Sacred Ground
- Pastor Rusty Owens
- Oct 10
- 2 min read
Oct. 10th, 2025 - Pastor Rusty
“The commander of the LORD’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did as he was told.” Jos. 5:15
This has been our Holy week in Washington DC. We hit the ground running here in DC and it has been an adventure. We landed Sunday evening and located our housing. Monday morning we started out for the Supreme Court Building on Capital Hill for prayer 🙏. This lasted for a few hours till about the noon hour at which time Belinda and I sauntered over to the Russell Senate Office Building which houses the offices of the United States senators. We had lunch where the Senators and their aides eat in the shadow of the Capital building. We walked out to the side of the Capital building that faces Washington Monument and sat down at the Capital reflecting pool and had prayer. Monday night we had prayer supper with Dutch Sheets, Chuck Pierce, Barbara Bachman and others. This was a powerful evening of prophetic release, prayer and decree over our nation and specific… the Supreme Court.🔥
Gardens of Stone
Tuesday Belinda and I went to Arlington National Cemetery. Someone expressed they weren’t here to do the tourist thing but to pray over Washington DC. I said, “Are you kidding… Arlington National Cemetery is the most sacred ground in Washington DC. 640 acres of sacred ground that includes the last resting place of over 400,000 military personnel and their spouses, two U.S. Presidents, Supreme Court justices, RFK and Jackie Onassis, and many famous and not so famous soldiers. Gardens of stone. The traditional marble stone in Arlington Cemetery is twenty-four inches above ground and fourteen inches below ground. It weighs about 230 lbs. There over three hundred thousand of these stones in Arlington National Cemetery. This land belonged to Robert E Lee and was confiscated in 1864 and it became a burial site for fallen Union Soldiers during the Civil War. Among them is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This tomb has a military Honor guard (US Army). There is a changing of the Honor Guard every hour on the hour in all Kinds of weather. (It was hot 🥵 while we were there.) The guard walks 21 steps to and 21 steps fro in representation of the twenty one gun salute, which is the highest honor that a soldier can give to the fallen. I wept at the Tomb of the Unknown soldier as two tour buses of Honor Flight veterans of war were unloading, half the men were in wheel chairs no doubt from the Korea and Vietnam war era. Sacred Ground. If we fail to honor those whole have sacrificed for our safety and freedom we have failed as a nation. Amen. Pastor Rusty.
“….Outdo one another in showing honor.” Rom. 12:10
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