Story of the CT Constitution Prayer Initiative
PARTNERSHIP
Connecticut National Day of Pray, Sheila Kimball
Kingdom Government Kingdom Watchmen, Janet LeBoutillier
ASSIGNMENT
Pray, Decree, Worship to Establish, Reform, Restore Kingdom Government in the state of CT and all 169 towns at the state capitol and at the city and town halls.
BLUEPRINT/SCROLL/STRATEGY
The prayer scriptures are based on revelation, research and history and have been prepared by Kingdom Watchmen & CT National Day of Prayer leaders/pastors. Revelation and strategy came from 1) the first mention principal in interpretation, particularly as it relates to the Bible. “God indicates in the first mention of a subject the truth with which that subject stands connected in the mind of God.” Thus the CT Constitution being the first constitution in the USA has that first mention importance and 2) a vision of the charter oak (scroll down for the importance and history of the charter oak) being split by lightening in a violent storm and then seeing the tree of life push up out of the ground where the charter oak was split and fallen. A seed was planted, sustained, mulitplied and expanded from the death of the famous charter oak that preserved and hid CT’s English charter which represented the Fundamental Orders of CT| the Connecticut Constitution.
DATES
Worship & Prayer Gathering (completed)
Saturday, Feb 1, 1 – 5 pm
@Valley Shore, 36 Great Hammock Road, Old Saybrook, CT
Worship: Valley Shore Band
Teaching: Matthew Rudolf
Briefing: Janet LeBoutillier & Sheila Kimball
Prayer: All
On Site Prayers (completed)
Date: Fri, March 27 – Sun, April 5 (canceled due to covid 19)
New Dates: Fri, May 29 – Sunday, June 21, 2020 (on site phase I)
Mon, July 6th – Sunday, August 28th (site phase II)
Celebration & Thanksgiving
for the completion of the CT Constitution Prayer Initiative
Date: Sunday, Sept 13th, 3 – 4 pm via Zoom
TEAMS
Teams of one or two will pray on site at Town Hall/Government building of each town. The team will determine the time and date between March 27 & April 5. Also one of the two will be the designated leader of the assignment. It is suggested that you scout out the site beforehand for the best location where you are hidden. We do not call attention to ourselves. Often best location is in our cars in the parking lot.
INTERCESSORY PRAYER COVERAGE
We ask that each team arrange prayer coverage 3 days before the assignment, during and three days following the prayer initiative. We will also have a few designated intercessors praying for the assignment as a corporate whole before, during and after the on site prayer.
RESEARCH & HISTORY
The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony, was an English colony in New England which became the state of The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony, was an English colony in New England which became the state of Connecticut. It was organized on March 3, 1636 as a settlement for a Puritan congregation, from the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Boston). The English permanently gained control of the region in 1637 after struggles with the original Dutch explorers who had established trading post at the mouth of the CT River in Old Saybrook and further up the CT River at Hartford, CT.
Governor John Haynes of the Massachusetts Bay Colony led 100 people to Hartford in 1636. He and Puritan minister Thomas Hooker are often considered the founders of the Connecticut colony. Hooker delivered a sermon to his congregation on May 31, 1638 on the principles of government, and it influenced those who wrote the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut later that year. The Fundamental Orders may have been drafted by Roger Ludlow of Windsor, the only trained lawyer living in Connecticut in the 1630s; they were transcribed into the official record by secretary Thomas Welles on January 14, 1638.
Following the Hartford area Colony in 1636, two other English settlements in the State of Connecticut were merged into the Colony of Connecticut: Saybrook Colony in 1644 and New Haven Colony in 1662.
Connecticut Colony played a significant role in the establishment of self-government in the New World with its refusal to surrender local authority to the Dominion of New England, an event known as the Charter Oak incident which occurred at Jeremy Adams’ inn and tavern. His Inn at Hartford was used as the meeting place for the legislative body of the colony, general court sessions, and for other public purposes.
The Fundamental Orders of CT = Connecticut Constitution
“The British people do not have a written constitution. They have an “unwritten” constitution composed of customs, traditions, and the important documents such as their Magna Carta and their Bill of Rights.
Some of the Englishmen who settled in the American colonies, including the men who founded the colony of Connecticut in 1636, did not have much faith in this approach to government. Unpleasant memories of recent authoritarian acts by England’s rulers prompted the Connecticut settlers to put their plan of government into writing.
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was the first written constitution in America. Whereas the Mayflower Compact was a general statement in favor of majority rule and government in the interest of the common welfare, the Fundamental Orders set up a detailed scheme of government in which the sovereign power rested with the freemen. No mention was made of the king.
This document was a step in the direction of present-day democracy in that it set the example of a written constitution as the basis of government – a constitution which could be read and understood by all and which could not be changed by the will of one man or a small group.”
(Acknowledgment: The above is the preface and edited version of the Fundamental Orders from Living American Documents, selected and edited by Isidore Starr, Lewis Paul Todd, and Merle Curti, ©1961 Harcourt, Brace & Co., Inc.)
REVELATION & PROPHECY
Kingdom Watchmen continued seeking the Lord for prayer strategy for the CT Constitution based on governmental dreams of the founding of the early colonies in NE, consequent research and understanding of the first mention principle. Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the books of the Bible. It is part of the broader field of hermeneutics, which involves the study of principles of interpretation for all forms of communication, nonverbal and verbal. The Connecticut Constitution, originally the Fundamental Orders of CT is considered the first constitution in the US and world. This pondering and seeking the Lord had been brewing for several years particularly as it related to the Mayflower Compact of the Plymouth Colony and the subsequent New England Federation which preceded the Fundamental Orders of CT (Constitution).
A Kingdom Watchmen Seer, received two visions. One on March 31, 2019 and the other on April 1, 2019.
Visions
I am seeing the Charter Oak tree (CT). An oak of righteousness. The tree is split. A young tree rose up out of it. The tree is glowing light and drops diamonds. In the vision the tree grows and spreads upward and outward; it becomes the shining glory tree of life.
Second part of vision, Sun, March 31, 2019
I, am walking away from the charter oak tree. It is split by lightening. The two parts of the tree are lying on the ground. Then I am walking in a war torn dirt field. I encounter 4 men who are part of the cloud of witnesses and Janet LeBoutillier. One man with a white powdered wig, is a General military leader (Washington?) of the American Revolution. The other 3 men are wearing the uniforms of the Revolutionary War, WWI and WWII. The leader is handing Janet the torn upper left corner of a unique early Revolutionary flag. The torn corner is a red background with 13 white stars. The rest of the flag was navy blue and white striped. (It was known as the Fort Mercer (NJ) flag). A caramel haired horse (symbolizes power) was short distance from the man who was handing Janet the torn 13 white starred red torn corner of the flag.
The first vision depicts the charter oak in Hartford; it is where the CT constitution/fundamental orders was hidden during the American Revolution. Then the charter oak was seen split lying on the ground. On August 21, 1856, the Charter Oak, estimated at nearly 1,000 years old, fell down during a violent storm. Then the ongoing vision portrays cloud of witnesses from three wars fought for godly freedom and truth. Janet’s Mayflower ancestors fought in all the major wars for God’s freedom and truth. Research reveals this unusual 13 star flag was flown at Fort Mercer and for some unknown reason reversed the normal red and blue colors; it was being handed to Janet by this governmental US leader and warrior who represents the USA and its government. This flag being handed to Janet also represents Janet’s generational lines and its association with Colonial leaders of the founding and American Revolution war in the northeast for what is now the USA. It is a parable of Kingdom Watchmen assignments from the Lord that focus on the current war in heaven and on earth in the US for the soul of the USA. She has been shown through dreams, visions, angelic encounters over the past 25 years that we were coming into a season that parallels the American Revolution. And we are now watching it unfold in real time here on earth. The second portion of this vision is showing that the Charter Oak and Fundamental Orders/CT Constitution are part of KW’s governmental assignment. The answer as to the strategy she had asked the Lord about came through a God given vision to another Kingdom Watchmen, Dee. Yea God. This is the army of the Lord working together through revelation.
CHARTER OAK LEGEND
Dutch explorer, Adrian Block described a tree at the future site of Hartford in his log in 1614 which is understood to be this one. In the 1630s, a delegation of local Native Americans is said to have approached Samuel Wyllys, the early settler who owned and cleared much of the land around it, encouraging its preservation and describing it as planted ceremonially, for the sake of peace, when their tribe first settled in the area. The Indians told Wyllys: “It has been the guide of our ancestors for centuries as to the time of planting our corn; when the leaves are the size of a mouse’s ears, then is the time to put the seed into the ground.”
The name “Charter Oak” stems from the local legend in which a cavity within the tree was used in October 26, 1687 as a hiding place for the Charter of April 23, 1662. King Charles II granted the Connecticut Colony an unusual degree of autonomy in April 23, 1662.
His successor King James II of England consolidated several colonies into the Dominion of New England in 1686, in part to take firmer control of them.
He appointed Sir Edmund Andros as governor-general over it, who stated that his appointment had invalidated the charters of the various constituent colonies. He went to each colony to collect their charters, presumably seeing symbolic value in physically reclaiming the documents.
Andros arrived in Hartford late in October 1687, where his mission was at least as unwelcome as it had been in the other colonies. According to the dominant tradition, Andros demanded the document and it was produced, but the candlelights were suddenly doused during the heated ensuing discussion. The parchment was spirited out a window and thence to the Oak by Captain Joseph Wadsworth, ancestor of Elijah Wadsworth.
Two accounts of this parchment of CT’s Fundamental Orders raise less dramatic possibilities, one contemporaneous and one from early in the next century, by suggesting that a parchment copy had been made of the true charter as early as June, in anticipation of Andros’s arrival:
It has been suggested that the copy was surreptitiously substituted for the original and the original secreted in the oak lest Andros find it in any search of buildings, and that Andros left believing that he had succeeded.
Logically, such a copy (whether hidden in the oak or not) might instead have been the one kept, for the value it might have in propaganda, for morale, or in petitioning for its reinstatement.
The Museum of Connecticut History credits the idea that Andros never got the original charter, and displays a parchment that it regards as the original. The Connecticut Historical Society is said to possess a “fragment” of it.
Andros was overthrown in Boston two years later in the 1689 Boston revolt. The Dominion of New England was then dissolved.
On August 21, 1856, the Charter Oak, a noted landmark and symbol of Hartford and Connecticut, fell during a severe wind and rain storm.
Following the days after the storm, the people of Connecticut formally mourned the tree, and pieces of its wood were treated as treasures: three chairs were carved out of its trunk, including one that is the ceremonial seat of the president of the State Senate, a frame that now contains the colony’s charter, as well as a number of other items which can be seen at the capitol building and the Connecticut Historical Society.
In 1905, a monument was erected at the location of the fallen oak tree. It stands at the corner of Charter Oak Avenue and Charter Oak Place in Hartford’s downtown. The monument, a round column topped by a globe and supported by a base with four whales and sea shells reads, “Near this spot stood the Charter Oak, memorable in the history of the colony of Connecticut as the hiding place of the charter October 31, 1687. The tree fell August 21, 1856”
Today, the tree remains a symbol of Connecticut and has been pictorially represented in four paintings; two of which are in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and two of which are in the Connecticut Historical Society’s collections. In 1935, a three-cent U.S. postage stamp was issued depicting the tree, as well as the obverse of a commemorative half-dollar issued the same year. In 1999 the Charter Oak was chosen as Connecticut’s state symbol on the state quarter.
The Charter Oak produced so many souvenirs that Mark Twain noted there were enough ‘to build a plank road from here to Salt Lake City.’
PROPHECY & HISTORY SUMMARY
Prophesy and history are interrelated. The visions from the Kingdom Watchmen depicts:
1. The charter oak tree split by lightening and the tree of life grows up from the root of the charter oak. The charter oak represents the Fundamental Orders/Charter/Constitution. And oaks of righteousness. The message is a parallel of the First Constitution of Connecticut being a Government of God, Tree of Life. The Watchman did not know the history of the CT Constitution. She had to research the history.
2. The Charter Oak Tree is split and falls in a violent storm. Again, more research. This could also reflect the state of our Constitution both in CT and in the USA. The CT Constitution was one of several models used for the USA Constitution. The vision of history, the origin of the CT Constitution is a parable for what is happening today. CT as a state and the nation are in a war similar to the American Revolution for the soul of this nation and the state of CT.
3. The Lord shows the watchmen four cloud of witnesses from prior times : The Revolutionary War, WWI, WWII. And the Washington military and governmental leader is handing Janet a war torn corner of a reversed color early flag. Even more research, prayer and discussion is done by the team. The Lord reveals the missing link – the ancestral generational line to Janet’s ancestors and CT. This confirms and leads to this strategy for this particular prayer initiative for the Government of God, the Ancient of Days, to root out ungodly government in this state and each town and to build up and restore the Government of God that is the history, destiny and inheritance of Connecticut.
Note: Kingdom Watchmen has completed several apostolic prophetic strategic prayer initiatives for Connecticut. In 2018 we spent several months researching and preparing a revival and awakening initiative that was birthed from prophetic dreams, visions and angelic encounters. There have been others. These are pertinent to the state of Connecticut. Others are doing similar initiatives all over this USA, nations.
THE FUNDAMENTAL ORDRS
The Fundamental Orders, “Voted” on January 14, 163 by a popular convention of the three towns of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield, and were the beginning of Connecticut as a commonwealth. Their spirit was that of a sermon preached by the Rev. Thomas Hooker a short time before their adoption, in the course of which he laid down the proposition “The foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people,” and which he closed with the challenge: “As God has given us liberty let us take it.” They recognized no allegiance on the part of the colonists to England but in effect set up an independent government. In the sense that they were intended to be a framework of government more permanent than the usual orders adopted by the General Court, they were in essence a constitution. The historian John Fiske was justified in his statement that this instrument was “the first written constitution known to history that created a government and it marked the beginning of American democracy.” While in 1662 the Fundamental Orders were in a sense superseded by the charter, that document, drawn up in the colony and taken to England by its representative, was never regarded by the colonists as the source of their government, but as a protection for and guaranty of the government they had already set up for themselves. So it was that for forty years after the independence of this nation, Connecticut could still carry on its government under the charter. And so it is that this commonwealth has preserved a continuity of development beyond that of almost any other state or nation in the world.
January 14, 1639 – The Fundamental Orders
“Forasmuch as it hath pleased the Almighty God by the wise disposition of his divine providence so to Order and dispose of things that we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield are now cohabiting and dwelling in and upon the River of Connecticut and the Lands thereunto adjoining; And well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent Government established according to God, to order and dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require; do therefore associate and conjoin our selves to be as one Public State or Commonwealth; and do, for ourselves and our Successors and such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter; enter into Combination and Confederation together, to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now profess, as also the discipline of the Churches, which according to the truth of the said gospel is now practiced amongst us; As also in our Civil Affairs to be guided and governed according to such Laws, Rules, Orders and decrees as shall be made, ordered & decreed, as followeth: —
1. It is Ordered, sentenced and decreed, that there shall be yearly two general Assemblies or Courts, the one the second Thursday in April, the other the second Thursday in September, following; the first shall be called the Court of Election, wherein shall be yearly Chosen from time to time so many Magistrates and other public Officers as shall be found requisite: Whereof one to be chosen Governor for the year ensuing and until another be chosen, and no other Magistrate to be chosen for more than one year; provided always there be six chosen besides the Governor; which being chosen and sworn according to an Oath recorded for that purpose shall have power to administer justice according to the Law here established, and for want thereof according to the rule of the word of God; which choice shall be made by all that are admitted freemen and have taken the Oath of Fidelity, and do cohabit within this Jurisdiction, (having been admitted Inhabitants by the major part of the Town wherein they live,) or the major part of such as shall be then present.
2. It is Ordered, sentenced and decreed, that the Election of the aforesaid Magistrates shall be on this manner: every person present and qualified for choice shall bring in (to the persons deputed to receive them) one single paper with the name of him written in it whom he desires to have Governor, and he that hath the greatest number of paper shall be Governor for that year. And the rest of the Magistrates or public Officers to be chosen in this manner: The Secretary for the time being shall first read the names of all that are to be put to choice and then shall severally nominate them distinctly, and every one that would have the person nominated to be chosen shall bring in one single paper written upon, and he that would not have him chosen shall bring in a blank: and every one that hath more written papers then blanks shall b a Magistrate for that year; which papers shall be received and told by one or more that shall be then chosen by the court and sworn to be faithful therein; but in case there should not be six chosen as aforesaid, besides the Governor, out of those which are nominated, then he or they which have the most written papers shall be a Magistrate or Magistrates for the ensuing year, to make up the foresaid number.
3. It is Ordered, sentenced and decreed, that the Secretary shall not nominate any person, nor shall any person be chosen newly into the Magistracy which was not propounded in some General Court before, to be nominated the next Election; and to that end it shall be lawful for each of the Towns aforesaid by their deputies to nominate any two whom they conceive fit to be put to election; and the Court may add so many mor as they judge requisite.
4. It is Ordered, sentenced and decreed that no person be chosen Governor above once in two years, and that the Governor be always member of some approved congregation, and formerly of the Magistracy within this Jurisdiction; and all the Magistrates Freemen of this Commonwealth: and that no Magistrate or other public officer shall execute any part of his or their Office before they are severally sworn, which shall be done in the face of the Court if they be present, and in case of absence by some deputed for that purpose.
5. It is Ordered, sentenced and decreed, that to the aforesaid Court o Election the several Towns shall send their deputies, and when the Elections are ended they may proceed in any public service as at other Courts. Also the other General Court in September shall be for making o laws, and any other public occasion, which concerns the good of the Commonwealth.
6. It is Ordered, sentenced and decreed, that the Governor shall, either by himself or by the secretary, send out summons to the Constables of every Town for the calling of these two standing Courts, one month at least before their several times: And also if the Governor and the greatest part of the Magistrates see cause upon any special occasion to call a general Court, they may give order to the secretary so to do within fourteen days warning; and if urgent necessity so require, upon a shorter notice, giving sufficient grounds for it to the deputies when they meet, or else be questioned for the same; And if the Governor and Major part of Magistrates shall either neglect or refuse to call the two General standing Courts or either of them, as also at other times when the occasions of the Commonwealth require, the Freemen thereof, or the Major part of them, shall petition to them so to do: if then it be either denied or neglected the said Freemen or the Major part of them shall have power to give order to the Constables of the several Towns to do the same, and so may meet together, and choose to themselves a Moderator, and may proceed to do any Act of power, which any other General Court may.
7. It is Ordered, sentenced and decreed that after there are warrants given out for any of the said General Courts, the Constable or Constables of each Town shall forthwith give notice distinctly to the inhabitants of the same, in some Public Assembly or by going or sending from house to house, that at a place and time by him or them limited and set, they meet and assemble themselves together to elect and choose certain deputies to be at the General Court then following to agitate the affairs of the commonwealth; which said Deputies shall be chosen by all that are admitted Inhabitants in the several Towns and have taken the oath of fidelity; provided that none be chosen a Deputy for any General Court which is not a Freeman of this Commonwealth. The foresaid deputies shall be chosen in manner following: every person that is present and qualified as before expressed, shall bring the names of such, written in several papers, as they desire to have chosen for that Employment, and these 3 or 4, more or less, being the number agreed
on to be chosen for that time, that have greatest number of papers written for them shall be deputies for that Court; whose names shall be endorsed on the back side of the warrant and returned into the Court, with the Constable or Constables hand unto the same.
8. It is Ordered, sentenced and decreed, that Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield shall have power, each Town, to send four of their freemen as deputies to every General Court; and whatsoever other Towns shall be hereafter added to this Jurisdiction, they shall send so many deputies as the Court shall judge meet, a reasonable proportion to the number of Freemen that are in the said Towns being to be attended therein; which deputies shall have the power of the whole Town to give their votes and allowance to all such laws and orders as may be for the public good, and unto which the said Towns are to be bound.
9. It is ordered and decreed, that the deputies thus chosen shall have power and liberty to appoint a time and a place of meeting together before any General Court to advise and consult of all such things as may concern the good of the public, as also to examine their own Elections, whether according to the order, and if they or the greatest part of them find any election to be illegal they may seclude such for present from their meeting, and return the same and their reasons to the Court; and if it prove true, the Court may fine the party or parties so intruding and the Town, if they see cause, and give out a warrant to go to a new election in a legal way, either in part or in whole. Also the said deputies shall have power to fine any that shall be disorderly at their meetings, or for not coming in due time or place according to appointment; and they may return the said fines into the Court if it be refused to be paid, and the treasurer to take notice of it, and to entreat or levy the same as he doth other fines.
10. It is Ordered, sentenced and decreed, that every General Court, except such as through neglect of the Governor and the greatest part of Magistrates the Freemen themselves do call, shall consist of the Governor, or some one chosen to moderate the Court, and 4 other Magistrates at least, with the major part of the deputies of the several Towns legally chosen; and in case the Freemen or major part of them, through neglect or refusal of the Governor and major part of the magistrates, shall call a Court, it shall consist of the major part of Freemen that are present or their deputies, with a Moderator chosen by them: In which said General Courts shall consist the supreme power of the Commonwealth, and they only shall have power to make laws or repeal them, to grant levies, to admit of Freemen, dispose of lands undisposed of, to several Towns or persons, and also shall have power to call either Court or Magistrate or any other person whatsoever into question for any misdemeanor, and may for just causes displace or deal otherwise according to the nature of the offence; and also may deal in any other matter that concerns the good of this commonwealth, except election of Magistrates, which shall be done by the whole body of Freemen. In which Court the Governor or Moderator shall have power to order the Court to give liberty of speech, and silence unseasonable and disorderly speaking’s, to put all things to vote, and in case the vote be equal to have the casting voice. But none of these Courts shall be adjourned or dissolved without the consent of the major part of the Court.
11. It is ordered, sentenced and decreed, that when any General Court upon the occasions of the Commonwealth have agreed upon any sum or sums of money to be levied upon the several Towns within this Jurisdiction, that a Committee be chosen to set out and appoint what shall be the proportion of every Town to pay of the said levy, provided the Committees be made up of an equal number out of each Town. 14th January, 1638, the 11 Orders abovesaid are voted.
THE OATH OF THE GOVERNOR, FOR THE PRESENT.
I, N.W. being now chosen to be Governor within this Jurisdiction, for the year ensuing, and until a new be chosen, do swear by the great and dreadful name of the ever living God, to promote the public good and peace of the same, according to the best of my skill; as also will maintain all lawful privileges of this Commonwealth; as also that all wholesome laws that are or shall be made by lawful authority here established, be duly executed; and will further the execution of Justice according to the rule of Gods word; so help me God, in the name of the Lord: Jesus Christ.
THE OATH OF A MAGISTRATE, FOR THE PRESENT.
I, NW being chosen a Magistrate within this Jurisdiction for the year ensuing, do swear by the great and dreadful name of the ever living God, to promote the public good and peace of the same, according to the best of my skill, and that I will maintain all the lawful privileges thereof, according to my understanding, as also assist in the execution of all such wholesome laws as are made or shall be made by lawful authority here established, and will further the execution of Justice for the time aforesaid according to the righteous rule of Gods word; so help me God, etc.”