QUICK NAVIGATION
- Thursday, February 12
Today, President Donald Trump is scheduled to repeal guidance that has been the foundation of climate regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The legal framework has been used by the agency since 2009 to address greenhouse gas emissions.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “President Trump will be joined by Administrator Lee Zeldin to formalize the rescission of the 2009… endangerment finding. This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history, and it will save the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulations.”
The Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, is holding hearings today to examine the United States’ small drone industrial base.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, chaired by Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, will hear testimony in the hearing titled “Restoring Integrity: Preventing Fraud in Child Care Assistance Programs.”
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For wisdom for the president and EPA administrator as they make revisions and rescissions to climate guidance and regulations.
- For the chairs and members of the congressional committees of both houses as they seek to provide oversight and conduct investigations.
- For President Trump and members of his Cabinet as they work to improve and strengthen the nation’s economy.
First Ministry Letter of 2026!
Our gift to you this holiday as we remember the true reason for the season with sacred and traditional Christmas music.PRESIDENT’S SCHEDULE
- President’s Today Schedule • February 12, 2026
- 11:00 AM ET: The President receives his Intelligence Briefing
- 1:30 PM ET: The President makes an Announcement with the Administrator of the EPA
- 3:00 PM ET: The President participates in a Policy Meeting
- 5:30 PM ET: The President participates in a Policy Meeting
As we lift up the federal government of United States of America, each day we will highlight one elected or appointed federal official serving in office. Pray with us for each of them as they tackle their unique responsibilities and fulfill their oaths of office.
TODAY’S NATIONAL LEADER FOR PRAYER
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- Mark Kelly, Senator from Arizona
Mark Kelly, Senator from Arizona
- Born – February 1964 in Orange, New Jersey.
- Education – B.S., U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; M.S., U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
- Military Service – U.S. Navy
- Profession – NASA Astronaut
- Political Experience – None
- In office since – 2020
- Family – Married to Gabrielle; Divorced from Amelia; 2 daughters
- Religious Affiliation – Catholic
- Mark Kelly, Senator from Arizona
- Freed by Christ
I myself serve the law of God with my mind. – Romans 7:25
Frederick Baily learned to read even though it was against the law for a slave. At age 20, he escaped to Massachusetts and changed his name to Frederick Douglass to hide from slave catchers. He began debating and exposing the injustices of slavery. Douglass published his best-selling autobiography. However, with his identity now public, he had to flee to England to avoid slave catchers. English friends raised money to buy his freedom and he returned to New York and founded the North Star Newspaper. Douglass wrote about abolition and women’s suffrage. His motto was “Right is of no sex. Truth is of no color. God is the Father of us all and we are all Brethren.”
When Douglass was an advisor to President Lincoln, he told the story of his conversion: “I loved all mankind, slaveholder not excepted, though I abhorred slavery more than ever. I saw the world in a new light. I gathered scattered pages of the Bible from the filthy street gutters, and washed and dried them, that I might get a word or two of wisdom from them.”
Whenever the Apostle Paul felt lost, he would ponder his conversion experience and remember that he had been freed by Christ. So when you feel overwhelmed or bound by the appeal of sin, pray, read the Bible, and remind yourself of the work God has already done in your life, with praise and thanksgiving. Allow the Holy Spirit to lift you to real victory over sin. Be confident that, by faith, you can claim His fullness and power to live the abundant, supernatural life that Jesus promised. Commit to intercede for your local and national governing officials to experience true freedom and bring glory to God by bearing much fruit.
Today’s Verse: Romans 7:25
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Recommended for further reading: Galatians 5:13-26
13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
