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‘Mega-Minibus’ Spending Bill Creates Waves – Intercessors for America

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In the middle of the night, at 2:23 a.m. on March 21, 2024, the House of Representatives released the text of the latest, $1.2 trillion “minibus,” spending package.

Line items in this spending bill include some surprising uses of taxpayer funds, such as homes for “gay senior citizens” and funding for DEI-inspired zoo exhibits. We provide a few details about this below.

The critical thing for intercessors is knowing how to pray and being able to discern the spiritual issues. There are hundreds of articles online telling you what is in the bill. This article focuses on scriptural prayer points.

Pray about debt spending.

“The price tag for this deal is $30 billion MORE than we had under Nancy Pelosi and would add to our $34.5 trillion national debt” (Citizens for Renewing America).

The Lord spoke blessings on the nation of Israel through Moses in Deuteronomy 28:1–14. These blessings include principles that are true for any nation today.

The Lord will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow (Deuteronomy 28:12).

The U.S. does in fact lend to many nations, but we also borrow from other nations. According to Investopedia:

  • The Bureau of the Fiscal Service classifies national debt in two ways: intragovernmental debt and debt held by the public.
  • Over three-quarters of the total national debt is public debt, which includes Treasury holdings by foreign countries.
  • Japan is the largest foreign holder of public U.S. government debt, owning $1.1 trillion in debt as of October 2023.
  • China ranks second in total U.S. debt owned by foreign countries, with the U.K., Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands rounding out the top five.

Pray about taxpayer funding of corrupt and immoral programs.

Citizens for Renewing America says: “This deal would fund the government through the end of 2024, including woke and weaponized programs that had been removed during the appropriations fight. Included in the minibus is funding for DEI, Title 1, “climate resilience” programs, and more.”

Jesse Watters tweeted a clip that lists some of the more egregious line items:

Will we be judged for our money being used on things that are an abomination to God? What about frivolous programs?

Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in His commandments. His descendants will be mighty on earth; the generation of the upright will be blessed. Wealth and riches will be in his house, and his righteousness endures forever (Psalm 112:1–3).

Both parties are complicit in overspending, and citizens too.

But scrambling for tax dollars to bring back to home states and districts is something politicians of both parties do. Even congressional representatives and senators who are pro-life, pro-family, and pro-religious freedom are numbered among those who work hard for funding of programs in their regions. To change the way government works and spends will require all of us, the voters/taxpayers/citizens, to say no even to projects within our own districts. We must fundamentally change the way we think about government spending and recognize how we are all a part of it.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows (1 Timothy 6:10).

Here’s an idea: Go to your congressional representative’s website and see what projects are listed as a result of their work in Congress. Let them know you want to be part of the solution to government overspending, not part of the problem.

As we have prayed for America, the Lord has revealed the sin of greed as a kind of national sin that dates back to the nation’s first settlers from England in Virginia and elsewhere. Let’s repent of this sin, personally and nationally.

Pray for Speaker Johnson.

When Speaker Johnson was selected, IFA reported on the unlikely events that put this Christian man in that high position. You can read all about it in the article “God at Work in the Speaker Race.” Many are calling him all sorts of things because of this bill. Now is not the time to forsake him. Now is the time to pray even more for him. The prayer points God gave IFA board member Cynthia Dunbar before Johnson’s selection are profoundly applicable now: “Johnson will need to be bold, to walk in strength tempered in grace, and to be equipped to speak forth words of hope over our nation.”

Every elected official has a page on IFApray.org where you can post prayers for them! Post a prayer for Speaker Johnson HERE.

Here then is my charge: First, supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings should be made on behalf of all men: for kings and rulers in positions of responsibility, so that our common life may be lived in peace and quiet, with a proper sense of God and of our responsibility to him for what we do with our lives (1 Timothy 2:1–2 PHILLIPS).

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