Join Us in Prayer for
our Nation, our Leaders and Topics of Concern for the week of 2/26/16 – 3/3/16
Rainbow Promise
Tyler Perry, an American actor,
producer and director, was spending time in prayer with the Lord on New Year’s
Day. Then Perry looked up and saw a rainbow in the sky, reminding him of God’s
promise to Noah in Genesis 9:13. He took a photo and posted it online. “I had
just finished praying and thanking God for all that He had done for me over all
these years. I was so full as I came out of the room,” Perry said. “I was
thanking Him and praying for a great 2016, and then I saw this right off the
balcony!”
To
you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
Psalm 123:1
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God made a covenant with Noah in
which He promised deliverance. He placed a rainbow in the sky as a sign that
the Earth will never again be destroyed by a global deluge. The Hebrew word
“rainbow” can also refer to an archer’s bow; therefore, one Bible commentator
said it could represent God pointing a war bow at Himself, forever reminding
you that He’d rather perish than break His promises to you.
Thank your Heavenly Father for the hope you have, based on His incredible love
for you. Pray also that America’s citizens and its leaders will embrace God’s
promised deliverance for their lives.
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Executive Branch
As it relates to
the checks and balances of our American government, the Executive Branch is
responsible for the daily administration of the state bureaucracy. The head of
the Executive Branch is the President of the United States. Underneath the
President are the several Departments that have been created by Executive
Order. The Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the
Department of Justice are just a few examples of these subgroups within the
Executive Branch. The representative leaders of these departments are
collectively known as the President’s “Cabinet” of advisors.
Since the Executive
Branch of our government is in charge of administrating the affairs of the
nation, it is important to keep them in our prayers. The Executive Branch
directs the general political flow of the federal government.
Featured Member of the Executive Branch for Prayer
Megan Brennan,
United States Postmaster General
Megan Brennan was
born in 1961 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. She attended Nativity BVM High
School. She earned a B.A. in History from Immaculata College outside
Philadelphia, and earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
She began with the
Postal Service as a letter carrier, and subsequently worked her way up the
ladder as a delivery and collection supervisor, processing plant manager, and a
district manager. She stepped away from the Postal Service for her study as a
Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she earned her
MBA. Returning, she was a manager of field support and integration, manager of
operations support, and was named vice president for the Northeast Area.
Ever working the
ranks at the Postal Service, Brenan was named chief operating officer and
executive vice president of the Postal Service, following a time as vice
president of Eastern Area Operations, putting her in charge of postal
operations in all or part of nine states. She assumed the office of Postmaster
General in February 2015 – the first woman to hold that position.
IN THE NEWS: During
a conference call with reporters, U.S. Postal Service executives accentuated
the negative and played down the positive despite showing a net profit in the
last quarter. “We do face some strong headwinds,” Postmaster General and Chief
Executive Officer Megan J. Brennan said. “Our financial situation is serious
but solvable. That’s the reality of the balance sheet.” The favorable net
income was “essentially due to” a drop in workers’ compensation expenses
relating to prevailing interest rates, and it doesn’t mean the Postal Service
no longer loses money. The “good news” about postal finances is consistent with
– and reinforces – the emerging consensus among key lawmakers, the Postal
Service, postal unions, businesses, mailers and industry groups to move forward
with practical reform that all stakeholders can buy into, said the president of
the National Association of Letter Carriers, who credited his people with
“impressive performance.”
Executive Branch Prayer Needs
PRAY FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION
President Barack
Obama’s top military and intelligence
advisers, convinced Russia won’t abide by a cease-fire in Syria, are pushing
for ways to increase pressure on Moscow, expanding covert military assistance
to some rebels.
“I do not believe
in regulation for regulation’s sake,” President Obama said. “This idea
that somehow I get a kick out of big government is just not the case,” he told
the National Governors Association.
Pray for President
Obama and his decisions regarding foreign and domestic issues.
The President’s Cabinet
The United States
Cabinet (usually referred to as the President’s Cabinet or simplified as the
Cabinet) is composed of the most senior appointed officers of the executive
branch of the federal government of the United States. Its existence dates back
to the first American President, George Washington, who appointed a Cabinet of
four people (Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson; Secretary of the Treasury
Alexander Hamilton; Secretary of War Henry Knox; and Attorney General Edmund
Randolph) to advise and assist him in his duties. Cabinet officers are
nominated by the President and then presented to the United States Senate for
confirmation or rejection by a simple majority. If approved, they are sworn in
and begin their duties. Aside from the Attorney General, and previously, the
Postmaster General, they all receive the title Secretary. Members of the
Cabinet serve at the request of the President.
We encourage you to pray for these leaders by name.
The President And His Cabinet
The President of
the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United
States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence
and recognition. The President leads the executive branch of the federal
government and is one of only two nationally elected federal officers (the
other being the Vice President of the United States).
Among other powers and responsibilities, Article II of the U.S. Constitution
charges the President to “faithfully execute” federal law, makes the President
commander-in-chief of the United States armed forces, allows the President to
nominate executive and judicial officers with the advice and consent of the
Senate, and allows the President to grant pardons and reprieves.
The President is indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College
to a four-year term. Since 1951, presidents have been limited to two terms by
the Twenty-second Amendment. Forty-three individuals have been elected or
succeeded to the office, serving a total of fifty-six four-year terms. On
January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the forty-fourth, and current, president.
In order of succession to the Presidency:
Vice President
Joseph Biden
Speaker of the House of Representatives
John Boehner
President pro tempore of the Senate
Patrick Leahy
Secretary of State
John Kerry
Secretary of the Treasury
Jacob Lew
Secretary of Defense
Chuck Hagel
Attorney General
Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Secretary of the Interior
Sally Jewell
Secretary of Agriculture
Thomas Vilsack
Secretary of Commerce
Penny Pritzker
Secretary of Labor
Tom Perez
Secretary of Health & Human Services
Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary of Housing & Urban Development
Shaun Donovan
Secretary of Transportation
Anthony Foxx
Secretary of Energy
Ernest J Moritz
Secretary of Education
Arne Duncan
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Eric Shinseki
Secretary of Homeland Security
Jeh Johnson
Council of Economic Advisers – Jason Furman
EPA – Gina McCarthy
OMB – Sylvia Mathews Burwell
US Trade Rep – Michael Froman
US Ambassador to UN – Samantha Power
Chief of Staff – Denis McDonough
The storm system that brought
deadly tornadoes to Mississippi and Louisiana is prompting watches and warnings
Wednesday from South Carolina to New Jersey.
Senators are close to an agreement
on aid to address the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, Senator James Inhofe
(Oklahoma) confirmed Wednesday.
Secretary of State John Kerry is
making the rounds on Capitol Hill this week to sell the President’s foreign aid
budget for fiscal year 2017.
Despite staunch opposition from
some lawmakers, Congress could soon change course and end America’s
56-year- embargo on Cuba, the Republican head of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee predicted on Wednesday.
Iran’s leader said that he was
confident voters would return a parliament prepared to stand up to the United
States at Friday’s election, and prove that the lifting of sanctions on the
Islamic Republic had not changed his anti-Western stance.
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