Mary led group in worship…
Pastor Ray shared…
Someone told me that 90% of our cares are not worth caring about. They’re not even a care. They come to nothing. What about the 10%? He’s working it out! He is never not working on our behalf.
With Mary singing “This is Who You are,” that’s prophetic. God’s Word makes a way where there was no way. I woke up with Proverbs 29:18 in my heart. I looked it up in the Passion translation. It says, “When there is no clear prophetic vision, people quickly wander astray. But when you follow the revelation of the word, heaven’s bliss fills your soul.”
What is bliss? I looked it up and it’s “perfect happiness; great joy.” What does that great joy do in us? It brings strength. Strength to contend. You know that phrase, “Let go and let God.” There are some things we have to let go of and not try to do it in our own strength. But let Him do it. He said to put our cares in a basket and give them to Him.
Bliss also means “reaching a state of perfect happiness, typically so as to be oblivious to anything else.” That is so critical in these days. Oblivious to all the negativity. Oblivious to all the lies. Keeping ourselves. Declaring what the Word declares and walk in the place of bliss.
In my Bible, Luke 11:34. Here it is in the Message.
33-36 “No one lights a lamp, then hides it in a drawer. It’s put on a lamp stand so those entering the room have light to see where they’re going. Your eye is a lamp, lighting up your whole body. If you live wide-eyed in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. Keep your eyes open, your lamp burning, so you don’t get musty and murky. Keep your life as well-lighted as your best-lighted room.”
Here is another translation.
“We must turn the eyes of our hearts away from the problem, away from the darkness of the current situation we are praying about, and fix them instead on what God has promised to do about that problem. Then we must keep them there until we have seen it coming to pass with the eyes of our heart. For then, and only then, will we be able to believe we receive when we pray.”
So we’re talking about when we pray, if we can’t see the victory, that makes it difficult for us to be in faith, believing it shall come to pass. We have to keep the eyes of our hearts not looking at the problem but look at what He said He would do about the problem. We keep our eyes fixed on that until we see it come to pass. For then, and only then, will we be able to believe we receive when we pray.
This is a prayer group. Do you believe what we say is going to come to pass? If we stick with His Word, and not focus on the problems, what we pray will come to pass. We have to believe or we won’t receive. We can’t pray for our nation if we can’t see our nation coming back to God. We can’t really pray about revival and the awakening if we don’t know what the Word says about it.
The Holy Ghost is power. He is a force. When the Holy Ghost power gets in a city, then something is going to change. That’s just the way it is. That’s why we keep on speaking His Word. Something is going to change. We’ve seen more change in the last year than we’ve seen in a long time. But there’s more. There’s greater change coming.
Let’s take our cities first and pray in the Holy Ghost about them. The only way I know to pray the perfect will of God is in other tongues. City. Family. Leaders. Churches. Ministries. Nations. That’s our prayer list.
Prayed for Minneapolis/St. Paul…
We come before You, lifting You up… we have Your Word… Your light… to direct us and give us words to speak… we lift up Minneapolis and St. Paul… we pray Your plan and purpose for them… Your changes… the people, Lord, and the cities… thank You, that You are working in our cities… Let’s pray about St. Paul… the capital of the state… the governor and leaders… Living Word St. Paul taking a stand… the Word is going forth… it will bring change… Minnesota is moving to the right, in God’s way… Minnesota will be the state that God has set it up to be… we speak increase… we loose ministering spirits to bring finances to the church… turning things around… bodies restored… we’re asking You to move in our churches…
Mary led group in worship…
♪ Welcome Holy Spirit… ♪
Prayed for missionaries…
We welcome the presence of God to go forth… nations hang in the balance… we lift up the nations… church, ministries, pastors… we plead the blood of Jesus over them… we call for supernatural change… positions of authority to move out so new can come in… you turn the heart of the king… we hold up the families, Lord… all over Europe… we stand against division and separation… we call for restoration… wholeness, health, prosperity… change… rearranging things… upside down… something will change… You are working… families… missionaries… in the field… we pray over their families and the mission on their hearts… we prophesy their needs are met… we declare what you’ve been called to do, it shall be done… the vision God has put within you, that shall come to pass… increase… strength… grace… mercy be yours… we hold up the missionaries… the finances… to meet every need they might have…
Prayed for schools…
We lift up the schools… our school… universities… colleges… thank You for change… the ministry of Your Spirit… You’re making a way… we pray for those strong in You to stand up… speak the Word of truth… in universities that are not open, we declare “Be opened up” in Jesus’ name… there is a way… things are changing… to turn… doors cracking open… open to a greater degree… open, open to the way of God… for the Word of God… in the name of Jesus, we focus our eyes upon Your Word, Father… our hearts and eyes on what You’ve said… that the former rain and latter rain would be poured out… things would continue to change… one last great awakening… we’re calling for it…
Prayer for President and Vice President…
We pray over our President and families… the positions of authority… we call forth the ministry of Your Word on their behalf… those that are around them… protection through the blood… we plead the blood over all of them… we focus on the good on the changes… we contend for more… we believe for voices that are detrimental to the nation to be shut down… turned around… hit the road… suddenly… we watch over it… the enemy of our soul is overplaying his hand… the people of God that believe for this nation to be one nation under God shall continue to increase… this nation is founded on Your Word… one nation under God indivisible… we plead the blood… a –
Mary led group in worship…
