Pastor Ray…
Hallelujah. Good morning, Lord. Thank You for Your presence again today, Holy Spirit, beautiful precious Holy Spirit. We need You more. We’re hungry for more. We love You. We honor You. We magnify You in everything we do, everything that we think, everything that we say. Thank You. You said You would lead us, guide us into all truth. Thank You. We believe to be led and directed this morning and all throughout this day.
We have enough time to do what God has called us to do. We’re not short on time even though more and more you might hear people say, and I have said it too, “It seems like time is racing by.” But we do have more than enough time to do what He’s called us to do each one of individually. Hallelujah. Thank You, Lord.
I want to start out this morning with a couple scriptures in Mark 11. I have it written on the opposite page in my Bible “You’ll never realize beyond your words.” And really Jesus talked more about saying than He did about believing. Obviously, we need to believe what we are saying and use our faith for it.
(13) And seeing in the distance a fig tree [covered] with leaves, He went to see if He could find any [fruit] on it [for in the fig tree the fruit appears at the same time as the leaves]. But when He came up to it, He found nothing but leaves, for the fig season had not yet come.
In Verse 14 He said to it… you know it’s interesting. He believed what He said would come to pass so He said it, because He believed.
(14) And He said to it, No one ever again shall eat fruit from you. And His disciples were listening [to what He said]. Mark 11:13-14 (AMPC)
There is so much more just in that. He has His disciples with Him and He’s speaking to a tree. You just got to know there was so many things that took place that they were wondering “What is going on?”
Moving on down to Mark 11:17 “…He said to them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations?”
And that’s when He overturned the tables in the temple because people were using the Temple as a short cut to get things from one part of the city to another, going right through the Temple. We have commercial buildings on the north and on the south of our church building. It would be like all of sudden the doors open and they are moving things through the Chapel. We would overturn somethings you know. That’s when He said and taught to them “Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer…?”
Moving on to verse 20, “In the morning, when they were passing along, they noticed that the fig tree was withered [completely] away to its roots. (21) And Peter remembered and said to Him, Master, look! The fig tree which You doomed has withered away! (22) And Jesus, replying, said to them, Have faith in God [constantly]. (23) Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him. (24) For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it].
He spoke to it and the next morning when they were coming back they saw it. It took a day for that tree to shrink. It didn’t shrink up right away. It just reminded me of something that had happened to me several years ago when we were living in a different location in the Cities. Here in Minnesota there is a lot of Sumac trees. They grow rapidly and in the fall the leaves turn absolutely red. We had a large back yard and I went and bought some and put it in our back yard along the edge. They were growing up and about ready to turn red. But I had something like paint cleaner, a whole gallon of it I needed to get rid of. I went out on the edge of our property and it wasn’t going to bother the neighbors or anything so I poured it out on the edge. In just a few days those trees which had grown up to maybe 10 or 15 feet tall, they were shrinking. They had died. Why was that? Because what I put in there killed the roots and everything withered and it all died. It just took a little while.
Here it took a day for that Word to work. The Word that we speak or sing, these words are based on what we’ve heard and what we know the Word says. We can’t just say any old thing and see it either removed or come to pass. We say what we know the Word says. And we know the Word does not, will not return void, without doing what it was set out to do.
We have to keep speaking. We have to keep saying. When it says the mountain will be lifted up and thrown into the sea, it doesn’t just mean a high mountain and there it goes into the ocean. It’s every kind of blockage or attack or symptom or disease or lack or poverty or virus or whatever. Whatever it is, whoever says to it, believes so much when they say it, you can believe it will come to pass. Guess what? It shall come to pass.
Maybe there are some things today you would like to see gone. Maybe there are some things you would like to see come forth. Like Pastor Lynne was teaching on Monday, we have angels all around.
Every day it’s something that I do, I loose them and tell them to go forth, work on our behalf, my families behalf, the Churches behalf, on behalf of our nation. We have helpers and we use them. One way to do that is speak, call forth, send forth, and believe what we say will absolutely come to pass. Hallelujah.
I see things right now just moving out of the way this morning as we worship. That is one of the highest forms of prayer. It’s connecting to heaven, connecting our hearts. I just see things that have been blockages moving out of the way. There is no way in the natural, no way to explain it maybe but in Jesus’ name, as we speak today, as we say today, as we prayer today… We could call all of it “prayer.” As we pray today, let’s just by faith see the things that need to stop, stopped and see the things that need to start, start. In other words, we’re moving through. We’re an army and declaring and speaking all through the steps that we take. Hallelujah.
The Lord is good and His mercies endure forever. This is a good day and we’ll keep marching and we’ll keep speaking or singing or saying. You know Pastor Tim can’t just sing without something coming out of his mouth. And really, most all our prayer, we pray it out of our mouths. We don’t just think it. We say it. Halleluiah. Thank You, Lord.
So, let’s just plan for it. Something that needed to be moved away, will be moved away. The way will be cleared up. The low places will be lifted up. Those high places are coming down. And things are smoothing out for the Lord to come forth, for His presence. Hallelujah.
Pastor Tim…
We invite Your presence. We invite You Holy Spirit. Come in this very room.
Father, right now we just yield ourselves to Your Holy Spirit. We yield our minds, imaginings, our hearts, our will, our motives, our attitudes. We surrender this morning all that we are and all that we have we make available to You. We lift our hearts, Father.
Right where you are, why don’t you lift your hands just as an act of our surrender to Him. We’re yielding ourselves to Him, giving Him first place, the right of way. In affect we are saying , “Not my will, Father, but Your will.”
We want to hear from You this morning. We need a Word from You this morning. Thank You, Father, for eyes to see and ears to hear. We want to hear what You have to say. Thank You, Lord. We invite You Holy Spirit, invite Your presence.
Pastor Tim led us singing Holy Spirit (You Are Welcome Here)
Pastor Ray…
Thank you. More of your presence. Your Will, Your plans, not my plans, but your plans. The higher way, we do, we want to walk in that way. It’s what we need, it’s what we desire.
We lay all other ways aside. In You we shall hide. Abide in Your presence. Protected by your presence. Directed by your word. Hallelujah!
You are the Way, that’s right! What other way is there, Lord? There’s no other way! Hallelujah!
You’re the highway. Want to run. We want to move. We want to stay on the highway… Hallelujah!
Pastor Ray…
Stretch forth your hand, Lord. We know You will. We know you are. Stretch forth from above and rescue us out of great waters, out of the hands of those hostile to You, whose mouths speak lying words, and whose right hands are hands of falsehood, lies, inaccuracies, things that are not true.
You execute justice for the oppressed, Father God. You open the eyes of the blind. You raise up those who are bowed down but the way of the wicked you turn up-side-down. The way of the wicked is as deep darkness, and they do not know what causes them to stumble. They’re caught, they’re caught in the courts of their own sin; in their own fall it causes them to go astray and thwarts their plans.
Your righteous children are delivered out of every kind of trouble and it comes to the wicked instead. Hallelujah!The hypocrites with their mouths seek to destroy, but the righteous, through the knowledge of You, will be continually, always delivered. Free. In victory. Hallelujah! Those who oppose your righteous cause, oh Lord, are troubling their own house. And they will inherit the win, but our tongues, the tongues of the righteous are healing the tongues and our tongues promote health and wholeness. We put away from us a forward mouth, and we put contrary, unbelieving lips far from us. We put away from us a forward mouth, and we put contrary, unbelieving lips far from us.
There’s no place for unbelief. We put that away. We cast that aside. We believe by faith. We shall walk in what You have called us to walk into. Hallelujah!
A wise man scales the city walls of the mighty. Brings down the stronghold in which they trust. We take up the weapons of our warfare, which are mighty through the Lord God for the pulling down of strongholds. Whatever that might be, could be words, could be devil activity, devils plans. Whatever it is, we pull it down. In the name of Jesus, we scale the city walls of the mighty and we pull down the strongholds of the enemy, in which they trust. We demolish every argument and imagination that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.
There is no wisdom or understanding or counsel that can stand against the Lord. Their horses may be prepared for a battle, but our deliverance and our victory comes from the Lord. For the Lord overthrows the words of the faithless, and their words hang limp, lame, and devoid of power to affect anything. When the enemies of God dig a pit, they fall into it themselves. When the enemies of God roll a stone, it rolls back upon them. For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed. And the things that they have spoken in the dark will be shouted from the housetops. They scoff and seek to set cities aflame, but through the prayer of the wise wrath is turned away. Hallelujah! Every evil, every plan of the enemy.
Now the voice of rejoicing and salvation is in our tents, oh Lord God. For Your right hand, oh Lord, has done valiantly. Your right hand, oh Lord, is exalted. You are the Lord, and You have given us light!
Pastor Ray…
Thank You, Father. You’ve shown us the path to walk in. You’ve shown us the way to go. You’ve shown us to take steps of faith and keep stepping and stepping. You’ve shown us ways to go forward and not go back. You’ve written it out for us. That it’s up to us to say, “This is the way it shall be” and believe and receive. That’s the way it will be. Hallelujah!
So we say, this morning, things are getting out of the way. We say things are clearing up, and moving out. In Jesus name, we say even to the very atmosphere, “Be normal! Be right! Be changed! Be filled with God’s light!” We say to our nation, “Be one nation under God! Get right!” We say to the church, “Stand up! Rise up! Take your place of authority and begin to speak! Call those things that are not as though they were and see them come to pass!” Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!
For we’ve been placed above! We take our seat in heavenly places this morning and look down. Many of those things that the world sees as grey, we’ll begin to see them move away, move away, and disappear. And we, as we walk in your light will continually be brighter and brighter and brighter and brighter! Hallelujah! Thank you, Lord!
Pastor Tim…
♪ Ooh, they will be brighter. It’s getting brighter! Brighter every day! The way is getting Brighter! Brighter, so much Brighter… The way is getting better, better every day.
I declare victory. We call those things that are not as though they were… We call it victory… We say Victory… We declare victory… We decree Victory… Oh, we see, we see a Victory!…
I’m going to see a Victory!… Oh, I’m going to see a Victory!… oh, I’m going to see a Victory!… I see a Victory!… I see a Victory!… I see a Victory!…
This is how I fight my battle… With hands lifted high… This is how I fight my battle… I put the word of God in my mouth, I speak it, I declare it, I decree it… This is how I fight my battle…By speaking forth the word of God…the mighty, matchless, incomparable word of the Lord… I speak it, I declare it, I decree it over every situation, every circumstance this morning, I speak the word… I speak Victory… Victory… ♪
Pastor Ray…
Absolute victory, we speak it. Declare it. We see it. Victory! We see Joy! We see peace that passes all understanding. We see the comfort of the Holy Spirit moving, moving. We see it! We see absolute turn-arounds. We see change. We see Victorious change! We see things changing! We see things turning. We see it and we seize it by faith.
We’ll not look another way. We’ll not look over there in that way or more darker ways or those words that have been spoken, words of doubt, words of anxiety, questions about the future and how it will be. We speak victory today and we’re walking in it more and more and more. Hallelujah!
I saw that when you said we decree it, like a decree went out across the earth. And the decree said the victory is in him is in Me. Victory is in My Word. Victory is in the church all over the earth. It’s a decree that went out. It’s a decree that’s being spoken forth and it is and it will continue to come to pass. Hallelujah!
In Mark 16:17, “…these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons (devils, lies, inaccuracies, untruths, sicknesses, disease of every kind); they will speak in new languages;…” (tongues) That’s not the way it will be, for we’ve been called and it’s been decreed, we walk in absolute victory.
Verse 18, “they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”
Thank you. Thank you. You know that we can lay hands on ourselves? We do that this morning. We put our hand on our forehead and declare, “From the top of this head all the way through internally and externally to the very bottoms of our feet. In the name of Jesus, we were healed by the stripes that Jesus took upon his back. So therefore, we are healed, whole, and healthy. When? Today in Jesus name. Every symptom, every pain, go, go, go, get out, leave, be gone! We’re free. Hallelujah!
Verse 19, “After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.”
They went everywhere. They preached everywhere. The bible says they kept speaking, they kept saying, they kept declaring while the Lord (what did he do?), He kept working with them and confirming the message by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied it, Amen! And so be it! Hallelujah!
So, He’s working even when we don’t sense it. We speak it. But He’s working. He was working here. He confirmed the message or he confirmed the words that were being spoken, that he said to speak. In other words, bodies were healed, supernatural signs began to happen, miracles, sudden-lies. A Miraculous operation from Heaven, so he kept on working. He kept on doing. Hallelujah!
Pastor Tim…
♪ Even when I don’t feel it, you’re still working. That’s who you are…You never stop working… never stop moving…never stop healing… never stop saving…never stop delivering, never stop…never… never… That’s not even in your nature. It’s not even your character, Lord. You’re always moving, always moving, oh yeah. That is who you are… ♪
Pastor Ray…
That’s who you are Lord. You’re working in our nation. Maybe we could turn on the news under Are You Working Lord? You are working. Things are changing. This is one nation under God. Jesus is Lord over America. We are one nation under You, Lord. The Church is rising up to do what You’ve called the Church to do. Hallelujah! There are more of us than there are of them.
Those that wrong things or lies against us our against our country or against our president or against our leaders – no! We all our leaders absolutely “Blessed!” We declare this morning “Wisdom from heaven, right decisions to be made!”
We pray for all those who are praying, lifting up their voices even in the White house – we pray over them that they will speak the right words to him. Thank You, Father.
Then all the way down through every state. We pray over every governor for wisdom from heaven in Jesus’ name. We will not be held back. We will not be help back. We are moving forward. We’re walking in victory and the Church will continually be the Church. And the churches will be opened again! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Glory!
We see it with the eyes of our faith. We call the things that are not as though they were, today! We have gone over that three times. We speak it. We declare it in Jesus’ name and we’ll walk in it. Thank You, Father. Thank You, Lord.
Luke 3:4-5, “As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness [shouting in the desert]: Prepare the way of the Lord, make His beaten paths straight. Every valley and ravine shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be leveled; and the crooked places shall be made straight, and the rough roads shall be made smooth; And all mankind shall see (behold and [understand and at last acknowledge) the salvation of God (the deliverance from eternal death [decreed by God).”
Thank You, Father. Thank You, Lord. Jesus, the anointed One, thank You for the anointing that is resident in each one of us as members of Your body. Those things that needed to be, those things that were waiting to be leveled out, those things that were not smooth, not cleared up, not cleared out.. We declare today a clearing up and a clearing out in Jesus’ name, a move ahead not a move back. We’re not moving from side to side speaking somethings and speaking other things against it. We are declaring “this is the way it shall be!”
The Church is on the rise. It is increasing. The Church is on the increase. There is more of us as we said before than there are of those that are against us! We’ve overcome by and through that precious blood of the Lamb. We continually testify and tell whoever we can tell about it! We have overcome! The joy of the Lord is our strength! The peace of God is within us! We are not down! We’re up! We’re being transformed every single day. Hallelujah.
Pastor Tim led us singing in the Spirit
Pastor Ray…
Even in your tongues, Pastor Tim, I heard the word victory. Victory is in the air. Victory is in the Word. Victory is in the words that we speak that are lined up to the Word. Victory takes us out of places of lack and places us over in victory. Victory is in Him. Victory is in Jesus. He is Victory. Victory in His Name. Hallelujah.
Today, let’s keep that name right on the tip of our tongue, keep lifting up the name. In that name, the name that is above every other name, there is complete and total victory. Victory in our steps. Victory in our hearts. Victory in the plans we walk out. We believe for God’s plans that they would be our plans. Victory today. Victory in the Church. In our churches, there is Victory there. There is Victory in our pastors. For we have overcome by the blood. We have the blood. We plead that blood over the Church of the Lord Jesus’ Christ – all over the earth for fullness, victory in every way: financially prosperous, spirit, soul, and body. We thank You for it.
Ministering spirits, angels, go forth this morning and work on our behalf. Bring in the finances, work on our behalf wherever work needs to be done, we ask you to go. Hallelujah! Thank You. Thank You. Thank You, Father. We take that seat in heavenly places today. We’ll look at things from Your perspective not ours, from the perspective of Your Word which is true and walk that way. Thank You for it in Jesus’ name.
