Pastor Ray’s Final Day Leading Morning Prayer
Pastor Tim…
Pastor Ray said I should start playing because it kinda feels like a funeral in here this morning. This is not a funeral! This is a celebration this morning! Well, since we’re starting, I’ll go ahead and officially welcome everybody. Thanks for being here. Wow, this is great to see each and every one of you this morning. This is going to be a great morning, great day. This is the day that the Lord has made, so we will rejoice and be glad in it.
We’re going to celebrate the goodness of our God. He’s been so good, so faithful, so loving. Thanks to all of you that are joining us online this morning. Thanks for tuning in. We’re going to just sing a little bit about the goodness of our God. Can we do that?
Pastor Tim led group in worship…
♪ Lord, you’ve been good to me… I want to thank you for all you’ve done… ♪
♪ In the morning I say you are good… in the evening I say you are good… you are good to me… ♪
Dar gave forth a word…
You sing well this morning, My children. It is so much truth in being anointed in your heart that I am good. I am your good God. I am your great and faithful God. Let My goodness be deposited a greater measures this day, by My anointing into your heart. Know that no matter what life looks like around you, no matter what you may be going through, no matter what you feel, no matter what other people say to you, My children, I am good. That is My Word. If My Word is true. I stand to perform My word for you. I am a good God who does miracles. I do miracles, deliverance, and healing. I bring prosperity and increase. I bring answers where there is confusion and conflict. There is nothing that My goodness does not bring to you. No matter how you feel, know that My light dispels all darkness because I am good. Know that you can never be lost from My presence because I am good. No matter where you go or what you do, I am with you because I am your good God. I’m here to heal. I’m here to deliver, to save, to increase, to prosper. I’m here to fill you with My goodness this day, not just for you but for your world around you. You can be empowered to bring My goodness to your world and see the change that will come by My power that is at My goodness. Reach out with My goodness. Look for opportunities and share My love, My truth, My life, and My goodness with the world around you. And see what a difference one person can make to bring increase and glory to My kingdom. So My children, I wrap My presence around you and great love and great power and great goodness this day. I say receive it. Let your faith be the substance of things hoped for today. Let your faith now be the evidence of things not yet seen. Because I say to you today, it’s My final word. I am good all the time and I love you. And My goodness never fails, says the Lord.
Pastor Tim continued to lead in worship…
♪ Thank you for your goodness… ♪
Jeannie shared…
So when God was speaking through Dar talking about His goodness and His light always piercing and overcoming the darkness. His goodness has no opposite. Just like the light is not the opposite of dark. God has no opposite. What’s in you has no opposite. What’s in you is victorious and overcomes every time. So His goodness overcomes evil. His goodness overcomes the bad. It’s never ever a clash. It’s always overtaking. Every time.
Pastor Ray…
This is what I heard also. Every negative word or words or pictures or plans that the enemy has tried to put on you is a lie, saith the Lord. Every one! Every negative thing. Every word that said you’re nothing… you can’t do it is a lie. Every word that’s said you can’t be healed. That’s a lie. Every word that said you can’t go forward. You can’t go up. You’re going up because this is the day that the Lord has made and He is good. And His mercy endures forever!
Pastor Tim led group…
Pastor Ray…
Now today! I don’t think I’ve ever done this, but I got to take a little run.
Pastor Ray took off running and others followed…
Pastor Ray then shared…
And that’s not because of the good old days when we used to run. That’s because of these days that we are running into. Would you rather have every day better? Or every day worse? That’s why we keep singing and saying that every day is sweeter. Every day is better. That’s because we’re moving up. We are stepping from one degree of glory to another degree of glory. And here we go… Until we go so high… maybe we’ll be like Enoch!
Anyway, that was an awesome picture with you all just kind of cruising around the chapel. Tim, go for it! Hallelujah!
Pastor Tim led group in enthusiastic praise…
♪ Your goodness is running after me… Your goodness, Your mercy, Your loving kindness, Your grace, Your compassion, Your faithfulness is running after me… ♪
Pastor Ray…
Hallelujah! I was raised Catholic. How many of y’all in here raised Catholic? Half of you. There’s one thing when I got and never let go: “You will be in church. Or you’re going to hell.” That’s it. You will be there. We called that being faithful. I call it that, you know, I’m just making light of that.
This could go on all day. This is what I had this morning. You can’t measure prayer just by one time. You know, one day or one hour. It’s an ongoing manifestation of the Holy Spirit and He wants to do what He just did. I want to welcome Him right now, but He’s already here. Be like the guide with the people behind him saying, “guide me, guide me.” And he’s like, “hello, I’m the guide. Just follow me.”
So that to me is just the best. If you see it in the bigger picture, you know? And so all of the whatever the years and times that we’ve spent together here can’t be just measured in one time. I know you’re like this to0. If you just measured what He’s calling us to do by one day, you might have a problem. So it’s a process. That’s how I’m looking at it and looking at it for you. I just wanted to remind you of that… that it’s being faithful to get with other believers, get in the spirit and make headway. And it can’t all be done in one day or one time or one hour or one week or one month. It’s an ongoing process of supernatural change, and I’m just wanting to encourage you to be faithful. It’s just the best. There’s so many times maybe in the years past that… Miss Annie and I, we always said this thing about, “well, you know what, I’m nothing, I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to pray. I don’t even know what He wants me to pray.” Oh, whoops. He’ll show me as we move… as we go. Most times you just take a step of faith and believe Him. It’s like anything else. Just keep being faithful and speaking right. So when, Tim, when you started singing that again … every day is better. That has to be our confession. Because the opposite of that is it’s worse and worse and worse.
This morning I read… I forget how this came up. There’s seven points I wanted to give us today from Jude. And this is the Passion translation, their version of it. I know these are all familiar. I have the Amplified. I have all this underlined in there for sure.
Number one: “Keep building up your inner life on the foundation of faith.” Faith has to be the foundation. We build our lives up. And we’re standing on solid ground. When we stand on faith or in faith and speak it, right? So that’s the first thing.
Number two: “Pray in the Holy Spirit.” Keep allowing yourself to keep on speaking things that you don’t even know, you may not know what it’s all about. He does. So He prays through us.
Number three: “Fasten your life to the love of God.” He loved us so much He gave His only son. We can never get away from the cross. We can never get away from the blood. We can never forget about what He did do. And that it was finished. So we’re declaring the things and speaking the things and praying the things… doing what we would do as His army here on this earth. We’re His voice, His mouthpiece.
Number four: “Receive more mercy from the Lord Jesus Christ.” We receive that. His mercies are new every day. We receive your mercy, Lord, and we believe in you. We trust in you. We rely upon you. You are our strength. You’re so good, Lord. He’s God almighty, but it’s up to us to open our receivers. We do that right now. We receive your mercy today. Thank you for what you’ve already done for all of us.
Number five: “Have compassion on the wavering.” When you see somebody that’s kinda … just have compassion on them.
Number six: “Share the gospel with those who are lost.” We might just be the one that puts them over the top. We might just be the one final word for them to have them be set free. That is why we’re the Church for the lost dying world. Thank you, Lord.
Number seven: “Hate any compromise that will stain in our lives.” Hate it! Have you ever caught yourself saying something and you go, “Stop it. Do not say that.”
We’ve only been here 29 minutes so far. This is my absolute Holy Spirit given favorite thing. And that is His presence, His manifested presence. He is here. The power of the Holy Spirit is here. And, you know, we wouldn’t even talk about… I mean, what are we going to do? I do know I will pray for you. I do know that. I know that. But He did what He wanted to do right out of the gate. And that turned the praise upward, the thanksgiving upward to where it all belongs. Right? Let’s worship Him just a little bit here first.
Pastor Tim led group in worship…
Pastor Ray…
I feel like from this place to be… we need to be like Nehemiah. When everything was in his face and false prophets were showing up and the Devil was speaking, but he said, “I’m in a high place. Why should I come down to you?” Let’s have that be the place that we stay in the high place. Let’s take the higher position… the opportunities, the walkways, the pathways, the decisions that we make… let them be high and let’s never bow down. We can bow down to Him, but we will never bow down to the enemy. Let us be like Nehemiah and say, “We’re not coming down. We’ll never come down.”
Pastor Tim continues…
Pastor Ray laid hands on everyone present…
I don’t know how we’re going to do this. I want to lay hands on you now. I’m so blessed by how many people are here. Thank you. Just make a line and we’ll keep making room for you. And I want to say while you’re doing it, the biggest change in my life, biggest absolute… Well, there is salvation and being filled Holy Ghost. But then, in an anointed service, someone had a vision of the cross and I’ve talked about that before, but there was someone that I didn’t know, never heard of, never saw before or after that laid hands on me. And in three days, everything changed. It all changed. So then I’ve never been the same. So thank God.
We don’t want to stay the same! I just want you to turn up your expectation. It’s not me. It’s Him. That will meet your need, whatever that might be. We’re not going to stay status quo. We cannot. So I’ll start down here and then we’ll just keep making room. Thank you. Thank you so much in advance.
Pastor Tim led group in worship…
