Root 52
Genesis
The Root 52 genesis came as I’d been seeking the Lord about His solution and blueprint for our nation. I was bothered by all the rhetoric of mans opinions and nightly polling being voiced by the news media. I simply asked the Lord for His voice in the matter of our nation’s course. A few days later on Friday, November 13th the Lord responded to my prayer and gave me the 52 week corporate prayer strategy. After writing the vision and compiling support research I contacted Cindy Jacobs and shared it with her. Recognizing it needed a national voice to release it Cindy agreed and her media department aptly named it ROOT 52. The rest is His-story! Please join us as we make our selves willing and obedient to His call. USRPN CA Vicki Nohrden
ROOT 52 USRPN National Prayer Strategy 2010
Dear Leaders,
I have been seeking the Lord for continued direction and focus for the USRPN as we enter the New Year. Then a few weeks ago, Vicki Nohrden, the USRPN Apostolic Prayer Coordinator for the State of California contacted me to share that she has been given by the Lord a national prayer strategy for the USRPN. This prayer strategy is simple, and yet, could be a highly effective strategy to implement as a united front for our nation.
We are calling this initiative “ROOT 52″ because it is a 52-week prayer strategy to call the nation back to it’s covenantal roots. A torch of prayer and fasting will go “en-route” from state-to-state in the sequence that they joined the Union and came to form the United States of America.
ROOT 52 encompasses all 50 states standing together in covenant fasting and praying in agreement during the first two weeks of 2010 for our national leadership and national governmental structure. We will then move forward each week with individual states continuing to bow in repentance before God and taking up the torch of prayer and fasting until we complete 52 weeks, equaling 1 year. (50 states plus 2 weeks for government leadership).
The first week of the year begins corporately with all 50 states mobilized and joined together in prayer and fasting for our nation’s leadership in the White House: President Barrack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden, their wives and families and their cabinet members.
During the second week we will continue to pray and fast corporately for the Judicial, Legislative and Executive branches of our United States government.
During these first two weeks, we are to pray over and make decrees from the Preamble to the United States Constitution and the United States Constitution itself. We also need to “declare” from the Declaration of Independence and pledge our nation to be “one nation under God”.
The third week of the year begins our prayer initiate with the first state that entered the Union and we will continue passing the torch of prayer each week until we have prayed for each of the 50 states as they entered the Union.
As we continue corporately each week to pray and fast we’ll be focusing our prayers on that states government leadership, seven gates or mountains, founding documents, prophetic words, and covenantal roots.
Government leadership could be broken down by county, city, precinct, etc.
- The seven gates or mountains will be covered by targeting a specific gate each day of the week (7 days/7 gates), according to the following schedule:
Monday: Business
Tuesday: Government
Wednesday: Education
Thursday: Media
Friday: Arts & Entertainment
Saturday: Family
Sunday: Religion/Church
- Pull up former prophetic words to war with and decree as a corporate cry of repentance to call it back into covenant alignment; seeking the ancient paths of righteousness with God’s intended purpose. (See Prophetic Words on Covenant Roots, and reference Releasing the Prophetic Destiny of a Nation by Chuck Pierce and Dutch Sheets, which provides spiritual mapping and prophetic words for each state)
- Reference founding documents of statehood such as the preamble to your state constitution for prayer. All 50 states should be covered with deliberate corporate decrees and declarations. (See Preambles to State Constitutions)
- Research your state’s covenant roots. As Chuck Pierce was shown by the Lord, some states have a covenant root of our founding fathers. If there’s not one, the state will contend for one and war to pull down, tear down, and uproot, and seek the Lord to plant and to build a new structure spiritually in that state. (See Prophetic Words on Covenant Roots by Chuck Pierce).
- Pray Jeremiah 1:10 that God will uproot and expose as well as build and plant.
- Pray that any terrorist funding, and jihadist plots be uncovered
- Pray for the complacency of the church be broken. We need to pray for a Great Awakening and for Reformation to start in every state.
In Hebrew, the United States is translated Artzot Ha-Brit, which means “lands of covenant”. If we will covenant together as the body of Christ, we have an opportunity to turn this battle at the gates. As the United States of America, we’ve all heard the motto, “united we stand and divided we fall.” We believe that as the call goes out and the praying church arises, uniting in heart and purpose, that we will stand strong. As a result, we will see the walls of deception, seduction; lies and rhetoric come down like those of Jericho. Something needs to change and I we trust you agree. We know the Lord is faithful and he has a plan for good and not for evil; to give us a hope and a future and an expected end.
We see a remnant arising. There is a triumphant reserve. There are those who recognize it is no longer “business as usual” and the grass roots movement is feeling the wind of resurrection blowing. If we will take our place in repentance, bowing low before God in humility with fervent prayer and fasting, seeking God’s face and his heart towards our nation, we believe that united with God and one another, a nation can be shifted.
Vicki (RPN California State Coordinator) shared that the Lord recently spoke to her that Babylon and Egypt were both built with bricks but His building program is building with living stones. Apostle Dutch Sheets said that its time to altar a nation. Elijah, led by the spirit of God, rebuilt the altar that had been torn down in the nation through the seduction, control, intimidation, lies and unrighteous political alignment with Jezebel–a covenant breaking spirit. Even as Elijah used twelve stones to rebuild the altar of God, representing the 12 tribes, we too can stand on the principle that we have 50 stones/states as an offering to build and to re-altar this nation and turn it back to God
Come bow with us. Come war with us. Help save the soul of our nation.
We have issued the call: ROOT 52!
Mike and Cindy Jacobs
Presiding Apostles
United States Reformation Prayer Network
Root 52 State Prayer Guides and Reports