Prayed…
Thank You for Your presence, Lord
We praise Your mighty, holy name, Jesus
Your Word is truth, and we thank You for the ministry of that Word, Father
Thank You for the blood that was shed and for what it did and is doing on our behalf
There is wonder-working power in the precious blood of Jesus!
We plead that blood over our country, over our leaders, over our President and Vice President
Covering our congress, senate, governors, Supreme Court leaders with the blood of Jesus today!
No weapon formed against them shall or will prosper in the name of Jesus
Grant unto them supernatural wisdom on every decision that needs to be made, Lord
Give them an even greater revelation of who You are, Father
Soften their hearts toward You in an even greater way!
We trust You, Lord, we trust Your will, we trust Your ways, and we trust Your Word
Casting down every evil plot and obstacle of the enemy that would try to come against this nation
Declaring those things to be stopped in the name of Jesus!
No weapon formed against the United States will proper in Jesus’ name!
We declare protection and deliverance for this nation!
Declaring that no evil, no plague, and no calamity shall come against this nation!
Our President is protected and surrounded by the blood of Jesus
No weapon formed against him or his family will prosper!
Scripture Focus…
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand]. (2) I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust! (3) For [then] He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. (4) [Then] He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings shall you trust and find refuge; His truth and His faithfulness are a shield and a buckler. (5) You shall not be afraid of the terror of the night, nor of the arrow (the evil plots and slanders of the wicked) that flies by day, (6) Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor of the destruction and sudden death that surprise and lay waste at noonday. (7) A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near you. (8) Only a spectator shall you be [yourself inaccessible in the secret place of the Most High] as you witness the reward of the wicked. (9) Because you have made the Lord your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place, (10) There shall no evil befall you, nor any plague or calamity come near your tent. (11) For He will give His angels [especial] charge over you to accompany and defend and preserve you in all your ways [of obedience and service]. (12) They shall bear you up on their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone. (13) You shall tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the serpent shall you trample underfoot. (14) Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he knows and understands My name [has a personal knowledge of My mercy, love, and kindness—trusts and relies on Me, knowing I will never forsake him, no, never]. (15) He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. (16) With long life will I satisfy him and show him My salvation.
(Psalms 91:1–16 AMPC)
Shared…
The following excerpt is taken from Love: The Way to Victory by Kenneth E. Hagin:
Judge Yourself – And You Won’t Be Judged
Failure to Judge Yourself Results in the Lord’s Judgment
Let me show you how important it is to walk in love toward those in the body of Christ.
From 1947 through 1958, there was a healing revival here in America. There were about 120 of us in the healing ministry who belonged to an organization called The Voice of Healing. We held conventions, and Gordon Lindsay published many of the healing testimonies in his magazine, The Voice of Healing.
Brother Oral Roberts started coming to the forefront in ministry about 1848, and eventually he got a tent that would seat 20,000 people. There was one fellow in The Voice of Healing who got a larger tent than Roberts’ tent. He put another section in it so he could seat 22,000 and occasionally he’d fill it up.
This other fellow was also one of the leading healing evangelists in the days of The Voice of Healing. No one had a greater healing ministry at that time than he did.
I saw some of the greatest miracles in this evangelist’s ministry that I’ve ever seen.
But the Lord told me, “You go tell him that he’s not going to live much longer unless he judges himself.” The man was only thirty-five years old at the time.
The Lord said to me, “The number-one thing he’s to judge himself on is walking in love toward his fellow minister. Secondly, he needs to judge himself on money.”
The Lord said the third thing this evangelist needed to judge himself on was diet. I don’t mean to be unkind about it, but this man was as big as a cow and ate like a horse.
Well, we don’t have to become health-food nuts. That’s not what the Lord was saying. But on the other hand, I remember something John Wesley said. He said, “I don’t live to eat; I just eat to live.”
Was it scriptural for this minister to judge himself? Of course it was. The Lord was trying to warn him, because if he would have judged himself, the Lord wouldn’t have had to judge him. That’s what the Bible says.
1 Corinthians 11:31, 32
31 For IF WE WOULD JUDGE OURSELVES, WE SHOULD NOT BE JUDGED.
32 But WHEN WE ARE JUDGED, WE ARE CHASTENED OF THE LORD, that we should not be condemned with the world.
I remember one time my wife and I were on our way to hold a meeting, and we stopped by to visit this fellow’s tent meeting. In the city where he was holding this meeting, there was a state institution for deaf and mute people.
They brought five men from that institute who were totally deaf and mute to this healing evangelist’s service, and he laid hands on them. Just like you’d snap your fingers, all five of them were instantly healed. They were healed in front of thousands of people.
This evangelist stopped the service right then and started taking up an offering. Then he announced to the audience, “Don’t come down here unless you’ve got at least $50 to give in the offering.”
People were running over one another to get down there to give in the offering! Now you’ve got to understand that this was back in the early ‘50s. Money was worth a lot more back then than it is now in these days of inflation. But, you see, you can’t take the things of God and use them to raise money.
And sooner or later, if people don’t judge themselves, these things are going to catch up with them.
Remember what the Bible says, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Gal. 6:7). That applies to every area of people’s lives.
I saw another miraculous healing in this man’s ministry that was confirmed by medical science. A woman came to one of his meetings on a stretcher. Her body was as stiff as a board, just like it was petrified.
It was a very rare disease, and medical science couldn’t do anything about it. If you touched her body, it felt like you just touched a piece of petrified lumber.
They brought her into the service, and when this minister laid hands on her, she was instantly healed. This minister had a marvelous healing ministry. Blind people were instantly healed. Yet the Lord said to me, “You go tell him that he’s not going to live much longer unless he judges himself.”
I went to talk to this healing evangelist, but he was busy talking to someone else at the time. By the time he finished talking to the other person, my natural mind had taken over, and I thought, He doesn’t walk in love toward the brethren. If I tell him what the Lord told me, he’s liable to slap my face. By then the evangelist had left, and I never had another opportunity to talk to him.
Three years later, my wife and I were in Los Angeles in Angelus Temple at a Voice of Healing convention. In those days, we had a Voice of Healing convention every year at Thanksgiving time. This man’s wife called the convention for prayer because the doctors said that this evangelist was dying. He was only thirty-eight years old.
Brother Lindsay announced this from the platform. He said it would hurt the healing ministry if this foremost healing minister in America died at this early age. So he invited all The Voice of Healing ministers to come up on the platform to join hands and pray for the man. I started up there to pray for him.
As I started to walk up the aisle to the platform, the Lord said to me, “Don’t go up there.” I stopped dead still, and asked, “Why not, Lord? He’s only thirty-eight years old. He’s not old enough to die.” Three years and some months had gone by, and I’d momentarily forgotten what the Lord had told me about him.
The Lord said to me, “He wouldn’t judge himself and walk in love toward his fellow ministers, so I judged him and turned him over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. You leave him alone because he’s going to die.” So I turned around and walked back up the aisle.
My wife came from another part of the building and met me as I got to the back of the auditorium. She asked, “What did the Lord say to you?”
I said, “How do you know He said anything?”
She said, “Well, you stopped dead still and turned as white as a sheet.”
So I told her what the Lord had said. That time, the Lord only mentioned the fact that this evangelist hadn’t judged himself on not walking in love toward others. Well, dying prematurely at thirty-eight years old wasn’t God’s best for him, but it sure beats going to hell!
You see, sometimes there’s a reason folks are sick and die prematurely. And before you can get them healed, sometimes you’ll have to get down to the root cause why they are sick, and they’ll need to make some adjustments.
This minister would put his tent up and hold meetings for a local church in a particular city every year. The other churches in the city would come and cooperate with him, and thousands of people would come to the meetings and get saved and healed. They’d fill up the tent and run it over with people.
But then he announced, “I’m going to build a revival center in this town,” and he built it not very far from the local church that had helped him hold the meetings.
Then one day he went to the pastor of that local church, and told him, “I’m going to start my church on your members and Brother So-and-so’s members and Brother So-and-so’s members.” And that’s exactly what he did.
Now there was nothing wrong with him starting a church in that town. But there was something wrong with him taking two hundred members from one pastor’s church, two or three hundred members from another church, and several hundred members from the largest Full Gospel church in town! But do you know what? Before he could enjoy his new church “growth,” he was dead.
You see, this evangelist worked ill to his fellow pastors. He built his new church, but he built it on the other fellow’s members. Love worketh no ill to his neighbors.
A person like that is flirting with death! This man died at an early age because he didn’t walk in love toward his brethren. And that’s exactly the reason some believers die prematurely – they are shortening their days by not walking in love. We’ve got to learn to discern the Lord’s Body – our brothers and sisters in Christ – and treat them like they are part of the Lord’s Body.
The man wouldn’t repent, so God had to judge him.
That wasn’t God’s best, but if a person won’t judge himself, he will fall under the penalty of God’s judgment. That didn’t have to happen to him. But he is the one who was responsible for it happening to him.
It’s a solemn thought to fall under the penalty of God’s judgment, isn’t it? Well, that’s why we need to think soberly on the subject of walking in love.
Remember, the Bible says that God’s love is greater than faith or hope: “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity [love]” (1 Cor. 13:13). We in the Body of Christ haven’t majored on the subject of God’s love as we should have.
Romans 12:9
9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Sometimes we read this verse, but we don’t stop and think about what it means. The word “dissimulation” means to pretend or pretension. A lot of people pretend they love you, but it doesn’t show up in facts. What do I mean by that? They say, “I sure do love you,” but you don’t dare turn your back on them! They are just pretending that they love you.
Romans 12:10
10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour PREFERRING ONE ANOTHER.
Continued Praying…
Father, thank You that You loved us so much, that You sent Your Son to save us!
You had a plan, and You put that plan to work even before we were even born
That plan is working on our behalf in these days we are living in
We purpose within our hearts to always walk in Your love, Father
Give us strength to lift up one another Lord, that we would be a light in the darkness
Holding up the body of Christ today, give them eyes to see and ears to hear
We are directed and protected in, by and through the precious blood of Jesus
Thank You that we walk in Your love, Lord
Declaring for increase in the body, freedom and restoration in the body!
Come up, come up, come up, body, we lift you up in the name of Jesus
Father, let Your love flow from one to another
Calling for restoration, wholeness, and healing for every member of Your body, Lord
Bring those families back together, Father
Those walls that are trying to hold those believers back are being broken down, today!
No, now is not the time to be selfish, but time to show and share the love of God
Father, we pray and believe for every need to be met according to Your Word
We pray and believe God for a revival in our hearts
Holy Spirit, anoint us to be Your hands and Your feet, that we would be light, Lord
Turn our hearts, that we would be more like Jesus Christ
You loved us so much, that You gave Your one and only Son, Jesus
Change, change, change, change the hearts of Your people, Lord
Fill our hearts with love toward each other, Father
We pray and ask You to fill us, that Your love would be poured out in our communities
Give us a greater capacity to help those in need around us
You have given us everything we need to fulfill Your will and Your plan in our lives
Let the compassion of the Lord, be upon us, that we can be a help in the time of need
Give us a greater compassion to love, Lord
Help us to be more patient and kind, help us help those in need, Father
Change and soften our hearts, that we would be more like You
Let love flow where there has been selfishness, let love flow where there has been fear and worry
Yes, Lord, we will honor, serve, and lift up one another in these last days!
You are all we need, none of us, and all of You
We pray for restoration in this nation and for the love of God to fill those places
Love never fails, love always succeeds!
So we speak love into those situations, Father
Love conquers fear and triumphs over everything!
There is no fear in love!
Perfect love casts out all fear in the name of Jesus!
Give us boldness and courage to stand up for what is right in these last days, Lord
Thank You that the love of God overcomes!
The anointing of Your love is breaking the yolk of bondage!
Father, we thank You for a spirit of giving, that we would be a help to those in need
We want to be moved by other people’s needs, and we would begin to meet those needs, Lord
Holding up the needs of Your body, and we declare that they will be met according to Your Word
Thank You for the ministry of Your precious Holy Spirit
Sickness, you must go in the name of Jesus!
We love, worship, and magnify You, Lord
