Pastor Ray prayed…
Thank You, Lord… we worship and honor You… we welcome Your presence here this morning… thank You for Your presence… thank You for filling us with a desire for more of You… we hunger and thirst for greater… we pray over all the services in all campuses… for this weekend in Jesus’ name… thank You in advance for Your manifested presence in these meetings… no weapon formed against any one of the services will prosper… the anointing will break yokes, set captives free… thank You for the Power of the blood… we lift up our pastors, Mac and Lynne… we thank You for the vision You planted deep within them… that that vision will come to pass… we believe for it… we’re in agreement … we lift it up to You… You gave them the vision and we are in agreement with them that it will manifest… it’ll be through You… bringing change… we hold the blood of Jesus against any operation the enemy would use to come against this ministry… to come against our pastors… we plead the blood of Jesus… in the same way we drew a line and stepped over into more than enough, we also have stepped over into more of the power of the blood… covering, protection, direction… thank You for Your Word… and Your spoken word… concerning the future days to come… thank You for abundance… we believe it and receive it… what we set our hands to prospers… we lean not on our own understanding, we trust and rely upon You… we lift up Your name and magnify it… our Savior, King of kings and Lord of lords… we declare that we are moving in the right way… we lift up Your plans for each of us individually and how those plans work together, uniting us and moving in the same direction… answers, solutions, help, restoration… all these things in our futures… for the future is bright… we believe and expect to be changed… internally and externally… things are right, the way You made them to be… You made it possible though Your Son at Calvary… Your mercy endures forever… depression, leave! … our minds are strong… thinking on the right things… whole, healthy… spirit, soul, and body… questions, questions… need answers for the future… we know what to do today and that is “look up” … keep looking up to where all our help comes from… keep believing and declaring… we want more of Your presence… we have to have more… an awakening… wake up… we speak over the body of Christ and say, “Get up, wake up right now in Jesus’ name”… and begin to expect and declare… we can do it… things broken and separated, be whole and restored… be made right… glory to God… every touch of religion, you got to go… leave! … we’re free … out of the old and into the new… entering into the “new” … we shake ourselves awake… out of old patterns and move with You… we pray over destinies… destinations that take us further into our destinies… favor goes before us…
Pastor Ray shared…
I want to read this. I was reminded of this when I turned on the TV and I was like, “Turn it off!” A few years ago, Sandy and I were in France. We had checked into our hotel room and it has power shutters and it makes it pitch black. It was like 10 or 11 in the morning when Pastor Marie called my phone. She asked, “What are you guys doing?” We’re sleeping. Is it day? We heard all this noise outside. We opened up the power shutters and saw a march outside. All the signs were in French so we couldn’t read them. They’re waving the French flag. We didn’t know what it was about, what they were protesting about. The next day we had a meeting with one of the men from the church who was an attorney. We asked him what the people were protesting about. He said, “They just got an agreement yesterday from their union and now they’re protesting today for more.” They only had their new agreement for one day before they started protesting again. He said, “That’s the way it is in France. There is always some kind of protest.” I asked, “How do you stay away from all the negativity?” He said, “I don’t watch it. Any of it. I keep up on just the big picture, click on the Internet to see what is highlighted for the past few days. Thank you. Bye!” I thought that was a good policy. I felt like I had a diet of too much negative junk. We have to stay up and moving forward. We can’t be moved by what man says or what negativity says or what lies are being spoken.
I read this before but I don’t think I ever read this first part before. It’s from the Autumn Assembly from this past year. It’s a Kenneth Copeland prophecy. I’ve read what he said about 2020, what the Lord said. But I like it because he has some scriptures about things that are happening. This is what he said.
Kenneth Copeland
Autumn Assembly of Prayer
October 21, 2019
“The Year 2020”
I was praying about 2020, and of course being 2020 the first thing everybody thinks of is vision. There’s nothing wrong with that. Now, I think I mentioned this Friday night, but Hank Kunneman in Omaha, one of the accurate prophets of the land. Brother Hank said this, he talked about double vision, double vision for this coming year and so forth, a powerful, powerful word.
In praying about this coming year the Lord directed me to the second chapter of the book of Acts; to the message that Peter preached, It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh. Verse 16, this is that, that was spoken by the prophet Joel:
“And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on My maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath: blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams. And I heard the Lord very distinctly say this; He said “The year of 2020 will be an increase in dreams and visions, great increase in dreams and visions.”
Now, I want to warn you concerning dreams and visions because there’s a lot of you here today that will have dreams and visions, particularly the pray-ers, particularly the people that spend a lot of time in prayer.
In 2020 it will increase greatly, but 2 Corinthians 11:14 says that Satan, the devil can manifest himself as an angel of light in dreams and visions. So we need to be very, very cautious and aware that the visions and dreams that we have go along with the Bible, and not some little twisted deal.
Be very cautious of scriptures taken out of context and put together like: And Judas hung himself and thou shall go and do likewise. (Laughter, well that’s a good example).
I’ve had people that came to me with things like that and actually thought it was God. If you know the Word, you’d know it wasn’t. But anyway, judge it all. If you’re not sure, let it alone, don’t be talking about it. Don’t be telling it to other people until you know where it came from. Amen.
Now, for the most part, I’m preaching to the choir in this crowd. But I’m telling you this thing is just going to go up. You’re going to be hearing of dreams and visions all year long. So watch out for other people’s dreams. And don’t try to correct them. Just say, “Hmm, oh, is that right?” Particularly at Thanksgiving when the whole family gets together and you’re the Pentecostal screwball. Don’t be getting into political arguments. Do like brother Keith Moore said, “It’s so good to see you.”
If you’re a person with whom God has worked in dreams and visions, don’t try to perform, you just let Him have His way. Make yourself available. Let El Shaddai have His way.
Pastor Ray comments…
Don’t try to perform. Never! The things and plans of God are never to be performed. It’s not a performance. It’s in the yielding and preparation. It’s by the anointing that these words by the Spirit will come.
Brother Copeland spoke about judges from Isaiah 1:24–26, his remarks are in…
Therefore the Lord says the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel. “Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries, and take vengeance on My enemies. I will turn My hand against you, and thoroughly purge away your dross, and take away all your alloy. I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors (lawyers, congress) as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”
Word through Kenneth Copeland on October 1, 2019
Those politicians that refuse My call to unite and become the United States of America and not just America. Those politicians that refuse to listen, those politicians that continue the pathway of hate, I will remove them from their place. I will remove their record, their influence from the record books. I will remove their candle in their families. I will remove them from office and put somebody in there that will.
Word through Kenneth Copeland on October 13, 2019
2020 will be a year of great change, wonderful and magnificent changes in the Kingdom of God, in the earth. Changes that will come because of insights, ideas and concepts directly from Jesus to His Church by His Mighty Spirit. Glorious concepts about His laws, the laws governing increase and financial prosperity. The laws of the Spirit that release miracles and divine healing. Manifestations of His Almighty Power in the earth. New concepts of His love, His very person. For He is love. Insights into the true power and strength of His joy.
It will be days of political change, great victories and great defeat. For the spiritual enemies of God and His people shall be cursed. Spirits, not flesh and blood.
But there are those on both sides of the political divide who refuse to listen to the Lord Advocate General of the church.
Their dreams shall be dashed, their desires shall be wounded and they will be removed from their offices and replaced. Some by the ballot, some by tragedy, and some, who in despair will quit and go do something else.
This is My country saith the Lord Jesus. It was founded by people who loved Me for the sole purpose of their love and desire to worship Me, and to worship the Almighty God. And I will never forget that.
Change, 2020 the year of change and manifested power saith the Lord. It has already begun.
It started just a few days ago.
Prayer for America and Our Leaders…
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.
