Pastor Ray Prayed…
Aren’t you glad when we speak to Him, He always hears?
And you don’t have to send a text
We don’t have to wonder if the sound is right
I love that He takes even our groans, just sounds that come out of us
And He turns those things into prayer
Just for a little bit let’s pray in tongues – let’s all be a part of this
(tongues)
Ms. Jeani prayed…
Each one, each one,
Oh, the way is straight and easy
All the debris removed and crushed – brought to nothing
The way is straight, the path is clear
Just walk, just walk, just walk – up, up, up, up
We go higher, we go higher
For there is a way and it’s a straight way and it’s clear
Oh it’s a light way
The way, the truth, and the life lives in us – we take it wherever we go
Peace, peace, peace, peace that passes understanding
When you feel pressed in, feel the pressure, you have peace that passes understanding
And it opens up and clears the way
What is pressure compared to peace? There is no comparison
Thank You, Daddy! We thank You! We give thanks!
Our bodies a living sacrifice of thank today! Thanks and joy!
Joy overflowing – unspeakable joy!
That presses out the pressure, that makes the way clear
We just lean into peace today, we lean into joy today
And peace and joy makes the way! You make the way where there seems to be no way
You open doors that no man can open and You’ve already done it and it is done today
The key, You are the key, we have the Living Key
The key that is alive, that doesn’t move, the key that is I AM every moment, all the time
We have YOU! Everywhere we go – openings! Things shaking on Your behalf – just for You things are shaken loose! Just for You!
Happy! Happy! Happy are we who have the key!
We are the ones
Do you see that door that seems stuck and closed?
You are the answer, you have the key
Scripture focus…
(1-2) …Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud.
Pastor Ray…
He is the way, the truth. He cleared out the way and for us we have the authority when any other kind of thing gets in the way to tell it to get out of the way.
A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.
(3–4) God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that.
The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us. (today!)
(5–8) Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God’s action in them find that God’s Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn’t pleased at being ignored.
(12–14) So don’t you see that we don’t owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. There’s nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. God’s Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go!
(15–17) This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike “What’s next, Papa?” God’s Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what’s coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we’re certainly going to go through the good times with him!
(18–21) That’s why I don’t think there’s any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. The created world itself can hardly wait for what’s coming next. Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens.
(29–30) God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.
Pastor Ray…
He is faithful. He is faithful to us. He knows our names. Oh, Lord, we worship and honor You.
(31–39) So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture: Romans 8:1–8, 12–21, 29–39 (MSG)
Continued praying…
Nothing can separate us from His love
Thank You, Father, thank You for Your goodness and Your mercy
For Your kindness and Your graciousness toward us
We humble ourselves, internally we bow ourselves before You this morning
Knowing that You set things right, knowing that You set it up in the right way
Knowing that You by Your Spirit have made that way
That bumps in the way are being smoothed out
Knowing that all those low places we can speak unto those and call them up! And see a smoothing out and see a direction and see You plan and see Your will
Momentum is in the house of God!
We’ve turned up! You have tuned us up! Hallelujah
And things are looking up! Things will turn out right and things are turning out right
And the Devil has been defeated and his ways are finished and the church is rising and rising and rising and we are walking into the new!
We’ve not even been here before – these are new days! New times!
So we are blasting through, we are breaking through, we are going through, there’s more, there’s greater, there’s a furtherance, there are increases galore!
Oh the great inheritance from heaven! Children of the King of kings and Lord of all lords!
Hallelujah
Ms. Annie led us singing…
♪ You have been and You will be
You have seen and You will see
You know when I rise and when I fall
When I come and go, You see it all
Yet You have made a way for me to come
And nothing can separate me from Your love
Not tribulation, not distress
Not persecution, nor famine or nakedness
Nor perilous sword can every separate me from Your Lord
Because You have made a way
By Your own hand You have made a way
By Your blood, by Your blood You made a way
You made a way where there is no way
Nothing can separate us from Your love
because You made a way by Your very blood
You’ve named us, You’ve called us Your very own
You have gone before us, You’ve made for us a home
We are found in You, we are found in You
We are found, in You Jesus, in You we are found
Glory to Your name, hallelujah ♪
Pastor Ray…
Those things, those situations maybe personally, maybe individually, ways, answers that have not come, situations that have not changed, seemingly there is no way, there is a way. As we sing that and know that, what He has said in His Word, that He is the Way Maker, we turn aside from thinking there is no way to knowing that there is a way! There is a way and it is heaven sent and it is for all of us. Separately but together, there are ways. We could say in many places or ways or times that we are right on the edge of that coming forth. Maybe sometimes we back off or back away from it, but today we purpose to continually contend for the right. The right way that God has sent for us individually but for us corporately together as members of the body of Christ. There is a way for this nation to continually change, to continually move in the right way. There is a way in Minnesota, for Minnesota to continually move more God’s right way, to God’s right plans. Changes that looked like they would never come, there is a way and we declare it over Minnesota.
Beginning with our governor all the way down through all those in positions of authority in our state
We pray the blood covering over them
And we pray for changes, declaring changing and rearranging, turns
Just because it was one way before does not mean it will not be another way now
And another way in the future – better ways and better days!
We pray over our state capitol – we go on over to St Paul
Covering every aspect, all in authority positions
Pray over Paul Gazelka, for his plan and his purpose, his influence in the Government in Minnesota
In Jesus’ name, we cover him in the blood of the Lamb
Pray for strength, supernatural ways where looked like there was no way
New ways in these days, turns, changes, rearranging, openings, keys, doors, gates
Thank You for fire, Lord! The fire in us, for supernatural fire that will burn within our hearts
And cause us to never cave in, never turn around, never give up, never quit
But continually press, press, and move
And contend, believe every day for Your right way and your right plan, Father
Power, dynamite dunamis Holy Ghost power!
We pray over the Church in Minnesota
And we are thankful and grateful for a new beginning in St Paul – Living Word St. Paul
Thank You, Father, for prospering that church in its first service
And from here on out – increase in Jesus’ name in the heart of St Paul!
To make a difference in those that are leading, leaders in Jesus’ name
Those that are in positions of authority – where some control what happens in the state
Answers, help, direction, Your plan in Jesus’ name
Ms. Annie led us singing Oh the Blood of the Lamb
Continued praying…
Heavenly Father, we take that blood and apply it over the Unity Prayer gathering in May
Every aspect, over the plans that are still being made
Praying out in advance over every speaker, musicians, the atmosphere in the stadium
Thank You for making a way where there seemed to be no way
Seemingly it was impossible but suddenly there is a way and You created that way!
Thank You for clearing out the debris
For putting the anointing resident within us, Your children, to call things right
To call hindrances out of the way, to put a stop to wrong plans or wrong ways, plans that have been made to come against it in Jesus’ name
The blood of Jesus over the stadium, around the outside
Let every voice that would try to come against Your plan or Your will be put to nothing, shut down in Jesus’ name
We lift all of the finances needed before heaven this morning
Calling forth an increase more and more – more than enough to do what is called to do!
Every leader in Jesus’ name of that event, we cover them in the blood of Jesus today
We declare no weapon formed against them or their families can prosper but in Jesus’ name they prosper
There is prosperity concerning that event
Speaking over every seat to be filled in the name of Jesus
Be filled up, calling from the north, east, south and west
Calling those that would be a part of it to begin to plan, to come forth in Jesus name
Thank You, Father, for the part that Pastor Mac and Pastor Lynne played in this whole situation in Jesus’ name
I pray for wisdom through them to speak to the leaders in Jesus’ name
To Nick Hall and all those that are a part of PULSE, that have had that plan from You
Father, thank You that they have ears to hear in Jesus’ name
Even now new ideas, new plans, greater plans, greater expectancy
Not that we can just say “This many people came”
But that we can say “Our cities were changed!”
Hallelujah! In Minnesota – changed! Changed!
For Your will, for Your plan, Lord
We move on out over to Washington DC
Lifting up our president and vice president all of their families
And all those that our president has an ear to hear
Praying over the things that they will say
We pray over the right ones to speak into him, that the Word of God would go forth
Thank You for prayer in the White house! Thank You for those that lead it
That they are directed by Your Spirit
Thank You, Father, it will not be just prayers out of the mind but it will be prayers by the Spirit
Thank You for protection over all of our leaders
We come and lift up I Timothy, all of our leaders!
That it would go well with us, that it would go well with the Church
That it would go well with what we have been called to do
Thank You for freedom in this country, thank You that the Church is free
That we can declare Your Word liberally and freely in Jesus’ name
We take authority, again today, over every lie
If you just think about the things that are spoken day after day, almost 24/7, lies about our country, lies about our president, lies about what we believe is right, words spoken against the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ
We know there will be those but we render them inoperative in Jesus’ name
We hold the precious blood of Jesus against them
And we will just declare today that the Church is not backing off
The Church is rising up!
We declare through the Church by the authority of the Church for Your plan and Your purpose for our country
One nation under You, Lord! Hallelujah!
We pray for protection, going around the borders, the waterways
Plead the blood over all of the containers that are stacked on our shores in Jesus’ name
Praying over our schools, businesses, cities in Jesus’ name
Asking today and declaring it again revival! For a revival, Lord
The things that have cooled off would be heated up again!
We pray for fire! Supernatural fire that burns in the hearts of our cites – Your fire in Jesus’ name
That wrong fires would go out and Your fire would burn bright
The Light of Your Spirit would burn bright again!
Not because You have not sent it but we maybe haven’t received it
We receive it! And we put a stop to those things that would try to put a stop to it in Jesus’ name
Every state – state by state by state
It almost seems like we are still in the election time
You know where we are watching over the states, where we are watching over the governors
Watching over which way states will go
All the prayer that were prayed even before the last election
We water those prayers today and we believe these things are coming up and coming true all the way
Things that need to be changed, they are still changing
Even now things are changing, they are changing today
People are being moved out and others are being moved in
So we will hold fast to what You said, Lord, the truth of Your Word
We know that You lead us in all truth! Glory to God! And Your Word is true!
Wherever the enemy has come in the Holy Spirit comes in like a flood
Lifts up the standard! Oh, the standard of the Church – an awakening in Jesus’ name
Revivals moving increasingly every day – greater and greater and greater
Until the last great awakening breaks loose! Oh we see it! We see it!
We believe You for it! Ha! Ha! Ha!
So broken things are being restored!
Things that were broken up, together today
Connections that were meant to be so that were severed and cut off, different ministries that were cut apart from Your will and from Your plan, it’s not right, it’s coming back together again
We see that, churches, ministries coming together in one accord in this country
Steady, steady, staying steady, strong in the Lord
Boundaries are moving out even further, the momentum of the Church, the influence of this Church, the influence of this church is increasing ever more
Thank You for it, Lord, for Your life, for Your presence, for Your power
For Your mighty, manifested presence
Thank You, Jesus, it’s Your presence in everything You do, in the prayers we pray
Thank You for the touch of Your presence today
We lift You higher, we lift You higher
Ms. Annie led us singing We Exalt You
Continued praying…
Worthy of all honor, all praise, all worship, our thoughts and desires
You are worthy, worthy, worthy – our great Father
Today we lift You up, magnify You
And purpose to continually think on You and trust You – lift You up
Thank You, Father, for this day
Things are looking up and working right in Jesus’ name
Amen
