All right, so welcome everybody to our weekly time of prayer, and here with Russ and Bob, and we pray for Casey, who's not able to join us today.
But we're praying for America, and that's really our focal point. And so there were two things, guys, the Lord really put on my heart that have just really been heavy on me today. One is Isaiah chapter 55 verses 10 and 11. It says, For as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven and do not return there, but water the earth and make it bring forth bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater. So shall my word, says the Lord, be that goes forth from my mouth.
It shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. And we know that the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation, its purpose is the redemption of the only being created in the image of God, and that is mankind. It reveals the story of his fall, and it reveals the story of his redemption, and who came to redeem us but Jesus Christ. And it speaks to the reason why there is separation between us and God, which is sin. And, you know, I got into this in Galatians, starting at verse 16 chapter 2. It says, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith, and this is King James version, and in the other versions it says faith in, but this one says, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. Even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
And I refer over then to Hebrews 11 6, which says, But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. And when I lead the people in India in their salvation prayer, I ask them to take their hands and lay them on their head, and as a part of that declaration, I speak with them this, I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me.
And the life which I now live in the flesh, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. There is a transformation that takes place when when we stop trying to fix the old man, and we let him die on the cross with Christ. And, you know, people get hung up in Romans on, Well, I'm in this, you know, kind of in-between place, and I gotta wait till I go to heaven before I'm really free. Except that if you read what Paul writes, he says, No, that's not what's going on here. And we have an example of it in Christ, and it says, No, that's not what's going on here. And we have an example of it in Christ himself. When Jesus came out of the tomb, he said to those that were there when they reached for him, No, don't touch me, my body has not yet been transformed or glorified. And many perceive that to mean, Oh, well, he hasn't, you know, hasn't gone to heaven yet.
Except there's a problem with that mindset because of the timeline that happens next. Because the next thing we know is that he's walking on the road with disciples. And then after he's walking on the road with disciples, then he's in the upper room with disciples. And he goes so far as to encourage Thomas to put his hand on him. Touch me.
See that I'm real. He has not been to heaven. He has not yet ascended.
That glorification took place as he walked out from the tomb and began to minister again. That means to us that when we are crucified with Christ, is there a process? Yes, there's a process.
But the process doesn't require us to die and go to heaven to get there. Yes. Freedom from sin and death belongs to us now. Yes. And when we say, Well, yeah, but I do this or I do that, brothers, sisters, put it under the blood.
Make that statement again. No, I'm crucified with Christ. And his faith is justifying me. His faith is overcoming that thing, whatever it is that I might be struggling with or might have struggled with. I'm telling you, you will walk in a freedom you have never before imagined possible.
Right here, right now. God doesn't want you to be an unhappy Christian. He doesn't want you to be a Christian who feels as though I've got no victory, and I can't win this fight.
And I guess I just kind of try to slug through this and slosh through this and, and what have you, until, you know, I die. And then when I get to heaven, yeah, look, heaven's gonna be more than you could possibly imagine. If all you think that heaven is, is you're no longer gonna struggle with sin.
Man, you have sold yourself so short on the promise, I can't even begin to tell you. Heaven is going to blow your mind. It'll blow your mind.
I went there. I'm telling you the truth, man. It'll blow your mind. Yes, you don't have any of the stuff that we have here trying to interfere with you. That's all gone. But there's so much more to it. You're alive in a way that you've never been alive before.
And that's incredible. But Jesus Christ didn't come and lay down his life and die for us to set us free from sin and death so that we could just struggle with the same stuff for the next 40 years. Not the plan. And, and, and we keep, we keep thinking that the arrow falls at the foot of the target, guys. Am I making any sense? Yeah.
We keep acting as though, well, I'm just, I gotta wait until, until, until what? Didn't he say it's finished? Didn't he say that? Weren't those his words before he gave up his spirit? Stop and process this for a minute.
Paul says that Christ approached the cross with joy. Now, now, now let that, let that just kind of sit for just a second in your head. Jesus Christ, the son of God, the most powerful being that ever walked the face of the earth, told Pilate, you have no authority over me. I could bring legions right now.
And this would all be over. Who pronounced at the beginning, the kingdom of heaven is, is, get that word, get the joy, get the is, is at hand. He didn't say, I'm going to bring it with me when I come back after I die and dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip. No, he said, is at hand.
Check it for yourself. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Now, if you were ushering in a kingdom, would you usher in a kingdom full of people that are sickly?
Would you usher in, well, what kind of promise is that? What kind of a kingdom is that? If, if everybody's just kind of house stepping and not really free and, and, and all chained up by another king, conceptualize that. We are in bondage to sin. That's what scripture tells us, bondage to sin, in chains. We are chained up to sin and death. Why would you pronounce that a kingdom is here and then just kind of pick people up with all their chains on them, leaving them chained up, leaving them with a, with a, with a chain between them and the other kingdom and, and, and just set them in yours all miserable?
What kind of joy might Christ have been approaching the cross with that we've been missing the joy that says that he has set us free from that. When he picks you up, he shakes the chains off of you and sets you in his kingdom and you're free. We're about, well, you know, I'm in the process. You're not in any process. Now listen to me carefully, please. Cause I talked about Jesus coming out saying, don't touch me. My body's not yet glorified. So what does that say?
There's a process, but understand that it's his process working in you, not you trying to figure it out. Yes. And it's you professing and proclaiming with your mouth, life and death are where? Proverbs 18, 21 in the tongue. The power of life and death are in the tongue and those that love it will eat of its fruit.
Whoa. Yes. Now let's look at what Jesus said about fruit in John chapter 15. He said, I have come that you might have fruit and that your fruit might remain.
Not that it'll be a part-time thing that you kind of brush up against and hope you get some. Hear what I'm saying, brothers and sisters, because our nation is dependent on getting this and recognizing the power of the name of Jesus Christ to break off the chains. Yeah. You want to disarm principalities and powers?
Call on the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. You want your enemy as much as I despise the Antifa's and the BLM's and their militant thing and what they do. And I despise the communists and the communism and what they do. They're not my enemy though. I don't like them and I speak against their ideology.
Hear what I'm saying? I speak against their actions. I call them out for their actions and their activities. But the one that I despise, truly despise, is the one that's behind them that's pulling their strings that they don't even know is there.
Yeah. And the authority that I have to set them free to break our nation free is the name of Jesus Christ. And now I want to go really quickly back and then we're gonna pray to Isaiah 55.
11. So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return void. It shall accomplish what I please and it shall prosper in the thing which I sent it. What did the word, the word, what did the word, who is the word?
Russ who's the word? Jesus. Come on now. Amen. Jesus Christ is the word and the word went forth and what did the word say from the cross? It's finished.
It's finished. Hallelujah. And what did he introduce when he began his ministry? Come on.
What came down with him? Holy Spirit. And the kingdom of heaven. Repent he said. Well I don't have the power to repent.
Pastor you don't understand the things that have a hold of me. You don't understand the challenges that I have brother. I do actually. I do.
I do. I've struggled with sin. Struggled. Thought I got it licked. Struggled with it again. Thought I got it licked. Struggled with it again. And then I got this and then I got this revelation and then and then what he had said to me when I was lying in that bed and and and I began to profess Jesus Christ and I came out of the coma that I was in and I had professed it in the in the dream vision space that I was in and people were getting set free and the light came forward and the darkness receded and now I got it and now I got it and I'm preaching in India two and a half years over 450 churches planted miracles after miracles after miracles after miracles the lame walk the blind see the deaf here prisoners are set free from prison and what do I proclaim to them Jesus Christ in the name of Jesus Christ now watch this when the Mayflower Compact was written what did they say what was that one of the top priority yeah life is good why did they come to advance the gospel of Jesus Christ Congress our Congress in the late 1700s sent missionaries with Bibles to the west coast it was so powerful that the five chiefs of the tribes in Oregon traveled all the way across the country by horseback and by walking to meet the man in the great White House to hear for him to hear how grateful they were that they had been set free by the missionaries that came so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth it shall not return to me void but it shall accomplish what I please and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it the word the name of Jesus Christ the power and where do we get our power from I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live but not I Christ lives in me and the life I now live in the flesh I live by this incredible gift the faith of the Son of God that's the truth that's truth thank you that's your power that's your authority it's not yours it's Christ in you it's the faith of the Son of God that puts the words in your mouth that you can speak and break open the atmospheres thank you change your environment no weapon formed against you shall prosper yes and the word says that it is your tongue your words what you will speak out that will break all of the plans and the weapons of the enemy read it for yourself I'm telling you it doesn't say that he's gonna do it it says that he's put it in you so you can do it in Christ he gets the glory you get the victory I'm setting you free today I'm sending you free today by telling you that Christ Jesus has set you free man amen Jesus Christ his faith pulsing in you Jesus Christ the word sown into the ground of this nation sown into look I'm my family we some of my family came over on that Mayflower that means that the declaration that they all agreed to on that ship pulses in the blood in my veins thank you Lord generation upon generation upon generation upon generation the word goes forth and prospers in everything it sent out to do yes and that's why they have tried to silence Christianity that's why they went after Bibles that's why they went after prayer they're not stupid they know they know that if we're a praying Bible reading God-loving Christ empowered people they can their plans are not they can't get there it's why when people used to come to our shores it didn't matter what their belief system was when they got here when they saw people on fire for God and the pulpits aflame they were like I want some of that yeah now they look at Christians and go you want me to get some of that why would I want that I wouldn't want 95% of the crap they're selling in church today and it is that Paul called it dung he said everything that I had ever all that all the scripture I met all that everything all of it it was dung compared to Christ Jesus yes sure could I add a scripture yes as you were expounding particularly when you were talking about how this is for now not for you know not someday when we die Romans 8 10 11 just kept echoing through my head and if Christ is in you your body is dead because of sin but the spirit is life because of righteousness but if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to and this is the key part give life to your mortal body through his spirit who dwells in you now growing up I'm sure I've heard well-meaning people say well well you know that's that's when we die and our mortal gives away to him or that's not what it says it says it gives life more mortal bodies when we are dead we shed our mortal body so if the Spirit of God is giving life to our mortal bodies that has to be here that has to be that has to be in this world and you mentioned Romans I just wanted to say one thing I've taught Romans before and there's so many juicy nuggets in Romans but people don't see it and they don't work their way through the book yeah because if you start with chapter 1 and you work through the end of the book you see that this is a treatise a progression Paul handles one argument after another argument building upon building upon building so by the time you're getting up to Romans 8 you get the picture loud and clear that you're describing that we are alive in Christ here now this is where we have to stand this is where we have to live he's already equipped us all this stuff that's beset us has now been pushed down has been set apart from us and now we stand amen and so many are stuck between Romans 5 and the end of Romans 7 and they have embraced that almost with the idea that that's where I'm gonna be that's where I'm gonna stay that's where I'm gonna reside until I die and I get to go to heaven yep and Romans doesn't end at chapter 7 Romans breaks open at chapter 8 and and and if you're wondering about that then I would say to you go over to I believe it's Ephesians chapter 3 where he or Galatians chapter 3 where he says Oh foolish Galatians who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you this only would I learn of you received you the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith are you so foolish having begun in the spirit that you're now made perfect by the flesh have you suffered so many things in vain if it be yet in vain he therefore that ministers to you the spirit and works miracles among you wait a minute what why wait he's ministering the spirit and there's miracles happening yes and doth he do it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness and if you listen to the sermon that I preached this last weekend on my facebook on my cloud hub on on on all over you can on my website you'll find it if you listen to that sermon it's about this kind of faith and it compares Abraham Moses and Paul and and I've not talked to anyone yet who has said to me oh I've heard a sermon about that before Abraham Moses and Paul nobody's heard a sermon comparing Abraham Moses and Paul that I know of have you guys ever heard a sermon comparing Abraham Moses and Paul no I have I have heard one that compared Abraham and Paul but not Abraham Moses like to think Moses and Paul Moses and Paul wasn't a sermon it was it was a teaching yeah there's only a few minutes well I did I did oh yeah I did a whole sermon comparing Moses and Paul about 10 10 15 years ago but God gave me a new view to look at Abraham Moses and Paul and then the connection between Abraham and Paul you got to hear the sermon it take a little time but you got to hear the sermon because I really believe that it will it'll help you grab this and get set free and that's what I have in my heart to pray over America today because I believe gentlemen that America needs to be set free yes yes yes we are we are in bondage to tyrants on all levels from the highest federal levels to the medical levels to state levels to in many instances city levels as well we're under oppression and our victory is in the name of Jesus Christ may I pray can I do that yeah Heavenly Father God we first and foremost want to come to your presence and give you the glory the honor and the praise you are worthy worthy worthy of our praise not even because of anything that you have done and you've done so much but because father of who you are you are the I am Hashem you are the Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end you are and you are worthy of our praise so we exalt and praise and glorify your holy name and father we also thank you for your son Jesus Christ for his death resurrection and ascension that he's seated at your right hand making intercession for us that he shed his blood that by his stripes were healed that he took on chastisement for us that he was beaten for our iniquities that when he declared that it is finished on the cross it is finished and we thank you for the gift of the faith of the Son of God your son father Jesus Christ residing in us given to us as a gift when we will profess Jesus Christ as our Lord and seek forgiveness for our sin and so we begin with that father if there's anything we've done knowingly or unknowingly we come into your presence now and ask you father God forgive us wash us and cleanse us in the blood of the lamb apply the blood of Christ to us and wash away our sin that which was scarlet let it be turned white as snow casting our sin as far as the east is from the west hallelujah father we come to you on behalf of our families our household our city our state and our nation we proclaim that the word of God is in the bloodline of Americans because of all of the preaching that has been done for hundreds of years in this country even though we may not have it in our parents perhaps or in our grandparents perhaps but somewhere along the line the blood of Christ has touched the bloodline and father we know that you said your word does not return void but prospers in everything it sent out to do so we call on the word now in the name of Jesus Christ to set captives free to make the spiritually lame and the physically lame to walk in the name of Jesus Christ to cause those that have not been able to hear to have ears to ear to hear and eyes to see and that your name Jesus Christ will begin to be proclaimed from the lips of your followers with power and authority as we declare I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and died for me Christ in me his faith in me I now break the bondages of sin and death I break every chain of the enemy right now upon every person hearing this upon every person that will hear this in the name of Jesus Christ we three agree today that the chains that have bound you are broken in the name of Jesus Christ and that you will make that profession and that you will stand on the authority of the name of Jesus Christ we plead for the nation we plead for our family members that are either unsaved or still bound up not walking in victory speak this revelation into their spirit into their heart that they also will recognize freedom in Christ and take their authority we ask these things in the only name upon which man might be saved and set free Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God amen amen brothers feel free if you want to add anything go right ahead and then we'll close I want to add I loved what you said earlier pastor Greg about it put it into perspective for me the the glory is Christ and the victory is ours thank God thank Jesus for that this that's wonderful yeah I want to continue to pray for our country it seems like there's a maybe a revival of sorts going on that the good things are beginning to happen it mixed in with some bad things but I guess it's all part of the process and we thank God we're able to go through this process with victory on our side in Jesus name amen amen let me just add family father we just thank you give us the clarity all of us all of your people to know that it's not the solution is not with a D or an alarm it's not with a red or a blue it's not with a conservative or a liberal it's not with a party it's not with a group it's not with a tribe it is only in your son it's not enough to go back ten years ago to the way things were you need to go to the foundation who is Christ this country needs to come to you not to a party not to a leader not even to a declaration but to you and serve you in spirit and truth it's the only solution that we have the only solution that we want for this nation to be one nation under God nothing else is going to serve help us heavenly father to have our eyes firmly fixed on you firmly fixed on you to not get waylaid into into disputes and tribalism and my group says this and your group says but to focus on you and proclaim the truth so that we might be able to discern what is good and right but always from the perspective of Lord what do you say about this situation heavenly father we thank you we praise your name we praise you that we can come to you today like this so many of our brothers and sisters across the world can't even do this much but we say thank you in Jesus name amen amen amen amen amen god bless you folks thank you guys you you
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