Barb shared…
Good morning. Are you ready? Those of you that were here last week know that I took testimonies at the beginning and I said, “Come back next week with a testimony.” So who has one? I have three to share. Anybody have a testimony from this last week?
Woman…
My name is Angela. I’ve been saved for 25 years and I’ve been believing for my family to come to the Lord. Last Friday, I met with my mom. We went to Star Bucks and she prayed the prayer of salvation in Star Bucks! We had been estranged for two years because I took care of my dad for 10 years. They were divorced. She didn’t like that. It was just warfare. She is now part of the family of God and I praise God.
Woman…
I’m Constance. I think I’m going to encourage people with companies. Somebody came one day and said, “I have a vision.” We said, “What is that vision?” He said, “I’m going to form a company. I want to leave a legacy, not a company that when I die, it dies.” I didn’t understand what he was talking about. But I said, “You know what? If you agree, me and you, we agree, let’s pray.” We prayed and I think it went for some two years. Then he registered his company. He came to the states to be trained. He didn’t even have an idea what he was going to do. But I was sure that God is going to do it for him and God answered his prayers. He was registered. Now he’s doing it from Cape Town to Egypt, the whole of Africa, he’s doing it and he’s big. He’s so big that even myself, I can’t even go there. He doesn’t even notice me, because he has bodyguards around him. If they see me, they’ll say “Who are you?” But God answers prayers. I don’t need to be known. I only need Him to know that I prayed with you. What I’m saying is God answers prayers. He can do it.
I have another one. When we came here, we joined the seniors at prayer and Bible study. There was a lady, when they were giving their prayer requests, she said, “I have a cousin diagnosed with cancer.” The Holy Spirit said to me, “Can you just pray for her so the cousin would be healed.” Then after prayer, I said “You know what? God said I should pray for you. I heard your prayer request. It’s not you, but it’s your cousin.” She said, “Okay.” I said, “Do you believe?” She said, “Yes. I do.” We prayed. I think after three days, she came and said, “There is no cancer!” So I can spend a day telling you all the things which are happening to me, even my husband. If you cling to God and trust Him, He will do it for you.
Woman…
We’ve been believing God for finances and Cindy here prayed for us. It’s been two years this person owed us 52,000 dollars. Well, 52,000 came in!
Barb…
A woman came up Friday after service and said, “Remember when you prayed for people for healing?” She said her leg got healed. She was having problems with pain in her leg. She said I smacked her leg and said something three times and a couple weeks later she realized she didn’t have pain in her leg anymore. So praise the Lord!
We love to hear testimonies. You don’t know what your testimony is going to do for someone else. One of the greatest things we have is our voice. If the enemy can keep us in the pew or keep us afraid from being out in the street with people and sharing our faith, he’s robbing you of one of your greatest assets. Your voice. Don’t ever be afraid because we don’t care if you come up here and stumble and fall or if your shoes don’t match.
I’ve gone to a Bible study with two different shoes on! I didn’t even notice.
Pamela…
After last Friday, I was so excited and started expecting. And our vacuum went kaput. So we were out looking for a new vacuum, but first when we got home Friday, went to the mail box and there was a check in there that we weren’t expecting. So not only did it cover the vacuum but new carpet that we needed for our house. God cares about the little stuff too! But the most exciting thing to me was the vacuum people. It was a mom and pop business and we talked to them about the Lord for two hours. And that’s what really floats my boat. I really love to share the Lord and the carpet guy got born again.
Barb…
I have a few. My daughter finally got a job. She lives in California. She had finished an internship and she wasn’t getting a job. It’s like, okay, “Lord, you got to get her a job. She needs money and I’m not giving her any.” No! She’s an adult and needs to learn to take care of herself. Anyway, she got a good job. Praise the Lord.
Then my parents… I grew up in California and they’ve been going to a church for a long time that is not really a Spirit-filled church but kind of the only church in the area that has some faith in it. There’s a lot of churches out there like that, that preach the Word but they don’t really believe in healing or allow the Spirit to move. Don’t believe in being filled with the Spirit. So we’d been believing for them to find a church and they found one. So praise the Lord.
Something happened with our business that we were wanting to happen and to some of the people, they didn’t really think it was a good thing. But Dave and I were like, “Yes!” It was an answer to our prayer. They didn’t get it. But we were super excited about it. So that’s three of them. I keep track every single day what God is doing.
I want to read something. I heard Andrew Wommack. He’s one of my favorite teachers. I heard him say that real prayer is communion. I used to do it the wrong way. For me, prayer was a one-way street. “I need this …” and years ago when I was a baby pray-er, there was a man here named Aaron Gavin. He would say after prayer, “Wow, the Lord was talking to me so much during prayer.” I thought, “What do you mean He was talking to you during prayer? How can someone talk to you during prayer. How can you pray and someone talk to you at the same time?” It threw me. And I thought I must be doing something wrong. I’m not getting the talking. Being in prayer groups and learning how to flow with the Holy Ghost instead of praying off your list, you learn how to flow. And then guess what? That communion happens. There’s actually a back and forth. Sometimes I come in here and I’m like, “Lord, You’re telling me too many things. I don’t know if I’m going to remember all this. You got to slow down.” It was like a download. He also said that worship is the same way. Worship is communion too. So as you’re worshiping, you’re also receiving. He’s ministering to you as you’re ministering to Him.
I remember about a month ago I was in the youth service. They were doing worship and sometimes I do my own worship because I don’t know all the words to the new songs. So I just sing in tongues. I’m worshiping the Lord and all of a sudden, He starts telling me all these things and I wasn’t even thinking about it but I said, “Lord, you’re distracting me. I’m trying to worship You!” I thought, oh my goodness. Did I really just say that? Wow, He’s giving me instruction and telling me things that I need to do. It’s so funny. Getting caught up with worshiping the Lord and He’s wanting to tell me some stuff.
I was thinking this morning how much I love prayer and why I love prayer. There’s a woman last week that said, “I love prayer so much. I come every single day.” I said, I do too. It’s the communion part. I got to love the communion part. And really if you’re coming here to this place and it’s just a time where you’re asking, asking, asking, then try to think of it in a different way and while that asking is going on, allow Him to minister back to you. Really, you should come here if you have anything on your heart or questions, He’ll be giving that to you while you’re giving out to something He’s having you pray for.
Being a pray-er is the most amazing position you could be in because you’re getting as you’re giving. That’s God.
I would like to read to you Psalm 34.
I will extol the LORD at all times;
his praise will always be on my lips.
2 I will glory in the LORD;
let the afflicted hear and rejoice.
3 Glorify the LORD with me;
let us exalt his name together.
4 I sought the LORD, and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.
5 Those who look to him are radiant;
their faces are never covered with shame.
6 This poor man called, and the LORD heard him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.
7 The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him,
and he delivers them.
8 Taste and see that the LORD is good;
blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
9 Fear the LORD, you his holy people,
for those who fear him lack nothing.
10 The lions may grow weak and hungry,
but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
11 Come, my children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
12 Whoever of you loves life
and desires to see many good days,
13 keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies.
14 Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.
15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,
and his ears are attentive to their cry;
16 but the face of the LORD is against those who do evil,
to blot out their name from the earth.
17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them;
he delivers them from all their troubles.
18 The LORD is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
19 The righteous person may have many troubles,
but the LORD delivers him from them all;
20 he protects all his bones,
not one of them will be broken.
21 Evil will slay the wicked;
the foes of the righteous will be condemned.
22 The LORD will rescue his servants;
no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned. (NIV)
Prayer for healing…
Thank You, Lord… in times of trouble, You lift us up… when the enemy tries to come against us… You make sure that we are strengthened and able to stand and drive out the enemy… You’re the healer of the multitudes… of the nations… Your healing anointing flowing in this body… into the lives of the lost… demonstrating Your love for them… we continue to see the increase… the dinner bell… drawing the lost… thank You for Your rivers of healing… people yield to that anointing… laying their hands upon the sick … they receive it for themselves… the ligaments and bones… whole… none broken…
Prayer for protection
You are our protector…we hide ourselves under Your wings… You cover us… we are safe in You… Your divine protection is about us like a hedge… You send Your angels to encamp round about us… so the enemy cannot touch us… Your angels are working on our behalf… they’ve been dispatched on our behalf to do the work… to move things out of the way… to cause things to come into alignment… to bring provision… to deliver things from Your storehouse… they bear us up so we don’t dash our foot on a stone… we don’t stumble or all, they lift us up… thank You, Lord… You are a strong tower and we run into You… we hide ourselves in You…
Prayer for dreams and inspiration…
You are able to do exceedingly abundantly far above all we can imagine or think… You put dreams in our hearts in our minds… you put vision in our heart… I thank You that You cause it to come to pass… You put good things in us… we are inspired by Your Spirit… we are moved by Your Spirit… You are faithful to bring it to pass… that good work that You began in each member of Your body… You are faithful to complete it…
Prayer for the glory of God…
King of glory… Your bringing Your glory back to the church… You’re allowing Your glory to be seen in the church in Jesus’ name… people will begin to see with their natural eye the glory rolling in… the glory folding in… the glory dropping down… upon the people… we begin to witness the manifested glory of God in this earth in this church in these people… it’s time… thank You, Lord, no delays in Jesus’ name… I thank You, Father, it’s not on the way, it’s here… Your anointing and power…
Prayer for blood to cover, purge, and keep
we surrender ourselves completely to You… to Your Spirit… we yield ourselves over again … Father, have Your way… do Your best… I think You for those that You have anointed and appointed to stand up and declare over this nation … uncover things that need to be revealed… I thank You for the blood of Jesus that You gave to us… that covers them, that keeps them… covers their families… keeps their families… the blood of Jesus speaks for them… I thank You that the blood of Jesus speaks for us continually… the blood declares our innocence… the blood of Jesus purges us of every defilement of the enemy… the blood of Jesus purges us of every defilement of the enemy… every defilement to be removed… from bodies… from minds… from relationships… every defilement to be removed from the church… You’re causing Your church to be free of every spot and wrinkle… a beautiful church, bride…
Prayer for grace…
Grace, grace, grace… thank You for the grace… the grace to operate in Your anointing… the grace to speak Your Word… the grace to move by Your Spirit… the grace to hear Your voice… the grace to walk out every step… Your grace is sufficient… it’s so great, Father God, that we can’t even imagine how great it is… that supply of grace… yes, that grace that puts us in the motion… keeps us moving… keeps us believing… Thank You, Father… By grace, by grace, by grace… it’s by grace… thank You, Father, for revelation that You bring to the body… their eyes continue to be opened… for the grace… they understand the grace… they receive the grace, Father… by grace through faith… we must have the grace… we must understand the grace… we must receive and walk in the grace… bring that revelation now… it continues to grow and multiply… I thank You that you continue to raise up voices all over this nation and the earth to preach that message of grace… that good grace… that wonderful grace… by grace, Father, are we saved… not by ourselves that we should be able to boast… but it’s because of You…
Prayer for eyes to see and ears to hear…
We thank You that You always answer us… You’re not a silent God… You’re a God who speaks all the time… when we come to You, when we make a request, You answer… You are good… eyes, eyes, eyes… eyes to see it… ears to hear… everything Your Spirit is saying to the body… everything that You’re speaking, Father… open our eyes and ears… I thank You that we hear Your voice… it’s so clear to us, Father… Your instruction is clear… I thank You, Father, that You didn’t make it difficult but You made it easy… if we would just open our hearts, You can speak and move…
Prayer about change…
Change, change, change… change in the name… thank You, Father, that You’re bringing change to the church… change to this body… change to the nation… thank You, Father… You prepared good things for this nation… You prepare good things for Your people… for this church… change is here… that’s right… change is in the atmosphere… change in the message… a change in the message… bringing into alignment… changes… in the vision… the people come together, one heart, one mind… changing… letting go of their own thing, Father… and joining up with Your vision… that change is coming in Jesus’ name… change, change, changes… changes… all around… changes in location… changes in vocation… changes in the night… changes coming in the night… while you’re sleeping, changes are coming in the night… God’s working in the night… He’s working while you sleep… He’s taking hold and changing things over… changes, changes, changes… changes in the company…
Prayer for shout…
Thank You, Father… SHOUT is coming to the church… a shout is coming to the body… a shout is coming to this nation… a shout… we shout because He’s given us the victory… glory to God… we shout because He’s given us the victory… we go forth now and we possess… we possess it in Jesus’ name… all the land… all that You’ve given… after the shout comes possession… angels, mighty God, Oh! … Ancient of Days… Oh how great is Your plan! How wonderful is Your plan! Hallelujah! Thank You for seeing us up for victory… thank You for putting us right into the middle of Your success… thank You, Jesus! Hallelujah! How wonderful to be here in this place in this time right in the middle of Your plan… for letting us participate… hold on… hold on… for the ride is just beginning… hallelujah! The Holy Ghost ride is just beginning… it’s just tipped over the top and it’s beginning to come down into the fast place… like a roller coaster ride… we’re on the down side… hold on!… hold on! Glory to God and see the joy, the excitement… that He has prepared for us… glory to God…
Barb shared…
Can you see that picture? You ever been on a roller coaster ride and it tick, tick, ticks up… all the way up and you have to get real high. It takes you all the way up to the top and then all of a sudden, you’re right at the top and you’re just waiting and then all of a sudden … release and whoosh… down you go. The Holy Ghost said it’s going to go from glory to glory. We’re not going back to this, tick, tick, tick… we’re going to keep doing the loops and going. We’re not going to be going up the tick, tick, tick anymore. So watch for that easy place.
Woman shared…
This message [reading from her phone] came when I was in prayer right now. My daughter said, “God just now protected us from a bad accident. A car went through a red light and it was green for us. The driver managed to break in time.” That happened just now!
Barb continued…
Glory to God! Thank You, Jesus!
