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Father God, thank You for Your gifts of the family, the Church, and the government. May we be used by You to bring redemption to each of these important institutions.
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Our Lord’s gracious love for us is expressed in many ways. During the Christmas season we are reminded that the birth of our Redeemer, Jesus, offers the potential for redemption and the release of bondage for all.

This message of hope and its supernatural effect have the potential to transform the three institutions created by God to care for us. God has created three institutions to provide for our personal needs, our need to be in community, and our need to function in society. God, in his gracious love, supernaturally created the family, the Church, and government as divine entities to meet our needs, but all must be redeemed.

At the most basic level, God created us male and female (Gen 1:27). Regardless of the LGBTQ+ talking points, each of us has a chromosomal code dictating either XY (male) or XX (female). The Genesis 2 account of the creation of the woman immediately connects the creation of the second sex to the creation of the family. Family brokenness is wreaking havoc in our nation. We must continue to fight for what is best for us and our children, praying for redemption of our culture’s concept of marriage and family.

God has also created us to be in community—to be in relationships with others that foster our development, allow opportunities for encouragement, and challenge us to be all God has designed us to be. Community originated in the Old Testament with the Israelites and continues on today through the Church. And yet we live in a day where this too requires redemption. There are many groups of people who call themselves “church,” yet their lives and theology clash with the true God of the Bible. We pray for redemption in the Church today.

Finally, the last of the three divine institutions created by God to care for us is government. Attaching the word divine to government is difficult for people to accept these days, but Romans 13:1 clearly states that there is “no authority except that which God established.” And yet, most people, even Christian people, consider government only a secular institution created by power-hungry politicians. Our Founding Fathers did not believe this. They used the wisdom of God, expressed through the Scriptures, to build the foundation of our nation through the Constitution.

Throughout 2019, I have seen the wisdom of God brought to bear in the lives of our elected officials and in the work that they are doing. I have listened to lawmakers and candidates telling me about the challenge of balancing family life with the demands of public service. I have been asked to pray in confidence about God’s call to run for office or to take action in Congress or in the highest levels of the Executive branch. I have been asked to pray about behind the scenes events on Capitol Hill that you will never see on the news. And every time I tell them that I am praying, and that you, IFA intercessors, are praying, every time the response has been how very much it means, personally and professionally.

Praying for our government leaders is crucial, and letting them know they are being prayed for is almost as important. It only makes sense that a godly institution can only truly thrive with the infusion of god-fearing people, following god-outlined principles, upheld in prayer by god-directed intercessors. Since God is the author of this institution, we cannot remove Him from the institution and expect it to function well—or at all.

I am convinced that your role—intercessor—is not only a critical assignment, but a redemptive act of hope as we invite God anew into our nation. I want to bring you, our trusted intercessors, a message of the hope of redemption during this Christmas season, a hope that our Redeemer has the power to redeem the three divine institutions. We must hold on to our hope and take a “stand” upon our knees as we battle for God’s best in our nation.

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Linda
December 22, 2019

Thank you Dave for equipping us and for encouraging us to pray!
May God’s plans and purposes be accomplished in America!

Jean
December 22, 2019

What a beautiful explanation of what is important for us, our families and our country! Thank you for your labor of love as IFA administrator!!
Truly “you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this”
I am in agreement with you and say Amen!

Nan Hamm
December 21, 2019

Thank you IFA administration , staff and all intercessors for your prayers for family, church and government , it is a comfort in a time of much turmoil in our families,churches and our nation to know others are bowing at the throne of grace in one accord .
Heavenly Father, you sent Your Son to take upon Himself our iniquities. Thank You JESUS for being our only hope . Our help . I pray for all of our families, churches and fellow citizens and those elected or appointed in government that are living deceived …. to have the eyes of their understanding opened . That they would turn from darkness to You Father, to be forgiven of their sins and be counted among the sanctified in Christ . And I pray that Your people who are called by Your name would humble ourselves and pray and seek Your face andturn from our wickedness , then You will hear our prayer from heaven, forgive our sins and heal our land . In the Name of JESUS I pray , Amen

    Barbara Dill
    December 21, 2019

    Thank you, Heavenly Father for these precious prayers and this ministry to pray as well as inform In Jesus’ name I pray

    Carol McNally
    December 21, 2019

    Amen and Amen

    Father please protect families, Your Church and Godly government. Please pour out your mercy on them. In Jesus amen

    Cynthia Weatherwax
    December 21, 2019

    Yes, I’m in agreement with your prayer. Father thank you for answering our prayers we thank you for IFA, and all the intercessiors, in Jesus name amen.

    Anita
    December 21, 2019

    Amen and amen!

    Vickie L. Fisher
    December 21, 2019

    Amen🙏🌹

    Karen Secrest
    December 21, 2019

    Amen. Thank you and God Bless everyone of the people praying and Standing for this nation.

    Mary
    December 21, 2019

    Yes and amen, I whole heartily agree. Lord You said if any two of you on earth agree that Father in heaven would grant it. Lord again, I whole heartily agree with Nam’s prayer.

    Elizabeth
    December 22, 2019

    I agree with this wonderful prayer.

      Joan Garvey
      December 23, 2019

      Thank YOU Father for Dave and all those at IFA! Give them some of your great gift of you at your Son’s birth! Father, please pour out,strength, comfort and encouragement on our government leaders who are trying to do your will please help them and please Lord, turn the hearts of those who are working against your will. I ask in the the merciful powerful name of Jesus!!! Amen

Joanna Faith
December 21, 2019

We thank you 💖Holy Trinity for Your many gifts. Thank you for our dear parents… our fa-ther and mother who gave us the gift of life. I ask that your original true plan for family (man and woman… creating children) be again honored, that the evil plans to diss this, con-fuse kids, indoc-trinate our culture with false informa-tion and the immo-ral agenda be re-versed & stopped. May the true Body of Christ, the church that loves You, and 💖 Bibli-cal truths, stand 🛡against the 👿anti Christ and anti moral agenda.
Dear YHWH, may all the deep state anti Constitution, pro socialism, corrupt unpatriotic offi-cials in our 🇺🇸 land be exposed and removed. May good honorable truth 💖, patriotic people run for offices in government… towns to the Congress. Shine Your 🕯 in the darkness. May the Gospel still be shared, our free speech upheld and Your will be done.

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