I'm leading us in prayer today this morning. And this week, I was coming before the Lord and
I was asking God, what did He want us to pray about? What did He want me to speak to, to really
motivate our hearts towards prayer? Whether it was prayer of intercession or prayer of praise
or a prayer of tears, maybe. And so I wasn't getting anything. I was like, Lord, it's getting
closer and I was kind of getting nervous. But it's like the Lord to be the 11th hour, right?
To fully be dependent on Him, to cling on Him. And so He started, in our conversation with
the Lord, He started sharing with me everything that we've been learning this year. From
open heavens to now. And I was just starting to think about all of these things that the Lord
has been sharing with us, with His bride, about things that He wants, that He will do and
things He wants us to turn our hearts to, things He wants to deal within us, right? And
when we come to a Sunday service, it's so powerful and the message is so good. And then we leave
and we kind of leave on this euphoric feeling, which is a godly feeling. But sometimes it
can trickle away and we kind of forget about it as the week goes by, because again, we go
back to our daily lives. And something that I have been asking the Lord lately to help me
is to remember the messages and to start praying them out over myself, over my family, over my
husband. And I think sometimes we forget that. We hear a good message, a message that cuts us
to the heart. And then the week goes by and we just get distracted. And so as I'm
conversing with the Lord on this, He started telling, showing me everything that we've
been learning and He's like, why don't you pray that over yourself? And so I've been doing that.
And as I was conversing with Him towards the end, He's like, well, this is what I want
you to do. This is what I want you to bring to the people. I want you guys to start praying
everything we've learned, which is good meat, right? It's not milk, it's meat. But we need
to start praying it over ourselves and over our congregation. Now we can, we should be
doing that at home in intimacy, but there's something when we come together as corporate,
as a family, that not only are we praying it over ourselves, over our local body,
we can actually go up next to the person, if we feel led, put our hand on them and pray this
over them too. We have that ability here, which is great, right? It really connects us and
unifies us as a body. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go over everything that we've
learned this year so far. I'm going to call on some of you or maybe you can raise your hand
and just tell me one thing that you remember from that message that kind of can spark, oh,
yeah, that's right. That's what Pastor Verne said, or that's what Pastor Igor is preaching.
And then we're going to jump into prayer. And like I've told you guys the first time when I
did prayer, I love praying. It's, I don't like talking, I don't like doing this, but I love
to pray. So I want majority of our time here to actually be focused on prayer. We're going to have
some music on the background, you know, to stir the spirit, to invite him, to have an incense aroma
that's pleasing to him that is joined with our prayer, right? So starting off this year,
open heavens, right? What was the, what was the vein that open heavens was kind of following
by? Does anyone remember? Death to self, exactly. Crucifying our flesh, not an easy one, easy to
talk about, not an easy one to implement. We really definitely see ourselves in every sphere in our
life how our flesh comes out. And so that kind of, I would say, kind of started off, launched
off our year. And everything that we talk about after all these sermons that were spoken, they
actually click into death to self, which is really cool. The next one, Pastor Verne talked about
the shift, and that's when Pastor Igor and I became members or became blessed as pastors
here at Word of Life. And so does anyone remember what the shift message was about?
It was, it was right in the beginning of the year, so it was a couple of months back. Does anyone
remember? Passing the torch, yes, from generation to generation. He was talking about from selfishness
to selflessness. He was also talking about the older generation to impart wisdom and empower
the next generation and for the younger generation to receive an honor and go to the older generation,
right? Next one, Igor spoke, Pastor Igor, sorry, Pastor Igor. Oh, I forgot to give dates. So,
sorry, open heavens, back to that. There was another message that clicks right into that.
It was pretty much the same thing from a different perspective. It was Anthony Leong,
he spoke about dead men walking, and he talked about death to self there, just in a different
perspective, which is really cool. That, he preached March 9th. Pastor Verne spoke January
19th. Igor, Pastor Igor spoke on loneliness, January 26th. Do you guys, I mean the name
is in the title, but what did he, what's one thing you remember that Pastor Igor spoke about?
Loneliness. What? Humility, yes, yes. So, it's leading a life of loneliness, just like how Jesus
led a life of loneliness. He is our prime example. You know, the God who was there,
who spoke to, visited Abraham, he was the one that spoke things into being, he was there
when man was first created in his image, and he came to earth, and he had the ability to be offended,
he had the ability to call on all the power, because he had the power within him. And yet,
he chose the lowly road. He chose to be humiliated, accused, to be trade. So,
it was about loneliness. It was prioritizing private intimacy with God, over seeking public
recognition. And then that clicks into death to self, because what does our flesh want to do? Oh,
look, look, I spoke at prayer today. You know, oh, thank you for my voice. I mean, like the Lord
has blessed me so abundantly with such a beautiful voice. Our flesh wants to come out. We want
to share with people. And that can also be, it can cross the line from actually wanting to
share who God is to wanting to share who I am. And they look very similar. And if we're
not attentive, if we're not diligent, we can cross those so easily. He also talked about that
loneliness is birthed from death to self, right? Okay, then Pastor Verne spoke about unity. It
was February 2nd. Do you guys remember anything about that message? Anyone? I know. This is
when our flesh is weak and our spirit is willing, right? Now being offended, that's coming. Yeah,
a little bit. So I'm going to talk about unity amidst change and vulnerability to the division in the
church, right? Because now we just spoke about the shift, how there's a generational shift,
right? And so now Pastor Verne talked about, hey, there's going to be a lot of change. I
Pastor Igor and I are now a part of the team. That's already a big change. There's certain things
that are allocated. That's a big change. And so with those change, we have to be diligent,
sober, and aware that we don't allow offense to come in, that we don't allow disunity
within each other, that we move with the changes. He talked about challenges and
sacrifices involved in ministry. And he talked about the importance of communication,
trusting in God's plan and submission to His commands. And that was all tied into that
unity message. The next one was February 16th. It was Anthony. He talked about the Jezebel
spirit. Does anyone remember anything from that message other than that it was about the Jezebel
spirit? Anyone? No? What? What did you say? No? You don't want to speak? Well, it'd be easier
if I come up with a mic. So the Jezebel spirit is free from the spirit. It's to be free from
the spirit influencing or driving people to cause chaos or discord in the church.
It's being attentive to God's, the spirit of God's and the revelation of true interpretation of the
Jezebel spirit. And I just claim in everything, oh, that's the Jezebel spirit. That's the Jezebel
spirit. Because if you've noticed, if you listen to any other churches, any other sermons,
anything, you know, those clips, the shorts that come up, I feel like Jezebel spirit's been,
it's like the topic to talk about. I feel like the revelation has come up. The Lord has brought
it alive in the church. He's given us information about it. And now everyone is speaking about it.
And it's good because unified, the spirit's moving. But at the same time, we as man like to take things
and be like, oh, look, I'm talking about the Jezebel spirit. So we can't just slap
on Jezebel spirit on everything. We have to be attentive to, okay, is this the Jezebel spirit?
You know, it's not just what's popular right now. It's the thing we slap on.
And so standing up for God's truth, even in small encounters with that spirit.
The next is March 2nd, Pastor Vern talked about women in ministry. Does anyone remember anything
from that one? Is it a good one? They should be, there we go. That's, that's what I like.
That's exactly it. So it's the courage and boldness bound up by humility to rise up
to the call of God and women's lives, right? That we are to be, we are part of the five-fold.
That was actually the title of his message was women in the five-fold ministry. And
some of those is what I wrote down. So pretty much that's the gist of that one. The next one,
Pastor Brad Breedy. He talked on March 16th about being all in. Does anyone remember
tidbit about that one? Anything that stood out to you about that message?
How committed he was, yes. And it's amazing he was so committed.
There we go. He got into debt right now. I'm not saying that that was a right choice.
He could probably could have went around in a different way. But that's how committed
he was. And I find that's so amazing. And so he was talking about being complete commitment
and self-sacrifice in serving God's mission or God's vision. And to let go of selfish desires,
opinions, and distractions in order to fully follow God's plan and purpose.
Then next, Pastor Igor spoke about offense. And this was three different Sundays he spoke.
It was March 23rd, March 30th, and April 13th. Anything anyone remember about that one?
Or anything that stood out in that message? Yes, I agree. Gave a lot of
exposure down to even to the littlest detail, I think. Because offense, it's a word that we've
been using for a while as like as a human race, right? But to have understanding how it connects
to the spiritual is really important. And I think that's what Pastor Igor really opened up.
So not to be distracted by disputes or personal ambitions, offense leads to stumbling and
rebellion and how it blinds us to God's will. It's an opportunity to, the opportunity to be
offended is heightened when we are in situations... I don't remember, do you remember? It's heightened
when we are in what? In the opportunities to get offended. Offense is always present,
but we are choosing not to be offended is key, right? We watch how to battle offense, right?
Or how do we get rid of it? We watch and pray, we reconcile, we communicate, we recognize each
other's lanes, we serve, we love, we bless another, and we forgive. And it's interesting,
this reminded me of one of the covenant partner messages that Pastor Verne
preached. It was Isaiah 54. And it was about the barren woman. And he was saying to this
and enlarge, stretch the tent. And it coincides with offense because it might be barren. We might
not see the promises that God has given us. All the babies that Pastor Mary was talking about,
we're building this building and it's like, you know, we're filling out our church, but not to the
capacity of what we're building. But it's having that faith that coincides with offense of not
being offended of what people are saying about the promises that God has given this house.
But at the same time, coinciding with Pastor Igor's faith message
about having faith standing on those promises and how Pastor Verne was preaching,
or when he shared that message in Isaiah 54, of standing on the promises not to be wavered in them.
Then April 20th, Pastor Verne spoke on Resurrection Sunday about new life.
Does anyone remember anything that stood out about new life?
Don't be shy.
Hey, if I have to stand up here and do this, you gotta, you gotta speak out too.
It's not one way. Anyone? That was just recent.
Yes, yes, God is not through our works. I love it. He said, and these are two
believers, I would say new believers. That's what I'm going to pray it out to.
But believers for us and for those to come, to believe in Jesus not to, not by mental
assent, if I believe that's correctly how he said that. It's clinging completely and whole,
heartedly dependent on Jesus to obey and follow him. It's our heart posture of submission
and surrender and leading to growth to a new identity that is found in Christ.
And the basis is just getting to know who he is. Just as we start a new relationship with
whoever it is, whether it's our newborn child or a potential spouse or a friend that you just
click with, there's a spark. There's conversations that have to happen. You can't just be like,
oh, we should be friends and then don't talk to them for like three weeks. That doesn't
happen. That's not how relationships are built. So it's the basis. It's the foundation. It's
the simplicity of just getting to know who God is after you come and become a believer.
Because the more we talk to him, the more we see the reason of a savior, right? When you don't spend
time with him, you're like, yeah, he's an accessory. He's nice to my life. I go to church. But when
you conversate with the Lord, you talk to him more and more, you see your flesh, you see your
humaneness, you see your need for a savior. And that's when it's like, oh, Lord, I need you
more and you become more clingy and dependent on the Lord. And then works, like you said,
works should naturally flow from belief. It's not, I work to earn my salvation. And I feel
like that phrase, we've heard it so often throughout our years of life that it's just become one
of those, like, desensitized to that phrase of understanding, I know what that means. But
because we hear it so often, it's like, okay, but what does it really mean? So, not working
for our salvation is important because it should flow naturally out of a relationship, right?
I don't love Igor. I don't force myself to love Pastor Igor. It flows, it flows naturally. I desire,
the more I know my husband, and we all can attest to this, every year we learn our spouse more
and more, right? So, the more I learn of my husband, the more I naturally want to serve him,
the more I naturally want to do acts of love for him I wanted to do so he knows that I love
him, right? And then the last message, which was last Sunday, Pastor Igor preached about faith.
That was April 27th. Does anyone remember something from that message that stood out April 27th?
Well, it's like Pastor Vern, I don't know, I don't have a good, I'm rebuking that,
may the Lord rebuke that, but I don't have the greatest memory, but you were just speaking
something about how we need to, I think it was a new life, where we were, we need to
like read it and then speak it and then we need to do it and like then you can memorize it.
Yeah. And I feel like, man, that's a lot of work, but like it's true. I mean, if you really
think about it, we get a message every Sunday. We only have six days to really intake it
before we get fresh meat again, right? But Igor spoke about faith, Pastor Igor spoke about faith,
and it was dependency on the Holy Spirit, right? And it was faith for things promised when no
evidence is shown. And that kind of goes back to one of the covenant partner messages Isaiah 54
about the barren woman. He says, rejoice, sing. You know, he actually says, sing and shout
for joy. In other words, rejoice, have triumph feelings, have triumph knowledge that these
things will come to pass. Even though you're barren, these things will come. There will be babies.
There will be expanse. There will be a stretching of the tent that will happen. And it ties to
Igor's message of faith. Are we clinging to the Lord in the faith? Are we standing on those
promises? Or are we just talking the talk and in our mind and in our hearts is something else, right?
So it's a lot of things to pray about. We got a good amount of time right here. So what I want
us to do is I'm going to lead us into prayer, and I'm going to pray over these things specifically.
And I would like for you guys to come into agreement in your hearts and in your minds,
right? Because we can be distracted in our minds, even though our heart is desiring to speak
and to speak things out. Sometimes our mind can get distracted. And that's why we need to just set
our eyes on Him, get locked, get our eyes locked on Him. So we're going to start with some worship
and praying and just calling out on the name of Jesus, welcoming His presence here,
just creating in a realm that starts to be pleasing to Him so that He comes. And then
when He comes, then we start, okay, Lord, you spoke this to us. Make it happen in our lives.
We might have dropped the ball here or there. We might have not thought it was a great word
that you spoke to us, but breezed right through it. Lord, make these things set in our hearts,
okay? So if you guys want to stand, you want to lay, you want to sit, you want to dance,
in whatever posture you want to come before the Lord, do something that is, something that you're,
that is like at home, you know? Because when you're comfortable, not necessarily your flesh is
comfortable, but when your spirit is comfortable to know who He is, then He's more willing to
come. When there's a barrier where you don't want to cross, it's harder. You feel like
you have to tug, but it's, that's not how it is with the Lord, right? So let's start into worshiping
and just inviting Him here.
Oh, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Father, we come before you, before your throne in the name of
your Son, Jesus. Lord, we are coming to your throne room and we're asking for your presence to come.
Though you are with us everywhere, Lord, you are a gentleman and you desire for us to desire
for you to be here. And so we're asking, Holy Spirit, won't you come? Won't you come and find a
pleasing aroma here? May the cry of our hearts, the sacrifice, Lord, of our lives, may you see
it and may it bring you, may it draw you here. May you, Lord, may you look, may, may we be a
people that, that your eyes turn to, that you look upon and you find something there.
And so we're asking, Heavenly Father, we're asking for your presence to come, to fill this room,
to fill our prayers, Lord. We have a deep desire to have all this knowledge you've been giving
it to us, Lord, so far. We have a deep desire, God, to make that knowledge into revelation that
we can walk out God. That it's not something that is in our minds or something that we know
about, but it's something that we are doing. It's substance in our life, Lord, or substance in our
life, God. And so we're inviting you, Holy Spirit, won't you come? Won't you come and walk through
each row, Lord? Won't you come and walk through each row? Find a heart that is full of faith.
Find a heart that is full of faith.
In this year that you have brought before us, this meet is death to self, Lord,
because everything that has been spoken so far, Father, has clicked into death to self.
And so we're asking, Lord, for a fresh understanding of death to self. We're asking
for a revelation in our lives for the things that we are doing, things that our flesh is
involved with, things that our flesh is acting out on, things that our flesh is exposing itself
in, Lord. Help us give us eyes to see, Lord, so that we can get rid of that flesh. We can learn
to die to our flesh. Holy Spirit, give us understanding, give us ways, give us knowledge,
give us ideas of how to die to our flesh, not to concede to what our flesh wants,
but to go against the grain, against what the flesh wants. Heavenly Father, give us,
give us the understanding again if we have lost and if we have forgotten,
have mercy and grace over us, Lord, as this year, this vein, this death to self,
as we are walking it out, as we are needing like toddlers to be reminded over and over,
death to self, death to self, death to self. Give us eyes to see and ears to hear,
give us feet to walk this out, Lord. And we are praying this over a congregation,
we are praying this over our neighbor, we are praying this over ourselves, our family,
our children, to have this understanding of death to self. We want to be in this
movement, Lord. We want to be in your movement, God. Let it be.
May we be a company of dead people. May we be dead men walking, being full of the
spirit and emptied of ourselves, our desires, our wants, our dreams, our goals, Lord.
May they be replaced with yours, Heavenly Father. Give us your heart, give us your eyes.
We want to be in your conversation, not in ours, Lord. Emptiest of ourselves, like empty vessels
and fill us with the water so that you turn it into wine.
Fill us with the water of knowledge, Lord, and then you, Jesus, you take that water and turn it
into revelation, into good wine. The new wine, the pleasant wine, the sweet wine.
Lord, we are also praying over our congregation, over this local body, the shift from generation
to generation, Lord. Help us to transition, Holy Spirit, because we don't have the ability to
do any of this. The only way we can walk as a body, as a bride, as a church, is if it's you
doing it. We are fully submitted unto you into this shift, God, for you to do in our lives,
that from generation to generation, this shift will happen. There will be, there will be peace.
There will be no division. There will be an understanding of how to convey the message.
There will be an impartation and an empowering of power, Lord, from one generation to the next.
There will be a mantle given over. There will be words of wisdom spoken over, God.
There will be a receiving of the word and the wisdom in a way that we have not been able to
receive before, God. Lord, may we be from selfishness to selflessness, God.
May you take that selfishness from us, this death of self, and may you give us a selflessness
where we are willing to give. We have a desire to give what has been given us, Lord.
Now we are praying, Lord, for lowliness. Oh, Jesus, you are so lowly when we start
conversating with you, when we start talking about your lowliness, Jesus, and the extent
of your lowliness that you have done, it is unimaginable. It can't imagine a God to come down
and humble himself and make himself so lowly, so lowly that even not only humans missed it,
the satanic world missed it. They thought they got you, but no, Lord, because of your lowliness,
because of who you are and what you brought here to this earth, your lowliness going low, Lord.
Oh, the enemy missed it, and now we have a beautiful, risen savior, a bridegroom for us.
So give us Holy Spirit, a life of lowliness. Teach us lowliness in every part of our lives,
God. Give us an understanding, a new revelation of how Jesus was lowly, and help us to impart that,
to imprint that into our lives that we walk it out. Help us to prioritize private intimacy
with you, Lord, over seeking public recognition. Help us to seek your face and what you desire
and not what the public brings, not seeking out what the public has brought, Lord, but seeking
out your face because you, Lord, it's all about you. You, Lord, that's who we're doing it for. You
are our audience. You are the one we desire to wash your feet and to anoint your feet. It
is for you. It is not for the people around the table. It is not for the disciples. It is
for you, Lord. Give us that perspective of lowliness, God, to do it for you and not for the public.
And as it is birthed from death to self, Lord, we are praying for unity, unity within our body,
unity within generations, unity, Lord, within conversations, within relationships, God. Make
us as one accord, just as you made the upper room one accord. You gave them one mind.
As we see in this world, that's impossible. We cannot force ourselves to be of one mind. We cannot
get there. We see the evidences of that in our world, but there's one thing that unites,
one thing, and that's to be at the feet of Jesus. Help us to choose the one thing, Holy Spirit,
amidst change, Lord, and vulnerability. May there not be any division in the church.
May there not be an open door or an exposure for the enemy to attack or even get his foot in.
May you seal those up, Lord. May you seal it up. Anything right now that is loose, God,
we are asking for you to give revelation, understanding to seal it up, Lord,
so that division and chaos will not come into this house.
Because there's challenges and sacrifices that are going to be involved in ministry, Lord.
Give us a full awareness of that. And even if we don't receive the full of awareness,
give us even a drop because that will be enough, Lord.
Help us to communicate with each other, God. Even down to the smallest detail, even if we
think, oh, that's not that important. Lord, help us. Remind us that communication
is so important within unity, Lord. To serve each other, that's what brings on unity,
is when we serve each other, give us a servant's heart towards each other, Lord.
Help us to trust in your plan and to submit to your commands, God.
We're praying over our body, over our neighbor, over our family, our spouse, our children.
We're praying over, Lord, our congregation, and we're rebuking. Now, we are rebuking.
The Lord, may you rebuke the Jezebel spirit from our midst. May you rebuke it from our leadership
down all the way down to even our children, because we know, we know that it can happen
anywhere. And so we are asking for purification in our church, purification starting with the
Jezebel spirit. May it be out of our marriages, may it be out of our relationships, our friendships,
Lord. May you give us revelation and understanding about it. Help us to catch the symptoms of the
Jezebel spirit, that we be attentive, that we be sober, that we be aware. Holy Spirit, may you
make that known to us, Shilah Rabbarakishan. Help us to be free from the spirit influencing
or driving us to cause chaos or discord in our, discord in our church. May that not happen
in our congregation and to this local body, Lord. We're asking to be attentive. Holy Spirit,
help us to be attentive to your revelation of the true interpretation of the Jezebel spirit,
that we don't use that loosely. Because even if we use that loosely, that can even allow
the Jezebel spirit to come in, because we're using it loosely over things. We are calling out
on things that are actually not it, Lord. So give us wisdom, a true revelation of what
the Jezebel spirit is, and to also catch it at small moments. Not to wait for it to become a
big deal, but catch it at the small moments. Whether it's in a conversation, whether it's
in an argument, whether it's in a private setting, a public setting. Lord, help us
to catch it right away. And not to allow it to come in and fester, like yeast does,
to grow. No, we do not allow that. So Lord, may you rebuke that from our lives. May you rebuke
that from our lives, from our minds and our hearts, Lord. We're also praying over the calling
out of women in ministry gone. There is an enmity between the enemy and women, Lord,
and we are now choosing not to look at that. We are not focusing on the enmity between
women and Satan. We are not looking at that. We're looking at what God is doing, and he is allowing,
he is desiring for women. He's created something in women that he wants to be shown. He wants
to be revealed, because that's the side of the Father that we get to experience, that we get
to know. So may you give courage and boldness, may it be bound up by humility, Lord, in women
as you start to bring them up, as you start to bring them up, not them bringing themselves up,
you are bringing them up, Lord. They are serving you, Lord. They're humbly serving you, and you're
starting to bring them up to different places. May they answer the call, Lord. May they answer
the call. May they not be timid, Lord, or reserved. May they have courage and boldness
that is wrapped up in humility to serve you, Lord.
May we not have the potential to be skewed by an accurate perception of biblical scriptures,
as many, many of your body has done. They'll take scriptures and they'll make them an
accurate Lord about women in ministry, because there's so much that you have given to us to
share, to love, to serve, Lord. We're also asking that we are all in God. Help us to be all in,
to be a complete commitment and self-sacrificing and serving your vision. Not our vision,
not what we desire to do, not what we want to do, even if it's something that is good,
like praying over people or being in deliverance, but may it be something that's your vision,
not what we desire to follow, Lord. So give us an understanding of that commitment.
Show us in our lives of the things that you want us to be fully committed to and to release of,
to prioritize our life, to serve you and not to serve ourselves or to serve our family,
because you said, Lord, when we love you with all of our hearts, all of our soul,
all of our mind and all of our strength, Lord, you take care of the rest because you are a good father.
Help us to let go of selfish desires and opinions of distractions and to fully follow
your plan and purpose, Lord. We are praying that over a congregation. We are praying over our
families, over our neighbors. Lord, we are also, oh Lord, this offense, how it can creep in so easily,
Lord. We ask you to rebuke that from our lives, to rebuke that from our church. From any instance
that might pop up, any instance, Lord, that the enemy can use may it be shut down. Even though
that weapon might be formed, it's not going to prevail. And that's what we're declaring here
today. It's not going to prevail. May this offense, these distractions, by disputes and personal
ambitions, may they be gone, Lord.
Because we don't want it to be to stumble into rebellion or stumbling. We don't want to be
stumbling or going to rebellion and cause chaos, Lord. No, we want what you desire,
Lord, which is unity with one accord. We desire what you want, which is to love and to serve each
other, Lord. Help us to not be blinded to your will by offense. And even in those moments
where the ability to be offended is heightened, Lord, help us remind us in those moments
to choose the lowly road, to choose the lowly road, not to choose offense, because it entices,
it irks our flesh, Lord. No, help us to choose the lowly road. Help us to choose your road,
Holy Spirit.
Help us to watch and pray. Be mindful. Give us ears to hear and eyes to see, Lord.
Give us ears to hear and eyes to see if offense in every aspect of our lives,
help us to pray, pray it out, pray to you, Lord, for deliverance from that God. We are also asking
that you help us to reconcile with people that we have been offended with, to communicate with
people the things that were spoken that has started the offense, help us to go to them, have
courage to confront and be like, and tell them the offense that you felt so that we can reconcile
and work through it that it no longer bothers us again, Lord. We're also asking that you help
us recognize each other's lanes, that we know that I can't fulfill his lane and she can't
fulfill my lane, but I am in the lane that God has placed me and I can fulfill this one,
to not compare to each other.
Help us to serve and love each other, Lord, just as you, Jesus, served us on earth. It was never
about you. Every minute it was about the Father and about serving us with your word,
with your revelation, with your spirit, with your healings, with your power,
and help us to be like that as well. And for the new believers that will come into our lives,
Lord, new believers that will come into this church, we are proclaiming new life, a life that is
not by mental ascent. They don't have the knowledge in their brain, but it's revelation
that they walk out. And even for some of us who might not have this, Lord, we pray that
over ourselves too, that we will always grow in relationship with you because that's what the
whole point of it is to conversate with the Father, to love with the Father.
Help us to cling completely and wholeheartedly on you, Jesus. That's what new life is. It's
to be fully dependent on you, my Lord, to obey you and follow you, to find our new identity
that is formed on you, Jesus, and what you did on that cross. And as we are knowing you more and
more, Lord, as we are growing, may the works start naturally flowing out of us, serving our God,
serving our God, and serving our neighbor because our God desires us too. And Lord,
we are also praying for faith. A faith, Lord, to stand on the promises even though the evidences
are not showing themselves. Lord, we are going to be a people found with faith. I am declaring
that over this congregation, over every foot that steps through the threshold, we are going to be
a people that the Lord will come and say, is there faith on the earth? Oh yes, they're in
Princeton, Minnesota. There's faith. Lord, make us into faith. It's not our faith. We can't create
faith, Lord. It is our death to self, Lord, that is cultivating this faith. It's faith that's
coming from the Lord that is imparting into us God. May that faith be strong in this house
as we stand on the promises you have given us from generation to generation for lowliness
and death to self, for the stretching of the tent and for the barren woman to have more than the
one that has not, that has produced children. Lord, we are declaring and we are praying these things.
We are doing our duties, what you have asked us to do, to content for these, to intercede for
our house, Lord. Hallelujah. In the same vein, in the same spirit, Lord, as you have
gathered us together, you have excited our hearts in this prayer, Lord,
as your spirit is moving, help us not to interrupt it with our flesh.
But may it flow naturally into praise and worship God because of what you are doing in our lives,
because you are bringing the lowliness to us. You are bringing the promises into fruition, Lord,
because you are bringing that generational shift, God. You are bringing new life to us. You
are taking off that offense and that Jezebel spirit. You are bringing up people to ministry
and you are creating us to be all in for you, Lord. And we are thanking you through worship and
praise. We are thanking you from the words that are going to exit our mouths into the atmosphere,
filling your throne room. Lord, may you find us faithful. May you find us faithful.
We thank you, Jesus, for all that you do because it is all for you, from you, and through you.
Our bridegroom, we love you. We love you, Jesus. Our co-heir. We don't deserve to be co-heirs,
and yet that's what you are giving to us. What an honor to serve you, our bridegroom,
our husband. That you don't divorce us, that you love us, and you are committed to us.
Hallelujah. May you be glorified today. May the incense draw you even closer. May it bring
your spirit to manifest itself. May we see a side of your heart that we have not seen yet, Lord.
We desire you. We pray all of these things in the name of Jesus so that the Father can be glorified
through His Son. Amen.