Pastor Ray shared…
I wanted to go over a couple of scriptures. I was thinking about how when we’re in here and praying corporately, I want us to always keep 1st Cor. 2:7–10 in mind. I’m going to read it from the Passion translation.
7 “Instead, we continually speak of this wonderful wisdom that comes from God, hidden before now in a mystery. It is his secret plan, destined before the ages, to bring us into glory. 8 None of the rulers of this present world order understood it, for if they had, they never would have crucified the Lord of shining glory. 9 This is why the Scriptures say:
Things never discovered or heard of before,
things beyond our ability to imagine—
these are the many things God has in store
for all his lovers.”
Ray interjected…
They’re hidden things, but they’re being revealed. They’re not revealed if we’re just in the natural, just in our minds. So I invite you to get out of “your mind” today, get out of your head. Ha, ha… Again, that’s what we endeavor to do. And we endeavor to get into the realm of the Spirit. That’s why we always welcome the Holy Spirit, His manifested presence. We have Him here but then there is another degree of His manifested presence. We have assistance because of that. Here’s verse 10:
“But God now unveils these profound realities to us by the Spirit. Yes, he has revealed to us his inmost heart and deepest mysteries through the Holy Spirit, who constantly explores all things.”
To me, prayer is never ever boring. Once we get into Him, He is not boring. He’s always leading us. I wrote this down. “When we’re praying in the Spirit, it’s not just the Holy Spirit helping us to pray about the matters that concern us (which He does). He does do that, but it’s not just that. It’s us helping the Holy Spirit pray about the matters that concern Him. That’s the big difference.” Right now, if we looked at the news, like the news about the Supreme Court nominee, Judge Kavanaugh, you know, that can be on our minds. It’s in the news continually. But maybe the Holy Spirit has something else He’d like us to pray about today. So that’s why we yield to Him.
Here’s another scripture in 1st Cor. 1:9, “God is faithful (reliable, trustworthy, and therefore ever true to His promise, and He can be depended on); by Him you were called into companionship and participation with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” So it’s not just about what we know. It’s about what He knows. It’s about what He wants, His desire for us, the things that He has for us to pray. That’s why we pray in other tongues, of course. We pray these things out in the Spirit and that we don’t even know about. We could be praying out things for us individually without even knowing it.
In the longer declaration we had months ago along with the other short version for our country, I wanted to read and pray just a couple pages of this. It’s reminding the Lord, bringing these things before Him. This is so appropriate for what is happening right now.
Lord, the heathen peoples, those that are outside of covenant with You, have thronged tumultuously together. They’ve plotted a vain and empty thing against You and against Your anointed. But You, Lord, have said that the plots and the plans of the wicked shall come to nothing. We believe Your Word, Lord, so we do not fear them. For by Your power and anointing, they are bread for us. Their defense and shadow of protection has departed from them. But You are with us and we are well able to go up and take the promise and take the Promised Land, which You have destined for our blessing. You, Lord, have covered our heads in the day of battle and You do not grant the desires of the wicked. You allow the evil of their own lips to cover them and You do not allow a slanderer to be established in the earth. Our eyes are upon You, O God, and in You we take refuge. You keep us from the snares that they have laid for us and from the traps of the workers of iniquity. You let the wicked fall into their own nets while Your people escape safely. You set a guard, Lord, over their mouths and keep us from practicing wicked works with men who work iniquity. We refuse to eat of their so called delicacies. Or to take part in their counsel. We make no friendships with angry men and we do not learn their ways. We do not envy the violent and we choose none of their ways. For the way of the wicked is as deep darkness and they do not know at what they stumble, but the path of the just is as a shining light that grows brighter and brighter. And by Your word, our path is well lit, plain and straight, right out before us. We will set nothing wicked before our eyes. We hate the work of those who fall away from Your ways and Your Word and it shall not cling to us. A perverse heart will depart from us and we refuse to know or be acquainted with wickedness. We choose to behave wisely in Your perfect way, O God. When will You come to us? We learn Your ways, Father God, and we choose Your thoughts. For Your ways are higher than Our ways and Your thoughts are higher than our thoughts. We choose Your wisdom and Your words for the so called wisdom of this world is vanishing away and coming to nothing. But the Word of God stands forever. We do not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor do we stand in the ways of the sinners, nor do we sit in the seat of mockers. We delight ourselves in You and in Your Word, Father, and in Your laws. And we do meditate day and night, for You watch over the way of the godly but the way of the wicked will vanish and come to nothing. Righteous Father, the foolish things that You’ve chosen are wiser than the wisest wisdom of this world. And the weak things that You’ve chosen are stronger than the strongest things of this world. Your gentle two-edged tongue of truth will break a bone. You break the shields of the wicked and You cause the wars they incite to cease, stop. Your Word, O Lord, is settled forever in the heavens. There is none who can deliver out of Your hand, Lord. For You will work and who will reverse it? So, Lord, we decide and decree things You’ve declared in Your Word and those things will be established for us. Your light will shine upon our pathway. … You will help Your people and deliver them from the wicked. You will save Your people because Your people trust in You. For it was not by our own abilities or righteousness that we inherited Your promised blessings, nor did our own arm save us. But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, because You favored us, loved us, redeemed us, and desired to take a people to Yourself. You are our King, O God. Command victories for Your people. It is through You and Your name that we will push down Your enemies. In You, our God, we boast all the day long, and we praise Your name forever. You make the wars to cease and You break the bow. You cut the spear and burn the chariots with fire. You will be exalted in all the earth.
Prayed…
Lord, we believe what You said in Your Word… we believe the words that have been declared over all the years past, the prophecies from prophets on this earth, many that we’ve known and many that we’ve heard and many that we’ve stood on… words spoken forth by Your Holy Spirit… we stand on these words… we will not quit or give up… we know if we do not quit, we will walk in victory… we are above and not beneath, the head and not the tail… we declare over the church of God, all over the earth, we declare for prosperity of every kind in all those who call You Lord… we lift up pastors… we declare Your blessings on our leaders… no weapon formed against them will prosper… we believe for Your wisdom to be upon our political leaders and through our spiritual leaders… we lift our voices before You that we might pray out the things that need to be prayed this morning, that would be right for today… things You want to be declared on this earth… to see and to know… we lift up the Church… the increase, momentum, a furtherance for the Church… the Church will increase… so many things are at stake… doors that need to be opened… we welcome the power of Your Spirit… we put a stop to that… we break those things that hold us back… a greater revelation about what is to come… we step up our expectation and enter into the new realm… no, we’re not going that way… we’ve already been there… we’re walking in the new ways… where help is needed, we declare help is on the way… heaven’s plans and ways… restoration and wholeness… we lift up that restoration… let it be finished… be done… let it come in its fullness… for by the blood, we’ve been restored… we’ve been made whole… no, we’ll not be held back… we take authority against that… it’s been exposed… it shall be uncovered and exposed… men will know and see… it shall be stopped on time… we’ll move into a greater… we’ll take our places and it’ll be by Your grace… reconnected, brought back in… it seems there was confusion… a wrong connection there… we declare to be connected right again… and gain ground and momentum… walk in the fullness thereof… some things have to be let go… new ideas, new ways… in a creative way, God’s creative plans unfolding in these days… it can’t be stopped… it shall come to pass… momentum for it… expectation to it… numbers are on the increase… that’s a turnaround… dynamite power… we contend for greater, for more… we grab hold of some that are on the perimeters and pull them back in… we declare restoration… new, new, new… boundaries are moving out… there’s some kind of shaking up and out of the hindrances… almost like the parts of the body were in a coma… but we declare this morning an awakening… waking up to what’s happening…
So we contend for greater… it’s almost like changing the channel… changing the way it was set up… coming into a greater…
That which has been bent, shall be straightened out in the name of Jesus… that which has been twisted, will be straightened out in the name of Jesus… everything that has been perverted… will come into the light… the great light… the great light is coming… it will expose… will draw… it will straighten out every crooked place… it will bring those things into alignment… with the plan and purpose of God… angels are going forth and moving… going into those places… they’re being dispatched to straighten out those circumstances… to straighten out ways of thinking… so that light and understanding comes in the name of Jesus… that minds are cleared up… that thinking is straightened out in the name of Jesus… a boldness comes upon the Church, the body… to overtake the enemy… to stand in that place of authority… to put their foot upon his head… to hold it in that place… we call it into order… line up now in the name of Jesus… you loose the minds of men… let their thinking be clear… thoughts be right and just… doors open… yes, Father, the doors to their hearts wide open… that the Holy Ghost can make a move… bring it in… moving into the darkest places… into the back rooms, into the dark rooms, into those place of negotiations behind the scenes, Lord, those places of darkness and deception… evil work… You step into those places and bring the great light in Jesus’ name… exposed, exposed… turn it around… shut down those things that men plan in the darkness… shut down…
Prayer for City of Paris…
in the name of Jesus, we release angels into Paris … we release you… go into that city right now… we plead the blood of Jesus there… we thank You that Your light comes there, Father… anything that is evil, anything that is being planned in that city, in the name of Jesus it is exposed … it will not come to fruition… it will not prosper… we shut you down by the power of the Holy Ghost… you will not come up… we stand in authority against you… you will not prosper there… bring light to the leaders there… those in authority… let light come to them now in the name of Jesus… no weapon of destruction shall prosper there… but the divine power of the Holy Ghost defuses any plan… and brings it to naught … set the hedge, set the hedge… angels, angels… over their minds… You wash, wash their minds…
Prayer for this nation…
the rain, the rain, the rain… all over this nation… the rain of Your Spirit, Lord… You promised the former and latter rain together… an outpouring, Father, that we have never seen before in this nation… that nothing compares to You, Lord… we require it now, Father… that outpouring now in the name of Jesus… flow out from the hearts of men … come upon, Lord… as You flow within… the rivers working together…
a turnaround… a change in the atmosphere… pour out Your Spirit… in our hospitals… churches… let the church be revived… a change now… rivers and rivers… things coming together… begin to blend us together… that no more may be seen but everyone together… as one body… one unit working together… every man, women, child used… everyone working together… doing their part and walking in the fullness of their calling… yielding to the anointing… flowing in it… speaking words straight from heaven… setting the captives free… a power that cannot be denied… a force that will not be put down… will not be stopped… until the end… glory to God… this is it… it’s time for the body to step into it… to come in… to absorb everything and everyone around you… they’re drawn in by the anointing… and we expand exponentially by the power of God… Lord, we allow You to expand our reach… to stretch us out… that, that anointing within us, Lord… is not in contained in this physical package, but it… it’s like … a bubble around us, Father… and it reaches out… as we pass by those… even as we walk by that that anointing reaches out beyond our physical persons… transforming… because of You we are more…
Pastor Ray shared…
I feel like we need to go back to those dark rooms that we prayed about before. The back rooms and hidden places where decisions are being made. Decisions for the destruction of America’s ways. I’ll put it like that. Where the devil has a plan and there are men and women that are lining up with the plan of the enemy, that will in their eyes and mind bring about a change in America in a way that we will not like.
Continued praying about dark places…
So we call forth the power of the Holy Ghost to blow those things up… like a bomb, to blow up their plans… that they might come to nothing… hidden plans of the enemy… we declare this morning confusion there… they cannot come to an agreement… finances will shut down… men and women using their finances against this nation, against God’s plan and will for this nation, those plans and finances are coming down… whatever it was they were standing on, it’s like the bottom will be pulled out… the rug will be pulled out from under them… things that need to be revealed, those things shall be revealed… they’ll be uncovered and exposed and come to nothing… we plead the blood over evil plans of the enemy… we plead the blood over the borders of our country… from the north to the south… nothing can come in… nothing illegal… the west coast… we pray over all the containers coming in and going out… we pray a blood line around Alaska, Hawaii, and the northern border… a hedge around our country… no weapon formed against the US will prosper… we pray over our President for supernatural covering of the blood over his mind and heart… these things that need to come, they shall come… state by state… we hold up the elections… to keep America moving in the will and plan of God… we lift up Minnesota, the people coming in and taking the place of those going out… those that will take our state the way we’ve been declaring for years… in the right way… God’s perfect will… Minnesota is moving in that direction… we pray over this church and our Pastors… Go with the vision God has given to you… it shall come to pass…
