It was one week ago that We the People voted to flip both the House and the Senate, to expand killing babies in the womb in three states, and for 11 trans individuals, 112 Muslims, and 146 Marxists in state and federal elections.

Who is praying on the wall?

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We IFA intercessors gathered to pray for countless hours over these midterms at the state and national level, yet despite our prayer blitz, those are the kind of results the witches were casting spells to achieve. Iran’s Ayatollah posted on X, “The process of the U.S.’s collapse has accelerated.”

On Thursday, IFA’s President and CEO David Kubal shared a powerful plan of prayerful response.

It encouraged me when I read it, but Wednesday after the election I complained to my bride Joyce Swingle (also an IFA contributing writer) about Christians who didn’t show up at the polls. She reminded me God can make good out of this. I told her I just needed a moment to process.

Over the past week I’ve found myself processing quite a bit.

I really needed this speech by Major James Stewart:

See, this thing we’ve been called to do is hard. Don’t I know it? We’re not here because it’s easy. We’re here because our country needs us. Because no one else can do what we’ve been called to do.

He said it to his men in Jimmy — in theaters coast to coast right now — when they were questioning whether anyone cared if they lived or died before bombing an airplane manufacturing plant in Germany during World War II.

Jimmy shows how — after his 1941 Best Actor at the Oscars for The Philadelphia Story — Jimmy Stewart was drafted into the U.S. Army. MGM Studios got him an exemption, and the Army initially refused him because “America can’t afford to lose Jimmy Stewart.” He persisted and walked away from numerous leading-man offers to serve in the Army Air Corps (the U.S. Air Force wasn’t created until 1947) during World War II to save Western Civilization from tyranny.

After the war, Frank Capra of Liberty Films, who encouraged Mr. Stewart to serve in the military, offered him the role of George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life. By then he was Colonel Stewart, and he was emotionally scarred from watching his men go down or die in front of him and reliving each death as he wrote condolence letters to their families.

Colonel Capra — he served our country, too — directed Colonel Stewart so that George Bailey’s desperate prayer (“I’m at the end of my rope!”) was more from the heart than the script.

Are you at the end of your rope?

Ready for the Bright Side?

Even as Mr. Bailey and Colonel Stewart saw their prayers answered, we have and we will, too!

Here are some things we can truly praise the Lord for:

• Idaho rejected a proposal that would have legalized abortion.
• Many godly people were elected, including Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), who stands against abortion, becoming the governor of Florida. He started his victory speech, “Before I say anything, I want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
• Because the Marxists got what they wanted, they didn’t need to protest, as they planned. Our Chief Program Officer Kris Kubal wrote an IFA Special Report and Strategic Prayer Guide titled THE RED LINE: Inside the Left’s Plan to Declare America’s Government Illegitimate and Stage a Coup. She identified that Step Five is to “Mobilize protest around an election.” It won’t be this one.
• The Democrats were so successful in the House that it threw the numbers off for hijacking the vote for the speaker. Kris Kubal’s report exposed that the DSA was hoping it would only need five seats in the House to withhold votes until leadership agrees to “changes to the House rules to improve their ability to use Congress as a platform to make the case for democratic socialism to the whole nation.” There are 218 votes needed to approve a Speaker of the House. Five DSA reps could have held things up if Republicans had 213 seats. Though the DSA landed eight seats, Republicans only secured 162. At the time of submitting this article, there are still 19 seats yet to be called. If they all go to Republicans, that would be 181 seats, giving Democrats 247 votes for speaker, not needing the eight DSA representatives to get to the required 218 votes.

Let the Light Shine

Rabbi Jonathan Cahn recently pointed out Christianity was originally called “The Way,” and he reminded his Messianic congregation the name speaks to moving forward.

Romans 12:12 gives us our marching orders: Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying (NLT).

Rees Howells pressed through the darkness of World War II, leading his students at the Bible College of Wales to the Blue Room, where they’d pray over whatever it was he’d heard in his prayer closet until the burden lifted. They’d read the answers to their prayers in the headlines, like when so many lives were miraculously saved at Dunkirk.

Dutch Sheets’ Give Him 15 on November 4 was recorded before he knew the results of the election, but he felt led to remind us of when he first heard, “America shall be saved,” and how it was confirmed to him many times.

Kris Kubal exposed the Marxist dream of engaging 3.5% of the population to destroy our Constitution. In Harvard’s Erica Chenoweth data, “no government survived a nonviolent campaign that mobilized 3.5% of the population.”

We could pray for 3.5% to be swept up into revival, but let’s pray bolder! It’s estimated that more than 7% started attending church “as a direct result of the First Great Awakening.”

Jonathan Edwards, a catalyst of that Awakening, wrote that his “town seemed to be full of the presence of God; it never was so full of love, nor of joy.”

Couldn’t we use some more love and joy?

In 2023, Joyce and I drove 11 hours to Asbury University to experience the Outpouring. We felt the love and joy! And watching it roll onto other campuses and beyond for the last three years is very encouraging.

The First Great Awakening made way for our liberation from Great Britain. The Second Great Awakening opened the way for emancipation.

Let’s pray for a Third Great Awakening, that the shackles of Marxism might be kept from us! Who knows what else the Lord can use Awakening to achieve.

Let’s pray:

• for protection of life from within the womb to the tomb.
• that we won’t abandon Israel.
• that revival among our nation’s youth will continue to spread! The book Jesus Revolution by Greg Laurie and Ellen Vaughn calls “the much-vaunted sexual revolution of the ‘60s” quaint in the face of what is foisted on elementary school students today. Let’s pray the sexually confused and broken are swept up in an Awakening bigger than we can imagine!
• for a massive harvest among Muslims. We don’t have to send missionaries to reach them! We shouldn’t stop sending, but let’s take advantage of the cultural jihad sending them here!
• that Marxists don’t destroy our culture before figuring out that government makes a very bad god.
• for our newly elected leaders. 1 Timothy 2:1-4 lists our leaders first, among those we’re to pray over. For many of them, we’ll need to start by interceding for their salvation and sanctification.

“Rejoice when it rains!” That’s what my high school cross country and track coach used to tell us at every damp meet. Though the midterms were disappointing for many reasons, let’s not look at the puddles, but up to the Son.

Major Stewart’s speech applies to us as intercessors, too:

We’re here because our country needs us. Because no one else can do what we’ve been called to do.

One More Film to Inspire You

Drummer Boy is a musical film that also opened last weekend, produced by King and Country. It shows brothers fighting on opposite sides of our War for Independence. The drummer’s leg was injured when he was a boy on his family’s voyage to the colonies. Though he can’t fight for freedom, he sounds the alarm and sets the rhythm for the troops.

We can do the same for those around us.

Practice in the comments below…

Rich Swingle has presented in 42 nations on six continents, mostly with his own one-man plays. He played Dr. Bonneville in Burns & Co.’s film before Jimmy, Beyond the Mask, and served as accent coach for King & Country’s Unsung Hero. The Swingles’ home mission is New York City. www.RichDrama.com