Pastor Ray shared…
Next week, we won’t be here on Thursday and Friday because of Thanksgiving.
I wanted to go through our confession over America.
Prayed…
Thank You for Your Holy Spirit
We receive more of You by faith… a refreshing… You always refresh by Your grace
We thank You, Holy Spirit, and we roll out the red carpet for You this morning and welcome You
Thank You for the anointing within each of us
Enabling us to do things we can’t do
In the name of Jesus, we do what You’ve commanded us to do by praying for those in authority in our nation
We look over the United States this morning and apply the blood state by state by state
From the north to the south to the east to the west
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.
Churches, ministries, every kind of stream of ministry that calls on Your name… positions of authority in the church, we lift up… we pray for utterance… words spoken they didn’t know they would speak… Being led by the Holy Spirit… we please the blood over the ministries in the United States… we lift up and pray for the Pulse, that everything that is needed for them to carry out the plan You’ve given them for the stadium to pack it up … many will receive You in that event… we believe you for it, Lord… they’ll have the finances more than enough… they’ll come behind in no good thing… thank You for direction, showing the leaders the way to go… we plead the blood against the opposition that would try to come against the plan and purpose of those meetings… we set ourselves in agreement for what must come to pass… it will bring about a turnaround in these cities… we’re believing for revival, the awakening… the revival turns into the awakening is the thing that will change the face of America… Thank You for it…
I like this in Isaiah 54 concerning the Pulse event, verse 2, “Enlarge the place of your tent and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out.” Spare not, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes for you will spread abroad to the right hand and to the left… So in our expectation, we move out in what we expect will take place… we expand… enlarge and believe that will start up a movement by your spirit… we pray for every speaker in that event… we pray for all the musicians and singers, those that give of their time to serve You in that event…
Pastor Ray continued…
I told Barb that when I was on the way to church, I was in the car and was praying and BOOM… I saw her laying hands on people in here. It was a split-second picture I saw. I didn’t see why but I’m assuming that maybe there are those here that maybe you just need a touch by the laying on of hands. Maybe you have something in your body that needs to go. Maybe something in your mind or other things that need to change.
Let’s go over Isaiah 53. “Surely He is born our griefs, sicknesses, weaknesses and distresses and carried our sorrows and pains of punishment but He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities. The chastisement needful to obtain peace, well being for us was upon Him. And with the stripes that wounded Him, we are healed and made whole.” That’s from the top to the bottom.
Now let’s go back to James 5:13, “Is anyone among you afflicted or ill-treated or suffering evil? He should pray. Is anyone glad at heart? He should sing praise to God. Is anyone among you sick? He should call in the church elders and they should pray over him anointing him with oil in the Lord’s name. And the prayer that is of faith will save him who is sick and the Lord will restore him.” Verse 16, “The earnest, heartfelt continued prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available, dynamic in its working.” That’s dynamite power.
Barb tell them what you told me took place with the youth.
Barb shared…
I’m helping out in the youth now because several months ago when I was here on Friday morning prayer, the Lord said, “Go help in the youth.” I said, “Okay.” So I just started showing up there every Wednesday, just kind of milling around cuz I didn’t really have a job. So they just gave me a pass and let me walk around. They said, “Tell us what you want to do.” I said, “Okay, when I know, I’ll let you know.” Surprisingly enough, the pastor had me the last couple weeks lead pre-service prayer. This last Wednesday, I didn’t know I was leading. He just kind of said, “Here, lead prayer.” Oh, okay. I took the mic and it was amazing. It was the worship team and the adult helpers coming together. But it’s optional. So he said, “If you want to stay, go ahead and stay. If you don’t, just go ahead and do what you need to do.” Almost everybody stayed. So we started praying and I just got in so easily. I was in the spirit right away. Everybody was praying like we do here. Before we started praying, I said “Does anybody need prayer for anything?” One of the singers said, “My stomach has been bothering me for a while, but I believe I receive my healing.” Okay, great. That’s wonderful. I didn’t pray for her. Then we started praying and we prayed for maybe ten minutes. Cuz you want people to stay engaged. After the ten minutes, she said, “My stomach is completely healed.” Nobody prayed for her. Just being in the presence of God for ten minutes and that sickness lifted from her body.
Pastor Ray invited people to come forward if they wanted Barb to pray and lay hands on them…
Barb got a word of knowledge…
I have something about the meniscus? Whatever that is, in the name of Jesus we release the life of God there. Thank You that that thing comes into the right way and turns to where it needs to be. That thing is healed and whole and complete. Health to that in Jesus’ name.
Barb shared…
There is a severe lack of joy in the body of Christ.
Pastor Ray shared…
You know how people say “that’s the way I’m wired.” Well, we declare today some rewiring. Unhooked from one way and hooked to the right way. That’s a rewiring so the joy can flow.
Group continued to pray…
That freedom is available right now
All access in the name of Jesus
Dave shared…
Thank You, Lord, for Your joy that gives us strength and allows us to see what we couldn’t see before. That allows us to believe what we couldn’t believe before. That allows us to go beyond where we couldn’t go before. That resistance…
The Lord just spoke to me that there is somebody here that is in a situation where you feel like you just can’t get ahead. Like you’re at a roadblock. It seems like whatever you do, however hard you work, it seems like there is resistance. How many here has that issue? So here’s the good news. I just saw this roadblock, this “stop” and it was like a brick wall and you’re kind of pushing on it. The Lord spoke to me when I was just quoting that scripture about His strength, the joy of the Lord is our strength. That resistance you’ve been pushing against, you’re using all your strength against it and the Lord said, “The joy is going to push you through the other side.” It will push that over, knock it down, and allow you to flow free again. Keep moving down the road like you’re supposed to.
You’ve heard the ministers lay hands on the sick and they’ll tell them, “Do something you couldn’t do before.” They’re telling them to take a step of faith like Jesus did when He healed the paralytic and told him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” He told him to do something he had never done before. The Holy Spirit is asking you to do what you couldn’t do before. What couldn’t you do before? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. You couldn’t rejoice because of the difficulty or pressure of the circumstance.
The Lord is saying “Rejoice, O my soul and all that is within me, rejoice.” Press into the joy. Even though you don’t feel like it. Your face doesn’t look like it. Let’s think about look in the mirror and start laughing. Ha, ha, ha ha. If you have to start that way, that’s where you start. Ha, ha, ha, ha. You can do that with no feeling, right? No feeling. Ha, ha, ha. Everybody repeat after me. Ha, ha, ha, ha. We’re going to do that again. Ha, ha, ha, ha. If you can do that, you’ve got what you need. That’s where you start. You just keep pushing, ha, ha, ha, ha. ha, ha, ha, ha. Make a joke. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha [laughs to the tune of “shave and a haircut, two bits”] Do something to get your mind off of your problem. Ha, ha, ha, ha.
I’m telling you, if you honor the Lord this way, that anointing is going to jump all over you and pretty soon you’re not going to be doing just ha, ha, ha. There will be a jump and a dance and a running, something that will get you up and going. That’s the breakthrough. Because you’re no longer focusing on the thing but you’re focusing on what the Lord has done. Thank God for the money I have in my bank account. Thank God for the healing I do have.
I encourage you because a lot of people think it has to come on them. Like, “I’ll honor the Lord but it’s as the Spirit wills, brother.” You know what? God’s will is that you prosper and have good success. All the time! That’s God’s will. That’s what the Bible says. So if that’s what the Bible says, that’s the truth. So whatever you’re doing is opposite of what He’s doing. And all He’s trying to get you is in agreement and alignment with Him. If you can get in alignment with Him, even naturally, just ha, ha, ha, if you could start going, that’s a step of faith that you’re even believing to step in front of the mirror and do that. I know what it’s like to feel like the whole world is falling around your ears and no hope whatsoever and you feel like there’s no way anything could be done. I know what that feels like. And I also know what it’s like to look in the mirror by faith no feeling whatsoever and do that and watch God move and change it. That’s what He wants to do for those who raised their hands. And those who didn’t raise their hands! Take this dose daily. Pretty soon, you’re going to get in agreement with the Holy Spirit and when you get in agreement with the Holy Spirit, all of a sudden things start changing.
In closing, you think about the thing and that’s that. And you get yourself oriented and then start doing what you couldn’t do before. If you couldn’t have joy about that situation, ha, ha, ha, ha… ha, ha, ha, ha… ha, ha, ha, ha… Oh ho, ho, ho, ho, ho… ho, ho, ho, ho… okay? Come on now, keep doing.
If the devil can’t steal your joy, he can’t take your goods!
And if the devil did steal your joy, you can take it back! And your goods!
Woman shares a testimony…
I was the meniscus, totally healed. [a disk of cartilage between the articulating ends of the bones in a joint]
Barb…
You were the meniscus?
Woman…
Yes, you prayed for me last spring. I was crippled for about a year and a half. In lots of pain. Actually lots of other things going on but I was like 95%. I got an injury from running and I kept seeing myself running races. I want to run and be totally healed. And so I’m totally healed. I was back there running and it’s gone. There’s like no pain and nothing.
Barb…
What is the meniscus?
Woman…
It’s like a cushion around the knee and I had a high root tear. I had like five things in my knee and was completely in pain 24/7. Couldn’t walk for a year and a half. My husband is back there. He can attest. It was a gradual healing but there was still like 5% and I didn’t go up today because I’m like “I’m good. I’ve overcome so much I’m totally good. I’ll pray for other people.” Then the Lord brought it up. So hallelujah.
Barb…
See, you don’t even have to know what it means. You don’t have to know all the body parts, just let the Holy Ghost move through you.
