Watch Focus Friday June 13, 2025 Honoring 250 Years of Army Service
 
Since its establishment, June 14, 1775, before the Declaration of Independence, the
U.S. Army has played a vital role in the growth and development of the American
Nation. Longstanding militia traditions and professional standards have made the Army
a symbol of nationhood around which patriots have rallied. Human conflict originates in
souls set on their own desires. When opposed to God’s will conflict is inevitable. From
personal to international conflict, alignment with the will of God under the Lordship of
Christ is the only ultimate answer for peace.
 
Pray for the service men and women, those who command them, from the White House to the battlefield, and for their families. Thank the Lord for the sacrifices so many American families continue to make for our safety and blessing as a nation among nations.
 
Pray for God’s settling of conflict at home and abroad, especially in the places our military are deployed.
 
Pray for wisdom and authority in international negotiations and negotiators concerning the Middle East, especially Iran and Israel; Ukraine and Russia; and China and Taiwan.
 
Pray for wisdom, good success, and effective rule, for the current administration in terms of domestic and foreign economic policy.
 
Bind the powers behind the shadows of revolution working through anti-law enforcement and immigration riots being funded in various cities.
 
Pray the salvation that makes men children of God come to all who are engaged in these matters.
 
Psalm 120, A song of ascents
“I call on the Lord in my distress, and he answers me. Save me, Lord, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues. What will he do to you, and what more besides, you deceitful tongue? He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom bush. Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek, that I live among the tents of Kedar! Too long have I lived among those who hate peace. I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
 
Psalm 2,
“Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set
themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His
Anointed, saying, “Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from
us.” He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision.
Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep
displeasure: “Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion.” “I will declare the decree:
the Lord has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I
will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your
possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like
a potter’s vessel.’” Now therefore, be wise, O kings; be instructed, you judges of the
earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.”
 
Hebrews 12: 22-24, “But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God,
to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.”
 
James 4:1-2, “Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war.”