Pastor Ken…
Good morning, everyone. Happy Tuesday.
Pastor Ken shared how we are in a designated, appointed window of time to pray…
I was just reminded over the weekend how I really believe that we’re in a very designated appointed window of time right now, as the church, as believers to pray… to enter into the fray of the crazy, chaotic circumstances that are flying around in the world, to enter into that so circumstances through prayer, through the Spirit and tip the scales in the direction of God’s rightness for the church, for our nations, for circumstances and situations we might find ourselves acquainted with. We are here to truly make a difference. We are here to steer things in God’s direction. As long as we’re in the earth as the church and have breath in our lungs, we have the opportunity each and every day to pray. It’s more than just a nice little thing that we get to participate in. It is our distinct, profound opportunity to engage with God, to host His presence. But then to be inspired by God the Holy Spirit. To pray things out, to engage, to be spiritual activists, to pray and to act. And I was actually reminded yesterday that the truth is that we were born for such a time as this.
You were born to co-labor with God…
But let me take it another step further and say, you were born to pray some specific prayers out. You were born. You co-labor to connect with God, to bring a certain aspect of His heart, a certain aspect of His plan into existence. Prayer is all about providing a conduit for heaven to manifest in the earth, for God’s power to be released, for His wisdom and creativity and the solutions and answers and distinct help that is for us in this time to be transmitted.
The Holy Spirit is our helper…
The Bible says the Holy Spirit is our helper. He’s many things, but one thing He is, is a helper and He comes to reveal, transmit, and disclose the will of the Father to us. He comes to transmit the power of God. He comes to transmit the answer that you need today for that particular decision you have to make, or what’s going on in Washington, DC, or in the government of your nation.
Woven into your spiritual DNA is the calling and assignment …
God wants to use us. He wants to inspire us to pray certain prayers. In fact, woven into your spiritual DNA is the calling and the assignment to receive answers. Once again, the Bible says that we’re invited to come boldly to a throne of grace. That implies that it’s a throne where we receive. A throne where we are able to take in. A throne where we are able to obtain. It’s a throne of obtaining. And so woven into our heavenly DNA is the ability or the calling to receive answers. You’re like, “What Ken? What are you talking about? I thought prayer is only like, you know, sometimes God does, sometimes He doesn’t. You just never know if you’re gonna get an answer or not.” No! You were wired spiritually by heaven by God Himself to receive answers, to pray and to see results.
Jesus never taught on “the five reasons you may not be receiving answers to your prayer”…
Yes, the timing is up to God. But have you ever noticed that Jesus never taught on five reasons why you may not be receiving answers to your prayers? He never not once didn’t receive an answer. I like to use baseball analogy. He batted a thousand in His prayer life. He was 100% effective all the time.
Jesus operated as a human being to show us the way…
And I like to point out that Jesus came in a body. He took on the form of human flesh and dwelt among us for a time. And He operated as a human being to show us the way, to show us what was possible if we would pray. And so I just want to encourage you this morning. What prayers is God inviting you, inspiring you, wanting to move in you to pray? What words, what prophetic does He want you to release? Not just over your life and your circumstances, but over nations and over your church and over a city.
Make it a habit to take time to pray God’s will…
I used to always make that a habit. When I’ve traveled over the years, I always made it a habit to take time to pray over that city or that region or that nation that I was visiting. To pray for whatever God would put on my heart for that, that place. Because I had a sense that God wanted to bring a difference through me. He wanted to bring heaven through me to that place. And so, today God is inviting us to open up the doors of what’s possible from heaven’s perspective. He’s wanting us to open up the limitlessness of God, through prayer. Prayer is a legal invitation for God to move. That’s what brother Hagin used to teach and how he used to put it: a legal invitation for God to move in this dimension and in this realm.
And so this morning, I want us to open our hearts to Him and know that big things happen when we turn our eyes and turn our attention and focus ourselves on Him. He’s the most purposeful being in all the universe. We didn’t come just to like kill some time here this morning.
Prayer…
Father, we just open up our hearts to you today. Help us to yield to you today. We surrender cares and worries and weights, sin, and slowness to respond to God… disobedience, whatever it might be that’s clogging up and blocking up our way with God today. We just surrender it to you today.
Prayer about the body of Christ…
We invite you, Holy Spirit, to just flow through us afresh … that you would orchestrate what’s going on in our hearts… that you would orchestrate our prayers today… and use them to do your plan …
Yes, Lord, it is a new day… yes, it is written… It is decreed. It is declared. It is clear what your Word has to say about us … And so help us to see … give us eyes to see… give the church in this hour eyes to see and ears to hear … unstop our hearts…
Prayer about a door in America and France to swing wide…
Open eyes, open eyes… swing wide… we pray that the door would swing wide in the church… swing wide in America… not just any door, but a great and effectual door, God ordained … a door, a door, a door in the nation of France today, a door, a door in the nation of America… open up in Jesus’ name … unlocking a time release … swinging wide of heaven’s door… yes, Father, a door of opportunity, a door of harvest, a door of solutions and wisdom and a divinely granted flow from heaven to come to a nation…
Prayer about doors opening up in individual lives…
We just lift up people today… particular ones, certain ones now… who are struggling under the weight of sin and deception and lies and difficulty and anxieties, whatever the case is, we pray for doors to open up in individual lives and situations… doors in families… swing wide in Jesus’ name… open up in the mighty name of Jesus.
Prayer to commission angels…
We assign and we commission and we loose ministering spirits, angels, to go on assignment and open doors in the spirit… open doors in the midst of chaotic circumstances…for Jesus to come in churches and to bring renewal and revival and glory … open doors in our nation and in our nation’s capital … so go, ministering spirits, go on assignment and do that which the Father intends and has purposed…
Prayer about a great opening coming through…
There’s a great opening there… coming through. It’s coming through … Heaven is destined and designed and determined to come through now to this generation … And so we pray for that today… that you would send and stream your glory to the nations … that you would stream and funnel your purposes and the miraculous even into lands …
Prayer about hopeless situations…
We lift up hopeless situations today… places and people in situations and circumstances that seem to be in a constant struggle… We pray over those hopeless dark situations and struggles in lives …
Prayer about government, leaders…
Father, we pray that over our own government today, here in America … over our nation’s Capitol … over our leaders and leadership … show us the way… open up our eyes… unstop our ears… let the river of God flow that life would flow… that glory would emanate from that dimension to this dimension…
Prayer to push back the enemy…
We pray for a pushing out of the way. We pray for a plowing straight through by the hand of God, in particular situations, in hearts and in lives and in darkness… Lord, we push back the enemy’s strategies and deceptions and strongholds … and weapons that he’s formed… we declare they will not prosper… Instead we gather together and with the mind of Christ and the name of Jesus, we push back. We command darkness over our land, darkness over certain lives and certain situations and even darkness that is hovering nearby in churches… we push it back in Jesus’ name. We command it to retreat and go…
Prayer to command darkness to leave…
Darkness in the form deception and emotional stronghold, a mental stronghold, darkness in the form of fears and anxieties and thoughts of suicide … darkness in the form of demonically inspired concepts and ideas from the pit of hell. We command them to retreat. We command them to be severed and broken in our land and in our churches and in individual lives … they will not go forward today. We say the enemy’s devices will not succeed. We break them. We push back that darkness today.
Prayer about helping us to see…
We raise up the standard of Jesus. We hold up the banner of the blood of the Lamb… help us to see it, Lord… help us to see now … there must come a more penetrating sight to the church now … a sight and a perspective, a discernment that must come to us… that sees through the darkness … that sees into the realm of the spirit…
Prayer about breaking out, slam door on the past…
Break out in Jesus’ name… It’s time to break out … come out in Jesus’ name, come out wherever you are. Come out in Jesus’ name… open up, open up … come out of that in Jesus’ name… the Spirit of God is saying, “come out” … step out of that… slam the door on the past, slam the door on that old way and perspective… close the door and turn and come out of that situation. It’s time to end that … it’s time to end the old that we would step into and come into the new in Jesus’ name… it’s time. It’s time.
Word to individual(s)…
We proclaim an ending to that struggle. We declare an ending to those symptoms. We declare an end to that problem and that deficiency… we declare an end to those thoughts and those emotional upheavals… we declare an end in Jesus’ name to that past situation. We declare an end in the marketplace or the workplace where you had continual warfare and struggle. We declare a divinely granted end to that opposition to that place that you have been in, in Jesus’ name… This too shall end…
Admonishment to individual(s)…
I don’t know who that’s for … but just respond to that today. Make a decision and cooperate with God and say whatever that is, if that speaks to you, “I’m ending and stopping those thoughts. I’m slamming the door on the enemy and that deception, that temptation, that lie. I’m closing the door in the past and obsessing over what happened or what could have been or what was” … close the door and lean in now… close the door through confession and repentance. Be quick to call out, call out where you know you’ve missed it and just come to God… and just receive new that He’s granting… receive the new door that He’s giving you to step through in Jesus’ name…
Prayer about hidden things to be exposed…
We pray for those things to come up and out … those things hidden in dark places are coming up and out… They’re being exposed in Jesus’ name… up and out, drawn up and out into the light… exposed to light… exposed to the truth… exposed for all to see in Jesus’ name.
What is that, Lord? We just pray that over our nation’s leadership today … that there would be an exposing and a pulling back of the curtains in the operation of the enemy in this hour … that he would be caught … that the curtain would be pulled back… that he would be exposed and revealed for the fraud that he is
Prayer that light would be sent…
And so we pray today for light to be sent… yes, Father, light shining there… open up … we must see that … send it in, send it in. We send in the light… rays of light …rays of perspective… understanding and discernment and perspective… help us to shift over there, to move over into the light… to move over into that bright spot and place…
Prayer about adjustments in America…
Move over, America, move over. Move over … adjustments… moving now, moving now and adjusting… moving to the right… Moving to the rightness of God… in our leadership… we pray for a steering of decisions that are going to be made … a steering of what is communicated in the public and in the media … open up … we open up the way … for the mission and the plan of God to go forth today… across America, around the world…
We break any stalemates… we break every stalemate… we pray like the apostle Paul… we pray in the same spirit for a large place of utterance and ministry and expression and communication to be granted … for the gospel’s sake … for the harvest Lord… increasing… it shall increase now and not be abated… it shall increase … We get behind and we pray out the plan of God today…