Pastor Ray shared…
I thought I would go through Hebrews 3 from The Message Bible. There’s a good message in it.
Hebrew chapter 3:
So, my dear Christian friends, companions in following this call to the heights, take a good hard look at Jesus. He’s the centerpiece of everything we believe, faithful in everything God gave him to do. Moses was also faithful, but Jesus gets far more honor. A builder is more valuable than a building any day. Every house has a builder, but the Builder behind them all is God. Moses did a good job in God’s house, but it was all servant work, getting things ready for what was to come. Christ as Son is in charge of the house.
6-11 Now, if we can only keep a firm grip on this bold confidence, we’re the house! That’s why the Holy Spirit says,
Today, please listen;
don’t turn a deaf ear as in “the bitter uprising,”
that time of wilderness testing!
Even though they watched me at work for forty years,
your ancestors refused to let me do it my way;
over and over they tried my patience.
And I was provoked, oh, so provoked!
I said, “They’ll never keep their minds on God;
they refuse to walk down my road.”
Exasperated, I vowed,
“They’ll never get where they’re going,
never be able to sit down and rest.”
12-14 So watch your step, friends. Make sure there’s no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God. For as long as it’s still God’s Today, keep each other on your toes so sin doesn’t slow down your reflexes. If we can only keep our grip on the sure thing we started out with, we’re in this with Christ for the long haul.
These words keep ringing in our ears:
Today, please listen; don’t turn a deaf ear as in the bitter uprising.
15-19 For who were the people who turned a deaf ear? Weren’t they the very ones Moses led out of Egypt? And who was God provoked with for forty years? Wasn’t it those who turned a deaf ear and ended up corpses in the wilderness? And when he swore that they’d never get where they were going, wasn’t he talking to the ones who turned a deaf ear? They never got there because they never listened, never believed.
Pastor Ray continued…
Two key words, right? To listen, believe. We could add another one. Listen, believe, and act on it. Do what He’s telling us to do. I had this on my desk this morning, Brother Hagin’s “I Believe in Visions” book. One of the things that happened to him was Jesus coming into his room in the hospital and talked to him. I think he hurt his arm. Jesus told him the reason the Devil was able to get in and he was open to it was because he reversed what the Lord told him to do. In other words, he was teaching so much as opposed to prophecy. He turned around what God wanted him to do. That opened up the door for the Devil to get in.
Here we don’t want to reverse and somehow let unbelief come in. Last week, Annie said one of the biggest sins would be unbelief. We can fall into that… doubt. So don’t turn a deaf ear as in the bitter uprising, forty years.
Prayer…
Thank You for Your Word, Lord. It’s so true and working on our behalf today. Thank You that Your Word is alive and active. What we say based on what You said in Your Word, it shall come to pass. Thank You for the presence and baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Thank You for more fire and increase of desire for momentum
For direction in the things You have for each one of us
We want to be directed and to hear what You’re saying… listen and believe it
Prayer for the President and the 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.
We pray that every position that is not in agreement with the President, but yet they’re in and working for our nation, that they would be exposed if they’re doing things they shouldn’t be doing.
If they’re putting forth things to the news media or whoever that they would be uncovered in Jesus’ name
Every leak would be plugged up
We’re praying for the right 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.
We speak this over every state, every governor, all the positions of authority in our nation
All the levels of authority
We believe the voice of truth, salvation, revival, and restoration to be proclaimed across our land
We pray that churches would be filled up in Jesus’ name
Restoration and revival and salvation would be declared and proclaimed across our land
Thank You for Holy Spirit boldness and courage that we’d continually speak out Your Word
Not be like those that were lost in the wilderness that refused to do what God called them to do
Thank You for the mighty, holy outpouring of Your Spirit with supernatural signs and wonders and miracles
We expect it, Lord, and thank You for it
Not the wisdom of men but Your wisdom… we pray that over our leaders… your wisdom and understanding
That our leaders would know what to do
We pray that our leaders would stand in Your strength
Thank You, Father, that no weapon formed against them will prosper
In the name of Jesus, they’ll only stand stronger, taller
Churches, ministries, pastors, positions of authority in the church
Wherever the light has grown dim, we pray for an increase of Your light that Your fire would burn bright
Thank You for ministers that are on fire
Where the church is asleep, we declare “Wake up! Let’s go forth in Jesus’ name”
We declare things that need to turn to turn in Jesus’ name
Turnarounds …
We’re entering into different days and way and plans
We pray prosperity over the United States… spirit, soul, body
Churches are busting out
Ministering spirits, we loose you now… go work on our behalf of the church and bring what needs to be brought in
Resources necessary to do what You’ve called the Church to do
Every lie exposed
Things that have been locked up, be opened up
Things blocked up, be opened up
In Jesus’ name… those status quo, in the name of Jesus is not acceptable… no longer just trying to get by… no longer staying the same … no longer is trying to accept what exists okay, but standing up for what is right. Doing the right thing… going in the right direction… moving up to the top instead of staying at the bottom… just getting by… no more getting by… it’s time to get up, get out in the name of Jesus… start moving ahead for this country, for this nation… for those in authority who have accepted the status quo and accepted to be that in the name of Jesus, we take authority over that… over that darkness that has kept this country bound… that darkness that has kept this country in place… that has made this country ineffective… in the name of Jesus, we loose that darkness out of those places… we apply the blood of Jesus upon those offices and upon those places… those seats of power that have been stagnant who have not taken their positions, the righteous position, the place that they’re supposed to be… the plan of God that is supposed to exist in this hour… no more, no more… it’s time… it’s time to say … that every single day they come into those places that they know within them that it is the charge… it is that charge within them… it is that place within them that they need to reach… instead of looking from the outside, looking on the inside… knowing that is righteous, what is the righteous law… rather than what is the popular thing to do… no longer… it’s time for leadership… it’s fine for… direction in the name of Jesus… to allow the direction of the Holy Spirit and the plan of God to be prevalent in those… no longer… it’s not… in the name of Jesus, that the power and the anointing that is … would be present every hour of every day… that the plan would be… there is a place, this is the time… an anointed and appointed… it’s not but it’s… that the power and anointing that the Most High has appointed for such a time as this would be prevalent throughout this nation through every church, through everybody in the name of Jesus within this nation… that they too would no longer just get by because they… they would recognize that it is a mandate from the Most High, that they stand up and be counted and that they shout instead of sitting there wondering what is going on… that they use their voices and no longer allow the darkness to enter this country… but they stand up against that darkness and deny it the right to exist and take authority over those places that have tried to rise up in this nation… no more just letting it go by… no more just accepting it … it’s not okay to accept that… it is not okay to accept the status quo… it is a demand from the Most High to stand up and be counted… it’s time to take back this nation… and secure it for the end time… this nation is important in that plan… this nation is important to accomplish that plan… in the name of Jesus… accepting is the way that the… so stand in the spirit… stand against the wiles of the enemy… take authority over the principalities and powers and the darkness in high places… take authority over those things that have tried to come against this nation, this state, against the churches… things that have been said should be cast down… put under foot… they can no longer rule and reign… but the Holy Ghost is to rule and reign in this hour… lift man to allow him to get into a place where he can now move and do the things that the plan of God has created for this created in this hour and this time… no longer ineffective but effective… in the name of Jesus, moving up from the place of sitting… no more lethargy… getting into the place of vigilant attentiveness… standing up and recognizing not one plan of the enemy we will let go… we will not let him have one foothold… a watchful eye…
It’s time to operate from the other side… it’s time to pass over from one side to the other… it’s time to cross over from the enemy’s side to heaven’s side… there are some that are still back on the other side and it’s time to move over into that place of… power and authority… that has been granted in Jesus’ name… so come on over… come on out of the enemy’s camp and step over into God’s camp… don’t stay in that place of his authority but move over into the camp of God’s authority… it’s time for the body to take its place and to move over unto the right side… step over… move over by the anointing of God in the name of Jesus… for the sake of the miracles of the signs of the wonders… for the transfer… you have to be in the right place… to receive the fullness of His blessing… we stand today, Father, with the body as representatives of the body… that we are all positioned in our places… we are walking in our call… our eyes are opened to the truth of our position in Christ… that the enemy has no power and will not have any power over us… we come out of his camp and we’ve taken everything of value with us… we’ve carried it forth … into that place… of abundance… no more, no more tears of sadness… no more looking back… the only tears that come are tears of joy for what the Lord has done for us… He has delivered… He has established… He has prospered and He continues to do so in the name of Jesus… the days of glory… today, every day… the days of outpouring… the days of abundance… days of increase… today, Lord, and every day ahead… Your body walking in the fullness of its calling… way up high in that high place… walking in communion with You… fully established in the name of Jesus… wrapped in the glory of God… wrapped up in the anointing and power of the Holy Ghost… yes, a saturation through the body… from the head… the pastors and prophets, evangelists… a saturation from the top to the bottom… every lay member that calls themselves a believer… a saturation by Your Spirit… a clarity and peace that comes by the Holy Ghost… an anointing that permeates every cell of their beings… energizes them for the work… You’re not just calling up an army, Father, but You are calling warriors to come forth and to take the land… to possess every opportunity for the sake of the Gospel… it’s time… it’s time for the body of Christ to rise up in the mighty name and in the power and grace… in His great mercy and love and take the nations… so pass over today in the name of Jesus… from the darkness into the light… pass over from poverty into abundance… pass over from sickness into divine health and peace… peace and wholeness… changes… in the mighty name of Jesus… opening… now…
Pastor Ray shared…
I keep seeing this. When Barb started praying about the five-fold gifts, I saw… if we looked at it in the natural, it was like there were positions of authority that had big boulders on top of them. We’re coming against the wiles of the Devil that would try to hold down. When you started praying about enabling them to see, it was like our equipment, if we just thought of it in the natural, we had some big powerful equipment to take those boulders, lift them up and throw them into the sea. To get that weight off of them. And see them rising up and seeing the way to go. So that’s getting them out of what? … The status quo! Freedom and victory and empowerment and equipping…
Barb shared…
Those that have felt incapacitated are restored now. Restored to their positions, their callings. We release you into that now in the name of Jesus.
Dave shared…
As we were praying, I saw some things in the spirit. I saw in the earth and in this nation the popularity in the status quo. I saw the media, the entertainment industry, all these different sources of negative input. I saw the enemy controlling these things and trying to make it popular and socially accepted to degrade our nation, to come against every righteous decision, every decision that the Lord desires to have made. When it comes to the safety of the nation or the nations, there has been an uprising and a popularity and social acceptance to be opposite of what is right. As we were praying, I saw the Holy Ghost go into the earth and start changing things up. And rising the Church and those in authority and rising the believers, those that have been sitting down and allowing that and saying, “That’s okay… we need to have balance.” That’s not okay for the plan.
I saw the Holy Spirit stirring man and building that righteous indignation against that darkness that has raised itself against the knowledge of God. I saw that spirit of grace in the hearts of man rise up against that. In their time of prayer, time in the pulpit wherever they are speaking to those around and passing the word on that it is not okay. I saw from heaven that anointing and grace come down and change the nation and changing the way they look at things and the way they do things. The Church stood up and said, “We will not yield to those negative things. We will stand against it and pray against it.” The righteous will prevail. They’re on the right side. They’re coming from one side to the right side. The right side… the plan of God.
Cindy shared…
Mighty are our weapons to the pulling down of strongholds. Strongholds are mindsets. The world out there is believing lies. They’re behind the gates of hell and the Devil is holding them captive to those mindsets. But those gates shall not prevail. We come in and kick down the gates and go in there.
In my mind’s eye, the Lord gave me this vision. He said, “Cindy, you’re like the gas company. There’s a gas leak in somebody’s house.” That person behind that gate is sleepy and they’re going to die, so I go in fully equipped. I kick down that door… I saw myself dragging people out left and right, throwing them on the lawn so they can breathe the fresh air. Receive God’s truth.
They’re in a place where they can’t get it because they’re asleep and confined. But we’re part of the body and legally we have the right to go in and bring them out. We don’t look at people as our enemy. We see the one that’s held them captive and we are compelled… we have that compassion in our hearts that compels us to go and do something that normally we wouldn’t do considering all of the circumstances. But it’s God’s love in us that compels us. We have that “we’re going and getting them out, throwing them on the lawn so they can start breathing fresh air… in Jesus’ name.”
