Morning Prayer Summary for Thursday, June 28, 2018

Mary led group in worship…

♪ I’m pressing on the upward way… new heights I’m gaining every day… still praying as I’m onward bound… Lord, plant my feet on higher ground… Lord, lift me up and let me stand… ♪

Prayed…

Thank You, Lord, that You are taking us step by step and onward and upward in You. We are dependent on You. We’re pressing into You today, Lord. We choose to press in. We choose to go higher. Father, we thank You that as we press into You, You meet us there, Father. And we ascend higher and higher and higher in You. We thank You for Your plan and purpose as we press into You. We lean into You. We yield into You today. And we expect and know that You will work in us and through us this morning. We thank You for Your plan and purpose right now. Thank You for a word in season. You have a plan and purpose right now for us to walk out and to yield to and to pray out now. In Jesus’ name.

Erika shared…

We’re going to do this right now. I’m still reading “Defining Moments.” That’s a book by Bill Johnson. It’s more than that. It’s given to us by the Holy Spirit for this day and hour. Reading about Carrie Judd Montgomery; this goes right with what Mary is saying.

Like every hero of church history that I’ve studied, Carrie maintained a continual hunger for more in God. But much like Marie Woodworth-Etter, she transitioned with every fresh wind of the Holy Spirit. That cannot be said about all our heroes. Some found it difficult to leave the place where they had finally found great success with spiritual breakthroughs in God. Yet Carrie had a hunger for God that made it impossible for her to embrace the status quo or to live what others thought to be a normal life. Hunger moves people. It moves them to take great risks and to give no thought to what others might think. This just might be a prerequisite to entering into the greater things in God. Defining moments aren’t usually given to the casual or the content. Only those who hunger for what might be can be entrusted with the reality of what might be. Hunger and humility are often found in the same heart. Carrie models what hunger looks like for someone who has already established and successful in ministry and yet is ready for more. Becoming the child again. I’ve never read about one of the generals in God’s army who did not model great humility. God is opposed to the proud but gives grace to the humble. Grace is the empowering presence of God that enables us to do what only God can do. This reality is modeled in the lives of history’s finest and they create a moment that we now inherit.

So it’s not just something we’re just talking about. It’s something we inherit. Amen?

Father, we join our shields of faith and declare in Jesus’ name and pray for Robert Bakke and we declare him to be healed and whole and free from sickness and disease. Be removed from his body! In the name of Jesus Christ. We speak the peace, the comfort of the Holy Spirit, the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, coursing through his moral body bringing health, healing, restoration. Body saved, spirit, soul, and body redeemed from the curse. We thank You for touching Him right now in Jesus’ name.

Pastor Ray shared…

In the presence of God, there are changes that will come that would never have come if we hadn’t entered into that very glorious presence. His presence. The presence of the Holy Spirit will rearrange even our brains and change those things internally that we had no idea that even they needed to be changed. But by the presence of God and the power of the Holy Spirit, the activity of the Holy Spirit working inside each one of us, we are continually changed. Even many times our bodies are hungering in the natural for supernatural change. Naturally they’re hungering for supernatural change. And so in the presence of God, we can and will receive the change inside that we can’t see, that we didn’t know we needed. But He knows what we need, because He created us and made us who we are. He put those things within us. He gave us the gift and gifts that He saw fit to give each of us. And that’s how we fit together as members of the body of Christ. So we fit together but He saw fit that we’d fit together perfectly. And that we fit together whole, healthy in every way, prosperous—spirit, soul, and body.

Mary led group in worship…

♪ Come Holy Spirit, fill us with Your power, live big inside of us… ♪

Prayed…

Thank You for Your presence… Thank You for revelation concerning the assignments given to us… about limitations that need to get out of the way… about the steps we need to take… the days that are to come… for greater expectation that things will continually move … there’s a shaking… things are shaking… hallelujah! … so we can say the best is yet to come… greater days lay ahead… it will be like a locked door holding out depression… any complacency… gaining ground and territory for the King… taking more territory… moving out… greater areas… it’s like blasting through… it’s a continual pounding… pressing… we’ll make sure we don’t miss out or miss a step or turn… we’ll continually move with You… fresh wind of the Spirit… blow upon us, the Church… upon our nation from shore to shore… north to the south… west to the east… bring about that declaration that we are one nation under God indivisible… we call things that are not as though they were… one nation under God… undivided…

Mary led group in singing in the spirit…

Pastor Ray…

I see a loosing like a belt that was unbuckled and open. I see a loosing in the Church like never before. I see people that have been so bound up and tired up, being loosed in the gift that God put within them beginning to shine bright. Like an unwrapping, it will be like an opening it shall be. And those things that were binding them are bound today, away in Jesus’ name. For freedom and victory are the plan of God for the Church. The vision for the Church has never been to sit back. The vision for the Church has been to stay on the attack. To press on even in the face of victory to keep on pressing.

Erika…

So a touch today in the eyes of the Church of the living God, the spirit of seeing and knowing, revelation to see the doors that are open, to see the doors that already have been opened. And who they are and whom they serve. The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead quickening the Church of the living God, bringing her on up and through. Avenues and venues and places and parts, participation in the great plan of God. To a greater degree and a higher level. Oh my! Such cooperation and collaboration. Brothers and sisters and churches and ministries cooperating together in the great plan of God. Every part viable, functioning to the fullest degree, Father. Thank You for great change, great transition, great transformation in the Church… transformed into the sons of God. Following and operating as sons, not unlike Jesus by exactly like our big brother. Hallelujah!

Pastor Ray…

Philippians 3:12–13, “Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own. 13 I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead…” (Amp.).

In my Bible, I wrote in there at some point “PRESS.”

Verse 10, “[For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him…” So when we’re pressing, we’re pressing for more of Him, that we’d enter into that presence which brings about such a strong desire for more of Him and to do good like He did here on this earth. To walk in love. To minister in love. To speak in love. To think about it and act on it.

Paul said “My determined purpose is that I may know him and that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His person more strongly, clearly and that I may in that same way come to know the power out flowing from His resurrection which it exerts over believers.”

Erika…

There are things that must be stopped… but there are things that must be started… so there is a stopping and there is a starting… and there are doors that must be slammed shut… and there are doors that must be called open… and there are obstacles that pop up along the way that must be brought down… there are low places that must be filled in… there are high and lofty places that will be crumbled to nothing… we will operate in the anointing of the Holy Spirit as the Church praying, saying, speaking, declaring, commanding and demanding the works of the enemy to cease and desist… loosing those that must be loosed and free from captivity… we take authority over all those chains that have held shackles around the feet of those who have been called to work in governmental positions… they’ve been shackled and only allowed to go so far… but we say and call in the name of Jesus “Shackles, be opened, be removed, be loosed…” be removed from the body of Christ… let them see and know that there is a more to go… recognize they are free… limitations have been removed… they now can step out… joined together with the body to function at a greater capacity… unity…

Mary sang the prayer for the President and the nation…

♪ Father, in the name of Jesus and according to your Word, we pray for those in authority in our nation. We lift up President Donald Trump, his family, his staff, and cabinet members. Let Your Word cling to them, and let them not depart from Your plan. Strengthen them with mighty power by Your Spirit to stand against wickedness, lies, and deception. Guide President Trump’s decisions; let Your light shine upon his path and show him the path of reversal for every evil way. Continually surround him with godly men and women who impart wise counsel to him. Cause the way of the wicked to be set to confusion and come to nothing. Deliver us from the traps and snares the enemy has laid for us, and let the wicked be caught in their own devises and be brought to shame. We take authority over the plots and plans of the enemy against this nation. Let prideful and lying lips be silenced in Jesus’ name.
Slanderers will not be established in America. We pray for our congress, our supreme court, our military leaders, and our intelligence agencies. Let the wisdom that is from above reign in this nation and be constantly speaking to our leaders. We exercise the authority You have given us to tread down all the power of the enemy. We cast down and demolish imaginations and arguments that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God, and we bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. We bind spirits of strife and division, civil wars and tumults, spirits of hostility, lawlessness and blasphemy, and fires from hell that have burned in our cities.

We speak grace and peace over America. We pray and believe for the voice of truth, salvation, revival, and restoration to be proclaimed and heard across our land. Grant unto your servants everywhere that with all boldness we may speak your Word. We pray for a mighty outpouring of your Spirit with signs, wonders, and miracles. We expect the wisdom of this world that is earthly, sensual, and devilish to depart and vanish until Your mighty work in America becomes a beacon of hope for all people everywhere. We expect the voice of rejoicing to be heard in our nation for your goodness, mercy, and prosperity in Jesus’ name, Amen. ♪

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