Morning Prayer Summary for Friday, December 15, 2017

Pastor Ray shared…

I want to read Colossians 3:14–17. This is from the Message. “So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love.” We put love on. We receive it by faith. “It’s your basic all-purpose garment. Never be without it.”

I like that. It’s good for Christmas! Especially if you’re visiting people you haven’t visited for a while.

Father, thank You that the compassion of Your Spirit is working through each one of us, especially in this month of December.

When compassion breaks through, I believe it breaks off every contamination, every wrong thing, every whatever. And then kindness or humility and quiet strength and even tempered, contentment, quick to forgive and always put on that garment of love.

Thank You for it, Lord. We put on those clothes today. There is no limit to what you will do and no limit to what you have done and no limit to what shall take place in the weeks and months that are to come. Right?

I was reading this, this morning in Romans 8:9–11:

“But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won’t know what we’re talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God’s terms. It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s! So don’t you see that we don’t owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. There’s nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. God’s Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go!”

15-17 “This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike “What’s next, Papa?” God’s Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what’s coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we’re certainly going to go through the good times with him!”

“None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.”

Prayed…

Father, we lift up those in authority in our nation
The lost will come out of the darkness and into the light

Father, in the name of Jesus and according to your Word, we pray for those in authority in our nation. We lift up President Donald Trump, his family, his staff, and cabinet members. Let Your Word cling to them, and let them not depart from Your plan. Strengthen them with mighty power by Your Spirit to stand against wickedness, lies, and deception. Guide President Trump’s decisions; let Your light shine upon his path and show him the path of reversal for every evil way. Continually surround him with godly men and women who impart wise counsel to him. Cause the way of the wicked to be set to confusion and come to nothing. Deliver us from the traps and snares the enemy has laid for us, and let the wicked be caught in their own devises and be brought to shame. We take authority over the plots and plans of the enemy against this nation. Let prideful and lying lips be silenced in Jesus’ name. Slanderers will not be established in America. We pray for our congress, our supreme court, our military leaders, and our intelligence agencies. Let the wisdom that is from above reign in this nation and be constantly speaking to our leaders. We exercise the authority You have given us to tread down all the power of the enemy. We cast down and demolish imaginations and arguments that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God, and we bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. We bind spirits of strife and division, civil wars and tumults, spirits of hostility, lawlessness and blasphemy, and fires from hell that have burned in our cities.

We speak grace and peace over America. We pray and believe for the voice of truth, salvation, revival, and restoration to be proclaimed and heard across our land. Grant unto your servants everywhere that with all boldness we may speak your Word. We pray for a mighty outpouring of your Spirit with signs, wonders, and miracles. We expect the wisdom of this world that is earthly, sensual, and devilish to depart and vanish until Your mighty work in America becomes a beacon of hope for all people everywhere. We expect the voice of rejoicing to be heard in our nation for your goodness, mercy, and prosperity in Jesus’ name, Amen.

We pray the blood covering over America, from the north to the south, east and west… to Hawaii and up into Alaska… We plead the blood of Jesus over America… things that need to change, we declare they will change … things that need to be rearranged, those that need to be out so others can come in, that’s the way we believe it will be… as long as it lines up with what You have, Your will and purpose for this nation… we declare this nation is moving in Your way and we’ll call it the right way… not speaking politically but speaking spiritually… the right way… Your way… we pray over every state of the United States and pray and declare that these states are moving to the right… moving to Your way and will… that You will be carried out… we pray over every position in the church… over ministries… over the pastors and leaders that Your Word will come forth and thru them… the sheep will hear Your voice thru them and they will follow and do what You’ve called them to do… thank You for the streams of ministries… that we are all united together under the blood of the Lamb… Jesus is Lord in every state… Jesus is Lord over America… Things are opening up and things are being shut down… we take authority over all the plans of the enemy…

We pray over the city of Chicago… we lift that city up before You and we plead the blood of Jesus over Chicago… every street, downtown, around the town, along the water, wherever… in the worst parts of the city… we plead the blood of Jesus today and we declare “Help is on the way” but help will come by the power of the Holy Ghost. We pray for an awakening in Chicago… we pray Pastor Bill Winston’s church will have more and greater utterance than ever before… more and more of those in darkness will begin to come out of the dark places and to the light… change… we declare change in Chicago… revival… we pray over every church … we pray over those that call on the name of Jesus… we lift up these pastors… we pray for strength, for endurance, for favor that would go before them… in the name of Jesus, we break the hold of the enemy … today! we take authority over every evil plot against the people of Chicago… change of direction… change of plans…

The peace and grace of God over America… we believe for the voice of truth… salvation, revival, restoration to be proclaimed and heard across our land… grant unto your servants everywhere that with all boldness, we may speak Your Word… we pray for a mighty outpouring of Your Spirit with signs, wonders, and miracles… we expect that the wisdom of this world that is earthly, sensual, and devilish… we declare it will depart and vanish until your mighty work in America becomes a beacon of hope for all people everywhere… we expect the voice of rejoicing to be heard in our nation for your goodness, for your mercy and prosperity…

We declare breakthroughs… now is the time… in every arena… in leaders… in churches… in families… by the power of Your Spirit in bodies… bodies that have been waiting to walk out in the fullness of the healing and wholeness… breakthroughs in Jesus’ name… wholeness… restoration … by the stripes of Jesus… Hallelujah! Breakthroughs today!

We look for revival… move more and more into the great awakening…

Good measure, shaken together, running over… shaken up, shaken all around… like a flood… coming into the body… we press on in… it’s the good measure… it’s the good, the good, the good… open, open, opened up… yes, dispatched by Your Spirit… sent out by Your command… answering and responding to Your Word and Your voice… we align ourselves with Your voice today and we call it forth, Father… good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over… abundance, freedom, anointing… Your presence overcoming and overwhelming Your body in this nation in the name of Jesus Christ… Your glory being seen upon us… glory to God… the glory within and upon… the fire stirring up… by the Holy Ghost… a fire that cannot be quenched, Lord… we thank You today for pouring out… onto the fire and causing it to burn in the name of Jesus… each one of Your people so they are consumed… with Your plan and purpose… that they cannot turn another way but they walk right into Your perfect will… all those things You have prepared for us because You love us… You’ve set everything ahead… and we are walking right into it… into Your goodness… Your peace… into Your provision… the anointing destroys every yoke of bondage… every limitation… every hindrance… we reject those thoughts and words, of lack and division… of depression… we reject those words of limitation… we thank You, Father, that Your life is flowing in this body of believers… You are making everything right… You have called us to this place and to this time for such a time as this … so we can make an impact … that we could participate in this great end-time revival… every good word that’s been spoken, Lord, we hold them up to You today… we thank You that You are faithful to that which You have spoken… we thank You that everything spoken over our pastors is coming to pass… You are causing those things to come… speedily… it’s beginning to gain momentum in the spirit… it’s beginning to increase in the spirit so that nothing can stand in its way… it will make its way through… it’s time for this church to be the place that You’ve called it to be… for this body to do the things You have called it to do… to be the light to shine in the earth… as the light goes, it penetrates… and it goes from body to body around this nation in the name of Jesus Christ… that anointing flows… it’s released like a river… it flows to every congregation… days of heaven upon this earth… as it is in heaven so it is in this body and nation… complete transformation, Father… unrecognizable… a great place… it’s like a dream… it’s so much… Lord, it’s so much… thank You, Jesus… it’s so much… more than we ever imagined… You’re doing a great thing… for the ages to come… not just for now but for the ages to come… we launch out… easy, easy, easy… we lean in on Your, we rest on You… we lean into that ease that comes by Your Spirit… You’re taking us all the way… we wrap ourselves around You and we hold on… we are ready for the ride… go all the way… thank You, Lord, for putting on a show… thank You for showing off… for showing Yourself strong on our behalf…

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