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Joyce Swann has been a Christian since childhood and a prayer warrior for over forty years. She became nationally-known in the 1990’s because of her work homeschooling her ten children from the first grade through masters’ degrees before their seventeenth birthdays. She has been featured on Paul Harvey’s weekly radio program, CBN, and the 1990’s CBS series, “How’d They Do That?” She has been interviewed by “Woman’s World”, “The National Enquirer”, and numerous regional newspapers. The story of the Swann family has also been featured in the “National Review” and several books about homeschooling success stories. Joyce is the author or co-author of five novels, including “The Fourth Kingdom”, which was selected as a finalist in the Christianity Today 2011 fiction of the year awards and “The Warrior” which, since its release in 2012, has had over 50,000 Kindle downloads and hundreds of glowing reviews. She was a popular columnist for “Practical Homeschooling” for nearly decade and she has retold her own story of homeschooling her ten children in “Looking Backward: My Twenty-Five Years as a Homeschooling Mother”. “The Warrior” is her first solo novel.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Deep in the Heart of Texans

A few weeks ago when he announced The Response: A Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis, Texas Governor Rick Perry said, “There is hope for America…and we will find it on our knees.” Thus, Governor Perry set the tone for the August 6 event that will be held at Reliant Stadium in Houston. Perry conceived, initiated and called for this event, and it is very different from anything we might expect from a politician whom nearly everyone is expecting to throw his hat into the ring to secure the GOP presidential nomination.
The call for a national day of prayer and fasting is not a “safe” move, politically speaking. Perry received harsh criticism in May of this year when he asked Texans to pray for rain. Atheists’ groups were enraged that he would have the “audacity” to ask for prayer to break the drought that was devastating the state. Add a call for fasting to a call for prayer, and it is a foregone conclusion that he is making a lot of people very unhappy.
Perry will not enjoy a political advantage from the event, and those who choose to attend will not benefit financially. He has invited all United States Governors as well as a number of Christian and political leaders to join him in Houston for the event. However, there will be NO DVD sales, NO book sales, NO CD sales, NO Tee-shirt sales and NO vendors.
Perry secured $2 million in private funding to ensure that the event would be sponsored and, thus, eliminate the possibility of anyone turning it into a commercial enterprise. In fact, the stadium will be limited to water, prayer and fasting. 
Most of us are unable to travel to Houston this Saturday to participate in Governor Perry’s day of prayer and fasting, but we can all participate at home. I have spent every day since the 2008 election complaining about the direction that our country is talking, and I know a lot of other people who have done the same thing. I am certain that many of us have prayed and fasted for our country during these past three years, but this is our first opportunity to join with many thousands of like-minded Christians on one specific day to ask God to heal our land. What could be easier than spending one day praying and fasting? It will cost you nothing, but it could result in an outpouring of God’s Spirit that will change the direction of our country now and for years to come.
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