Ms. Annie led us singing My Hearts One Desire is to be Holy
Pastor Ray shared…
How does that work? We choose to be holy. It’s our choice to make the decisions and keep ourselves in the blood, washed with the blood, know who we are in Him, and know that He is leading us all the time. Hallelujah. I believe that the Holy Spirit continually is speaking to us. A lot of the time, we don’t hear Him or don’t have our ears open or don’t have our hearts wide open. We want to, we choose to.
Prayed…
Thank You today for the fresh covering of the blood
Once again the blood that washes and continually cleanses
Father, it’s our choice to be holy
We know that You make us that way because of the blood
Thank You for the name that is above every other name
There is no name above the name of Jesus!
And the blood works in every way and every plan
In all the steps, the directions you give every one of us to do
Things are lining up, things line up always
But we don’t always necessarily see it or recognize what You are doing
And how You are directing our steps
Father, our plans and purposes are Yours– thank You, Lord
Thank You, thank You, thank You, thank You
Refiner’s fire, Hallelujah
Pastor Ray…
Cindy, will you share what happened yesterday? You sent out an email about a prophecy.
Ms. Cindy shared…
Yesterday morning was really icy and I left my car outside the garage so I was late getting to prayer. And when I got here I kept thinking about some things the Lord had been showing me for the last couple weeks, even longer really, about the fruit of the Spirit. A couple weeks ago, I was in another prayer group and Kenneth Copeland’s prophecy concerning 2018 was read. The prophecy was about how 2018 will be the year of the fullness of the gifts of the Spirit and the fullness of the fruit of the Spirit. So, nine gifts and nine fruit equal 18 for 2018. It blessed me so much, because I see a lot of the gifts but sometimes it grieves me that the fruit isn’t always there. I am thankful for all of the things that God does through people in the way of gifts, miracles, healings, signs and wonders. But it is so important to have the fruit because it is the fruit that brings people to God. The gifts are there but the fruit keeps them there.
So, I get to prayer and I am a little late. I have my laptop ready to start typing out the GPAN but instead I am thinking about that prophecy. I think “You know what, I’m just going to look up that prophecy online.” I looked it up and then I thought “You know what, I am just going to send that prophecy to a bunch of people including Pastor Ray.” And after prayer was finished, I walked up to the front to grab whatever Pastor Ray had read from because I type out the online prayer summary and I saw you had read from that very prophecy.
Pastor Ray…
He gives us the gifts. We are gifted. He put the gifts within us. He gave us the gifts, nine of them. Yet, yesterday or the day before we went through those… but the fruit of the Spirit, that’s what the people see. If we are so full of gifts but we do not walk in the fruit of the Spirit, how are they going to know? Unless we tell them “I am gifted” (ha, ha, ha). Yes, but you are not walking in love. Hello?
I love how the Holy Spirit works. Ms. Cindy, when she got here was moved to email me that prophecy, and we had just read it before she came in. He lines things up beyond our brains. So, that’s why we have to get out of our heads.
If you would like to go over the prophecy for 2018 and the word from Smith Wigglesworth click here.
If you think about all the things that are happening in the United States, there is a lot of stirring, there is a lot of speaking against the plans or purposes for the president. When he begins to say the things he said he would do when he got in office, then the opposite opinion people, they come against it. So, there is a lot of stirring against the plan that God has for America to move more His way. I like how this is going to come forth and the Lord said it has already begun. But in 2018 there would be a lot of the gifts but there would be a lot of the fruit of the Spirit. So when the Church stands up and operates in the fruit, the world will see and the world will know, Amen.
Yesterday Ms. Annie told us that she declared something extravagant over someone at a meeting sometime back. it came up out of her spirit and it was something she would have never, ever thought of declaring but it just came out. And then the Lord reminded her that when it happens, these people that heard her declare it will know that God is real and faithful and extravagant.
Giving and receiving and receiving and giving extravagantly. Have you had the Holy Spirit speak to you about giving to other people maybe more than ever before? I’ve had that too.
The following excerpt was taken from The Power to Serve by Smith Wigglesworth:
If I say “holiness” or “baptism” or “resurrection” or “rapture,” remember that all these words are tremendous. And there is another phrase I would like to emphasize: “After you were illuminated” (Heb. 10:32). Have you been to the place of illumination? What does the word mean? Illumination means this: that your very mind, which was depraved, is now the mind of Christ; the very nature that was bound now has a resurrection touch; your very body has come in contact with the life of God until you who were lost are found, and you who were dead are alive again by the resurrection power of the Word of the life of Christ. What a glorious inheritance in the Spirit!
Have you come to this place? Don’t forget the ladder that Jacob saw. (See Genesis 28:10–22.) As I was nearing Jerusalem and saw the city for the first time, someone said to me, “See that place there? That is where Jacob saw the ladder that reached from earth to heaven.”
Believer, if you have not reached all this, the ladder extends from heaven to earth to take you from earth to heaven. Do not be afraid of taking the steps. You will not slip back. Have faith in God. Experience divine resurrection life—more divine in thought, more wonderful in revelation. Resurrection life means living in the Spirit, wakened into all likeness, made alive by the same Spirit!
An Interpretation of Tongues:
He rose, and in His rising, He lifted us and He placed us in the place of seating, and then gave us a holy language, and then began to entertain us and show in us that now the body is His and that we become members in particular of the body. Sometimes He chastens us and the stubble might be burned in the testing, so that He might get purer gold, purer life, purer soul, so that there should be nothing in the body that should be defiling, but He should take us out of the world and make us like a ripe shock of corn, ready for the dawning of the morning.
Are you lowly and meek in your mind? It is the divine plan of the Savior. You must be like Him. Do you desire to be like Him? There is nothing but yourself that can hinder you in this.
Pastor Ray…
That thought came to me this morning. In whatever He is calling us to do, whatever He has given us as a mission or call within us, we all have a specific call or direction, we are the only one that can stop it. The Devil can’t stop us. He is defeated and we keep the blood over us but we are the ones that can stop or hinder ourselves.
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You are the one who stops the current. You are the one who stops the life. The river and the current are coming just now; I feel them all over me.
While ministering in one place, we had a banquet for people who were distressed—people who were lame and weary, blind and diseased in every way. We had a big crowd of people, and we fed them all.
After we got them well filled with all the good things that were provided, we said, “Now we are going to give you some entertainment.”
A man who had spent many years in a wheelchair but had been healed came onto the platform and told how he had been set free. A person who had suffered from a hemorrhage for many years came and testified. A blind man came and told how his eyes had been opened. For one hour, the people were entertained.
Then I said to the people, “Are you ready?” Oh, they were all so ready! A dear man got hold of a boy who was encased in iron from top to bottom, lifted him up, and placed him onto the platform. Hands were laid upon him in the name of Jesus.
“Papa! Papa! Papa!” the boy said. “It’s going all over me! Oh, Papa, come and take these irons off!” I do like to hear children speak; they say such wonderful things. The father took the irons off, and the life of God had gone all over the boy!
This is what I feel: the life of God going all over me, the power of God all over me. Don’t you know this is the resurrection touch? This is the divine life; this is what God has brought us into. Let it go over us, Lord—the power of the Holy Spirit, the resurrection of heaven, the sweetness of Your blessing, the joy of the Lord!
If our fellowship below with Jesus be so sweet,
What heights of rapture shall we know
When round His throne we meet!
An Interpretation of Tongues:
The Spirit sweetly falls like the dew, just as still on the grass, and as it comes, it is for a purpose—God’s purpose. It may be withered grass, but God calls it to come forth again. And the Spirit of the Lord is right in the midst of you this morning. Though you might have been withered, dried, and barren for a long time, the dew is falling. God is in the midst of us with His spirit of revival, and He is saying to you, “All things are possible; only believe,” and He will change you.
Pastor Ray declared by the Spirit:
Though you might have been depressed, though you might have been lonely, though you might have been distressed, though you might have been separated from those that you were called to be joined together with for a long time, the dew is falling. God is in the midst of us with His Spirit of revival and He is saying to you, “All things are possible. Only believe.” And He will change you. Hallelujah.
Though you might have had a limb that was not functioning correctly, though you might have had knees that were sore, though you might have had blood pressure that was not right, though you might have had a headache that drove you and hindered your sight, the dew, the presence, the power of the Holy Spirit is upon you this day. For all things are possible in Him, abundance. Though your finances may have shrunk instead of expanded, it’s changing, sayeth the Lord.
Even though you did not know or had not known what to do, He will and He is showing you the steps that you are to take. Hallelujah.
For the presence of God, the dew of the Lord, the glory of God is here in this place now
It’s moving on out, it’s moving out in places in our country, in our nation
Over our leaders, into our leaders—we lift them, Lord
Even though this country has looked divided, broken, going down, or going backward
It is not—it is moving up, it’s moving over
Paradigm shifts are happening everyday
As you speak, as you declare over this country
“One nation under God indivisible!” and “Jesus is Lord over the United States of America”
Hallelujah! Jesus is Lord! Jesus is Lord
Ms. Annie led us singing Jesus is Lord
Continued praying…
Even the things that have looked absolutely impossible, ask Me extravagantly
And begin to see those impossibilities turn into possibilities
And begin to watch Me do for you what you have looked for, yearned for, in some cases for years
If you have been unable to sleep, rest in Me and Your sleep will come forth
Your rest which will bring about in and through you, your best
And bring up within you strength that you have not had
But strength for what you need in this season that you are living in
Sleep, rest, never, never, never to be the same
Extravagant asking, beyond your brain, beyond what we thought it could be like
Hallelujah, Lord!
Pastor Ray…
When Ms. Annie sang out Jesus is Lord over the schools and all the different places
There are situations in schools that look impossible
Colleges, universities – where they have been going the opposite way from the King of kings and the Lord of lords
We are asking and we are declaring that Jesus is Lord there
That changes are taking place there
As we pray and lift up our leaders and lift up our nation
These institutions, these schools, these cities, these villages, these small towns
The mayors are changing!
The atmosphere is changing!
Things are turning, things are moving, things are being rearranged
By the power of the Holy Spirit and through the blood and the name that is above every other name
What’s that name? Jesus
Declaring the name of Jesus over this nation
The name is above every obstacle
The plan of the enemy has to stop, be revealed, turned back and put away
Because of the name of Jesus
We declare it more and more and more “Jesus is Lord over America”
Over every dark place, over every state
The following is a prayer for our nation by Pastor Lynne Hammond:
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. 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.
Continued praying…
Things that we didn’t know about
Turning, turning, turning even more today
In Your way, Lord
Heaven’s words, heaven’s plans
New change, new words of declaration by faith that continually move our nation to its rightful place
Position of grace, momentum moving us in the right direction
It’s moving day! It’s a moving day!
Adjustments have already been made, things have already been changed
But there is a lot more! And it’s still in 2017
Each one, each one
I see everyone like a mural, like a puzzle being placed in the right position
Every piece in alignment in the name of Jesus
Turning every piece to fit where they are meant to fit
It’s about the big picture! Each piece in place!
And every one is necessary, everyone is necessary
There is not one that is not necessary!
Everyone has a part and everyone has a place
And move and move and move
And you go where I sent you
And those that do not belong over there, I just command you in your place
Don’t try and be something that you are not
I command you in the name of Jesus
Line up, line up with all that you were called to
It’s easy, it’s easy
If depression has started to depress you and push and place you where you do not want to be, rise up and laugh
The Devil is defeated, depression has been defeated
This shall not be a month of depression! This shall be a month of increase
For things have begun to line up
That you are a priest, a holy child, a righteous one
You have been given a place above, so take your seat in heavenly places high above
If it comes to your door, don’t accept it
Just like FedEx would show up but they are at the wrong address
We say “No, not here. Out!”
Depression, get out! Get away from the body in Jesus’ name!
This shall not be a month of depression but this shall be a month of great expectation, abundance, above, extravagantly, beyond what we could even ask or think
That’s what the Church is about
For when those things try to come to your house, get over into God’s house
My house, sayeth the Lord
And there is an anointing that is corporate – it will break you out and break that thing off from you
Finished! It was finished on the Cross
It’s finished here over 2,000 years later
The blood of Jesus is still working
The breakthroughs are still happening
The abundance is for us now! This is the time and this is the day
These are the hours, the minutes and the seconds
Hallelujah! Thank You for it, Lord
We are so grateful, we praise Your holy name
Ms. Annie led us in thanksgiving to the Lord….
Continued praying…
Thank You so much, Father, for the power of Your Holy Spirit
For the refreshing of Your Spirit, for the supernatural moving of Your Spirit through each one of us
For the blood covering – we declare it, we believe it
We are covered in the blood, protected through the blood
Thank You that that same blood is over our families, over our church family, our pastors
Protected, directed, equipped – hallelujah!
We are up, we are not down
We are the head, we are not the tail
We are above, we are not beneath
If the low places are too low, they will come up
If the high places are too high, they will come down
For we as a Church, as the members of the body, are going through
We are barely going through but we are going through in victory
Abundance and in extravagance in Jesus’ name
Amen
