Pastor Ray…
Miss Jerri is in the house. Mr. Steve is in the house. In case you’re tuning in over the Internet, maybe you don’t even know who Miss Jerri is. How many years would you say that we did morning prayer together?
Jerri…
I think we’ve been praying together for 30 years, haven’t we?
Pastor Ray…
That’s true. We did a lot of damage to the enemy.
Jerri…
We’ve seen a lot of answers. If you look back, you go, “Whoa!” And there are more answers coming. Soon.
Pastor Ray…
They’re visiting in town from Florida. This morning… Miss Jerri will be moving by the Spirit. We’ll flow with the Holy Spirit, of course.
Sandy and I were watching an older video of Kenneth Hagin and it was when they were wearing ties that were sort of like a bib. Huge ties! It was an awesome message. He started going down through Psalm 91 and then he connected it with Psalm 23.
So, Holy Spirit, thank You for Your presence today. We welcome Your presence. We’ve got to have it. The manifested presence. We believe to speak out what You want us to say, just like Jesus said what the Father told Him to say. So we thank You for Your presence this morning.
Miss Jerri, let’s change it a little bit. Maybe we should do something right now. Whatever you want to do or say.
Jerri…
When you were talking about the Holy Ghost, I remember the word of the Lord that He gave us years ago. It was “lean in close to the Holy Ghost.” Then He was talking more about the ministry of the Spirit, and the promise of the Word is “as the dark gets darker, the light gets lighter.” I was talking to Him today because I was going to call Pastor Lynne because there’s a new realm that I’ve entered into in prayer. It’s almost like the realm of Jesus with the bullwhip. I was so happy to hear that you guys have been touching it too. Because it’s not all “foo foo” praying. We’re in a war, a battle. We must never forget to “go upstairs” with Him. Especially in this time when it’s such a battle.
The other day, I was sitting on the couch. I had been praying for Minneapolis like you wouldn’t believe. This is our home. We used to pray years ago… remember praying downtown Minneapolis, “My city, my city, my city,” over and over again. Anyway, I sat on the couch and I said, “Lord, what do we do? What do we say? How do we pray… New Covenant in battle.” He said this to me, which was so different from what I have experienced before. He said, “Pray for the broken-hearted Psalmists.” And I went, “what is that about? I don’t think it’s me.” But then He said… and it was for everybody too. “What our eyes have had to see and what our ears have had to hear is grievous to our hearts. And the Psalmists have to come out with songs of deliverance. And if they’re under what we’ve had to see and hear and experience, then they’re not in the right place.”
So I said, “Lord, yes I will do that. And I don’t want to be like that. I don’t want to be one of those. I know I’ve seen some things that have been so grievous to my heart.” So I lifted up my hand to heaven like this. And the Bible says look up for your redemption draweth nigh. But what happened was my hand grew out like… I had a vision of my hand growing taller and taller, longer and longer. And it went right up past the darkness. You could see the darkness on this side. But my hand kept rising up into the secret place in the heavenlies. And I went “Ohh! There you are. There’s the place. Yes!” And the Lord just ministered to me how important it was to lift your hand to heaven and get into that secret place. And He said, “Even if you have teaching all around you, even if you have wonderful word being preached, even if you’re full. You’ve been to church for 50 days in a row, you can’t ever forget to hear His voice and no other voice.
It is the supreme voice of the Lord our maker. The one who pours in the oil and the wine. The one who gives you the strength and the Word to stand on. The one who reveals mysteries. The one who strengthens. Hallelujah. That hand going up into the heavenlies and listening and living. Let Him be the voice where He pours in what He needs to pour in. His words are full and encapsulated in power. And He will edify you. He will lift you up. And as the Psalmist said, Set your feet upon a rock like no other can. And He knows exactly what we need. Lord, You know exactly what we need. You know us better than we know ourselves. You’re so beautiful. You’re so wonderful. Everything good and You lift us. You lift us. You bind up the brokenhearted. You set at liberty those that are captive if we just lift up our eyes and lift up our hands and be still and know that You are God and be hungry to hear from heaven. Lord, You are so wonderful. So beautiful. So powerful. You visit us like no one else can. You change us from one degree of glory to another. As we lift up our hands and our hearts and we listen for You, we put the wood on the fire. But we put our hand in the air to hear Your Spirit. And to have a relationship with You. Because we need You in this day and hour. So we lean in close to You, Holy Ghost. And we have ears to hear what Your Spirit is saying. Hallelujah.
If you would just close your eyes. I know this is a little bit different. But if you just close your eyes, I just feel led to sing this psalm that the Lord gave me. It’s pretty recent and it helped me and I believe it will help you. Because sometimes we begin in the spirit and then we’re made perfect in the flesh. Ha, ha. That doesn’t work. We stay in the spirit. And so this helped me. So just close your eyes and be in the presence of the Lord.
♪ I rest in You, Jesus… I trust in Your love… for You have forgiven me… by the power in Your blood… oh I rest in You, Jesus… in the riches of Your great grace… for You have sealed my pardon… now anew, I run my race… I rest in You, Jesus… You are all my righteousness… I rest in You, Jesus… for in You, I am eternally blessed… I rest in You, Jesus… oh, we rest in You… we trust in Your love… for You have forgiven us… we’re so thankful, Father… for the power in Your blood… I rest in You, Jesus… and the riches of Your great grace… for You have sealed our pardon… now anew, we can run our race… oh we rest in You, Jesus… You are all our righteousness… oh we rest in You, Jesus… in You, we are eternally blessed… oh we rest in You, Jesus… in the riches of Your great grace… for You have sealed our pardon… now in You we can run our race… ♪
Pastor Ray…
Miss Jerri, let’s sing in other tongues that melody. I love those words. It’s seem right to sing in the spirit to the melody.
Jerri led group to sing in the spirit…
Pastor Ray…
One of the words that you keep singing in other tongues is “restore.” It just keeps coming out. Restore.
Jerri sings by the spirit…
♪ You restore us, Lord… so we always walk on the highway… no matter what comes… You hold our hand … and You speak words that lift us and restore us… ♪
Pastor Ray…
They paint a picture of total and complete restoration. Can be our nation. Can be the states. Can be the individuals in the states. Complete and total… today, now, we’re restored. So we’re sending out words in this day for those that have never heard and did not know… no one had ever told them so they didn’t know it was so. They didn’t know there even was some kind of Spirit-given flow. We’re sending out words this morning. Calling things that haven’t been yet as though they were. Now! Now saith the Lord. Today is the hour. This is the time for My Spirit’s power to move through My church, to rearrange, to bring about supernatural change. Changes in the hearts. Changes in the minds. Changes it the steps… the decisions.
Like Miss Jerri said, there is a contending now. There is a contending for the door… it’s wide open for the Church and the pray-ers to contend like never before and call some things out, call some things down, call some things awake and say, “Stop in your maneuvers! Stop in your ways and plans. Be removed. Be thou removed in Jesus’ name.”
Jerri…
♪ We put the blood on it… the blood on it… we put Your blood on it… ♪
Father, we hold with everything You’ve given us on the inside of us… we hold to the victory. Father, we will not let go of anything short of the victory. We’re not moved. We shall not be moved because our Father is not moved. You sit in the heavens and laugh.
Jeannie…
Before restoration, there was a surrender. Before the finished work, there was a surrender. And the surrender was with the sweating of drops of blood. And we see the strong willed surrendering to His will. We see the strong willed that have been called surrendering fully to His will. Because of the joy set before them. And we proclaim right now it is time for the strong will of man to surrender to the will of God, to the will of the Most High. We receive Your surrender, Father. Jesus, we receive Your surrender. Because You didn’t want to surrender, but you surrendered. And if You live in us, we can surrender.
Group continues to worship…
Barb led in prayer…
Hasten, hasten, hasten… to perform… we clear the way… thank You, Lord… You are the way maker… You make a way… king of kings… I feel electricity in my hands… it’s the anointing, it’s the anointing… ho, ho, ho… a supernatural cooperation with the Holy Ghost… it’s not just you… it’s that leaning in and leaning on to the Spirit of God… supernatural cooperation… that brings the flow of power… flow of might… more and more… by the spirit of God… open a way… (singing in the spirit)…
It’s almost like we’re walking out all those words, all those sounds we singing, we’re walking out. We’re stepping out on the water with every word that comes out of our mouths. Every word that comes out in song, that sound is carrying us out in that place that’s on the water, that place of miracles, that place of signs and wonders. The Holy Spirit is taking you into that place. So just yield yourself over to the Spirit of God. Lean on Him. So He can take you to that place you need to be, that place of supernatural deliverance, that place of supernatural provision, that place of light, that place of seeing and knowing… it’s for you! (singing in the spirit)
Jerri…
We are creating. I hear that in my spirit. We are creating every word.
Group continues to sing in the spirit…
♪ Creative words… changing, rearranging… spirit words… ♪ We don’t take it lightly, Lord. We enter that realm, Father, where our prayers avail much. And our words, Father, that we speak by the Holy Ghost encapsulated with power… thank You for it. Change.
Barb…
♪ So why don’t you step out… why don’t you step out… come on and take a step into the river of His spirit… why don’t you just step out… come on reach out to Him and step out… in the river of the Holy Ghost… flow with Him… there’s nothing like the flow of the Holy Ghost… moving and working with Him… letting Him move on the inside… letting Him work on the outside… bringing you into a full stride in the spirit… moving, moving, moving up and out… moving forward with a shout! … glory, glory… all around… carrying you all the way through… taking you all the way through… all the way out into the place of glory… into the place of His mighty presence and power… it’s time for that place… right now, this is the hour… it’s time to get up… get in… time to move… shake yourself loose… free… that containment the enemy has had you in, be loosed today… by the spirit of God… receive freedom… today in Jesus’ name… just a little step… ♪
He’ll get you right into the deep place… so that you’re swimming… in the deep… it’s time to get out of the shallows… and come into the deep… it’s necessary… the world is crying out… for you to be in the deep place… the world is coming out for you to be in the deep place… they need you in the deep place… come on in, church… revelation… restoration… resuscitation by the spirit… it’s time for you to come back to life… rise up in Jesus’ name… in the power of the Spirit… we’re shaking off the world and its ways… shaking off that darkness… and oppression and anxiety… and we’re moving up … the whole body joined together… working in unity … to take this world… for Jesus Christ… Jesus the anointed one… no longer will we be moved by emotion but we’ll be moved by the spirit of God… we cut that off today… we will be moved by the spirit of God… led by the Spirit… for this is a nation called by God torise up and stand up in this day and we are the ones… we are the foundation… that God brings up and causes this nation to stand upon… and His foundation will not be shaken… we will not be moved… be turned… be brought down in Jesus’ name… this nation will stand and glorify God… this nation will stand… and prosper…
Pastor Ray…
Barb, while we’ve been doing this, I keep seeing us down by the Basilica and so we’re on Hennepin Avenue. Miss Jerri started out by mentioning Minneapolis. But I saw us as a group of pray-ers, not protesting anything. But we’re marching. Marching down Hennepin Avenue beginning at the Basilica and we’re just going to take this trip. We’ve been speaking it out and Barb has been declaring it. We’re singing it. We’re saying it. We’re praying in other tongues sending out a supply of the Spirit. So we’re going right on down Hennepin toward Washington Avenue. We just declare the blood of Jesus to the left and to the right. We call the things that are not as though they were. We speak restoration and we take authority over all the works of the enemy. Fear, depression, lack, destruction and we keep moving and marching. We take a turn to the right on Washington Avenue and we take another turn right down Nicollet Avenue. We speak into businesses, into other ministries and churches… we keep going and take another right. We go back to Hennepin and take a left and we go right past the Basilica and we stay on hennepin. We end up on Hennepin and Lake. We take a left on Lake Street and we call for restoration! Not just the buildings. Not just the natural destruction, but all of the lack that the enemy tried to bring into these cities. So we march down Lake Street. We speak to the left, we speak to the right, we speak to the businesses and we plead the blood and declare the blessings of God there. We see things beginning to turn and we see the people turning and we see a change. Now! We keep on Lake Street and we get to Chicago Avenue and take a right. We go right on through… there’s destruction on the left and on the right. We declare a complete and total restoration there that more and more and more … Seems like there is a door of opportunity opened for us this morning. So we’re marching but we’re calling things that are not as though they are. We’re out front. We’re in front and making a way. It looks like there is no way.
Let’s start singing in the spirit again. Let’s go a little bit further in that.
Groups sings in the spirit…
Barb made a declaration…
We declare that Minneapolis, Minnesota will be an example of restoration, peace, and unity. In Jesus’ name, we declare that… that this city rises up for all to see in a place of restoration and peace in Jesus’ name. a total reconciliation by the blood of Jesus… a total reconciliation to peace and truth…
Jerri shared…
One thing I was praying when I was praying for Minneapolis was… when it was all happening, out of my mouth from the spirit of God, I just like almost shouted “Church in the street… Church in the street.” It was before there was any church in the street. So, Father, we thank You that You have a plan and Your Word is clear. Where the darkness does abound, Your light does much, much, much, much, much more abound. And we declare it, Father. Your light does much more abound. Father, we thank You for the laborers in the camp. We undergird the churches. They shall become the beacon. They shall become the edifice of light. We bind you, devil, in the name of Jesus from blinding up the eyes and minds of those that see not. We put the blood of Jesus against you. We say and declare, “Eyes open” … the multitudes, Lord… ha, ha, ha! We see it, Lord! Hallelujah! We see it, Lord
Barb shared…
I just saw this. Everything that’s been going on in Minneapolis, everything that happened, the enemy wanted Minneapolis to be stained with that perception of “this is what comes out of Minnesota” because he knows the prophecies that have come forth about this city and this state. He said, “I’m going to try to turn people against Minnesota. That’s a bad place. Nothing good comes out of Minnesota.” So he thought “This is what I’m going to do. I’m going to bring darkness there.”
Pastor Ray…
That’s why the 35W bridge went down years ago.
Barb…
He knows. And he’s getting desperate. He’s trying everything he can to turn everybody away. “They’re not goingto have revival there. Look at that dark place.”
Pastor Ray…
Revival is beginning here!
Barb…
What He said will be, will be. And from this place is coming revival. From this place is coming restoration, peace, miracles. The anointing of God is going to flow from this church, from this city, from Minneapolis, from Minnesota. It’s going to go through this nation. It’s going to go through the earth. It’s going to be carried forth by the Spirit of God and we break that thing over this city today in Jesus’ name. Satan, you will not have this city. You will not steal revival from this place. We will not allow you to do anything more in Jesus’ name. We shut you out from this place. In the name of Jesus Christ, oh… in the name of Jesus… we rise up today in Jesus name and we take authority over you and we say, “NO MORE! We will be known as the place of revival. We will be known where healing flows. Where miracles flow. Where the supernatural… if you want to experience the supernatural, a touch of God, you go to Minneapolis. You go to Minnesota. This is where you go. This is your destination.
Worship and prayer continued…
Barb…
The show that the Devil put on, God’s going to put on an even bigger show! Ha, ha! He’s going to put on a show like the day that Jesus was raised from the dead. He made a show, didn’t He? He’s going to put on a show here in Minnesota. He’s going to put on a Holy Ghost show here in this church. We thank You for it, Father. Yes and we’re all showing up and be part of the show! Glory to God. Not just witnesses, but participants. Participants!
Jerri sings…
♪ I serve a God whose got the devil beat… He put Satan under my feet… He’s got a plan for me that’s so, so sweet… and I’m healed from the top of my head to the souls of my feet… shout it out… shout it out… Jesus Christ is Lord… He’s lord over Minneapolis… shout it out… look out, Devil, we’re taking our stand… sons of God are rising with the power of God’s hand… we’re going forth in dominion to take back this land… and in the name of Jesus, I know that I know that I know… I know that we can… shout it out… ♪
