FROM BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA TO MAINE. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. 50 STATES. 50 STATE CAPITALS. Washington D.C. Crosswalk
Articles By Tom Alexander October 5th, 2020WASHINGTON D.C. CROSS WALK
July 2020. For A Time Such As This.
After the Richmond, Virginia prayer cross walk for the city’s Thin Blue Line and its 232,000 souls, Jeanette and I headed for our nation’s Capitol, about 110 miles away. In February, 2017 we cross walked and prayed hard and long in D.C. for not only our nation’s political leaders, but for the city’s 720,000 souls as well. Because of the extreme political unrest throughout America, we felt the strong urge to return and walk the cross and pray once again for national healing and revival.
After settling into our motel room, we prayed that this pray cross walk would be even more successful and powerful than the 2017 walk. Almost 2,700 miles from home, Jeanette and I slept like babies throughout the night. The journey from Bakersfield to D.C. had been long. BUT HERE WE WERE ONCE AGAIN!
WHERE YOU GOING WITH THAT BIG CROSS?
The next morning while Jeanette prayed, I traveled the four miles from our room to my favorite parking spot just a block away from the Capitol Building.
The large cross is an attention getter! As I unloaded the 10-foot, 60-pound cross from Go-Ye-Mobile-2, I couldn’t help but notice the large number of individuals walking by and whose eyes were fixed intently on the cross. Some faces were filled with curiosity. Frowns filled a few. But plenty of the faces had happy smiles. I shouted out, “Good morning!” to all who passed by. Most returned the greeting.
A loud voice filled the air. “Where you taking that cross?” I turned to look and noticed a man dressed in a business suit smiling as he awaited my answer.
I explained the purpose of the cross walk. The young man shared that he was an aide to one of the senators and he would let him know that a cross walker from Bakersfield, California was in D.C. today to pray for all three branches of the federal government. “You know Kevin McCarthy?” he asked as he walked away. “Not personally,” I answered. “But we are from the same city.” Kevin McCarthy is the House Minority Leader in the United States House of Representatives.
PRAYING HARD AND LONG FOR AMERICA’S CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS
In 2017, the area around the huge Capitol Mall was filled with people from every walk of life. Tourists. Visitors. Employees. Workers. Reporters.
But not so today. The Corona virus had changed all that. As I walked up to the Capitol building, very few people were present. A barrier fence was now surrounding the Capitol. Capitol police were also stationed every fifty feet or so behind the barrier fence.
Walking up to the main entrance, I waved at the Capitol police, hoisted the cross up right and began to pray hard and long for all the congressional members of the Legislative Branch of our federal government.
Because every law passed by Congress will affect the citizens of the United States and because the God of all creation wants a nation’s laws to be righteous, holy and just for all people according to His standards and truths, there are specifically two things I ask the LORD to do whenever I pray for political leaders:
(1). That He places into office men and women who will vote according to His will and purposes.
(2) That He replaces all men and women who will not vote according to His will and purposes.
Of course, my prayer is so much more than the above, As are all my public prayers, this one was loud and long and for all to hear.
PRAYING AGAINST AMERICA’S TRUE ENEMIES
Most important, and because the Word of God informs believers that our true battle isn’t against opposing political factions, I pray hard and long against both the covert and overt satanic-led forces of darkness mentioned in the 6th chapter of Ephesians from the New Testament:
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