We're going to jump right in today.
Today we're actually going to try to figure out where I want to start.
The whole point of prayer in the morning is to pray, correct?
For a while we don't know how to pray, we need to be taught how to pray.
So it's good for things to be spoken out to give you intention,
to give you wisdom, to give you direction.
Because sometimes we learn how to pray, but now we don't know what to pray about.
And the beauty of this local body is before service starts,
we can come together in agreement for a leadership of direction in prayer.
So last Sunday I talked about a recap of what happened for open heavens.
And praise the Lord, He's so faithful, He gave me material to speak out.
But we didn't do what was intended to do, to pray.
And so today I really want to focus on praying about what I spoke about last Sunday.
And so I wanted to ask how your homework went.
Because last Sunday I spoke about things that you probably should do this year.
The Lord is looking and seeing who He's going to find faithful,
who He can trust with His presence when the babes do come.
And not even just for His will, but who can He trust Himself to?
Who can He find rest in?
So I hope you guys started your homework this week.
And if not, you have grace for another week.
Because February is... today is the first February. Wow.
Okay, so I'm just going to do a recap of what we're going to pray about.
Hopefully it will be longer than 10 minutes and we're going to jump right into prayer.
Now, prayer is a muscle that you have to learn and you have to work out.
The first time you pray, it's like a toddler starting to talk or to walk.
It's stumbly, they don't know what they're doing, but they're trying to move forward.
And the more you work on that muscle, the stronger it'll be.
So not only do you know the strength of your muscle, but you also know when something is off.
You know, like, yeah, that's not what it's supposed to be.
So when we work on praying to the Lord in different facets of prayer,
because there's different categories of prayer,
when we work on that, we get a better understanding of the power that we have through that prayer.
But also, we have a direction and an understanding of like, okay, something is off here.
We got to reevaluate.
So, like I said last week, Open Heavens is an outline that God has given us to put into practice for 2026.
It's his expectation for us.
It's like a test that he's already given us the answers to
and he's wondering if we're going to actually fulfill this test.
So he's testing us to see if he can trust us for the years ahead,
to see where he can put us in the future.
And so the other thing with this is I don't want to do a recap, just to do a recap,
because Pastor Vernerity did that. That was one of the services.
He recapped everything that was spoken.
I'm recapping in the same way of understanding of how to pray it out now.
Because with prayer, there's prayer and the word.
So will you be faithful to him this year?
Like I said last time, we are going to see in December 2026,
who actually fulfilled what was spoken in Open Heavens 2026.
And we will see evidences of that.
So we talked about the laborious, Holy Spirit-driven fervent,
travailing deeper realm of prayer.
We talked about the leadership on Monday, leadership-given congregants
that are fueled by a choice made in your heart for deep passion for Jesus.
And one of the things about that, I talked about knowing your identity in him.
And on the last Sunday, I gave to you an example of how my identity as a married woman is.
Now, I wanted to give more clarification on that,
because I know from the Slavic standpoint, there's this expectation of a woman is lesser than
that the husband is the main and it's all about him and the woman can do all the labor,
but the husband is the one in charge.
And that's not how the Lord established a marriage.
And so I wanted to bring clarification because when I brought that example,
it's not that Tanya doesn't exist and it's all about Pastor Igor.
I was just showing an example of how I died to my flesh for my spouse,
because that's what the Bible says, my body is no longer my own.
It is now my spouse's body and vice versa.
So the whole point of that example was not that, oh, Igor has to do everything.
I can just sit back because he's going to answer to God for our family and for me.
But that's not the point. The point is we all are going to answer before the Father.
And he is not going to be all at fault.
We can't blame the spouse of like, oh, well, he's supposed to be, you know, he's a chosen one.
I'm just the wife. I'm lesser than.
And that's not what it is.
This is the beauty of the Lord is that everyone has a calling.
Pastor Igor has a calling that is separate from my calling that the Lord has placed on me.
But the beauty of that is they both complement each other and they both will benefit each other and work for each other.
Like for an example, when Igor and I got married, I had a Bible study.
And in that Bible study, I had a lot of girls that would come from my previous church,
because I was already going to Pastor Igor's church after we got married.
And that was the basis of these girls coming because they were hungry for the Lord.
That kind of overflowed into forerunners because the forerunners, when it started,
it started off with a lot of the Bible study girls that would come to my Bible study
because they were hungry for more than just Bible study.
So that when we do and we did invite them over and we went into prayer,
that filled those seats and then they started bringing other people to come and so on and so forth.
So my calling was Bible study. Igor's calling was this forerunner thing
that is placed over a family that I'm included in, but my calling complemented that direction.
So I just wanted to bring the... give that clarity to that analogy that I put
where your wife's identity is in the husband and the wife is nothing.
That's not where I was getting to. I was getting to death to self.
Tuesday, turning a Leo to see and filled hard into a love sick
and anchored with intimacy, building a foundation in Jesus alone,
which will be refined in the fire. That was Jennifer Cannon, Pastor Jennifer Cannon.
Wednesday, Amanda Hill, Prophet Amanda Hill, she talked about how it's a decade to declare
and then she specifically talked about what's this year about,
what the Lord revealed to her this year is about.
I also wanted to give clarification too when I was talking about communion.
She said communion is a spiritual warfare weapon against spiritual warfare.
Sorry, I mixed those two. Communion is the weapon for spiritual warfare that will happen in 2026.
And there's beauty. And I talked about how beautiful communion is
and how the Lord gave me that revelation of His Son through communion
but I missed out honestly one of the key things and that's in faith.
Because if we take communion without faith, then it's just a ritual.
It's a legalistic thing to do. It's a tradition. It can turn pagan too.
The beauty of communion is we take it in by faith. It is only by faith.
So I wanted to give a little bit more understanding to that
because that's the key component is the faith in communion.
So she talked about that on Thursday, preparing for where he is going to take us.
Amanda Hill gave an understanding of where he's going to take us
and how we are to respond with that.
Friday Vito said, talked about establishing prayer altars as living stones
for intercessional prayers and generational success in the Lord.
Saturday, again, Vito talked about David's Tabernacle, the continuous prayer and worship.
And then on Sunday, Pastor Brad Breedy finished off Open Heavens
and he spoke about fulfilling the sacred vision God has given
with hard work, unity, submission, and obedience.
And I know I gave some context between all of these last Sunday
but the beauty about this Sunday is we can actually pray about them.
We can give time to the Lord and break down each one of these sections
and bring it before him.
Amen?
Are you guys ready to pray?
Okay, good, because we have at least a little over 30 minutes
and that's what we need to do.
We need to exercise that muscle of prayer
and we have to push.
Sometimes we have to force our flesh to do things it doesn't want to do.
Right?
So, as we jump into prayer,
I would say do what's most comfortable for you,
but sometimes our flesh just wants to sit.
Do whatever capacity that you can serve the Lord,
whether that's standing, walking, laying, even sitting.
I want you to get into a position that will focus your mind on the Lord.
One of the things I teach the kids how to pray
and it seems very ritualistic,
but it's really not because they give him context.
I say we close our hands
so that our hands don't distract us from the Lord, from praying.
And we close our eyes so that our eyes don't distract us before the Lord.
And then we turn our minds on to him.
We think about him when we're praying.
So that doesn't matter if you're laying on the floor
and that doesn't matter if you're sitting.
The whole point of prayer is not because you close your eyes.
The whole point of prayer is you're focusing on him
and you're turning off the things that are distracting you from him.
So we're going to go into prayer.
I didn't ask you guys, but if you guys can turn on some music, that would be great.
And just join me in prayer into agreement for this, for our local body,
so that we can... the Lord can find us trustworthy.
And at the end of the year, we can show the fruit of our labor, right?