Watch Focus Friday May 2, 2025, National Day of Prayer
 
This week believers bowed the knee and rose in prayer across our nation during the National Day of Prayer. Our watch focus is a continuation of that prayer.
 
Jesus said, “Every plant which my heavenly Father did not plant will be pulled up by the roots (Matthew 15:13).” From the first sojourn of the pilgrims and missionaries to this continent, the seeds of the gospel of the kingdom have been sown in the soil of America.
 
We pray the Easter week prayer from the White House, “Come Holy Spirit, rain down on our beloved Nation, water the seeds, and cause abundant harvest of salvation, righteousness, and wholeness, to come forth in our day.”
 
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord (Psalm 33:12).” We pray repentance and deliverance from every source of sin and cursing.
 
“When the righteous rule, the people rejoice (Psalm 29:2)” We pray, “Lord give us leaders such that it will be for Your glory to give us the victory through them!”
 
We understand the worlds were made by the word of God, visible from invisible. We take a confident stand in our hope for national visitation. We lay hold of that assurance in the face of opposing circumstance.
 
Like Abraham, the forefathers of this nation went out in faith, settling in the wilderness, establishing an inheritance for future generations, because they sought a city whose builder and maker is God (Hebrews 11:10). We pour prayers and loose the Presence of the Holy Spirit on the seed of their faith.
 
For the sake of our children, we lay hold of our blessed inheritance as a society. We proclaim America will be one nation, undivided, under God, where His imagers will step into destiny ordained in liberty from sin and darkness. We pray our sons be like olive plants around our table and our daughters like pillars sculpted in palace style (Psalm 144).
 
And we pray, “Peace, well-being and prosperity, be upon Israel. (Psalm 128:6)”
 
Psalm 144:
 
Blessed be the Lord my strength which teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
my goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdues my people under me.
Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him! or the son of man, that You make account of him!
Man is like a breath: his days as a passing shadow.
Bow the heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Stretch out Your hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; whose mouths speak vanity, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
I will sing a new song unto You, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises to You.
You give salvation unto kings: who delivered David his servant from the hurtful sword.
Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouths speak vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: that our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
That our barns may be full, supplying all kinds of surplus: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields: that our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
Happy is that people who are in such a state: happy are the people, whose God is the Lord!
Psalm 128:
Blessed is every one who fears the Lord, who walks in His ways. 
When you eat the labor of your hands, you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house, your children like olive plants all around your table.
Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord.
The Lord bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
Yes, may you see your children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel!