Morning Prayer Summary for Friday, January 12, 2018

Pastor Ray shared…

I read yesterday John 9 and I wanted to go over a couple things. This is from the Message Bible. It starts out about the man born blind. I’ll read some of it. “Jesus saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked, “Rabbi, who sinned?” In other words, whose fault is it that he is blind? “This man or his parents, causing him to be born blind?”

3-5 Jesus said, “You’re asking the wrong question. You’re looking for someone to blame.” Sometimes we spend more time on “how did that happen” instead of “Look instead for what God can do.” In these areas where we should be influencing more, we don’t necessarily spend all our time trying to figure out why not, but we should spend more time “why” or “how” we can bring more influence. He said, Look instead for what God can do. After He said that, He spit in the dust and made clay paste and rubbed the paste on the blind man’s eyes and said, “Go, wash at the pool of Siloam” which means “sent.” And the man went and the man washed and the man saw! “Soon the town was buzzing. His relatives and those who year after year had seen him as a blind man begging were saying, “Why, isn’t this the man we knew, who sat here and begged?” Others said, “It’s him all right!” But others objected, “It’s not the same man at all. It just looks like him.”

Hello? This is not a huge city and pretty much everyone knew this man was blind from birth and they knew what he looked like.

Then the man said, “It’s me, the very one.” They said, “How did your eyes get opened?” “A man named Jesus made a paste and rubbed it on my eyes and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ I did what he said. When I washed, I saw.” They go “So where is he?” “I don’t know.” They marched the man to the Pharisees. This day when Jesus made the paste and healed his blindness was the Sabbath. The Pharisees grilled him again on how he had come to see. He said, “He put a clay paste on my eyes, and I washed, and now I see.” Some of the Pharisees said, “Obviously, this man can’t be from God. He doesn’t keep the Sabbath.”

They’ve missing it so big, aren’t they? Have you heard of people wanting to exit the body… they’re born again and Spirit filled and out from under the law, they’re free. We have the law of love. Why do they want to go back to the law? I cannot understand that. Well, it’s deception, right? The Devil somehow gets in and tries to get people back under the law.

Some of the Pharisees, they’re questioning it because He healed him on the Sabbath. “Others countered, “How can a bad man do miraculous, God-revealing things like this?” There was a split in their ranks. They came back at the blind man, “You’re the expert. He opened your eyes. What do you say about him?” He said, “He is a prophet.” The Jews didn’t believe it, didn’t believe the man was blind to begin with. So they called the parents of the man now bright-eyed with sight. They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? So how is it that he now sees?” His parents said, “We know he is our son, and we know he was born blind. But we don’t know how he came to see—haven’t a clue about who opened his eyes. Why don’t you ask him? He’s a grown man and can speak for himself.” (His parents were talking like this because they were intimidated by the Jewish leaders, who had already decided that anyone who took a stand that this was the Messiah would be kicked out of the meeting place. That’s why his parents said, “Ask him. He’s a grown man.”) They called the man back a second time—the man who had been blind—and told him, “Give credit to God. We know this man is an impostor.” He replied, “I know nothing about that one way or the other. But I know one thing for sure: I was blind . . . I now see.” They said, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” “I’ve told you over and over and you haven’t listened. Why do you want to hear it again? Are you so eager to become his disciples?” With that they jumped all over him. “You might be a disciple of that man, but we’re disciples of Moses. We know for sure that God spoke to Moses, but we have no idea where this man even comes from.” The man replied, “This is amazing! You claim to know nothing about him, but the fact is, he opened my eyes! It’s well known that God isn’t at the beck and call of sinners, but listens carefully to anyone who lives in reverence and does his will. That someone opened the eyes of a man born blind has never been heard of—ever. If this man didn’t come from God, he wouldn’t be able to do anything.” They said, “You’re nothing but dirt! How dare you take that tone with us!” Then they threw him out in the street. Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and went and found him. He asked him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” The man said, “Point him out to me, sir, so that I can believe in him.” Jesus said, “You’re looking right at him. Don’t you recognize my voice?” “Master, I believe,” the man said, and worshiped him. Jesus then said, “I came into the world to bring everything into the clear light of day, making all the distinctions clear, so that those who have never seen will see, and those who have made a great pretense of seeing will be exposed as blind.” Some Pharisees overheard him and said, “Does that mean you’re calling us blind?” Jesus said, “If you were really blind, you would be blameless, but since you claim to see everything so well, you’re accountable for every fault and failure.”

Don’t you love the way Jesus responded to falsehoods? He nailed it.

Prayed…

We declare Minnesota will continually stay going the right way, the way of God
We lift up every state and the White House and all authorities in the nation
Your Word would bring influence into the White House
We pray over our President and his family… staff members… we stop any wrong words
Every leak be stopped
We declare Your Word is attached to them… they can’t get away from it… influence from heaven
We pray for Vice President that he has a strong voice… supernatural strength from heaven to stand against every form of wickedness and lie
You guide our President’s decisions… Your light shines on his path
We hold the blood against every plot against this nation
Lying lips would be silenced in Jesus’ name
We declare the grace of God to be over America
We ask for a revival… to pop up everywhere
Ministries that have dried up, that they would be refreshed
Revivals would turn into the awakening
Pouring out the form and latter rains… we pray for that outpouring
Miracles and supernatural signs and events
Turning things around… schools and educational system… broken and moving in the wrong direction
The heads of the schools, Maranatha… increase! Increase over Maranatha… anointing increase
Every teacher in every classroom… the families and churches represented in the school
Change… we call for change…

More, more, more, more… that the church, the body of Christ, would allow more of You… more of Your Spirit in the church… they would allow You to move more… that they would open up their hearts… to move and to walk in the spirit… we’re looking for a mighty move in the body… in the church… not exclusive to any denomination but throughout the church… anyone that would call You Lord… that they would experience a move of God… that they may never have seen in their entire history… now, Father! Open their eyes to see the way… show them how to step into the flow and the anointing of Your Spirit… it’s time to see the manifested glory of God… it’s time to hear… to see… to experience Your anointing… eyes to see and ears to hear what the Spirit of God is saying to the church… it’s time to wake up… come up… no longer deceived by this world… by the enemy… but a true revelation coming to them today in the name of Jesus… the truth… complete cooperation with Your plan and purpose… transformation, Father… transformed… bring them in… into the right way… those that are on the outskirts, Father, You bring them in… You draw those bodies in… and let there be a yielding… O mighty God… O mighty God… there is a way, glory to God, You have made a way where there doesn’t seem to be a way… I thank You, Father God, that You have made a way for the Church to rise up in this nation and throughout the earth, Father… You have made a way and I thank You that we are walking in it… Thank You for helping us to let go of every limitation and releasing every boundary, Father… stretching out those tent stakes, Lord, so we can receive the abundance and the blessing that You have fore ordained for us… to walk in this earth in the way You walked the earth… to see the signs, the wonders, the miralces that You saw, Lord God… Greater… greater… the greater now in Jesus’ name… You are the Rock… You are a sure foundation… Jesus, the anointed One… Thank You, Jesus…

We lift up the businesses, Lord… the way has been prepared and we get in alignment with that right way… we call increase in businesses… in finances… that would enable businesses to explode and increase and expand… greater influence for You… new ideas… creative ideas… new plans, new revelations… understandings… wisdom… a loosing… a clear way to go… that way to see and to go… new doors of opportunity… every limitation get out of the way in the name of Jesus… moving in that river… that anointing to do business… that anointing to prosper… those witty ideas… flowing and yielding to that anointing… those ideas that come, they just come by the spirit… pop up… rise up… they are not suppressed but taken a hold of in Jesus name… Father, those that are called to step out into a place of business, we speak to them now and tell you to move, to step out in Jesus’ name… you do what you’ve been called to do… you step into that anointing… and you see that place and walk in that place… it will be easy in Jesus’ name… that grace upon you to do that work… those that are in the business place that aren’t supposed to be there… in Jesus’ name, you move to the right place… get into the right position… you do what you’ve been called to do… I thank You, Father, for waking them up and exposing the truth to them today so they know where they’re supposed to be… Thank You that You’re beginning to move people around and relocate people… there’s a shift … direction is coming to the body… people are hearing… and they’re taking it…

Everyone in their right place… those called into the political realm, we speak to you in Jesus’ name and we say “Move into that field, go and take those steps… do what is in your heart to do… you fill out those forms… you accept those invitations… everyone working together… the body complete… every part doing its part… so we can experience that more than enough…

Even those places that aren’t real attractive, I thank You that there are those that You have called there and I thank You that they will be excited to go… to take up the call, to walk out that vision in Jesus’ name… I thank You that in those places, they will experience Your anointing… Your provision and set those captives free… we dispatch you today in Jesus’ name… You made the way… angels, clearing out the path… putting those things that are necessary in your way so you can take them up as you go… provision in the name of Jesus… it’s right there in the way… walk in it and take it up as you go… get to that place where provision is… get there in the name of Jesus…

Some things that were started, shut down, turned around, put out… new days… the Master’s way and plans… to bring the harvest in…

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