Ms. Annie led us singing Bless the Lord Oh My Soul
Ms. Annie shared…
I saw the sun coming up as I was driving here and that song just rose up in my heart. “The sun comes up. It’s a new day dawning.” A new year, a new day, the sun is coming up on it. So, I am going to bless the Lord oh my soul! Ten thousand years and forever more for ten thousand reasons!
Pastor Ray…
So, happy new year, 2018. What happened to 2017? It’s over, it’s done, it’s finished.
Scripture focus…
(18) Do not [earnestly] remember the former things; neither consider the things of old. (19) Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:18–19 (AMPC)
(5) Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. (6) In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths. Proverbs 3:5–6 (AMPC)
The following are definitions of “new” taken from online dictionary:
1. Of recent origin, production, purchase, having but lately come or been brought into being.
2. Of a kind now existing or appearing for the first time; novel: a new concept of the universe.
3. Having but lately or but now come into knowledge: a new chemical element.
5. Unfamiliar or strange (often followed by to): ideas new to us; to visit new lands.
6. Having but lately come to a place, position, status, etc.: a reception for our new minister.
6. Coming or occurring afresh; further; additional: new gains
7. Having recently come into existence: RECENT, MODERN
8. a: Beginning as the resumption or repetition of a previous act or thing • a new day • the new edition b: Made or become fresh • awoke a new person
9. Different from one of the same category that has existed previously – new realism
10. Of dissimilar origin and usually of superior quality • a new strain of hybridcorn
11. Capitalized: especially: having been in use after old times
12. A steady flow of new money
We could say new increases of every kind, good things.
Prayed…
Thank You for Your Word, Lord
That we are healed, whole, healthy, and wealthy
We have stepped out of 2017 and into 2018
We’ve kept in the flow and kept ourselves walking
Toward that new day, new time, new year and now we are in it
So, with new expectation for these days that we have now entered on into
January, February, March, April – they will march on quickly
So, in our hearts we purpose to take advantage of the day that we are living in
Trusting in You and knowing that it is all about You and not us
Thank You for Your strength, Your enablement, Your empowerment in and through us
That sets us on that right road, right course, in the right way
We thank You so much for it, Father
You get all of the glory and thanksgiving
What a good God, a great Father
A wonderful friend – Jesus
Master, Savoir, Healer, Provider, Way maker
Thank You, Lord
I just saw us dusting off some things we thought they would take place in 2017 but they didn’t. But just because the calendar turned and changed and we are over into a new year, it doesn’t mean we should give up or quit. But we should hold fast for all of the new. And some of those things maybe we even put them on a shelf and forgot about them. Well, we dust them off this morning.
We believe for the new, we believe to step out into the new
By faith, we believe for the things that we expected in 2017 to still arrive on the scene
These things that will come, these things that have been promised
Your Word, the power of Your presence, the power of Your Spirit
Thank You that as brother Copeland declared this year will be a year of the Holy Ghost and fire
New Holy Spirit explosions
These things are being rearranged and changed – we take it by faith
We receive all that You have already done, Lord, through Your Son
Thank You for the blood being over this 2018 that we have entered into
Ms. Annie led us singing Because of the Blood We Can Come Boldly
Continued praying…
We magnify the blood
See that blood above every other situation
Lack, symptom, whatever it might be, whatever the report was
In Jesus’ name, the blood of the Lamb has set us free
We have overcome by that precious holy blood
And we walk in victory because of it
We receive it this morning, Lord
And just make ourselves more aware even now than we ever have been
About the power that is in that precious holy blood
How You overcame so You made it possible for us here today to continually overcome
Victory through the blood, deliverance through the blood
Thank You
We plead and apply and use and speak and declare it over 2018
Thank You from day to day to day; from week to week and month to month, thank You for the blood
A new revelation of the authority that is in that blood
New wisdom and understanding about it
Thank You, Lord
The following is a prayer for our nation by Pastor Lynne Hammond:
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 absolute 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 absolute shame.
We acknowledge you this morning Father, You said You would make direct and make straight our path, Knowing what to do and when. All of our leaders that stand in this place of a new year, new power and authority thank You for anointing – this nation is one nation under God, indivisible.
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.
Continued praying…
New answers that needed to come, answers that are on the way
Answers that we are yet to believe for
Supernatural empowerment, supernatural restoration
We pray over this ministry, over our church
Our pastors Mac and Lynne, declaring they prosper in whatever they set their hands unto
Oh, they are protected by the blood!
They are prospering spirit, soul, and body!
This ministry will fulfill what it’s been called to fulfill
Hallelujah! Limits that have tried to hold this church back – be removed in Jesus’ name!
We pray over the outreaches, the new churches that will begin in Jesus’ name
The best, the best, the better – moving into better ways
Stepping into better plans (ha, ha, ha)
Freedom and victory in Jesus’ name
Praying over the school – this beginning new week, new year, new day
The teachers and all of those in administration
We cover that school in the precious holy blood of Jesus today
Declaring “It shall do what it was called to do!”
New days, new times, new plans, new ideas,
New finances, new revelations, new steps, new keys, new ways
Praying over all of the Hammond family in Jesus’ name
Going on over St. Paul and praying over the building where the new work will begin
For the right ideas, the right concepts, finances to carry it out
Praying over Pastor Jamie and Taylor – coving them in the precious holy blood this morning
They will walk in Your ways and carry out the vision for that part of our cities in Jesus’ name
It shall come to pass! It is coming to pass! It shall be so!
It shall unfold in Jesus’ name in the way You want it to unfold
Just Your will, just Your ways, just Your plans in Jesus’ name
And over Pastor Jim and Kristin, we cover them in the holy precious blood
Thank You for the work that will begin in the norther part of our cities
Answers, answers, Your favor
Preparations, the ways that need to be prepared
The building, the plan, the finances to carry it out – hallelujah
Thank You, Lord, thank You, Father, thank You, Jesus
So much greater, so many more details yet to be carried out
Different parts of the plan, different hearts connected together to carry out the plan
Relationships brought continually back together again, made whole, restored, made new in Jesus’ name
Hallelujah thank You, Father
Ms. Annie led us singing Bless the Lord Oh My Soul
Continued praying…
We worship and thank You
You get all of the glory, all of the honor
We know without You, we are nothing
But in You and through You, we can do all things
What comes up, the new things that come up
We shall be able to do, carry out, and go through because of You
Thank You we go through in victory
That we are above and not beneath
We are the head and not the tail – thank You, Father
By faith we declare “This year to be up, over, and above – a new year in You”
New authority, the anointing resident within us, operating
New strength, new understanding, health and wealth in every way
We thank You for it in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Thank you for coming and Happy New Year
