We just came through the most insightful heaven-opening depth media conference that, you know, it's like
afterwards you can know when something's really meaty because then you first have to digest
and it's kind of a big production. So throughout the year we're going to go over what has been
said. Pastor's going to visit, you know, the highlight points that are to be there this morning. And so
that way we can I think even run some of it off so that we can, you know, pop it in our Bible
and always be able to open it up and refer to it because it doesn't make sense to prophesy
if we don't follow through, right? And so always with prophecy you have to settle
as a God is it not. Once you settle that it is and you grab that in its truth then it should
produce the goal. It should produce us going into action. We don't sit around and wait. We all right,
here's how we're going to put effort for that. And so people without a plan have a plan to fail.
So we in our own personal lives have to have a plan around what's been said and how it applies
to us. So that's the very spiritual thing we're going to revisit this morning. But the Lord told me
this morning to just, I was going to talk about something else and he said just go back to the
basics of the armor of God. And this is why we've had several questions come in from people when
it comes to the armor of God. It's interesting. I've heard teachings on it that are really
good. But it's the thought pattern of confusion that I see either taught religiously or just an idea
that people are under. And that is like, you know, we just got to put this on. That's what we do. And
then we're protected from the Dronach realm. And, you know, it's like, I should have had my armor
on. I must not have had my armor in those kinds of comments when we're going to pray.
It is our heart that's armored up, by the way. It's our heart that's armored up. So anything we deal
with because you say the word heart in Scripture, it can be the same as the word spirit. Sometimes
it's not, but sometimes it is where, you know, if you say their heart was broken, well, their
spirit could be broken because that might be what it really meant in the Greek. And so
there's something about bringing everything back to simplicity of the heart. And I think to
fulfill all the different prophecies that came forward, all the different insights and everything,
it's always about our heart. As soon as we come up here and we're in our head
of what we're going to have to do and, you know, make sure we do this or whatever,
yeah, that's good to have structure. But that's not the revelatory area, the area
that's revelatory is your heart. We're just walking around in this dirt and water, right?
It's got to come with us. We're spiritual beings first. And then our spirit has to really regulate
and tell our soul what to do. It likes to boss us around. And so we have different ideas many
times what the armor of God could look like. It's a childlike way many times to be able to
think, oh, I just got to put this on this morning. And then if you ask someone, we just ask an adult,
well, how do you do that? And they're like, you just got to put it on. Yeah, but how do you do that?
Right? Because it's a heart thing. It's just the same as I was going to play video this morning,
but that did not work out. It's just kind of a cool video of someone who had was walking
through and discernment hit him. And he began to see the demons that were following random
people around all the different types and shapes and things like that. You know, of course,
this was made up, but it would be like you'd see in the spirit realm. And then, of course,
they're coming to church and that filters off. They just fall off when they when they come into
church. Some of that's true and some of that ain't. So it's the same thing with our
ideas about the armor of God. So the thing is, as he's seeing into the spirit realm,
the first thing that video does is make you pay attention to the demons when really
the demons are taken care of when you take care of the heart. See that? You can take authority over
them. That's really great. You can tell them the back off or whatever. I'm trying to deal
with my heart right now. Get out of here. You can do those different things,
but to be totally free, the heart has to be changed. And to walk in the armor of God,
it's the same thing. He goes through and tells us who we should obey in Ephesians 6. I always
look at the whole chapter. Sometimes you got to go read two before, just to get the flow of
everything. Who you're supposed to honor, how it's supposed to work in family, how it's supposed
to work if you're a slave. It's kind of giving you like, hey, check this. Then it says, in
conclusion to all that, be strong in the Lord. Draw your strength from him and be empowered through
your union with him and be empowered through your union with him. How are you empowered
through the heart? Because your heart has union with him. Your body has been touched by sin.
Your body actually, the Bible indicates that it's an enemy of the cross. Did you know that?
It postures itself as the enemy of the cross. And so when our spirit is in control, it tells our
body what to do. And that's what gives it the privilege of coming along with us. Amen?
And so we're not feeding the flesh, we're feeding our spirit. So to be empowered through
your union with him and in the power of his boundless might, put on the full armor of God.
So we're in union with him and then it's his boundless might that's going to do this. It's
nothing of our own strength. Put on the full armor of God for his precepts are like the splendid
armor of a heavily armed soldier. And I like how it says that in the Amplified because we grow
glory to glory, right? Line upon line, precept upon precept. And precept actually there,
if you look it up, it means command. So in order for me to grow, I have to have a command and then
follow it. And it forces me into that spot of like, ah, same thing we talked about with prophecy.
You can get all these prophecies coming in. We got marching orders, all kinds of stuff.
But it's going to make us grow. There's not nobody here goes, okay, I know what to do.
I'll just go do that. As you go to do that, he changes the heart. That's when you get
stretch marks on the brain. Sometimes you feel like you're being run through a
knot hole. And all you're doing is following, but it's the narrow way. And it does that to all of
us, right? And so his precepts are like the splendid armor of a heavily armed soldier.
So his commands are like that. So that's part of putting the armor on, right? So the heart
has to make a decision that if I'm going to follow the precept or the command
then as I step into that, that is part of what armors our heart. Not the childlike way of thinking.
Lord, just put the armor God on me right now. You know, heart's not changing. We're really not
doing what he wants us to do. We're not in his precepts. We're not in the flow or the vein
of where he's going, but we want to be armored up. Why? Because we're scared of demons.
We don't want any bad stuff happening in our family. So we just all got to get that
armor on. And so sometimes it's like it's taught that way to our children too. Just be sure you
have the armor. I pray the armor of God on you, you know, and they see that and it can sound
like it's faith, but it's actually fear. Wouldn't it be something if we told our kids on their
about to get on the bus, which is a wicked place. Let's say they're about to get on
the bus or whatever. Guard your heart with all diligence. Son, guard your heart.
Things we've prayed about or whatever. Watch for that. Have insight. Look into things.
Be sure you stay tight in the union, like it said, with God. And then you send him off, right?
Rather than, oh, it's tough out there. Get the armor on, you know, but they don't know how to
put it on. And really it's a lot of times we don't put on the full armor of God for his
precepts are like the splendid armor of a heavily armed soldier. So that you may be able to
successfully stand up against all the schemes and the strategies and the deceits of the devil.
That pretty much covers categories. I could preach on each category, the schemes, the strategies,
and the deceits, the lies of the devil for our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
containing only with physical opponents, but against the rulers, against the powers,
against the world forces of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of
wickedness in the heavenly supernatural realm. Well, having prayer meetings up at
Red Lake or other places or even here, I've had questions come in where it indicates,
so you got to hurry. I ask God to armor you. Okay, God armor me. And then we're going to
take on the strongholds of a city. That's how we're going to get this. We're going to
take authority over what's out there or whatever. When really the most powerful thing you can
do is change your heart and pray for the heart of another because the strongholds in their mind
is what's keeping them from receiving God. You get the light inside of them and you start
lighting up your city. I'm not saying there's no such thing as going and praying for a city or
over a family line or something like that, where you're taking authority over something
that's just out there in the in the heavenlies, right? Spiritual wickedness in high places,
things like that. But it tells us how to armor up. And if you're going to armor up, it's not
to just get it on like you're walking around protected because you got stuff on. An armor is
there to use it. It's for your protection. But like the sword of the spirit, you're
actually letting the Lord wield that through you. It's there for use. Helmet of salvation
change how you think so that you have the mind of Christ, the anointed one and his anointing.
Like I think anointed thoughts. See that's that union with Christ. It isn't like,
God it on, now I'm protected. We actually have to use those different parts and they
have to become one with our heart. Each of them represent heart areas, right? So
so the thought was, this person asked me a question. It was a good question because a lot of people have
that. Well, can't we just go in? I felt the spirit of poverty over that city. We should just take
authority over the spirit of poverty. Well, here's what it looks like. If I can be blunt,
can I do that? Because I usually do it anyway, but I'm asking just because
usually looks like, you know, because we've taken the bus out and we want to do this again.
I'll be explaining the next times that I speak the different types of prayer
and giving avenues where we can show up to do that. Well, we've taken the bus out
and just prayed over certain areas and there's something about staying on it to be able to
birth something in it. That's intercessory prayer. Bringing it before God in a petition
saying, Lord, your word says and calling that over the area and establishing the area. There's
all different avenues that you can pray in that. But what I saw is belief systems that would just be
like, we're just going to yell at this thing. We're going to command this thing. There, we
can go home now. We just took care of it all. It's such a small port, a part of warfare.
It's such a small part. You really want to get into warfare and do something for the kingdom?
You walk through that city and you start witnessing to people. And that's where most people go,
nah, I'm good. I'll just take authority over whatever. But that's, that's not the whole
process. We wear the armor so that we're changed and it comes up out of our heart.
And then we bring that to other people and show them how they can armor up,
but they have to deal with their heart. So everything's a heart issue.
You see that? I wanted to clarify that as we go into the different types of prayer and stuff.
It always goes back to, I mean, the most powerful prayer is the prayer of repentance.
Think about it. If you had, you could only pick one prayer. You could only go down one
phrase and that's it. That's all you get to do. And that's how you're going to
pick your most powerful thing. I would pick repentance
because then I'm right in the righteous spot with God and I just can clean everything up
and I'm open to him. I'm open. I mean, that would be the most powerful prayer. But many times
what I see is we're not working as much on the heart. And here we know to do that. I mean,
what have we been doing for years already? They're like, oh, here we go again. We're
bringing that up so that we're in the truth, whether it be a fence or whatever, so that we're
in the truth. So they're always dealing with the heart. Now years ago, they would say that's
being a having sin consciousness, that the whole thing, I'm just always thinking about sin.
Well, you could look at it like that if that's the angle your brain goes down,
if that's your training, if that's how you hear things, if that's your filter.
But when we declare what it should be, we should be able to see the goodness of God and want that.
I want to be like him. It isn't about condemning myself. It's about, oh, thank you for showing me
that. I could get that out of the way right now. I mean, that's so awesome. I'm going to take
that before you. There should be an excitement many times when we find what's going on. Now,
you can have some regret because repentance does mean to get new information, causes you to
regret the old way you did something. So sometimes regret looks like, oh, man, I shouldn't have
done that. And sometimes it looks like, give me a moment. Sometimes it looks like I've been
at the altar crying for two hours. I just feel so bad. But eventually you have to switch
into receiving what he did for us. And then that's when we make the change. Amen.
So the armor of God, I wanted to visit that without going through all the pieces and everything.
It's more if you understand this chapter from the view of put on the full armor of God,
for his precepts are like the splendid armor of the heavily armed soldier. His commands are
like that. It's like, he's just told me what I needed to do. I don't even know if I can do that.
But when I step into what he's told me to do, he gives me the power to do it. So who's
armor ring me at that point? If I don't step into it, that's me resisting the will of God in
my life. And I'm naked then. I'm without armor. See it? So it's not the child's prayer like
put the armor of God on me helmet of salvation. You know, sometimes we're stuck there. I mean,
you got to start, you got to learn there. But then as you get older, you realize this above my heart.
Ah, I need to be changed in the heart. So like I said, most powerful prayer is a prayer of
repentance, but to just repent and then not receive what he did for us. I'm sorry. I'm
sorry. I'm sorry. You know those prayers. I'm sorry about 15 years ago and I'm sorry
about what I did today again. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Well, the power of it, of the heart
changes when we step into what he did for us. Now, see, if you understand salvation power
means to take the limits off, then you welcome repentance in a way of like, thank God,
he's about to take the limit off of something in my life. Whoo! He's given me this command in
me has to change, right? Precept and precept, line upon line, command upon command. So when
I go to obey him, I'm stepping into his command and it's going to have me grow.
Otherwise it'd be in his command already, everything a bit like that. I already be
doing all this stuff, but he gives us command, we step into that, gives us a mandate, we step
into that. It's beyond where we can just pull off ourself. So it's going to grow us,
which means we're in the yes motive. Okay, I'm going to obey. I'm going to obey this,
which what area then is this dealing with again? The heart.
And if I have a struggle with obeying or following the commands or even hearing the commands,
then you don't go over here to get deliverance and go over here and have somebody
tell you you should do this and all of that stuff. Stop everything ill with your heart.
God, I don't know what's going on. Why is this so hard for me to just say, yes, I'll go do it?
See, it's a hard thing. Amen. And I think religion washes over so many of the truths that
I've been saying this a lot lately that ends up putting us in a spot where we're working
really hard on projects. It's just the wrong project. God, get that hammer on. We got to
just make sure. I don't know why I can't think like, you know, the salvation, you know,
and we're deal with that. Well, if we let him take our heart,
sometimes I'll leave. There was a couple of services I left here. Just I would have to
describe rent to the heart. I mean, it was just like, give me just a second. Don't talk
to me right now. I'm just, he's working on something inside of me in my heart. So for revival,
which we're all praying for and we're seeing, you know, it's not something that we're waiting
for. We see revival. We're leading people to Christ and stuff. It's just not at the degree
we would like to see it. But true revival starts in the heart right here. And if we
don't get that, then we'll be waiting for something mystical, something, you know, I just want words
and knowledge flowing or whatever. That's how we'll know there's revival. You know how I'll
know revival is when the altar is full of people crying out to God. When they turn in their
chairs because they don't know what else to do and they kneel on the floor and they go,
God, help me. That's revival. All the added stuff, words of knowledge, words of wisdom,
all the gifts and everything, woohoo. But the true revival we're looking for is the change of heart.
And in the last days, we shall see the hearts of the fathers turn back to their children and
their children to their fathers. Well, what's going to have to happen when that happens?
Change to heart. And will you use the gifts of the Spirit to pull that off? Yeah, I'm sure that'll be
involved in there, but unless the heart changes, it's not going to happen. Let's stand.
It was a few weeks ago before Open Heavens, I said we are called to the generations,
which makes us look at the next generation coming up, right? And then we'll focus
on it's the next generation coming up, but really the mandate for us is for the generations.
That's how it says it in the vision book. So that means we have to be able to go this way
and that way. So one of the nights where there was a lot of dance and everything and the
young people were praying for the older people and older people, I saw that I was like, who
is going to start something? This is going to start the hearts of the fathers turning back.
And what it does when the children turn to their fathers, this is a sign of revival
of heart change. Because the spiritual line, the demonic realm doesn't want that strong.
So it ends up causing us to focus on everything that's negative, coming down our spiritual
line. And we're bitter about it. And we carry it. And we waste half of our life working on that project.
Rather than turning and saying, what I got here to work with, how can we bring heart change
into this? How can I love deeper? And it's going to change the generations.
That's when you'll see the altars full of people crying out for their grandma,
the little brother. What happens sometimes is that's so painful for us. We put them out here
and then we just pray for lost over here.
You ever do that? You know what I'm talking about, right? But when you can face your own
heart change, you will have to face your family. It's easier to go out here. It's tough stuff.
It's a prayer for the person who abused you or whatever it is.
So I just believe the Lord wanted us to see that because as we grab on to spiritual
truths as pastors going through these things, we have to anchor into the thought that
everything is a heart change. It's to produce a heart change. It's not a power move.
They said this, we're going to do that and then we're going to have more power.
No, we need more heart change. The power will come. Let's begin to pray in the spirit.
Lord, we all came from somewhere, right? We all have that mom side, that dad side.
We all have a generational line. You've put us here for the sake of the generations
and the powers in our family line. We've hooked up into your DNA for sure.
But Lord, you're wanting us to bring what we have from you
into our family lines. And it starts with our heart first.
So we ask forgiveness, Lord God, for things that have been messed up. And I know we've probably
gone over this, but we're just clearing up the air, things that have been messed up, things
that weren't done righteous, things that started something that now we're saying no to
and things are sitting dormant that we should say yes to and bring forward.
God, we're open to all of this. And I know Holy Spirit, the way you work is you just
pointed out to us. We just have knowings. We just have seeing and then cause our heart to be
faithful that when you give us a command about it, when you show us the precept, we act on that.
If we don't know how to do this in our own family,
we won't reach the lost. We have to unpack this.
We won't reach the loss if we don't understand how to love at a different level.
Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Some prayers establish things. Some prayers are announcement prayers that say, hey, here's where
we're going. And it just sends the spirit realm. It just tells it, there's where we're going. And
then we just go there. We have that kind of authority. And so we're going to go toward
the heart as we listen to everything this morning in the name of Jesus. We acknowledge
that, Lord, that that's what you'd have us to do. Whether it affects our family or people around us,
whatever would cause us to not love ourselves enough to deal with our own heart
will also cause us to not deal with the people that are closest to us.
God change us. We're looking for revival. We're looking for revival.
Love, are you saying that you want to pray with them regarding the different
applying it this way? Yeah. Hallelujah.
Verse, I'll wait till I come up. There we go. Verse 11 says,
Put on the whole armor of God. Verse 13, Therefore, take up the whole armor of God.
So we can go slow on this or we can go fast. This morning we don't have a lot of time. You're
going to have to take the base out of this, Mike, if you want the feedback to stop.
So we will, I will pray through and you follow and apply it to yourself.
The first thing is in verse number 14.
Stand, therefore, having girded your waist with truth. Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus,
show us where we lie. Show us where we're in deceit. Show us where we are not truthful.
We are not honest. We do not say it exactly the way it is. We paint the picture to make
ourselves look better. And in the end, it's not exactly the way it happened. It's a,
coloring. It's a changing of the facts. We're not truthful. We're asking Lord,
convict us and show us where we're off. And then we will be quick to obey and stop deceiving,
stop lying, stop changing facts and figures and so forth to make ourselves look better.
We choose this morning. We choose truth. We choose truth. We choose truth. We make no excuses
for white lies. We make no excuses for half truths. We make no excuses for things that are not
accurate and correct. We choose truth and we repent of any ways that we have. We repent
of anything that we have that is not truth. We refuse to succumb to culture which at this point
statistically basically just lives in lies. We refuse. We refuse to participate in the
deception, the deceit. You never know if what you're seeing or hearing is actually true.
That's our culture now, Father, and we choose to follow Jesus who is the truth.
We choose to become truthful and follow in with that. We also put on the breastplate of
righteousness. Show us, according to John 16, the reason your Holy Spirit came, Jesus,
is to convict us of what's wrong or show us what's wrong to convince us of what is right.
Show us what's right. So we ask, Holy Spirit, that's your job. Show us where we're wrong
so we can become right. We want to put on the breastplate which covers our heart
and it has to be grounded in righteousness or what is right before God. Show us what is the
right decision we need to make about things we're deciding on. Show us the right job or career that
we're supposed to pursue. Show us the right place we're supposed to live. Show us the right gift of
the Spirit or gifts of the Spirit that we're supposed to pursue and flow in. Show us where we
are supposed to take a stand against culture and against society and against lawlessness
and against the evil of our day. Show us, even though it may be uncomfortable to say things to
certain people, to take a stand in certain situations, we choose to put on what's right
and we don't compromise with what's wrong. We're not going to placate people. We're not going
to placate feelings or emotions by doing and going into what's wrong. We are going to choose
to be in the right with you. And Lord that we know is putting on the breastplate of righteousness.
Convict us of where we actually make choices that we could say, yeah, probably not the right
choice, but for whatever reason we're going to make that. Show us where we're doing that
because when we do that, we are not putting on the breastplate of righteousness. Our heart is
exposed. We are now open to deception. We are now open to being misled. When we know what is right,
we must choose it and do it. Drive that into our hearts, Lord, so that we understand righteousness
and making that choice. And Lord, having our feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
Our feet shod with the preparation for the gospel of peace.
Our feet shod with the preparation for peace.
Lord, show us where we're stubborn. We're cantankerous. We say things we shouldn't say.
Everything that follows us, we're not preparing for peace.
We are doing things and saying things that literally prepare for gossip, that prepare for
strife, that prepare for division. We're doing things that are not preparing because the gospel
moves forward in peace. Show us where we are actually paralyzing or handicapping
ourself because we're not preparing for peace. Therefore, the gospel is not shared through us.
Therefore, the gospel has no effect through us. People look at us and it does nothing for them
because our gospel is a gospel of criticism, a gospel of judgment, a gospel of strife,
a gospel of hate, a gospel of unforgiveness. There's nothing preparing for peace. Show us
where we are off because where we walk, the preparations should be being made
so the gospel can go forth in peace. That's what should follow where we walk because our feet
are shod with the preparation for the gospel of peace. So yes, get us to a position we
are walking in peace. Get us in a position where we're paying attention to what kind of effect
we're having on people. Is it preparing them for peace or is it preparing them for some other
thing that is not you? Show us, change us. Folks, this is how you put on the armor.
This is how you put on the armor. It's a heart thing, like Mary said.
You have to take the statement, apply it to your life in prayer, in the direction of
change me, work in me, clothe me. So that's what we're doing right now.
Above all, taking the shield of faith with which you are able to quench the fiery darts of
the wicked one. Lord, I renounce and I rebuke that Christian saying that says the devil has
been after me. The enemy has been at work. And all that little phrases that we use
to make excuses for why we're failing in our Christian life. Because the devil's so big
and God is so little and the enemy's been after me all week. Lord, help us to learn how
to walk in faith. Take up that shield of faith and anything he throws at us does not hit us.
It hits the shield. It hits the faith. Show us where we're out of faith.
Show us where we're not walking in the faith of Almighty God. Because again,
that's where we're open. We're vulnerable. Show us where we're walking in unbelief.
Show us where we're actually expecting bad things to happen or negative things to happen.
Show us where we're waiting for the other shoe to drop. Because it never turns out good for me
in the long run anyway. Show us where we're out of faith. Teach us faith.
Teach us how to step in to the realms of faith. To operate in faith. To think faith.
To speak faith. To hear your word spoken to us so we can have faith.
Help us take up the shield of faith so that we have a defense. We have a protection
from the one who walks around as a roaring line trying to devour us. Help us get the shield
up into position. Get the shield up into place so we can quench everything that gets thrown at
us. Because as long as we're living on this earth there's going to be fiery darts thrown at us.
And the only repellent or protection we have for those attacks of the darts is faith.
Otherwise all kinds of questions will stick into us. All kinds of unbelief will stick into
us. We will wander from the truth that will stick into us. All kinds of things stick
into us and begin poisoning us and taking us down because we're not walking in faith.
So I say again Lord grow us in our faith to another level of glory. Grow us in our faith
to another realm where you can operate through us because we are a people of faith. And no
matter what the demonic throws at us we answer with faith like Jesus did in Matthew chapter four.
No matter what Satan said to him Jesus answered by the word because he was solid in his face
in the Word. So his faith became the shield and he repelled them back with the sword of the
Spirit which is the Word of God. Lord we need to learn Your Word. We need to study it. We need to
read it. Don't let us rest without growing more and more and more in Your Word. And then Lord
not just having it dropped into our heart by Ramah. Not just studying it and it goes to the inside of
us. But teach us how to use Your Word as a sword which Your Spirit wields through us.
So Holy Spirit we're totally dependent on You now to be able to wield the Word through us.
Show us what we need to say in every situation. We've got the shield of faith up and now we're
going to go on the offensive and we're not going to wage war as the world does.
We're going to let the Holy Spirit wield the Word through us as an offensive weapon.
Something that doesn't destroy people but something that reaches in to divide
divide the bones from the marrow. Divide the soul and the spirit. Lord help us to realize
sometimes we use the word to kill people. That's not the Holy Spirit wielding it through us.
The Holy Spirit will separate things out as we work with the Word so they can see it.
They can understand it so they can repent and a change can happen in their heart.
Show us how to wield the Word in a way that helps people.
Show us how to wield the Word when we're dealing with the demonic realm like Jesus did.
Giving no room for deception. Giving no room to make the wrong choices.
But just taking the Word and putting it out there and saying this is what God says.
This is what I'm doing. This is what I will obey. And you'd have nothing to say in it.
You can't affect me in it. We're not going to do it.
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit.
Lord, teach us how to pray in the spirit.
Show us where we're not in the spirit when we pray. It's coming out of our head.
It's coming out of our reasoning. It's coming out of someone else's idea.
It's coming out of religion. It's coming out of tradition.
It's just the prayer we recite. It has really no power, no meaning to it.
It's just words we say. Lord, show us how to pray and make supplication
which is a form of intercession in the spirit, or in other words, led by the spirit.
Praying always with all prayer. There's all kinds of prayer and supplication or forms of
intercession in the spirit. Lord, not what we think, not what we want,
but speaking and interceding as the spirit leads us, as the spirit guides us,
dealing with situations, dealing with things, as the spirit sees they need to be dealt with.
Teach us how to do that. And for those of us that are growing in that, grow us more.
Grow us more through visions, through dreams, through your leading, the
rainbow words being spoken to us, through your input, through the inward witness.
There's many ways to be led. Holy Spirit, lead us how to pray and intercede that it's you doing it.
And Lord, help us to be watchful to this end, the end being putting on the armor,
praying by the spirit, with all perseverance and supplication
for all the saints. Teach us how to persevere for each other, not just for ourselves.
Help us grow past the selfishness of the last age.
In the last days, terrible times will be. Paul said, people will be lovers of themselves.
Lord, teach us how to get beyond praying for us, our need, our life. Teach us how to pray
in supplication, intercession for others and persevere doing it.
Stay with it. Stay focused on it.
Cause things to come into being because now we are clothed in our heart, in our being,
with the armor of Almighty God. Now we're ready for battle for others also.
Teach us this, grow us in this, in Jesus' name. Amen.