Annie led group in worship…
Pastor Ray…
I was thinking that this morning when I was getting ready. “I feel a lot better,” but then I heard the Lord say, “You feel a lot better? What about the people, the lives, the country, the nations, all the plans that God has for the people of this earth, how do you think they feel when we yield and pray out?” For sure, I always believe when we sow, of course that’s the word we reap. When we sow for other people, when we pray out, just let our prayers go and believe they’ll do what they need to do, we do sense and feel better when we spend this time together, of course. All of us online here. But outward we go. There is a flow. And there is that flow of the Holy Spirit. There’s no limits to it. So, Holy Spirit, we’re asking to be refilled today, but we send out your supply to others all over the earth. You know the ones, the situations, you know the plans… Do it, Lord! Hallelujah. Thank you for your glory. Manifested precious glory. Hallelujah.
Yesterday Sandy was going through… Um, let me put it like this. I piled up a pile of papers when she was in the hospital and going through all the things over the last few months. I didn’t know what to do with them. So there was a stack that she kept going through and going through. She came upon a prophecy from Kenneth Hagan in the middle of all the papers. And she said, “Maybe you’d like to look at that.” And it’s from 1963. Brother Hagin didn’t put the verse in this prophecy, but he had taught on the Holy Spirit and looking not at the things that are. Of course, that’s Second Corinthians 4:18. “Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen, for the things that are visible are temporal [brief and fleeting]. But the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.” Or we could say eternal. In chapter 5:7 says “For we walk by faith. We regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief, respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things with trust and holy fervor.” I like that. “Thus, we walk not by sight or appearance.”
How do we walk? By faith.
So I’ll read that prophecy in just a second, but in 2nd Corinthians 3:17, “Now the Lord is the spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom, liberty, emancipation from bondage and all of us as with unveiled face because we continued to behold in the word of God as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor. And from one degree of glory to another for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.”
So let’s never quit. Let’s never give up. Let’s keep speaking and calling the things that are not as though they were. That’s what we’re to do. Here is how this word goes.
Kenneth E. Hagin, 1963
“Looking at Things Unseen”
Yea, the hand of the Lord was upon me… the Spirit of God moved upon me… the voice of God spoke unto me and said, “Come up, come up hither, son of man.”
I went, as it were, up into the air and stood with Him, the Head of the Church, even the Lord Jesus Christ in the air. And as I looked down upon the ground, I could see a map laid out before me of the entire nation—all the states of the continental United States. And as I looked He said, “Behold, son, and I shall show you that which shall come to pass and that which the eyes of many shall see. And they shall remember that their ears heard that it shall come to pass.”
For there came a dark hand up out of the ocean from the east, even from the Atlantic Ocean. It came up out of the sea as a hand and as it rose up into the air, it became a dark cloud and it filled the whole atmosphere. Yea, and it swept in like a storm at sea. And I said, “Oh, Lord, Oh, Lord! Oh, Lord! What’s the meaning of this?” And He spake unto me and said, “Son, that is the darkness of atheistic communism that is sweeping across the nation—even in the minds of men in high places and politicians with great power. And this nation shall not grow more strong and you shall not have more liberty than you have now, but liberties that you’ve known and you’ve seen shall be seized and taken from you.”
And I looked again, and I could see upon the map a blotch as though a bottle of ink had been spilled and spread out over several states in the south and east. And then I looked and I could see spots splotched all over the map and I said, “Lord, what meaneth this?” And he said, “Communistic inspired hatred among races shall cause greater turmoil than your nation has seen heretofore. Yea, it is not the will of God but men’s hearts are perverse and they walk without the love of God and seek to have their own way. And so it shall be worse than you have seen.”
And I said, “O, Lord! Is there a remedy? What shall the answer be?” And He said, “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceived and being deceived.” And then I said, “Oh, Lord! Do we have nothing to look forward to in the future except the darkness, the blackness, war, destruction, and evil?”
He said, “Son of man, forget not your text for you look at the things not seen.” So then I looked into the spiritual realm and I saw falling upon that map a ball of fire from heaven. The closer to the earth, the bigger it got. And then when it came to the earth, it divided into small balls or sparks of fire. And it fell upon men. And I saw an army of men rise up and it seemed as though their hands were fire. And there sat upon their heads a tongue of fire. When I first saw it, it seemed like their whole heads were on fire but it was tongues of fire leaping. I said, “What meaneth this?”
He said, “Before the worst shall come and the day of darkness encompasses, there will be those who shall go and who shall carry the fullness of My truth and the fire, not only to the states of this nation but to many other places. For there is a work that must be done, first spiritually, before the Lord shall come. Now prepare ye your hearts for the time is at hand and the beginning is now; and ye shall see and ye shall know for the hand of the Lord is upon you and many of you shall be used in these last days and the work shall progress.”
And I said to Him, “Oh, Lord! Thank you that I may have a small place to work?” He said, “I shall cause thy tent to be enlarged. Yea, thou shalt have an enlarged ministry and thou shalt minister to many where you ministered to a few. Therefore, go ye back to the earth and be thou faithful and give forth that which I tell you to give for you have been reluctant in days gone by to tell it. Now tell it boldly and speak it true for now is the day what it shall be so.”
For the word of the Lord came unto me saying, “The prophetic vision shall be restored unto the Church, for even in the days of old under the Old Covenant the prophet would see by vision and prophesy, and so the prophetic vision shall be restored unto the Church. And this is the time, and this is the hour, and this is the place.
Pastor Ray continued…
We receive it on behalf of the Church of the Lord Jesus. We believe we receive that prophetic vision of the Church, speaking out things, calling things that are not as though they were… a contending for the perfect will and the perfect plan that God has for us as members of the body of Christ. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father.
Annie, just play a little bit.
Some destinies seems like they’re just kind of hanging in the balance. Some destinies, some plans, and questions have been asked… “Should I? Is this the way? Are these the words? Are you speaking to me?” You know, questions, questions, questions. But I say unto you this day, I am the answer to your question. Look onto Me and say what I say, just like Jesus said back then what He heard Me say He said what he heard Me say to do, He did. I’m saying it to you as members of My body this day. Do what I say. Speak what I say to speak, call the things forth that I’m calling you to call on and walk with the eyes of your spirit and see in that spirit I put within thee victory. Victory all day. Victory every day. Victory every week. Victory every month and victory every year. For time is moving extremely swift. So don’t quit. Don’t fear or doubt. For, I am not just near, I’m in you and I’ve called you forth for the vision that I have planned not just for this nation that you’re in, but for the nations of the whole earth. For the whole earth, as I’ve said in My Word, My glory and presence will cover the whole earth. Hallelujah.
Thank you, Father. (tongues)
We won’t measure… we will not measure by what we see other men do or say. We’ll measure by what you say, Lord. Thank you for your precious glory, Lord.
Ms. Annie, sing about the glory. Just sing about His glory for a little bit. Let’s get our eyes up. Just looking up.
Annie led group in worship…
Pastor Ray continued…
In that glory, there is one accord that comes. There’s an agreement in the body of Christ. We know there are lots of different streams of ministry. Thank God, He didn’t make us all the same. He didn’t make every church identical to the other church. But we that lift Him and call Him Lord, call Jesus, Lord, believe in being born again, I feel like in that glory, there’ll be so much more unity in the Church. Therefore there’ll be more power. In Acts 4, just a few verses. But after the disciples were permitted to go after the leaders said, basically “shut up, stop speaking about Jesus.” After they were permitted to go, the apostles returned to their own company. And they told all that the chief priests and elders had said to them, and when they heard it, all the people that they were connected to unified with lifted their voices together with one united mind to God. And they said, Oh, sovereign Lord, you are He who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything that is in them.
Verse 26, “The Kings of the earth took their stand in array for attack and the rulers were assembled and combined together against the Lord and against His anointed Christ, the Messiah.
Verse 28 “To carry out all that your hand and your will and purpose had predestined or predetermined should occur. And now Lord observe their threats and grant to your bond servants, full freedom to declare your message fearlessly. While you stretch out your hand to cure and to perform signs and wonders through the authority and by the power of the name of your holy child and servant Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they continued to speak the word of God with freedom, with boldness and with courage and with great strength and ability and power, the apostles delivered their testimony about Jesus. And great grace, loving kindness, and favor and good will rested richly upon them all.
We by faith, we call out to the days and weeks and months that are to come and speak unity for the body of Christ. A unity that only God could bring forth. We pray over the body of Christ. We pray for these connections to be made, maybe that it never been made, or maybe they had been but for one reason or another things got separated. We bring together the full body of Christ. One voice, one purpose, one plan. The destiny that God almighty had planned for the Church.
So, churches, rise up, be made whole, be made healthy. Pastors, stand up and take your place. Thank you for it, Lord… Outward, we pray. We send the supply of the Spirit out, bringing forth greater boldness and courage to stand up and even sometimes to shout, to speak forth what you tell us to speak out or speak forth. Wisdom. Greater understanding. Greater revelation about who you are and what you’ve called us to do… all of the needs, whatever they might be met, be restored, be made whole in every way in the name of Jesus. Finances of every kind, money, land, properties, homes in Jesus’ name. Increase for the body of Christ and increase a greater voice. A voice of unity in Jesus’ name … we thank you for it. We’re grateful for your strength and your power. Just like back here in Acts. Great freedom, great boldness, and supernatural courage. Thank you, Father. Bless the Church. Prosper the church. We lift the Church, the body. We lift up all of the body, every member, every part. Thank you, Lord.
