Morning Prayer Summary for Thursday, May 30, 2019

Mary led group in worship…

♪ Holy Spirit, You are welcome… we yield to You today… right now… we say “yes” to You, Lord… we say “yes” Holy Spirit… have Your way in us today… You are welcome … thank You for Your presence today… the cloud of glory is moving… move with the cloud… ♪

Pastor Ray shared…

We’re moving. Things are shaking. Changes are happening. Because we’re moving with the cloud. The cloud of the Spirit. Moving with Him, directed by the Spirit.

I have a word for all of us this morning from the Bible. It’s the first chapter of Jude in the Message.

“I, Jude, am a slave to Jesus Christ and brother to James, writing to those loved by God the Father, called and kept safe by Jesus Christ.” Here’s the word: “Relax.” “Relax, everything’s going to be all right.” It’s in the Word. I can’t tell you that comes up, “Hey, everything is going to be alright.” Really? Well, this is what the Word says. And that’s not all of it. So he says, “Relax, everything is going to be all right.” Then he says, “rest.”  “Everything’s coming together.” Everything is going to work out right. Relax, relax, relax. We do relax and we’ll rest in You. And we believe what You said here, brother Jude. Everything is coming together. And then he says, “open your hearts, love is on the way!”

This is the way I always read this. I have an Amplified Bible and it says, “Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ (the Messiah), and brother of James, [writes this letter] to those who are called (chosen), dearly loved by God the Father and separated (set apart) and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy, [soul] peace, and love be multiplied to you.”

I kind of like the Message better.

A couple of other things. We’re moving with the cloud, with the Spirit. We’re relaxing. Resting. Knowing that everything is going to be all right. Mary, can you sing that. Everything is going to be all right.

Mary sings…

♪ Everything is going to be all right… everything… everything is gonna be all right… everything, every detail, every promise, everything that you’re waiting for… O thank You, Lord… You care about every detail, Father… You care about everything that we care about… You have every thought in Your heart… Everything is gonna be all right… be all right… be all right… everything is gonna be all right… ♪

Pastor Ray continued…

So let’s just rest in that. Receive and begin to see. When you sang that, I saw it like this. There’s a page that’s turning. There’s a chapter that completed and we’re moving into a new one. Turn to the new. This page has nothing on this side. But it has the potential to be written by the Spirit, directing us to do what He’s called us to do. Because it’s new.

There’s a couple more things I wanted to read in Jude. “Dear friends, I’ve dropped everything to write you about this life of salvation that we have in common. I have to write insisting—begging!—that you fight with everything you have in you for this faith entrusted to us as a gift to guard and cherish. What has happened is that some people have infiltrated our ranks (our Scriptures warned us this would happen), who beneath their pious skin…” He gets on the case of the Devil. “who beneath their pious skin are shameless scoundrels. Their design is to replace the sheer grace of our God with sheer license—which means doing away with Jesus Christ, our one and only Master.” That’s their plan. There’s something I want to get to here, the way he went after this. There’s a couple things he went through.

“The Archangel Michael, who went to the mat with the Devil as they fought over the body of Moses, wouldn’t have dared level him with a blasphemous curse, but said simply, “No you don’t. God will take care of you!” But these people sneer at anything they can’t understand, and by doing whatever they feel like doing—living by animal instinct only—they participate in their own destruction. I’m fed up with them!”

Are you? We’re fed up with the works of the Devil. The lies. The inaccuracies. What’s good is bad. And what’s bad is good. You get it.

“They’ve gone down Cain’s road; they’ve been sucked into Balaam’s error by greed; they’re canceled out in Korah’s rebellion. These people are warts on your love feasts as you worship and eat together. They’re giving you a black eye—carousing shamelessly, grabbing anything that isn’t nailed down. They’re—”

And then he gives a description of the enemy. This is just backing up how everything is just… rest… relax. Everything is going to be all right. They’re trying to stir things up. Just turn on the news and you’ll see what is happening. Maybe we should turn on less news and more Word and we’d be able to relax and rest. So here is what he calls them.

“Puffs of smoke pushed by gusts of wind; late autumn trees stripped clean of leaf and fruit, doubly dead, pulled up by the roots; wild ocean waves leaving nothing on the beach but the foam of their shame; lost stars in outer space on their way to the black hole.”

These are the works of the Devil. These are the things that, today, try to come against the Church, the body of Christ. The Devil is always trying to stir things up so we can’t relax and we won’t rest. But if we don’t relax and rest in Him, we’re so stirred… not by the spirit. At least not by the Holy Spirit. We maybe stirred by another spirit. And that’s not what we want. We have been called to overcome. And we’re overcomers through the precious blood.

Okay, there’s a couple other things he said.

“But remember, dear friends, that the apostles of our Master, Jesus Christ, told us this would happen: “In the last days there will be people who don’t take these things seriously anymore. They’ll treat them like a joke, and make a religion of their own whims and lusts.” These are the ones who split churches, thinking only of themselves. There’s nothing to them, no sign of the Spirit! But you, dear friends, carefully build yourselves up in this most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit, staying right at the center of God’s love, keeping your arms open and outstretched, ready for the mercy of our Master, Jesus Christ. This is the unending life, the real life! Go easy on those who hesitate in the faith. Go after those who take the wrong way. Be tender with sinners, but not soft on sin. The sin itself stinks to high heaven. And now to him who can keep you on your feet, standing tall in his bright presence, fresh and celebrating—to our one God, our only Savior, through Jesus Christ, our Master, be glory, majesty, strength, and rule before all time, and now, and to the end of all time. Yes.”

Pastor Ray continued…

Yes, Lord. Didn’t you sing about that, Mary? Let’s sing it again.

Mary sings…

♪ We say “yes, Lord” … to Your will… to Your ways… we say “yes, Lord”… to Your will and to Your ways… We say, “Yes, Lord”… by and through Your Spirit, we will obey… yes, Lord… to Your plans… Your plans are good… Your ways are good… we trust You, Lord… ♪

Pastor Ray continued…

Like Mary sang in the beginning, we take steps from one degree of glory. But we don’t just stay there. Get stagnant and become status quo. We keep moving from one degree to the next. There are a lot of little steps that we must take to keep ourselves in that place of rest, to keep ourselves in that place where we are actually relaxing, knowing that our Father God, our Lord, Creator of the universe, created a plan and put it within us. He had that plan before we were ever walking this earth. A plan. A blueprint. For each one of us. But those blueprints work together with other blueprints. Like a big house, like an edifice. We’re building up the whole body of Christ.

Prayed…

Thank You for all the members of Your body. Be it whatever stream they’re in, whatever kind of river they’re in, we lift up the body today. We plead the blood of Jesus over every single member. They are the ones that call You Lord. Jesus is their savior. Thank You for the body today. We are called to pray and to lift up and call forth the victory for the body of Christ in these days we’re living.

I’ve thinking about brothers and sisters doing in different walks of life doing the best they can do to hear the voice of the Spirit, to hear what He is saying. And to do everything they can to fulfill it.

Thank You, Father, for Your Word, for the ministry of Your Spirit…

Let’s welcome Him again, Mary. Just sing that.

Mary sings Welcome Holy Spirit

Pastor Ray…

I want us to take a trip to the White House. I’ve never been there but would like to go. But we know what it looks like. Let’s go inside and declare this confession/prayer up and down the hallways. In the rooms. In the offices. The Oval office where decisions are being made every day.

Father, we believe for Your presence in that building… You made it clear in Your Word that we must lift up and pray for those in positions of authority… one wrong decision would make a change in the wrong direction for America… so we’re believing for wisdom and understanding in the people in those rooms… we walk up and down the hallways… looking in the rooms… Thank You, Father… we come by the blood and in the name of Jesus … His name is above every decision that will be made in the White House… we declare Jesus is Lord over that place… the White House… Jesus is Lord… we declare it.

Prayer for President and nation…

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 speak grace and peace over America. We pray and believe for the voice of truth, salvation, revival, and restoration to be proclaimed and heard across our land. Grant unto your servants everywhere that with all boldness we may speak your Word. We pray for a mighty outpouring of your Spirit with signs, wonders, and miracles. We expect the wisdom of this world that is earthly, sensual, and devilish to depart and vanish until Your mighty work in America becomes a beacon of hope for all people everywhere. We expect the voice of rejoicing to be heard in our nation for your goodness, mercy, and prosperity in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Mary led prayer…

Father, we thank You for this body of believers… thank You for our pastors, Mac and Lynne… thank You for the vision You put in their hearts… and the steps they’ve taken… that we would go from glory to glory in the plan for this body… for the vision to come forth in a greater degree… that the lid would be taken off for the plan and the purpose… the limits taken off now… expansion in Jesus’ name… freedom to run with it… freedom to go with it… freedom to unleash every aspect… the next level, Father… all the parts and pieces and connections… all the compartments… working together… so it can be what it was meant to be… the wisdom that’s needed for each aspect and part… for all the combinations… equipment… equipped for now… shining forth now… now, now, it’s now… operations of the Holy Ghost… moving… assignments assigned… operations… time, time, time… it’s time… each of them working together… all the anointings working together… leaning in… the keys… up, up now… higher, higher… running with it… proceed, proceed… marching on… we contend for it… we contend for the fullness of it… continue forward… and take those steps… degrees… order… the order of it… Holy Spirit, we yield to You… touched… changed… encouraged… renewed… thank You…

Pastor Ray shared…

While we were praying, I saw a huge fire hydrant. And it  was opened up. It was a gusher of such power, you could not resist it. A gusher of power. And I believe and I declare it by faith this morning, there is a gusher about to hit the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it will clear up and clear out the old ways and old plans. And it will guide us into Holy Ghost ways. And we’ll move with that cloud of glory. The glory of God. And we’ll not be stopped. No plan from the enemy will derail us. But we will be the Holy Spirit church that we have been called to be.

Mary sang “The Cloud of Glory Is Moving”…

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