Morning Prayer Summary for Thursday, July 11, 2019

Anne led group in worship…

Pastor Ray …

We thank You for Your presence, Lord… Thank You, Holy Spirit, of the Living God… within us… When we lift You up and magnify who You are, You lift us up… Today we’re being lifted up because we’re lifting You up… Thank You for Your Word… we’re whole, healthy, and prosperous… no weapon formed against us can prosper… we’re the head and not the tail… it’s not us but it’s You that made us to go through… we’re taking steps of faith even in this place right now today… thank You for divine strength… for joy… we contend and call things that are not as though they are…

Good morning. I have a new way of dealing with the season that we’re in. The negativity. Any time of the day, we can turn the TV on and hear lots of things that are opinions and many of them are negative. The way I deal with it is just to turn it off or I let it go over my head. Not inside me.

It reminded me that something similar happened years ago when we hadn’t even moved in this building yet. It was being built out. Pastor Mac and Lynne had left for two or three weeks. Pastor Mac said to Pastor Steve and me, “You’re in charge. Don’t call me. Don’t call Lynne.” We had meetings every week with all the different people that were working on the building. The gym didn’t exist. It was a big vacant room. There was a room within that where we’d meet. Kind of a disgusting little area. But we’d all meet in there and one of the men in charge of the “build out” did not want to do what was in the blueprints. He had the blueprints for the building and for the lobby. There were things on the blueprint that he said “We can’t do that. It’s going to cost too much money.” It doesn’t matter what it was, but he got insane about it. There was maybe ten of us present. He jumped up on the chair and went off. “We’re not going to do that. You can forget about it. blah, blah, blah.” Then he sat down. When he was speaking, every word he was saying was like this [making motion with moving hand over head]. I had the authority to make the decision, because it had been given to me by Pastor Mac. So I just said, “You know what? I don’t care what you say. If you don’t do it, we’ll get somebody else to do it. But we will do what the blueprint said that we should do.” He never said another word and just went ahead and did it. That’s my take on the negativity of today. Let it go like this. I’m not going to get bent out of shape by what somebody might say. But I am going to be in shape with what the Word says.

Yesterday, I read a couple things from John G. Lake about all the deaths that were in his family. When he was 24 years old, 4 of his brothers died and 4 of his sisters died. The rest of the relatives were all sick and dying and invalids. This is in his father’s house. He got a home of his own, married a beautiful woman and had a child. Within one year, his wife was an invalid and his child was sick all the time. He reached a point where “enough is enough.” And he became desperate. He didn’t become desperate for healing. He became desperate and hungry for God. That is something that we need to get. That we’re not so focused on what’s negative, the sickness, we’re focused on being hungry for Him. That’s what he did. He spent three years working on the hunger until one day, the power of God came in his house and they were all healed. He said it was like a devil train… a train of death had tried to come and kept coming. But the presence of God took care of it all. He did take care of it at the cross, at Calvary. But we have a part. And what is that called? Faith. Believing that the Word is true.

John G. Lake quote from “Heavenly Authority.”

A man is in a state of fear. Someone has typhoid fever. They are placarding the houses to keep others from getting in contact with that dreaded disease. Now fear causes your mind to become subjective. When you are full of fear, your pores will absorb everything around you. You are drawing into yourself what is around you. That is the way people absorb disease.

Pastor Ray interjected…

That’s why you don’t want to be around darkness too long.

I was ministering one time where the bubonic plague was raging. You could not hire people for a thousand dollars to bury the dead. At such times, the government has to take hold of the situation. But I never took the disease.

Now watch the action of the law of life. Faith belongs to the law of life. Faith is the very opposite of fear. Faith has the opposite effect in spirit, and soul, and body. Faith causes the spirit of man to become confident. It causes the mind of man to become restful and positive. A positive mind repels disease.

Consequently, the emanation of the Spirit destroys disease germs. And because we were in contact with the Spirit of life, I and a little Dutch fellow with me went out and buried many of the people who had died from the bubonic plague. We went into the homes and carried them out, dug the graves and put them in.

Sometimes we would put three or four in one grave.

We never took the disease. Why? Because of the knowledge that the law of life in Christ Jesus protects us. That law was working. Because of the fact that a man by the action of his will, puts himself purposely in contact with God…

Pastor Ray interjected…

That’s what we’re talking about. Hungering for Him. More of Him.

…faith takes possession of his heart, and the condition of his nature is changed. Instead of being fearful, he is full of faith. Instead of being absorbent and drawing everything to himself, his spirit repels sickness and disease. The Spirit of Christ Jesus flows through the whole being and emanates through the hands, the heart, and from every pore of the body.

Pastor Ray interjected…

Okay so one other little thing. He said during that plague, thousands of people were dying.

During that great plague that I mentioned, they sent a government ship with supplies and a corps of doctors. One of the doctors sent for me and said, “What have you been using to protect yourself? Our corps has this preventative and that, which we use as protection, but we concluded that if a man could stay on the ground as you have and keep ministering to the sick and burying the dead, you must have a secret. What is it?”

I answered, “Brother, that is the ‘law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.’ I believe that just as long as I keep my soul in contact with the living God so that His Spirit is flowing into my soul and body, that no germ will ever attach itself to me, for the Spirit of God will kill it.” He asked, “Don’t you think that you had better use our preventative?” I replied, “No, but doctor I think that you would like to experiment with me. If you will go over to one of these dead people and take the foam that comes out of their lungs after death, then put it under the microscope, you will see masses of living germs. You will find they are alive until a reasonable time after a man is dead. You can fill my hand with them and I will keep it under the microscope and instead of these germs remaining alive, they will die instantly.” They tried it and found it was true. They questioned, “What is that?” I replied, “That is ‘the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.’ When a man’s spirit and a man’s body are filled with the blessed presence of God, it oozes out of the pores of your flesh and kills the germs.”

Suppose on the other hand, my soul had been under the law of death, and I were in fear and darkness? The very opposite would have been the result. The result would have been that my body would have absorbed the germs, these would have generated disease and I would have died.

Pastor Ray…

Wow. He is no different than us! He’s was a human being just like we are. Let that resonate within you. The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. We’re not coming against doctors, of course. But we work together with them. They do their best. But the Healer in this house is present right now. That presence. That’s why we are persistent about the anointing and coming together in the presence of God almighty.

I saw that today like a pouring out of the oil of the Spirit upon us. As we lifted Him. So that brings about that protection and it makes those things exit. Let’s worship a little longer. I cannot stress enough that if we just get in there in our hearts and come under the anointing and get in His presence, our lives, our families, our relatives, our churches, our pastors, our leaders, our President… it goes on and on. The presence of God is critical to us.

You know how it is now, what is good is bad and what is bad is now good? A reversal. I always think that must be the days we’re living in. But I like to read what Jesus was saying in the Word. If He’s speaking it… There was a list of some things, the storm on the lake and several miracles. But one of them was that demoniac that took authority over the devil and they asked Jesus to allow them to go into the pigs nearby. Okay fine. Then the pigs jumped off the cliff. The people were so upset about the pigs, they didn’t even mention that the man was delivered and healed. It’s the same as today. What we know to be good, they don’t want to talk about that. In many cases. A lot of people do. They were upset about pigs and did not rejoice in the power from heaven that delivered that man. The Lord is good and His mercy endures forever. He has anointed each one of us to call forth things that are so impossible in the natural. But by the Spirit, when we speak and get into our hearts and speak out and declare over our President, our church, our pastors, our health and prosperity, we must be declaring it in faith. By faith. In what we’re saying. Believe and you shall receive it.

Anne led group in worship…

Prayed…

Thank You, Jesus… You made us to be Your hands and feet… to use our voices to speak what You’ve said… live true to you and true to Your Word and what You told us to do… thank You for the name… we declare that Jesus is Lord… here over America, in the White House, Washington DC, state by state… Jesus is Lord… we don’t lean on our own understanding… we trust You… we speak what You spoke…and declare this morning, it will come to pass… it’s changing and being rearranged… there are turns ahead and we’ll know which way to go… boundaries… we pull up some stakes this morning and we push out the boundaries of our influence… that we not be so bore sighted but that we would see the criticalness of Your influence through us… abundance… an abundance and some turnarounds… breakthroughs… we lift up numbers this morning… numbers whatever they might be, we’re calling them up… for increase… momentum… restoration… connections being made again… thank You for the blood… we plead the blood over America… we come against division… we call it down… we are one nation under God … we are indivisible… we see things that other people do not see or sense… we know things that others do not know… we call forth a straightening out of the days to come… a pathway… we speak over low places and we tell them to come up and be smoothed out… we’re preparing the way… high places come down and be smoothed out… lies, inaccuracies be stopped by the blood … we hold up the economy of the United States and we declare it will move up… we speak over the economy of our church and churches and we say their economies are moving up… increase everywhere… prosperity… bodies whole and healthy… health restored… we will make a concerted effort… just like we read this morning from John G. Lake became more hungry…we pray for our hunger to increase… we ask for that… work within us that we become more hunger… become more bore sited about the Word and His presence… to be so hungry we cannot go off course… many have gone off course… many have stepped aside and gone another way… we call them back… we call you back into the position or the places you have been called to… we pray for a drawing back in… help from heaven… things that were broken be restored in Jesus’ name… be restored… so the numbers can keep moving up… increase in every area… Holy Spirit given ideas… new ideas… creative ways… favor… Your favor goes before us…

Annie, sing in tongues a little bit.

Annie leads group singing in the Spirit…

Pastor Ray shared…

I’ll end this morning with an excerpt of a prophecy by brother Hagin.

It has come to pass, it is coming to pass, and it shall come to pass. It shall come to pass at last and there shall be much cause of rejoicing. Ha, ha, ha…

I heard the Spirit say “It’s not time to give up. It’s not time to turn back, but it’s time to move forward. For you’re about to move into the greatest move of glory that you’ve ever known or seen. So, take steps with Me,” saith the Lord, “and know that I’m leading and guiding and directing and enter in, enter in. Do not stand back as some do and wonder and say ‘Could this be true? Can this be so?’ No, be pliable, be yielded unto the Holy Spirit and He will guide thee and He will speak to you. And in the nighttime, you’ll hear a voice speak unto you at times telling you exactly what to do and great shall be the rewards thereof.

“Moving, moving, moving up, moving forward, moving on, moving into, moving into a dimension of the Spirit that you’ve not been in before and you’ll be overwhelmed, overwhelmed with holy awe, filled with tears of joy. Oh my, oh my, oh my… ‘Shall we? Shall we, Lord? Shall we enter into that holy place?’ Oh, that place where the supernatural is common place, where the supernatural is an everyday manifestation. Oh my, my, my, it is awesome. It is awesome. Open their eyes, open the eyes of Your people that they may see.

Pastor Ray continued…

That’s our prayer. So if we’ve had difficulty entering in, open our eyes… open our ears, Lord. We believe to see and to hear and to know and do what You’re calling us to. Father, thank You for the new pages in each of our lives. The books that are being written. Thank You for new chapters, and new revelation concerning the assignments that You’ve laid forth for us. Individually and together corporately as members of Your body. Thank You for it. It’s all good and wonderful. We thank You for it.

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