{"id":29486,"date":"2026-06-09T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=29486"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:03:55","slug":"rededicate-nyc-intercessors-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=29486","title":{"rendered":"Rededicate NYC &#8211; Intercessors for America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n              <span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Last week, <span class=\"s1\">a young Jewish woman<\/span> was choked, beaten, and stripped of a chunk of her hair by a hateful fellow subway rider \u2014 a woman who claimed she could smell the children the far smaller woman had \u201ceaten.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<h4>Let the IFA community know how to pray for you.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This happened at the same time as <span class=\"s1\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/span> became the first NYC mayor to skip the Israel Day Parade in its 60+ year history. Allegedly, big balloons of the mayor and his wife attended, but those images <span class=\"s1\">appear to have been AI-generated<\/span>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Even so, the mayor\u2019s anti-Israel rhetoric is more than hot air; his active hostility toward the state of Israel and, by extension, its people, puts 1.3 million Jewish people in the city at risk.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Antisemitic attacks surged <span class=\"s1\">182%<\/span> in the first month of Mayor Mamdani\u2019s installation, according to police data. This hate was anticipated by opponents and recently drove a <span class=\"s1\">large protest<\/span> at the mayor\u2019s residence, Gracie Mansion.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As a Muslim and socialist, Mayor Mamdani is just a visible evidence of the city\u2019s forfeiture of its early Christian and democratic heritage and origins.\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p3\">New York IFA Prayer Group Takes Action<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Our members decided it was time to fulfill <span class=\"s1\">IFA President and CEO David Kubal\u2019s call<\/span> to:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">Recount the hand of God upon our nation,<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Reclaim what God has done and will do again,<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Rededicate our nation to the glory of God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">We did this by retracing the steps of our forefathers in lower Manhattan.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After most members met up at the famous clock in the main hall of Grand Central Terminal, the team traveled by subway \u2014 a prayer adventure of its own! \u2014 to City Hall to collect additional team members for the prayer walk.\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p3\">City Hall<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Strolling over to City Hall Park, the group was met by our nation\u2019s third President and principal draftsman for the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson (portrayed by Rich Swingle).\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">New York Prayer Group leader, Mary Massoud, set the tone for the day, and then Eric Wurthmann set the historical context of the location, as he did eloquently at each stop along the way.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cPresident Jefferson\u201d read from the stirring words of the Declaration in the spot where it was first read to General \u2014 later President \u2014 George Washington and his troops.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cPresident Jefferson\u201d included a story told in <span class=\"s1\">Eric Metaxas<\/span>\u2018 book <span class=\"s1\">Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World<\/span>, about how the soldiers were inspired by the reading of the Declaration to topple a statue of King George and reshape it into 42,000 musket balls they used against his soldiers.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While on site, we prayed in unison, a powerful dedication brought to us by Sharon Levy. It was written for <span class=\"s1\">Rededicate 250 on May 17<\/span> at the <span class=\"s1\">Christian Missionary Fellowship International church of Westminster, MD<\/span>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Then <span class=\"s1\">Pastor Desiree Bernstein<\/span> prayed and blew a shofar over City Hall, which was draped in three flags celebrating Pride Month and encouraging citizens of New York City to engage in sexual sin. Pastor Bernstein was anointed as a member of the modern <span class=\"s1\">Black Robe Regiment<\/span> by <span class=\"s1\">Bishop Harry Jackson<\/span> and <span class=\"s1\">David Barton<\/span> at the Restoring Honor rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech in 2010.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One of the twelve members of our group was H\u00e9ctor J. Ram\u00edrez, a former communist <span class=\"s1\">we interviewed for IFA<\/span>. He said:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m not American. I\u2019m Spanish, but I\u2019m a Christian because an American missionary preached the Gospel to me, and that\u2019s why God put in our hearts to pray for America. In the last five years, I never thought in my life I would ever see America in the way you\u2019re going right now, and it breaks my heart.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He prayed\u2026\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2026 that God will do His will in this city and this country, and that you recover what you\u2019re losing right now, and that God brings the Holy Spirit and brings revival and repentance to this nation in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mr. Wurthmann pointed out that Spain was one of the nations that supported the colonists during the War for Independence.\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p3\">Federal Hall<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Though the original Capitol of America was demolished in 1812, Federal Hall was reconstructed on the ground where George Washington was inaugurated for his first term as our nation\u2019s first president.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mr. Wurthmann \u2014 beside the stone on which President Washington stood for his inauguration \u2014 read from his <span class=\"s1\">address<\/span>, picking sections that highlighted the President\u2019s gratitude for God\u2019s hand in establishing our nation, such as this:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2026it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes\u2026\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Rich Swingle shared from <span class=\"s1\">The American Spiritual Heritage Project<\/span> that Rev. George Whitefield had preached throughout Manhattan in the years that led up to our War for Independence. Rev. Whitefield shared the Gospel with 80% of the colonists, laying a major foundation for the people to fight for their religious freedom.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ms. Massoud prayed to reclaim the city and state for the Lord.\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p3\">St. Paul\u2019s Chapel<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">After his inauguration, President Washington walked with many of those present to <span class=\"s1\">St. Paul\u2019s Chapel, where they prayed<\/span> over our new government.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While inside the church, Pastor Bernstein led us in singing \u201cGod Bless America,\u201d including the preamble, which makes it clear that the song is a prayer.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Brett Collier<\/span>, who \u2014 with his wife Sonia \u2014 leads the Hollywood Prayer Network gathering for Broadway actors, noticed that one of the security guards was moved by the singing. Mr. Collier prayed with the young man and later led many in the group in prayer over a couple from Brazil, who were also moved.\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p3\">Gracie Mansion<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">After retracing, recounting, reclaiming, and rededicating these historic spots and the events they hosted, team members took a ferry from Wall Street up to the current mayor\u2019s residence, Gracie Mansion.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On the ferry ride, the team prayed over Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, the Bronx, and surrounding areas such as New Jersey, Westchester County, and Long Island, all touched by the waters the ferry traversed. Mr. Wurthmann said, \u201cWe prayed for the Lord\u2019s protection over these areas, as well as a spirit of repentance, a desire to turn to the Lord, and that He would send revival and awakening.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mr. Wurthmann continued:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When we got to Gracie Mansion, a former \u201ccountry estate\u201d that has become the Mayor\u2019s residence, we all prayed for the mayor, his wife, and New York City, again rededicating New York City, NY State, and the U.S. to the Lord.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The day was hot and humid, much as it would have been in its earliest days. Team members were indefatigable; however, in their zeal for the city, its populace, and its importance in the state, the nation, and the world.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Click on the photo below to see more:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">We\u2019ll close with the prayer \u201cThomas Jefferson\u201d prayed in City Hall Park:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Almighty God, Who has given us this good land for our heritage; we humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Amen.\n<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">Add your prayers for New York and your own state in the comments.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\">Rich and Joyce Swingle are intercessors, contributing writers, and webcast prayer leaders for IFA. They travel the world bringing the Lord\u2019s word in drama, intercession, and speaking. Rich will be portraying founding fathers at <span class=\"s1\">Rededicate America on July 3rd and 4th<\/span>. Their home mission is New York City. www.RichDrama.com.<br \/>\n&#13;\n            <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 5 minutes Last week, a young Jewish woman was choked, beaten, and stripped of a chunk of her hair by a hateful fellow subway rider \u2014 a woman who claimed she could smell the children the far smaller woman had \u201ceaten.\u201d Let the IFA community know how to pray for you. \u00a0 This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[236,235,1526,4557],"class_list":["post-29486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-prayer","tag-america","tag-intercessors","tag-nyc","tag-rededicate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}