A Call to Fast and Pray by Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda

A Call to Fasting and Prayer
On November 4th, 2008, Americans will elect our new president and members of congress. These are crucial elections - our nation stands at a crossroads that will determine the course of America and shape the world we live in for many years to come.
After eight years in leadership, President Bush and Vice President Cheney will pass their duties on to a new administration led by the man America chooses. Whether that be Senator John McCain or Senator Barack Obama, we know that we will not only be electing the leader who will determine the future of the United States, but that our choice will affect the history of many other nations as well.
Electing the right people to serve in the Congress is also of critical importance. Therefore we are sounding the call for serious prayer, fasting and seeking God's face on behalf of ourselves, our children and the destiny of our nation.
From the intercessory headquarters of the Watch of the Lord™ we are calling Believers across America to join us for "40 Days 4 America" - a corporate forty-day fast, from September 2 to October 11, 2008. Whether you can fast with us for one day or several, we invite you to turn a page in history as you join us and many watchmen across America over the next several weeks in this corporate time of fasting. Be assured that history changes when God's people take the call to prayer and fasting seriously.
"Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions...So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer." Ezra 8:21,23
From Ezra to Esther, Jehoshaphat and Joel, when the future of their nation was at stake, we see God's people respond with prayer and fasting. When the Moabites, Ammonites and others rose up against Judah, Jehoshaphat humbled himself, acknowledged God's greatness and faithfulness and proclaimed a fast for all of Judah (2 Chronicles 20).
As the people worshipped and praised the Lord, He sent ambushes and completely destroyed their enemies. Israel fasted when Haman set about to destroy all the Jews (Esther 4:16). Ezra and several thousand Jews fasted as they embarked on a dangerous journey, and God protected them from assault (Ezra 8:21-23).
Intercession in Our Nation's History
In recent history, we learn from the journal of John Wesley that the king of Great Britain called for a solemn day of prayer and fasting in response to a possible invasion from France. On February 6, 1756, he wrote, "The fast day was a glorious day, such as London has scarce seen since the Restoration. Every church in the city was more than full, and a solemn seriousness sat on every face. Surely God heareth prayer, and there will yet be a lengthening of our tranquility...Humility was turned into national rejoicing for the threatened invasion by the French was averted."
Our spiritual father Derek Prince often related to us that as a newly saved young man serving in the British army in North Africa, he began to regularly fast and pray for the British forces. The British were losing the war in North Africa, and was on the longest retreat in their history, when a series of events transpired that opened the way for Churchill to appoint an as yet unknown commander, General Montgomery.
He was a man who feared God and was instrumental to turn the battle back, eventually leading to the Allied defeat of Rommel and the Nazi forces in North Africa. When Derek heard the appointment of Montgomery to the North African front on his field radio, the Lord spoke to him and said, "This is the answer to your prayer."
The prayer the Holy Spirit had given Derek for this momentous point of history was, "Lord, give us leaders such that it will be for Your glory to give us the victory through them." This is our prayer for America and our leadership for the elections in November.
We are in one of the most critical times of intercession in our nation's history. We can prevail in fasting and prayer for God's hand to shape the course of our nation according to His purpose and destiny. The following are areas we will focus on in this fast:
"40 Days 4 America" Prayer Focus
1. Humility and Repentance: God's heart is moved when He finds humble hearts. Isaiah 66:2 says, "This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at My word." Humility not only moves the heart of God, but it releases God's grace into our situation (James 4:6).
As we fast and pray together, let us humbly repent and seek God's mercy for our nation, our church, our city, our family and our children. "If My people, who called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14
2. Elections: 1 Timothy 2:1-2, "Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority..."
As we seek God's face on behalf of our nation, pray that He will give us a president of His choosing. We ask for leaders from the White House to the Supreme Court to Congress who stand for Judeo-Christian values, the great heritage of American democracy as a nation under God, and for life which begins in the womb. "Lord give us leaders such that it will be for Your glory to give us the victory through them."
3. Children: "Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed, but shall speak with their enemies in the gate." Psalm 127:3-5
The next generation is this generation's greatest treasure. Pray for salvation, breakthrough and blessing for our children. Pray for restoration of Godly principles in our education system. Pray for physical safety. Loose the angels to guard America's children at home and abroad. Pray for restoration to God's covenant for children who have strayed from His commands. As we pray for them we are asking for our future.
4. Armed Forces: "NO WEAPON FORMED against you shall prosper..." Isaiah 54:17. Pray for success in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pray Psalm 91 as a shield of protection. Ask for supernatural courage, vision, discernment and strength. Pray that God will give us military leaders from the top down who are worthy to lead our troops in war and in peace. Pray for the families who send and support our troops. Bind the spirits of terrorism, tyranny, and antichrist that pervade the opposing forces of our mission and our military. Pray MISSION ACCOMPLISHED in every endeavor. Pray that God bring them home in victory and honor.
"I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation." Psalm 91:15b, 16
5. Russia: "The scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous..." Psalm 125:3. Pray for Russia as her leaders move to revive communist domination in their region. Pray for Russia's neighbors as they defend their new democracies against the old "bear" of Marxist communist tyranny. Bind manipulation of the media being used as an agent for evil against freedom.
6. Economy: "Man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord...Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you." Deuteronomy 8:3, 6-10
Give thanks for the economic blessing America has enjoyed. Pray for cleansing and healing where greed, avarice, mismanagement and sloth has affected America's national economy. Pray for a closing of the gaps in our economic strength, including on Wall Street and in big businesses. Pray for fresh fire and success on America's small businesses. Pray for deliverance from dependence on foreign oil for our energy needs.
7. Revival: "You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; and You renew the face of the earth." Psalm 104:30
Pray for personal, church and national revival. Pray for the restoration of our Godly foundations. Pray for restoration in every family, every neighborhood and every city. We are asking the Lord for permanent revival that will sweep across America, sweep across denominational lines and bring in worldwide harvest.
8. Peace of Jerusalem: Our spiritual heritage and prophetic destiny are joined to Jerusalem. The happenings in Jerusalem give us a prophetic pulse of God's hand in the nations. Pray for the peace of an undivided Jerusalem. Bless Israel in your prayers. Pray for leaders in Israel whom God appoints for His glory. Pray for Israel to be protected from her enemies inside and outside of her borders.
"I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent, and give Him no rest till He establishes and till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth." Isaiah 62:6-7
The nuclear weapon of the Church is the Blood of Jesus. That spiritual arsenal is loosed in the power of His name when His people fast and pray. Jesus told His disciples, "This kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting" (Matthew 17:21).
This authority is amplified as many join together in one accord. Fast with us. Pray with us. Join with us as the Lord gives us leaders such that it will be to His glory to give us the victory through them.
Our request is that if you can even fast for one day during 40 Days 4 America, please contact us so that we can put you on our list and cover you and your family during this season. You may either sign up online by clicking here to register for 40 Days 4 America, or by calling the MCM office at (800) 730-6264. In addition, if there is a special need that you and your family have for breakthrough in healing, finances, marriages, salvation, jobs or businesses, we invite you to send us your prayer request. We have seen testimony after testimony of breakthroughs in impossible situations when we add the power of many people fasting and praying together.
As you, your church or your prayer group join this call to fast and pray for America, register online or call us at our office to let us know you are participating in this historic hour.
"Lord give us leaders such that it will be for Your glory to give us the victory through them."

Questions Asked and Answered...

(The question posed here was posted after a fairly good article in the Chicago Sun-Times ... I decided to try to help un confuse the writer by answering below)
Question:
Please address these issues.I'll paraphrase the same question that Hillary Clinton asked her supporters. Is this about Obama being Black or Gov. Palin being a woman, or are there more substantive meat and potato issues here? If you are "pro choice" then Obama is your ticket. If you are "Pro Life" then McCain is your ticket. Now with that out of the way, what about health care, jobs, retirement, college for our children, etc? Whether it is a fetus, or child has been decided in Roe v. Wade. Each side has an opinion on that U.S.Supreme Court Ruling and I am quite sure that whoever wins this race will pack the court to deal with it. But on the meat and potato issues I AM CONFUSED. I am confused because a conservative is supposed to be "fiscally conservative", when out of our last four presidents, only the Democrat left office with a budget surplus. I AM CONFUSED becuase, as Gov. Palin so eloquently said last night, Republicans are for less government. However they just used billions of taxpayer dollars to bail out the private companies of Freddie Mac, Fannie May and Bear Stearns to prevent a recession of their making. I AM CONFUSED when Republicans say they have the answer for Americas problems when they have controlled the White House for the past eight years and Congress for the past seven, but the financial mess that we now have is due to the "Democrats", "welfare" and "the Liberal Press." I AM CONFUSED because Sen. McCain argues that Obama is unfit to be president because "he won't admit that the surge worked, but McCain voted for, what the great majority of Americans feel, was a un-necessary war. Please explain how the surge would have been necessary had we not gone to war?

Answer:
To: MRC ... Don't be confused, madame. I can help you. From the election sweep of 1994, the conservative sweep of congress effectively stopped the Clinton 's plans for making the U.S. a socialist country through the nationalized health care and massive tax increases that they had planned. They (Congress)reformed welfare and after vetoing it 3 times, Bill Clinton finally signed it and then took credit for it and the balanced budgets they produced, even though his whole life and philosophy opposed it.
It was congress that controlled and was responsible for budgets then and it is congress now. It is congress that deserves credit or blame for fiscal performance. Presidents can ask for good or bad policy, but if it gets done, it will be the controlling philosophy of the congress that does the deeds.
When the Republicans took over both houses of congress 2004, both they and the president began acting like Democrats with runaway spending. They are as guilty of poor performance then as the Dem's are now, and some of them even got caught in downright fraud, sex scandals, and corruption. They get thrown out when the Republicans catch them. Unlike the Democrats, we don't ignore corruption in our own house, IF WE KNOW.
Now, I don't know if the war to defend America is unpopular. I think it was necessary. It's not unpopular with me. I believe removing Saddam HELPED good people and HURT/hindered the plans of bad people.
It also staged our troops in the neighborhood where we needed to be able to deal with all the killers and bullies in the region ... you know, like Hezbollah, AlQeda, Hamas, the Government of Iran. They came here and attacked our civillians, our secretaries, and our children. When they decide to mix it up with us again, it won't be our weakest that they get to face. Our guys are now seasoned and ready, and able to protect us as long as they are not given two Democrat woosies as a Commander in chief.
I hope you are not confused any more.

More later!

Finally Some Good News On the Political Front!

Wow!
Pro-Gun Rights!
Pro-Life!
Loves Jesus!
Loves Her Daughter in the Face of Moral Failure!
Media Hates Her!
Go Sarah! Go John!

Worst possible news for Radical Islam, Iran, Russia ... Like Reagan.
Wait and see!

In Human Relations Only Wisdom Connects Cause with Effect

I was reading The Finacial Times of London and found an article about major multinational firms that are leaving England because of the huge corporate taxes that are loaded up on them. They are moving to other, more business friendly locations.
What does "business friendly" mean? It means places that don't make it impossible for the company to make a profit. When they make a profit, everyone who owns their stock is helped. Teachers, preachers, construction workers, and plant maintenance people all get a raise. The companies that supply the company that profits, they get a raise, too. Churches and non-profit charities get a raise because the region is prospering.
There is always someone who, no matter how good things are, seem unable to participate in the goodtimes.
But if someone can get you to focus on the ones unable to participate, and convince you to change the whole system, then you too can do what the British and the French and the Europeans are doing. You too can kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. You can kill the prosperity of the entire region by ignoring how things work and trying to make them work a different way.
You see, the laws a government passes that increase the taxes corporations have to pay, increases their expenses. That, in turn, lessens the profit margin.
If the profit margin shrinks, the owners of the company start looking for ways fix this problem. They can move the company to places outside the authority of the tax raisers or they can vote out the tax raisers and vote in people who understand the effects of their actions have on business. But you can bet your bottom dollar on this one thing. Free people aren't gonna just take that loss and do nothing. I didn't say greedy people. I said free people.
The Democrats keep saying things at their convention that are not compatible.
They are going to raise taxes on the rich oil corporations and other big corporations to more fair levels - and - we need someone in office who will keep good paying jobs in America. What?
When they doraise taxes, the companies move, raise their prices, or both.
What's next?
Are you going to outlaw moving or raising prices?
Where does it stop?
Are you only going to outlaw companies moving or are you going to make it illegal for me to move?
The majority of Americans are enjoying lifestyles that, while they are not perfect, they are both better than their parents enjoyed and far better than the rest of the world.
Can it get better?
Maybe it can, but it won't be by going down the socialist route - where government takes your money and wastes it on social experiments dreamed up by communist professors at The University of Illinois at Chicago.
If it gets better, it will come from free people who observe and learn and apply what they learn without the chains of governmental control sinking them.
It will come from happy people.
It will come from thankful people.
It will come from young men and women with vision of what they can contribute to others by their ideas.
America's promise is not in what government can do for me.
It is what I can do for myself when I am left alone by government.

HRC's Speech: "A Marine Begs Take Care of Me?"

During Hillary Clinton's speech at the Democrat National Convention last night, she mentioned a wounded Marine who begged her, "Please, take care of me!" I can't hardly imagine it. Is it possible that a Marine, a real US Marine, begged Hillary to take care of him?
There were people like that in the times of the American Revolutionary War. They were called Tories. They were loyal to the English Crown and they humbled themselves to the King and called themselves his children and begged him to send his troops to them and to take care of them.
We have a growing, leftist, population in America, who pleads and begs the Fed's to pass laws that provide for them. They don't care that the only way to make that work is for the government to take away the hard earned money of the working people. the big money in the US is in the middle class pockets. If you are going to "take care " of everyone, and you promised to only tax the rich, you have to start calling anyone who make more than 40 or 50 thousand dollars a year rich.
That, though, is not what bothers me most. When someone pays your bills, they call the shots. All you have to give up is your freedom. Give up your liberty to think, to go and to say what you want, when and where you want, and we will provide for you. Thanks, but no thanks.
Liberty. Freedom. Justice. NOT FOR SALE! Not even for free health care.

Samuel Adams: Then and Now!

Read what Sam Adams said at the infancy of our country and see if it stirs the courage and resolve to stand up to the world around us! His first paragraph asks a question. The second gives his answer.
“Bid us and our posterity to bow the knee? Supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war, in order to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth?
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" --Samuel Adams
My interpretation of Sam Adams statement would go like this:
You want what? You want me and my children to bow down to the terrorists and tyrants of the world by electing those who want to negotiate with our enemies rather than defeat them? You want my country to beg for their friendship in hopes that they won’t do to us what they’re already doing to other innocent people?
You want me to work, and make a living, and then pay them protection money?
You want to negotiate with those who torture their own people to satisfy their lust for power - people who bomb and kill people for wanting the kind of liberty you take for granted? And who then warn us and our allies that if we won’t apologize for existing, they will let loose on us the dogs of war? They publicly promise to riot in our blood, to hunt us from the face of the earth?
Let me tell you something.
If you love wealth more than freedom, and the peacefulness of slavery more than the exhilarating fight for freedom, I want you to feel free to leave us. We don’t want anything you have to offer – neither your counsel nor your help in the armed conflict. Crawl over to the politicians who promise to take care of you… and lick the hands that feed you.
I hope the chains they put on you do not chafe you and can be made to blend in with your designer outfit.
And as you go, would you do us one more favor? Don’t tell anyone you used to be an American!

That is what Sam Adams said. He said it in the 1770’s and I still agree!

Check This Out!

Go to "Telegraph.co.uk "
Read "After Russia's invasion of Georgia, what now for the West?" by John Bolton

Please God, Give us leaders like this.
Men of courage and wisdom and backbone!
Where are they?
We are going to be crushed by Iran and Russia if we don't show our willingness to stand up to their acts of agression.
Churchill told the world this and Chaimberlain and his party took the path of our current liberals.
The sad thing about what our schools, colleges and univesrities have been pushing for forty years, is that so many of our fellow Americans don't recognize wisdom and manhood and courage when they see it.
I hope there is enough to avoid disaster in November.