Pastor Ray shared…
I listened to a message on faith yesterday by Brother Keith Moore. He was saying when he was like 10 years old, there was four guys on his bus that kept beating him up. One guy would hold him down and the other guy would punch him out. So his dad said “That’s it, we are going to send you for some training.” He started working out and training in the martial arts and got better and better. One of the times he was training, there was a guy who seemed like he was four feet taller than him. He wasn’t actually but when you look back you think about the huge hills that you used to slide down and really they were just a little bump. But you think it was great. He said this guy kicked him in the ribs and knocked him on the floor and he could hardly breathe. His coach came over and said, “What are you doing! Would you like to get kicked again in that rib? Get up, put a smile on your face, and act like nothing happened.” That was his command.
So that’s what he did. And he learned as he trained more that even if he got hit really hard, he would just keep smiling. He’d get up. He would know that person was somewhere in the vicinity over there, even if he couldn’t see straight at the time. And he said he has always used it against the Devil all throughout his life. He would just to keep smiling, knowing that God is faithful.
He was faithful. He got us to where we are now. Will He let us down? No.
Scriptural focus…
It did remind me of Ephesians 6, of course.
(10) In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides]. (11) Put on God’s whole armor [the armor of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies], that you may be able successfully to stand up against [all] the strategies and the deceits of the devil. Ephesian 6:10-11 (AMPC)
The King James uses the word “wiles” of the Devil. So I just looked up online what exactly does that mean, the “wiles” of the devil. I found this and just a couple points I want to go over.
Our English word “wiles” is generally used to express deception through trickery and includes all the methods that would be part of that. It has to do with cunning or skill applied to no good purpose. The word “ruse” is a synonym with stress on the creation of a false impression.
But when definitions seem inadequate, what helps is personification; a living example of the thing under consideration. The Bible teaches, the Devil—as he works his craft against us—personifies wiles. He is the master of wiles.
He lies to us, wants to trap us, discourage us, and snare us. He will do anything he can do with cunning satanic variety to weaken us and destroy us. He goes to work daily to produce discouragement, confusion, indifference, and imbalance. He is our chief enemy, but deals in wiles and stratagems. So here is a “briefing” (to borrow military intelligence terminology). Four things to watch for:
1. The Devil exaggerates the pleasures of sin while minimizing the true nature and outcome of sin.
(You could take a lot of the commercials you see on TV. Really they glorify sin. They will show people just partying up a storm, going wild, and having such a great time. But they don’t show down the road, the manifestation of what will come forth because of what they are doing. Isn’t that right?)
2. The Devil sees an opening into our lives through emotions or moods (Eph. 4:26).
(So if we get in a funky mood, we need to get out of that mood, do something, pray in the Holy Ghost, get in the Word, stand on the Word… isn’t that what we base everything on, the Word of God. )
3. The Devil will use people to lead us astray.
(Hello… could be relatives, friends, other believers, or nonbeliever. He will use whoever he can use to try to lead us astray.)
4 The Devil is the master marketing agent; he packages sin in neat, attractive bundles (Heb. 3: 12, 13).
(You could take it like if somebody came up to you with a garbage bag and it stunk, would you want to take it? No. But if they came up with a beautiful package all wrapped up with a nice bow on it and there was no foul odor, you would be tempted.)
To me, a religious spirit if one of the worst kind of spirits to try and get us from what we are actually truly called to do. Because it tries to work on our minds and come against our spirits and what we know we have been called to do. So what do we do? We stay up above it all. We walk in love. We are not moved by what somebody else, even if it’s a relative thinks that we should do. We have to be directed and led by the Holy Ghost.
Prayed…
We are led by the Spirit of God
We walk in faith in what He says in His Word
Knowing that it is true and knowing that it will come to pass if He promised it
The past is over and this is a new day
We as a church are so blessed to have Pastors that stick tight to the Word. They stay on it. If we just got over a big mountain, we have been trained not to sit back, sit down, relax for a few weeks. No, we keep moving. That’s how Pastor Mac can say “If you don’t quit, you win.”
We will not stop, we will not quit
We are pressing further because there is a whole lot more to do
Not being moved by any little implication from the Devil
We overcome because You overcame
Jesus shed that precious blood on the Cross
That blood has caused us to overcome today
Every obstacle, wrong deceiving way, lie, inaccuracy, untruth we have already overcome
You said “It’s finished”
It’s done, it’s been completed
My Children, those that will come after Me, put their trust in Me, will overcome all the way through in every century, the days that are to come.
We hold the blood of Jesus over this month of December
No weapon formed against us here or there or anywhere shall prosper
We prosper because You prospered
What was done for us on that Cross
Declaring “It’s true”
Your Word is true, Your joy brings strength
We have overcome in every area
Prosperous spirit, soul, and body
Entering in even now into greater days, higher ways, further plans – brand new!
Never, never, never have we been here before
But change has come and change will come
So by faith, we take our steps in You knowing it will work out right
For we have overcome by that blood
No devil in hell, no weapon formed against us can prosper
We are healthy, we are whole, we are prosperous
We have more than enough, we know what to do, what to say, where to go
The peace of God covers us – the peace that passes all understanding
Right here, right now – that precious peace
Holy Spirit, we open up our hearts to more of Your presence in us and through us
Ms. Annie led us singing “Welcome Holy Spirit”
Continued praying…
That’s the living waters of life
Heaven sent power of the Holy Spirit
Fresh baptisms during this Christmas season
Heart’s more tender—an atmosphere of blessing others
Supernatural increase of the baptism of Holy Ghost
We pray for a loosing for those who have had blockages to entering into this gift
They will receive and speak in other tongues
In all kinds of different streams of ministry
Leaders, ministers would step into the new and be baptized
Over and over and over
In some, it will be shocking
It will shake things up
But the Church must get together and be filled with the Holy Ghost
Enabling, stripping
An anointing for the Church to exit out of 2016 and enter into 2017
All of the changes that have begun in 2016
They will go more and more in God’s way in 2017
Uncharted territory, believing to go out and take more territory
More lost coming into the light
We plead the blood, praying for the body
Lifting up every member of the body of Christ
Children of the Most High!
Leaning not on our own understanding
Calling those things that be not as though they were
Breaking patterns of depression and lack
Breaking patterns of poverty in Jesus’ name
Breaking bondages, chains, holds from the past, religious ways
Entering into new days, better ways
King of Kings and Lord of Lords
Coming forth in a greater way
We cooperate with heaven
We believe we can do all things through You that You have called us to
Lack or fear has no place in or around us in Jesus’ name
New territories, realms, possibilities, revelations coming forth
We as a body will move into what You have called us to
Things that need to be restored, be restored in Jesus’ name
Be made new!
New clothes, a different look
That joy would be so strong in us causing us to overcome every wrong plan of the enemy
Through joy we would be strengthened to overcome – victory, victory, victory
Entering in to GREAT
Let the poor say I am rich!
Let the sick say I am healed!
Impossibilities turned upside down
Things that were shut up – be opened up
New opportunities, new times of overcoming power
More than what we can even know about
But that knowing inside us would cause us to move ahead and walk in victory
What we put our hands to and what we speak
Thank You for the anointing that destroys every yoke
We will overcome in the future because You overcame in the past
We know how to walk in the steps You prepared because we walk by faith
Knowing that our faith will continually increase and increase
Things are changing continually in the right way!
Restoration days!
Thank You, Lord, for that refreshing to know
A greater revelation of Your love
Every day of December we cover our families
We will do what You have called us to do
More than enough to meet the needs of some
Checks in the mail, money in our bank accounts
Declaring we are going up in our churches
Numbers are increasing
Ministering Spirits, go and bring in the finances
Up and over and above and over into more than enough
Praying over every gift that comes into our churches
They will receive back many times what they have given!
Praying over the laborers that go out
Divine connections
For the needs of their families met above what they expect
Prosperity over our churches
Lifting our pastors – every need met
What they set their hands to prosper
What needs to turn for them will turn
Declaring Your favor over and going before them
ABUNDANCE! ABUNDANCE!
Supernatural abundance in Jesus’ name
Father, we cancel all words that are contrary to abundance
We delight greatly in Your commandments
Pastor Paul prayed…
Wealth and riches are in your house!
Father, You word says that blessed is the man that fears the Lord and delights greatly in Your commandments
You said his seed shall be mighty upon the earth and the generation of the upright shall be blessed
Then You said wealth and riches are in his house and his righteousness endures forever
You said unto the upright there arises light in the darkness
You said he is gracious and full of compassion
Showing favor and lending
He guides his affairs with discretion
You said he shall not be moved forever
The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance
Father, You said the wicked shall see them and be grieved
They shall nash with their teeth and melt away
Their desire shall perish
Father, concerning the house of God You said
Wealth and riches shall be in his house!
So we declare concerning our church
“Wealth and riches are in Your house in the name of Jesus!”
“Wealth and riches are in Your house in the name of Jesus!”
There is no lack!
Wealth and riches are in Your house!
And Your righteousness endures forever in the name of the Lord Jesus’ Christ
Every word of broke, every word of busted, whatever they have said concerning this house that is contrary to wealth and riches
They shall not come to pass!
They shall not settle in the ground!
There shall not be an establishment of it!
There shall be no memory of it!
But Father, wealth and riches are in this house! In the name of Jesus
Father, we release the ability and strength and vitality and the vigor and the grace
to produce wealth, to produce riches, to produce wisdom
The grace of God that crosses the light of God to descend from this place
In the name of Jesus
This house shall be called a blessed house
It shall be called the house of the Lord
It shall be called a house of prayer
It shall be called the house of the preserved of the Lord
It shall be called the dwelling place of the righteous
And we say “Wealth and riches are in You house!”
In the name of Jesus
I thank You, Father
We give You glory for the ingenuity
Increase in the name of Jesus!
Favor increase
That people will come to this house and they will hear words that are ministered from this house
And they will have witty inventions as a result of the words that are ministered from this house
And they will go and be creative of things, of engines, of ideas, of great exploits
And they will return to the house from which they received it and they shall bless the house!
In the name of Jesus!
Thank You, Father, Glory to God
Because wealth and riches are in this house, they that are of the house
I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor their seed begging bread
They will be partakers
According as His divine power has given unto you all things that pertain to life and godliness
According to the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and virtue
Whereby is given to us exceeding, great and precious promises that by these we may be the partakers of the divine nature
Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust
Meditate about this and the revelation is there because you are now a partaker of the divine nature. There is a level of operation and thinking that is above the norm. It’s supernatural. And because they are exceeding great and precious promises, these promises allow you to move to a level of operation that is consistent with the dynamic supernatural nature of God on the earth through you. There is an operation of the Sons of God that cannot be normal or cannot be carnal. It is supernatural and it takes the exceeding great and precious promises that have been provided through the finished work of Christ. It takes you harnessing them. It takes you knowing them. It takes you trusting in them. It takes you acting upon them to live the divine nature. The divine nature is a call of God for you and I and it’s only predicated and manifested by you taking the exceeding great and precious promises and applying them, know them, trust them and act upon them. Hallelujah.
And everyone said, Amen.
