Pastor Ken…
Good morning, y’all! So good to see your smiling faces on this Tuesday morning. Good to see you. Welcome everyone.
Prayed…
We thank you, Lord, that this is hour … this is our time… that heaven opens up at the sound of prayer.
Lord, we just turn our attention and our affections to you this morning, we just lift our eyes to you.
Lord, let heaven flow to and through us this day. Lord, let your will and your purposes and your power and glory be channeled through this time and through each and every heart.
Let your glory be channeled into situations and circumstances into our nations’ governments and leadership today… that there would be a visitation of heaven in our land.
As a deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God…
Psalm 42:1 says, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to me, “Where is your God?” 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise,
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast. 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan, and from the heights of Hermon, from the Hill Mizar. 7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and billows have gone over me. 8 The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me—A prayer to the God of my life.”
Continued praying…
Father, we pray you would impart to each and every one of us, a deeper more profound desire to know you to follow hard after you.
Father, we pray for holy fire to be ignited on the altar of our hearts today.
We hunger for you and desire you, Lord.
Father, let your fire burn us brighter and brighter… Take us higher and higher.
I hear this as supernatural sorting out, sorting things out… in our hearts, Lord, in our lives, in our churches, that you would sort some things out today … in our nation today…
Come and have your way, Lord… come and have your way… invade our hearts … Invade our churches and our faith communities… invade America…
Let your spirit invade… let your glory fall… let your goodness be seen… let there be a holy fire lit here and then over there… until the whole earth is consumed by your holy fire.
We pray for resurrecting fire to ignite a newfound passion in the hearts of your people… we pray for fire, Lord, to ignite the vision once again… a vision for your plan and your agenda.
We pray for fire to come and separate and to burn out all that is unnecessary … burn out the wood, the shaft, the stubble, all that is not of you today.
Father, we pray that there will be a refiner’s fire in the hearts of your people in the heart of your church.
God, have your way in America… have your way in Living Word… have your way in our pastors.
We pray, Lord, for the ignition of breakthroughs and healings and the miraculous across the body of Christ, through the church and into the earth today.
We pray for in ignition of what we read about in the book of Acts in the way of not just the gifts of the Spirit, but the works of Jesus and even the greater works.
Oh, let it go all over the earth, Lord, let it spread across the lands.
Move over … all that is secondary, move over, move out of the way… preconceived ideas, religious limitations, move, move, move in Jesus’ name… any boundaries implemented by man, we command them to be moved out of the way …
Kenneth Hagin’s prophetic word coming to pass…
This is something that I have read before, but it’s a prophetic word that came many years ago through Dr. Kenneth Hagin. And it’s seen a bit of a resurgence in recent years, even in the secular arena, being picked up on certain news channels, because it’s shockingly “spot on” concerning what’s going on in our nation in particular and in the earth. It’s a vision that brother Hagin had. He talked about seeing different blots.
He said, “And He spake unto me and said, Son…” He saw this blot “in the atmosphere and on the earth the darkness of atheistic communism that is sweeping across the nation, even in the minds of men in high places and politicians with great power. And this nation shall not grow more strong and you shall never have more liberty than you have now. But liberties that you have that you’ve known shall be seized and shall be taken from you.”
Now hold on, okay. That’s not meant to be a discouragement.
He goes on to say, “And I looked again and I could see upon a map a blot as though a bottle of ink had spilled and it spread out over several states in the south and east. Then I looked and I could see spots splotched all over the map. And I said, Lord, what does this mean? And he said, Communistic-inspired hatred among the races shall cause turmoil more than your nation has seen before. It’s not the will of God, but men’s hearts are perverse. They walk without the love of God. They seek to have their own way. And so it shall be worse than you’ve seen before. And I said, O Lord, is there a remedy? What shall be the answer?
A ball of fire falling from heaven to the earth…
And He said, Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceived and being deceived. And then I said, O Lord, do we have anything to look forward to in the future except darkness, the blackness of war, destruction, and evil? Then He said, Son of man, forget not your text. For you look not at things that are seen. So then I looked into the spirit realm and I saw falling upon the map a ball of fire from heaven. The closer to the earth, the bigger it got. Then when it came to the earth, it divided into small balls or sparks of fire and fell upon men. And I saw an army of men and women rise up. It seemed as though their hands were fire and there sat upon their heads a tongue of fire.”
Do you see that? I mean, sometimes if you just take time to worship and adore and magnify Him, you’ll sense your hands start to burn. I have anyway. That’s the glory of God. Not just meant for you just to reserve it for yourself, but to dispense it, to release it.
The definition of leadership is influence…
Pastor Lynne always used to say that when she lays hands on someone, she’s very intentional and purposeful that she’s releasing something good and something of God into that person. The glory of God resides in us, right? We are those earthen vessels that have been cleansed and made perfect by the blood of Jesus that the very presence of heaven would dwell in us, that we would be carriers of that and carry it to the earth, into the nations, into every atmosphere and space and place that we go and everything that we touch and have an opportunity to influence. You’re here to influence. Right? That’s John Maxwell’s great definition of leadership. Leadership is influence… nothing more, nothing less. We’re here to spiritually influence with the glory.
Before the day of darkness comes, God’s army of believers will rise up… on fire with Him!
But this vision goes on to say… “Then when it divided into small balls of fire and sparks of fire and fell upon men, I saw an army of men rise up. It seemed as though their hands were fire and there sat upon their heads a tongue of fire. When I first saw it, I thought their whole head was fire, but it was a tongue of fire, tongues of fire leaping. I said, What does this mean? And he said, Before the worst shall come and the day of darkness shall come, there shall go those who shall carry the fullness of My truth and the fire. Not only to the states of this nation, but to many other places. For there is a work that must be done. First, spiritually before the Lord shall come. Now prepare your hearts.
Prepare your heart…
If you didn’t get it, that’s what God’s saying to us this morning. “Prepare your heart.”
“Now prepare your hearts for the time is at hand and the beginning is now. And you shall see and you shall know for the hand of the Lord is upon you and many others to be used in these last days. And the work shall progress. And I said to Him, “Lord, thank you that I may have a small piece in the work.” And He said, “I will cause your tent to be enlarged.”
Let’s believe for that today. Maybe you’re content in what you have, but believe for your tent spiritually, your influence spiritually to be enlarged, to be increased.
“Thou shall have an enlarged ministry and shall minister to many for you have ministered to a few. Therefore go back to the earth and be fruitful and give forth that which I tell you to give.”
A man died and went to heaven where his life was audited!
I shared this once before, but there was a gentleman that I know of. He’s got a pretty remarkable ministry today. Many years ago back in the early nineties, he died. He had a routine dental surgery where he was put out. And back in the early nineties, they didn’t monitor your heart and your vitals to see if you were still on the earth during that procedure. And he died and had an experience in heaven. And of course came back. But he said when he died and went into the heavenly realm, immediately, an audit was done on his life. And that audit revealed quickly at what level he was functioning in God’s plan and purpose for his life and future. And he realized or understood that he was only doing for God about 30% of what was possible, that there were so much more, not out of his own effort and his own strength, but out of the grace and the mercy and the glory of God, there was another 70% fruitfulness and power and intentionality and purpose that God intended to bring through him.
So I think that’s a good prayer to pray, not that we would be weary to think about how much more we have to do, but God wants to increase our effectiveness in prayer and in our assignment on the earth. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. He’s pressing down on the accelerator of His plan, but with it comes glory… with it comes the empowerment and grace and what we need to fuel us in these last days.
So He said, “Thou shall have an enlarged ministry and shall minister to many for you’ve ministered to a few. Therefore go back to the earth and be faithful and give forth that which I tell you to give. For you have been reluctant in days gone by to tell it. Now, tell it boldly and speak in truth for now is the day it shall be so. For the word of the Lord came unto me saying the prophetic vision shall be restored under the church, for even in the days of old under the Old Covenant, the prophet would see by vision and prophecy. And so the prophetic vision shall be restored unto the church. This is the time. This is the hour. And this is the place. Amen. Hallelujah.
