Now we're getting settled in. Let's just take maybe the next minute or two and just thank God for our breath this morning that we are here this morning.
Can we just come into agreement? Just take like a minute or two just in your seats. Can we just begin to just thank Him?
So Father, we thank You. Lord, we thank You that our eyes open this morning.
Father, I thank You that You have given us breath this morning to live to once again, Lord.
To once again get to know more of who You are.
Father, I thank You that You have given us another 24 hours to understand who You are.
Lord, we thank You for this house. We thank You, Lord, for the warmth, Lord, in this home, this church building, Lord, that we can come into, Lord.
I thank You, Lord, for each and every individual. I thank You for my brothers and my sisters in Christ this morning, Lord.
Father, we are expecting. Our hearts are set, Lord, and we are expecting.
Holy Spirit, we welcome You this morning. Even now, Lord, we welcome You and we say that You do whatever You want to do this morning.
Would You accomplish what You want to accomplish for the sake of Heaven and the sake of the Son, Lord?
Accomplish what You want to accomplish this morning. We thank You, Lord, for those that are yet still to come this morning.
We bless their drive-in, and we bless, Lord, their hearts that they be prepared to receive today's word in Jesus' name. Amen.
I want to talk about something that we are going to be launching. We had, like, a pre-launch a few weeks ago.
Pastor Vernon and myself talked about it on Friday. But who of you remember Friday Night Freedom?
Okay, so a few of you remember Friday Night Freedom. Friday Night Freedom is now morphing...
I don't know, is that a biblical link? Can I use that word? Morphing? Pastor Mary?
It's changing... Friday Night Freedom is now actually changing to what we are calling intercessory prayer.
It's... I'll say it this way. It's a peace of mine and my wife's heart.
And the way that we've been running for many, many years. It's just a piece of it. There's far more to it, but this is just a piece of it.
But it's more than just a piece of our heart. This is actually scriptural. The Bible talks about this.
The Bible encourages us to do these things. How many of you know what intercessory prayer is?
Okay, so we got a good group of people that understand what it is. Awesome.
So we had a... what we called a ground... laying the groundwork a few weeks ago.
But Pastor Vernon and myself, we decided, hey, you know what? Let's talk about it on a Sunday.
Because we officially... we officially are launching these intercessory prayers that are to happen every second Friday of the month.
Except for May. Exemption for May. Because we have a guest speaker that's going to be there Friday for...
Faith and Freedom. The 9th of May is that Friday. So except for May, intercessory prayer will be every second Friday of the month.
And the way that's going to look like is we're literally going to come here toward of life and we're going to have prayer and worship together.
I'm kind of skimming through some of this stuff here because I got a bunch of notes, but I don't want to waste too much time here.
So what we're going to be doing is we're going to be coming together again every second Friday of the month here at Word of Life.
And we will combine... we will combine prayer and worship together.
How many of you have ever heard of the Tabernacle of David?
Lift your hand if you heard about the Tabernacle of David, okay? Awesome.
So we got some people... you guys know your Bibles. That's fantastic.
The reason why we're following the theme of the Tabernacle of David is because there are some significant things that David did when he built the Tabernacle that God, in a sense, commanded him to build.
So the biggest difference that I always like to point out to people, the biggest difference between the Tabernacle of Moses and the Tabernacle of David is that in the Tabernacle of Moses, there was very few people.
And when I said very few people, technically once a year and only the high priest could enter into the Holy of Holies.
Where the Tabernacle of David is actually a place of where David created and cultivated a place of where every man, every woman, and then we can actually find it in the New Testament where even Gentiles could come seek the Lord and worship the Lord.
The Tabernacle of David is a place of where David basically cultivated and called upon multitudes of people to get before the Ark of the Covenant, which in the Old Testament is the very presence of God.
So David cultivates this and he invites a bunch of people to come and to worship before God and to seek his face 24 hours.
Non-stop. Non-stop. They're seeking the face of God. In other words, they're praying because when we're seeking his face, you can't remove prayer.
You have to have prayer when you're seeking the face of God. Why? Because prayer is a dialogue. It's a relational like, you could say, tool that we use to talk to God and have God speak back to us.
So you cannot seek the face of God without prayer. You have to have prayer if you're seeking the face of God.
So here David creates a Tabernacle where 24 hours there is non-stop worship. They're worshiping God in the midst of where the Ark of the Covenant is, which is the presence of God.
And then they're seeking his face. They're praying. They're singing. They're praying and they're doing all this, you know, to basically be before the face of God.
And I truly do believe that there was intercession that took place in that Tabernacle.
The other thing in why we're actually doing this is if you actually read your scriptures, which you guys do, I'm not saying that in a bad way, I'm saying that if you read your scriptures, we can actually find...
This is in the book of Amos, the small prophet, but I'm going to read from the book of Acts because we are New Testament believers.
So this is in the book of Acts chapter 15. Give me a minute here.
So we are... Let me backtrack here before I quickly read Acts 15.
So the reason why we're doing our intercessory prayers in the theme of the Tabernacle of David, and I'm going to read it here shortly, the real reason why.
But it's a place that we can gather together as a body, as a local body and come before God in prayer and in song.
And it's something, I don't know, maybe some of you have experienced it, but there is something so unique and there is something so God when we incorporate worship and prayer together.
I don't even know if I can fully explain it to my knowledge, to my understanding. There is something so valuable there that God finds, and there is something so God when we literally combine worship and prayer together.
Because you can have just worship without prayer. You can. And you can have prayer without worship. And I think both by themselves are good.
But there is just something when a body of Christ comes together under heaven, under God, and we're incorporating prayer and we're incorporating worship.
And I'll even go further and I'll say when we incorporate prophetic worship and we incorporate prophetic prayer, there is something that happens.
You know, this is something that I talked to Jesse about, being that Jesse's over our worship. And I told Jesse, I said, I want to teach our singers, our vocalists, our musicians.
I want to teach them and show them what it means to actually sing out of the scriptures.
There is something so profound when we are not just singing lyrics of a song.
There is something so profound when we are not just praying somebody else's prayer.
I believe that a lot of us in this house have a good grip of what it means to pray out the scriptures.
But I believe there is far more depth to it and I want to go there with you guys. I want to go there with you guys.
I want us to go to a place as a house of where our prayers are not our own thoughts and what we think God is going to like.
But our prayers literally begin to be engulfed and our songs begin to be engulfed in the very living word of God.
And we begin to build our prayers. We begin to build our songs all around the scriptures.
Because again, there was something there that God has moved by when we do that. It moves his heart.
Think about it this way. You tell your child something and you say, hey, you know, do this, this and this.
And then all of a sudden your child repeats back to you the words that you said.
And as a parent, you're like, oh man, I'm getting summer with my kid. He's understanding it.
I believe that sometimes God looks at us like that. He's like, hey, that was a pretty, you know, fancy prayer.
The Pharisees prayed like that too. But why don't you just simple it down and just pray out my scriptures.
Look at what my scripture says. Look at what my word says and talk back to me on that. Am I making sense so far?
So that's why we're doing intercessory prayer is because it's the tabernacle of David.
There is something so unique when we mesh prayer and worship together.
But here's the real big reason of why my heart and has been my heart, my wife and my heart for many, many years.
The author here in Acts, Luke, I believe, he's writing in chapter 15 verses 16 and 17.
He writes something so profound. He says, after this, I will return.
Now again, he's quoting the prophet Amos. So if you guys want to, you can find this in Amos chapter 9 verse 11.
So he's quoting the small prophet. And he says, after this, I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down.
Now he's talking about the end times. That's what the theme is. That's what the context is.
The context is he's talking about God is talking about the end times, what God is doing in the end times.
So he says, I will return. I will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down.
And then he says, and I will set it up. I will rebuild its ruins and I will set it up.
Verse 17, so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord.
Even all the Gentiles who are called by my name says the Lord who does all these things.
The major reason of why my heart, my wife's heart has been burning, and I'm sure some of you have known this stuff.
You know, I may be preaching the choir to some of you.
But one of the main reasons why our heart so burns for this stuff is because God says, listen, in the last days I'm going to rebuild the tabernacle of David.
Of where there is 24-hour prayer, non-stop. And it's not just happening in one location.
I actually believe, and I'm not going to get too much into this revelation.
I actually believe the end result of this is something that's going to occur in our homes.
And I'm not going to get too much into that right now. I'm giving you a little bit of a nugget. I'll talk about it later.
It's a revelation that I've been walking with my wife and I have been walking with for many, many years.
I believe the end result because right now there is ministries that have 24-hour prayers.
I have KC. They've been doing it for over 24 plus years. They've been doing this.
Non-stop prayer and worship. People dedicated, given to themselves as intercessors and they call themselves intercessors.
They call themselves intercessors.
But I believe, again, that the end result of this before the Lord literally comes on a cloud, this is going to be something that will be in people's homes.
And without even it being... I'm giving you a little bit more here, but I'll go there.
Without it even being organized of knowing when you're praying, people are going to be praying 24 hours non-stop without even being organized.
Not realizing that your neighbor who's also a Christian, God told him, hey, you got to wake up at 4 a.m. and you got to pray until 6 a.m.
Because God is the ultimate organizer. That's just who God is.
God is an ultimate organizer. He can do things and we're not even realizing you're like, you're organizing things.
So our ultimate goal here is what we're trying to accomplish and this is going to take time.
Okay, this is going to take time.
But what we're trying to accomplish here is we're trying to obviously have intercession.
But the end goal is what we're really after.
And I talked to Pastor Vern about this, Pastor Mary, you know about this as well.
The end goal, I'm not going to call it a dream because to some extent it is a dream, but I think it's far more than just my dream.
I think it's what the Lord wants.
Is my desire, let's put it that way, that this house would come to a 24-hour prayer.
That's my desire.
My desire, and here's the thing, the way that we're going about it doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to be constantly occurring here.
I'm trying to help us learn now of how important it is for us to do this at home.
So the way that we're going to go about it, and I'll explain a little bit of what we're going to be doing and how we're going to be going about it.
But it's something that I want to cultivate in your personal lives of what it means to come under intercession.
Am I making sense so far? You guys catching it?
So what we want to accomplish is we want to come before the Lord.
Again, I'm kind of summarizing some of this stuff.
We want to come before the Lord every second Friday of the month, corporately.
Remember this, corporately, we want to come before the Lord.
Every second Friday of the month.
And we're going to come before the Lord and we're going to be interceding.
Worship, prayer, mixed in together.
And we're going to have specific topics that we felt pastors and I, we sat down and we said,
hey, you know what, this is what we feel in our hearts is what God finds valuable.
And more than just that, you know, that pertains to our local body here.
And some of those things that we kind of put it into three things.
The first topic will be, and it's kind of a broad topic, it's very general.
But the reason why we're leaving it that way is because we want the Holy Spirit to give you and deposit in you
what he wants you to pray specifically over that topic.
And the first topic is going to be Word of Life, TBO and Red Lake.
Because that's the mandate that's on this house.
That's the vision that's of this house, is for this house, for TBO and for Red Lake.
And it's so important, if you know intercession, it's so important to have intercession for the things that God has called you to.
I'll say this, I'll say this.
Intercession is that which actually pioneers things.
It opens doors.
Intercession opens doors for us.
It opens doors with God and it opens doors with man. It does.
I'm not saying that we manipulate men and women when we intercede, but it's just, it moves God.
It literally moves God when he sees his children day and night crying out with persistence saying, Lord, you said it, we're going to stand on it.
Intercession is actually standing in the gap for something that hasn't yet come.
And there's many things, if you've read the vision book, I feel like I'm getting into my Sunday message already.
There was many things that if you read in our vision book, friends, I've been studying and I've been looking over our vision book.
I highly encourage you to do that.
But I've been doing it and I've been finding prophecies, prophecies of old since 2009 that have not yet been fulfilled.
We need intercession in this house and more than just, okay, I'm personally doing it.
We need intercession of agreement of where we as a body are agreeing together in intercession.
So topic number one, word of life, TBO, Red Lake, that's one topic.
Topic number two is our nation, is our state, our state, our cities and Israel.
That's topic number two, very broad.
But we're allowing you to let the Holy Spirit deposit and download things in you when it comes time to pray.
You're not like, okay, they said, I can't pray for that, but I can pray for this.
We're generalizing it for you to allow you to hear from the Lord and to allow you then to release it.
Can I tell you another quick secret? Write this down if you want to.
If you start to get into intercession with God about things, expect Him to talk to you about it.
Expect Him to talk to you about it.
When you're coming under intercession and you're interceding for certain things, expect God to talk to you about those things.
Because the truth is there's very few people that are actually walking or are in a ministry of intercession.
Very few.
The third topic is going to be... where is it? There it is.
The end time harvest in souls.
That's going to be our third topic. We're going to be praying for souls to be saved.
And I'll direct it maybe even a little bit more this way. We can go two ways on it.
Souls that are called to this house.
Workers and men and women that are called to this house to accomplish what God wants to do here.
But we're not just going to minimize there because we don't want to be selfish.
Lord, if they're not getting saved here, we don't want them saved.
We're not saying that.
It's a very slippery slope, yes.
But we want... I truly do believe that there is people that are called to this house.
I truly do believe people are called to be in this house.
Some of them are saved already. Some of them are not saved yet.
So our third topic is we're going to be interceding. Lord, we are interceding for the billion soul harvest.
Though scripture doesn't say billion soul, but, you know, the end time harvest, Lord.
Of where the great in gathering.
You know, the supper banquet that the parable that Jesus talks about.
So that's going to be our third topic.
And the way that we're going to do it, so you're kind of understanding.
How many of you were here before our open heavens this year?
How many of you were here that like weekend?
Was it a Friday before pastor that we did it?
Was it a Friday before?
We did an intercessory prayer. How many of you were here for that?
Can you raise your hand?
Okay, so not everybody.
But the way that we did it is that we had worship.
We had just a few vocalists. We had one instrument because we don't want worship to overpower.
We want a, you know, equal level with prayer and worship.
So while they were singing, we had a mic set up here.
This is the way that we're going to do every second Friday of the month.
Because not only do I want you guys to be involved and just show up.
I want you to be activated and actually a part of what's happening.
We're going to have a mic set up here on a stand.
And you're going to have the ability during, you know, the worship will be attentive to it.
But you will have the ability when the Holy Spirit deposits something in you regarding one of these topics.
You're going to have the ability to come up here and pray into the mic.
And I'm, I'm setting a time limit because there's many reasons why.
But I'm setting a time limit 20, 30 second prayers.
Unless, now I did talk to pastors about this.
I said, unless the Holy Spirit just literally just comes upon somebody in such a way where it's like,
it's, it's evident that yeah, you don't need a 20 second prayer, you can go longer.
I'm not going to stop it, you know, but I'm putting a timeframe to it.
And this is why I want us to understand structure because there is structure with God.
But I also want us to understand the purpose of us coming up here and praying it out is not for you to lead the prayer.
The purpose is you're praying something that the Holy Spirit deposited in you and you want the rest of the room to come to agreement to what you're prayed out.
Because a lot of times people question, you know, they'll ask me, they'll say, well, why do you want me to go pray if God gave it to me?
I can just pray it. Yeah, but nobody else is agreeing with what you're praying.
And if this is intercession, we want everybody to be in agreement for what we're interceding for.
That's the purpose of why we're putting the mic there for us to pray out so that the rest of the room can come into agreement on this.
So that's the way that we're going to run it.
We're going to go, we're aiming for an hour.
Every Friday we're aiming for a minimum of an hour.
And some of you are like, well, why? Why are you making it so structured?
Okay, there's many reasons why.
But here's why an hour. And I pulled this from Scripture. I pulled this from Scripture.
When Jesus was in one of, not one of the, the most critical place in his life in the Garden of Gethsemane.
When he needed his disciples the most, the intensity, the pressure, Jesus actually came to them.
And you guys all know that Scripture.
He said, are you guys still sleeping?
Are you still, can you not pray with me for an hour?
That's where I pulled that from.
If it goes more than an hour, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.
If it goes for two hours, hallelujah. This is fantastic.
But our goal is an hour according to what Jesus asked his disciples to do.
He asked his disciples, can you not pray with me for at least one hour?
And I, and I relate that to our time in days because many people are sleeping.
And intercession is something that causes you to not fall asleep.
Intercession ain't easy. It's not easy when the Lord wakes you up at three in the morning.
And you hear a audible voice in you. It's like, it's, it's audible, but it's inside.
And he says, says your name, you know, and you're like, really, you want me to pray right now?
It's not easy. But it's something that God desires.
And it's something that his scriptures talk about.
And I believe it's something that really moves the heart of God.
Do you want to say anything before I get into the chart?
Pastor Mary, do you want to say anything?
So we are officially starting May 16th is going to be our official Friday night intercession prayer.
From then or from now to then I've created sheets.
This is a week to week basis.
So for an example, this first one here where we're officially, this is us going to be starting our 24 hour prayers.
Okay. And whoever is really interested in this, I can talk.
Maybe we can do this in a smaller group because you guys may have questions and other things.
But whoever is like, yeah, I want to do this.
We can maybe, you know, do a meeting before we officially launch this.
But I've created a week to week sign up sheet.
This is May 18th to May 24th from Sunday to Saturday.
And every hour of the day is available.
I'm asking whoever wants to be a part of this because we're going to do a trial run for this 24 hour.
I'm asking that whoever wants to be a part of this to sign up for at least one hour a week.
Just one hour a week.
Because when we were laying the groundwork, I was a bit ambitious, wasn't I?
But that's all right. That's all right.
Sometimes you got to take a step back and make some baby steps.
That means I'm asking you to sign up for at least an hour a week.
That's four hours a month.
If you think about that, if you think about that, that's really not much.
If that's all we're giving God, four hours a month, it's time to grow.
Just going to be honest with you, it's time to grow.
If you're comfortable with being there, that's your choice.
But me as a pastor, I'm going to make you grow.
I'm going to make you feel uncomfortable.
And it's going to be your choice to grow or not to grow.
So I'm asking you to sign up for at least one hour a week, which is four hours a month.
And we're going to run this for not even a full...
We originally were going to do a three month trial.
I said, why don't we do a two month trial?
If you want to sign up for more than an hour, please do.
It's anytime of the day here.
It's from 12 a.m. to 11 p.m.
You can sign up for anytime of the day.
When you sign up, I want you to understand, I'm going to hold you accountable.
Not even just me, the Lord's going to hold you accountable to pray that hour.
And what we're going to be praying for, because you don't have to come...
It's not you coming to church and doing this.
This is you at home.
This is you wherever you are at, where you can get alone with God.
And you're interceding.
We're going to do, think of it this way.
We're going to do the same thing that we're doing every second Friday of the month.
You're going to do at home.
You're going to be interceding for Word of Life, TBO, Red Lake.
You'll be interceding for the nation, the state, the cities and Israel.
And you're going to be interceding for the great harvest and many souls.
You're going to be doing that, that hour that you're going to sign up to pray for.
And here is my recommendation, and I'm going to come to a wrap here.
Here's my recommendation.
Is that you make sure you have a notepad with you.
Because when you come under intercession for certain things,
expect God to talk to you.
Expect to receive dreams, visions, angelic visitations.
Let your heart be set with that expectation.
It may not happen the first time.
It may not happen the second time.
It may not happen in a month.
It may not happen in a year.
But I want you to understand something.
Is that when we come under intercession,
God begins to talk to us about the things that we're interceding for.
Especially if they pertain to his heart.
Am I making sense with what I'm saying?
Pastors, did I miss anything?
Can I have the band come up here?
I'm going to have a stand.
And I want us to practice this even this morning.
You know, I'll say this before I go further.
I said this that Friday that we were laying the groundwork.
I believe there's people that are called specifically to intercession.
But often times in churches, that ministry is so belittled
that nobody wants to be a part of it.
I'm going to tell you from my standpoint,
I'm going to make a statement that some of you are going to be wowed at the statement I'm making.
I believe intercessors, I'm not saying one's better than another.
But I believe intercessors have some level of more importance
than people that preach off pulpits.
That's a statement that I'm making.
Because I've learned in my life, if it wasn't for the intercession in my life,
the things that God allows me to do when I'm speaking from pulpits, I believe would not be.
Because intercession is what pioneers, it opens doors.
To me, intercessors are very valuable people.
Very valuable people.
I honor, I esteem people that are called to intercession.
And to some degree, we're all called to intercession.
But there's literally people that God has literally called as intercessors day and night.
That's all they do.
They're at the wall and they're crying out day and night.
Lord, let it be.