Mary led group in worship…
Pastor Ray shared…
Say this after me: I am anointed.
It’s true! I read this, this morning. Luke 4:18, “The spirit of the Lord is upon Me,” this is Jesus speaking, “because He has anointed Me.” And then in parenthesis, the Amplified Bible says, “the anointed one, the Messiah” to preach the good news, the Gospel, to the poor. He sent me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind.” That anointing of the Spirit of God is living within us. I believe we don’t always just require it as an absolute necessity. And sometimes we get going on ahead of the anointing. I don’t want to do that. The anointing is for everything. Whatever we do in life, the anointing makes a way for us. If you’re an artist of some kind, the anointing makes all the difference. Ask me how I know!
The anointing is a necessity for the times we’re living in. The anointing of God upon our leaders in the White House, on the laborers that go out. People connect with the Spirit in different ways. We need to say like Jesus, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.” We need to say that daily. Keith Moore did that when he took over healing school after Brother Hagin. He confessed this over himself thousands of times. “I am anointed.”
Mary led group in worship…
Erika shared…
This is called “Appointing Your Days.” You appointing your days. This is from “The Book of Mysteries” by Jonathan Cohn. There are things that we from this culture, this world, we don’t understand unless you’re going to investigate the true meaning of a lot of things. So we’re anointed to learn about it.
“We’ve spoken of the year before you,” said the teacher. “Today we will speak of the days before you. What will the days yet to come bring to your life?”
“How could I know that?” I replied. “I don’t really have a say in the matter.”
“But what if you did?”
“How?”
“It is written, ‘Teach us to number our days.’ What does that mean?”
“That our days are limited, and so it’s wise to number them.”
“That’s correct,” he said. “And it’s the first meaning of the Scripture. But I the original language is a secret. And this secret can change your life, the days of your life. In the Hebrew it says, ‘Teach us to manah our days.’ The same word, manah, appears in the book of Jonah where it is written that God manah’s a fish, a worm, and a wind.”
“Then manah must mean more than number.”
“It does. It means to prepare and to appoint. So you must not only number your days, you must learn to prepare your days, to appoint your days.”
“What does that mean?”
“It means that you’re not just to watch and wait passively to see what your days will bring. You’re to prepare them.”
“How can I prepare my days before they happen?”
“How did the first days happen in the beginning? They didn’t just happen. Before they existed, God prepared them. He appointed them. He purposed them. So if you’re a child of God, you must do likewise.”
“How?”
“Prayer.”
“Praying for days that don’t yet exist?”
“Prayer isn’t only for what is, but or what is not yet.”
“But I can’t determine what will happen.”
“It doesn’t matter what happens. You appoint your days in God to bring what is good. You consecrate them for the purposes of God. And then you use your days to accomplish those purposes. Don’t let your days determine your life. Let your life determine your days. And don’t just let your days go by. Prepare them that they might become vessels of blessing and life. Appoint your days.”The Mission: Prepare the days ahead. Set them apart. Commit them into God’s hands and appoint them for the fulfilling of His purposes.
Erika continued…
That’s what we’re all about here in prayer. Right? Preparing a way, preparing our days individually and collectively as the Church of God. Looking out there and calling and appointing them. Because we got it from the Holy Spirit by the anointing of God, by the gifts of God operating in us, through the Holy Spirit. Amen? Because then we can know how to appoint our days. That’s what we’re all about, specifically in these last days. We look around and we can go, “That is a mess out there.” Or we can go, “Things are changing. My world is changing. And because my world is changing, wherever I go, I bring about change with me because I am anointed, because the power of God is on the inside of me. I’m an atmospheric changer, by the blood of the Lamb.” So wherever you go and whatever you’re called to do, you bring an atmospheric change with you. If you believe it! I believe it. I receive it. Because we’re created in His image and likeness.
So on the cutting edge, believers in these last days, the ones that are marked, the ones that are distinguished among all people setting the pace, calling the shots. The ones with the greatest ideas, with witty ideas and inventions, to bring about supernatural change to this earth. In the medical field. In the scientific field. We have an anointing to receive and understand and comprehend and execute those things He speaks to us so we can be marked and different. We’re going to pray about that.
Prayed…
Appointed days for each one, Father, by Your Spirit… with purpose… not just some vague idea, but the very specifics of God that were ordained before the foundation of the world… that You dropped on the inside of every believer… by Your mercy and grace, we call them forth… equipment for these last days… to run and finish the race… equipment to be unlocked and loosed… every limitation and every chain falling off the church … things that have hindered and held back and things that have locked up, we declare freedom and liberty in Jesus’ name… for whom the Son has set free is free indeed… freedom to see and freedom to move and to go and walk and talk and execute the great plans and purposes of God… we thank You for that honor and privilege…
Prayer for President, et al…
Father, we stand together with our shields of faith linked together, declaring that we live in a blessed nation… a nation called by God… formed by God… anointed for a purpose and plan by God… we thank You that we pray for our President and plead the blood over him… his wife and children… his grandchildren… his advisors… staff and cabinet members… we declare no weapon, no plot, no conspiracy, no strategy of the enemy shall prosper… we thank You that his eyes see and his ears hear that understanding and light comes into his heart… by the spirit, he sees and knows what to do, how to execute, how to implement… Father, You turn the heart of the king even as the water flows… You surround him with godly men and women who give him godly counsel… we plead the blood over that Bible study and white house and we declare the Word of the Lord will have free course and continue to spread… we apply the blood over Huckabee… over her life in Jesus’ name… we declare no weapon formed against her… You’ve called her, You’re anointed her, You’ve appointed her for such a time as this… we loose angels, Go! work on behalf of that administration… Go and work and prepare a way for this nation to turn from every evil way in the name of Jesus… we thank You for it, Father… we thank You for great change has already taken place… but more change is to come… thank You for the anointing on Pres. Trump… the anointing to remove burdens and destroy yokes to clean out the swamp… we thank You that that anointing keeps going on… keeps running and working… Father, by Your mercy and grace, we declare we will hear with our ears the good reports… turning from evil and turning unto righteousness…
Believers in this nation…
We lift up the believers in this nation… that we no longer stand in the background… or cower against persecution… but the anointing to stand and speak and demonstrate by Your Spirit, Your love, mercy, grace, power and glory… some things will be undone… some will be turned around… some things will come to an end… some things will rise up to a greater degree… there is a rising going on… that is rising up… the spiritual climate of this nation is rising up… to a greater degree… greater light… dispelling darkness… strategies given by the Spirit…
Pastor Ray interjected…
I keep hearing this: “new… now.” New… Now! It will never be the way it was in the 50s. It’ll never be the way it was in the 40s. It’ll never be the way it was in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. For these are new days of opportunities given by the Holy Spirit. To use everything that’s been created since those days to take these new ways and use them for the Gospel … to move out all over the earth and bring about change. I keep hearing this: The Spirit of God moved on you in one way or another ten years ago, twenty years ago and you say, “I just want it to be that way.” No, these are new days. New ways. New plans. New operations of the Spirit.
So come on, Church, let’s rise up, take our position of authority and move out. For we have been created to be the army of God. The Church is not shrinking and sitting down. The Church is rising up and taking its place. So this nation, that’s a key for this nation, that the church continues to rise up and declare “No! We’re not going that way. We’re going God’s Holy Ghost way.”
Prayer continued…
The Awakening, revivals… the move of the Holy Spirit, the year of the Holy Ghost and fire. New fire. Fire in the churches. Fire in the pastors. Fire in the leaders. Fire, fire, fire… praying out the future… the steps… the plans… we cannot blend in any longer… we must take our highway and call things that are not as though they were… and watch them change…
Right up to that… and then enter in… enter through that place… that door… that way… seeing a new way and enter in this day… prepare, prepare, prepared by the Spirit… for this day and this hour… not to delay… do not say “another day” but this day, this hour… shape it… and those will come and join together… those shall link their shields of faith together… in a great endeavor… the body… the body of the anointed one for this day… and at the ready… the church is at the ready now! … and you’ll see it… it will fit like a glove… anointings upon… clothed with the Spirit for this day and hour… and you’ll know and say we’ve been prepared for this day…
Danny led group in worship…
