Dear Faithful CT Intercessors,
What an awesome gathering we had Saturday at the begining of this month where we heard that deep teaching on crossing over into redeeming the land … our towns, cities, state, nation from Matthew. Your enthusiasm and zeal for participating in this CT Constitution Initiative is contageous. We have favor with our Lord as we come into agreement for His heart in this season for our towns, cities and state. We/CT do, as we learned, have a rich history, an awesome future, a destiny and inheritance. We, as praying saints, are agreeing with the Lord to birth/push in this destiny into the land of CT. As in Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done, here, now on earth, as it is in heaven.
We are moving right along on target for finalizing plans for this prayer initiative. The time is NOW to SIGN UP. Several of you have already signed up to pray at your town and other towns. For those of you who were not able to be at the gathering and/or have not yet signed up, we are asking that you sign up and commit now. A brief outline below describes the prayer initiative. You will have all the information sent to you prior to March 26th including specific prayers and scriptures. The actual prayer time on site will be approximately thirty (30) minutes. Or longer as the Spirit leads. There are 12 days to choose from between March 26 to April 6 to do this including (2) weekends.
SIGN UP NOW. WE NEED YOU! Click the graphic for the sign up sheet. It is easy to sign up. If you have trouble with the sign up sheet, click reply with your name/leader, email, mobile phone, town(s) where you would like to pray. You will be responsible for recruiting a prayer partner and keeping that person informed.
Much gratitude and many glorious thanks. This will make a huge impact on our state…the kingdom of God advancing, the Lion of Judah roaring across this land pushing in HIS GLORY FIRE.
Love & Light, Janet
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CT CONSTITUTION PRAYER INITIATIVE
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Summary 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.
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, partiularly 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
Fri, March 27 – Sun, April 5
Governmental Prayers will be sent to all the leaders prior
to Wednesday, March 25, 2020
TEAMS
Teams of 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 established a trading post there.
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.
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.)
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 documents 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.’
Thank you amazing faithful intercessors for your involvment. Sheila and I are so grateful for your involvment and offering to do additional sites nearby. We can sense the Lord’s pleasure on this assignment.
Glory to Glory. Christ in us/CT the hope of Glory.