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Our co-hosts, Karrilee & Lori, believe that all of us are made to pray! They are both passionate about prayer and believe it is a lifestyle & it should be our first response, not our last resort! In this podcast, they will talk about prayer, and then they'll actually pray! Sometimes it will be just the two of them, but sometimes they will invite a special guest to the podcast to share a teaching or testimony as well as to join in with them in prayer! So whether you are an intercessor and are passionate about prayer already - or just curious about what prayer looks and sounds like and how to start a conversation with God... we invite you to come along with us on this journey of prayer! Listen, Lean In, and Pray Along!
Karrilee (00:01)
Hey friends, you have found the Mage Pray podcast where we talk a little or a lot and then we pray. I'm your co-host, Karrilee. I'm Lori And we're happy to have you back. We hope you enjoyed praying through Psalm 84 with us last week. ⁓ it was very good. We hope it inspired you to pray through other scriptures as well and ⁓ just kind of make them personal as you read them and turn them into prayer. ⁓ today.
You're gonna be surprised. We're gonna keep we're just gonna keep talking about prayer. We're just gonna we got a theme here for the last five years. We're gonna stick with it. We decided. We decided. We're just gonna keep doing this prayer thing. We're gonna stick with prayer. You can't lose. ⁓ we're gonna read through a little scripture and and pray in a minute. But I did wanna touch on ⁓ I'll we'll link it in the show notes, the full YouTube.
video of it, but we wanted to talk a little bit about the access prayer meeting that happened last week. When you I'm trying to think, when you hear this, will be will it be two weeks maybe? ⁓ at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Texas by the 2819 church, Matthew twenty eight verse nineteen. That'll be a little week because it was Saturday. Yeah. Yeah. ⁓
But it is I'm sure I'm well, I'm not sure, but I'm guessing. Chances are good you guys have heard of it. ⁓ it was all over social media, before, during and after. It is a ⁓ access is a monthly prayer meeting that that church hosts in their church. I think they're in Atlanta. Mm-hmm. I think. ⁓ and it's they do it every month. It's just an hour long prayer meeting. ⁓ which, you know, hey.
We love that. ⁓ but once I think once a year for the last I don't know, may this might only be the second or third year. I don't know for sure. I I'm new to them fairly. I I started listening to maybe a year ago every once in a while. ⁓ but they ⁓ this is their second that I know of, big like stadium gathering. So they had eighty thousand tickets ⁓ for the Dallas Cowboys Stadium that were free of charge.
For you to come and pray for an hour. And it sold out in hours. Like the tickets were taken up. I mean, it didn't sell because they were free, but ⁓ th that was filled up in in a matter of hours, I think, once the tickets were available. ⁓ for for Lori and I who are passionate about prayer, who believe in prayer, who talk to you and pray with you guys every week about prayer, ⁓ this is super encouraging.
that there are at least, I mean, I know there's way more, that there are 80,000 people that are willing to set aside time to go to a place to meet with others and God and pray. ⁓ and the testimonies that have been coming out of that prayer meeting are powerful. ⁓ some of my favorite things about it is you won't be shocked.
It wasn't led by one person, even the main pastor of the church that sponsored it or that put it on. I think he only had the mic for like five, ten minutes. There was no sermon given, there was no merchandise sold, there was no promotion of church, there was no it was just we're gonna gather together, we're gonna worship God and we're gonna pray like as if we believe He hears us. And
To be in a meeting like that with faith surrounding you like that, I can only imagine that it was intense and amazing. And it stirs up hopefully in you guys, like it's stirring up in us, just a hunger and a desire to see that in our own communities, in our own spaces, that we could see that people
would want to gather and pray together and encounter God together. That is really the heart of of of this podcast and the heart, you know, we just have a heart for prayer and we believe that the more people dive into prayer, the more we will see God move. And so it was very encouraging to me to see to see the outcome of that and to see
Clips from it. Like I said, I've I've watched about half of it myself. The worship's good, the prayer part's good. I love just the interactiveness of it. ⁓ and so we'll we'll link the full thing ⁓ in the show notes. Did they release the Yeah. It's I think it's on YouTube. Yeah. I haven't seen it. Yeah. Yeah. I know I sent you a link and it was last year's, but they do have this year's too. It was still good. ⁓
When you were talking, I thought about and I know we did a study on Ephesians, but ⁓ Ephesians 3:12 it says, "In whom we have boldness and accent access with confidence through faith in him. So in whom we have boldness, we have act and access with confidence through faith in him.
Therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my tribulation for you which is your glory. For this reason I bow my knee to the Father, our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
That you be rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and the length and the depth and the height to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you may be filled with all fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask or think according to the power that works in us. To him be the glory.
In the church by Christ to all generations and forever and ever. Amen." So I just think of that when we're talking about this gathering. ⁓ that you would be strengthened in your inner man, which we believe the Holy Spirit helps us, but that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. So you just think when people gather like that, yeah, how does it not strengthen your inner man, right? That you feel ⁓
the power of God. And I did hear one gal talking about that they were like four hours early and they were wrapped around the building. But she's a people were praying in line outside. Right. Before they ever went inside. And when you're thinking that you're in the Cowboy Stadium and people go early to go to a football game. And but I mean and I one thing that thought when I s thought when I saw that too, ⁓
was that people were sitting in those seats that football fans will fill right the very next day. Yeah. Or the next week. I don't know if they were home or away that weekend, but ⁓ but it says, you know, to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge. So it doesn't make sense in our mind that 80,000 people would gather. It says to know that the love of Christ was passes knowledge, that you may be filled with
all the fullness of God and to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly all that we can ask or think. I was just thinking two, it's like the power of agreement. We've been talking about the power of agreement if two or three agree. But I mean how much faith and strength does it come in your inner man when you gather in a room right with eighty thousand people. Like I mean I don't even think I've been in a room with a thousand people maybe at the intercessors conference years ago.
⁓ but to have an expectation that God would show up in a room with 80,000 people, and then again, I think it's also to the commissioning that we're gonna come in here and be strengthened in our inner man, right, believing that God can do anything exceedingly abundantly, all that we can ask or think, and then we're gonna go out.
back into our communities, back into wherever we are, but you're never gonna forget that moment. Right. Right. And I always say this too, like ⁓ somebody with an experience is never at the mercy of somebody with an argument. Right. So if you show up in that room and you see s you see God ⁓ encounter somebody or
minister to somebody or it's gonna mark you. Right. Right. It's gonna it's gonna mark you. But we have access through faith to him. Yeah. And I think like that is just the thing that I want to be reminded we have access to him. Right. You know we have a all I was just thinking when you go into an arena and if you have an all access pass
It means you can go anywhere. You can go in the back, you can go on stage, you can go behind the stage, you can go into maybe the skybox. But in the visual of that, if we believe that we have access to him. Right.
And that we believe that he'll show up. Yeah. I want I want that more in my life right now. Yeah. That I believe that I have access to him. That it's not on just me, but if you have access and I think of this, sorry, I'm just kinda ranting, but no, it's good. If you have access in the royal chambers of somewhere.
You you have a privilege. Right? You have you're gonna gain what others don't have. Right. But to view that we have access to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, we have access to come and sit at his feet and say, Here I am, you know, I can't do this and I'm I don't know how to handle that. Right. But casting a scare like and it and believing that he's gonna show up. ⁓ and I've been again and I
the Lord's prayer. But the first line of it is, "Our Father..." And this whole week again, I've just been trying to remember if you have access to a good father, right. You don't question if you're loved. You don't question if your needs are going to be met. You don't question if you're going to have a place to stay, right? You know that your father loves you. Right. And if we know that our father loves us and we know that we have access because we're sons and daughters
Then our expectation can be above the norm. And man, I just like I want to see that in my inner man. Like it says, be strengthened in your inner man. I want to know, Holy Spirit. And I told Karri that I was reading again ⁓ in Psalms 91, you know, to dwell and abide. You know, if we dwell and abide.
In the king's house? Right. I mean, like, what kid is gonna want to go to the palace with the king, right? And and and dwell there. We would. Yeah. I mean we but it says, you know, we he who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of mighty. And I will say the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in him I will trust. Surely he will deliver us. But he will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you shall take refuge.
His truth shall be your shield and your buckler, you shall not be afraid. So all of these things that it says, it says because you have made the Lord who is my refuge, even the most high your dwelling place, no evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near you, for he shall give his angels charge over you to keep you in all of your ways. So imagine eighty thousand peoples coming together under one place and saying, We believe, God, that you're gonna release the angels. We believe that we're covered.
We believe that you're covering our families. We're standing in agreement or two or three agree. We believe you're coming to our city. We believe that you're restoring the family. We believe that you're giving us access to wisdom that is beyond our understanding. And then it says, you know, you have access and knowledge ⁓ beyond our comprehension. Right. Like we have access to you in realms that it looks impossible. Exactly. But it builds your faith. Yeah. Yeah. And it builds community and
You know, I think part of the thing that's unity. Unity. Yes, the unity of faith when we when we are gathered together in his presence and are believing for impossible things. I mean, we're not just gathering together and you know singing songs and hoping for the best. Like we are joining our faith together and where I might be weary of praying for this one thing, I can come together with 80,000 other people.
Or let's let's keep it real, like three other people, seven other people. Like it doesn't have to be a huge stadium, but the the gathering together for the purpose of prayer, putting our faith together increases our faith individually. Right. Well, and like that clip that you sent me that I did see, but I did see a lot of people turning to their neighbor in that place.
where two or three. And they I could see that they were praying together. But like to turn to your neighbor and say, I see you. Right. Right. How can I pray for you? Yeah. How can I stand in agreement with you? I mean, yes, there were 80,000 people per se, but to stand shoulder to shoulder and have somebody say, I see you. Right. Right. How can I pray for you? Yeah, as I was thinking about kind of talking about this on the podcast today, I was thinking back to
⁓ you know, my early my early walk with the Lord. And I mean, prayer has always been such a huge part of my walk with him and a huge a coup of a call that I have felt called to pray. ⁓ and I remember having a conversation with my sister. ⁓ God bless her. Hopefully she has a a better understanding at this point now that she's with Jesus. But she was like, you know, ⁓ Karrilee... not everyone's as excited about prayer as you.
Not everyone thinks a prayer meeting sounds fun. I'm like, I know, but I wish they would because he shows up, you know? like I said, I she was a believer, she loved Jesus, but she was like prayer was not a passion of hers. She prayed, but she wasn't passionate about it. And I get that not everyone is, but when you like you said, when you get in a room like that, whether it's six people who are believing God and he shows up or it's a stadium, like it it encourages your faith.
And I was thinking back to ⁓ when I was first when I was first saved and learning about prayer. ⁓ you know, because my sister and I were really close and we both kind of got saved at the same time and we were plugged into the same church and we were learning from the same people, but for whatever reason I really felt a call to prayer. And ⁓ I remember that there was ⁓ in that season there was ⁓
Well, one of our friends, ⁓ Mike Danforth was he had started a prayer ministry ⁓ called Mountain Top. It's still a ministry that goes on now, but it's more of a teaching ⁓ gathering place and he travels all over. But but in the early days it was we had set up a twenty four hour prayer place and we would sign up for shifts and we would go downtown in this empty building and we would pray. And it was amazing.
It was because like we were we were going somewhere. Like I can pray at my house all day, every day, like, you know, whatever, in the midst of doing like whatever I'm doing, as well as setting aside time to be quiet and pray. But like when you intentionally go somewhere to pray, that's a whole different level. Like that's a little different. ⁓ and so we would go, my husband would bring his guitar and we would go sit in this room with no lights on, you know, and we would pray. And sometimes people would show up and sometimes they wouldn't.
And we've done that for the bull for the majority of our marriage. We do that whether it's a home group or in a church building or wherever. ⁓ we're just really passionate about that. But I was thinking back to the early days and being more getting involved with Mountain Top, which was also like very a prophetic ministry and was teaching me how to use that gifting. But a lot of it was like, okay, I've been praying.
And now I'm looking at my neighbor, or I'm walking across the aisle, or I'm walking across the room and I see you. And how can I pray for you? Or the Lord put this scripture on my heart for you? Or, you know, stirring up that gifting that you have and using it in prayer to encourage someone else, that's what got me, you know, that's what made me passionate about prayers because I could see.
That he was listening and he was also sending encouragement to people who needed it in the midst. And so for me, a prayer meeting is not boring. It's super exciting because first and foremost, I'm gonna go meet with God and I'm gonna create an atmosphere where I can worship him and I can hear from him and I can spend time with him and be quiet with him or be chatty with him, or but also I can get his heart for someone else in the room. Like it is a
It is a community of prayer that is so powerful. And so my prayer for us is that we will find or create pockets of prayer like that, whether it's in your own home, whether it's in a park, whether it's in a church, wherever it is, like pray about who to invite and open it up and see what God will do. Because I believe He is reawakening the bride to the power of prayer. Yeah. And now is the time.
Mm. I think that's that's true. It's just you know, and I was thinking about ⁓ the the last couple of weeks, you know, we've heard more people talking about prayer. But the other thing was that it talked about no prayer is wasted. Yeah.
And I've just felt like, you know, just kind of like a nudge, like remember that no prayer is wasted. And I just think in my life, I know there's been a lot of prayers prayed. Mm-hmm. A lot of them unfulfilled, a lot of them unanswered. ⁓ but to think that no prayer is wasted. Right. Is that and Karri and I have talked, I know a few times about, you know, when the bowl is tipped, we got the
Prayers that have been stored up. ⁓ prayers that people have prayed for you, prayers that you've prayed for people that don't even know you prayed for Right. But to remind ourselves that no prayer is wasted. And that when God knows the exact time and the exact way that it should be answered, it will bring good. Yeah. Yeah.
You know, I and I've been thinking about scriptures too, you I've been working all things together for your good. And we've talked about this too, is like the expectation. And and just as I read in Ephesians again, exceedingly abundantly above all you could ask or think. I mean, we can ask for some pretty lavish things. Right. But that he can do exceedingly abundantly above all we could ask or think, according to that or extend.
Again, it's the inner man, it's being strengthened, it's believing. Holy Spirit, I believe that if I dwell and abide under the shadow of the Almighty, and abide means to remain, to stay, to if we abide there, like this is where we this is where we're gonna camp out. This is where we're gonna stay. Right. Is we're gonna stay under the shadow of the Almighty. We're gonna we're gonna expect that no matter what I see.
You're here and you're you're coming and you're answering and we could trust you. And that when I see that my faith would be stirred when I see that people are willing to gather in a room for an hour to say, God, we believe that you are our only answer. Yeah. You are the hope of the world. That you are coming for us, that you've never forsaken the righteous, that we can endure.
We can stand fast, we can see miracles. And I think that's the thing is God that we would see miracles in this hour. Yeah. ⁓ because we have access to you. Right.
We have access by faith. And again, we've talked about this too, but everything about this journey of following Jesus is a walk of faith and a supernatural belief. Right. Because it would not make sense in any natural capacity. Exactly. But when they go back to the ancient places and find ruins of exact things that are in scripture and things that make no sense to the natural.
And it stirs our faith to believe that this God, and I'm always reminded in this hour that of all the gods that are out there right now, why are you most wanting to get rid of Jesus? Because there's power. Right.
And I don't know if you knew this, but I know that there was that whole story. I mean, I know you're pretty nice, but that whole story of the lady that they were ⁓ that was on death row that didn't die from the lethal injection. Yeah. But I had just learned this week from somebody that she was a Buddhist. She practiced Buddhism and I guess there was a Buddhist person there at the time of that. And he was supposedly going to lead her to wherever I don't know
anything really about Buddhism, so I'm not gonna pretend. Yeah. But
They were talking about the concept could it be and God's mercy? I don't know. But like Buddha didn't save her. Right. But she also didn't pass at the time that they were expecting her to. You know, and you're thinking I don't know if she called out on God or whatever. But I just feel like the the realm of the realm of ⁓ when you bring in Jesus to the equation. Right.
There's a different level of of persecution than it seems to any other God. And is it because the power of who he is is real? Right. And that when you guys call on Jesus, it's a different it's a different level. Yeah. Yeah. Because he he is the one true God. All other gods the enemy's not concerned about. And a lot of other gods are about
Taking out the people who believe in the one true God. Right. Well, and every other God is about you serving him and taking care of him and earning him. Jesus came to serve us and take care of us and ⁓ win us back. And not that we don't serve him, obviously we do, we serve we serve him, but he served us first, he loved us first, he came for us.
And that's different than any other God. And that's like even in, you know, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abendigo again. That was just kind of we saw that movie about Daniel and ⁓ that I mean they were so confident in God that put us in the fire and our God will save us. Right. Right. That's bold. Yeah.
I mean, because the guy that opened the door to the furnace, I mean he was burned up, yeah. Right. Right. And you're like And yet they didn't back down. And they didn't. And I mean like when you think about like we believe that story to be true. Right. As believers in the Bible, yeah. That's extreme. It is extreme. But like we talked about off mic, sorry guys. when you know your calling, there is boldness. When you know what
your assignment is there is boldness. Yeah. When you know your identity is secure in who you are and who you belong to, there is boldness. And I think was it talking wasn't it Dan said, you know, I would be bold and courageous. Yeah. Yeah.
And that's why I think, you know, we just say, Holy Spirit, make us bold and courageous.
To stand unwavering, fully believing in the power of the cross and the resurrection and in prayer. Yeah. Yeah. You will do what you say and when we obey you will not fail us. Right. Well, and just to again with that with the bold just to boldly live out your faith out loud, you know, I was telling Laurie I met with two new
friends this last week for breakfast and we I mean we prayed like we we prayed over our meal like is normal and then we had a meal and we visited for a long time but before we left we prayed over each other and just like in the middle of the restaurant and like that's normal for like I'm fine with that. It's been a while since I've met other people that are like, yeah, let's do that and not be shy about it. But they were like all in.
And it was great. And I think we're gonna see more of that because like I said, God is reawakening the bride to realize that prayer matters and that we we need it and that he needs us to pray. Like he is waking us up so that we will pray in agreement with what he has in mind to do. ⁓ so it's exciting. That's awesome. I was telling Lori, ⁓ also I was this last week I've just been
stuck in Isaiah, I think a couple weeks ago I shared a scripture from Isaiah thirty. ⁓ but I kind of have been read rereading Isaiah and in Isaiah twenty-nine there is just a verse that stood out to me ⁓ that I'm gonna read and that's that's gonna kind of direct us in prayer today. But I Isaiah twenty nine is talking it's it's talking about the woes to Jerusalem. ⁓ and earlier
Above the verse I'm gonna read, it's talking about how God ⁓ it says, pause and wonder. This is verse nine: "Blind yourselves and be blind. They are they are drunk, but not with wine, they stagger, but not with intoxicating drink. For the Lord has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, namely the prophets, and has covered your heads, namely the seers..." And then ⁓ down in verse 13 it says, "Therefore the Lord said, Inasmuch as these people are drawn near with their mouths.
And honor me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the commandment of men. Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work among this people, a marvelous work and a wonder." You know, when we when I read that verse, the first half of it, I was like, Lord, am I drawing near with my mouth?
And honoring you with my lips, but my heart is far from you, or I'm too afraid of the fear of man, or what man teaches is right, that I am not following what you're telling me, that I am not, you know, our fleshly response to that is, boy, he sees that. He's he's gonna be mad. But what does he say? He says, Therefore, I will do a marvelous work.
I will do a marvelous work and a wonder. And it goes on to say ⁓ verse eighteen, "In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the blind the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness. The humble also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the holy one of Israel." And then in verse twenty four it says "These also who erred in the spirit of
will come to understanding and those who complained will learn doctrine." And I just thought this is such a picture of where we are. Like we've said, I believe the Lord is reawakening the bride to pray. I believe that we are on the cusp of this next move of God that is going to be full of marvelous works and wonders. And I think that a lot of us have been asleep, whether it's apathetic or
doubt or anxiety or ⁓ whatever whatever has caused us to shy away from that bold faith, that that declaration prayer. ⁓ a lot of us have kind of grown tired and weary of it. And a lot of a lot of us have erred.
And a lot of us have complained. ⁓ but he is gonna teach us doctrine. He is gonna teach us by the Spirit what the truth is, and and he's gonna come in in victory and with blessings and answered prayers. And like like he keeps telling me, and I keep telling you, the domino effect is gonna be pretty spectacular, guys. And I think we're almost there. But this this verse
29:13 Lord, I don't want to just give you lip service and not have the fruit behind what I say I believe. I don't want to just say things with my mouth and and and have doubt still in my heart, or to keep my heart guarded from you. You know, I mean, like we've talked about so many times, there are a lot of things we've prayed for and the answer didn't come the way we thought it would, or
it was no and we didn't expect that or we're still contending for it and we haven't seen it yet. And you can grow weary in that long waiting for answered prayer.
But I still believe that God like He doesn't waste it. And we're learning stuff in the wait. We're learning things we need to learn. We're we're getting positioned. A lot of times I think the wait is is just like he is organizing things on our behalf. But in the when you're waiting, it sure doesn't seem like it's for our good, but it is for our good. And ⁓ you know, we talk a lot about
not wanting to just go through the motions, which really I think a lot of the scripture is talking about. They were just going through the motions. They were saying what they knew to say. They were, you know, giving honor with him with their lips, but whether were their lives honoring him? And that is really the basis of of how we enter into prayer today. Is once again, right? We go back to the Psalms and we say, Lord, search me and know me. Cleanse my heart.
Purify my hands. Like I I want to be, I want to be naked and unashamed before you where I'm not hiding anything from you and I'm not just going through the motions, that I keep your heart near to me and I hear the rhythm of it. And I I go when you say go and I stay when you say stay. And ⁓ we just want to encourage prayer with an expectancy that he's hearing you.
He is praying with you and he is bringing about the answer.
So we're gonna pray and we invite you to pray with us.
Don't hold anything back. I mean, that's the thing. Prayer is a conversation. There's there's nothing that you can confess to him, that you can ask of him, that you can inquire about that's gonna surprise him or shock him. But he wants the conversation. He he wants you to be authentic. He wants you to be honest. He wants you to use your own words. ⁓ there's
There's power in coming to God and being honest and open, whether you're frustrated and angry, or you're grateful, or you're in need or in pain, whatever it is that you're bringing with you to him today,
Go all in with him
Thank you, Jesus.
Father, we thank you. We thank you that as soon as we turn our attention toward you, we find you on the edge of your seat, leaning in to hear our voice. Lord, we're so grateful that we have your ear, that we have your heart, that you are so passionately, intimately in love with us.
That we are fully accepted. And that you call us yours. That we are your children. That we are your bride. That we are your friends. We thank you, Lord, that you are holy and righteous and just, that you are a forgiving, healing, redeeming God. We thank you for your word, Lord, that is full of truth and instruction.
and love that you would write love letters to us that all these years later we can open up the word and encounter you. Lord, we're grateful for the word. Thank you.
Lord, I just see ⁓ like the picture with the lanyard or you just put on the badge that says all access paths. And Lord, I just thank you that we have all access to you, God. Yes. And Lord, I pray that ⁓ we would come boldly. It says come boldly to the throne. And so God, I I just I thank you for a picture of us just
Realizing that we have access to come in boldly to the throne and ask of you and to spend time with you and to remain and to abide and to dwell in the presence of a holy God. Thank you, Jesus. It says, you know, our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Lord, your kingdom come, your will be done. Your name is holy, your name is worthy.
Lord, you have all access to heaven that can be loosed on earth. That you have everything that we need for life and godliness. Lord, that you are rooting for us to make it, that you are rooting for us to come and to know you. And just thinking of we talked about those people being in arenas, you know, in arenas you cheer and you holler.
And you scream and you root for the team that you want to win. You believe that they're gonna be able to do it. You believe that they're gonna win the next play or defend or score or but Lord, let us see that picture that you're rooting for us and that we have access to you and that we can we can overcome and we can be forgiven and we can live holy and we can live in righteousness and we can
raise godly families and we can have healthy marriages and we ⁓ can make impacts in our communities, God and we can pray prayers that partner with heaven and see ⁓ heaven invade earth to see change to see miracles to ⁓ see victories Lord not only one in the spirit but in the natural Lord that when we come boldly before the throne believing that we have access ⁓
That the Holy Spirit is with us, partnering with us, teaching us, Lord, that we can win. Yes. We can have victory. You said victory belongs to you, Lord. And so we thank you that every victory that we win, God, comes through you. And we thank you that you remind us today, God, that the power of agreement, there's power in it. There's power in numbers. There's power in standing in unity. There's power in these places. And so, God.
I pray this week that you would give us the visuals of the things that we've talked about, Lord, the analogies and the strategies of what we just witnessed from the outside that happened in this gathering, Lord, that it would stir our faith, that it would help us to expect and long for ⁓ Lord, encounters with you, encounters with people that we talk about you, that we call upon you in situations and we believe that you'll.
Here in your answer. Lord, that if we stand in agreement with someone believing for their children, or we stand in agreement for somebody believing for their marriage, or we stand in agreement with somebody believing for their job. Lord, whatever it might be, allow us to have faith to believe that you're going to show up. Yes. That you care about these details. It says, I care. Cast your cares on me because I care for you.
Lord, that we would have visuals of these things and that we would not be deceived by the enemy in this hour or the lies or the snares or the weights, but God, that we will come and we will lay them down. We will lay them at the feet of Jesus and we will pick up our our faith to believe that you have a better way. It says that you are working all things together for our good. So God, we pray that in this in this hour of
The working out our faith of ⁓ reigniting the ability to expect and hope and dream and believe, God, that we are laying down doubt, we are laying down fear, we are laying down the lie that it's always gonna be this way, or the lie that it never changes, and we're laying it down at the cross, at the altar, and we're picking up fresh vision, fresh hope, fresh joy.
Lord, that we're picking up the fruits of the Spirit that are love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness. Lord, we're picking up the things that are of your nature and of your character. And we're coming into agreement as two or three agree that you are in our midst, that you are hearing, that you are doing the impossible, that you have seen the prayers that have been prayed years and years and years ago. Maybe ones we even forgot we prayed. People we forgot we prayed for.
Lord, lost loved ones coming home. Those that don't know you, finding you. God, we are asking for the unexpected encounter of a living God that changes in a twinkling, in the eye, in a moment, you show up. Thank you, Lord. We thank you for that today, God. Thank you, Lord. That we have access.
To the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords that we are sons and daughters of the Most High. And we choose to dwell. We choose to reside in your home. We choose to reside and dwell with you in expectation that you have you have good gifts. You know, the scripture says, If you being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly father? God, we thank you for the how much more of our heavenly father in this hour. Yes, Lord.
Yes. Thank you, God. Father, I pray that you would ⁓ that you would remind us to build an altar.
That you would restore the altar to the churches.
That you would restore a a desire within church leaderships to make room for prayer.
That you would ⁓ stir up in us individually, Lord, to to make room for prayer, to set aside a place in our home where we go to meet with you.
To make a date like I talked about a few episodes ago, to make a date with you, to go to a coffee shop or a park or for a drive or for a walk and just talk with you. Lord, that you would become our priority and that pursuing your presence and pursuing conversation with you ⁓ would stir up our faith. Lord, I pray that this week you would put ⁓ one or two people on our hearts to call and invite to prayer.
whether it's a lunch or a walk or coffee or bible study, whatever it is, however it looks, Lord, I pray that prayer would be a part of our gathering.
I thank you, Lord, that when we come to you together in prayer, you bind our hearts together with you and with each other, and that you ⁓ that you give us testimony, Lord. We overcome everything around us. We overcome by the power of the blood and by our testimonies, Lord. We're grateful for both. We ask for more of both. We thank you for the power of your blood.
We thank you that it covers and it heals and it redeems, that it brings life, Lord, and we thank you for testimony that as we talk to you and ask things of you and seek you and knock on the door, Lord, that you meet us and you answer and you give us what we're needing. Sometimes it's what we ask for, sometimes it's not. But Lord, we trust you that you are at work on our behalf. We thank you, Lord, that as we pursue you, we become more and more like you.
The desire of our heart, the calling of our life is to worship you and to become more and more like you. Lord, we pray that we will bear fruit, that our children and our children's children will long for. That they would see our life set apart for you and they would say that's the way to live a successful life.
That we wouldn't have to preach with words, but that our life would glorify you. That our testimony would be that even in the hard times God was near and he was speaking. And even when he was silent, I could tell he was holding me. Lord, help us testify of the goodness of God. We thank you for what you're doing. We thank you for the prayer movement that you are reawakening in this world, Lord God. We thank you.
And we ask that there would just be small little fires throughout every region, every town, every state, every country, Lord, that prayer would begin to happen, whether it's planned or it's spontaneous. Let it be both, really, Lord, let it be both. And show up. We invite you to interrupt us and to show up. So often we pray and we repent that we don't really expect you to show up.
But Lord, we pray that you would show up when we pray. And that the testimony would be that we asked of the Lord and we inquired and he showed up and brought the answer.
Thank you for that.
You are holy and you are just and you are merciful and you are kind. And it's the kindness of God that leads to repentance. And Lord, we believe at the heart of a prayer movement is repentance. That we would want to be more like you and you are holy. And so, Lord, we thank you that you call us and that you do the work. Holy Spirit, you do the work. You convict us of sin.
You cleanse us, you wash us clean with the blood of the Lamb. You make us holy. Yes. We're so grateful that we can come to you just as we are and know that we're fully accepted. And Lord, help us to walk away, letting things go that have held us back, that have bound us, laying things down that have gotten in between our pursuit of you and our pursuit of worldly things.
Help us long for a deeper friendship with you, a stronger walk, a louder faith. Yes, Jesus. Help us be unapologetic in the way we love you, Lord. So that others may see how good you are and want to know you too. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Lord. Thank you for your faithfulness, Jesus. Help us honor you with our heart and with our lips and with our actions, Lord. Yes, Father. Thank you.
We thank you, Jesus, for the way you love us, for the way you redeem us, for the way you move in and live in us and among us. Open our eyes to see the spirit realm around us, Lord, to see the angelic realm active around us, to see the Holy Spirit leading and guiding us. Lord, open our eyes.
Give us faith to see and to know and boldness to speak out what you're showing us, Lord.
We thank you, Lord, that you are for us and not against us. Yes. We thank you, Lord, that you love us and you sing over us and you tell us which way to go. Yes. That you have plans for each of us that is individual and and unique, Lord God. And we thank you that you know exactly how you made us. You made our personality and our giftings. And Lord, we pray that you would
awaken the things in us that have been dormant or that have have been set aside because we were weary or tired or burnt out, Lord. Now is the time to allow you to position us once again. And so we give you permission, Lord. Position us where you want us to be so that when those dominoes start falling, we get to play too.
We get to pray. We get to see the answers. We get to share the testimonies. We get to tell people how good you are.
We want to participate in those signs and wonders. Yes. We thank you, Lord, for what you're about to do. Thank you, Jesus. Do it in us first and let it spread like wildfire. Yes, Jesus. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Be blessed this week. Continue praying. Ask him for
A name or two, a friend, somebody you've never prayed with before, or somebody that you pray with all the time. Invite somebody over to your house or out for a walk and pray. He's wanting, he's wanting to hear you pray. And there's something about praying on your own that is intimate and so good and necessary, but there is something, like we said, about praying with others in
in a group where you're joining your faith together and it is so encouraging and powerful and so necessary in this time and season. So ask him who to pray with and take a bold step. Yes. And reach out this week and pray. Amen. We'll be back. Be blessed. Have a great week.