name, “that the family altar is being restored, and a movement of family prayer and worship is being ignited to set the nation ablaze with the power and presence of Almighty God.”  

Consider: 

When the family situation at the Cymbala household became too burdensome for them to handle alone in prayer, they turned to their spiritual family at church. What members of the local body of Christ do you rely upon to pray with you and for you in times of need? 

 Day 20: March 24, 2025 

Seek God. . .for the aroma of prayer in Father’s house 

And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant—these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted at my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations” (Isa. 56:6-7 NIV). 

Two different times in His earthly ministry, during his first visit to the temple at the very start of his ministry, and then during his final visit there before making his way to Calvary in his last week, Jesus asserts His messiahship by cleansing the temple of the moneychangers and sellers of goods that had made Father’s house of prayer “a den of thieves”. Both times, Messiah refers to the scripture from Isaiah as He does so.  

The early church set the standard for Father’s house as a joyful house of prayer. When the Holy Spirit filled the 120 disciples assembled in the upper room at Pentecost with His power, that infilling first expressed itself in worshipping God’s wonderful works with other tongues. Three thousand others joined them. They all carried that joyful, Spirit-led worship with them when they continued daily in one accord in the temple. 

Jim Cymbala, Pastor of Brooklyn Tabernacle, said in 1994 that revisionism in the [modern] Christian church has reduced this prayer-driven model to a one-hour gathering on Sunday mornings. Cymbala points out, “We have too many technicians now invading the church that are into methodology. The answer is not in methodology. The aroma and atmosphere of prayer should pervade Father’s house.”  

In the decades that have passed since Cymbala said that, the Church has more fully embraced its identity as Father’s house and has begun to exercise its Holy Spirit authority as the praying ekklesia. As this increases, may the American Church be saturated with the aroma of prayer that pleases God.  

Pray: 

Father God, we are so thankful for the shift that is taking place in the American Church towards the primacy of prayer. Thank you that more and more churches in America are functioning as houses of prayer for all nations. We especially thank you for the prayer network that Holy Spirit has been growing at Grace and Peace over the past several years. From early in the morning with Awaken the Dawn, to daytime Upper Room gatherings, to Friday night Kairos nights, to Saturday healing prayer and community outreaches, to Sunday morning worship service and altar prayer ministry, and Sunday evening Tactical Warfare Prayer, believers are uniting in prayer, praise, worship, warfare, and intercession. May this growth of prayer at Grace and Peace gain such strength and momentum by Holy Spirit that Father God will be pleased to call this house a House of Prayer for All Nations. 

Declare: 

The Church of Grace and Peace is a house of prayer for all nations. 

Consider: 

What do you think Jim Cymbala meant by the “methodology” that has invaded the church? 

Day 21: March 25, 2025 

Seek God. . .for legacy of Kingdom revival and reformation 

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven (Matt. 6:10 KJV). 

Dr. Che Ahn, President of Harvest International Ministry, says that this petition from The Lord’s Prayer is, in essence, a prayer for revival and reformation. When God invades earth with His Kingdom authority, the flow of power from the unseen spiritual realm to the earthly realm transforms nations, supernaturally reconnecting them to Kingdom legacy.  

Dr. Ahn says that this is what happened during the historic revivals he studied. These revivals shared three characteristics: 1. The church is revived; 2. Souls get saved; 3. Society is transformed. 

The church is revived when the people become filled with the power of Holy Spirit and renew their commitment to righteousness and holiness before the Lord. This takes place in the atmosphere of supernatural outpouring of God’s love upon them that the revival brings. In the press of love and power, deep and true repentance arises from the hearts of the people. Dr. Ahn experienced this personally at the Toronto Revival.  

Che Ahn says that “any true revival” leads next to the harvest of souls and cites the Welsh Revival of 1904 as an example of this. “As the church in Wales was starting to be revived by the Holy Spirit, 20,000 people got saved in just five weeks’ time. Within the first six months of the revival, 100,00 came to Christ, out of . . .an overall population of around 2 million.” 

The legacy of Kingdom revival and reformation becomes established with the third stage, the transforming of society by reformation. Ahn defines reformation as bringing “biblical values [like mercy and truth] and [biblical, not social] justice to society and her institutions”. The First and Second Great Awakenings transformed England and America respectively, by reforming the greatest social injustice of their day: slavery.  

Che Ahn agrees with what major prophets are saying about a Third Great Awakening coming to the earth, bringing in a billion-soul harvest. “I believe that we will see another wave of souls being saved. . .but it has to be unto the transformation of society.” It takes a church revived by Holy Spirit to transform society with Kingdom authority. 

Pray: 

Father God, we are deeply, deeply grateful that You are rescuing America from the moral darkness into which it has fallen. We ask You to send the promised Holy Spirit-breathed revival and billion-soul harvest. Empower us with Holy Spirit dunamis to become reformers like the abolitionists from historic revivals who overturned slavery and other social injustices. Cause the American Church to take its place as the City on the Hill, shining its light into the darkness that covers our nation and the world.  

Declare: 

The American Church will arise and shine, for its light has come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon it.  

Consider: 

What biblical values do you think need to be brought back into American society so that it can be transformed? 

Day 22: March 26, 2025 

Seek God. . .for a Kingdom perspective 

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth (Col. 3:1-2 NKJV). 

In 2010, prophet and Bible teacher Mike Thompson had a supernatural experience that resulted in a new, God-given assignment for him as a Bible teacher. During an intercessory prayer time with about fifty other Christian leaders, Mike was caught up spiritually into the third heaven, above the skies that surrounded the building he was in, through the second heavens where he saw the demonic forces that were over the territory, and into the throne room in the third heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ was seated. Mike saw and heard the glory in the throne room that he had read about in the Bible.  

He soon learned that he was there for a specific purpose. Jesus gave him the assignment to “teach third-heaven authority to [His] people.” Jesus explained that spiritual encounters, both from Holy Spirit and demonic forces, will increase in this season. Believers need to be equipped with understanding about third-heaven authority to overcome the increased demonic onslaughts. 

Mike learned that third-heaven authority is about perspective. The Lord explained to him, “Looking from earth’s perspective is purely physical, and [that perspective] is susceptible to a consciousness of sin. Heaven’s perspective is one of righteousness.”  

Jesus impressed upon him the urgency of the assignment, as Mike explains. “Because the church is entering an increasingly intense time before the return of Christ, it’s imperative for believers to fully grasp and walk in the spiritual authority that is ours.”  

It’s time for a Kingdom perspective. 

Pray: 

Lord Jesus, thank you for alerting your prophets and teachers about the Church’s urgent need in this season to have a kingdom perspective, to look at things on the earth from where they are seated with You in the third heaven. Thank you, Lord, that we have Holy Spirit’s help in developing this perspective, as He guides us in our study of Your Word to gain a full grasp of our identity in You. Thank you that we are heirs of the Kingdom of God living in the world, but no longer of it. Help us come to fully live, move, and have our being in our identity in You, so that we can faithfully proclaim, “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me”.  We are so grateful for Your everlasting love for Your Church. 

Declare: 

I will no longer be conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewing of my mind. 

Consider: 

What does it mean to you to be “seated together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus”?  

Day 23: March 27, 2025 

Seek God. . .for the legacy of Pentecost 

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; Even the Spirit of truth. . .the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you (Jn. 14:16-17, 26 KJV). 

Without Holy Spirit, there would have been no Christ. And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God” (Lk. 1:35 NKJV).  

Holy Spirit empowered Christ to replace John’s water baptism with the greater fiery baptism; He sustained Jesus during the 40-day wilderness test that led to His victory over the devil in demonstration of His Messianic authority. Holy Spirit empowered Jesus throughout His earthly ministry, and Holy Spirit raised Him from the dead in a glorious resurrection when it ended. 

Without that resurrection, there would be no Church. There would just be useless preaching and baseless faith in “cunningly devised tales”. But the Church was born, and Holy Spirit birthed it. 

The same Spirit that overshadowed Mary fell on 120 believers assembled in an upper room and impregnated them with power. He gave them new speech, a spiritual language that bewildered a listening crowd. He gave them spiritual understanding that enabled a fisherman to exegete the book of Joel to the crowd of Jews from every nation that gathered to listen.  

Holy Spirit grew the Christian church with salvation in the victorious name of Jesus Christ and with the gift of himself. He performed signs, wonders, and miracles through these “little Christs”.  

This same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead quickened their mortal flesh; this same Spirit that rested on Jesus as a dove in His water baptism took residence in them as rivers of living waters. This same Spirit who inspired Moses to write the law now inspired eyewitnesses to write the biography of Christ the Messiah, the narrative of grace and truth. 

Holy Spirit is the Paraclete of the abiding Church. As he was with Jesus in His earthly ministry, so He is with us now, the ones called to be a community of believers in a holy nation united in a bond of peace under His government of righteousness, peace, and joy. We do the same works Christ did, and even greater works, because of the gifts that Holy Spirit gives. 

Without Holy Spirit, there could be neither the revival in the Church nor the transformation in the world that is so desperately needed today. The forgetful church needs the Spirit Himself to bear witness again with our spirit that we are children of God and joint heirs with Christ so that we can stand as the Bride with Holy Spirit and say to a lost and dying world, “Come!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes, take the free gift of the water of life.” 

The legacy of the Comforter to the Bride abides forever. 

Pray: 

As members of the Body of Christ, we ask forgiveness for every way we have grieved the Holy Spirit by not living a life worthy of the calling we have received. We call on Holy Spirit to help us live in in a way that pleases him, with behaviors that follow after holiness and love. We also ask forgiveness for every way we have quenched the Holy Spirit, rejecting the gifts He has for the body, and failing to bear His fruit. As the Church, we ask forgiveness for ignoring the place of the gift of tongues in our private and corporate prayer. We open ourselves up to a renewed flow of His living waters through us for the work of ministry to the glory of God. 

Declare: 

We will value the legacy of Pentecost and surrender to Holy Spirit’s authority as our Paraclete. 

Consider: 

Paul said the gift of the Spirit that is most to be desired is prophecy. Why might this be so? What gift of the Spirit is most important to you? 

Day 24: March 28, 2025 

Seek God. . .for His passion on the mission field 

How much more, then, should I have pity on Nineveh, that great city. After all, it has more than 120,000 innocent children in it, as well as many animals (Jon. 4:11 GNT). 

In his essay, “Aflame with Passion for World Evangelism,” Reinhard Bonnke says this about Jonah, “Sent to Nineveh, the most depraved city on earth, he became the first foreign missionary (emphasis added) in history and the only prophet of Israel ever to turn a city to repentance.” Jonah was reluctant in his mission. He knew God’s compassion, and he didn’t really want Nineveh to have it. But he obeyed and 120,000 innocent children were spared.  

God’s heart for children has expressed itself in missions throughout the centuries. The Protestant Reformation released Father’s heart into missionary work in England and Colonial America in the 18th century. British evangelist George Whitefield became a leader in the First Great Awakening in America, not only preaching throughout the colonies, but also caring for the children of the colonists at Bethesda House, an orphanage he helped establish near Savannah, Georgia. His heart’s focus remained the orphanage throughout the rest of his life. 

In the 19th century, German-born evangelist George Mueller moved to England to carry out his missionary work. In Bristol, England, he witnessed for himself the plight of homeless orphans, begging and stealing on the streets just for food. George felt God calling him to open an orphanage to take care of the children. 

Mueller responded to the call by starting the Ashley Down Orphanage in Bristol. Living by faith, Mueller never solicited funds to construct it or to maintain it. He prayed for the food the children needed, and God supplied. The 10,024 children who lived in the orphanage throughout Mueller’s time there saw what a faith-filled life looked like. 

Today, husband and wife American missionaries Mark and Kim Gardner carry Father’s heart for children to the Polynesian islands, where they have established a base for children evangelism in Fiji. The Gardners define Children’s Ministry as “not just ministering to children, but [intentionally involving them] in Ministry: Ministry to the Lord in prayer, praise, and worship, and then ministry to other children and families.”  

Their vision is to “bring kids into an encounter with the Holy Spirit so that they can know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and being thus empowered can minister to others.” Mark and Kim challenge the churches they visit to believe with them for this Holy Spirit-empowerment. 

The Gardners minister to churches throughout the nation, helping develop Spirit-filled Children ministries among them. They encourage the children’s departments in the churches to “open their vision to believe that kids can be born again and filled with the Holy Spirit; [that]children can be used in the gifts of the Holy Spirit to minister salvation, healing, and deliverance; and that Sunday School is the secondary, not the primary tool, to disciple children. Parents are the primary tool. 

In a tribute to George Mueller for his life’s work with Ashley Down Orphanage, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph wrote that Müller "had robbed the cruel streets of the thousands of victims, the gaels (jails) of thousands of felons, and the workhouses of thousands of helpless waifs."​ 

Mueller’s ministry to children left a legacy of generational transformation in a nation’s culture. Mark and Kim Gardner are doing the same by their ministry to the children in the Polynesian islands.  

Pray:  

Father God, we thank You that we are in the season when You are pouring out of Your Spirit on all flesh so that our sons and daughters prophesy, dream dreams, and see visions; when our children will be taught of You and great will be their peace; when they receive the gift of the Holy Spirit and great power when Holy Spirit comes upon them. Thank You that Mark and Kim Gardner have caught hold of this Holy Spirit promise and are running with it as the vision for their ministry to children. We ask for children’s ministry leaders and parents throughout America to work cooperatively with eyes to see what gifts You have for the children in their charge, and with wisdom to help shepherd these gifts in them. We pray this in the name of Your precious Son, Jesus. 

Declare: 

We declare that no one will despise the Holy Spirit-empowered young because of their youth, because the young will be an example to all believers by what they say, by how they live, and by their love, faith, and purity. 

Consider: 

What are some blessings in the Word of God that adults can speak over children to encourage them? 

Day 25: March 29, 2025 

Seek God. . .for His commandments to be children’s guardrails  

O, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever! (Deut. 5:20 NIV). 

On June 19, 2024, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public schools in the state. The U.S. Supreme Court had ordered the Ten Commandments to be removed from all public schools throughout the nation in 1980, eighteen years after the Court had already banned state-sponsored prayer from public schools in 1962. The Supreme Court justified its decision in both cases as protection of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. 

But from the beginning of public-school education in America, and early into the 20th century before these rulings came to pass, the Ten Commandments occupied not just a visible position on a classroom wall, but also a central position in classroom learning. The New England Primer, printed in 1690, became the first textbook ever published in the United States and the first textbook children used to learn to read. For almost two centuries, children learned their alphabet with the Primer’s rhyming phrases: A-In Adam’s fall, we sinned all; B-Heaven to find, the Bible mind, etc.  

The Primer also contained a section that taught students to memorize and understand the meaning of the Ten Commandments. It was not the only textbook to do this. The McGuffey Reader and Noah Webster’s textbooks also taught the Ten Commandments. 

These founding fathers established a righteous legacy for American public-school education, one that situates wisdom on the firm foundation of God’s Word as its source. Governor Landry’s move to restore the 10 Commandments to Louisiana classrooms honors this legacy. May his move inspire others to do the same. 

Pray: 

Father God, thank you for the Constitutional provision of free public education in our nation. Forgive us for not treasuring this gift. We have allowed the light of learning to grow dim, creating confusion in our children. Father God, we ask for true shepherds who carry Your heart for children to rise up as classroom teachers to lead students in the ways of wisdom. We ask for education administrators and policymakers to seek Your wisdom for their students. May they humbly draw guidance from the first entry in The New England Primer’s “Alphabet of Lessons for Youth”—A Wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. 

Declare: 

The hearts of educators in America will be inclined to keep and teach the Lord’s commands so it goes well with our children forever.  

Consider: 

Many believe that the removal of prayer from schools has led to the moral decline in student behavior that contributes to the troubling behavioral issues in 21st century classrooms. What do you think about this belief? 

Day 26: March 30, 2025 

Seek God. . .for parents’ role in education to be restored 

Wherefore it came to pass [that] Hannah bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying Because I have asked him of the Lord. And when she had weaned him, she took [Samuel] up with her. . . and brought him unto the house of the Lord in Shiloh. . .and brought the child to Eli. Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord. But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child. . .his mother made him a little coat, [and] brought it to him from year to year (1 Sam 1:20, 24-25; 2:12, 18-19 KJV). 

Hannah, in deep grief over not being able to bear a child, made a Nazarite vow before God that if He would grant her a son, she would dedicate him to the Lord. Hannah honored that vow when Samuel was born, keeping him in her care only long enough for him to be weaned at about two or three years of age. Then, she brought him to the temple in Shiloh and surrendered him to Eli the priest to be taught by him. Thereafter, Hannah visited her son Samuel once a year, unaware that she had turned her son over to a priest who was allowing his own two sons, Hophni and Phineas, to defile the temple with their wicked ways. Eli was unfit to nurture and train Samuel, the precious gift that Hannah was entrusting to him.  

In America, children must enroll in school by the age of five or six. For centuries, parents entrusted their own children to teachers and administrators who received them in locos parentis, a legal principle that obligates schools to “nurture the children in their care”. They are to act on behalf of the parents in their supervision and instruction of the children. 

Misapplications of in locos parentis have developed in the past several decades. More and more, schools now operate instead of parents, not on behalf of them, in the classroom. Cooperation between parents and school personnel over decisions concerning curriculum or social practices in the school is limited, even to the extreme degree of parents being arrested for speaking against education policy and practice at school board meetings. 

Thankfully, reforms are coming into place. The federal Department of Education is proposing a “parental bill of rights” that will return more power to parents, giving them not only more voice over curriculum choices, but also a legal right to elect for themselves the administrators of the schools their children attend.  May we us these rights wisely. 

Pray: 

Lord God, thank you for hearing the prayers of parents in America for their children as You once heard the cries of Hannah. We are grateful for the reforms that are coming to American education on behalf of children, parents, and schools. Thank you that you are providing a way for schools and parents to work together to raise children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Please give everyone involved in this process of reform the wisdom to righteously restore the legacy of in locos parentis to American education. 

Declare: 

Parents and educators will work cooperatively to re-establish the legacy of sound instruction and moral standards in American education. 

Consider:  

School Choice is gaining ground in many states, providing district funding for parents to opt out of public schooling for their children and send them instead to private and religious schools. The federal government wants to extend School Choice to all states. How much do you think this will this solve the problems that public schools now face? 

Day 27: March 31, 2025 

Seek God. . .for the Divine Book to guide instruction 

I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers [because of Your word], For your testimonies are my meditation (Ps. 119:99 AMP). 

From its start in the 17th century, American schools based their academic training on God’s Word, with the Church holding authority over them. When the nation’s population increased, the Church was forced to share its authority over the schools with the State, with full agreement that the Bible would remain fundamental to all instruction.  Bible-infused instruction remained in place well into the 20th century in school districts around the nation. For example, Dallas, Texas public schools required that students successfully complete two Bible survey courses, Old and New Testament, for graduation credit as recently as the 1970s.  

But when the Courts ordered schools to provide only a secular education in 1962, Bible courses like the ones in Dallas, along with the mere presence of a Bible in the classroom, began to disappear. The results have proven Dr. Benjamin Rush correct. This founding father warned in an educational policy paper in 1791, “A Defense of the Use of the Bible in Schools”, that if schools removed the Bible, they would lose the Book that best “favors [the] equality among mankind, [the] respect for just laws, and [the] sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of [our government]”.  

The increasingly secular, increasingly violent, and increasingly failing climate of American education that now exists is stirring a new defense of the Bible in schools. In November 2024, the Texas Board of Education approved a new K-5 curriculum that returns Bible teaching to the classrooms. The new Bible-based reading curriculum includes reading selections from Genesis, New Testament parables like the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan, historical accounts like Moses and the Exodus, and moral lessons like the Sermon on the Mount. 

The Bluebonnet Learning Bible-infused series resets an old standard for American education. That old standard worked successfully for four centuries of American education, as award-winning historian David Barton points out. It has provided America a legacy of excellence in education.  

Pray: 

Almighty God, thank you for opening our eyes to the failing state of American education. Forgive us for having allowed this to happen in the first place. We have allowed the courts of the land to increasingly limit children’s freedom of religious expression throughout their school days and years as we silently submitted to the courts’ secular agendas. We thank you now for the turnaround. Please bless initiatives like the Bluebonnet Learning series with tangible and measurable success. May this ignite a renaissance of true knowledge and wisdom in our nation’s schools.  

Declare: 

We declare that the legacy of moral and academic excellence in American education is being restored. 

Consider: 

Bible reading in the United States has increased in recent years, especially among the younger generations. More young adults think the Bible has transformed their lives. Why do you think this is happening? 

DAY 28: April 1, 2025 

Seek God. . .for the Great Narrative 

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings (Phil. 3:10 KJV). 

Actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone recently shared some background on the making of his first film in the Rocky series. Stallone said that he used a boxing gym that had been converted from a church as the setting for the opening boxing match. The opening scene first shows a drawing of Jesus on the converted gym’s wall, with the gym’s name, “Resurrection AC”, beneath it.   

The camera then pans down to the fight in the boxing ring, where Rocky is getting pummeled by his opponent. The underdog Rocky recharges and wins the match, connecting the drawing of Jesus and the gym’s name, to the boxer for all six films in the series. Rocky is resurrected as a Christ figure. 

In British and American literature, the Christ figure is a fictional character with qualities or experiences that remind the reader, or viewer, of Jesus Christ. The Christ figure character uses his courage and strength to the point of death for the sake of justice in the battle of good against evil. The Christ figure character undergoes a resurrection. Rocky lives, dies, and lives again in his career as a boxer, and moves his fight outside the ring to battle the ills and injustices of society against individuals. 

Christ figures make clear definitions of good and evil; they provide clear examples of moral goodness and self-sacrifice. And they clearly show that good always wins over evil, no matter how great the odds are against it. Christ figures point the story back to God as not only the source of all that is good, but also as the only hope for eternal life. 

The modern film versions of The Lord of the Rings trilogy develop the Christ figure in Gandalf the Grey, the hero who dies in battle against evil and is resurrected as Gandalf the White to carry the battle for good to full victory against evil.  A more obvious appearance of the Christ figure is the lion Aslan in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. As a Christ figure, the great lion Aslan allows himself to be killed in order to save the character Edmund, and then returns to life in order to save others.  

Twenty-first American literature has nearly eliminated the Christ figure. A character may display some righteous self-sacrificial behavior for the sake of a greater cause, but the cause is not an eternal one and the sacrifice is limited to a martyrdom that does not lead to a resurrection. Only Christ can lead to resurrection.  But perhaps a true turnaround is ahead. 

Actor and director Mel Gibson, who produced The Passion of the Christ over twenty years ago, is now ready to release its sequel, The Resurrection of the Christ. The worldwide success of The Passion influenced writers and filmmakers to return to the great narrative of Jesus Christ’s deep sacrifice on the cross for their inspiration. Now, The Resurrection of the Christ intends to demonstrate the magnitude of Christ’s glorious resurrection. May this historic depiction inspire a resurrection of the legacy of the Christ figure in fictional American literature. 

Pray: 

Lord Jesus, no event in human history ever has or ever will come close to the magnitude of Your redemptive resurrection from the dead. It is, as it has been named, the Greatest Story Ever Told. It remains the source and inspiration of the all the great works of literature, “the ones that really mattered. . .the stories that stayed with you. . .That meant something,” as Sam tells Frodo in The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers. We ask that You raise up more writers in this generation who are anointed to carry on American literature’s great legacy of the Christ figure and His resurrection. Thank You, Lord Jesus, that You alone are the Resurrection and the Life.  

Declare: 

The great narrative of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection, expressed through the Christ figure, will endure in American literature. 

Consider: 

Was there a Christ figure character in a story book from your childhood?  

Day 29: April 2, 2025 

Seek God. . .for the heart of David 

 four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand praised the Lord with musical instruments, “which I made,” said David, “for giving praise” (1 Chr 23:5 NKJV). 

Shrek is an ugly ogre, living in a fetid swamp, where he guards his privacy, roaring against society.  He is unloved and unloving—until the beautiful princess Fiona arrives on the scene. And Shrek falls in love.  

The ironic love song in this impossible love story is entitled “Hallelujah”, by Leonard Cohen. The opening line of the song plays while the lovestruck Shrek dines alone: “Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord.”  

King David. The man after God’s own heart. Reading the psalms that David wrote is like reading his exquisite search for that perfectly pleasing sound that Cohen describes. David crafted his own musical instruments, and told his chief musicians which instrument to use with which psalm: the gittith for Psalm 8; the sheminith for Psalm 12.  

David, the shepherd boy who privately worshipped God while tending sheep in the fields, the anointed ruler who privately worshipped God in the caves at Adullam while hiding from murderous Saul, the King who finally worshipped God with abandonment when he finally assumed the throne of Israel, remained throughout his life the psalmist who knew the transformative power of God’s love. His 73 psalms carry readers into their own encounters with God’s transformative love for them. 

But there is no greater love song than this: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. May psalmists in this age arise with the heart of David and sing about this pure love that melts hearts of ogres living in swamps. May heaven and earth meet today in music that finds the secret chord. 

Pray: 

Father God, great musical composers throughout history have used their talents to worship your majesty. Handel’s famous Hallelujah Chorus powerfully concludes Part II of Messiah about the Passion of Christ with explosive worship. May new Alleluia compositions emerge now as a result of the worldwide revival that has already begun, and may these Alleluias become part of a Hallelujah Chorus that spreads across the earth. And may you be pleased with them. 

Declare: 

We declare that new Alleluia compositions will emerge now and will continue until Jesus returns. 

Consider: 

David wrote Psalm 27, the Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear, while he was hiding from Saul in a dark cave in Adullam, along with Psalm 91, He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. And he wrote Psalm 23, the Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want, while he was in exile from his homeland because of Saul. What does this show about David’s heart toward God? 

DAY 30: April 3, 2025 

Seek God. . .for His ageless gift of creativity 

Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills—to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts” (Exod. 31:1-5 NIV). 

Grandma Moses began her career as a painter when she was 78, only because it was easier on her arthritic hands than her embroidering was. Over the next two decades, she painting more than 1500 canvasses until her death at age 101.  

A self-taught painter, Grandma Moses lacked the training in proportion and perspective that art school would have provided and the high-quality art materials that a serious artist would use. Lacking these, she often used matches and pins instead of small brushes to paint details like eyes and mouths and sprinkled glitter over the snow in her winter landscapes.  

She captured the essential beauty of a simple rural life, using the New England landscape in memory and experience as her inspiration. Her rural life had not been easy. She began working as a live-in housekeeper at age 12, continuing in the position until age 27, when she married Thomas Moses and moved with him to work on farms in Virginia; bore 10 children, but only 5 survived infancy; returned to upstate New York in 1905; became widowed in 1927, and took up painting just to pass the time.  

The paintings do not reflect these harsh details. Instead, as one critic expressed it, they convey “a light-hearted optimism. The world she shows is beautiful and good.” As Grandma Moses herself explained, “What’s the use of painting a picture if it isn’t something nice?”  

The optimism that carried Grandma Moses through a century that saw two world wars, a worldwide economic collapse, the rise of despots and tyrants, the genocide of millions, the creation of the nuclear bomb, and the holocaust projects through her primitive art. As an art critic said, “[She] had the ability to use her art to touch hearts and minds and raise them to a higher sense of values and purpose.” 

She was a religious person, but she did not paint religious paintings. She painted the “beautiful and good” of the Creator that is found in His creation. Her aged eyes were blessed to find it for all of us. 

Pray: 

Father, thank you for people like Grandma Moses whose lives demonstrate the truth of Your word in Psalm 71: O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. May we all, like Grandma Moses, draw upon Your eternal creativity to live out our years creatively declaring your wondrous works to the next generation. May we leave a legacy of creative demonstrations of your strength for them.  

Declare: 

We will declare God’s wondrous works in creative ways as a legacy of beauty and goodness to the next generation. 

Consider: 

Before Grandma Moses turned to painting, she created “hobby art”, using yarn and repurposed materials to create quilts and embroidered pictures as gifts for friends and family. If arthritis hadn’t put an end to that craft, she never would have become a world-renowned painter. Have you ever had to abandon a “hobby art” of your own for the sake of something that turned out to be better? 

Day 31: April 4, 2025 

Seek God. . .for a kingdom perspective on victory and loss 

I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil. 4:12-13 NKJV). 

Super Bowl LIX ended with a surprising victory for the Philadelphia Eagles, defeating the Kansas City Chiefs with a score of 40-22. How the quarterbacks from both teams reacted to this final score reflected the strength they draw from their Christian faith. 

In a pre-game interview, Jalen Hurts, starting quarterback for the Eagles, talked about how his faith has kept him grounded through “the highs and lows” of life.  “I've always wanted to root myself in that and keep Him in the center of my life and [in] everything that I do. Through the highs and the lows, He's greater than all of them, and that's something that I can always acknowledge. That's something that we all should probably take note of and take lesson from. I think that's what religion and faith is: having a relationship with God and understanding who Jesus is. My faith is everything.” 

Patrick Mahomes, starting quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs, testified, “Jesus is my Lord and Savior. He’s someone that I look up to every single day to decide what I want to do with my life and how I want to live my life. Jesus is everything to me. At the end of the day I always lean on the account about a boy named Eutychus who fell asleep while listening to Paul preaching, and fell from the balcony where he was sitting and died, but came back to life [when Paul prayed for him]. It just speaks to me of how I need to live my life and how I need to be fully invested in God. I think honestly starting your day in God's Word is the most important thing. It certainly has proven to be in my life. I’m very thankful that God's word tells us He’ll l never leave us or forsake us. I’m grateful that that stands true in all times.”  

The end results of the game tested the strength of both of their pre-game testimonies. Hurts accepted his MVP award by acknowledging the part everyone on the team played in the victory. Mahomes, winner of two MVP awards in previous Super Bowl games, assumed all responsibility for the team’s loss. They both showed how to be abased or how to abound because they can do all things through Christ who strengthens them.  

Pray: 

Father God, thank you for the gifts and talents You have given us. You alone deserve the glory for the gifts and how we use them. Thank you for the two great quarterbacks who shared their faith with their fans. The life lessons their testimonies provided- trusting You through the highs and lows of life, being fully invested in You no matter what we’re doing, knowing who Jesus is to us, and living each day on the strength of Your Word- will endure long after the enjoyment of the game itself fades. May these words of faith and truth be seeds of life for Holy Spirit to breathe upon in the millions of people who heard them.  

Declare: 

We declare that the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. 

Consider: 

Patrick Mahomes referred to a scripture that speaks to him about how he should live his life. Do you have a particular scripture that you can call your “life scripture”?   

DAY 32: April 5, 2025 

Seek God. . .for deliverance from dualism  

Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand (Matt. 12:25 NKJV). 

When the Woke agenda that first infiltrated the schools, the media, and the entertainment industry hit the marketplace, businesses either surrendered or suffered. Large retailers like big box home stores and general merchandise supercenters surrendered without reservation. Hiring policies bowed to DEI and merchandise selections bowed to LGBTQ. Grocery stores bowed to the green agenda, eliminating the convenience of cashier-packed plastic bags for the inflated-priced groceries that consumers bought, and replaced that practice with consumer-packed groceries in self-supplied non-plastic sacks.  

Businesses that refused to surrender suffered. Christian bakers who would not supply wedding cakes for homosexual weddings faced criminal charges. Christian owners who expressed their biblical convictions about cultural practices, even outside the business setting, were vilified by the media.  

Small businesses felt the pressure to comply or die. Yet, collectively, they possess more power than the tiny bully that was coming against them. Small businesses employ more than half the nation’s workforce and contribute to almost half the nation’s gross domestic product. Voices of support for them coming from places like the federal Small Business Administration would have silenced the threats that were coming against them. 

But those voices did not speak. Some Christian businesses assumed a stance of partial compliance, separating their Christian convictions from their secular storefronts. This dualism was a matter of financial survival.  

But by the mercy of God, voices have returned on their behalf in this nation. Justice has begun to come to the Christian businesses whose rights were violated. May Christian business owners be encouraged, knowing that they are a blessing to the nation. They strengthen the nation’s financial health by their profits, and they strengthen its spiritual health by their uncompromised Christian presence in the marketplace.  

Pray: 

Father God, we thank you for the spiritual awakening that You are bringing to our nation. We thank you for the freedom that Christian business owners now have to operate their companies according to biblical principles without threat of reprisal. We ask that You prosper and grow businesses in this nation that operate according to biblical standards. We ask for creative ways for these businesses to unite around these principles that they share. May You be honored in the American marketplace once again. 

Declare: 

We declare that Christian businesses in America will prosper in everything that they set their hand unto. 

Consider: 

Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship began in 1952 with a small group of men and now exists as Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International, with chapters in over 85 countries. How might local chapters of this Christian business organization benefit the communities they serve? 

Day 33: April 6, 2025 

Seek God. . .for the overthrow of mammon 

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (Matt. 6:24 KJV). 

Salve Lucrum, the Latin phrase meaning “Hail, Profit”, was an inscription in a mosaic floor in the entranceway of a house buried under 16 feet of volcanic ash in Pompeii. Excavators made this ironic discovery in 1850 when they unearthed the site. Today, critics of America’s healthcare industry point the phrase at that industry as a warning against greed.  

Corporate greed acts like an octopus over industries. In the health care system in the United States, for example, it extends its tentacles of control over drug companies, health insurers, hospitals, and physicians. Profit compromises quality of service to the patient. 

In an article for JAMA, Dr. Donald M. Berwick says this is producing a harvest of “moral injury” because “greed harms the cultures of compassion and professionalism that are bedrock to healing care.” Physicians enter the medical field with some version of the original Hippocratic Oath for their profession in mind. That oath pledges competence in professionalism, respect in interaction, and integrity in billing from the physician to the patient. It is to their credit that most medical professionals strive to fulfill them. 

The Word of God says, “the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.” Sadly, the truth of this verse came to the forefront of America’s awareness recently. An American man was arrested as the suspect in the slaying of the CEO of a major healthcare insurance company. In his manifesto, the suspect wrote that health care companies “have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to do it.”  

Clearly, the line from the movie Wall Street is wrong. Greed is not good for anyone. Mammon is a destructive god to serve. We pray that its altar be demolished in America, wherever it exists. 

Pray: 

Father God, we recognize that greed is a heart issue in humans. We repent of any greed that we harbor in our hearts and lay it down before your throne. We seek Your principles for financial prosperity in our personal lives and in our nation. We ask for grace to seek first the Kingdom of God and its righteousness in ourselves and in our nation, trusting that You will provide all our needs as we do. In the name of Jesus, we demolish the altar of mammon in our own hearts and ask that You release Your power against it in our nation. May our nation prosper and be in health even as the very soul of this nation prospers as it returns to the biblical principles upon which it was founded. 

Declare: 

We declare that the United States will be a country that honors the Lord with its wealth. 

Consider: 

According to Barna Research, charitable giving is on the increase among the younger generations in America. Millennial and Gen Z age groups are especially generous. Why do you think this is so? 

Day 34: April 7, 2025 

Seek God. . .for morally responsible broadcasting 

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment (Prov. 12:19 ESV). 

Radio news commentator Paul Harvey is one of America’s most iconic broadcasters. His celebrated career began in 1951, after his service as a broadcaster in World War II, and ended with his death at age 90 in 2009.  

Harvey included a segment in his World War II broadcasts entitled “The Rest of the Story”. This segment featured little-known facts about America’s history. “The Rest of the Story” was so popular that it eventually became a series on its own. Harvey signed off every episode of the daily show with his signature tag line, “And now you know the rest of the story.” 

In 1965, Paul Harvey ended a daily broadcast of “The Rest of the Story” with a three-minute monologue that he had written, “If I were the Devil”.  In the piece, Harvey outlined how he would conduct his campaign of destroying America if he were the devil.  

“If I were the devil, I would” convince the young that the Bible is a myth; convince the old to make government their god; teach authors to write lurid literature to  trap readers’ appetites for more; pedal drugs, both legal and illegal; set families, churches, and nations at war to destroy them all; have media “fan the flames’ of this discord; have prisons overflowing and judges promoting pornography; evict God from the courthouse, the schoolhouse, and the Houses of Congress; lure priests and pastors to misuse boys and girls and church money; caution against extremes in hard work, patriotism, and moral conduct.  

Harvey concludes the monologue, “In other words, if I were the devil, I’d just keep right on doing what he’s doing.”  

Listeners then found it difficult to believe that Harvey’s prediction could ever come to pass. The truth of it resonates now. As a broadcaster, Paul Harvey accepted the moral responsibility to tell the truth with clear analysis and wisdom. He has left an enduring legacy for all media today to embrace. 

Pray: 

Thank you, Father God, that Paul Harvey had the foresight to see the consequences of the declining values of the 1960s and had the courage to report it. We are so encouraged that truth-seeking journalists today are rediscovering the message of “If I were the Devil” and are releasing it to their audiences. We thank you that these social media truthtellers are displacing legacy outlets of news to become the new mainstream media. Please bless them as they pursue uncompromised truth and moral responsibility in reporting and analyzing the news. May they carry the legacy of Paul Harvey into the next generation.  

Declare: 

Truthful lips in media will endure forever in America. 

Consider: 

Legacy news sources like CNN and MSNBC are experiencing declining viewership while alternative news sources like Tucker Carlson Tonight and News Nation gain momentum. Why do you think this is occurring? 

Day 35: April 8, 2025 

Seek God. . .for understanding about the power of testimony 

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come (Matt. 24:14 NKJV). 

Christian broadcasting is over 100 years old, tracing its beginnings to radio in 1921. Throughout its history, there have been times of scandal within the industry.  They continue to erupt in this season. The scandals may have stirred anger and outrage over the incidents, as they do now, but not over the true mission of the broadcast outreaches. 

According to The National Association of Religious Broadcasters (NRB), the early days of radio broadcasting in the 1940s demonstrate this. Conflict between denominational churches, who dominated the airwaves at the time, and evangelical programs that were just entering the industry, publicly erupted when the mainline ministries demanded that evangelicals be restricted in their broadcasting. Both sides held audiences larger than the secular radio shows were enjoying, but denominational ministries claimed evangelicals could not be trusted on the airwaves. 

The Federal Council of Churches moved in and banned all evangelical broadcasters from national radio networks. In turn, the NRB was formed to support the Evangelicals, and within a few years, national networks began lifting the bans against them. Christian broadcasting expanded from national radio to national television and now to worldwide platforms in various media outlets. 

To protect the continuance of this precious legacy of pure Christian ministry throughout the world, the NRB updated its mission statement to read: to spread the life-changing truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ through every electronic medium available. 

Along with it goes the NRB’s Code of Ethics for its members: I will conduct my personal life, corporate ministry, and business affairs in a way that will not bring shame or reproach to the name of the Lord or the NRB or its members. Rather, I will speak to bring glory and pleasure to our Lord and encourage others to do likewise. (I Peter 1:14-16, 2:12, 4:11) 

Every Christian has the same mission and the same code of ethics that the NRB has given its members. It is the mission of Matt. 28: 18-20. May we all do this to the glory and pleasure of our Lord. 

Pray: 

Father God, we thank you that there is an everlasting gospel to proclaim to every nation, tribe, language and people (Rev. 14:6). We thank you for our part in this. As the return of our savior nears, may we all grow more singularly focused in pursuing this mission, putting grievances aside and sins under the Blood. And may this be done in Christian broadcasting. We ask for grace from the Cross and guidance from the Holy Spirit in doing this.  

Declare: 

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. 

Consider: 

Do you think advances in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be a hindrance or a benefit to the spread of the gospel throughout the earth? 

DAY 36: April 9, 2025 

Seek God. . .for His legacy in the Oval Office 

By me kings reign and rulers issue decrees that are just; by me princes govern, and nobles—all who rule on earth. I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me (Prov. 8:15-17). 

At his second inauguration on January 20, 2025, President Trump’s wife held two Bibles: the Lincoln Bible and the Bible given to the President by his mother when Trump graduated Sunday Church Primary school in 1955. It is generally believed that during Trump’s first term, a bible brought to America by the President’s mother when she emigrated from the Hebridean island of Lewis, occupied the White House. That bible was connected to the great Hebrides Revival. 

Mary Anne Smith MacLeod, Donald Trump’s mother, had personal connection to that revival. Her two aunts Peggy and Christine Smith, Donald Trump’s great-aunts, are credited with having a great part in praying for the revival. When tracing back to the roots of the revival that transformed the entire island of Lewis and spread to other islands, revival historians identify the committed intercession of the Smith sisters as the roots of the revival.  

The Lincoln Bible was the one Abraham Lincoln used during his first inauguration in 1861.  Much debate concerning the depth of Lincoln’s faith exists among historians. Adding to that debate is an account now circulating concerning Lincoln’s water baptism. According to historical documents that have recently emerged and that are considered verifiable, Lincoln was secretly water baptized as part of his personal faith journey before beginning his first term, knowing he would need God’s help leading a nation through a very troubled period of civil war. 

These two Bibles gained much attention during Trump’s Inauguration. They were a visible reminder of America’s enduring Christian heritage. May all those who occupy the Oval Office continue to turn to it for guidance as they lead this nation.  

Pray: 

Lord God, from our first President to our present President, You have held an honored place in the government of our nation. Except in times of great moral darkness, when Your name was reviled and Your authority mocked, You have been acknowledged as the God of America. Thank you for righteous leaders who openly proclaim their faith in You and rely upon Your Word for their decisions and policies. We ask that You raise up leaders who will protect the biblical foundations of this nation, especially now in this time of rebuilding. May we exalt your Word above all else. 

Declare: 

Jesus Christ is our king, our lawgiver, and our judge. 

Consider: 

In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill to include the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. How does its presence impact the meaning in the sentence where it appears: one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all? 

DAY 37: April 10, 2025 

Seek God. . .for a reawakening of our conscience 

He grants a treasure of common sense to the honest. He is a shield to those who walk with integrity (Prov. 2:7 NLT). 

When re-elected Donald Trump simply announced that the majority party was now “The Party of Common Sense”, he tapped into a legacy of common sense that threads through the history of our nation. 

The first significant public use of the term appeared as the title of a wartime pamphlet written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolution. Paine’s pamphlet, “Common Sense”, was written to stir the hearts of the colonists to the great cause of freedom from England and convince war-weary soldiers to return to the battlefields they had abandoned, in order to secure the victory the emerging nation needed. Paine urged them to do this, not just for that generation’s sake, but for the generations to come in the new nation. 

The pamphlet broke records for its success. Within the first three months of its release, some 120,000 colonists bought the pamphlet, an overwhelming percentage of the small population. “Common Sense” turned the tide of the war, returning soldiers to the battlefield and returning the consciences of the colonists to the cause for which they crossed the pond in the first place. 

The thread of common sense runs through all the founding documents of our nation. Self-evident truths are common sense ones. Equality, liberty, human rights all fall under the rubric of common sense.  

Recently, Democratic U.S. Senator John Fetterman crossed party lines when he began to support policies his own party opposed, for the sake of the “common sense” policies of the other political party. He supported Israel’s right to defend itself against the terrorism that was attacking its existence. He said it was absolutely right for America to deport illegal aliens who were carrying out terrorist activity on U.S. soil. In both of these, Fetterman simply said, “It’s common sense.” 

But returning to common sense is not a matter of crossing party lines. It is a matter of crossing spiritual lines. Minds that are darkened by sin and deception need to return to the sense that the light of God’s truth provides. It is a matter of a prodigal awakening to his senses with the great epiphany that it was better for him before, when he was in his father’s house. 

America has been a prodigal nation for the past few decades. It is finally awakening. May this be the beginning of a Renaissance of Common Sense in America, one that returns us to our heritage of sanity for the sake of the next generations. One that gets us as a nation back to Father’s house. 

Pray: 

Father God, thank You that we are seeing the dawning of an awakened conscience in America. Father, please do not let us settle for less than a full awakening. We are grateful for political policies that are returning to biblical principles, but we are needful of a full revival and reformation that restores us as a Christian nation in covenant with you. Holy Spirit, bring us to our full senses.   

Declare: 

As a nation, we will establish just laws that line up with common sense principles of God’s perfect law. 

Consider: 

What leaders in America’s history can you remember as living and ruling by common sense principles? 

DAY 38: April 11, 2025 

Seek God. . .to protect our spiritual boundaries 

From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us (Acts 17:26-27 NIV). 

When President Trump announced his appointment of Tom Homan, former ICE director under Obama, as Border Czar for the new administration, he assigned Homan to patrol “our Nation’s Borders, including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security.” Homan went to work immediately. Visible and tangible results followed. Illegal crossings of the Southern Border hit record lows within weeks of Homan’s enforcements. Terrorists among the illegal migrants were hunted down and sent back to the countries they left. The walls are repaired and the borders appear safe again.  

Less visible are the political and ideological borders that are being repaired, as the United States begins to withdraw from global organizations like the WHO and challenges others like the UN and the WEF for the sake of preserving our national identity as a democratic republic. Perhaps even more significant is America’s recommitment to Israel to protect its borders against their own terrorist invasions. 

But there are invisible borders that also need repair in this new season. The moral and ethical landscape in America, once clearly defined by biblical standards, now has blurred lines surrounding it. Definitions of right and wrong, good and evil, truth and lie, just and unjust blindly cross from one side to the other, enmeshing them all into a ball of moral confusion. 

There is no border czar who can correct this. Hearts of stone cannot be repaired with more stone. They need the One who can remove these stony hearts and replace them with hearts of flesh. They need the One who will circumcise the hearts so that they will beat with love for Him again.   

Pray: 

Father God, Your word says that the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, and no one can know it, but You search the heart. Please search our hearts and the collective heart of this nation. Create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. Recapture our hearts for Yourself, we pray. 

Declare: 

The moral boundaries in America are being defined once again by biblical standards.  

Consider: 

American psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg has said that people base their moral actions on whether or not they will be punished for them, not because the action is either right or wrong. How much do you agree with Kohlberg’s theory? 

DAY 39: April 12, 2025 

Seek God. . .for a more perfect union 

Therefore, I stationed some of the people behind the lowest point of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows. After I looked things over, I stood up and said, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughter, your wives and your homes. . .The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall” (Neh. 4:13-14, 19 NIV). 

When Cyrus issued the decree that the Jews could return to their homeland from Babylon, the first group of exiles returned under the leadership of Zerubbabel, who became their governor, and Joshua the high priest. The resettlement began, and the settlers enthusiastically began work on rebuilding the temple. However, once the foundation was laid, the crew lost their enthusiasm for the project, and turned to building their own homes. 

Nehemiah and Ezra resumed the work when they returned from Babylon under Artaxerxes. Nehemiah, now governor of the Jewish state, led his people in rebuilding the city of Jerusalem, which required the rebuilding of the walls. Nehemiah then initiated social and political reforms, returning the Jews to the Mosaic laws. Ezra, a priest and scribe, brought forth a spiritual revival by leading the people in a renewal of covenant with God. 

Revival and reformation go hand-in-hand. The work on the wall succeeded because the repairers who were spread out along the wall had their families nearby and Nehemiah reminded the repairers that they were building and fighting for their own families. Ezra brought about a revival of temple worship because he was guided by the Word, the Torah, for it. 

America is now entering a “golden age” according to political and spiritual leaders alike, who are also labeling this new day in America a renaissance period. Historically, golden ages of any culture are times of great peace, prosperity, and discovery or invention. Periclean Athens was a golden age. The Italian Renaissance was another. 

But as Nebuchadnezzar’s dream statue proves, golden ages don’t last. The statue’s head of gold rests on an upper body of silver, held by a waist and thighs made of bronze, weakening into legs of iron, and dividing into feet of clay and iron. Pericles dies, his golden democracy is overthrown, and Athens is defeated in the Peloponnesian War. It is a pattern repeated in all golden ages in history. 

Nehemiah’s wall reminds us that the work of rebuilding a nation as large as the United States is extensive and spread out over space and time and we are widely separated from each other morally and ethically. Spiritual revival and social reformation must work together to accomplish the task. We need the strength of the stone, cut by no human hands, from Nebuchadnezzar’s statue dream to establish His Kingdom in our midst. 

Pray: 

Father God, in Your mercy You have rescued America. We are so grateful for this. You have been drawn us from the waters in which we were drowning. Now, Father, we ask for Holy Spirit revival to breathe life back into our lungs and biblical reformation to restore us to full function. We make our appeal to Heaven for this. And we do this in the redemptive name of Jesus. Amen 

Declare: 

America will be fully rescued, revived, reformed, and restored as a Christian nation. 

Consider: 

Theologians suggest that the only true golden age the earth will have will take place with Jesus’ Second Coming for a millennial reign. How will that golden age differ from the ones we read about in history? 

DAY 40: April 13, 2025 

Seek God. . .for the way of the Cross 

They were on their way up to Jerusalem, with Jesus leading the way, and the disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid. Again, he took the Twelve aside and told them what was going to happen to him (Mk. 10:32 NIV). 

His mission would soon be completed. Natural eyes would see it as a failure. Three years of Holy Spirit-anointed, angel-accompanied, and Father-approved ministry brought thousands to hear, and still others to jeer.  

He healed, delivered, fed, taught, encouraged, consoled, resurrected, restored, empowered, befriended, and forgave them. They were nowhere to be found now. 

The faithful twelve, soon to be eleven, followed him in amazement as He made His way to Jerusalem. How could he walk so determinedly, with such purpose, to such an end?  

The outcome of all history hinged on the answer to one request he made in the Garden that night: “Father, if it be possible.” He counted the final cost and surrendered to the soldiers who were led by the betrayer to him. They all had part in this bitter mission. 

He would go to the illegal Court, he would wear the thorny Crown, he would carry the cruel Cross. He would endure three hours of agonizing torment and three days of hellish death. 

But then.  

He would arise and prove all that He said was true. He had conquered hell and the grave. 

He cleared the way back to Father’s house for all humanity. The way of the Cross. His shame for our glory. His story now ours to share with others so it can become their story. The only story on earth with a joyously heavenly ending.  

The story that makes one love-drenched invitation to all mankind:

Pick up your cross and follow Me. 

Pray: 

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty who was, and is, and is to come. Thou art worthy, O God, to receive riches and glory and honor and power, for You have created all things, and it is for Your pleasure that they are, and were, created. 

Declare: 

Even so, Come.