Prayer Summary for Friday, June 24, 2016

Jerre led in worship…

Pastor Ray shared…

I was thinking about what Brother Reinhart said about how he knew at age 10 that he was called to Africa, which is amazing. His father, a pastor, said to Reinhart, “Your brother is going to take over the church.” He said, “Praise God! Thank You, Father, that it wasn’t me,” because he was called to 75 million souls to be saved in Africa. It makes you think about how much room there is in heaven. You hear about the reports: this meeting two million souls came in, this meeting a million came in. Over and over and over.

When we look back, we can see that there is a cost in serving Him, but it’s worth it. Sandy and I had friends that we had to separate from. Once we got born again and Spirit filled, we had one set of friends that we were close to us. We did a lot with them. We were so excited about church, being at church. We invited them to one of the services. The wife didn’t come but the husband did come. I was so excited that he would actually be in service. We didn’t get a chance to talk after, but about two days later, I met him for breakfast. I was so excited to hear. Guess what? He was offended. Guess why he was offended. Pastor Mac’s suit was too nice. Hello? That was his one take. He didn’t get it. He wasn’t open to it. So we separated ourselves. The same with my family. There are different members of my family that we love but we can’t hang out with them all the time. It would take us down.

I was reminded of Mark 10 about the rich young ruler who asked Jesus “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus told him to give everything away and follow Him. The rich young ruler couldn’t do that. Then Jesus talked about the camel saying, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” Then in verse 27, Jesus glanced around at the disciples and He said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”

In the Amplified, it says Peter started to say to Him… I don’t know if Jesus cut him off at that point. But he started to say, “Behold, we have yielded up and abandoned everything [once and for all and joined You as Your disciples, siding with Your party] and accompanied You [walking the same road that You walk]. (v. 28) But Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has given up and left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for My sake and for the Gospel’s
Who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.”

I can look back at the decisions we’ve made. My whole family, my children, just because of one decision we made years ago, it has blessed them and brought them to where they are right now, serving Him. And it’s good for us to always know that when we, by faith, do the things He’s calling us to, God blesses us. Like brother Reinhart, even at age 10, he knew what he was called to do. And there were all those millions of souls waiting to be born again. He’s 76 now. He’s not finished. There is more.

It’s such an honor to have him in this church. His life is like something you might read about in a book that happened years ago and you wished you could have been there. It’s like that. Only he’s here!

This morning I was thinking about the first time I ever came to Living Word, Jerre was singing and she’s still singing!

Jerre shared…

It’s called “the eternal praise!”

Once when we were praising in children’s church, I saw the words we were singing coming out like the alphabet. They went out into the heavenlies. At the time, I didn’t know what was happening, but I figured out that this must have been eternal praise. So those words were going out as tangible letters, praises of God. Whatever we sang. Like we talked about His goodness today. That went out into the heavenlies. It was like they went out and they never dissipated. They never went away. The high praises of God were tangible and eternal. So they became eternal praise.

Pastor Ray interjected…

That’s like our prayers too. Heart-felt, Spirit-led prayers that go out and go out and go out and keep working.

Jerre continued…

In Revelation, it says our prayers are stored up in vials. [Rev. 5:8] They’re stored and then put in a big bowl and eventually the culmination… I guess it would be the Word in the dispensation of the fullness of times. We’re in the dispensation of grace but when I read that “dispensation of the fullness of times” I stop there and I go, “Wow. Wonder what that looks like.” But I think those bowls get poured out and just rush the earth at the perfect time. The prayers we prayed ten years ago, they get poured out upon the earth. But stored up. And eternal praise that goes to the heavens and does not dissipate. That’s just something to think about when you’re praising the Lord. It’s important. We know that the high praises of God are like a two-edged sword. Eternal, high praises of God. Never a moment is wasted that is spent in the presence of the Lord. Our prayers avail much.

And the saints that are hanging over the banister listening to the prayers, they have knowledge. They have seen Christ as He truly is and they know Him in fullness. So they know things about these prayers and praises, these eternal things that change things so they cheer us. “Come on! Fill your mouth with praise!”

I was just reading something and I keep going back to it in Hosea. It says “return unto the Lord because your iniquities have …” He said right after that, “Take words with you.” [Hosea 14:2] So returning unto the Lord is turning and then taking words and speaking them to the Lord. That’s a returning. Isn’t that awesome! I keep meditating on that.

Pastor Ray…

When you were talking about the banister, I just read a prophecy from Living Word that brother Hagin gave. I remember the service. He called out Ed Dufresne who was on the front row. He began to speak words by the Spirit over him. Then I started thinking about how both of them are in heaven. Ed Dufresne, brother Hagin and many. Lucy McKee. I always think about her. There are so many that are looking over the banister. I believe they’re encouraging us in our spiritual walk.

Jerre led the group in singing in the spirit…

Pastor Ray interjects…

Jerre, I want to break in for a moment. I keep hearing over and over in your tongues, “Take a detour.” I’m like, “What? Take a detour?” Barb said she heard it too. It was like you kept saying, “Take a detour.” As soon as I heard that, I saw a sign up front that said, “God’s way” with an arrow. So we kept singing in other tongues. But the detour is actually not a detour. It is the right way. It is God’s way! But we were going maybe in another way and so the sign had to come up. When we pray for signs and wonders, signs are not just miraculous healings but they are signs from heaven showing us His way. Showing us the right way.

Group continued to sing…

♪ We pray out those plans… ♪

Barb shared…

We need to take a detour from our natural inclinations, from the things that we think are the way it should be. We need to take a detour from that. And some of you in the body of Christ need to learn how to relax. You need to take a detour from your own intervention and let God intervene. Take a detour from your own efforts.

I was just sitting here when we heard that. As we’re singing, I saw myself in a park. I’m in a park! All of a sudden, my legs start swinging and it’s like I’m swinging on a swing and Jesus is pushing me in the swing. Then Ray said, “Hey, I heard this.” I heard the same thing! The Lord is saying you need to take a detour from your efforts. You need to learn how to relax, how to let Me take care of the cares. Today is a detour. When we sing in the Holy Ghost, what He does is He allows you to set your mind aside and He just lets you flow in the spirit. Your mind doesn’t have to wrap itself around tongues. You can just let it flow right out of your spirit and it takes you on that detour into the right way to let Him help you! To let Him intervene. So just let go. You don’t have to interpret the tongues. Just let it go and relax.

Ray shared…

I like that relax part. Rest. The peace of God.

Group continued to sing in the spirit…

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