Rob led group in worship…
Good morning, everyone. I’m kind of pumped up this morning. I took a drive down to the Capital this morning because there’s something happening down there. It’s called Awaken the Dawn. There’s been people praying 24 hours a day at the State Capital. And Sandy and I went down there. We were thinking about playing and worshiping there with them. But God had some other plans, and so he brought John Blobaum down there. I said, “Okay, John, you cover this. I’m going to come back.” I just felt like there’s something here that we’re supposed to connect with here as well. I’m telling you, there was such a presence of the Lord there. I did play the keys a little bit and I just felt such… I could just tell the prayers had just been going out over that entire area. It was just amazing to feel the presence of the Lord. Prayer has no boundaries, so we can just join right in with them there and just be lifting up our Capital and our State and our government and nation. It’s amazing what God is doing all over and uniting all these churches. Just the precious prayers that… there were some of them that had been there since 7 last night, praying nonstop. When I came down there, I just felt the presence of the Lord and it was amazing. So I’m kind of on a little bit of an adrenaline high this morning. So let’s worship the Lord this morning and lift up our hearts to Him. Just sit in His presence. He is here so we sit and worship in His presence.
Barb shared word…
I have a word that this is not a scripture but just like David, I believe that this is like a psalm for our country and a prophetic word. You might recognize it.
My country tis of thee
Sweet land of liberty
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died
Land of the pilgrim’s pride
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring.
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love.
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture fills
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom’s song.
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
Our father’s God to, Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing.
Long may our land be bright
With freedom’s holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King!
Barb shared…
“To Thee we sing.” Who are we singing to? We’re not singing to the country. We’re singing to Him. Because He’s the author of liberty.
Isn’t that awesome! That just came up in my spirit when I was sitting there and the part that came to me was from “every mountain side let freedom ring.” And here we are. We’re the ones that have authority in this place and this country and we’re the ones that can call out to God to make sure that freedom rings. From coast to coast. From border to border. We have that authority here. We have some people here that have dual citizenship. The Fletchers. So they have the ability and authority to let freedom ring in two countries!
Thank You, Father, that you established freedom here. You’re the one that set it up. You’re the One that inspired our government and I thank You that You’re working in our government. You’re working here in Minnesota. You’re working in the nation, Father. We are go grateful that freedom is ringing throughout this nation. I thank You that Your people are rising up. To take their place in You. To use their authority to make this country what You created it to be. A light. That as that freedom flows through our nation, it doesn’t just stay here, but it goes out. It blows around the world. We affect in a positive way every country in this earth. Thank You, Lord. We’re grateful that we live here in this nation. You’ve done so much for us and we are glad and we rejoice in You for You are good and faithful and true. This country is going one way and that’s Your way.
Pastor Ray…
From glory to glory. Steps that we didn’t even know were available. But they’re right there. Steps that lift and raise us up on another level of expectation and revelation. So from one degree of glory, we’ll move on up in this day and not wait until another day. We expect to move up in You to see things we haven’t seen before. Hear things that we hadn’t heard before. Speak things that we didn’t even know we had to speak, but let them come up and out and be strong and speak well. Be consistent. Do what we know to do and do it and do it and do it. Consistent in our walk. Consistent in our talk.
I want to speak this over Pastor Kevin and Susan. If you don’t know who they are, they were the original staff. There is something about that word consistent that came up in my heart this morning. (tongues) I’ll just declare over both of you together as one, “The consistency that you’ve shown over all of the years, over your history in Him have been seen by so many others and you’ve lifted them up into a greater place of consistency too. But in these days, in these plans that God has for your future, you are about to see around you some shifts that you’ve never seen before. We could call them a paradigm shift. We could call them new. We could call it change. But it will come through both of you. Words that you’ll speak will go further than they’ve ever gone before because you’ve been consistent in the years past. And that same consistency, stay true to it. Don’t back off from it. For there are new, I want to call them steps but I don’t want it to sound just… they are steps but because of your past and because of what you’ve done up until this point, you’re about to step over into a different … it’s different. It’s not the way it was. It’s not even the way it was yesterday. But it is new, saith the Lord. So in that, that you’ve seen in the years past, let that be a light to you for the days and the weeks and the months that are to come to show you consistently what the Father is speaking unto you by the Spirit. Thank You, Lord.
Father, in Jesus’ name, I plead the blood over Kevin and declare that covering of protection around him. And declare absolutely there is no weapon formed against you that can prosper. So even in the natural your strength is increasing. You’re able to do more than you’ve done before. So that consistency will show you some new doors of opportunity and those doors will move others through into the new too. Because they’re looking to see. They’re watching over you to see what you’ll do. But stay consistent in Me, saith the Lord, It is not your strength, of course, you know that. It is His strength working through you and it is on the increase. For your heart, your hearts… there are some things you don’t know about how much the Father loves you. He loves what you’ve done. He loves what you do. But He is about to take you over into some new. Territory. Realms and regions. Utterance by the Spirit. You can’t make it up. You can’t dream it up. But you can expect it. So keep that expectation. So every limit, whatever has tried to get in the way, in Jesus’ name, command it out of the way. For a level way. For a greater way of walking and a clearer way of seeing. So the Spirit of seeing and knowing will operate in a greater way and you’ll hear things you’ve never heard before coming up and out of you because these are different days and these are different times and it takes different words to …
Father we agree for what God has called both of you to do and we set ourselves together and agree as touching those days that are out front. And know this, that what He started within each of you, He is more than able to finish. (tongues) limits, things that tried to limit you, in Jesus’ name, we say “get out of the way.” Be removed. We pray over those plans, the future, these times and these days.
Susan, I’m going to ask you to do something in a minute. Like Barb said, two different countries, two different nations. I want to pray down through this confession for America. And then I’d like you to pray over England, or whatever you feel led to.
Prayed…
Father, we come before You. We pray over our leaders and those in positions of authority so we do. We pray over American and England and the connection between those two countries. Father, we lift up President Trump and those around him and his cabinet members. Shine a light on his path.
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.
Susan prayed…
Father, we love you and worship You. We thank You for the authority of Your Word and we come as Your people and declare that we exalt Your Word to the highest place. Your Word is truth. Nothing else is truth, but Your Word and we exalt your Word as truth. We are not only Christians, another name of us is believers. And what defines us is that we believe Your Word. It is truth. It is our foundation. That You are who You say you are. We are who You say we are. That we have what You say we have. That we can do what You say we can do. We exalt Your Word. It is our final authority. We declare that we believe You. In a world that is in confusion… that is in rebellion… rebelling against You… against the truth… we boldly declare Your Word is our truth. We base what we believe on Your Word. (tongues) Father, I heard in my heart this morning the state of the church, the state of the nation, but the state of the church and if the state of the nation is to be the nations are to be affected the way you want then the state of the church must be elevated. So we’re lifting up the body of Christ that there would be a coming back to their roots. In God do we trust. Jesus said have faith in God. we have faith in Your Word, that embracing of Your Word as truth. So we’re lifting that up, Father. A turning of hearts. The hearts of Your people to the Word… we praying now “turn” turn, turn… turn away from darkness, turn away from sin, from deception to the light and the truth… Father, I know that brother Hagin said that prayer fuels what you are doing. So we’re praying for fuel to be thrown on the fire of the turning of the hearts of Your people to the Lord. Wake up! We’re praying for the body of Christ to wake up and for the sleeping giant to arise. (tongues) coming out from among them… out of darkness… into the light… being a voice of truth… You are the light of the world… Father, the light, Jesus in us to shine bright… yes, we’re different than the world… a showing forth the glory of God… the truth… influencing the world with light… influencing… standing for truth… feet grounded in the Word… all the feet to be firmly grounded… be strong in the Lord… be empowered… strength from Him… communion… calling the body back into communion with the Lord… communing with the wrong thing… come back to commune with the Lord… the Word and the Spirit… turn, turn, turning away from and turning unto … looking away from distractions… turn to Jesus… have faith in God… so many that have known the truth, but there’s been a bit of a substituting now for something that’s not truth… so many that have gone back into bondage… no, no, no! … my God, help! We’re calling on the name of the Lord… for our nation… the United Kingdom for the church of God… we’re calling on You… we recognize that we need You… Your help… the power of the Holy Ghost… Your Word in demonstration… to do what only You can do… we can only do what You do through us… to be the voice… the light… the carrier of truth and life… to set the captives free just as Jesus said for the Spirit of the Lord is upon me… to set the captives free… to open the eyes of the blind… to release the prisoners… to heal the broken hearted… to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord… to make disciples in all the nations… we’re trusting You… we lean on You… in all our ways we acknowledge You… You’re always leading and guiding… today if you will hear His voice… so we humble our hearts and we receive with meekness the engrafted Word … transformation… where we look like Jesus… we act like Jesus… talk and do the works of Jesus…
Susan shared…
Pastor Ray asked us to take a minute to share. We’re in the United Kingdom and Living Word has such a special place in our hearts. When we graduated from Rhema, the Lord sent us to Minneapolis. We’re not from here. But the Lord sent us here to assist Pastors Mac and Lynne with the vision and to help them pioneer and build the church. There was so much that happened in us in the time that we were here under their leadership. So much that we grew in and the truths of God’s Word that became so established and rooted in us. We eternally grateful. I know that you all are receiving the word and I would encourage you to never take the truth that you’re learning for granted. And to make sure above all that you never let it slip. No matter what goes on. No matter how it might be challenged. You can’t ever let it slip.
The Lord took us to pastor in Arkansas and we did that. Then the Lord called us to the nations. We didn’t know we were called to the nations. But anyway, there we are. Our thrust now is to make disciples in the nations. That begins with people being born again, but that also continues on with them becoming mature believers in Christ who are equipped to multiply and to do the work of the ministry. And through church planting and through serving that vision and being empowered to be witnesses in their nation. That’s what we’re doing.
Kevin Fletcher shared…
We pastor a church in London that we actually started a year and a half ago. It’s really interesting because God has brought us a lot of people in the church that are going to go out and plant churches. So we’ve got our first church plant. We announced when we had our first service. So that’s happening January 19. That couple is going out planting a church. We probably have four or five other couples that are just getting prepared and hearing where God wants them to go. Just as humans for those of you that are married, one of the things I know for Susan and I we talked about before we got married a little bit and then after is how many children do you think we should have? And that’s something as a married couple you think about. And the church has to be the same way. Every church has to say, “How many churches are we going to give birth to.” That’s what you see in the book of Acts. The church at Antioch, all the churches you see in the book of Revelation, the seven churches, they say those are all children, daughter churches of the church at Antioch. So you see this throughout the book of Acts and when we got a revelation of that, we realized this is God’s plan for the church. To multiply. So that’s really where our hearts are.
Susan added…
Yeah, not even addition, but multiplication. And I think even when we were here, we were praying about multiplication and then exponential. So praise God for addition, but how much greater is multiplication and exponential growth. So this makes every believer profoundly important to the plan of God because we should individually be leading people to the Lord. But then corporately giving birth to churches where statistically it’s one of the most effective ways to evangelize. Going into new areas. Because not only is there a place for people to come to Christ but a place for people to be disciples. And it becomes a place for other churches to be planted.
Kevin…
That’s where our heart is… in training up people, leaders, and planting churches…
