Annie led group in worship…
Jeannie shared…
This morning, the Lord was talking to me about the different… It’s related to an Annie’s song. And I don’t know if this happens to you, but a lot of times when He speaks to me, He’ll speak to me in pieces and then the pieces will come together and then I’ll share. So this morning when I woke up, He was talking to me about how the enemy obviously comes after our identity, but he also comes after our… the fact that we belong to Him. That we’re His beloved, that there’s no one else like us. And it’s happening even in our country right now that, you know, the way He made us. God didn’t know what He was doing when He made us a boy, when He made us a girl. Even that God didn’t create us. And even when our country was founded, the people that were preaching the Gospel, we’re called the black coat militia. And the black coat militia were those that were telling people, “Look, you were born to be free. You have a God-given right to be free. In fact, God has mandated that you’re free.” And freedom is being attacked on every level. So, He’s talking to me about all these things, and then He said, “Jeannie, so many things come after the Church to convince her that she doesn’t matter to Me, to convince her that she’s truly not My beloved.” And then what do we do? We withdraw, we hide. I’ve done it a thousand times thinking, “Well, I must not matter that much to Him. Or if I do step out, He’s not going to back me up.” Just so many things.
So Annie’s here and she’s talking about being baptized by fire. Cause here was the scripture He was talking to me about this morning and when Jesus was baptized, “He went up at once out of the water and behold, the heavens were opened and John saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And behold, a voice from heaven said, this is my son, my beloved in whom I delight.”
So the one that was baptized lives in you and heard from the Father that “this is the one in whom I delight.” And even as today, we we’re baptized in fire. It burns away the lies, the trauma. Anything that would keep you from moving forward. Anything that would keep you from receiving from Him?
Annie led group in worship…
Pastor Ray…
Father, we lift up and pray over Israel. It seemed like that star on the top of that flag just stood out, reflected light. When I opened my eyes in here this morning. We lift up and magnify your name and we pray around the borders of Israel this morning. And pray for what you said to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. We lift up all of the leaders, in the name of Jesus. We pray over every military person, all those that protect the people in the name of Jesus. We apply the bloodline… the precious covering of the blood over the nation and the land, in Jesus’ name. Thank you, Father, for protection… for direction… for continued assistance and help… that this nation, the United States of America, is connected and will never be separated from your people… The nation of Israel.
Oh, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Oh, just bringing to remembrance where you went and what you did and what was done for us on that soil in Israel. Thank you. Thank you that it’s working for us… That blood that was shed right there then is working on our behalf today right now. As we lift you up and believe and receive more of your desire or more and more of your supernatural fire from heaven. You said you’d baptize with the Holy Ghost and with fire. We receive an increase of holy fervor of a holy stirring of a holy fire this morning that’ll propel us ahead… strengthen us… move us forward… move us out… move us through… Oh, the fire Lord. Thank you for your fire. Thank you, heavenly Father.
I read this morning from Romans 12:9–10. “[Let your] love be sincere (a real thing); hate what is evil [loathe all ungodliness, turn in horror from wickedness], but hold fast to that which is good. 10 Love one another with brotherly affection [as members of one family], giving precedence and showing honor to one another.” In verse 11, “Never lag in zeal and in earnest endeavor; be aglow and burning with the Spirit, serving the Lord. Rejoice and exult in hope; be steadfast and patient in suffering and tribulation; be constant in prayer.”
Thank you, Lord. We worship you. We honor you.
No matter what words from this Word that we put in, let’s say for an example, maybe the words for healing, but in the middle of either reading it, studying it, listening to it, even if it’s just about healing, those words have a way of working out other things in our lives that have nothing to do with healing. And could have everything to do with prosperity… could have things to do with just setting us free from other things. So there’s no limit, no boundaries. Like the Word will only work in this way and it won’t work in other ways. The Word works! And the Word of God is working today. Oh, thank you, Lord… Thank you for the fire that your Word brings to us inside, stirring us up. Brightening us up… making us be aglow, shining bright, able to look completely and totally toward what you’ve said, not what other people have said, or the enemy has said, or what symptoms have said. But saying, “You are holy and you are true. And your Word is working on our behalf in these days right now.
I saw these this morning and they’re just like little nuggets from Rick Renner. It’s from his book, “A Life Ablaze.” And I want you to just hear some of these. They stuck out to me.
Rick Renner, A Life Ablaze
“If your spiritual fire is at a low burn or close to going out, it’s time for you “to stir up” the gift of God that is inside you. You cannot depend on someone else to do the stoking and stirring for you.”
Pastor Ray…
Isn’t that true? I can’t ask Jeannie here to stir me up, stoke the fire. We can be moved and we can be lifted and we can receive help, of course, from others. And one thing that I’ve noticed is it helps so much to be sure we’re around others that are on fire. That’s just it. And I know I’ve been changed. My hunger has been increased because of words that someone else spoke that came into my heart and stirred up me to do something, to stir myself up more.
Quotes continued…
“Fire! We must have it for survival, for development, and for progress! Likewise, we must have spiritual fire if we are to move forward in the advancement of God’s purposes and in the fulfillment of His great plan!”
“When you adopt the attitude that you’re going to start fueling your fire, consistently utilizing to the fullest all the fuels God provides, I guarantee you that your inner man will burst into spiritual fames!”
“Ifwe ignore the Holy Spirit’s voice long enough and often enough, eventually we will become spiritually hardened and will no longer be able to hear Him when He does try to speak to us.”
“When God’s Word blazes in the human heart, it drives out darkness, provides illumination, brings warmth and fervor into the places
that have grown cold, burns away dross, and spreads its flames into the lives of those who are touched by its power.”
“There is nothing to compare to the effect of God’s Word as it reaches out to grip your spirit man with its convicting power and then to ignite you spiritually from the inside out.”
“Like the warmth and comfort I feel when I draw near to the glowing warmth of a fireplace, the Word of God warms my heart when I sit before it and allow its life-giving truth to permeate my being.”
“The role of the Bible cannot be underestimated in the life of a believer. In fact, the amount of spiritual fire one has burning at his core is directly related to how much of God’s Word he plants in his heart. This is why J. C. Ryle, a prominent evangelical Anglican
bishop during the 1800s, pleaded to his readers, “I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul. Do not let newspapers, novels, and romances be read, while the prophets and apostles be despised. Do not let the exciting and sensual swallow up your attention, while the edifying and the sanctifying can find no place in your mind.”
“R. A. Torrey—evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer—further stated, “Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be giants.
“When Christians could be spiritual giants, they are often weaklings because they have ignored the source of fuel that could empower them to be mighty!
“Friend, there is nothing to compare to the powerful effect of God’s Word when it is taken by faith into the heart and put into action.
“As Marin Luther famously wrote in his hymn, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” a single word of the Bible is sufficient to trounce even the forces of hell:
…And though this world, with devils filled should threaten to undo us, we will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us. The Prince of Darkness grim—We tremble not for him; his rage we can endure, for lo! His doom is sure—One little word [of God] shall fell him…”
Pastor Ray continued…
Yeah, just one little word. You might think it is a little word, but the word is a big word, you know? Just think of the name of Jesus. That’s just one word, but all power is in that name. So when we use it, things happen, right? Do things need to be changed in the world right now? Oh yeah. I’m sure it’s always been like that over all of the years and years and years, things always needed to be changed, but it seems now like it’s ramped up.
So the Church, what are we going to do? Ramp up! And watch those fires burn and bring forth strength and encouragement to do what He’s telling us to do. Thank you, Lord.
Yesterday evening, Sandy was reading something from Gloria Copeland and she had said whatever you’re believing for… You use the Word as your foundation and you keep focused on what the Word has said about you and what needs to be changed or needs to take place. You do not focus on what somebody else is saying or what the news is saying or what the devil tries to bring to your attention. That’s his plan, for us to focus on other things too. It should be just about what His Word has said about you and me, the church in these days. Hallelujah. Thank you, Father.
You have something else to same as Annie?
Annie shared…
A scripture popped into my mind when you were talking about the fire and the Word. I never saw it this way before. In James where it says “behold, how great a matter or a little fire kindles, and that it sets on fire, the course of nature.” Well, when we put the Word of God in our mouths, it’s talking about the tongue, but it’s saying the tongue is set on fire. So I never saw that before, but when we put the Word of God on our tongue and then we say it, it’s going to set things on fire! It sets us on fire, and it sets other things on fire. So, when you were talking about what needs to change in the world. There’s been so many things that I’ve been wanting to say to the principalities and powers in heavenly realms about our city and about our nation. I’ve been speaking to those things and we need to remember that our tongue can set on fire. We can burn down the plans of the enemy and stop him from burning down the plans of God, by the words we say.
So when I was praying the other day, I saw myself making this announcement. I wanted to make an announcement and then I went back and read in Ephesians how it says that we make known the mysteries of God to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly realms. So I was wanting to make a few things known to the principalities and powers that are over our city. I have a special announcement to make; it’s a public service announcement. So I want everybody to listen because this is a very important announcement. So I announced to the principalities and powers in the heavenly realms over the Twin Cities and all the surrounding area that every plan of the Devil to divide us and to create racial strife is defeated in the name of Jesus. Because in this city, we are filled with the Spirit of God and we do not regard one another after the flesh. This skin is just my earthly tent. And your skin is just your earthly tent. But you are a spirit created in the glorious image of God. And I am a spirit created in the glorious image of God, and we no longer know one another after the flesh in this city, because Jesus is Lord in this city!
And just as the enemies of God had plotted to use this city to start a fire of racial division in our country, the Holy Spirit of God is starting a fire of racial healing that starts here. And it starts on this tongue. And it starts on that tongue. And it starts on all the tongues of the people of God who are confessing the love of God over the Twin Cities, over the State of Minnesota, over the United States of America, because where sin has abounded, grace much more abounds.
I have an emergency broadcast to make too. And here it is. “Jesus is Lord.” That’s also a public service announcement. “Jesus is Lord over Minneapolis, over St. Paul, over all of our government officials, over all of the police, and all of the justice system, and all of the injustice system.”
I also have a public service announcement that “We in the Twin Cities have systemic love! Systemic Jesus! We have systemic Jesus!” It’s an emergency broadcast to the principalities and powers over this area. Jesus is Lord and His love rules and reigns.”
So now you know what’s been going on in my car when I’m driving. I’m praying in tongues when I’m driving. And then I start seeing these things and saying these things, so… Anyway, I just felt like we must declare this more and more that we are the healing power of God in this generation. And the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God. So I wanna walk up to people in the store and I want to go, “Hey, see this, this is my body house. Hey, can I see yours? Ooh, your tent is that color. And my tent is that color, but both of us are powerful Holy Ghost spiritual creations made in the image of God.” So why can’t we just say that? We can! We’re going to set on fire the course of nature with what we say, and we say the love of God that heals racial division starts here in this city, just as George Washington Carver said it was going to do. Oh, hallelujah.
And how did he overcome the injustice, the hatred, the racism that was arrayed against him from the time of his infancy? How did he overcome it? By yielding over to Mr. Creator who lived inside of him. And believing who he was in the Creator’s mighty image. And, you know, the Word of God has never changed. It says do good to those who hate you, pray for those who spitefully use you and abuse you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven, who makes His rain fall on the just and the unjust.
So, because he chose not to walk in bitterness and unforgiveness. Instead, he chose to turn away from it and he yielded to the power of God that he knew was in him. God used him to create marvelous things. We’re all created to do marvelous things for our God.
I’ve been saying this to the principalities and powers and we must say it. “Hey, I’m created to create healing in my time, in my city, in my neighborhood, in my family, in my places that my feet go every day, I am a vessel of reconciliation. I am a vessel of love. I am a vessel of God’s glory power.
It’s a public service announcement!
Jeannie shared…
And it was George Washington Carver who endured what he endured that proclaimed and declared what he proclaimed and declared for such a time as this right now over our city. Now come… That’s the truth.
Annie continued…
Oh, it is the truth. He said the move of God would begin here and it would go out to the nations. Well, that looks so impossible now. There’s fences up because they’re expecting more rioting. But no, we’re turning the tables on Mr. Devil, on Mr. Racism, on Mr. Prejudice, on Mr. Strife and Division and Backbiting and all of it. And the love and the peace and the joy of God starts right in here and it flows out and nothing can stop the Word of God. It’s written in the heavens forever and ever, and ever. We’re going to see great healing in our city. We’re going to see healing between all the ethnic groups, because the love of Jesus is going to overcome all of it. Because Jesus is Lord and His Word is settled forever in the heavens. Heaven and earth will pass away, but Jesus said, “My words will never pass away.” Oh, glory to God.
We’re all walking in the victory, right? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Pastor Ray…
Can you sing something about victory? You know what just reminded me about George Washington Carver? He had to get a special dispensation just to get on the train to come to Minneapolis. Why was that? Because of the color of his tent. But he got it. He came and he delivered. And so it’s so important for us to by faith just receive that word. I’m just glad it keeps coming up. Especially for this time. For those fences will be coming down and things will turn and are turning. And like you said, it’s a public announcement. Like when you’re sitting there watching your TV and all of a sudden it goes [makes noise] You know, some weird sound. And then some announcement comes right into your home. So just because you said that today, that’s going on out as an announcement, and it’s not just going out to our city or our state. It’s going out to the United States and other nations across the face of the earth.
If just the sound can break gallstones, the sound penetrates into the body and busts those things up, our sounds and words that we speak bring great change.
Jeannie shared…
You know, when Jesus came out of the wilderness, He did signs and wonders. So imagine if Jesus would have stayed in the wilderness. When he came out of the wilderness, this is how it’s going to be now. That’s not the church. This is turning… it’s turning. We are not going to accept a new normal. The new normal is Holy Ghost awakening and glory. That is the new normal! Because when there’s a wilderness, there’s massive awakening, glory, manifested presence. And that is what’s upon us.
Annie…
The writers of our times filled with the Word of God are turning the mighty ship of this nation. And as this nation has been a pioneering force in the world for new ideas, new breakthroughs in the area of government, in the area of freedom, in the area of economic prosperity, in the area of inventions, the racial healing that’s coming and starting now in this country is going to spread throughout the year. And it starts with me and it starts with you when we take the rudder and we tie the rudder to the Word of God and we [makes noise].
Cindy shared…
And Minnesota is so important … because when you said that about the trains, I’m sitting back there and I’m thinking about the trains. And how there had to be a special dispensation for him to even make it to Minnesota and that he had an appointment in Minnesota. And in a time where there was racial segregation and divide, Minnesota received him! And what came out of that was the wisdom of God proclaimed over Minnesota, that there would be a movement starting here. And the enemy has tried to come in and disrupt that with segregation and racial divide. But that is lies and that is smoke and mirrors because Minnesota has received George Washington Carver, and in a spirit of unity and no racial divide. And from that was the proclamation of this great revival starting here in Minnesota! Unity and no racial divide in Minnesota is what we declare. The enemy has declared something other. But our tongues of fire declare that this is where the healing and the restoration start, and it floods throughout the whole country. And as it goes out into the world, in Jesus’ name.
Jeannie shared…
When Minnesota received George Washington Carver, actually Minnesota received the Word of the Lord and His Word does not return void. And His Word is being performed right now. No more wilderness for Minnesota. Glory, fire, unity, massive freedom! Minnesota! (Tongues…) Freedom… the state, the state, the state, the state of freedom … the poster of freedom… Minnesota, you have already received the word of the Lord, the word of unity, the word of revival, the word of holy fire… you’ve already received it. The word of life… and now you walk it out and now you live it out. And now glory, glory, glory comes from Minnesota.
Pastor Ray…
Ms. Annie, just end it with something. Something good.
Annie led group in worship…
Be blessed, have a wonderful, blessed glorious day. And remember, you are carrying the God of the universe inside of your spirit. So make some declarations everywhere you go!
