Paul shared…
Praise the Lord. Last night, President Trump spoke. There were a lot of people outside, of course, and 52 people got saved. There’s always amazing testimonies of people coming to know the Lord. It’s amazing how God orchestrates those things. That’s our prayers in action. That’s what we see again and again. I could tell you about miracle after miracle. I’ll share a quick testimony. I went to Duluth with the evangelism group this last weekend. The Lord led me to a couple. The man looked Middle Eastern. There was a tall young lady with him. They both were so receptive. I learned they were Jewish from Israel, from Tel Aviv. Which means primarily they’re going to be… if you know Israel, they are nominal Jews. There are Jews born in tradition but they’re not Jewish in faith. But I told them how Jesus is the Messiah. He is the Passover Lamb. You need to apply the blood of the Lamb over the doorposts of your life and have Him in your heart. He wasn’t quite ready to receive the Lord, although he was so respectful. He received and listened. But she said, “Yes, I need Jesus as Messiah.” You have experiences like that again and again. Just spend a little time with Pastor Nick and other evangelists and they’ll have 100 stories like that. God loves you. Thanks for praying!
Pastor Ray…
Thanks for going! We pray, but faithful men and women go forth. Well, we’re all going forth just in different ways. Allen said afterwards, you walked right through all the demonstrators. No problems. It’s like Jesus walking right through the crowds. That was an interesting scene afterward. It was so cool inside. I wasn’t there. Was anyone else here that was there last night? There were a lot of pictures posted online.
That came up in prayer that there would be souls saved in the midst of the whole thing. Souls would come to the Lord. We’re thankful for that and grateful that no one was really injured or hurt. There were a lot of things going on and a lot of verbal abuse and other things. Some people were arrested as they should have been. Our city, basically, was protected. The whole place wasn’t destroyed. We were watching it and we came home a little late because of our granddaughter’s game. At one point, I thought, President Trump sounded like he got over into like a “preach” where he began to declare things. “This is the way it’s going to be in Minnesota.” I received it like that. Preach it. Speak it. Declare it. And prophesy it. Because we believe it’s coming to pass.
Barb, why don’t you tell them about that huge testimony? It’s not about last night.
Barb shared…
I went to hear this minister the other day who is from Switzerland. Remember last week how we were praying about the prophecy of Azusa Street, 100 years from now and the Holy Ghost said revival is going on now. Don’t think it’s in the future. It’s right now. So this man is an evangelist and travels all over Europe. He said people are saying that Europe is the lowest, all through Europe, you would think that Europe is enlightened with all the Cathedrals. He said it is dark but he said it is so open. So much is happening in Europe. Two years ago the Cardinal in Vienna, Austria had a visitation from Jesus and he got born again and filled with the Holy Ghost. So in Austria when you’re born, you’re basically in the Catholic Church. It’s the culture of the country. You’re Catholic. And so for the last two years, every time… He said when you turn 12, you go through confirmation. So the last two years from all around the country, all the kids ready for confirmation, he invited them to one of the big cities with the most beautiful cathedral in the country. He invited them from all over Austria to come there. He preached the Gospel and got them filled with the Holy Ghost! From all around the country. Every year, this is happening. And will keep going. All of Austria shall be saved. You got the head guy. That was incredible to hear how God is appearing to people. God is reaching people that are in influential places where they can get up there and “Okay, you’re here for confirmation? You’re all going to get born again now and filled with the Holy Ghost.” Think about all those kids going out into their country and the world with the power of the Holy Ghost.
Pastor Ray…
God is good. I found a statement that I wanted to share about prayer. E. M. Bounds said “Let us ever keep in mind four things: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.” That’s it. I wanted to read this statement about prayer.
“To pray is the greatest thing we can do and writers who deal eloquently with the need of revival, but not many there are who will at this catastrophic hour give themselves to the necessity of prayer. The chief battleground in the nation today is the battleground of prayer. The prayer forces must be summoned. The church must mobilize on her knees. Christians everywhere must be put to praying. Revival comes in answer to the heart cries of God’s people. The most insistent and urgent pleas, the most fervent exhortations need to be sounded forth at this hour to put the saints everywhere to praying.”
I looked this up in Joel chapter two. I’ll read a few different verses. It begins, “Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on My holy Mount [Zion]. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of [the judgment of] the Lord is coming; it is close at hand— v. 12 Therefore also now, says the Lord, turn and keep on coming to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning [until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowship is restored]. Rend your hearts and not your garments and return to the Lord.”
This is a prayer for today. Hearts.
“…for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness; v. 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion; set apart a fast [a day of restraint and humility]; call a solemn assembly. Gather the people, sanctify the congregation; assemble the elderly people, gather the children and the nursing infants; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber and the bride out of her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar; and let them say, Have pity and spare Your people, O Lord, and give not Your heritage to reproach, that the [heathen] nations should rule over them or use a byword against them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God? Then was the Lord jealous for His land and had pity on His people. V 23
Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord, your God; for He gives you the former or early rain in just measure and in righteousness, and He causes to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, as before. And the [threshing] floors shall be full of grain and the vats shall overflow with juice [of the grape] and oil. And I will restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten— V. 28 And afterward I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. Even upon the menservants and upon the maidservants in those days will I pour out My Spirit. And I will show signs and wonders in the heavens, and on the earth. V. 32 And whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered and saved.”
Amen? So when we look at America and we see everything that was spoken forth last night and we see that there are so many people that are praying for this country. I forget where I heard it but someone said, “Please don’t stop.” But as part of the body of Christ, keep praying, keep declaring. I know there are many people doing it, but we have to take it like we’re the only ones. I have to do it. Keep lifting up this country. President Trump is not like anyone else. No one else is like him. But he’s just a man. Just a man can’t bring all the change that needs to come.
Prayed…
Father, we lift them up. We pray over Antifa, whoever the demonstrators where that were out there last night. We pray that dreams or visions from heaven, if you do it for a Cardinal, we believe You can do it for some leadership that is directing these people to get out and demonstrate. I know it’s a free country, free to demonstrate, but we know it’s only to demonstrate in peaceful ways and not in rebellious ways. So we pray the blood covering over all the people, the people that were outside demonstrating. We plead the blood of Jesus over all the people that were inside, rejoicing. We pray the blood of Jesus over our President. We know that as Billye declared a couple years ago, the only one thing that will absolutely change America is an Awakening. Thank You for an awakening, Lord. Thank You for the signs and wonders in the church.
Barb, when you were sharing about those young people in a Catholic church, I always go downtown Minneapolis to the Basilica. I just can’t help it.
Prayer continued…
Father, we pray for that church, the leadership… we pray for the outpouring of Your Spirit in that church in the leadership, whoever is over the head of that church, the priests, or Cardinal. Whoever is in charge. You did it for the Cardinal in Austria in a dream. You can do it for these leaders locally in Jesus’ name. You did it before there was an outpouring of Your Spirit that swept through the Catholic church years ago.
I know that’s how Annie came in. She got saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit in a Catholic meeting, ministered to be a born again, Spirit filled nun.
Father, there are so many things that still have to change. I’m reminded that as we stepped over into the new year of change. Billye came for a purpose to this church. She came to declare that. We believe it. We’ve stepped over into the land of more than enough, maybe in some ways we haven’t seen yet, but we’ll keep on believing it and expect to stand in it. By faith, we stepped into a new year of change. Changes! (tongues) Speaking of demonstrators or demonstrations, we pray for a greater demonstration of Your power and authority through us in this city. We thank You for protecting the people that went to that event. Thank you for the lives that were changed and hearts saved. They too will do just like the Cardinal and they’ll bring it to others. They’ll be a light and a witness. We thank You for the former and the latter rain for what You’re doing all over the earth. We thank You for what is happening in Europe. The inroads by Your Spirit… thank You for what You’re doing in Iran… for that spread of the Gospel… that many hundreds and thousands of people have had their eyes opened to You… thank You for the move of the Spirit all over the globe… change, change…. changes… turnarounds… new days and times… You are making ways…
I had our pastors come up before me. I want us to lift them up.
Prayer for Mac and Lynne…
Away, away… yeah, that will work… that is working… steady, steady… strong in the Lord and in the power of His might… set over into new… new ways of influence… new days of restoration… for everything that needs to come to pass… the blood, we plead the blood over them… the plan You’ve called them to walk out… together… we have their backs, Lord… we are right beside them and behind them and we contend on their behalf for Your will and purpose… for their eyes to be alert to see what You want them to see… they can… they will… they are… breaking out and into new days… even in a greater degree… uncharted territory… positions and places where they’ve never walked before… we command the devil to get out of the way… you are a defeated foe… we remind you of that… in Jesus’ name, we have overcome…
I have this come up again in my heart. I saw this a while ago; it was like a new chapter was being written. It’s like a book. Their call and our call, if we’re called to be with them in this church. So it’s like a chapter in a book and many chapters have already been written. But there’s a new chapter that is about to be written. So they’re entering into the pages of this new chapter. There will be greater utterance. There will be a greater anointing for ministry and the gifts of the Spirit will being to flow in an even greater way. And their influence will go further than ever before. So we’re in the book with them. We go with them. We take that for ourselves and corporately. By faith we step into this next chapter for our pastors to go forth.
We plead the blood of the Lamb over the new. The steps are ordered… some kind of combinations… maybe resources or maybe others who are called to join and come to this ministry… I’m not sure which but maybe it’s all of that… new… help and resources… it’s not just finances, although it is… for our part, we’ve been called to contend… behind them… they’re moving … there is new all ahead… so we’re marching… we will contend for the greater… open… things closed will be opened… new avenues… of opportunity…
Barb prayed…
Thank You, Father… adding… thank You for adding… those things to them now… adding to that recipe… all those things that are necessary… all those ingredients… You’re bringing those things in them… divine connections by Your Spirit… people that would impart to them… things they need to hear… You’re adding things to this body… that are necessary for us to finish our course… You’re bringing people… ministries and you’re connecting us with other ministries that we need… You’re bringing those that carry the move of the Spirit to us… so we can receive that same move… yes, as we have given and sown into others, You are having others to sow into us by Your Spirit… not by might and not by power but it’s by Your Spirit… all the people connected to this place… open their eyes and ears to hear the voice of Your Spirit… to hear His call… that wooing and that drawing into the place You’ve called them to be… it’s not just Pastor Mac and Lynne, but it’s the whole body here working together as one… one heart and one mind… doing the work and fulfilling the call… for You have appointed this church for such a time as this to reach this state, to impact this nation… for the sake of the Gospel… that river flows here and it flows from this place out into this nation and into the world… in the name of Jesus… operate now Father… operate in this place… in this ministry… operations of Your Spirit… not just gifts of the Spirit, Father, but operations in people, Lord… changing things… moving things… adjusting things… bringing things into alignment, Lord… in their minds, in their bodies… supernatural intervention… right now… we lift up the staff… every member of staff in Jesus’ name… from the school to the church… every church that is connected… we ask You to let Your passion rise up in each one… that this is not just a job… but you are anointed to walk in that place… you are anointed to do that job… and to lean into the grace of God and to receive of His anointing and power… as they’re working in those place… there’s more… Father, we ask that You help them to remove the limitations from their minds… that they would receive… that commission… of the Holy Ghost… today… that they would begin to cooperate with Your Spirit… being a vessel that You can use… complete harmony… one sound… one voice… one vision… one, one, one… in the name of Jesus, one, one… oneness… with You… with the call… with the purpose… oh, how much we can accomplish as one… it is Your plan, Father, working together as one… Pastor Mac and Lynne are working together as one… they’re together as one… and nothing shall draw them apart… they are bound together by Your love … by the Holy Ghost… that oneness increases in Jesus’ name… there is such a flow between them, such an anointing and flow as they minister together… we command every attack against them to stop … you have no place there… we shut you down… we hold the blood of Jesus over them… over their relationship… over every pastor in this church… we hold the blood of Jesus over their relationships… their families… thank You for divine protection … supernatural love that comes into those relationships… that there would be no division… the enemy would have no place… thank You, Father, for the grace to be married… that they experience that grace… every day… no, no, no we’re not going to let you in there… we thank You, Father, we hold them up… we hold up their hands… whatever they need today… Your anointing… thank You, Lord… it makes their thinking right… it lines up every thought… harmony… it’s complete harmony… we made a demand on Your Spirit, Father… ♪ (tongues) changes, changes… ♪ yes… destiny… we fulfill our destiny… every single one… every member fulfilling their destiny… full of peace… joy… ♪ (tongues) When we’re weak, He is strong… we can lean on Him… all day long… He’s our grace and peace… He’s the Master… let Him bring you total release… the anointing of the holy One… He is here… He has already come… yield yourself… to Him… rejoice… we rejoice… we rejoice in the Son… for the battle has been won… there’s a sound of victory…a sound of breakthrough… ♪
Woman shared and prayed…
Billye sent out a blog yesterday and said there is a lady who hears from God that she knows and that for the next two weeks we are to pray against mass shootings.
So in the name of Jesus, Father, I bring this before You. I cover the cities, the towns with the blood of Jesus. Any events that are going on in our nation where the enemy can come in and I place the blood everywhere, that they may not come in. We come against this. We thank You, Lord, that You place before them the standard of blood against them and they will be revealed. It will be shown what they are attempting to do. It will be stopped. They cannot go any further. Now in the name of Jesus. No mass shooting anywhere in our nation. No more. Father, those that are supporting these groups, we thank You that they are being revealed every day. More and more is being revealed to us, Lord. We thank You that You lead us by the Spirit on how to pray, what to speak forth. Right now we stand against mass shooters and you will not come and destroy our nation. Innocent people will not be harmed. We stop you right now in the name of Jesus. No weapon formed against this nation will prosper.
Singing in the Spirit…
Word came forth…
I’ve called you to another level of expectation, saith the Father. I’ve called you up, placed within each one of you a call that says “Come up! Be lifted up and move out into the new that I have prepared for you.” (tongues)
What I heard was “Don’t back off.” Don’t back away from it. Don’t stop. Don’t yield to that complacency. Don’t yield to “I can’t do it.” Don’t yield to that. But yield to the Father above and the power the Holy Spirit has put in each one of you enabling us to do what we can’t do. So we yield to heaven’s ways today. We believe for that infilling, a refreshing this morning of more than enough. Overflowing. Let me just pray this last from Ephesians. I pray that you might really come to know practically through experience for yourselves the love of Christ, which far surpasses experience, knowledge that you may be filled through all your being unto all the fullness of God and may have the richest measure of the divine presence. Thank You for Your presence. Holy Spirit, thank You. To be filled and flooded with God Himself. Verse 3:20, Now to him who by the his power that is working within us is able to carry out His purpose and do supernaturally or super-abundantly far over and above all that we dare ask or think infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, and dreams. To Him be glory in the church and by Christ Jesus throughout all generations for ever and ever and ever. Amen.
