First Nations Restoration Ministries

08/17/2026

Heart Cry 2026 We are in a Battle for America

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07/17/2026

Ivan Doxtator and Heart Cry 2026

07/02/2026

Day 39 Repentance that Produces Works

Spirit love and the authority of the risen Christ (Colossians 4:3).

DAY 39
This is perhaps the most familiar verse in this entire devotional. It is quoted in prayer gatherings, embroidered on
pillows, displayed on church walls. But its familiarity may have blunted its edge. Read it carefully, slowly, and notice
what it actually requires.

It begins with identity: My people who are called by My name. This is addressed to the church, not to the culture. The
responsibility for national healing does not begin with unbelievers; it begins with those who bear God's name. The
church is accountable first.

Then come four conditions: humbling themselves, praying, seeking God's face, and turning from their wicked ways.
Notice that turning from wicked ways is included alongside prayer. Repentance is not merely an internal emotional
experience — it is a turning, a change of direction, a movement away from one thing and toward another.

The author has documented specific wicked ways the church has walked in: the Doctrine of Discovery, Manifest Destiny,
the boarding schools, the alignment with Freemasonry, the neglect of the indigenous poor. These are not vague sins
requiring vague repentance. They are specific historical realities requiring specific acknowledgment, confession, and
turning.

The promise attached to these conditions is breathtaking: Then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and
heal their land. This is the breakthrough the church has been praying for. This is the national transformation intercessors
have been crying out for. God has not moved the goalposts — He has simply been waiting for His people to meet the
conditions they have been unwilling to fully meet.

The sequence matters: first humbling, praying, and turning — then healing. The church cannot demand the healing
while bypassing the turning. But the turning, carried out with genuine sincerity and followed by genuine action, unlocks
the most astonishing promise imaginable: God Himself will heal the land.

Reflection: What specific turning does God require of you personally, and your church corporately, in order to access the
promise of this verse?

Prayer: Lord, I humble myself before You now. I pray and I seek Your face. I turn from every wicked way that I and my
spiritual fathers have walked in. Hear from heaven. Forgive our sin. Heal our land. We trust You. Amen.

Prayer Points — Day 39: Turning and Producing the Fruit of Repentance
Lord, 2 Chronicles 7:14 is not a formula — it is a covenant. You have told us what You require: humbling, praying,
seeking, and turning. We have done some of these. We have too often neglected the last one — the turning that
produces fruit, that changes behavior, that closes the gates opened by the wicked ways of our fathers.

We repent for the repentance that has been verbal only. We confess the sermons preached, the prayers prayed, and the
conferences held about justice that produced no measurable change in how the church engaged with the communities it helped wound. We acknowledge that turning means changing direction — and direction is measured in actions, not
intentions.

We turn now. We name the specific wicked ways — the Doctrine of Discovery, Manifest Destiny, the boarding schools,
the alignment with Masonic influence, the neglect of indigenous poverty — and we turn from every one. We commit to
fruit: to changed budgets, changed relationships, changed priorities, changed structures. Hear from heaven. Forgive our
sin. Heal our land. We believe You will, because You promised. Amen.

Intercession for the Inuit, Eskimo & Aleut Nations

Inuit · Yupik · Iñupiat · Aleut (Alutiiq)
Lord Jesus, we pray for every unsaved family member within Inuit, Yupik, Iñupiat, and Aleut households. For the Alutiiq
grandfather carrying the weight of Awa'uq in his people's memory. For the Iñupiat teenager in a village where the church
has never truly come as a servant. For every Alaska Native parent who has buried a child to su***de and cannot find the
language for the grief. Draw each one by name into Your arms (Matthew 18:14).
Father, send laborers into the Arctic and sub-Arctic harvest — people willing to go to the ends of the earth, literally. Let
the full Kingdom gospel be demonstrated among the Inuit, Yupik, Iñupiat, and Aleut with healing, deliverance, and the
restoration of hope. Let the su***de crisis be reversed by an encounter with the God of life. Let the harvest of the
northernmost peoples be gathered in this generation (Matthew 9:37–38).
Lord, confirm Your Word with signs and wonders in Alaska Native communities. Let the sick be healed in remote Arctic
villages. Let the spiritually oppressed be freed in Jesus' name. Let miracles travel by word of mouth from village to village
across the tundra and the coastline, until the Inuit, Yupik, Iñupiat, and Aleut peoples know that the God of all creation is
moving powerfully in their midst (Acts 4:29–31).

06/26/2026

DAY 33
Job 34:17 poses a question that is both diagnostic and prophetic: Should one who hates justice govern? The implied
answer is no. And yet the verse assumes the connection — that governing and justice are inseparable. You cannot truly
govern in the kingdom of God without executing justice, and you cannot execute justice without operating in genuine
authority.
The Hebrew word for govern in this verse carries the idea of wrapping firmly, compressing, stopping, and ruling. To
govern is to exercise authority in a way that stops what needs to be stopped and maintains order where order is
required. True governing restrains the oppressor, protects the vulnerable, and ensures that the strong cannot simply
overrun the weak.
In the kingdom of God, believers have been given divinely delegated authority to represent God as a predominant
influence in the affairs of the earth. The heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth He has given to the sons of men
(Psalm 116:15). The redeemed sons of men are meant to step into their governing role — exerting a determining
influence over the powers that would violate God's principles, standing as a restraining force against the advancement
of darkness.
But this authority is not self-sustaining. It must be maintained through continual acts of justice and judgment. When the
church refuses to execute true justice, it gradually loses its ability to govern. The spiritual muscles that come from ruling
righteously atrophy. The anointing to stand in the gap fades. And the enemy, who has no legitimate authority of his
own, moves into the vacuum.
The parable of the minas makes the principle concrete: the servant who is faithful in very little gains authority over ten
cities. The servant who buries his talent loses even what he had. Kingdom authority expands or contracts based on
faithfulness. And the primary measure of that faithfulness is justice.
The church that recovers its commitment to true justice is a church that recovers its governing authority — its ability to
push back darkness, to restrain lawlessness, and to hold open the doors through which God's kingdom comes.
Reflection: Where in your sphere of influence do you feel called to govern — to exercise godly authority that restrains
darkness and protects the vulnerable? What would it look like to pursue that more actively?
Prayer: Lord, give me the courage to govern well in every arena You have placed me in. Let justice flow through my
authority, so that what I stand against is restrained and what I stand for advances. Amen.
Prayer Points — Day 33: Recovering the Church's Governing Authority
Lord of heaven and earth, who has given the earth to the sons of men — we confess that the church has abdicated the
governing authority You entrusted to it. By neglecting justice, we have allowed the spiritual muscles required for
righteous governance to atrophy. We have lost ground not through military defeat but through the slow erosion of
faithfulness.
We repent for the governing vacuums created by the church's failure to execute true justice. We repent for the enemy's
advancement through spaces the church refused to occupy with righteousness. We repent for every time the church
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chose the path of least resistance when the path of righteousness required costly engagement with the powers of
darkness.
Restore to the church its governing authority. Let the servant who has been faithful in very little receive authority over
cities. Train us in the discipline of righteous governance — speaking truth to power, protecting the vulnerable, restraining
the lawless, holding space for God's order in a world that leans toward chaos. Let the church govern again. Let darkness
find no vacuum to fill. Amen.
Intercession for the Salishan, Nez Perce & California Nations
Salish peoples of the Northwest · Nez Perce · California tribal nations
Lord, let Your kindness lead the Salish, Nez Perce, and California peoples to repentance and salvation. California's church
built itself on stolen land and called it blessing — let it now express the kindness of God by returning blessing to those
from whom it was taken. Let that kindness be felt in Yurok villages, in Karuk communities, in the urban Native
populations of Los Angeles and San Francisco (Romans 2:4).
Father, open every door for the gospel among the Northwestern and California tribal nations. Raise up Nez Perce
evangelists, Salish intercessors, Yurok teachers of the Word. Give the churches of California and the Pacific Northwest the
courage to move toward these communities with sustained, costly love. Let every open door be walked through boldly by
Spirit-filled witnesses (Colossians 4:3).

06/24/2026

Day 31
God calls. His people shrug. They stop their ears and make their hearts like flint. And then trouble comes. The very
people who refused to hear the Lord's call for justice now cry out to Him for help. And God's response is precise: just as
they would not hear, so I would not listen.

Zechariah 7 contains one of the most sobering divine warnings in Scripture. God had called His people repeatedly —
through prophets and through seasons of suffering — to execute true justice: to show mercy and compassion, to stop
oppressing the widow, the fatherless, the alien, and the poor. They refused, shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their
ears.

The consequence was devastating: God scattered them with a whirlwind, the land became desolate, and when they
finally cried out, He did not listen. Their suffering was not random. It was the direct result of their adamant refusal to
respond to His prior instructions.

The application for the contemporary church is searching. When the church cries out to God for national transformation,
for revival, for breakthrough — and heaven seems silent — could Zechariah's principle be at work? Could the silence be
God's response to the church's own silence in the face of injustice?

John gives us the condition for answered prayer: Whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His
commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight (1 John 3:22). The people of God in Zechariah's day did
neither. They did not obey His commandment to execute true justice. They did not do what was pleasing in His sight.
The path to answered prayer, then, is not more sophisticated prayer technique. It is obedience. It is the hard, sometimes
costly, often unglamorous work of doing the right thing — especially on behalf of those for whom the right thing has
long been deferred.

And when God's people do obey — when they humble themselves, seek His face, turn from their wicked ways, and
pursue justice — the promise of 2 Chronicles 7:14 stands: then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal
their land.

Reflection: Is there a connection between areas where prayer feels unanswered and areas where justice has been
neglected? What would obedience look like in those places?
Prayer: Lord, I do not want the silence of heaven over my prayers. I choose to obey. Show me the specific acts of justice
You are waiting for me to do, and I will do them in Your strength. Amen.

Prayer Points — Day 31: Repenting for Stopped Ears and Unanswered Prayer

Lord, Zechariah shows us the terrible sequence: Your people stopped their ears to Your call for justice, and when they
cried out to You in trouble, You would not listen. We tremble before this truth. Could it be that the unanswered prayers of
the church for national revival are connected to the ears we have stopped toward the cries of the indigenous poor?
We repent for the stopped ears. We repent for the flint-like hearts that refused Your word. We repent for the comfortable
distance we have kept from the cry of those in the greatest need, telling ourselves it was not our responsibility, not our
history, not our problem. We confess that it is all of these.

We unplug our ears today. We open them to Your call. We commit to execute true justice, to show mercy and
compassion, to stop oppressing the vulnerable and start protecting them. As we do, we ask You to reopen the heavens
over our prayers. We believe the sequence: first justice, then breakthrough. We are choosing the justice. Now hear us
from heaven. Amen.

Intercession for the Salishan, Nez Perce & California Nations
Salish peoples of the Northwest · Nez Perce · California tribal nations

Heavenly Father, send witnesses clothed with Holy Spirit power to the Salish peoples, the Nez Perce, and the tribal
nations of California. California alone has more Indigenous linguistic diversity than almost any place on earth — a
reflection of the extraordinary creativity You poured into these peoples. Let those who carry the gospel to them carry it in
the power of the Spirit, not the wisdom of men (Acts 1:8).
Lord, pour out Your Spirit on all flesh within the Salishan, Nez Perce, and California tribal communities. In a state where
the government paid bounties for Native scalps, let a different kind of outpouring come — the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit upon sons and daughters, young and old. Let prophetic voices

06/23/2026

30 Days of Forty Days of Prayer and Fasting for First Nations Healing and Restoration

Jesus reserved His most withering rebukes not for prostitutes or tax collectors but for the religious leaders of His day. In
Matthew 23, He exposes them as hypocrites — actors, players on a stage, performing righteousness for an audience
while their inner lives told a very different story.

What had they neglected? The weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. These were not minor points.
They were the center of God's heart. The Pharisees were meticulous about tithing a tenth of their smallest herbs, but
they walked past widows and orphans without a second thought.
Jesus does not tell them to stop tithing. He says both things should be done — the tithing and the justice. But He
identifies which carries more weight. When the two come into tension, the weightier thing wins. Justice and mercy are
not optional add-ons to faith. They are expressions of it.
The word hypocrite in the Greek — hypokrites — literally means an actor under an assumed character, a stage player, a
dissembler. A hypocrite conceals their real nature, motives, or feelings behind a false appearance. They present
themselves as one thing while being another. Jesus called the Pharisees hypocrites not because they cared about the
law — they genuinely did — but because their care had become a performance divorced from its purpose.

The church risks the same trap. It is entirely possible to have excellent theology, impressive programs, well-crafted
sermons, and growing attendance — while neglecting the weightier matters. While the poor in our city remain unvisited.
While indigenous communities continue in the poverty our spiritual fathers helped produce. While we cross to the other
side of the road and tell ourselves that surely someone else will stop.

Justice, mercy, and faith are not separate concerns — they form a unified expression of what it means to know and love
God. When one is neglected, the others become performance.
Reflection: In your personal spiritual life and in the life of your church, which of these three — justice, mercy, or faith —
tends to be most underdeveloped? What would it look like to strengthen it?

Prayer: Lord, keep me from becoming a hypocrite — from performing faith while neglecting its substance. Let justice,
mercy, and faith be equally at home in my life. Make me whole. Amen.

Prayer Points — Day 30: Repenting for Hypocrisy and Neglected Weightier Matters

Lord, Your rebuke of the Pharisees is a rebuke for us: we have tithed our spiritual herbs while neglecting justice, mercy,
and faithfulness. We have maintained impressive religious structures while the weightier things have sat ignored. We
have been, in many ways, exactly what You warned us not to be: actors performing righteousness for an audience, while
the interior is hollow.

We repent for the hypocrisy that has attended the church's justice failures. We repent for the statements of inclusion
made from stages while indigenous communities remained invisible in our budgets, our boards, and our building projects.
We repent for the reconciliation events that produced photographs but no sustained fruit. We confess that performance has substituted for presence, and presence has been what the wounded have needed all along.

Strip the performance away. Replace it with substance. Let justice, mercy, and faith be equally at home in our lives and in
our institutions. Let what is weightier to You become weightier to us. And let the watching world — especially those who
have been most wounded by our hypocrisy — see in us a people finally becoming what we have always claimed to be.
Amen.

Intercession for the Athabascan Nations
Apache · Navajo (Diné)
Father, give intercessors the gift of tears for the Apache and Navajo peoples. Let us weep over Camp Grant, over the
children sold into slavery, over the Long Walk, over every generation that carried wounds the church helped create and
then looked away from. Let the sowing in tears among these nations produce a harvest so large it fills the whole earth
with praise for what God has done among the Diné and the Apache (Psalm 126:5–6).

Lord, the Apache and Navajo nations are Your Son's inheritance. The ends of the earth — including the four corners of
Dinétah — are His possession. We ask for it: give Your Son the Navajo Nation, give Him the Apache people. Let the day
come when Diné believers praise the Lamb in their own language in every chapter house across the reservation, and
Apache voices join them from the mountains of the Southwest.
Father, we pray by name for every leader of the Apache and Navajo nations — every tribal president, council delegate,
chapter officer, school administrator, and community elder. We ask that all of them come to a saving knowledge of the
truth. You desire all people to be saved. No title, no tradition, no history of hurt is beyond Your power to reach. Save
every Navajo and Apache leader. Amen.

06/20/2026

DAY 27 of Forty Days of Prayer for the Healing and Restoration of First Nations

Matthew 25 contains one of Jesus's most searching teachings. On the Day of Judgment, He separates people not
according to their theological precision or worship attendance, but according to a single criterion: how they treated the
hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick, and the imprisoned.

To those who fed the hungry, welcomed the stranger, and visited the imprisoned, He says: Inasmuch as you did it to one
of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me. To those who did not, He says with equal clarity: Inasmuch as you did
not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.
The stakes are stark: those who ignored the least of these are described as departing into eternal punishment. Jesus
calls them cursed. This is not a minor concern tucked into an obscure verse — it is the climactic teaching of Matthew 25,
the final act of Jesus's public ministry before the Passion narrative begins.

The author suggests that Native American people — the original inhabitants of this continent, who were here first and
are now last by almost every economic measure — may well fit the description of the least of these. The first has
become last (Matthew 19:30). And Jesus says what is done to the last is done to Him.

This is not an abstraction. It is a very specific accountability. The church that partnered in destroying indigenous
communities, and the church that looks on their poverty and suffering today and does nothing, stands in the position of
the goats: We never saw You, Lord. But Jesus says: you did see. You just looked away.

The invitation is still open. The third chance the author heard God speak of is available now. The wound beside the road
is still there. The oil and wine are still in our hands. The inn is not far away. The question is not whether there is
something we can do — the question is whether we will finally choose to do it.

Reflection: Who are the least of these in your immediate context? What would it look like to treat them as you would
treat Jesus Himself?

Prayer: Lord, open my eyes to see You in the faces of those the world has passed by. Let me never be found among those
who saw You and looked away. Make me a Good Samaritan. Amen.

Prayer Points — Day 27: Repenting for Passing By the Least of These
Lord Jesus, You said that what is done — and not done — to the least of these is done to You. We confess that the Native
American peoples, the first peoples of this land who are now last by almost every economic and social measure, are
among the least of these in our generation. And the church has largely passed by.
We repent for the comfort that has insulated us from the reality of suffering on reservations and in indigenous urban
communities. We repent for the good intentions that remained intentions. We repent for the mission conferences that
discussed strategies while the wounded waited beside the road. We confess that in failing to serve the least of these, we
have failed to serve You.
We receive the correction of Matthew 25 not as condemnation but as redirection. Change our direction. Make us a
people who see You in the faces of those the world has discarded. Let the church rise to this final opportunity with the
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urgency of those who understand that the invitation will not always stand. We will not be found among the goats. We
choose to cross the road. Amen.
Intercession for the Athabascan Nations
Apache · Navajo (Diné)
Father, draw the Apache and Navajo peoples to Your Son. The Navajo Nation — the largest tribal nation by land area in
the United States — is a people with extraordinary gifting, cultural richness, and spiritual hunger. Draw them to the one
in whom all things were created, including the beauty of Dinétah, the Navajo homeland. Let the cross speak to their
hearts in the language of their own deepest longing (John 6:44; 12:32).

God, remove the spiritual blindness that the Camp Grant Massacre, the Long Walk, and centuries of broken trust have
layered over the Apache and Navajo communities. Let them see the real Jesus — not the Jesus of those who sold their
children into slavery, but the Jesus who took the children in His arms and blessed them, who said their angels always
behold the Father's face. Remove every distortion. Let truth shine (2 Corinthians 4:4).

05/29/2026

FNRM June Training

05/28/2026

05/28/2026

Day 4 Prayer for Justice and Restoration for First Nations People