As America celebrates 250 years of independence, Intercessors for America President David Kubal challenged believers to see themselves not merely as observers of history, but as participants in it. During July’s First Friday webcast, he urged Christians to recognize that God has consistently worked through ordinary people who choose faithfulness in extraordinary moments.
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Rather than viewing history as a collection of famous names and distant events, Kubal argued that history is written every day by people who answer God’s call. Whether through prayer, public service, raising families in biblical truth, or engaging their communities, today’s believers have an opportunity to shape the future just as previous generations did.
Drawing from Genesis 26, Kubal centered his message on Isaac, who inherited the covenant God first established with Abraham. Isaac did not have to create a new promise or forge a new path. Instead, he was called to walk faithfully in the covenant that had already been established.
Kubal explained that God’s first instruction to Isaac was essentially to remember. The covenant remained in effect because of Abraham’s obedience, and Isaac’s responsibility was to embrace that inheritance rather than abandon it.
That principle, Kubal said, applies to America as well. Throughout Scripture, God establishes covenants that endure across generations, and each generation must choose whether it will remember and walk in those promises.
Isaac’s next step was simple obedience. He sowed where God placed him, and Scripture records that the Lord blessed him abundantly. Kubal noted that God’s blessing was not merely about personal prosperity but about expanding influence and establishing God’s purposes within the land.
When believers remember God’s faithfulness and respond with obedience, he said, they position themselves to see God’s blessing extend beyond their own lives and into future generations.
But obedience does not eliminate opposition.
Kubal pointed to the Philistines filling in the wells Abraham’s servants had dug, an attempt to erase the legacy and blessing that had been established before Isaac’s time. Rather than searching for new wells, Isaac returned to the old ones, reopening what had already proven faithful.
Those wells represent the enduring covenants and biblical foundations that God has established. Rather than inventing something new, believers today are called to recover and reactivate the spiritual foundations that have sustained previous generations.
The message then shifted from biblical history to America’s own story.
Kubal argued that America’s spiritual heritage did not begin with the Declaration of Independence in 1776, but stretches back centuries earlier through explorers, settlers, pastors, and founders who publicly dedicated the land to God. He highlighted events such as Sir Francis Drake’s 1579 prayer on the West Coast, Rev. Robert Hunt’s dedication at Jamestown in 1607, the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin’s appeal for prayer during the Constitutional Convention, and George Washington’s inaugural address.
Together, Kubal said, these moments demonstrate a consistent pattern of leaders acknowledging God’s providence and seeking His blessing upon the nation.
Rather than viewing these historical events as relics of the past, Kubal encouraged believers to reclaim them in the present. America’s references to God—in the Pledge of Allegiance, the national motto, public prayers, Thanksgiving observances, and other longstanding traditions—serve as reminders that generations before us publicly recognized God’s sovereignty over the nation.
While Christians cannot rely solely on the faithfulness of previous generations, Kubal emphasized that they can choose to renew that commitment in their own time.
That conviction has become the heart behind IFA’s Rededicate America event. As believers gathered in Washington, D.C., during the nation’s semiquincentennial celebration, Kubal encouraged participants to once again dedicate themselves—and the nation—to God’s purposes.
He also highlighted Speaker Mike Johnson’s recent national prayer of rededication, offered during the Rededicate America event in May. Kubal described the prayer as another example of leaders publicly acknowledging God’s hand in America’s history and asking for His continued guidance in the years ahead.
Ultimately, Kubal returned to the challenge with which he began.
Future generations, he said, will one day ask what Christians did when America stood at a crossroads. The answer will not depend on whether believers held prominent positions or achieved worldly recognition. Instead, history will remember those who faithfully prayed, obeyed God, stood for truth, and answered His call during their own generation.
For Kubal, becoming a “history maker” begins with a simple decision: to remember God’s faithfulness, reclaim His promises, and live obediently wherever He has placed us today.
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