America Celebrates 249 Years of Independence
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(The Center Square) – Fireworks, parades, and military flyovers will happen across the country in celebration of 249 years since America declared its independence from England through the Declaration of Independence.
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In Washington, D.C., the B-2 bomber pilots who carried out the strike against nuclear missile facilities in Iran are expected to fly over the White House as part of celebrations for the holiday.
President Donald Trump confirmed the bomber pilot’s appearance in a Fox News interview.
Celebrations in the nation’s capitol will also include a parade down the heart of the city, capped off by a fireworks display on both sides of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool at the National Mall.
Across the country, festivities are also taking place to celebrate 249 years of American independence.
In South Dakota, presidential reenactors gather at Mount Rushmore to honor Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. The reenactors will sign autographs, answer questions and interact with visitors throughout the day.
New York City boasts Macy’s 49th annual fireworks show with 80,000 shells of fireworks planned to be launch over the Brooklyn bridge in this year’s festivities.
On the West Coast, Huntington Beach, California, hosts a celebration that brings together more than 500,000 people annually.
In what is dubbed “the largest Independence Day west of the Mississippi,” the town sets up a 2.5 mile route down the Pacific Coast Highway for visitors to enjoy. The celebrations conclude with a fireworks display over the ocean.
Independence Day celebrations in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, start with a pancake breakfast in the town square, followed by a parade featuring music, horses, roller skaters and classic cars. The day wraps up with music and fireworks overlooking the Teton Mountains.
In downtown Nashville, artists from across the country celebrate America’s independence while fireworks are coordinated to a live performance from the Nashville symphony.
Philadelphia’s parade starts at Independence Hall, where the second Continental Congress met to sign the Declaration of Independence. 249 years later, the city honors American independence with a parade through the heart of downtown.
The parade features marching bands, dance performances and the debut of the first parade float set for the 2026 parade, celebrating 250 years of American independence.
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Dear Heavenly Father. We come before you as a Nation that just celebrated it’s
249th Birthday. Happy Independence Day America!! I am so thankful for all the
Patriotic souls out there all around America who share a time of family and friends
getting together and attending Patriotic Parades, BBQ’s, Parties, Going to the Beach
or Parks or just going for a walk with a MAGA hat on! I love America and am so happy
for Our President Donald J. Trump and all the accomplishments he has done in
the last 6 months. Especially the last two weeks and all the winning that he has done.
Of course 4th of July is all about fireworks and there is nothing like seeing it live,
but today I just watched it on TV all around the United States, just holding hands
with my husband. We live in a great Country. The land of the Free and the home of
the Brave. We have so much to be thankful for and have been given great Blessings by our
Father up in Heaven. Our Country was founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs and has
gone through so many changes and has always come through the many things that have
tried to tare down Our Country. I am PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN and love Our
beautiful Flag. I am praying for a Revival in Our Country and a Reformation. Just
remember. United We Stand, Divided We Fall. In God we Trust. God Bless America!!
In Jesus Name. Amen and Amen!!
HOLY ABBA, we bow and magnify the Majesty of Your Name
YHWH EL ELYON, GOD MOST HIGH,Our Loving Father!
HOLY! HOLY! HOLY are YOU as we enter through the “NEW and LIVING WAY opened up for us, through Messiah’s Body!”(Hebrews 10:20)🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸
Yeshua we praise YOU that Your 7 Drops of BLOOD 🩸 on the Mercy Seat are cleansing, healing, atoning, SALVIFIC, POWERFUL 💥 IMPENETRABLE and INCORRUPTIBLE -FOREVER FRESH!(Lev.16:14, Heb.9, 10 and Rev.11:19) We marvel that Yeshua’s BLOOD 🩸 🗣️ speaks a BETTER WORD over us (Heb.12:24) of:
FORGIVEN
COVERED
LOVED
SANCTIFIED
CLEANSED
RESTORED and
SEALED!
Father, in “UNITY wherein the BLESSING is COMMANDED” for us (Ps. 133), we celebrate not independence which always leads to pride, arrogance, a fall and destruction (Prov.16:18), but we humbly revel and rejoice in our UTTER DEPENDENCE upon Your Forgiveness, Grace, Mercy, Love and Forbearance! “YOU ARE GOOD and YOU DO GOOD!”(Psalm 119) Thank You for the GIFT of Messiah Yeshua and the AMAZING IN-DWELLING HOLY SPIRIT!😇🥰
We, the ruling and repentant Ekklesia, beseech YOUR MERCY upon BOTH Israel and America, Your Two COVENANTAL nations.
YOU CHOSE ISRAEL 🇮🇱 and we praise You for Your UNILATERAL and EVERLASTING ABRAHAMIC COVENANT into which we are also in-grafted (John 8:33, Galatians 3:7-9, Jer.31:31-34, Ezk.36, Isaiah 59).
We praise YOU for the countless miracles You have wrought for THE SAKE OF YOUR GREAT NAME, for Israel and for the Precious ONE NEW MAN Messianic Jewish and Arabic Christian and International Christian REMNANT in The Land,
during this atrocious Psalm 83, Jeremiah 49:34-39, Zech. 9 War.
As the American Ekklesia, we extol Your Gracious Heart for each Jewish and Arabic life You have drawn and called to YESHUA in this war. Father, we BEG YOU to DIVINELY INTERVENE, strike Your Daniel 7:22, Isaiah 28 and Psalm 99 Gavel and do NOT allow this horrific proposed ceasefire–which would nullify all the progress Israel has made against the lovers of violence (Hamas in Hebrew is violence)–and favors “the wicked who love blood between their teeth”(Zech 9:7).
We ask INSTEAD “LET YOUR WILL, Your HIGHER END TIMES PLANS for COMPLETE VICTORY COME”–and we now intercede like American Aarons, (name means Enlightened) and Hur (name means LIBERTY), Daniel’s, and Esthers–
Let America be a part of helping, NOT hindering that in ANY WAY! For it is written, “I WILL BLESS those who BLESS you and CURSE those who CURSE you.”(Gen.12:3, Numbers 24:9). LET OUR PRAYERS said in UNITY be pleasing as they WAFT up on this day when Americans should remember the Pilgrim vows of 1607, 1620 and 1630 that through OBEDIENCE, “we chose BLESSINGS and LIFE and not death and destruction” to be a nation to BRING YOU GLORY and advance the GOSPEL of Christ Jesus!(Deut.30:19- the 1630 vow)
Forgive us of our ALL collective sins as a nation and receive back Your Prodigal America and help us KEEP OUR VOWS that LIGHT May shine ON OUR WAYS and BRING YOU and YESHUA ALONE all the GLORY(Job 22:27-28).
LET AMERICANS humble themselves and boast in the DEPENDENCE UPON OUR HOLY and ENTIRELY RIGHTEOUS GOD!
(2 Corinthians 12:9-11, Proverbs 3:5-6, 2 Chron.7:14, Isaiah 28, Ps.89:14)
LET us Seek His Face while He may be FOUND and CALL to HIM while He is still near! YES! (Isaiah 55:6, Psalm 24–LET the “Dor DORSHAV–the GENERATION WHICH SEEKS HIS FACE ARISE with clean hands and a pure heart to SERVE HIM WHO IS WORTHY!(Rev. 19:6-9)
Today is the day to turn from our evil, wicked, apathetic, distracted, arrogant, woke, proud, rebellious, and unrepentant and resistant ways–YES! HALLELUYAH to the KING 👑 of kings–YESHUA is Our SALVATION and HE PAID THE PRICE! “IT IS FINISHED!”(John 19:30) That is a BETTER WORD, indeed!😇🥰👑😁
LET the Ekklesia now say,”REPENT the Kingdom of God is near!”(Matt.4:17) Gracious ABBA–we 😭 cry out to YOU–RELEASE the drawing, calling, wooing and beckoning of the backslidden, lost, the apathetic and distracted &
unfruitful in the churches, let the LGBTQ come forth and be SAVED, let those bound and in bondage to dead religion, all addictions, snares from Satan and all demonic agendas–BE SAVED arhat Messiah may have HIS FULL I HERITANCE of SOULS! With shameless audacity we ASK for it–more FAMILY, ABBA! MORE! (Luke 11:8)
In YESHUA’s NAME and by the BLOOD 🩸 LET EVERY HINDRANCE BE BROKEN OFF!
LET blinders, blockers in ears and scales be removed that LIGHT, TRUTH, REPENTANCE, COVENANTAL REALIGNMENT,
SALVATION, RESTORATION and TRANSFORMATION may flood each life which bows to Christ Jesus!
-Father RELEASE the GLORIOUS FIRE 🔥 of GOD to burn away our dross, sins, erroneous doctrines such as Replacement Theology and all woke doctrines of demons and all Jezebelic influences, which have been invited into the churches which have returned many to the “darkened minds of the gentiles.” (Eph 4:28, Romans 1:31, 2 Cor.4:4, Hosea 4:6) (Rev.2 and 3)
FATHER–SPEAK THE WORD of REPENTANCE to both believers and the lost! YESHUA! “Go again! Go again–like Hosea!”
We thank YOU that REPENTANCE opens the Gates for the KING 👑 of GLORY to come in and bring healing in His Wings! 🪽 (Ps 24, 2 Chron.7:14) Our joy is in humbling ourselves that we may be fruitful Children of the Most High God for the GLORY of Our King!👑
As it is written,
As it is PROMISED,
As it is COVENANTAL and we STAND on the Wall for both Israel and America–as ONE NEW MAN–
Focusing not on country BUT ON KINGDOM for the KING 👑 IS RETURNING SOON!
So LET it be DONE ✅ for AWE and REVERENCE to sweep through like a TSUNAMI of LIGHT, TRUTH and SALVATION.
We AFFIX Your Signet Ring (💍 Esther 8:2, Esther 8:8-9)
Amen!
Amen!
Oh Michelle, you share much truth, but a profound error as well. Yeshua the Prince of Peace desires that ceasefire to spare Palestinian souls who may yet receive Him. Our Lord said this to the Jewish leaders: “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins.” – John 8:24
Understand that Israelis today are overwhelmingly agnostic, not honoring His name. Let us pray for Christian ministries to win hearts throughout the Holy land and beyond. May the Harvest multiply all over the earth – and then the end shall come. Hallelujah Jesus!
I am sorry, but as an Issachar Intercessor, I need to share that NOWHERE in Scripture does YHWH call for ceasefires especially when He has been CLEANSING HIS INHERITANCE LAND of the violent (Hamas). Are you unaware of the 64 Aliyah Promises of YHWH to REGATHER THE JEWS back to their homeland so they can KNOW He IS YHWH and be encountered by HIM to accept Messiah? THEY NEED SPACE–they NEED as much of that land as it possible to regather the Jews–so they can be ALIVE an IN THE LAND–for the Jer. 16:16 “hunters” are already out via the rise of Nazi-like Anti-Semitism (which of course brings a curse upon those who spew Anti-Semitic tropes and lies.). A victory will help Yeshua to “stretch out His cords and drive His stakes in deep” to encounter as many–BOTH JEWS and ARABS (we need to be praying for BOTH with LOVE) as will accept SALVATION.
STUDY EVERY SINGLE STRATEGIC BATTLE IN SCRIPTURE and you will see that YHWH COMPLETES the process and brings VICTORY; always pressing His People to COMPLETE THE JOB. He HATES it when they trust others MORE than HIM to bring the VICTORY. The IDF truly have been and need to continue to be the Numbers 23:23-24 lions and lionesses to pursue the prey. The TEMPLATE is to press on until, just like Joshua 10 and the Scroll of Esther–they stand on the necks of their enemies. Although a horrific war, He has been strengthening them (Isaiah 41:9-20 and Isaiah 54:17, and Isaiah 51 especially 20-23.) He has also been strengthening and equipping all the Global WATCHMEN ON THE WALL (Isaiah 62) to understand HIGHER battle strategies. Holy Spirit has not yet given me battle strategies which embrace Islamic taqiyya or hudnah concepts–no, I am always PRODDED TO PRAY BIG and BELIEVE FOR BIG VICTORIES to BRING HIM GLORY.
The victories in the IDF have many soldiers in IDF seeking YHWH and opening their hearts to Messiah! The CEASEFIRES always push Israel back and are demoralizing and is not the Biblical pattern that He wants for them.
The present proposed terms of the ceasefire WILL HINDER TWO ASPECTS of this present war from COMING TO COMPLETION–because the STRONGHOLD OF HAMAS will NOT be ROUTED and REMOVED–no, they will have time & new resources (and without having surveillance) they will be RE-ENTRENCHED and REARMED–thus the people in Gaza–will CONTINUE TO BE HARMED BY HAMAS–enslaved in violence! Hamas OPENLY STEALS THE FOOD TO BUY MORE ARMS & GUNS! (they released videos of that this week, plus of them shooting Gazans for seeking food. The BLESSING for the GAZANS is the REMOVAL OF HAMAS–not catering to Islamic demands to keep them entrenched like a thorn) .
In Zech 9.–we see that the two Sinwar brothers who planned the October 7 attack have been killed–so they have LOST their “kings”, so now is a PRIME TIME for them to come to YHWH and embrace the Messiah provided for ALL humanity: Yeshua, Our Salvation.
Please study the Islamic deception techniques of TAQIYYA and HUDNAH–for that is very evident in the ceasefires we have seen–which is why ceasefires are always a “stalling tactic” so the Muslims can rearm. They are ALLOWED TO LIE, it is embedded in Islam–very different from Christianity and the standards which Yeshua commands.
YHWH does NOT MAKE DEALS WITH AMALEKITES or those who LOVE VIOLENCE, mock and hate HIS NAME and blaspheme HIS COVENANTS.
Joshua and Caleb did not make deals with the Amalekites-or the violent ones in the land. Esther did not make “deals” with Haman–YHWH gave her the strategy and she called for BOTH HAMAN and HIS 10 SONS to be ROUTED. GIDEON DID NOT MAKE DEALS WITH THE MIDIANITES (Saudi Arabians). The MACCABEES did not make “deals and compromises” against the Greco-Syrian PAGAN Empire–no, rather with a small zealous remnant–YHWH WON and GLORY was brought to His HOLY NAME.
YHWH has a BEAUTIFUL Messianic Jewish, Arabic Christian & International Christian Remnant in the Land. He has millions of Isaiah 62 WATCHMEN ON THE WALL (in fact we will be devoting 24 hours on Saturday to prayer –Christian watchmen from around the STANDING AND PRAYING) and He has 200 Arabic Deborahs stationed at the NORTHERN GATE–fiery zealous female prayer warriors–plus millions of “hidden intercessors” crying out for HIS WILL to be DONE. YHWH IS WELL ABLE TO BRING A VICTORY for in UNITY THE BLESSING IS COMMANDED FOR US!(Ps. 133)
We need to pray for Israel to press ON TO COMPLETION so that the Isaiah 19 Highway–which many in the Arabic Christian community–especially the 200 Arabic Christian Deborahs out of Nazareth, Israel–with whom I pray–are awaiting NOT A CEASEFIRE WITH HORRIFIC TAQIYYA and HUDNAH TERMS–no,they are awaiting the VICTORY so that Muslims can SEE as it says in PSALM 83–that their “god of Islam” is NO MATCH FOR YHWH–and they will thus be ashamed, understand they have been brainwashed in Islam and thus SEEK YHWH and the KINGDOM OF LIGHT. The Arabic Christians UNDERSTAND these ceasefires are HORRIBLE.
Those is GAZA are prophetically going to have a chance to be incorporated, via salvation, into the “Judah inheritance area” and ACCEPT YHWH AS THEIR GOD. HIS PLANS are higher (Is. 55)-much higher than this ceasefire which brings NO GLORY TO YESHUA AT ALL. NONE.
We need to pray that the ONE NEW MAN REMNANT -the MESSIANIC JEWS, ARABIC CHRISTIANS and the INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIANS would CONTINUE to advance sharing the Gospel in the BEAUTIFUL MANNER which they have been– often going into the streets TOGETHER– and praying together. (It almost sounded as if you were unaware of the many Messianic and Arabic Christian ministries which work together. There is a BEAUTIFUL Remnant in Israel already functioning at a MUCH HIGHER LEVEL of UNITY than you see in America; for America still suffers with pulpits that refuse to preach the ONE NEW MAN KINGDOM MANDATE.(Exodus 12, Ruth 1:16-17, Ruth 2:12, Romans 9-11, Eph 2, Ezk. 47:21-23, Rev. 7, 14, 19.)
As it has been proposed presently, the current potential ceasefire is LOADED with TAQIYYA and HUDNAH elements, so the Israeli Remnant-both Messianic Jews and Arabic Christians, with whom I pray VERY OFTEN, both are eager for a victory and a TINY WINDOW of TIME to be able to “run with the Gospel more freely” (ie., not in war) for PTSD is rampant in Israel due to the war and many are SEEKING TRUTH and MORE OPEN than ever before to hearing about YESHUA, Their Messiah. There is a MASSIVE GROUNDSWELL of those seeking Truth–and the Harvest in PLENTIFUL but laborers are few…so pray for them and for VICTORY to bring GLORY to YHWH TZVA’OT, GOD of ARMIES, ISH MILCHAMAH, Who is a Man of War., EL GIBOR (Isaiah 9) who is MIGHTY IN BATTLE-for He is YESHUA; He has better strategies than this current ceasefire.
Perfect peace and eternal hope in the name of Yeshua HaMashiach of the New Covenant!
Hallelujah to our gracious and merciful God! Let us continue to pray that no weapon formed against our land shall prosper. Lord, bring Revival in the Church and Great Awakening in our communities, that we may be worthy of Your blessings and bolder in shining for Christ. In His great name, so be it!
I pray that you will give our leaders in ohio wisdom in makeing desions that line up with the word of God I pray for salvations deliverance I pray for a outpouring of your holysprit over our state amen
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Lord I pray for my state Ohio, that the people of Ohio will repent and return to you. And that you will hear from heaven and heal our land. Lord deliver Ohio from the Drug epidemic, and expose all corruption in Ohio and deliver us from all the high taxes in the state of Ohio. Jesus precious name I pray, Amen and Amen 🙌 🙏