Morning Prayer Summary for Friday, February 23, 2018

Pastor Ray shared…

I wanted to start out by reading something that Billye Brim said about the authority of the believer. She said, “At this writing, our nation is embroiled in deep divisions. I could name them but you know what they are. Humans have different opinions, thoughts, ideas that are common to humankind and not deadly, but those in which we can agree to disagree. But then there are those that can produce a division that would ultimately destroy. These I believe are satanically driven. I believe that there is a divine destiny for America as we wrote about in chapter 2 of this book: God brought America forth at its appointed time and established her borders. If that is so, then the enemy of God would bring all his powers against America’s success. Spiritual problems can only be solved with spiritual solutions.”

Kathy Gifford gave her testimony on MSNBC and it was like she was preaching a message in a church to a bunch of unsaved people. She went for it, how she got born again, how she took her husband who was older. He was a celebrity football player. He got saved when she took him to Billy Graham’s home. But she was preaching on TV on MSNBC. That’s radical. So since he went home to be with the Lord, there is so much more on every network. And the people on there preach the word. That’s a breakthrough to me. Or like we called it yesterday, a shift. Things are shifting.

So Billye used Ephesians 6:12, “We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness in this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places; for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.” Carnal means “of the flesh.” Natural weapons, in other words. The greatest weapon we can wield against the darkness arrayed against his nation is our God-given authority over the kingdom of darkness. To triumph over the dark forces assigned against our nation the body of Christ can and must exercise her authority over them. This is so important that I’m borrowing heavenly from my book, How You Can Pray in the End Days. In that book, I quoted from a marvelous book by John A. McMillian, a missionary to China. His book contains such spiritual treasure that we bought the rights to publish it. The powerful message begins in this book’s preface. The rapidly approaching end of the age is witnessing a tremendous increase in the activity of the powers of darkness. To meet the situation, the church of Christ needs a new conception of prayer. The urgent call is for men and women wholly yielded to the Lord whose eyes have been enlightened to see this ministry in the heavenlies to which they have been called. Such believers may in union with the great head of the body exercise an authority to which the powers of the air must give place wherever challenged. McMillian departed earth in 1956. How much greater now is the increase of the activity with the powers of darkness. This increase is primarily due to the fact that Satan sees his time is short and he’s struggling to survive. That’s Revelation 12:12. He well knows that the body of Christ has an authority over him that he must obey. Our challenge is to get the body of Christ to awaken to it and exercise it. This awakening is a vital part to our knowing and awakening to God that will save America.

Acts 13:6, “When they had passed through the entire island of Cyprus as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain Jewish wizard or sorcerer, a false prophet named Bar-Jesus. He was closely associated with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent and sensible man of sound understanding; he summoned to him Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the Word of God [concerning salvation in the kingdom of God attained through Christ]. But Elymas the wise man—for that is the translation of his name [which he had given himself]—opposed them, seeking to keep the proconsul from accepting the faith. But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit, looked steadily at [Elymas] and said, You master in every form of deception and recklessness, unscrupulousness, and wickedness, you son of the devil, you enemy of everything that is upright and good, will you never stop perverting and making crooked the straight paths of the Lord and plotting against His saving purposes? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind, [so blind that you will be] unable to see the sun for a time. Instantly there fell upon him a mist and a darkness, and he groped about seeking persons who would lead him by the hand. Then the proconsul believed (became a Christian) when he saw what had occurred, for he was astonished and deeply touched at the teaching concerning the Lord and from Him.”

Number one, it doesn’t mention in here how long he was blind. Paul went on. Verse 11, Paul exited and went somewhere else while Elymas is still holding onto somebody’s hand. I just relate this to some things today that for us we cannot ever take it casually what the enemy is trying to do in our nation and sit back and watch it take place. I like how he recognized what Elymas was trying to do which was trying to prevent the Gospel from coming forth. That’s what the enemy is trying to do, I believe, in these days, causing division, speaking forth lie after lie until a lot of people believe it’s the truth. So we believe, just like he did here that we have the authority and power in Jesus’ name and through the blood that we can put a stop to all of the recklessness all the deception, all of the unscrupulousness and wickedness that the devil is trying to put forth. And the ways that have been straight, he’s trying to make them crooked. It’s the reverse of what the Word tells us we’re to do. We’re supposed to straighten out the crooked places, raise up the valleys, call down the high things and make a way in the wilderness. The devil works the opposite way. So all the prayers and declarations we’ve made year after year, we must continually keep on moving. Like Pastor Mac says, If you don’t quit, you win. We believe that.

Prayer for America and leaders…

When it comes to the United States of America and the declaration we always declare, one way or another we speak over our leaders and we do it again today and we lift them up… we bring them out of that unholy place, that place of deception and believe for their eyes to be opened, their years to hear, and that their feet would be ordained to walk out Your plan and purpose for this nation…

Pastor Ray interjected…

When we declare this, it puts me right back over here how he spoke against Elymas.

Continued praying…

We stand against wickedness, lies, deception… We take our authority and hold the blood of the lamb against these things… we call them out and declare that the way of the wicked would be set in complete and total confusion… and come to nothing… Father, we declare that we’re delivered from all the traps and snares the enemy has laid for us, for our country, for our military, for our schools, hospitals… and we declare the wicked would be caught in their own devices and brought to shame… we take the authority against plots of the enemy that have already been planned to take place in America… we hold the blood against those things… we pray over all those that are in positions of authority be they police or FBI or whatever… that their eyes would be opened to see before these things would ever have an opportunity to take place… we know it’s one thing to be armed naturally but we know as we’ve read, it’s another thing to know the authority that we stand in and that authority is from heaven… so we use our weapons and take authority and hold that blood against every one of those things that have been trying to operate … bring about some kind of division here… divide things up there… lies that are portrayed over the networks and internet… we put a stop to it in Jesus’ name… we say “be stopped in Jesus’ name”… we take the authority and hold the blood and we declare it will come to nothing… we bind every spirit of strife and division, civil war, tumults or wickedness, spirits of hostility, lawlessness, blasphemy, fires from hell that are burning in our cities, we take authority over those and we speak grace and peace over America… Hallelujah!

Prayer about resources to come…

Grace and peace from one shore to the other… north to south, east to west… we take authority and declare it is so… it shall come to pass… things that have been declared in Your Word are coming to pass… in the natural if there are more resources needed to do what needs to be done in our country concerning our schools or public spaces, we call in the finances in Jesus’ name… we’ll do what we need to do… naturally but also spiritually… thank You that we’ve overcome by the blood and the word of our testimony… the best is yet to come… the better days are to come… we stand in faith and we expect to walk in it… we expect to see it… to operate in it… we declare the former and latter rain is coming together… a mighty deluge of Your Spirit…

Prayer about gangs…

We take authority over gangs in Jesus’ name… in our own city, cities… we hold the blood against them… we declare they’ll be routed out… exposed for what they’re planning to do… those cities that call themselves sanctuaries for those that are illegally here, those looking to do evil, in the name of Jesus we put a stop to those…

Prayer about illegal entrance…

so-called sanctuary states be stopped… we walk the borders of our country by faith… the northern border… to New York, the coast… all the way south and all the way across the southern borders… we watch over the containers that sit on our borders… hidden things shall be revealed… uncovered… along the Mexican border… we put up a wall spiritually… we plead the blood along there and put a stop to every illegal that would come to do harm… no weapon formed against us will prosper… every form of travel we pray for protection… no, no, no…

Yes, Father, in the name of Jesus we shut down all access into this nation … we hold the blood of Jesus to every avenue, shut down to the enemy… no entrance, no access here… to our government, to our schools, to our media outlets… no access into our churches… no access into our universities… no access into our military forces… we stand against you and we hold you back in the name of Jesus… there is a bloodline that cannot be crossed… you will not enter in here… we hold the blood over every community… state… those doors are closed to you in Jesus’ name…

Prayer about believers resisting Satan…

there is no access into the body of Christ… we will not allow him to move in the body… doors that have been opened to him in Jesus’ name, we command them to be shut today… those believers that have been allowing him to work in their lives, that they stand up and refuse to allow him access… we’re taking over and standing up in the power of the Holy Ghost… we resist you in every way …

Prayer to dispatch laborers with the Gospel…

we thank You today that You are dispatching laborers into every part of this nation… You are sending laborers into the government… every official in this nation receives the message of the Gospel… every person that’s involved in the media, You are sending laborers there… they hear the truth and they are turned… send laborers into the schools, universities… let them to transformed by Your power… it is the gospel that brings salvation to this country… those that are troubled, with evil in their minds, Father, send laborers to them… deliver them from those harassing spirits and evil ways… those in the underworld, dealing drugs, causing havoc in their communities… send laborers to them… turn them around… this nation is one nation under God… this nation will move with His plan and purpose… those not cooperating, You are moving them out of the way… and those that think that they’re doing their own thing, I thank You, Father, that you are using them… without their knowledge… to cause Your plan to come forth in this nation…

Prayer about protection…

We pray over every church, every ministry, over soft targets in this country… we put a line of the blood around them in Jesus’ name… we put a stop to any plan… we cover our school, Maranatha… with the blood of the Lamb… inside and outside… we lift up this ministry, our services and we declare no weapon there… no weapon formed can prosper… there’s safety in the building and the parking lot… all these events coming up, Pulse, we hold the blood of Jesus over those location, and all that attend… the enemy will have no place there… this community will be transformed by those events… there’s an explosion of Your Spirit in this state and it goes out into the nation… we are out ahead of the enemy… we’re not chasing him, but we are out ahead… every public area, facility… safety there… downtown… Your Spirit moving downtown… moving in the Capitol… in those seats of power… safety and peace… on the waterways… the blood of Jesus over every waterway… over the rivers… on the oceans… every lake… the blood, the blood… assigned… assigned… those that have been assigned to those places, Father… every boat… ship… blood of Jesus… No, No, No, you’re not bringing that here…

Prayer about traffickers…

wisdom there… those that are being brought in against their will… being moved and transported against their will… in the name of Jesus… I thank You that they are exposed… those traffickers are exposed… authorities begin to uncover… their routes and their ways and operation … in the name, those that are coming in by ship… exposed … thank You, Father… deliverance for them… freedom for them… those that are captive… yes, Father, we set the captives free in Your name… all over this nation… those being held captive, in Jesus’ name… be set free…

Pastor Ray interjected…

I heard on the news that in Israel, when you graduate, you got into the military, both men and women. They had a cyber person on the news and he said that Prime Minister Netanyahu announced a group of hackers for good, not for bad. They’re thousands of them and they’re working all the time in Israel and other places uncovering what the enemy is trying to do. One example they gave was there was a plane in another country and there was two ISIS people trying to get on. Through the computers in Israel, they brought it to light and they were stopped before they could get on the plane. They said they’re young people and super trained when it comes to computers. They can hack in where they need to as opposed to the people trying to hack in for crimes. And it reminded me of how we can go places and uncover things when we pray in the Holy Ghost. Hidden things brought to light that we have no idea about. But He does.

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