Pastor Ray…
Someone sent me this card. I don’t know who it’s from. They didn’t put their name in the card. It says, “Thank you for holding corporate prayer in the morning for viewers like myself. I look forward to it daily.” I do too, for sure. I don’t view it as “Ugh, I gotta do that!” No. It’s such a blessing. The message continues, “It lifts me up. It’s a reminder of our heavenly Lord who holds all blessings for us. He’s got it all. It is a way to worship Him daily and to stay in His presence. Thank you, once again.” It’s signed, “a grateful viewer.” Then it says, “Thank you to Annie, Danny, Tim for the worship and the music and singing. I love it.” The front of the card says, “The difference that you make, makes all the difference.” I like that! Let’s say it like this: The difference that we make, the pray-ers… I remind of you brother Hagin’s word that said, “You think you’re this kind of a church or this kind of a church,” but if you’re not a praying church… I’ll summarize it like this: You got a problem. The church must be a praying church. So the difference that the pray-ers make, makes all the difference! That’s a good way to say it. So I want to say thank you right back at you. Ma’am or Sir, whoever sent the card.
It takes faithfulness to “keep on keeping on” in the face of… what happened over here and over there. Sometimes you don’t want to turn any news on in the morning cuz you don’t want to hear something negative.
Election App
The other thing I want to talk about is the election. Pastor Lynne has had a lot of calls from different people and ministries asking, “What are you going to do about the election?” They want to know what Pastor Lynne is going to do about it with regard to prayer. What the Holy Spirit gave her was to come up with an app that you could click on and it might be like “prayer… something, something US” or dot US. There will be a logo. You would be able to click into it and get information. Every day there would be different content and things to pray concerning the elections. So we’re believing it will start September 1… it will be up and running. We had a meeting yesterday and there will be another meeting next week. Let’s lift that up.
Prayer about app…
Father, in Jesus’ name, by Your Holy Spirit, You revealed this idea. You said You would show us things that are to come. There are things that we pray about all the time… increase and revelation and understanding and new days and all that kind of thing… this is a new plan. So we lift it before heaven. We pray about the things that are not just known yet or have not yet been revealed about it, how to do it, how it would be best to do it. So we plead the blood out front and prepare the way. We believe the right way to get the app, all of that, all of the techie things will be worked out. We pray for all those that are working on it right now. We thank You for it. That it will work supernaturally well and it will help not just… we’re not looking for just the interests of our church, but it’s the “church”… it would enable the church together, all over America and the different countries to use what is put on there fuel for the fire to lift it up and pray forth the perfect will and plan of God for this nation and for our President.
Pastor Ray…
Who is our President right now? President Trump. He’s not finished. And we believe he won’t be finished. There is a lot more yet to come. This is not a political meeting… we just want the right plan, the right ideas, the right timing, the right words to declare and we believe the Church is going to rise up in Jesus’ name and do what it’s been called on to do. We’re not backing up, but we’re moving ahead. We’re not quitting. And we’re not giving in or giving up, in Jesus’ name. So we cover this. Let’s be in agreement and when it comes up inside you, lift it up to God. Amen? Thank you for being in agreement for us with that. Pastor Lynne will be talking about it on the weekend. She’ll be doing the weekend services on Saturday and Sunday.
GPAN Report
We have the GPAN report that covers what comes out of the chapel, and we have a lot of people that have signed up to receive that. But there are a lot of people that go to this church and when you talk to them about GPAN, they’re like, “GPAN? What’s that?” In case you’re tuning in and you have no idea what I’m talking about, G.P.A.N means “Global Prayer Alert Network.” So the prayers that are prayed here every morning, we create a summary of the meeting and the prayers and it’s sent out through GPAN. The way you get on the mailing list is to go lwcc.org to the Living Word website and you click on “ministries,” and then click on “Prayer.” Scroll down a little bit on the prayer page and you’ll see GPAN. All you have to do is put your email in there and you will get it automatically every day. What will be prayed here today or whatever we read, that will be in the GPAN report. Usually it comes out that day or the next day. Then it’s archived so if there is anything that really ministered to you, you can go back and get it. It’s archived way back.
It’s been four months now that we’ve been live every single morning. So thank you. We’re live. You’re live. You’re tuning in! And we’re all stirred up and fired up and we’re never giving up. That is our motto! We can’t be mvoed by what we see. We’re moved by faith. Annie, please…
Annie led group in worship…
Jeannie…
I saw a river and pressing against the river was a thick dam and it was made of concrete bricks. But the river was rising and rising and rising and it was the prayers of the saints and that river was putting pressure on the dam. And the dam looked like it would never move because the dam was thick and it was high and it had been there for a long time. But the prayers of the saints were putting pressure on that dam. Then I saw just like a “boop.” You know how you pop a bubble? Boop! And everything broke out. And the river overflowed and destroyed the dam. Then He reminded me of the Word. The word that was spoken over this region… that were 35W and the Mississippi River intersected, that a massive revival would come out of this place. And overflow into the nation! And we are right at that place right now, where the dam looks thick. It looks high. It looks established. It looks like it’s never going to break. But we are right at that moment of “boop!” We’re about to break through. And here is part of that word. “The soon coming Great Awakening. With all my being I see the greatest of all awakenings and harvests on the horizon; therefore I know that the enemy of God and man is going to do everything in his power to stop it. He too has seen how God has marked the Minneapolis/St. Paul area for a great part in praying in the awakening.”
So the prayers of the saints right now are putting pressure, pushing back with the blood, putting pressure on that dam that would keep overflow from coming. But we are right on the horizon. We’re right at the precipice. We just keep pressing, keep pressing, keep pressing and a massive awakening will come.
Annie led group in worship…
Healing in our land. Healing to our nation. Healing to our families. Healing to our cities. Healing to all the wounded and the broken. Healing of oppression and injustice. Hallelujah! Oh Lord!
♪ If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray… I will hear them and heal their land… If My people who are called by My name… and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways ♪
Pastor Ray…
In 2nd Chronicles, the part that you’re singing about, that is absolutely a principle for us here in the New Testament. Just the way chapter seven begins when Solomon had finished praying, the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices and the glory of the Lord filled the house! Fire came down. Filled the house. It can fill your house. This house. The priests could not enter the house of the Lord because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord’s house. Get ready! We’re ready, Lord. I love what the people then did. When the people of Israel saw how the fire came down and the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed with the faces upon the pavement. And they worshiped and praised the Lord saying, “For He is good, for His mercy and lovingkindness endure forever.” For the Lord is good. Sing that, Annie.
Annie began to sing “for the Lord is so good…”
Pastor Ray…
Before 2nd Chronicles 7:14, after the people bowed down and began to say that, you know, a lot of other things happened but Solomon finally finished the Lord’s house and the king’s house and all that had been planned to do in the Lord’s house. It was all accomplished successfully. And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night and said to him, “I’ve heard your prayer. And I’ve chosen this place.” We have prayed. We have lifted these cities. We have stood on the words that have been spoken as Jeannie read this morning… over this area up here in the northern part of the United States. We have prayed and we believe God hears our prayers when they’re based on what the Word says, based on words spoken by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Lord appeared to Solomon and said, “I’ve heard your prayer and I’ve chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.”
Then in verse 14, “If my people…” are we His people? Yes! And we’re called by His name. “If we shall humble ourselves…” get down and humble ourselves. Pride has no place in the body of Christ. If we know who He is and what He has done and is doing… we humble ourselves and pray and seek and crave and we require as a necessity His face and turn from all our wicked ways.
I drew a line all the way down to the bottom of my page and wrote, “Stop division in the church.” We hold the blood against any kind of division that would try to divide the church and make the church not as powerful as it should be. We put a stop to that. Then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer offered in this place. We know he’s talking about the temple. But we could take it the same way. He’s talking about this place or wherever you are. Your region. Your area. Your city. Your personal home. Your church. Your pastors. Hallelujah.
When I got in my office, I sat back in my chair and I was like, “I’m deciding today whether or not I’m filled up with you. I decide I want to be full.” We make decisions every day. If we want to be filled up and stay full of Him, we make that decision. I had written out about how a lot of times we give glory to the Lord, we glorify God, but in the Greek it’s the same thing as magnify. We do that… “We magnify You, Lord.” We’re not making Him bigger. He is big already. He’s the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. He’s unchanging. We’re the ones who change. This reminds me … I don’t wear makeup. Does that surprise you? ha, ha… but I have a makeup mirror. It’s in my cupboard. One side is normal and the other side is magnified. When I look at it, it’s not that I’ve changed. It’s just the mirror. I’ll say it again. God does not change. We change when we magnify Him. A lot of the times, the problem is right between our ears and we’re not expecting. So I ask you, do we really magnify Him and value Him? Do we? Just a couple points. Do we value His Word? We can magnify the Word by getting into it, reading it, praying it. Do we value His presence? We do so much.
When the Lord told Abram, you’re going to be the father of nations, he was 100 years old! His wife was old too. You think he had some doubt that tried to get in? Or things he thought that would weaken his faith? And what the Lord had said to him. I love Romans 4:20, “no unbelief or distrust made him waver.” Can it come to pass? Or doubting the question concerning the promise of God. We can do the same thing. We magnify Him… meaning we see Him as He is. God of all Gods. Beginning and the end. All powerful. But Abram grew strong and was empowered by faith as he gave praise and glory to God. Fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He had promised. We have His promises. We have promises given to prophets throughout centuries but here in the time we live in right now, we have promises. So… Lord, you said it. We believe it. We’ll be like Abraham. We’ll keep in faith. Do not allow fear to get in or distrust that He can do what He said He would do.
The Minneapolis/St. Paul, lots of attention has come to our cities, but in the wrong way. God can turn it around and we believe He is turning it around the things that the Devil meant for evil. And you can drive in south Minneapolis and see evil. But you can also see men and women beginning to rise up. And there has been prayer there. There’s been worship there, in the heart of that area. So we declare based on what was said about these cities… these cities will change for the better. They will move in Your perfect will and ways and no matter what we see in the natural or have seen, we will see come to pass what was declared over our cities. I’ll say it again. Get ready! Get ready! We’re so ready.
We declare this morning that we will not stay the same. We’re not going backwards. We don’t want to be the way we were. We want to press forth and breakthrough and move ahead. We cover the United States with the blood. The United States. One nation under God, indivisible. We are one nation under God. The God of all creation. The King of Kings. That’s the way we see it so we say it.
Annie, could you sing about America?
Annie led group in singing…
♪ We are one nation under God… under Jesus’ blood… washed clean by His blood… the sins of the past, they don’t have domination over us… oh hallelujah! … we are one nation and we are under God… ♪
