Ms. Annie led us in singing Jesus, Friend Forever
Ms. Jeani…
When Jesus says He is our friend, it’s because we know He knows we need a friend. And when He tells us that in our weakness He is strong, He is not surprised by our weaknesses. He knows that we are weak. And so if He knows we are weak, we don’t have to be afraid in weakness, we don’t have to be fearful, worried, anxious about weakness. We just keep our eyes on Him, lean into His goodness and His friendship and receive His strength. Really the only option for our weaknesses is His strength. I am so thankful that we have a Savior who wants to save, Who already saved. He is personal, He is relational, He loves us.
Ms. Annie led us singing He Loves Us
Ms. Jeani…
His love for us is powerful, it’s not powerless
That cross is empty, the Cross finished it, it overcame death
His love for us is a direct application to any weakness that we experience today
To anything at all that would distract us from the victory that encompasses the love that He has for us
The active, alive, already worked it out love for us
Any distractions today, we tell those distractions “You are inferior to the love of God in our lives.”
And we say “No” to those distractions and look upon Your love for us, Daddy
We belong to You, we were made in Your image
If we were made in Your image then we are fully equipped to image You
Even right now, we imagine You in us – Christ in us the hope of glory
The confident expectation of Your goodness manifesting in us, through us, and around us
Throughout the earth today, today
Thank You, Father, for opening our eyes even more today
That we receive greater revelation of the intimacy of Your goodness, the closeness of Your goodness
That You were not obligated to create us, it was something You wanted to do
You didn’t have to do this but You wanted to do it
Thank You for that right now in Jesus’ name
Ms. Jeani shared…
There is an expression that we use often when we describe people. You know how we will say “You know so and so, what you see is what you get.” If you are meeting someone and if you say “what you see is what you get,” a lot of times what you are insinuating is that they are authentic. There aren’t any hidden agendas and you can really trust that person.
So what we see is what we get. Meaning, even God when He created us, He was imagining us first. So, what He saw is what He got. Meaning as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
Genesis one “God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness…” So when God created the trees, did the Father, Son and Holy Spirit say “Hey, let’s make the trees in our own image”? When He created the fish, did the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit say “Let’s make the fish in our own image”? When He created the earth, did He say let’s make the earth in our image”? No it was only us. Where the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit got together and they said “Let’s create something in our own image.” That’s us. He personalized it. He made it about creating something that they could completely relate to, which was us. And when Jesus was in the desert, the first thing that the enemy wanted Jesus to question was “Do You belong to God?” I think that is probably a big deal. I think that the Lord wants us to walk out, to see things, to pray for our country from the place of belonging to Him. Not only belonging to Him but being like Him, being created like Him. We are made in His image. No matter what we do, no matter what’s been done to us, the foundation of who you are is that you were created in His own image. Not only your dog whom you love, whom you say gives you unconditional love is created in God’s image. You are! You are! Every one of you are created in the image of the Most High, the One where the universe is constantly expanding.
Prayed…
You are the answer to the world right now—you are! you!
You have enough in you to heal absolutely everyone, to free absolutely everyone
You are like God— you were made in His image.
Father, we lean into You this morning and we receive revelation
That we belong to you! We were made in Your image!
You are our friend and we are Your friends
We thank You for it right now, the intimacy of being made in Your image
You imagined us, You’re with us, we allow that to strengthen us today
We allow that to cause us to rise up!
We keep our mind on You knowing that You always have us on Your mind
You are a good, good, good Father
Thank You today that the revelation of who You are becomes the revelation of who we are!
And we do not allow facts to suffocate that revelation
We do not allow what we see with our eyes to discount the revelation that You are made in His image
We will not allow the enemy to tempt us with “Do you belong to God?”
“Do you have what it takes?”
Yes, you do!
Because from the beginning you were His idea
He made an incredible effort, even when you messed up, to save you and restore you and redeem you
And so today we pray from that place of His goodness
And how we can reflect His goodness
Knowing that He is our friend, we are His friends, we belong to Him
Ms. Jeani shared…
There is another expression people will say when you do something. They will sometimes say “I didn’t know you had it in you.” So, let’s say Cindy does something and it’s incredible. Now we can see and I will say “Wow, Cindy, I didn’t know you had it in you.” It was in you the whole time. And see it goes back to again the earth is crying out to say “Wow, Church, I didn’t know you had that in you!” Right?
Okay, today we discover what’s in us. And we hold on to that. And when facts come in and lie to us… You know we say in the Word of Faith Church “It doesn’t matter how it looks.” Why doesn’t it matter how it looks? Because the way it looks is changing because of what’s in us. Not because it’s never going to change. Not because we live this weird ethereal faith life where nothing changes. No. It’s because who we are changes things around us because the greater One is in us. We are even about to say to ourselves because of the extreme mass goodness of God that is happening all around us, “Wow! I didn’t know I had that in me!”
He is able to far over and above all that we can dare ask or think. Do you get it? Let’s get this! Let’s get this! And the happy part of this is we will continue to get this all the time. I mean there is never an end to His goodness. Meaning there is never an end to the goodness that come out of us and we don’t even have to be strong. I am sooo thankful for that. It’s in our weakness that He is strong. And by the way, He actually took on our weakness. What! God! God did that? Talk about a relationship. That was His idea.
He is not impersonal. I mean we are not just His full-time job. We are His everything, all the time, constantly. He doesn’t ever take time off from us. Do you get it? I mean I am constantly getting this. Never, not one time. It is impossible for Him to let us down.
The attitude of faith sees what God sees in us
The attitude of faith does not allow facts to suffocate the truth
So, today as we pray, we say no and shut the door on any distraction from victory
Any relationship, anything that we see going on in our country that doesn’t seem to be lining up
Those are just distractions from victory
So we keep our eyes on Him
When Jesus was going to the Cross He said it was because of the joy set before Him. These things are changing and as we keep our minds and our eyes on Him, things change. During the American Revolution while in battle some of the soldiers in the dead of winter didn’t have shoes. Would they have continued to do that if they didn’t see our country free? You wouldn’t do that. But they saw our country free. They saw something that was worth fighting for and it came to pass. We pray to get results. We pray for these things to come to pass and things are coming to pass. Our country’s future and our country’s present depend on our focus on Him and His Word. So right now our focusing on Him, our focusing on His Word, our country’s future depends on that.
We are the answer. What we are doing here… we are like the secret weapon in the White House. And we have a president that knows that. Do you think that happened by accident? That’s our prayers that made that happen.
Continued praying…
Holy Spirit, You minister to everyone in the chapel today
And those they represent
Just today, every person walking out the image of You inside of them changes the world
Changes households, changes cities, changes counties, changes the country
Father, today, we receive Your fullness, we receive revelation that “What you see is what you get”
Not what you did, not what you didn’t do but “What you see is what you get”
You set it up that way!
You saw us, You imagined us—we are created in Your image
We thank You for that right now
We imagine all things working out together for our good – right now
We imagine every relationship working out together for our good—right now
We imagine all things for our children working out together for our good—right now
You are working it out!
We imagine all things in our city working out together for our good – right now
You are God of our cities!
We imagine all things working out for good in our country because it’s for our good
It’s Your will! Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven
Heaven on earth in America
Heaven on earth at Living Word – today
The manifested kingdom of God!
In our investments, in the dreams You put in our hearts
We are something You imagined!
We were not on Your to do list, we were not a task to be accomplished
We were something that You had to have
And the closeness of being made in Your image is a revelation the Church is walking out today
We declare today that the closeness of being made in His image – we are just like Him!
The closeness of that, the intimacy of that, everywhere we go we bring the Most High
Everywhere!
Thank You, Daddy! Thank You, Father!
We get our minds off ourselves! And we look to You
The author and the finisher of our faith!
Thank You for Your goodness!
I thank You even right now we get happy, we get joyful, we get thankful, we get expectant, hopeful
You know the One who has hope has the most influence
People are looking for hope
He is our hope, He is our hope
Thank You, thank You, thank You, thank You
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.
Ms. Jeani…
We are the Ambassadors of God carrying His Love, His power, His might
We have every answer – President Trump has the mind of Christ
He has the answers! He hears wise council!
He is as wise as a serpent and gentle as a dove
He recognizes when the enemy is talking and he responds with wisdom
With the fear of the Lord
Let Your Word cling to them and let them not depart from your plan.
Ms. Jeani…
Here is the way, walk ye in it! President Trump here is the way, walk ye in it!
He sees the path! It’s clear! It’s straight! He see’s it!
And when he sees it, he gets it!
Church – you see the path, you lean on God!
You do not rely on your own understanding but in all of your ways
You acknowledge Him! You acknowledge His goodness
And your path is made straight
Strengthen them with mighty power by your Spirit…
Ms. Jeani…
You strengthen them in the chapel today
You strengthen Pastor Ray and Sandy today
Strength to Pastor’s Mac and Lynne today
And what kind of strength – the strength by the mighty power of the Spirit
Strength in their bodies and their souls, strength, strength, strength
They think strength, they dream strength
Let the Church think strong! By the Spirit
Not by might, not by power but by the Spirit
Church! You think strong! Expect the far and above all we could ask or think
Because heaven is in you, you see heaven everywhere you go!
Carriers of the atmosphere of the kingdom of God!
Strengthen them with mighty power by your Spirit to stand against wickedness, lies and deception.
Ms. Jeani…
We are strong to stand! Not to lay down and be run over and crushed by wickedness, lies and deception. We stand against it. It’s under our feet! Wickedness lies and deception are under President Donald Trump’s feet! Arise and shine and walk it out with wickedness, lies and deception beneath you! One thing I love that Pastor Ray says, he’ll say things so simply which I strive to do, I love that about him. He’ll say “Stay above it.” And you know so like chill about it. He’ll say “Just stay above it.” That’s what we do today. We stay above it.
Guide President Trump’s decisions;
Ms. Jeani…
Wow! Let’s just thank God right now that He’s guiding his decisions. Let’s thank God right now that He’s guiding our decisions. How great is that! I don’t know, I think victory is at hand. Is He guiding your decisions? Well, then I guess it’s working. Right? Yes. So, what do we do? We don’t get under it because He guides our decisions. Thank You, Father, You’re that close. That’s right we take it!
…let Your light shine upon his path and show him the path of reversal for every evil way.
Ms. Jeani…
Do you get it? We were born again, the renewed life, our minds renewed. That is the path of reversal, the Cross, the finished work. That is the path of reversal for every evil way. Does it say some evil ways? No, No, No. Every evil way! Even today we contend for the path of reversal, the acceleration of the path of reversal being walked out, being carried out right now in our country in every area, the court system in education, in media, let the original plan of God for our country come to pass and let it come to pass today. Let the Church see who she is. She is the city on the hill for America.
Continually surround him with godly men and women who impart wise counsel to him.
Ms. Jeani…
We thank You for Josephs, we thank You for Daniels. Wise council that imparts wisdom to President Trump and he understands how to walk things out and he does it.
Cause the way of the wicked to be set to confusion and come to nothing.
Ms. Jeani…
The ways of the wicked self-slaughter, they destroy themselves. We don’t have to do it.
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.
Ms. Jeani…
We declare today, wicked systems that have stolen from us, we demand a return and a recompense for the people of God and this country. Every hidden thing revealed. And the justice of the kingdom of God performed on behalf of America.
We take authority over the plots and plans of the enemy against this nation.
Ms. Jeani…
Whose authority do we take this with? With God’s authority—the One that never loses, and the One that never will lose, His authority. It’s just that simple. Every evil plot, we cut it off today. It’s under our feet. Anything against this nation, crushed under the feet of the Most High.
Let prideful and lying lips be silenced in Jesus’ name. Slanderers will not be established in America.
Ms. Jeani…
We see those foundations of slander crumbling today, crumbling to dust, crumbling into nothingness. And let the goodness of God be established in our nation like NEVER BEFORE! The former and the latter rain coming together like NEVER BEFORE! Let the Church see, Father, what it is that You have for America. And let it be what You have never, ever been able to do before but You are NOW! Because the Church sees it and what she sees is what she gets! And she sees America sanctified, dedicated fully to the Most High. We are one nation under God.
We pray for our Congress,
Ms. Jeani…
We bless them right now. Father, anywhere they need to receive the gift of repentance, they receive it. They change their thinking, they operate under true wisdom which the fear of the Lord.
Our Supreme Court, our Military leaders [eyes to see and ears to hear, courage and strength to walk it out] and our intelligence agencies. Let the wisdom that is from above reign in this nation and be constantly speaking to our leaders.
Ms. Jeani…
Father, I thank You that the wisdom that is from above is constantly speaking to us
Constantly speaking to our leaders in the Church
The wisdom that is resigning from above
We just think of Your wisdom right now
That You are wisdom and because we are created in Your image we recognize wisdom
We only hear Your voice, we do not hear a stranger’s voice that could distract us from Your goodness
Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom
I see books coming out of the body of Christ
Wisdom that the world is crying out for – best sellers in the house of God
The revelation of wisdom that sets the captive free
That breaks the strongholds that have held people captive for years
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.
Ms. Jeani…
We recognize those things and we cast them down. That is why we are as wise as a serpent because we recognize when a serpent is bringing in an argument that would come up against the knowledge of God. And we say no, we don’t hear you. Thank You, Father, for Your goodness and Your wisdom.
Even in my mind’s eye right now I am imagining all of us bringing into captivity every thought, how that changes our day, how that changes the way we respond, how that changes the way we see things. Bringing every thought into captivity and into the obedience of Christ.
We bind spirits of strife and division, [that we are a people not easily offended, we do not move in offense but we are a people joined together in Christ and because of that we can bind spirits of strife and division because there is no strife and division in the Church] civil wars and tumults, spirits of hostility, lawlessness and blasphemy, and fires from hell that have burned in our cities [order, order, order, order in our cities].
We speak grace and peace over America. We pray and believe for the voice of truth,
Ms. Jeani…
The voice of truth in our land, the voice of truth from the pulpit, the voice of truth in the elections, we cover these elections with the blood of Jesus that truth which is freedom is heard. It is heard in every campaign speech. It is heard in every poster. It is heard in the media. It is heard, it is heard, it is heard and the people only respond to truth!
…salvation, revival and restoration to be proclaimed and heard across our land.
Ms. Jeani…
Our land restored, our families restored, dreams restored, the Church restored. All things that concern us perfected in the Church, in the counties, in the cities, in our neighborhoods, in our homes, all things restored.
Let’s just picture that right now with our imaginations. All things restored. The Cross didn’t just cover some things. It covered all things. It finished all things, all things, all things restored. Everything in your mind restored completely. You know when a home is restored it’s better than it was before. All things better than they were before. The Kingdom of Heaven in our lives restoring all things, we thank You for that right now.
The Father in us does the work
A good, good Father that restores all things, that perfects all that concerns us
In the way that only He could only do it
He is the author and the finisher
He began it, He’s the Alpha and Omega, He knows everything in-between
And He knows, He’s picturing what we look like restored
That’s how He sees us, that’s how He sees America
That’s how He sees everything—restored
And if He can see it, we can see it
So right now we draw on You, Father, to see all things restored
Do not grow weary in well doing for in due season you will reap a harvest
It’s due season
We declare due season, the due season for restoration
We hear, we see, we are strengthened, we stand
Our country is turning, our county is standing
All things restored, all things restored
We walk out of here strengthened today, we walk out of here infused with encourage
Encouraged with the revelation that we belong to You
And that this was Your idea
We are the only ones on the earth that are made in Your image
You have us on Your mind all the time
Thinking about us, loving us constantly
All, all, absolutely everything restored
Revival and restoration to be proclaimed in our land… I see restoration moving quickly like a rapid fire across our land. You know even the prophetic word that it would start in the Twin Cities, I see that starting. It’s moving rapidly across our land. The supernatural waves of royalty of the Church be known and heard across our land. We are royalty, we operate in the supernatural
It’s in His ways that the world recognizes and takes notice
“What have you got?”
The media wants to know what the Church has
The supernatural ways of royalty in education
The supernatural ways of royalty in the arts and the movies
All things restored
The supernatural ways of royalty in the government
All things restored
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.
Ms. Jeani…
We are carriers of the mighty outpouring of God. You know we don’t have to wait to be carriers of the mighty outpouring of the Spirit of God.
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.
Thank you for coming
