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WEEK TWENTY-THREE: Friday, April 28—Thursday, May 4, 2006

“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick …” (Prov. 13:12)

Self-pity and a feeling of hopelessness will destroy us. We need to be victorious in our thinking and actions. Are we willing to deny an old lie from the enemy (vow of poverty and hopelessness) and ride on with the blessings of Jesus our Provider, Jehovah Jireh?

The great lie of the fall says: “You need this or that to be happy.” We don’t need any more than Jesus to improve our quality of life. Anything outside of Jesus Christ is idolatry. If we seek His face, heart and His righteousness; He’ll help you to fulfill the conditions to his promises. He will then give you His hands, full of promises. Only in His presence can we find joy.

Remember: “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” (Rom. 14:17)

(Source: Riding with the King in Unity, by Giles F. Mack, P.O. Box 1761, Branson, MO 65615, page 87.)

II. REPENTANCE FOR THE SINS OF THE NATION: THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT (Part Two)

Last week, we examined the roots of the modern feminist movement, which was borne out of the oppression of American women in our early history. This week we will examine “where we are now”—the evolution of the feminist movement and its agenda today on the American scene.

The following article is quoted from the CATO Institute, Feminist Jurisprudence: Equal Rights or Neo-Paternalism, June 19, 1996; and was reported in the Phyllis Schlafly Report; Vol. 30, Number 5, December, 1966.

Feminist Assault on Reasonableness

Twenty years after women began attending law schools in greater numbers, feminists are turning up as law school professors, law review writers, state legislators, congressional staffers, prosecutors, law clerks and even judges. It's splendid to have women in all those positions, but large numbers of feminists are causing ominous dislocations in basic concepts of American law and justice. An excellent policy analysis on "feminist jurisprudence" by the CATO Institute explains why.

The feminist goal is not fair treatment for women, but the redistribution of power from the "dominant" class (the male patriarchal system) to the "subordinate” class (nominally women, but actually only the feminists who know how to play by rules they have invented). Feminists have peddled the fiction that men are engaged in a vast conspiracy against women, that something like 85 percent of employed women are sexually harassed in the workplace, and that something on the order of 50 to 70 percent of wives are beaten by their husbands. Feminists want to establish the rule that offenses against women should be defined (not objectively, but subjectively) on the basis of how the woman felt instead of what the defendant did.

Before the feminist movement burst on the scene in the 1970s, there were literally hundreds of laws that gave advantages or protections to women based on society's common sense recognition of the facts of life and human nature. These included the prohibition against statutory rape, the Mann Act, the obligation of the husband to support his wife and provide her with a home, special protections for widows (e.g., one state gave widows a little property tax exemption, another prescribed triple penalties against anyone who cheated a widow), and laws that made it a misdemeanor to use obscene or profane language in the presence of a woman.

In the 1990s, the feminists no longer even pay lip service to a gender equality goal (except, of course, when it suits their purposes). Their goals are the feminization and subordination of men, and their tactics are to cry "victimization" and "conspiracy." They have launched a broadside attack on such basic precepts as equality under the law, judicial neutrality, a defendant is innocent until proven guilty, conviction requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and guilt or liability should be judged according to traditional theory.

More lawyers, scholars and academics are badly needed to speak up and expose the feminist foolishness for what it is: a scurrilous attack on our Bill of Rights.

“Father God, we ask You to forgive the modern-day feminists for their confusion, deception, and misunderstood identities. We pray for the salvation of each one, and we ask You to burn in the hearts of Your women our true sense of identity in Christ. In faith, we lay axe to the root of bitterness, anger and revenge that motivates much of the feminist’s agenda in our day; and we ask for Your healing touch upon all. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.”

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Gen. 1:17)

(Next week: Part Three—The Equal Rights Amendment)

III. THE BLESSING OF ISRAEL: INTERCESSION FOR THE MESSIANIC BODY

"Goshen," that is separate, us from all things that are not of You. (Exodus 8:22)

"I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called," (Ephesians 4:1)

Purify the body, especially the leadership.

Cleanse us from humanism and all Western thinking that is not Biblical. "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:”s(Ephesians 4:17-18)

Fill us continually with Your Spirit.

Hag sameach—happy holy days—to all of you precious intercessors.

And—Hallelujah—He is Risen indeed!

(Source: Intercessors for Israel)

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