Pastor Ray shared…
There are things happening with President Trump next week. He’s going to Vietnam to meet with the head of North Korea. That’s a big deal. There are many big things happening in America but also through America. And I remind you of what Billye Brim said, “No man, no President, no party can bring the change that we need in America. Only an awakening to God can do that.” There have been revivals over the years. I love reading about it. A few days ago, we reviewed the one that happened in Welsh, how the whole country was changed. That’s what we’re looking for. I remember years ago, Kenneth Copeland declared a word that said whole nations would be changed in a day. Can any man do that? No. We can’t do it. We are inadequate to do that. But we have Him.
I’m going to share two words that Kenneth Copeland gave. The first one I want to share is titled, “Things Are Changing.” We can take that personally, and we can take it corporately.
Prophecy delivered by Kenneth Copeland
on February 16, 2014
Words of Life Church, North Miami BeachThings Are Changing
“I know,” saith the Lord, “that the pressure is on. I know that the forces of darkness have pressed and pushed and attempted to overcome not only this nation, but are trying to overcome My people all over the world. He [the devil] thinks this is his time because he understands that the time is so short. And, yes, soon and very soon a major change is coming. Change, change—especially in the lives of those who are determined to live by faith, and for those who have made decisions of quality to walk in the commandment of love, and for those who are determined to say what they hear Me say,” saith the Lord, “and do as I direct and command.
“For these are not times for you to fail. These are times for you to succeed beyond anything you’ve ever dreamed of before. So as you continue to walk by faith, as you continue to walk in love and kindness, as you continue to keep an ear towards Me and acknowledge Me,” saith the Lord, “every day, all day, everywhere you go, have it be somewhere I have directed you to go. I’ll walk with you in the small things. I’ll say, ‘No, don’t go in this way this morning that you usually go. Turn down this way. Turn down that way.’ For you see, I have blessings waiting on you at every corner, every way and every turn. And you’ll say, ‘My, my! What has happened? I’m so blessed. Things are changing. My family has come to the Lord. Things are changing, when just a little while ago things looked so dark, things looked so low and bad to me. But something is happening. Things are changing!’ Hallelujah.
“Things are looking up! For the momentum has swung in the other direction. It looked a long time like the enemy, the darkness and all of that dark kingdom had the upper hand, and the things were swinging for them that we just seemed like whatever we did just hit such opposition. Ah! No! Oh no! No, no! Look up! Momentum has changed. It’s working for you. It’s swinging for you. My grace has begun to overcome and swallow up the opposition around you. And soon and very soon, sooner than you think, oh, sooner than you think, the big change is coming! I’m coming,” saith the Lord. “Heaven is fully prepared. We’ve been preparing all these years to receive you and we are fully prepared. Heaven is ready. For the time is at hand. The trumpet is about to blow and we’re all about to go. So rejoice and be glad and declare the wonders of the Lord are at hand. For great is His presence, great is His grace, and the best is yet to come.”
Pastor Ray continued…
And we all say… Amen!
Brother Copeland was here toward the end of last year and declared this about America.
Kenneth Copeland
8-24-18Word of the Lord
Don’t be concerned at this time about the direction that the nation is taking. For you see, you are in transition. You are transitioning from a splintered sick and dying nation, swarmed and choked by political ideas and godlessness. You are transitioning to one nation under God,
indivisible. Don’t pay so much attention to the news media. They don’t know much and all they know is what is already happened. For my angels are at work.
Thank You, Lord.
The prayers of My people have been heard on high, saith the Lord. This United States. Is the only nation on this planet formed by people expressly because they love and wanted to worship Me, saith the Lord. I created the nation of Israel because I love them, but the United States was created because you love Me and I WILL, saith Jesus, never, ever forget it. I’m not bringing judgment and destruction upon this nation. It has already happened and the healing of that judgment, the healing, has already begun, and for the most part the healing and deliverance from that judgment has just now been resolved saith the Spirit of Grace. Because you have no idea how much prayer is going on in the White House. You have no idea how much prayer is going on around this president, at his request. You don’t know, but understand this, I put him in there and I’ll take care of him in there.
He has a lot of rough edges but so do you, and My grace is being poured out on him and on his family and I am asking you, saith the Lord, I am asking you, I am telling you, don’t make your words stout against Me or against him. This is not a time to be critical, it’s a time to pray. It’s a time to stand in the gap. It’s a time to know and understand that I’m not about to let this nation fall. I’m not about to let it fail. Its greatest hour is yet to come and it’s very soon to manifest. This nation is in the midst of being born again.
Pastor Ray continued…
We’re going to worship the Lord for a little bit and then pray for America. But we’re not necessarily only praying about America, just because I shared this. I just wanted it restated, re-declared to stir ourselves up that we’re not to be so concerned and get “down under.” We’re to keep changing and be lifted and high up above where we can declare what God has called us to declare. He’s firm about it here. “I’m not just asking you. I’ve telling you. Don’t make your words stout against Me.” I could add this. Let’s not make our words stout about anything. But walk in love. Judge not. Lest we be judged. Just watch over the words that we say and declare and how we pray. And we’ll see our prayers and the anointing that’s resident within us, we’ll see it begin to ramp up. Our prayers will be more heartfelt. For it’s the heartfelt prayer of the righteous man or woman that avails much.
So, Lord, we get it. We’re moving out of our brains. We won’t be critical. We won’t be concerned. We won’t take the cares. You said to give it to You. So that’s what we’re doing today. Believing we’re stepping into the change that You declared through the Holy Spirit.
Mary led group in worship…
♪ Be glorified… be glorified… be glorified… in the heavens… in the earth… in this temple… Jesus, be thou glorified… ♪
Mary sang out of her spirit…
♪ We lift You high, Lord… Jesus… lift your voice… sing your song unto the Lord… there is a song from heaven… and we respond to the sound of heaven coming down… coming down… ♪
Prayed…
Taking hold… taking hold with… working, working together… holding fast… unto… take it on… put it on… clothed… clothed… head to toe… take it all, take it all… all of it… all of it… all the colors… showing forth… the colors are showing forth… the ways, the beautiful ways… many, many more…
♪ Oh the workings of My Spirit… are going forth… all the ways, all the ways… combinations are working together… all the pieces, all the combinations coming together… shining My light… all across the land… ♪
Pastor Ray continued…
I remembered years ago to a time in our other building in our prayer room. We were in a prayer meeting. A lot of times, we’d just lay out on the floor. I remember laying out praying in other tongues and then just moving out, not aware of who was there, or what was happening around me, not aware of anything. I feel it in my heart and even in my bones that as members of the church, we’re being called up and we’re also being “called out.” So far out of what we thought it would look like, so far out of what we thought it would turn out. Just yielding and yielding and yielding by the Spirit, yielding and yielding and yielding. And in a specific season for the time that we’re in now that we’d be enabled to call for the things that have not yet come to pass in a place where we’d be absent of any fear about how it would work or how it could ever work. And absent of all doubt or questions if it would even turn out.
Prayed…
So we yield to You… we desire to yield to You… Holy Spirit, move… change… where there has been a blockage or something that has held us back in our hearts, be removed in Jesus’ name… get out! … where we’ve let the pictures in our minds control what our hearts might, no… by the spirit of seeing and knowing, showing us for these times… new messages… by and through the power of the Holy Spirit… inaction will bring about no change… activity in the Spirit… pressing where we’ve not pressed so much before… yielding to the Spirit, praying in other tongues… making room for the move… for the awakening… we must have it… we yearn for it… we can’t go on without it… as a nation, as a company, as the church… it’s like we stuck in cement… we pray over the sheep… the shepherds and their sheep… the commanders and those that will listen and do… different days…
Mary led group singing Jesus Be Jesus in Me…
Pastor Ray commented…
I just heard this in my spirit, if that’s true for you, if we believe it is Him working through us then we as members of His body will be so absolutely free, we’ll be so complete and at such peace that His glory will reach and reach through us and touch many, many lives when we acknowledge that we totally believe it.
We stretch our hearts out to You… You are revealing and opening and showing and making us know… we lean into You… trusting You…
Mary continued singing…
Prayed…
Thank You, Father… thank You for the glorious transitioning and transformation in the church… Your precious body… Your bride… thank You for great cooperation now… with You and Your Spirit and Your plans… thank You that even now we step into the change… we step into oneness with our Father… Oneness with the Spirit… with each other… one heart, one mind, one plan, one purpose… all of You… Jesus… a deep work today… transition, transformation from glory to glory…
♪ hallelujah… hallelujah… hallelujah… ♪
Woman shared…
As we were worshiping, the Lord took me to Ezekiel 57 where He told Ezekiel “Son of man, can these bones live?” I didn’t know what to think of that. I said, “Lord, what are you trying to tell me?” This is what I sense the Spirit is saying. We go through difficult seasons in life. Sometimes we lose hope and we feel we can’t go on. And when there is no hope, even when you come to prayer, you feel you’re not reaching the Lord like you should. Because of the seasons that you’re going through. But this is what I heard the Lord say, “that in the pressing and in the crushing, that’s where He makes new wine. And where there is new wine, there is new power.” So I feel this morning, the Lord is encouraging us, that even in our seasons of feeling like we are dry bones, there’s no hope in us. We can’t see anything out there. He says “Speak to your situation this morning. Prophesy to where you are right now, because His will is to fill you with His Spirit, with new wine, with new power. So Ezekiel, son of man, can these bones live? Lord, you know if they can live. But the Lord did not speak to the bones. He told Ezekiel to speak to the bones. And here’s the thing. Every single one of us is a part of the body of Christ. Just like those bones were scattered, but once Ezekiel spoke, they all came and joined together where they fit. So if you’re feeling that you’re not fitting where you’re supposed to be, speak to your situation this morning. Lift up your voice. God will not do it for you. The Spirit will not do it for you. You have to speak to your situation. Because it’s only in the crushing and only in the pressing that He will bring new wine. So when you are in that position where you feel you’re completely helpless, like Peter said, “rejoice” because you have an opportunity to turn things around by using your mouth. So speak to your situation this morning. The Lord is more than willing to fill you with new wine.
Hallelujah! Glory to God.
Mary led group in worship…
