Morning Prayer Summary for Thursday, May 28, 2020

Annie led in worship…

If My people called by My name will humble themselves… I will hear them

Lord, We stand in the gap for our nation… for our city… for the church of Jesus Christ… for our own lives, Lord… Oh Lord, we ask You to forgive all the wicked ways… we plead the blood of Jesus… Father, break down the walls of division… forgive the sins of racism… and class warfare… Father, the rage and hate that turns one brother against another… we are one people called by Your name, Lord… we humble ourselves before You, Lord… You said that you heal… you will forgive our sins… we plead the blood of Jesus now…

If My people called by My name will humble themselves and pray… if they will seek My face and turn from their wickedness…

Pastor Ray…

Annie, I’m going to have you keep going in a minute, but I want to look at that scripture in 2nd Chronicles 7:14, a scripture that we’ve read and prayed many times… I want to look at the beginning of that chapter to line all this up. Solomon finished praying and the fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices. And the glory of the Lord filled the house. The priests could not enter the house of the Lord because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord’s house. It would be like if we came in the morning to the chapel and couldn’t get in. And it wasn’t because the doors were locked, it was because the glory of God had filled the place.

Verse 3 says, “And when all the people of Israel saw how the fire came down and the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed with their faces upon the pavement and worshiped and praised the Lord, saying, For He is good, for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever.”

Then the Lord appeared to Solomon by night and said to him, “I’ve heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. … If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.” Verse 15 says, “Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer offered in this place.” What kind of place is that? Where people are humbling themselves, praying. In other words, connecting with heaven, talking to the Lord, seeking more of Him, craving Him, requiring as a necessity. I want that to be us. I want that to be the church, the body of Christ. All over the earth, praying and seeking and hungry and thirsty, requiring it as a necessity. And we have His word on it… He will do what? Heal our land. Okay let’s sing some more, Annie.

Annie…

I was thinking about turning from our wicked ways. You might say, “What wicked ways are those?”  Well, if we allow wickedness on our watch… this is our watch! We are the watchers! We are watching with the watchers in heaven and we are assigned the authority to stop the wicked ways. Lord, I start with the wicked ways of my own heart to be complacent, even. So, Lord, we turn from our wicked ways, the ways that would look the other way when injustice and unrighteousness are seeking to dominate and hurt and oppress the people that you’ve created for Your glory. Oh, Lord, help us to stand against wickedness, lies, and deception. When we are weak, You are strong. You are strong, Lord, and You promised to heal our land.

You said if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray… I will hear them and heal their land. ♪

Pastor Ray…

It’s Your glory, Lord… Your manifested presence in our lives… and our nation… and the nations… we do humble ourselves today and make it a necessity to continually walk with Your presence… see and say things the way you see and say them… to see Your plan come to pass in the earth…

This confession is from 2017 and it’s something we’ve done 100s of times. But it seems like every time I read it and pray it; it lines up even more with the days we’re living in right now.

Father, in the name of Jesus and according to your Word, we pray for those in authority in our nation. We lift up President Donald Trump, his family, his staff, and cabinet members. Let Your Word cling to them and let them not depart from Your plan. Strengthen them with mighty power by Your Spirit to stand against wickedness, lies, and deception. Guide President Trump’s decisions; let Your light shine upon his path and show him the path of reversal for every evil way. Continually surround him with godly men and women who impart wise counsel to him. Cause the way of the wicked to be set to confusion and come to nothing. Deliver us from the traps and snares the enemy has laid for us and let the wicked be caught in their own devises and be brought to shame. We take authority over the plots and plans of the enemy against this nation. Let prideful and lying lips be silenced in Jesus’ name.

Slanderers will not be established in America. We pray for our congress, our supreme court, our military leaders, and our intelligence agencies. Let the wisdom that is from above reign in this nation and be constantly speaking to our leaders. We exercise the authority You have given us to tread down all the power of the enemy. We cast down and demolish imaginations and arguments that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God, and we bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. We bind spirits of strife and division, civil wars and tumults, spirits of hostility, lawlessness and blasphemy, and fires from hell that have burned in our cities. We bind these things. We break their hold. We come against them and say, “no more!” In Jesus’ name. We declare to Minneapolis, “Calm down.” We’re going to add something to that. “NOW! Calm down NOW!” We’re speaking over our city. We love our city and all our cities. We are in a position of authority and so we take our place up above and take authority over every evil work that would try to come against our cities. We take authority over these things. We declare “Stop, in Jesus’ name and we pray for those in positions of authority in Minneapolis. We pray over our Mayor, our Governor, all the positions of authority in both cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and across the face of our nation. No, it’s not moving from here to there to there… No! In Jesus’ name, as we say it again, “Calm down now in Jesus’ name.”

Safety, safety, safety… Thank You, Lord… things that we do not know, we lift them before You, praying in the spirit… showing… revealing… restoration times and days and weeks and months… No, no, no… no more… not any longer… we know You’re working, Lord… even times when we don’t sense it, You’re working… thank You for working on these situations… You’re still on the throne… Jesus be Jesus in us and through us… we magnify Your name…

Annie led in worship…

When you said His mercy and lovingkindness endures forever, in my spirit I heard, “And the devil’s hate and division does not endure forever.” Ha, ha, ha… that was a good thing to think about. No matter what it looks around us, all of the devil’s manifestations are going to come to an end. They’re not forever. But His mercy and lovingkindness are forever.

Lord, we magnify you… and lift up Your wonderful name… ♪

Pastor Ray…

I read a couple things this morning that goes along with the scripture “He is good, and His mercy and lovingkindness endure forever.” D.L. Moody said when writing about every Christian’s responsibility to be a giver, to be generous, to walk in love, he said, “When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had. And He wants us to do the same.” And not only did God the Father sacrificially give, but Jesus was a master giver as well. Jesus taught all about giving and generosity to His disciples and then passed the spirit of generosity directly to the first believers in the early church because of the words recorded in Acts 10:38. We categorically know that Jesus was a sacrificial giver. It says “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. And God was with Him.” So why are we talking about that now? Because we’re coming up to Him. He’s so good and generous and always moving on our behalf. Just like He did back here when His people humbled themselves and we’re humbling ourselves today. We’re not down and not walking around with a frown. We haven’t run out of strength. We’re up above and have a seat in heavenly places, high above the situations on the earth. We have overcome because He did. He’s so good.

I found a couple of things. There’s a word in that scripture. Rick Renner said “Not only did God the Father sacrificially give but Jesus was a massive giver as well. He taught giving and then passed it on to the early Church.” Rick said, “The words ‘doing good’ are a translation of the Greek word that denotes a benefactor, a philanthropist, one who financially supports charitable work, or a person who was his financial resources, he used them to meet the needs of disadvantaged people.” It’s all in that one word. So this word was used only to portray the provisions of food, clothing, or some other commodity to meet a physical or material need. Thus the use of this word in Acts 10:38 emphatically means that a part of Jesus’ ministry was comprised of meeting the physical and tangible needs of people who were disadvantaged in some way. Of course, we know that Jesus performed supernatural miracles, provisions of every kind. He multiplied the five barley loaves, the two fish.” It does on and on. “However, that same word in Acts 10:38 tells us that His ministry also provided natural and material help to people who were in need.”

That’s the church! Let me read this to you. “Hebrews 13:8 says that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. What He did then He’s still doing. If He longed to physically heal sick bodies, deliver those who are spiritually oppressed and abound in the grace of giving when He walked on the earth, that is what He is still longing to do now. The fact is no one was ever more generous than Jesus and He is still generous today. If Jesus longed to heal sick bodies, deliver those who are spiritually oppressed and abound in the grace of giving when He walked the earth, that is what He still longs to do. That’s us. So when we come, we use the authority we’ve been given. That same anointing is working in us. So when we say it, He backs us up. When we say what He says. We can say, “Calm down now” and back that up with the Word. He’s called for the church to rise up and declare things that He’s already said should be operating right now on this earth. When we see the fires, we say, “Calm down now… stop, enemy, in your maneuvers.” We’re in faith and believe the Word is working through us and on our behalf. America, one nation under God, indivisible.

Annie led in worship…

I heard it said the weight of His glory is heavy with everything good. So when His glory comes in over us and over our city, over our nation, do you think hate can stand in the presence of His glory? Can division and strife stand in the presence of His glory? Can racial division and class warfare stand? Can lies and wickedness and oppression stand when His glory falls? When His glory comes, His love follows. His love comes because He is love and covers a multitude of sin. So we ask for Your glory, Lord. To fall on our cities and our nation. Let it fall on me.

The weight of Your glory covers us… let the life of Your river flow… ♪

Comments are closed.

Post Navigation