Post Midterm Election Watch Focus Friday November 6, 2026
 
Our Watch focus is Thanksgiving for America!
There is a deep dissatisfaction among Americans for our general state of affairs. Anger,
unbelief, and a general sense of ingratitude loudly prevails. In the wake of midterm
elections results, we come to the watch with humility to turn back the tide. We give
thanks for this Nation, for the rich inheritance it is among nations, and for the
responsibility of stewarding these gifts. We recognize the dangers and difficulties
without and within and recall the lessons from Israel in the wilderness in Numbers 21.
And for Christians, “We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.” 1 Corinthians 10:9-10. “Lord deliver us from the Destroyer!”
 
Psalm 136, “Give thanks to the Lord for He is good. His love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods. His love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords: His love endures forever... Give thanks to the God of Heaven!”
 
Bind the powers of Anarchy and Antichrist
It is evident that the enemies of the Lord continue to pursue the overturn of America by all means. “Lord, send the fire, wind, and rain of Your Spirit on hearts and minds across this nation. Expose and expel Your enemies. Grant us regathering and the blessing of former times in greater measure ahead.”
 
Psalm 2: “Why do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing?...Ask Me and I will give the nations as Your inheritance. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him. “Lord Jesus, have mercy and take us again as Your people and heritage of which You should not be ashamed to call us sons.”
 
Our History: From the National Thanksgiving Proclamation issued by President George
Washington: “to meet together and give their sincere and heartfelt thanks to the great Ruler of nations for the many remarkable mercies that set our nation apart… and generally for the prosperous course of our public and private affairs; and, at the same time, humbly and earnestly to ask the kind Author of these blessings graciously to continue them to us—to impress on our hearts a deep and solemn sense of our obligations to Him for them—to teach us to rightly value their immense worth—to keep us from the pride that comes with prosperity and from risking the advantages we enjoy through empty or misleading pursuits—to incline us to deserve the continuation of His favors by not abusing them, by our gratitude for them, and by matching conduct as citizens and as people—to make this country more and more a favorable refuge for
the unfortunate of other lands—to spread among us true and useful knowledge—to establish and strengthen habits of sobriety, order, morality, and piety—and, finally, to give all the blessings we possess or ask for ourselves to the whole family of mankind.”—issued by President George Washington, January 1795
 
From the Thanksgiving Day Sermon preached by Rev. Thomas Baldwin in accordance with the Proclamation:
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people He has chosen for His
own inheritance. We are to show when it may be said of a nation that “the Lord is their
God.”
 
As a nation we form a particular character distinct from that of individuals. As such, we
may display the attractive features of virtue and religion, or the base picture of vice and
unbelief. In this character we may receive temporal blessings as the fruits and reward of
virtue, and also suffer national calamities as the punishment of our vice and irreverence.
Therefore we acknowledge the eternal God to be the Creator, Preserver, and Sustainer
of all things. We acknowledge His universal rule over all worlds and all beings. We
ascribe to Him those divine perfections that are necessary to form His exalted character
and make Him the proper object of our love and esteem. We acknowledge that the
system of truth contained in the Bible is His Word, and as such we revere and obey its
doctrines and commands. We affirm its divine inspiration and rest all our hopes for the
future on its precious promises. We acknowledge Him as the only object of religious
worship and adoration, in distinction from all false gods and idols. We acknowledge Him
as our rightful Sovereign and live in submission to His laws (for it can never be
supposed that a people have chosen the Lord for their God while they refuse to have
Him reign over them. The very language of His enemies is, “Let us break His bands
apart and cast His cords away” [Psalm 2:3], while those who approve of His government
say, “The Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King; He will save us” [Isaiah 33:22]. And
Jesus said, “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you” [John 15:14]). We
acknowledge His universal Providence over all the works of His hands. If we rely upon
His protecting care and Providence, we appeal to His wisdom to direct us when we are
in darkness and difficulty, and to His power to defend us when we are surrounded by
threatening dangers. We acknowledge the Lord to be the Giver of all mercies (nothing is
more calculated to keep us humble and thankful than to realize our dependence on
God: “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the
Father of lights” [James 1:17]. A sense of our own unworthiness and of the divine
goodness in bestowing favors on us will stir in us the strongest feelings of gratitude and
genuine joy, and will finally result in thanksgiving and praise).
We earnestly pray that the blessings of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, which we
especially enjoy, may be extended to all mankind—that the altars and idols of pagan
superstition may fall before the light of truth, and that the shadows of Islamic deception
may be dispelled by the bright beams of the “Sun of Righteousness” [Malachi 4:2]. And
that the dragon and the beast and the false prophet, and all the anti-Christian powers
that have in any way opposed and persecuted the religion of Jesus Christ, may be
subdued. May the gospel with its gentle influences extend from land to land and from
sea to sea until the knowledge of God covers the earth, from the rising to the setting of
the sun [cf. Isaiah 11:9].
And may the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel—the God in whom our fathers
trusted and found deliverance—continue to be our God and to bless us. “There is none
like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, and in His excellency on
the clouds” [Deuteronomy 33:26]. “The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are
the everlasting arms” [Deuteronomy 33:27]. “Happy is that people who is in such a
case; yes, happy is that people whose God is the Lord” [Psalm 33:12].
 
Read and consider the entire Psalm 139 and Psalm 2 for prayers as the Holy Spirit Leads.