Peg led group in worship…
♪ You will never leave… Your love sustained me… before I even knew what love was… You’ve brought me here to rest… and given me space to breathe… so I’ll stay until it sinks in… and I’ll lean back into Your loving arms of a beautiful Savior… I’ll breathe deep and know that He is good… He’s a love like no other… ♪
Pastor Ray…
That’s so true. There is no love like His love. We see ourselves covered not only with the precious blood but covered in that revelation of who He is, and He loved us so much before we were ever on the scene on this earth. He loved us so much that He sent His only Son. It’s so hard to express it in words, in our English language. But we love You and we honor You. We worship who You are and praise Your beautiful name. Jesus… that name that is above and beyond every other name. There is no name that is higher, stronger, better than the name of Jesus. We take our seat in heavenly places with You and watch the things that seemingly are all around… watch them disappear and watch You. You are so good. We love You, Lord.
Again, I want to make you aware that even though I announced earlier in the week that we would not be on next week in the mornings, we will be. Things change all the time. So Morning Prayer will be on at the same time, same channels, from wherever you’ve been watching us. And thank you for doing that. For your consistency and faithfulness. Next week, we’ll replay one of our previous prayer sessions. Two of them will be Pastor Lynne. Then TV will figure out what others to play.
Also, I wanted to make you aware… we’re having some big meetings next week beginning on Tuesday evening, August 18. The speakers will be Jerry Savelle, Kenneth Copeland, and Jessie Duplantis. That is a power-packed trio. Usually, they all connect by the Holy Spirit. They keep bringing us up to new levels of faith in Him. It will be awesome. Then in September or October, Pastor Lynne will do four different Wednesday services concerning the election. It’ll begin the first Wednesday of September. I’ll be there and I hope you can be there or watch us online and be in prayer for the elections. Do you think it needs prayer? Yes. It needs to be covered. Every aspect of it. Wow. It’s so critical.
This morning, when I was driving, I was reminded of something. Several years ago, we were praying in a prayer group upstairs. A bunch of us were in there praying in the morning. While we were praying, I saw two ways a believer could go. I saw one way, and then I saw another way. One way was like a people mover you’d see at the airport. That was one way, or a choice we could make to go that way. It would seemingly be easier to get on there and just ride. The other way had no people mover. There was the presence of God leading and guiding us. In other words, we had a choice to go along with the flow, not use our authority, not pray things out. The other way was seemingly hard. As we kept praying, I could see that that was “the” way. The way God has called us to, not just sitting back and watching the world go by. But staying on that road and make a way where there was no way. Call things down that are in the way. Call things up that are too low. Take authority over the things the enemy has tried to bring against us and our country. Try to come against our family, our churches, whatever. So it seemed like the hardest way was not the best way. But it turned out it was the best way. The other way was more the world’s way—just stay on that people mover.
Okay, I flipped open my Bible to Ephesians. So I want to go down through some Word this morning. I want us to get filled up with the Word this morning. Ephesians 1:7 says “In Him we have redemption, we have deliverance, we have salvation and through His blood, the remission or the forgiveness of all our offenses, or shortcomings, or trespasses in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor.” He’s given us His favor. Verse 8, “Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom, understanding, practical insight and prudence making know to us the mystery or the secret of His will.” So He’s always revealing His will to us. All we have to do is “tune in.” So the secret of His will and plan or His purposes. It is this: “In accordance with His good pleasure, His merciful intension which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him, He planned for the maturity of the times and the climax of the ages to unity all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ. Both things in heaven and things on the earth. In Him we also were made God’s heritage and we obtained an inheritance for we had been foreordained, chosen, appointed, beforehand in accordance with His purpose who works out every thing.”
So we’re on this road. We don’t know all the turns on the road. But we will know when we’re turned up and tuned into Him. So we keep moving. He works everything out in agreement with the counsel and the design. He has a design. He has a blueprint. We just get in it. And that’s called His perfect will.
Verse 12, “So that we who first hoped in Christ [who first put our confidence in Him have been destined and appointed to] live for the praise of His glory! 13 In Him you also who have heard the Word of Truth, the glad tidings (Gospel) of your salvation, and have believed in and adhered to and relied on Him, were stamped with the seal of the long-promised Holy Spirit.”
Holy Spirit, You are so welcome right now. Let’s welcome Him.
Peg led group in worship…
♪ Holy Spirit, thou art welcome in this place… ♪
Pastor Ray…
You’re welcome, Holy Spirit. We welcome Your manifested presence. Come. Fall fresh upon us. Revive us. Restore us. Fill us. For we want to be filled and filled with Your mighty presence. To be strong in You. We welcome You.
Peg continues with worship…
Pastor Ray…
It seems like the more I hear that, the more I welcome Him. More and more. And He becomes so much more a necessity in our lives. Verse 14 goes on to say, “That [Spirit] is the guarantee of our inheritance [the first fruits, the pledge and foretaste, the down payment on our heritage], in anticipation of its full redemption and our acquiring [complete] possession of it—to the praise of His glory. For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints (the people of God), I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. [For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him, by having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones), and [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places], far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come. And He has put all things under His feet and has appointed Him the universal and supreme Head of the church [a headship exercised throughout the church], which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills all in all [for in that body lives the full measure of Him Who makes everything complete, and Who fills everything everywhere with Himself]. (Amp.)
Ephesians 2:6 “And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One). … For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].”
Thank You, Lord. I plead the blood of Jesus over these paths, over these positions and places He’s called us individually and corporately, that we join together in one accord. There is power in the agreement in that togetherness. Hallelujah. So we believe to take our place—separately—but we are a piece of the puzzle. We have a place, a position and it’s in Him. So this morning despite what we see in the natural all around us, city after city after city, we take our seat high above and know for a fact the anointing is in us and it will not leave. We’ve been given all authority here on this earth and we have the authority over the enemy. It will not be taken away. He’s with us. His power is in us. The blood of Jesus is working for us. We spread it out over America. We take that blood and apply it over every state.
Sometimes when I say “state after state,” each state will come up off the page. There’s Texas! There’s Alabama! The blood of Jesus all around the borders of these states, wherever you live, wherever you’re tuning in from, your state, your country, your region, your area, your cities. Father, in Jesus’ name, we come by the blood. But we use the blood… we did it yesterday. We sprinkled it and covered every aspect. Thank You, Lord. That blood quiets and shuts down the words of the enemy. We do believe that. When we speak it and apply it, I can see it right now, words that were about to be spoken will not be spoken. In Jesus’ name because the blood is against those things. And we’re pushing that back and away in and through the power of the blood of Jesus. For we have overcome because He overcame. And that is our testimony this morning. We overcome every work of the enemy. No weapon formed against us can prosper. In Jesus’ name, we prosper in every single thing we put our hands unto. We’re up above and not down below. We’re the head and not the tail. We are going somewhere to happen. There is authority in us and it’s God’s authority in us. (tongues) We will not back down… we’ve been given a commission, that Great commission… right decisions, right plans… we break those holds… we break away those negative words, those lies… Go! Leave in Jesus’ name! … the first thing that comes up in my heart is depression. That’s a lie from the enemy. We take authority over depression of any kind. And call for a turnaround. Comfort. The Comforter… we’ll not lean on our own understanding…
Peg, maybe you should sing something else now, just for a little bit.
Peg led group in worship…
Pastor Ray…
We can look back over our lives and see how good He’s been… how faithful, brining us through the steps, the direction that He revealed to us. Then too we can look ahead on the path that we’re called to walk out and know for a fact we don’t have to sweat it, we just have to believe and know for an absolute surety that You’re with us. You’ve made a way where there was no way. The work was already done on the cross and the blood of Jesus made a way for us. Thank You for it, Lord. We can never thank You enough!
Yeah, yeah, there will be some shaking… there is some shaking… but the Church will not be shaken… Your Word shall not be shaken… but it shall all be fulfilled… for we are prosperous in every area… spirit, body, and soul…
Say this after me. We’ll confess a little part of this about prosperity this morning.
“I thank You that You liberally and super abundantly supply and fill to the full, my every need according to Your riches in glory by Christ Jesus. According to Your Word (Deut. 8:18), I accept and receive the power of Your wealth in order to establish Your covenant. As an act of faith, Father, I receive the power of Your wealth in knowledge, revelation, discernment, and recollection of Your thoughts as they are written in Your Word. I receive the power of Your wealth in my spiritual life. I will be enduring, patient, kind, mannerly, joyful, forgiving, courageous, faithful, loving, and all that is necessary to correct my spiritual self that I coincide with Your image of me. I receive the power of Your wealth into my physical and material needs, so that Your Word is life to me, and health to all my flesh, so that I have riches and honor; that I inherit substance and my treasuries are full (Proverbs 4:22; 8:18,21).”
Jeannie shared…
When Peg was singing and talking about His goodness is running after us and then we receive the power to gain wealth to establish His covenant, so everywhere we go with the wealth of knowledge, a wealth of mercy, a wealth of love, a wealth of provision… everywhere we go, His goodness runs after us, overflows out of us and it takes dominion and establishes His covenant of goodness. For such a time as this, the church seen, knowing, being well equipped to carry out her assignment for such a time as this. The power to gain wealth, the power to receive overflow to overthrow the enemy. Father, we thank You right now that the revelation of Your wealth is to overthrow the enemy. The revelation of the power to get wealth, the wealth of wisdom, the wealth of answers in the city… in the schools… in the states… in the nation. Wealth from the church from You that establishes Your covenant on the earth right now. Father, we thank You that we are massive receivers and Your goodness overflows… out of us unto the world…
Pastor Ray…
You know how we sang His goodness is running after us. If we take a left turn, the goodness turns left too. But it overtakes us. His goodness overtakes us and then it comes through us.
Jeannie…
We can’t establish His covenant if we resist His wealth. So we repent for the resisting the goodness of God. Father, we receive Your goodness for the sake of the earth that is crying out for sons and daughters to be manifested.
Pastor Ray…
There you go. That takes care of barely enough out. Barely enough is not enough. But more than enough is more than enough. And it keeps on. He’s still following and moving through us when we believe and receive. Let’s say this together:
“I confess to You that I am a giver. As I give abundantly of my increase in knowledge of Your Word—either in ministering, counseling, healing, teaching, as I give of the increase of myself, my energies, my efficiency and my ability, or my material possessions—I know that You will make all grace, every favor and earthly blessing come to me in abundance, so that in all circumstances I am totally self-sufficient. Possessing enough knowledge, recall and recollection, I will spread Your Word in all circumstances. Requiring no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation (Galatians 3:13,14).
I confess today that I am redeemed from the curse of the law, of lack of knowledge, of lack of understanding, of lack of revelation, of lack of recollection, of lack of ability, time, and efficiency. I am redeemed from the curse of poverty. I resist any and all lack in my life and claim through Your Word and in the name of Jesus Christ Your Son, its ability to have ANY PLACE in my life at all. The Lord is my Shepherd and I do not and shall not want. Abundance in every area of my life is mine. Success in every area of life is mine. The blessings of the Lord are mine. I AM HIS; HE IS MY STRENGTH; I DWELL IN HIM AND HE IN ME. I confess to it. I claim it. I accept it and I revel in it. I thank You for it, Father. In Jesus’ name, I praise Your holy name.
Group worships the Lord…
We stay on the march… we stay in the plan… we stay with the plan… miracles… supernatural Holy Spirit given signs and wonderful things… supernatural happenings… we declare it… we expect these things to be unfolded not just so we can say it’s so, but so we can give them out… be those givers or ourselves and what You’ve put within us… and command things to be right that are not right… and we do that this morning… we declare over the wrong situations, “Be made right! Turnaround right now” … seven times greater… greater and greater… and more and more and more… superabundantly… we will run and not be weary… You’re worthy of all the praise and glory…
Peg led group in worship…
Pastor Ray…
Every day is getting better and sweeter. He makes a way where there was no way. He is the way maker. Lord, You are our way maker. Thank You for making a way when there wasn’t a way.
Thank you so much for joining us today and for coming this morning.
