Morning Prayer Summary for Thursday, August 02, 2018

Mary led group in worship…

♪ Holy Spirit, You are welcome… have Your way… we yield to You… ♪

Erika shared…

He’s going to have a glorious church! And we’re part of it. And that is the highest honor and the highest privilege to have. So precious. There are marvelous changes taking place in the body of Christ today. Changes that must continue for Him to be seen and glorified. For us to be the hands and feet of the Savior. So that’s where my heart is. There is a work that must be done.

There are multitudes of books and teachings on prayer. I believe that God is bringing us into a greater place in prayer, communion, and fellowship with Him so we can be changed. I’m going to read a brief part from Herald of His Coming, an article entitled “The Call for Wrestlers in Prayer,” by Ruth Paxson. It’s about the prayer in Ephesians, praying with all prayer and supplication, praying always, watchful and persevering for all saints.

How are we ever going to pray about all things unless it’s by the Holy Ghost? Unless praying in other tongues, unless praying by the Spirit which not necessarily would be in tongues but by His Spirit’s leading about all things at all times. But He needs the whole church. One of the subtitles is… No Retiring in God’s Army. I like that. If you’re looking forward to retirement, you might not like it. But in God’s army there is no retiring. You don’t reach age 65 and you’re done. You’re off the rolls. You’re in the family of God forever. So one of the things it says there’s no retiring list in God’s army. He may shift the position of some of His old wrestlers and because of their rich experience then gain years of active service on the front line, place them with his prayer reserves.

He needs prayer warriors today almost more than anything else. So if He has given you the honor to be one, let it give you unbounded joy. A tremendous responsibility rests upon the prayer warrior Christ-ward, church-ward, and Satan-ward. Christ-ward, it involves fullest cooperation with the Lord in carrying out the Father’s eternal purpose in and through Him. This requires a knowledge of the Father’s will in regard to the church and the world. Revealed in His Word that we may know what within the work the church today is under the direction of the Lord Jesus Himself through the Spirit’s guidance and what the worldly wisdom and policies in human leadership largely misguided through false prophets and teachers. You can only know these things through His Word and what He reveals. Only so can we intelligently work, pray, and give for the Lord’s work by cooperation with our Lord in prayer. We confide in all parts of the battlefield and penetrate to the furtherest reaches of the enemy territory. Our responsibility Church-ward is great and manifold. From God’s Word, we need to know the teaching regarding the church as the body of Christ who recognized not merely doctrinally but practically our oneness with all saints of whatever color, race, country, or status and to so live, work, and pray that the whole body of Christ is lifted to a life on the highest plane far above all and maintained in that position of victory over Satan. That’s it. Real simple. Real plain. Real clear. As led by the Spirit praying for the beautiful body of Christ individual members particular parts who have supplies that only the Father truly knows the depth of, but that we can honor and respect and we can call for in the spirit saying, “I need that supply. We must have that supply. We must have each one walking in the highest level, at the highest place that’s available to everyone in Christ Jesus.”

So that is the burden of my heart today.

Pastor Ray shared…

Concerning praying in the spirit, I found this quote by John Osteen. It’s based on Romans 8:26-27.

Satan hates speaking in tongues because he knows that by this gift the Holy Spirit enables the believer to pray with groanings that cannot be uttered otherwise and it is always according to the will of God.

That’s the kind of prayer we want to pray. The Holy Spirit comes to our aid and He bears us up in our weaknesses or inability to know what to pray or how to pray.

When I read this, this morning I saw it in a different way. He comes to our aid and helps us to pray things we don’t know how to pray. It lit up inside me that in our tongues, He’s the instigator.

Prayed…

We lift up the body, the Church… (group prayed in the spirit)

Pastor Ray shared…

I saw this… to me it represented individual members of the body. It was a picture of barrels. As we prayed, there was treasure in those barrels. As we prayed over the body of Christ, there was a way we tapped into those barrels and the treasure within would come forth. It’s supernatural. These are treasures that are in the body of Christ. And it’s time for the members of the body to contend and wrestle on behalf of those that are locked up. You’ve seen pictures of the barrels in the vineyards. They can tap into the wine and test it and see how it’s developing. It’s a good picture of the body. Some are getting ready for the outflow, for the treasures that are within to come forth. Unbelievers will see what was hidden in them and they will want that for themselves.

Turns, changes, openings, revealing those things that are within. Lord, we need all the army of God to wrestle and contend for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the earth. That the earth would be filled with His glory. That the outpouring would not just be local, but it would be worldwide. What’s holding it back? Maybe we haven’t prayed them through. Victory hangs in the balance. The Church is responsible for what happens in the earth. When we failed to pray for our nation and government in the past, things took place in the nation that were rebellious and divided our nation. Today, we pray for those treasures to come forth.

Continued praying…

We lift up the arms of our leaders… the pastors to have great utterance… the wind of the Spirit would blow… an outpouring of the Holy Spirit… churches so full you can’t get in them… health and prosperity…we’re hungry for it, Lord… we’re calling for it…

I keep seeing the body laying out and suddenly sitting up, suddenly awake, suddenly alert, suddenly aware. So, Father, we lift up the awareness of the Church… awareness of one another… awareness of where we are in the timeline… awareness of what we have… You are able to keep that which we have committed to You… joining together…it will be noticeable, evident, and manifest…

Men must get in their places… their spiritual positions… heads of homes… heads of businesses… leaders in the body… leaders in this country… take it and contend for what God has put within you… watch those rivers come forth… treasures that the body has been calling forth…

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