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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 Made to Pray podcast where we talk a little (or a lot!) and then we pray. I'm your co-host, Karrilee. And I'm Lori. We're happy you guys are joining us again. I hope you listen to last week's podcast. I know I say that every week, but I just like I don't know. It it's we don't we don't take credit for it. It's all the Lord. But the last several podcast episodes have been really good, you guys.
If you missed them, you should go listen. I've listened to the last couple several times throughout the week and prayed along. And so we encourage you to do that. we encourage you to share it with people who you think it would be a blessing. and of course, you know, do the whole I know, I it's the social media thing which we we don't love and we're not great at, but like, subscribe, follow, leave us a review that helps new people kind of get us on their
algorithm so that they can maybe follow along and pray too. so that's always great for us if that's a way you want to support the ministry. But yeah so last week what did we talk about last week? I listened I listened to it this morning I should remember it was really good. We were we it just the the time of prayer I was telling a friend the time of prayer we had last week on last week's episode.
here in the room with Lori and I. Like we felt the Holy Spirit and we felt the presence of peace swash over us so strong. We're really praying that that was transferable over the podcast that you guys were able to tap into some of that too. It was very, very good. and this week we'll see what happens. We've been talking for a long time and we don't really have a theme. but
There's been a lot that's happened it just in the last week. we've talked about all kinds of things. But what it comes down to yet again, guys, is we really, really, really, really need the Holy Spirit. We need the Holy Spirit to do what the Holy Spirit does best, which is to reveal all truth and to convict us and to transform us to be more like Jesus and to direct us and lead us and correct us and
love us and help us to be a light and an encouragement to others and like we need all of those things. Listen, we can do a lot of that on our own, but the good news is we don't have to. And actually when we partner with them, it's way more beneficial. It bears a lot more fruit and it helps us be in alignment and in agreement, right? That's what we talked about last week, breaking agreement.
it helps us be in agreement with the plans and the hopes and dreams that God has when we partner with him. and so we just really kind of wanted to pray into
ha we'll talk a little bit and pray into just the fact that we need the Holy Spirit, how to encounter him, how to make it a practice to set aside the time that we need to quiet our spirits and our minds and our hearts and sit and wait on him, wait with him and talk with him. Because we don't need I mean sermons are great.
you know lessons are great. what we don't need more information. We need an infusion of the Holy Spirit.
We need an encounter. Yeah.
With the supernatural, if we're gonna be honest. I think you know, because I think I think if you haven't recognized, maybe you are starting to recognize that the spiritual world is real life is real real. Yeah. and it's all stirred up out there, guys. I don't know if you noticed. If you notice but the spirit realm is real
And the enemy's real bold. Mm-hmm. And I think that
It's causing some of us so it's causing us to maybe look a little different.
Maybe the way we've coasted. Right. On our face. Compromised. Compromised. There's a lot of that too. Ouch. Yeah. but you know, we all know that yesterday was election day. Yeah. For us as we're recording. As we're recording. Yesterday was you'll see it here next week, it'll be a week but and it's always interesting to me because I I've prayed a lot into the political realm, but I
I always find it kinda funny. My daughter's birthday is a political week. ⁓ la her birthday was on election day, when the president was elected and my husband's birthday's a few days after. And so I was like it's funny, maybe that's, you know, God's way of this is part of your prayer assignment. I don't know. Right.
But I was telling Karri this morning, just waking up and honestly disappointed, you know, right in the results. and we could go into a lot of different angles of that, but we were talking about how in the realms of it you continue to trust God. And you know, when we've done our part, when we've prayed
Yeah. When we've recognized that those are praying around the world, when we've joined our faith, when we voted, we made our voice be heard to the best of our ability, right? Right. You you've done what you know to do. Yeah. and the scripture said when you've done all you know to do, right? Stand. Stand. but I told Karri this morning, I just felt like the Lord just led me back to Second Chronicles seven fourteen. And I know that
You guys know the verse probably. I'm just gonna back up a little bit, where the Lord, you know, he says in verse twelve, this is second chronicles seven. It says, Then the Lord appeared to Solomon by night and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and I have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. And I I highlighted that because one thing was when he said, I've heard your prayer. Mm-hmm.
And I've chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. And I just thought, Lord, how many times have we prayed? We've and I just wanted to take that as he's heard our prayer. Right. And I just want you to think of that. I've heard your prayer and I've chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. But I just was was thinking, let's ask the Lord and remind him, like you've heard our prayers, and would you choose this place? Mm-hmm.
Would you choose our lives? Would you choose our home to dwell? Right to reside? Would you speak in this place? But he says, When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people
He's like saying, I'm gonna deal with it, right? But he says, if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sins and heal their land.
And I just want to take a second to just highlight if my people. So I was just like this morning, Lord, let us be your people that are called by your name. Lord, let us be your people. Will you call us by our names? Will you humble us? Will you help us humble ourselves? And we've been talking a lot about repentance, right? That we need to be people of repentance. And I really feel like God is asking our nation, like, you need to humble yourself.
And you need to repent and you need to turn. And we we know that the Bible says that, you know, judgment begins in the house of the Lord. And we are if we're as people, you know, we're part of that house. But it says, I will hear from heaven. And we've been praying the scripture, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, right? We've been asking that. We've been talking about it. Yeah. and he will forgive our sins. We have to ask for forgiveness of our sins.
And the sins on behalf of our land. There are people that are choosing wickedness and we have to repent. Like, Lord, forgive us. Right. We don't agree. We don't align with that. Would you have mercy on us? and then it says, Now my eyes will open and my ears are be attentive to the prayers made in this place. So I was just like, Lord, we just ask that your eyes will be open and your ears will be attentive to the prayers that we make in these places. Yeah. In our homes.
when Karri and I come, will you remind us in the place of agreement, right? Right. This is for now I have chosen and sanctified this house. Lord, would you choose our houses and sanctify them and come and dwell there and speak there? That my name may be there forever, and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually. And so I I just as I read this this morning, I just asked, you know, Lord, would you choose our homes? Would you sanctify them? Would you
purify our places of where we worship you, where we seek you. God, would you come in and inhabit? Would you come in and forgive us of our sins and humble us and that you would perpetually remain in our spaces as we call on you. that you would and and I because I think this part of it like this is our prayer
But as I continued and down into verse twenty two, and it says, Then they will answer, Because they forsook the Lord God because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them, therefore he brought all this calamity on them. And I think that we're in an hour that he said, Have no other gods before me. Right.
And when we embrace that people can just believe what they want to believe, worship who they want, we bring that lifestyle into our communities, we are subjecting ourselves to the judgment of God. Right. And I think it's this and that, right? Like he is calling his people who are called by his name, and he's asking us to humble and he's asking us to repent, and that he would bring healing.
And I think there's a remnant of people that are choosing that. Yeah. And then I think there's another group of people that don't care. Right. Right. And they're like, we're fine with foreign gods or other religions. And they are, wait for it, coming into agreement with the enemy. Right. Unaware or or unabashedly completely aware. And I then
Felt like the Lord just, you know, encouraged me to go to Psalms 91, which again, I know that we know this, right? but in verse nine it says, Because you have made the Lord who is my refuge, even the most high, your dwelling place. Yes. Like so in in Chronicles, we're saying, like, you know, Lord, would you come, would you dwell, would you reside in our house? No evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.
For he shall give his angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways. And again, this is supernatural, right? This is the spiritual realm that he would give his angels charge over us to keep us in all of our ways. So I asked the Lord Smart, Lord, highlight to me how do I recognize that the angels are in charge over like I can ask them to come or I can.
Recognize them in situations because it says to keep you in all of your ways. And then verse 14 says, Because he has set his love upon me, therefore I will deliver him, I will set him on high. Because he has known my name, he shall call upon me, and I will answer. So we will call upon you, Lord, and you will answer us. I will be with you in trouble.
We're in trouble. Right. We're in trouble in this country right now. And we need him. He said, I will be with you in trouble and I will deliver him and honor him. With long life, I will satisfy and show him salvation. But I just wanted you to know one, two, three, four, five, six. Six times in two verses, he said, I will. Yeah. I will. I will deliver him. I will set him on high.
I will answer him, I will be with him, I will deliver him, I will satisfy him. Yeah. I will. And so and we all know the first verse that says, He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. So I was just like, Lord, help us to dwell and abide. Yes. Help us to dwell and abide in this season with you.
Yes. And it says only God's voice can thunder through the chaos, overwhelm the fear, and bring peace where there is none. Right. Right? So I just was thinking, like
We need to believe that we are chosen, that we are called by him, that we can humble ourselves, that our prayers matter. And I think like if I could encourage us today, the thing that I felt quickened this morning is to encourage ourselves to dwell and abide and invite him in.
That you would come, that you would remain, that you would stay, that the Holy Spirit would hover. Right. That the Holy Spirit would reveal the character of Jesus to us. like let us see what we need to see. Like take the blinders off. Right. What are the things in our home that are a distraction? What are the things that where what do we need to listen to? What do we need to dwell on? Right.
What do we need to declare? Yeah. and I was telling Karri that I had heard this week, you know, someone talking about it's the eleventh hour.
And it is the eleventh month and we are on the precipice of a end of a year. But that the Holy Spirit would help us turn up our tenacity to pursue his presence and to find him in this hour and not relent. Right. I know we're tired. I told the Lord yesterday, Lord, we're tired.
We're tired of fighting. We're trying to tired of convincing ourselves. but I told Karri the scripture came into my mind this morning of faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not yet seen. And that our faith would not fail us, that our faith would be stirred up. because the Bible does say hope to further makes the heart sick, and we just are choosing to say we're we're gonna continue to hope.
Right. Right. We're gonna continue to have faith and believe. Yeah. And even when I don't see it, you're working. Even when I don't feel it, you're working. Yeah. And to help us to be steadfast and and movable and always abounding in the work of the Lord. And I just feel like, you know, those of you that are moms or whatever, you know, like when you're in that last moment.
of labor you're like I can't do this like that. I'm done. but then the miracle that comes. Yeah. When you don't quit, right? Yeah. And I just feel like Lord help us to not quit. Right. That the miracle is coming. Yeah. And the victory is coming. Yeah. And that we would not lose heart. And
we talked last week about coming out of agreement with Lies Made. Let's come into agreement with the Lord this week and each other that we're gonna stand together and we're not gonna quit and we're gonna push through and we're gonna see victory and what the enemy meant for evil, God will bring good. And that if this is what it takes in our nation right now, for people to see what they choose matters, for those who didn't vote, who should have had a voice, I think that that is another really sobering
statistic that Christians aren't voting. and I know that in places it's hard to feel like our voice matters. Yeah. But that if God is giving us a wake up call, that it'll be heard. And that even even though God will hear our prayers. Yeah. And He will bring healing and He will protect. Right. Like we talked about Psalms ninety one.
Yeah. And it's all these things that the there are things that are out of our control, but if God is allowing it, because ⁓ I've been reminded this week about the Lord gives choice to people. Right. He said, Choose you this day who you'll serve. Like he he he gives us free will to choose. Right. And I think on the other part of that, honestly and soberly, we we have not chose well in a lot of realms. Right.
And we need his mercy and we need his grace. But I think we're seeing some of the effects of that. Right. And man, Lord, let our choices be different. Yeah. I think of that Meme that says, Well, well, well if it isn't the consequences of my own behavior. It's like, yeah, sometimes we have to see the fruit to be able to realize, that's not what I wanted.
I thought that's what I wanted, but that's not it. ⁓ I was telling Lori a few days before the midterms, I was praying. And I, you know, like Lori, for several years, decades, I was very felt very called to cover more governmental things and to in prayer and and to really focus on things. And I don't, it's not that that's let up.
But I think I grew weary and also like I just had probab maybe a supernatural gift of peace about it. But a few days before the election I was like, okay, Lord, I was just praying and I was like, Lord, I repent if I was supposed to be more tenacious about things in prayer this time around. If I, you know, I it was the break was nice, I'm not gonna lie, but if I was being disobedient in anything, I just wanted to repent.
And he kind of interrupted me and he was like, Hey, how about we kick it old school and we just go, This is how God talks to me. Lori thinks it's hilarious. we just go, you prayed, you prayed over your ballot, you filled it out, you voted, even though you don't have faith in the broken corrupt system. You still voted and you still turned your ballot in. And then how about we just like trust me no matter what? It was like
That's a great way to look at it. So I as much as as much as we were hoping for some different results personally, Lori and I, we have been given a a a gift in his reminding us that he is not unaware, he's not uninvolved, he works all things together for good, even the hard things, even the things we don't want. And and there are times, right, like
I was reading in Romans one and two last week where it's like, okay, well he he does give you what you want. and sometimes the rest of us are like, don't want that. I didn't want that. But you know, he he doesn't waste anything, like we say often. the other thing that was going around this in the last week, last weekend was Halloween.
And I was having a conversation with my daughter about Halloween stuff because there's constantly, you know, the in within the Christian realm, there's constantly the conversation, pro or anti or whatever. we were talking about that. We were talking about a restaurant that proudly serves halal meat. We were talking about all different kinds of things. and you know, she is a Christian and she loves the Lord.
And there are some things we agree on and do the same, and there are some things we don't. And she was kind of saying, Well, I I've seen it both, I've seen both angles, and I don't really know. And I think I don't know that she was looking for me to tell her what to think, because I, you know, I can. But I think she was just you know, she's a grown-up now. She's just expressing like I've I've reas I've researched slightly and I've come up with two different things and I don't know if there's right or wrong. And that I mean, I think that's where we're at.
right in our culture, even if you want to know right or wrong, there's so much gray in the midst of the white and black that it's it's hard to feel like you can know. And my response to her was like, listen, I can't if I tried to legislate that, it would become religion. We need the Holy Spirit to convict us per personally. Like I need to know what his opinion is, not for all of you, but for me. Is it
Should I do, should I go to that restaurant? Should I do Halloween or a harvest party? Should I, you know, say this thing or watch this movie or like let's let's grow in our relationship with Holy Spirit as if he's real, because he is, and let's like actually be friends with God and ask his opinion of things. And then here's the kicker.
we're talking about how to encounter God. Guess what? One of the best ways to encounter God is to be obedient to the Holy Spirit. So when He calls you to lay something down or to do something or to say something or to go somewhere, like you just do it. And as you're obeying, you get to encounter the Holy Spirit and you get to do it with Him. and so I think we're we're in a season
Like Lori said, we're man, we just need encounters. And w we if you've walked with the Lord long enough, like Lori and I have, we have encounters of the past that we can long for again and that we can but like Lori said, I don't know if it was on or off mic today, but we we need to encounter God in in new ways. Like we need to encounter him in ways we have never before.
and and so that's really what we're asking for for ourselves and for you guys, that that we would encounter God in the midst of our everyday life, as well as in those times we come away, we pull apart, we we enter on purpose into a time of silence, of quiet, of meeting with him, of opening the Bible, of of
just practicing waiting for him like we would encounter him. That that's the cry of our heart. That's what we're longing for and we're wanting for ourselves and that's what we want for you guys. And so that's that's how we're gonna pray. Well and the other thing I don't know the address right up hand it just comes in my mind right now but follow me as I follow Christ. And do what I do, not what I say comes to my mind. And I think like
I've been asking the Lord, like if people are following what I'm doing in my walk with the Lord, are they gonna find you? That's good. And you know, I think a lot of times, and this was one of the mottos in our parenting journey, was we were gonna do what we asked of our daughter. Like the expectations that we had for her to live by, we were gonna try to model it. Right as parents. because we have
In this culture, and let's be honest, a lot of times we tell our kids don't do this and don't do that. They're watching you. Yeah. They're they're watching you, and they're watching how you pursue the Lord, they're watching how you navigate hard things. they are watching if you can apologize or of course correct. Right. they're watching, but that scripture had been in my mind, follow me as I've
Follow Christ. And I've just been asking the Lord help me. because I I read this book on the way of the shepherd, but it just reminded that the sheep really trusted the shepherd. Yeah. And they fully relied on him to take care of them. And it just kind of like the character characteristics of a sheep and you know the references in the scripture about follow me as I follow Christ. that that would be
More of our motto in this hour. And that we would be reminded of what is done in secret, God will reward openly. Right. So if you're consecrating behind closed doors, if you're spending extra time with the Lord behind closed doors, you're worshiping a little longer, you're praying over a situation, you're anointing your home with oil, you're anointing your kids' rooms, you're leaving the word of God on the walls and places like what you do in secret, God will reward openly. Like
Let's be reminded of that. Yeah. That he knows and sees. And that we would return to that place that what is done in secret, like God, you know my innermost being. You know my innermost desire. Like, what do you want from God? Like, I want him to reside in my home. I want his presence to be here. I want his peace to be here. I I want him to hover over my kids and
Be in their home. Like I want them to want God. Yeah. I want them to want to linger in the presence of God. I want the Holy Spirit to matter more than what the voice of the world is screaming. Right. right. I want to be emboldened, like I was telling Karri the scripture about be bold and courageous. I was like, Lord, what does it mean to be bold and courageous? And asking the Lord questions like, I've known you in ways that has sustained me.
in seasons, but I need a fresh encounter of how do we how do we how do we walk with you today? How do we follow you? Holy Spirit, what are you saying in this hour? When the whole different realm of circumstances and voices are different. Yeah. Like we're encountering the world that desires to replace humanity. God his idea was humanity. His idea was relationship.
That's who he is. Yeah. It was intentional, it was methodical. It was way slower than how we live now. Yeah. It was way more intentional. Yeah. relational. It was relational. And I guess my encouragement to all of us this this week is let's deepen our relationship with him so that it spills over. Yeah. To all of those that are around us.
And I know like when you go into holiday season and the busyness and you're around people are more like Lord, would you encounter us in this hour that we just spill over? Right. Right. Your presence, your wisdom, would we speak into people's lives what you might have for them? Yeah. Where we haven't. Right. With the voice of encouragement, the prophetic edge in situations like may we have the word of the Lord in our mouth and speak it. Right. Where we've been silenced, where we've been afraid, where we've been unsure.
Would you help us? Right. Right. Would you help us realize how close you are and what you're saying? Yeah. Yeah.
So we're gonna pray. We're gonna pray. We're gonna invite the Holy Spirit to be part of this prayer circle. And so I know a lot of you are listening to this as you're doing other things and that's fine, but I encourage you if you can to sit down and maybe grab a journal and a pe and a pin and pray with us and expect and invite the Holy Spirit to speak to you.
even if he starts speaking while this podcast is still going, while we're still praying, you follow his lead and not ours and write what he's what he's speaking to you. Write it down. A lot of times for me, I will start I will write down a question or I'll be taking notes and he will just interrupt my thoughts. And if I just start writing what he's saying, he keeps talking. But if I just hear the sentence he says and move on, then that's that's
That's all I get, which is great. It's still great. But I encourage you to to go into prayer with a pen and paper. It it's it it gives him opportunity to speak deeper. And so as we pray, if you are able to position yourself to receive from him and to pray in agreement, there's that word again, in agreement with us, as we invite the Holy Spirit into our lives this week.
And into our quiet time and into our daily routines, like we give him permission to come in and to encounter us and to help us be more intentional to be a dwelling place for him. So pray with us.
Holy Spirit.
We acknowledge you. We acknowledge your presence. We breathe you in. We ask that you would be closer than the air in our breath. That you would fill our lungs and our heart and our spirits. Holy Spirit, we invite you here, knowing full well you are always right here with us. We acknowledge your presence.
We invite you in to speak to us, to interrupt our days, our routines, our plans. Lord, we want to encounter you. We want to be disciplined in setting aside time to meet with you. And Lord, we know that as soon as we turn our attention towards you, you're there.
So we ask, especially this week, Lord, as we set aside time to meet with you, that you would tune our ears to hear your voice, to recognize when you're speaking, to not rush through and move on to the next thing, but to slow down and spend time in your presence.
Jesus.
Holy Spirit, I just ask that you would reveal to us a new understanding of the word to dwell and abide. Yes, Lord. Lord, to dwell and abide with you. That we would dwell under the shadow of the Almighty. Lord, I thank you that you are the refuge in the fortress, God.
I thank you today that you
are ever present God and I thank you today Father that you are giving us a grace to understand what it means God to humble ourselves and to pray and to repent and God we we today we repent on behalf of our nation yes God we repent we repent on behalf of the spirit of pride on the spirit of entitlement
On the spirit of selfishness and self-preservation. Thank you, Jesus. And God, we ask for your mercy. Yes. Today, over our nation, over our lives, over the church, God, today. Thank you, Jesus. Lord, we pray that we would humble ourselves and we would find mercy. And we would find grace in our time of need today. Lord, we thank you.
That you said if we would come boldly to the throne and we come boldly and we ask, Father, would you forgive our sins? Yes. Would you heal our land, God? Lord, would you give us a heart for righteousness and purity? Lord, would you give us a hunger for the truth? Lord, would you give us a vision to see what is right? Holy Spirit, would you illuminate the word of God?
to our hearts and to our minds. Would you give us a fresh ability to say yes to you?
Lord, we ask that this would be an hour that we would seek you with all of our heart. Seek ye first the kingdom of God.
And all of these things will be added unto you. God, may you be the first.
The first pursuit of our life. Holy Spirit, would you help us to lay down the things that we're holding on to, the things that we're afraid of, the things that we're trying to self-manage? Holy Spirit, would you help us surrender?
Would you help us surrender the things that we're carrying at the foot of the cross and say, These are yours, Lord? Lord, our nation is yours. Our children are yours. Our home is yours. Our community is yours. Our marriages are yours. Yes, Lord. Lord, would you do with them as you choose? Would you help us to follow you in this hour like we have not been?
Follow me as I follow Christ. Lord, we we acknowledge today that you are the good shepherd. Yes. We acknowledge today that your sheep hear your voice. And so, God, we thank you today. We thank you that you give us eyes to see and ears to hear what the Spirit is saying. I thank you that you allow us to understand the way of the Spirit. Holy Spirit.
Forgive us where we've ignored you, where we've closed you out, where we haven't recognized. We make room for you. For the word says that you are the comforter, that you are the guide, that you are the help. So we need help. Holy Spirit, we need help. We need wisdom. We need revelation. Yes. We need to understand what the Spirit is saying in this hour.
We don't want to be religious, Lord. We want to be relational. Yes. We want to be as children who know the voice of their father. And I pray today for anyone who stands or sits in this place and they do have father wounds. And it is hard. And it ha it does cloud view. And it does make us sometimes feel rejected and unwanted and unseen. And man, have we battled at times to get victory. But God, in your mercy today, would you see us again that
We want to be sons and daughters. Yes. We want to be held and loved and known by our Father. We want to trust your ways that they're good. That you are a good Father. And that you are working all things together for our good. And that you will not leave us or forsake us. And that you see today what concerns us. And God, I pray today.
That as a child that is known that they are loved by a father, or a mother will run freely and ask for what they want and what they need without reservation. Yes. And so, God, I pray today that we would run to the Father without reservation, with our arms open wide, expecting to be embraced and held. Yes. By a father who sees, who knows. I just see a picture of a little kid running to their father with a wound.
A boo-boo, and they're scooped up in the arms and it's cleaned off, and there's a band-aid and there's a lollipop and there is big hugs. Yes. God, may we see you as the wound healer, that you cover the wound, that you heal it. May we see you as the God who embraces. Yes, Lord. And that you give good gifts. Thank you. That you are good and kind. Thank you. And so, God, I thank you today.
That we just come and we sit in the presence of our Father. Yes. And we say, Wow, this is too big. This is too big for me. But you are safe and you are trustworthy. And you are here. And you are for us. And you are not against us. That you are the miracle worker. That you are the way maker.
That you do exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask or think. And today, God, we are gonna ask again. Yes. We're gonna ask you for miracles. Thank you, Jesus. We're gonna ask you, God, to heal. We're gonna ask you to open wounds. We're gonna ask you, God, to restore, redeem. God, we're gonna ask you for a greater measure of faith. We're gonna ask you to forgive our unbelief and our doubt.
We're gonna ask you for mercy. We're gonna ask you for boldness and courage. Yes, Lord. We're asking. Yes, Jesus. Lord, we're asking for invitation. We know that your arms are always wide open. Yes, God. We know that we have been grafted into your family and we call we're called yours. Thank you, God. We know, Lord, that we have access to the very throne of God.
And we know that we are right now seated in heavenly places, but Lord, we ask this week for an invitation from the Holy Spirit to come closer. Yes. Lord, that you would encounter us in a way that we can tangibly feel it, that there is no denying that you are real. We ask that you would open our eyes to the spirit realm that is going on all around us.
We ask for angelic encounters. We ask the Holy Spirit to speak our name. We ask, Holy Spirit, that you would give us visions, that you would give us dreams, that you would give us prophetic words and encouragement that's not just for us, but that is specifically for other people in our lives. That we would have an invitation from you to speak life and to speak encouragement to someone who needs it.
Lord, that you would give us a scripture or a picture to share with somebody that would be confirmation to them, that would grow them in their faith, and that would strengthen us in ours. We thank you for the invitation to come play with you. We thank you, Lord, that you love to partner with us to increase the kingdom.
To encourage your bride, to draw someone closer to you who may be disillusioned or may not even know you yet. Lord, we pray for invitations this week that you would invite us to come near. And that our hearts and our spirits and our minds would say yes without any hesitation, Lord. Remove the spirit of hesitation, remove the spirit of doubt.
And anxiety and replace it with that bold, courageous faith that we talked about. Lord, we ask, Lord, you said that if anyone lacks wisdom to ask and believe that we'll receive it. Lord, we pray for wisdom in the areas of our life where we are lacking and we don't even know it. We pray that you would give us supernatural discernment and understanding in areas where we felt stuck for years.
That all of a sudden this week as we encounter you, we would begin to understand what the next step is. Yes, Lord. We thank you for clarity. We thank you for direction. We thank you for discernment, Lord. We pray, Lord, for the areas in our life that have been holding us back that we've been unaware. Lord, that you would reveal those to us and heal them. Yes. In Jesus' name. Thank you, God. Thank you, Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit, I ask that you would put a song of the Lord in the hearts of people this week, God. Yes. And even if it would sound silly to somebody else, God, if it's the word of the Lord in our mouth that we would open it and you would fill it, Lord, with worship. Lord that I pray for a measure of gratitude, Lord, that we would open our mouth a mouth this week and find ways to be grateful.
Yes. Help us to be grateful. But God, I pray that you would put a song of the Lord in the hearts of our people this week. That we would just sing it out and we would find your peace and your presence, Lord, that worship is a weapon, and that we would have a worship song in our spirit this week and we would just sing it over and over and over. Sing unto the Lord a new song. Yes. Sing unto the Lord a new song. Lord, we thank you, Father.
For worship, we thank you for music. We thank you for sound that draws us closer to you, God. And so we just pray, Father, that you would put a song of the Lord on our heart and in our mouth sweet. And that you would fill our lips with gratitude, God. That we would find ourselves saying, Thank you for this. Yes. Thank you for that. Thank you, Lord. And that as we do, God, that there would just be an extra measure of peace in your nearness, in our gratitude.
Holy Spirit, I pray that the song of the Lord and the gratitude of our heart would be healing, refreshing, and restoring to your people this week, God. Yes, Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Lord, again, we ask that you would search us and know us. That you would wash us clean. That you would
sing over us and remind us again and again and again that we are worthy, that we are accepted, that we are yours, that when you look at us, Lord, that when when we've been prayed up and we've repented and we've come to you, Lord, that when you look at us, you see Jesus, that when we ask you to forgive us, you remove our sin as far as the East is from the West. Like you don't know what we're talking about.
Once you've put it under the blood. Help us, Lord, to break the cycle of reminding you of sins that you've already forgiven. And help us to step into that freedom, Lord, of knowing that we're forgiven, of knowing that we're redeemed, of knowing that we're worthy because you say so. Not because anyone else says so, but because you said so. You said that we are worthy when you died on the cross and rose again.
When your blood paid the price to purchase us back. Lord, we're so grateful for the blood of Jesus. We're so grateful for the the plans you have for us, for the days you've numbered out for us to walk in. Lord, we want to walk close to you on every single one of those days. We don't want the enemy to gain any ounce of of authority over us, any ounce of influence. Lord, we want to walk so closely with the Lord that.
When people look at us, they see you. And we can't do that on our own. We can try, but it's fruitless. We need the Holy Spirit. So, Holy Spirit, we thank you that you are readily available to us, that you live inside us, and that you are ever present. And we ask that you would make us aware of your presence this week. Again, invite us.
To come closer. Invite us to partner with you to be an encouragement to others. Invite us to practice gratitude. To see and know and vocalize the ways that you have blessed us. We thank you, Lord. We thank you that you that you are a good, good father, that you are drawing us closer, that you are awakening your bride and shaking off her chains.
That you are washing her pure with your word, Lord, that you are coming back for a pure and spotless bride. And Lord, we come together with you. And the spirit and the bride say, Come. The spirit and the bride say, Come, Lord Jesus. We long for you. We long to be in the room with you. We thank you that you are here.
Open our eyes, open our hearts, stir up hope and faith in us once again, Lord. Break off the weariness and give us an infusion of joy that energizes and refreshes and causes us to see the hope of a new day. Yes, Jesus. Thank you. We thank you, Lord, that no matter what is going on in the natural, we know you are victorious.
In the end of the story, you win, and because you win, we win. We thank you that we are covered, that we are loved, that we are redeemed. We ask, Lord, that as we burn for you, others will catch sparks.
Lord, we ask that as we the Holy Spirit, I know sometimes in the flesh the worry is that you're gonna make us weird. That's okay. Let us be weird. We are a peculiar people. We we are called to be set apart. We are we are called to be a light on a hill. And Lord, we desire to have zero fear of man and only fear the Lord.
And so, Lord, we pray that we would walk so closely to you, that we would hear your voice and know your heart so well that we wouldn't hesitate when you ask us to do something. And that we would know that we know that we know that we are loved, we are accepted, and we are part of the family of God.
Thank you, G.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you for testimonies that are coming forth from this week of how people encountered you, of how they heard you invite them closer and they said, Yes. We're we we speak by faith that we will have those and we will hear about those from others. Lord, we just pray, Lord, I just we pray over this podcast and we ask, Lord, wherever it needs to go, you'll send it. Whoever needs to hear and pray with us will get a hold of it.
Lord, we thank you for this ministry. We thank you for inviting Lori and I to partner with you in this. And we trust you with it. And we ask, Lord, that that you would be you would be the lasting impression. Let Lori and I fade away and let you be what people remember when they listen to this podcast. Yes, Jesus, every time.
Let them feel your presence tangibly. Let them hear your voice even over ours, even under ours, even through ours, Lord, that they would know that when they hit play, that they're going to encounter you. Yes, Lord. We thank you for that invitation. Thank you, Jesus. We say yes to you, Lord. Yes, Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you.
Be with us, Lord, as we're going about this week. Be with us when we set aside time to sit with you with a pen and a paper. Be with us when we're folding laundry and running errands and working on at in a the office, or wherever we're at this week, we are open to your interruption and your invitation. And we ask that even today, even this moment, you would plant a seed of hope that would take root and bear much fruit this week.
In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. We are expectant with you and for you for the Holy Spirit to invite you in this week and to encounter you. Yes. Be blessed. Be blessed. Have a great week.