Ms. Peg led us singing You Are Good
Pastor Ray…
We should be saying that about ourselves, “I am good. Things are going right.”
First, our Father is saying, “I am good.” So, we should be saying, “We are good.”
Sandy and I have a little terrier dog and my confession over him is always, “You are such a good dog.” But guess what? He’s not always good. But I always declare that over him. And then he does what he wants to do because he’s not always behaving.
But the Father, He is always good.
We can look around at the days gone by and see, He’s been faithful and so good. Then we can look ahead and know, He’s good and He will be good.
I sense this morning, maybe it was on the way here, is a shift. Despite what it looks like in the natural. You can see it live on the news, how terrible it’s going to be. But our call is to keep looking up and keep realizing that He is good, all the time.
Do you ever get that? A sudden feeling like, “Wow… things are getting better. Things will get better or I’m good.” It’s like if you shifted your car in a different gear, up to another level.
Let’s keep moving up because we’re moving from one degree of glory to another. And that’s not our idea. That’s God’s. That’s His plan for us because He is a good God. Hallelujah.
Ms. Peg led us singing You are Good
Pastor Ray…
Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Father.
You’ve called, equipped, and anointed us. You’ve given us Your glory and Your presence. And You’re always speaking the truth to us. You never lie. You’ve never changed. You’re still the same. You’ll always be the same. Your Word hasn’t changed. It’s true and it shall all come to pass for me and you. Thank You for it, Lord. Hallelujah.
Worthy, worthy, worthy, worthy are You, Lord. Thank You. Thank You.
You know, those Rivers of Living Water, there’s a sustaining right now in the body. That was a lie anyway. Hallelujah. (singing in tongues)
I keep hearing in my spirit the Lord saying, “I’ll take you higher. I’ll take you further. Oh, it is not a natural way. But there shall be natural response. But it’s supernatural. For in Me, I will take you to a higher place that will take you to a higher position, even in the natural.” Thank You, Lord.
We’re practicing this morning His presence. And those rivers, if we’ll just yield, they’ll just keep moving and flowing. And in that, we must yield and speak forth the things that the Spirit of God might bring forth.
There’s a move. There is an increase. There is more. Hallelujah.
Don’t quit. Don’t give in. Don’t give up. Don’t turn around but turn straight ahead. I will take you in a position, walk you through places you could never go through alone. For the blood that was shed on that Cross at Calvary will protect you all the way. Through take it!
We take it. We received by faith again this morning, that protection of the blood. We’re protected in Jesus’ name. Our families are protected in Jesus’ name. Our churches are protected. Our pastors are protected. Our leaders are protected in Jesus’ name. By the blood of the Lamb, we declare that blood, we speak that blood. There’s power in the blood. Hallelujah, for the blood, for the blood.
Ms. Peg led us singing about the blood…
Pastor Ray…
I think sometimes we don’t even know. Sometimes it’s good just to say, “I plead the blood.” And let Him take the blood and use it where it needs to be used. Yes, of course, we do declare what the blood is over. But I’m just saying there’s power in that precious blood. And when we are in Him, a lot of times we just say, “We plead the blood over our case.” He knows what we’re saying, and He knows what needs to be done. Thank You.
The Father in heaven, His hands are not tied. In Him, we can hide. In Him, we abide. And in us, He abides. Hallelujah.
Scripture focus…
12) we have boldness through him, and free access as kings before the Father because of our complete confidence in Christ’s faithfulness.
13) My dear friends, I pray that you will remain strong and not be discouraged or ashamed by all that I suffer on your behalf, for it is for your glory.
14) So I kneel humbly in awe before the Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,
15) the perfect Father of every father and child[c] in heaven and on the earth.
16) And I pray that he would unveil within you the unlimited riches of his glory and favor until supernatural strength floods your innermost being with his divine might and explosive power.
17) Then, by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released deep inside you, and the resting place of his love will become the very source and root of your life.
18–19) Then you will be empowered to discover what every holy one experiences—the great magnitude of the astonishing love of Christ in all its dimensions. How deeply intimate and far-reaching is his love! How enduring and inclusive it is! Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding—this extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God!
Pastor Ray…
Thank you, Lord. Do it now. We want more. We yearn for more. We know we need to be so full that we overflow with You, more of Your presence manifested in us and through us, more revelation about Your love for us.
When You said this morning, “You’re good,” and declared some things for us, we take those things. We believe them by faith, in faith. We believe to walk in Your love with everyone that we come in contact with.
20) Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you.
21 Now we offer up to God all the glorious praise that rises from every church in every generation through Jesus Christ—and all that will yet be manifest through time and eternity. Amen! Ephesians 3:12-21 (TPT)
Pastor Ray…
Thank You, Father. Thank You, Lord. We worship You. We honor You. We magnify You. Thank You, Lord.
We can see that by our spirit man: the way, the steps, the plans, the ideas, the words. For there will be even now in these days, a greater multiplication of Me and you, a greater revelation of My love for you.
Don’t second guess it. Just take it. Believe it. Receive it.
Yes. Okay. Thank you. Those things shall be returned. Yes. They shall be restored.
Ms. Peg led us in worship…
Pastor Ray…
I want to read a prophecy from Kenneth E. Hagin. It’s important now more than ever.
On the top of the page it says “When the spirit of God gives something out or when he begins to move where the Spirit of prophecy is concerned, it’s eternal. it’s relevant today and it’s relevant tomorrow and it’s relevant in the future.”
I always remember Ms. Sharon. She played the piano and sang in here a lot. She would always say, “The words that we sing, the prayers that we pray – they’re eternal. They’re not just limited to the time that we’re living in.”
So, this is saying, when He begins to move, where prophecies aer concerned, it’s eternal. It’s relevant today and it’s relevant tomorrow and it’s relevant in the future.
There is some direction in here for us in these days.
The following prophecy was given by Kenneth E. Hagin in 1980 at Prayer Seminar at Rhema Bible Church:
Praying Through to Victory
I can hear the Spirit of God within my spirit saying, you ought to give the most earnest heed to the things that you have heard today. For there are those who stand here who will shortly need the very things that were spoken here. They’ll stand in desperate conditions and if they know not how to pray, they will be left almost seemingly forsaken and forlorn because they did not assume their place and pick up their responsibility and enter into the prayer fight.
There are those who stand here today who will stand in need of what has been heard, you will need it badly. You’ll need it badly. You’ll need it greatly. There are those who stand here today that will not stand in this place again. Never will you be the same again. For you need desperately to get into your spirit what is being taught about intercession. For you will stand in need of it. Do not treat it lightly.
Oh, Dear Lord, it seems like we didn’t say everything we should have said there. What is that other down there? Yes, there are lives that are here. There are families that are here that even though you did not know it now, darkness is creeping in upon you. The enemy would endeavor to steal from you the blessings of God. The enemy would endeavor and would and will invade homes, your lives and your marriages, but to be fore-warned is to be fore-armed.
Don’t stop in your praying because things seem to change a little bit. Keep on praying until the full answer materializes or the entire burden lifts. Don’t settle for 50% victory. Don’t settle for 75% victory. Don’t even settle for 90% to 99% victory. But settle for nothing less than 100% victory – deliverance from darkness.
And then I could hear, yes, that’s it. I could hear the Spirit of God within my spirit saying, the end of the age; the end of the age is coming upon this generation. The powers of darkness, the forces of evil are rampant as never before and they will be increased in intensity and velocity and even many Christians will see and look upon those things and say, “there’s no use” and throw up their hands in futility and say, “well, I guess it’s all over. We’ll just have to hold on and pray that Jesus will come shortly, for the devil is about to take over everything”.
But thus saith the Lord, in this day, I am searching through the Body of Christ to enlist soldiers in the army of prayer. And I will raise up a new band. I’ll raise up a new army that will know how to pray against the powers of darkness and the light will dispel the darkness and the truth will set men free. And prayer will break the bands that bind men’s minds and spirits and bodies. Yea, there are those that will learn to take their place and hurriedly. It must be hurriedly. It must be quickly. It must be that they learn that they enter in quickly to stand against the forces of evil that will come against the land, that will come against the church, that will come against the home, that would disrupt and destroy all that is good, and that God has endorsed. But the hand of the Lord is upon those who will listen and the urge of God, and the urge of God is in the spirit of those who are attentive, and the Spirit of God will help you to pray.
Do not try to do it yourself. Though there must be labor on your part, yet at the same time, rest in Him and let the Spirit flow through you like a river. Like a mighty wave. Let it flow through you. Give vent unto those innermost groanings and let them escape your lips. Take time to get alone and to wait. Sometimes not even say anything, but only inside of you, there is an agonizing, flowing out of your spirit by the Holy Spirit to the Great Spirit, the Father of spirits.
And thou shalt be sustained. And thou shalt be kept. And our family and our homes shall be sure and steadfast. And our children shall grow up strong and stalwart in the Lord and they shall have no fear. But you shall pray for thy neighbor here and pray for thy friend there. And you shall pray for those even in the church that have not come into the knowledge of the truth, making sincere prayer on their behalf so the light will shine, the work of God will go forth, and the work that is to be accomplished in these next few days and years that are just out ahead of you shall surely become because you were faithful.
That’s what the Spirit of God is saying, Hallelujah! Now I want you to close your eyes and lift your hand and say, mean it from your heart, don’t just do it because I tell you. Lord, I’ll be one of those that will enlist in the army of God and the army of prayer warriors. I will be faithful. I will be faithful in prayer. I’ll be faithful in whatever place you set me in, but most of all I’ll be faithful in prayer. I set myself this day. I make the decision this day to be one of them that the Spirit of God can depend. You can depend on me, Lord. Oh, blessed Holy Spirit, Thou who dost live within me. You can depend on me.
Prayer Confession
Prayer is my foremost business
Prayer is my main business
I will give myself to prayer
My Father God hears me when I pray
He has said in His Word, the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much
I am that righteous man
For Him who knew no sin
Was made to be sin for me
That I might be made the righteousness of God in Him
I am the righteousness of God in Him
I am that righteous man
I must see to it that my prayers are fervent
I will be fervent
For the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much
My prayers work!
In Jesus’ name, Amen
Pastor Ray…
You’re not telling us to be louder or press more in the flesh but You are instructing us to be fervent from our hearts, that heartfelt prayer of a righteous man or woman brings about great change.
We do purpose. We do plan. We expect to do exactly what we confessed to do today. And we take Your Word, to be forewarned, to plead the blood of the Lamb, to declare even though we’ve not seen some things yet, keep on their declaring, we will see them and walk in the fullness of them. Hallelujah.
Press. Press. We’ll press on ahead. We’ll contend out further. And the changes, the doors, the steps, families, the churches, the nations on this earth, the glory of God shall be manifested on this earth in these… You said it, Lord! These last of the last days on us, this generation.
Let Your glory, Lord, move across this earth that your glory fall.
It is Your glorious presence. We need it. We’re hungry for it. We yearn for it. We desire to stay the course, stay in the center, the middle of Your perfect will, in the middle of Your directions and plans for each one of us. And we know that it’s not our strength in us but in You, we know we’re strong even if we don’t feel it sometimes, we know that it true. We’ll continually walk, yearn for more, expect for more, call those things that are not as though they were, and worship and worship and worship and worship the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Hallelujah.
Ms. Peg led us singing All Honor, All Glory, All Power to You
Brother DJ…
I read this morning, Jesus was going to the Temple and Peter said that they wanted the taxes. And the Lord said, “Go to the shore and drop the fish line and you’ll get the provision.” And Peter went there and threw in a line and received the coin. When I was driving here this morning the Lord said, “Go to the fish.” Go to the Place He is calling you. There is Your provision. There is your healing There is a food for you. I read this morning, “Go to the fish.”
Pastor Ray…
Yesterday and even Dennis Burke on the weekend talked about Gideon. Even when the Lord said to him, you can do this. But he said, “Who me?” Let’s never say, “Who me?” Let’s just say, “Yes Lord.” And I’m just speaking this by the Spirit right now. There are plans for you… and someone else by the Spirit has told you, you can do it! If you recognize it’s the Spirit of God, do not ever question, do not ever doubt. But know that you’ve been called to walk in places of victory that even now, you wouldn’t know how to walk them out into the future. But I will show you in the weeks and the months to come. So, just take it a step at a time and know that you are called and you’ve been anointed and that anointing will never leave you and I’ll never forsake you. I’m with you.
I believe Ms. Peg sang about that from the Lord this morning, right at the beginning. So, I’m encouraging you, you can do it! And what do we say about it? “Yes!”
What You’re calling us to do, we say yes to it. We may not always feel like it or believe it. But let’s just take it by faith, believe that He’s got it, He’ll walk us through it, and it’s His strength and the anointing He placed within us. Amen.
Thank you for spending this hour with the Lord this morning. It seems like five minutes. Thank you for coming and tuning in. Appreciate it. Amen.
