Peg led group in worship…
Pastor Ray…
I’m just going to print out some miracles that Jesus did while He was on this earth. This is just a small list. If all the miracles and the signs were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. So, I wanted to just go through these. Of course, we know the first one. Even though his mom said, “No, you got to do this.” He said, “No, it’s not my time.” He still did it. What did He do? Changed the water into wine. That was His first miracle and definitely was a big one. Well, they’re all big. Number two, He cured the nobleman’s son. Number three, the great haul of the fishes, bringing in all the fish. Number four, He cast out an unclean spirit. Number five, He cured Peter’s mother-in-law of a fever. Number six, Jesus healed a leper. Number seven, He healed the Centurion servant. Number eight, He raised the widow’s son from the dead. Number 10, He cured two demoniacs.
Jesus raised the ruler’s daughter from the dead. Jesus cured a woman of an issue of blood. Jesus opened the eyes of two blind men. And the list just keeps going. This is our Jesus; this is our Savior. This is our healer and our provider. Jesus loosed the tongue of a man who could not speak. He healed an invalid man at the pool called Bethesda. He restored a withered hand. He cured a demon possessed man. He fed at least 5,000 people. He healed a woman of Canaan. He cured a deaf and a mute man. He fed at least 4,000 people. Jesus opened the eyes of a blind man. Jesus cured a boy who was plagued by a demon. I think he kept throwing himself in the fire. Number 25, Jesus opened the eyes of a man born blind. He cured a woman who had been afflicted 18 years. Jesus cured a man of dropsy. He cleansed 10 lepers. He raised Lazarus from the dead after three days. He opened the eyes of two blind men. He did a lot with eyes. didn’t he? He caused the fig tree to wither. He restored the ear of the high priest’s servant. Jesus rose from the dead. And the last one is the second time, the great haul of fish.
Father, thank you so much that you sent Jesus here on this earth with your plan and with your purpose. And thank you, Jesus, that you listened. You didn’t do anything without the Father’s plan. So we get it. Our Father in heaven had a plan and He sent His Son here, on this earth to do the Father’s will. And Jesus went all the way through and provided it all until He was put on that cross. And His blood was shed and put it in the was put in that grave and up and out of there, He came after three days. Thank you. I’m just thinking about that. He must have taken every opportunity there was to create, to stop, to open, to reveal, to resist the plan of the enemy. He must’ve taken every single opportunity every day in order to have that many books written about signs, about His wonderful miracles. The miracle worker. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for what you did. And then of course you said we would do these things also and even greater. Whoa! Let’s miss opportunities, you know, to do His plan, to do what He’s telling us by His Spirit to do. Let’s not miss one opportunity. We worship you. Thank you for your presence, Holy Spirit. It’s necessary for us to being continually filled and refilled and refilled and refilled over and over and over again. Thank you that we’re at the right place at the right time. Thank you. Thank you, Lord.
I just wanted to pray over you that that are tuning in streaming today. Father, by the blood of the Lamb, we declare this and we agree from here from Minneapolis to you wherever you are for an increase anointing to fulfill what God has called you to do individually. And then of course, corporately, or we could say together with whatever ministry or church you’re connected to and whatever pastor you might have. Thank you, Father, we agree for absolute restoration in every way… things that were stolen to be restored… bodies that were set up to be healed, would be healed. wherever symptoms rise up, we declare “Get out! Symptoms, pain disease of every kind, out in the name of Jesus.” And we know that in your Word, Father, you made it very clear that we make a choice. We have a choice, either death or life and we choose life. We choose life today for you, wherever you are, whatever country or state, wherever you are, we pray God’s precious light that brings great life unto each one of you that you might fulfill the plan that He has for you. Just like Jesus said “Yes, Father.” We agree with you when you say yes to Him, He will bring it to pass through you. Thank you for the covering of the blood, plead the blood of Jesus over all of us and all of you we’re covered. We’re protected and we’re directed. And we have ears to hear all of us. We have ears to hear and we have eyes to see, and we just thank you for it today in Jesus’ name.
Miss Peg, sing a little bit more about what you were singing, how good He is.
Peg led group in worship…
Pastor Ray…
He deserves the glory. We lift our hands in worship. We lift our hands in worship. For the increase that’s necessary, thank you for restoring and refueling and refilling us today.
I read this this morning is from Wesley Duel and it’s a book entitled, “Ablaze for God.” And this particular chapter is “Wanted! A burning heart.” Actually, it’s a song, but it seems to me it’s a prayer. “Blessed, Holy Spirit, come again today. Come, indwell us fully in a mighty way. We’re longing. We’re waiting for your grace and power. Blessed, Holy Spirit, come on us in this hour. Come upon us now. Come upon us now. Hungry, thirsty, longing… we before you bow. Work in all your fullness in and through us all, hungry and obeying… Lord, in faith, we do call. Blessed, Holy Spirit, let shekinah fall. May your holy glory come upon us all. May your fire in glory now on us descend. Put your seal upon us, then in service send. Blessed, Holy Spirit, work so all can see exercise your Lordship, all your ministry. Work in power more fully than we’ve seen or heard. TIS your blessed promise. Tis your holy Word. Blessed, Holy Spirit. Oh, do not delay. Come in might. Come in glory. Come on us today. It is for you we hunger. It is for you that we need. Blessed, Holy Spirit, come. For that increase. Fresh empowerment today. Thank you for leading us, for directing us this morning… Showing us and speaking through us… we worship and you are leading us… for leading us and directing us into … and Holy Spirit,
Peg led group in worship…
Pastor Ray…
You had us to work through power can save Lord. Holy spirit. Hungry and the thirsty with We have five of us who, the spirit the spirit. One of the other statements that Wesley duo made was concerning the fullness of the Spirit and the anointing. And he said that the anointing is for us if… dot, dot, dot …the anointing of the Spirit of God’s provision for you as His child and even more as a leader of people, God knows your need and delights to meet your need because He’s a good God. We do not deserve such things, but it is ours to ask for, seek, and receive. It’s not automatic. It is not for the spiritually lazy or idle or careless or disobedient. It is God’s supernatural extra added to your best. So we do the best we do the best we can do and then he adds greater. He works with us and for us. E. M. Bounds taught that the anointing is a conditional gift and its presence is perpetuated and increased by the same process by which it was first secured. Do you remember that time when you were filled? Just think back. Whenever that was. I know right where I was standing. I know what was going on and I know how He came. I know how faithful the precious Holy Spirit is when we ask. And for me, I did ask. I was so desirable and so maybe you can remember that. I’m sure you can. When you went from being born again to being filled and baptized with the Holy Spirit, able to speak in other tongues. And it changed everything. It changed everything and it can be the same. I love how he said that it’s the same process by which we first were baptized with the Holy Spirit. We had the desire first. We wanted it. We were hungry, thirsty. And here he says by unceasing prayer to God by impassioned desire after God, by esteeming the gift, by seeking it with great desire by deeming all else loss and failure without it. Prayer, much prayer. It’s the price. Prayer is the one sole condition of keeping this unction. Without unceasing prayer, the unction just does not come.
Thank you for the fullness, Lord. Charles Finney said I would repeat with great emphasis that the difference in many ministers does not consist so much of a difference of intellectual attainments as in the measure of the Holy Spirit they enjoy. Until they know what it is to be filled with the Spirit, to be endued with power from on high, the ministers cannot by no means be qualified to be a leader really, truly in the Church. A thousand times as much stress ought to be laid upon this part of a thorough preparation for the ministry as has been.
It’s not that people that are born again can’t be in ministry and can’t be successful, but we all know that the Word makes it so clear. We need the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Thank you, Father. Maybe you’re tuning in and this is something you’ve never experienced. Just ask… ask to be baptized. Asked to be filled with the Holy Spirit and just begin to speak. Not in whatever tongue you speak in whatever’s normal for you, whatever country you’re from, but just begin to speak out words that will come up out of your spirit. And let those flow. Be filled with the Holy spirit baptized a new today, Friday, the 12th of February. Thank you for fresh baptisms. Then to fresh refillings, like we pull in the natural with our car and fill up the tank. But in the spirit we pull over and we pray and we ask and we believe, and we require it as a necessity to be being filled and filled and stirred under the power of the Holy Spirit. Thank you for fresh fire today. Fresh fire, greater, just a new desire for more. We say yes to you. Yes.
Miss Peg, why don’t you just sing in other tongues for a little bit?
Peg begins to pray in the spirit…
Pastor Ray…
I want you just right now just sing out in English. I feel like He was showing you. Just in your English language, sing out what you saw, or you can say it. I just feel like there’s some something that we need to hear.
Peg…
♪ Oh, Jesus. You are the way. You are the light. There’s no barrier when you are in us. We will find the way because we are in you today. Oh, Jesus. Hang on to you. Hold your hand through the darkness. Because you are with us, you are guiding us. You are bringing light to every situation. So we hold your hand. We’re not letting go because you are taking us through the storm. The waves are high, the water is deep, but you are holding on to us and we won’t fall. We won’t drown. Because we’re hanging on to you, hanging on to you. We can see the light on the other side. It’s so bright. It’s so bright. We’re going through the waves, going through the storms. We might be deeper than our head, but we’re not drowning. Because we’re holding on to you. We’re not falling. We’re not sinking. We’re going right through, Jesus. You are the way, Jesus. There’s no other way but with you. We’re going through with you. We will not fail. We’re walking high, tall, all over the water, all over the storm. Rising up, we’re going forth to the light. It’s Your light that we see on the other side. We’re going through, the waves are high, the storms are bad. But we’re going to make it to the other side. Because we’re holding on to you. You’re the way. You’re our delight. Because when we delight in you, you order our steps. You order our path. So we delight and rejoice. We’re of good cheer. Because we’re in our God. We’re safe in Him. We’re safe inside. We’re safe in you. And that’s where we will hide. In our Jesus, our Father, and the Holy Spirit, who’s comforting us through the storm. You’re making a way today, tomorrow, the next day… you’re making it away. There’s no shortage. There’s no failure. There’s no lack in you because we’re going through to the other side. There’s relief. When we cling to you, when we hold fast to our God. So we hold on tight. We don’t let go of Abba Father. Because he’s holding us. He wants to see us through to the other side, cause it’s bright. it’s glorious. There’s no fear when we put our trust in the lord. When we walk in His perfect love. There’s no fear. ♪
Pastor Ray…
Cindy, why don’t you get up here. I want you to just pray over our pastors.
Cindy led in prayer…
Father, we lift up our pastors in the name of Jesus. We hold them before you. We lift them and thank you for the gifts and the callings to lead us, Father, into your perfect knowledge of you, to train and equip us that we might do the work of the Church of your body. That we might be the house of God that trains and equips the body to go out and do that work all over the world. Father, we thank you for the local church, we lift them up. This is the year of the local church. So we cover every single pastor in the blood of Jesus. And we thank you that you have placed in them gifts and callings. We thank you for those gifts and callings. We are putting a demand on them in the name of Jesus for such a time as this. Thank you, Father, for your purpose and plan for the pastors in the earth coming to full fruition in Jesus’ name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I thank you, Father, for a higher way of seeing and knowing of operating in your Spirit and the anointing that you have anointed them as congregants, as members of the body of Christ. We make a demand and a pulling on that gift. We thank you that you come through them in mighty ways… ways that we’ve never seen before. teaching and training the faith in developing all the virtues that you have that we are called to display that in exercising our faith, we would add all of these virtues and develop in them and become more and more of that bright and shining church on a hill. Thank you for our pastors here, Pastors Mac and Lynne. I thank you for the gifts and callings in them and the faithfulness to walk them out all throughout these years, and every single other pastor in Minnesota, in the United States and the world. Lord, that we are all hearing from you through the pastors, learning that the foundation’s of the doctrines of the apostles learning that the fellowship of the saints and the breaking of the bread and coming together in that fellowship as your body and knowing that we are knitted together in love.
And the learning of you together where every single gift is giving their supply. And that brings strength to the body. But it is your design that through the office of the pastors that every single person would find their place and be strengthened and fed and grow up and become greater together so that we all might know together, the length and the height, the depth and the width of your love and display it to a world that is so hungry for something genuine, they’ve been fed all kinds of counterfeits to that love, but it doesn’t satisfy. Only your love satisfies. And, Lord, I thank you for the local church. I thank you that we are shining bright. We are making a difference in the world. We are the standard. We are the pillar and foundation of truth for the world to see. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Let’s just pray in the spirit over the pastors right now. (tongues) we are so thankful, so thankful with our hearts filled with gratitude for these precious people that you have called and strengthened. If they are weary, we ask that you would strengthen them right now. Lift them up out of all kinds of frustration of fear and doubt and unbelief. Let Jesus be lifted up and about all the enemies that they would know the hope to which they had been called … and the great authority that’s in them. They’re seated with you in Christ, Father, ruling and reigning and watching over all the souls of their congregants. Father, because they will have to give an account, make it a joyous task. Rally everybody to come and pray and lift up their hands. your purpose for the local church and the pastors, Father. I declare that their steps are brighter and joy is increasing.
