Come. Grow. Serve. Go.
Prayer 3-25-2010
The Lord said to Gideon, "you mighty man of valor" and he was anything but a mighty man of valor. He was like, "me?" You have to take what the Lord says by faith because God sees what He's placed on the inside of you. He already knows what your finish is, before we've even gotten started, He knows what our finishing place is. So, when He speaks something, it's not just to give you goose bumps and to try and make you feel good. Like we might say to somebody, maybe they look really sleepy and bad that day, and they say, "Do I look really sleepy and bad?" And you say, "Oh, no, you look great." And we are saying that just because we want them to feel good. God doesn't just make up stuff to make us feel good. But He says things that are His plan and His purpose for us so that we would grab those things and hold onto them by faith and say, "ok, this is what You said about me. I'm not seeing that about me yet." So we take that and we remember it and we pray into it and we speak it until we see it about ourselves - til we see it about this ministry. We have to see those things. Because the Bible says in Joshua 1:8, meditate on the Word of God day and night that you might observe to do according to all that is written therein.
There are things in your spirit that you have to see before you do it. You have to see yourself there before you do it. If you don't see yourself overcoming an obstacle or situation in your life, if you see yourself to succumbing to something and quitting, you're going to do that. You're going to quit. If you can begin to see yourself overcoming, if you can begin to see yourself operating and functioning in what the Lord's said about you, you begin to grab it. That's exactly what happens in the Word. You meditate in it. You begin to pray it, you being to meditate it, you begin to speak it and suddenly the vision on the inside begins to change and you begin to see it. Now, I'm not just hoping to get there, and this is me, this is who I am. And it changes everything in your life.
We could go through and read them, but these are the ones that were brought up. As prayers, we have to be praying into this. We have to hold onto these things and we have to keep these things before the Lord. "Lord, this is what you said about this church. This is what you said we would do." And we hold Him to that. We hold ourselves to that.
But it says, "this is going to be one of those places that's in a town of maybe five or six thousand, but people will say, how can they have a church that big in such a small place?" So we know it's a big church. And the Lord said to us, this is a church of thousands. Our reach is to be significant. That's why we have to grow. We're not growing just because we want numbers. We are growing because of what we have to do. He said, "It's because it's a pulling place. It's been placed here but it's pulling. It's pulling from the north, it's pulling from the south, it's pulling from the east and it's pulling from the west."
He talked about taking the tent pegs and putting them out and increasing our reach. He said, we just increased our boundaries. And he talked about here again, this place is about to explode, and that we are to not shrink back from it but we are to embrace it with boldness and confidence. It's a good day. So there is growth coming, and these things are important.
And then through the Hankins, remember the double measure. It says, "There is an increased measure, a double measure and a double anointing because you've had double trouble." That's what the Lord said to us. Double for your trouble. So are we taking that and reminding the Lord, "You said, double for our trouble." So every time we come to a hard place, I just remind the devil, "we're having double for this. The Lord said we are having double for our trouble. Every bit of trouble you send us, we're having double."
It was really funny. We have nations in our heart and he talked about how the Lord has opened gates for us. And we've had that before, doors that have been opened. But Paul Brady said this, the tables have turned and it's time for laughing to come to this church. Glory to God! Joy! For there is an open door. And then right after we went into, I started praying out for the nations. Lord, you give us reach to the nations. And that's what the Lord said. From this place we will reach the nations. That's part of our call, to do. So we reach it in prayer and we reach it by going.
So, we've got the increase, the double measure, and then he said, "and so then, you must receive it and possess it, and you must declare it. And you will laugh and say what the enemy has meant for evil, you have turned that thing around for my good. And so then you'll begin to see double." Isn't that interesting? You start declaring it and you will begin to see double." And then you'll declare double, and you'll begin to see those things that I've prepared for you. And you'll declare a day of double increase, a day of double blessing and as you declare it, then the hand of the Lord coming upon you, He will bring it to pass by His Spirit."
So, as we declare, I want you to see that as we speak these things that the Lord has given us, we need to see the hand of the Lord. Lord, what is that? That's the anointing. In the Old Testament, when the hand of the Lord would come on someone, that's the anointing of God. The anointing of God for what? The anointing of God to carry it out. So as we speak these things, we need to see the anointing of God coming upon us to carry these things out.
Here's one - talked about the fire of God as a church. It said that the fire of God is in our bellies. This has been said over and over again that we have the same spirit of faith. There is a spirit of faith in this church. It's because of the Word of Faith message and what is being taught. It says, "There will be a fire that will come out of your mouth. The fire of God will stir in your belly. It will burn in your inner man and it will come out of your mouth like a torch. And it will torch things and cause the power of God to bend and to move and to change things that have been around here for years and years and years. The power of God and the Word of God will change families, situations, the very way things look and even the way things sound. I hear the sound of the abundance of rain." Praise the Lord. That's the outpouring. "And you're going to preach like you have never preached before. And you'll have signs and wonders in the young people, in this generation, in the old, in everyone."
And then it was spoken about doors of utterance are being opened, and here's the part that Jess was talking about, "I will pour out floods on a dry ground. It will go across denominational barriers, racial barriers, economic barriers, education barriers. People who are thirsty to come and to experience the goodness of God, the presence of Jesus, the moving of the Holy Spirit for the authority of believers as a church." One person? Two people? No, as a church. "To lift your voice changing this community all around, and all around this area, for those, and there will be a harvest of souls. Young sons, daughters, men, ladies, old, men servants, hand maidens, whole families to be swept in to a fresh move of the Holy Spirit to have faith in God, to believe God, to believe the Word of God and to be filled with the Spirit of God for divine purposes and destinies to be fulfilled."
These are all words of the Lord to us. "He's opened new and effectual doors. There are many adversaries but we are well able to go through the door. We are well able to possess the land."
Then through Shekinah Glory, remember this one, Pastor Lynne had this too. I see your feet running at a faster pace, moving, things being accelerated and moving. And that was in here as well.
I love this one, "rising up in the things of the Spirit of God. Some things won't even touch you that were planned to stop you because you are hiding in the secret place of the Most High." And it goes on a little further and says, "and the greatness of God will be seen not just here, but it will be seen further away too. For there's almost like an attachment. Something here connected to something over there. And oh, unseen, but not unreal will cause an expansion and an acceleration of all God has asked you to do." So there's the expansion, there's the acceleration.
This one says (this is part of the anointing on us), "calling, calling, calling. Calling those to a place of prayer." There is an anointing on us to call people to a place of prayer. And we pray about that. And then, this talks about apostolic and apostolic anointing and ascending. Then abundance. And there have been I don't know how many . . . the first year that Go Ministries was here, Steve Munds had a word over us. He talked about the abundance and he said this ministry will never lack for finances. We will always be able to do what God has called us to do.
Not long after that, Billy Jo Watts came, and he said there are large gifts coming into this ministry. And I've been putting the Lord in remembrance of that. Large gifts coming into this ministry to do the work of the Lord.
And then it's here again. Pastor Lynne had it, supernatural increase, favor and advancement in the things of the spirit. So absolutely all of these things.
This is something that someone got in prayer probably a month or so ago in morning prayer when we were praying on Sunday morning. And they saw this in their spirit and I wanted to share this with you because it talks about how the Lord said, and this is actually what He said to us. When we came here, the Lord said from this place you would reach the nations, and we'd been praying about being in this place since before we came here. And the Lord said to us and through people, I know it's come to Nate and Evan and I know it's come to Trent when you were out on that step, "it's bigger than you think." And the Lord said, "from this place you would reach the nations - it was a sending place." But he said that he would bring people who were called to be raised up so that they could go. Some would stay and some would go. Some have to stay because you have to have a base from which to work. So, with that in mind, listen to this.
This is what she saw while we were praying. Developing the plans of God requires nurturing the plans in a greenhouse environment. Why do we need a greenhouse? Greenhouses are used to grow seeds out of season, or to grow seeds that are not indigenous to that region. Greenhouses have protective coverings to help regulate temperature, moisture, specific soils and soil conditions, can be regulated along with the right food. This intense time is meant to create perfect conditions to establish plants with a strong root system so that the plant can be transplanted with success." That's the sending. "The greenhouse time is a prescribed timeframe, not long enough and the root system won't be developed, and it will be too weak to sustain when it's being transplanted. However, left too long, the plants will die because there will not be sufficient depth of soil for them to grow. LWRV is a greenhouse for believers to come and grow. The seeds of God's plans must be sown, watched over, nurtured and Holy Spirit growth, direction, must be heard and obeyed because there are plans that have never been introduced into our realm before. Therefore, it is critical to hear specialized instructions and to follow them exactly as we would a prescription or as scientists take extensive notes so the process can be replicated with success. Then when the Spirit speaks, we must take that plan and go establish it in the earth. It is imperative to take the plan at the right time and to the right place so growing conditions will be optimal to sustain it so it will come to fruition and bear much fruit."
Isn't that interesting? That really bore witness with my spirit, like wow, that could be a whole teaching. Just the analogy is so amazing. I would just encourage you, go on our website (we've been doing this too), I don't know how many are up there, it's kind of an "in process" thing, but we are trying to do a prayer journal online where we are taking corporate prayer times and we are putting them on there so we can read and keep ourselves refreshed. You know, what is it that we are praying and what is it that the Lord is saying? Because, these things, it is really important that we continue to hold these things up. Some people will say, "how long do you pray about these things?" Until they come to pass. When something comes to pass, it's evident. And there are different levels, just like she said in that greenhouse, people come in at different levels and different plants grow differently. The time for gestation of a human is different than the time for gestation of a dog. Things are different. They have different gestation periods, so it's not just up to us to try and determine when somebody's time is and when they are developed to go. The Lord does that. He does the sending. Our part while we're here is to do everything we can to grow-up the Body of Christ so that we are ready to do what we need to do.
Some people are sent right here to do. Some people will be sent out. Some people will come out and come back in. They will come and go. That's just how it is. It's cool watching things coming to pass though, isn't it?
I was thinking, we had a word of the Lord when we built our house. It said, from this place there would be prayer. Nations would come here and we would touch nations from our house. At the time, I thought, that's so crazy. And I was thinking about it the other morning, I was praying, and I thought, we've had people from different nations in our house and we've had these times of prayer. It's really been an amazing thing. Who would have ever thought it? In this little house out in the country in Alma, Arkansas! But God's plans are amazing. And we are just like, into that much of it. Isn't it exciting? Don't you want to get to the end of the book and see what the end result is? But we can't do it! He just shows us little bits and pieces.
Thank you guys for your prayer supply and being faithful to pray. Keep it up! Let's keep ourselves stirred about these things.
We praise You, Father, we bless Your name and we worship You tonight. You are worthy and we take time to worship You for Who You are, for You are great and You are mighty and you are powerful. You are wonderful and wondrous. You are an amazing God, and awesome God and we worship You. We worship You for the integrity of Your Word, and we worship You for Your tender mercies and Your lovingkindness. We worship You, Father, for your constancy. You're always the same. You are the God of Your Word. Father, You said that You are love and we know that You are a loving God and we thank You that that never changes, that Your plans and purposes for people are good. You've always been good. That's always been Your plan. So, Father, Your heart is to reach all those with the truth, that all men would be saved and that all men would come to the knowledge of the truth. And we say, thank You, Lord, for it is because of Your love that we are here tonight. It's because of Your love toward us that we are born again and we're in your kingdom and that we are a part of this Body. We say, thank You, Lord for our salvation. We thank you that we are filled with the Holy Ghost.
• Thank You for the work You are doing in this body
• The connections, Lord, the blending of the generations that we have in this church
• There is no generation gap
• We are coming together, all different ages, but coming together
• We don't have to have just a youth group and an adult group and a kids group, but we can come together and fellowship together around the Word and in prayer
• We can come together and join our anointings
• We thank You for the uniqueness of this body, and what You are doing in this body
• The things that are binding us together, the love of God that is binding us together
• Thank You, Lord, there is a binding together of hearts
• It transcends the generations
• No generation gap, no distinction between the generations
• We thank You, Lord, that people of all ages are stepping up into leadership, stepping up into their gifts and callings
• Gifts are received, gifts are valued
• We value one another, we value the gifts in one another
• We thank You that what You are doing here is what You are wanting to do everywhere
• It's a body ministry, it's a ministry of the body
• It's the body working together
• We thank You that this body is being strengthened by Your power and might, Father
• Everyone has a place and everyone is getting into their place
• There's a flow
• By faith, we receive and make demands on those that You join together, those that we're connected to, those that we come alongside and that we work together with, Lord
• For the age in the natural makes no difference, it's all about spiritual maturity
• There becomes an awareness now of the things of the spirit
• Seeing each other in and by the spirit
• Father, increase our sensitivity and awareness of those things that are of real value
• That we would discern, that we would sense what is vital and necessary and of real value
• So the outward man is not of value, no, it's the inward man
• The hidden man of the heart, Lord
• And we learn and grow from one another
• You minister in and through Your spirit in and through us to one another
• Thank You for the body minsitry
• You bring us into more
• Because it is bigger, bigger than our minds can conceive, the plans and purposes of God
• So, we pray into the greatness of the plan to come to pass
• We put our faith on that, Lord
• What our eye has not even seen yet, what our ear has not heard because we believe Your word
• If You say it's bigger than what we can think, Father, we believe that
• Be it done unto us in this place according to thy will
• Be it done through us, according to thy will
• The greatness of the plan is what is causing us grow and to go
• It is the greatness of the plan that is awakening hearts and spirits of those that are sleeping
• It's awakening those that are sleeping
• For the calls are calling
• Oh, we send out the call
• Awaken to the greatness of the plan
• Awaken and come out of your slumber, in the Name of Jesus
• We are sifting out the gifts, Lord
• The right gifts are coming to the surface, now
• Thank You, Father, for that Holy Ghost shaking
• It's causing those gifts for this time, for this hour, to come to the surface
• They're coming up! The gifts for now
• The gifts that will cause increase and expansion
• We call them up and to the surface
• Revealed and uncovered and brought forth for such a time as this
• No longer dormant, no longer hidden, no longer buried
• But according to the greatness of the plan
• Great things, great gifts, great callings
• Significant pieces, significant players in the plan, in the purpose of God
• Come forth, come forth, in the Name of Jesus, it is time for you to come forth
• We call for the rain to water the seed
• We call for the rain that You have promised, Father
• The rain is necessary for the continued unfolding of the plan
• The increase, Father
• The advancement of all that You've called us to do
• We will not be slowed down, we will not be hindered
• movement to the plan and the purpose of God
• Forward motion
• We pray into the plan and we say forward! Move forward!
• Increase, move forward, in the Name of Jesus
• No, we're not settling in here! We're not settling for less
• Press! Maximum sustained effort
• Strength to the plan of God
• Strong in the Lord
• Strong spirits, strong Christians
• LWRV is a strong work, full of strong believers, strong leaders
• Strong in the Lord, strong in the Word, strong in faith, strong in the power of the Lord
• Life, life - we pray life into all the parts of the body, life into all the parts of the plan
• Life and movement and growth into the plan of God
• Come alive those seeds germinated
• Germination, the germination
• The right elements coming together that causes growth and igniting
• The right place at the right time
• Elements coming together stimulate growth that
• We know the seed is there, there's life in the seed
• That which stimulates it now, now is the time to grow, now is the time to come forth
• Now is the time to spring forth into life
• The Holy Ghost is saying it's now
• For people to be thrust into their destinies
• In this church, every member, every person, there is a plan, You have a purpose, there is a divine destiny
• We pray for all of those that are a part of LWRV to come into their destiny
• To be made aware of their destiny. Revelation of the destiny. Revelation of their plan - Your plan for their lives
• Open their eyes to see. We pray that the spirit of wisdom and revelation would flood the eyes of our understanding so that we would know the hope to which we are called
• You're called to do something great for the Lord
• Open eyes to the call, open eyes to the greatness of the plan
• Some people haven't been seeing clearly, they haven't been walking in the light, Father, so we pray for light
• We thank You for all of those that are walking in the light, those that have recently been discovering their destiny, there's been a change of heart, there's been a change of direction. We pray for them and apply the Blood to them and we say, you're never going back into darkness. You've been pointed in that new direction. You're feet are walking in a new way
• Strength for them to walk in a new way
• We hold onto them with our faith and we say, you're not going back into darkness and religion, you are not going back into false doctrine, you're not going back into self-pity and depression
• The plans and the purposes of God
• We pray into the plan You have for LWRV, the greatness of that plan, Father
• The height, the depth, the width, the breadth of it, Father
• All the dimensions of it, Father
• The plan and the purpose that You have to reach this area, the River Valley area
• That’s one dimension
• That’s not all of it, that’s part of it, but it must come to pass
• The River Valley must be reached
• There is a work, there is an assembling, there is a coming together of people in this place
• It’s a mandate, it’s a must. It must happen. It must come to pass
• So, we call them – we call them out of the denominations.
• We call them out of a backslidden state.
• We call those that are not even born again yet.
• We call them to Living Word River Valley. We call you here, in the Name of Jesus.
• You come to this place.
• We loose you to come to this place
• For Satan has bound you, but in the Name of Jesus, we speak release to you
• A setting free.
• A release comes to you
• And so then, the drawing, we are a pulling place
• Lord, we aren’t pulling on those who aren’t to be here, we are pulling on those that are to be here
• Those by Your plan, Father, according to Your call
• Those that are called to be our sheep
• Those that are called to be a part of this body, this fold, this local church
• We call you and by faith we touch you tonight with the touch of faith
• In the Name of Jesus, we mark you and say, you belong here, in the Name of Jesus
• Just like ranchers have hundreds of animals that are branded with their mark, we reach to you, and by the Holy Ghost, we say you are marked for this place
• There’s a pulling, and when you come here you’ll know
• You may go there and there, but when you come here, you’ll know
• There’s a knowing on the inside that you can’t get away from
• It’s the witness of the Holy Ghost
• It’s the Lord speaking to your spirit, “this is it. This is where I belong. It doesn’t make sense to my head, but this is where I belong”
• In the name of Jesus, you will come in and get hooked in and settle in
• In the Name of Jesus, you will come and you will grow and you will serve and you will go for it is the will of the Lord for you
• You must be in your place to grow
• You are a planting of the Lord. You’ve got to be in the right greenhouse
• God is calling you in so you to come and to grow so you can go and you’ll be strong to go
• Thank You, Lord, that You have said that You have opened the door, You have opened the way for the people to come in
• You have opened doors into the community
• That river will flow out of this place and it will flow across things that were once barriers. Barriers have been removed
• We will reach across economic barriers, cultural barriers, educational barriers, financial barriers
• Thank You, Lord, we’re reaching the unreached
• We are saying, yeah, we’ll do it
• We’ll go and we’ll take the gospel message that will cause them to grow and to flourish and to be all that You’ve called them to be for this time and this hour
• They are needed. They are critical. They are a piece.
• We thank You, Lord, that every person matters
• We don’t know the name or the face of everyone, but You do
• You know their face, You know their name, You know the plans that You have for them. Plans for good and not for evil, to give them hope and an expected end. You know them, Lord, You know their faces, You know their names
• So in the Spirit, You are calling them by name
• We call you by name
• We thank You for the power of God in this place, the power of God in manifestation as we come together
• We continue to uphold the unity of this body
• We say, strife and division and discord, you are not coming in here
• You will not operate in this ministry
• You will not operate through this ministry
• You will not operate against this ministry
• This is a place where the love of God flourishes
• This is a love church, we are a church filled with the love of God, filled with the faith of God, filled with the power of God, filled with the glory of God
• Power and demonstration
• They will come and they will see that You are mighty in the midst of us, Father
• We thank You, Father, for the increase of the glory
• An increase as we increase in the love of God
• You’ve opened doors, and we declare that we are well able to possess it
• Father, we receive the explosion, we say that it is ours now
• We don’t say that it’s coming, we say that it’s ours now
• They are coming from the north, the south, the east and the west
• We thank You that this place is full and it’s over-flowing
• We’ve got to build bigger spaces and we’ve got to knock out walls and build bigger spaces
• We agree together, we bind the spirits that have been assigned to keep people out of this church
• We speak to you, Satan, in the name of Jesus, we bind you and your cohorts
• You desist in every maneuver and in every operation to keep people out and to keep finances out of this church
• Angels, we send you forth in the Name of Jesus, you go forth and you bring in those that are called
• Bring them in from the north, the south, the east and the west
• You bring in the finances. You bring in the large gifts to this body. We say that they are ours
• You come to us in the Name of Jesus, money, increase and resources
• We thank You and praise You for it.
