The Finishing Anointing in the New Era – Part 3 [We began a very encouraging series 7/16 from a message Chuck Pierce released on Sunday, 7/12.] “Look at Luke 14, verses 26-28, He says, ‘Whoever does not carry his own cross [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow after Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me] cannot be My disciple. For which one of you, when he wants to build a watchtower [for his guards], does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see if he has enough to finish it?’ That’s the finishing anointing. “So, in other words He is saying, ‘When I ask you to do something, will you count the cost to get to the end of what I am asking you to do?’ You have to know when the Lord says, ‘Well done My good and faithful servant. Take a break.’ We want to be able to get to the place we can take a break! “Let me share a testimony of how messed up you can get. I once had a 2 year assignment in a place. At the end of that 2 year assignment, I heard the Lord say that the season had ended. We went to a church in Houston and we went there one night for a big gala. It was the one winter where Houston had a freeze. When we got back to the house, all of our pipes had burst and all of the ceilings were down. It verified to me what God had said before we left for the gala – our season there had ended. “We spent the next three months getting that house more beautiful than it had been. As the remodel portion finished, I reminded Pam that God had said our season there had ended. We also knew our next assignment. So, when it got time to redecorate the house, I felt like we should leave it for the next owners [without our personal touches on it]. Doesn’t that sound logical? Except that a year later, we were still there. We had no decorations or expression of who we were in that home. “So, I went out on the back patio and sought the Lord and said, ‘Lord, on this day last year, you said our season here was finished.’ He said, ‘It did finish. But you haven’t finished. You are still hanging onto and controlling the last season. When you complete the redo of that house, you’ll see how I move you forward.’ I went back inside and told Pam, ‘Look, we have to redecorate this house completely. It has to be better than it was the last time. We have to buy what is necessary.’ She said, ‘Okay.’ Two weeks later, we hung the last mirror and it looked beautiful. I immediately got a call from the place of my next assignment. “Sometimes we are not entering into the new because we are controlling the new from the last season. Until we let go, we can’t enter in.” “I take joy in doing Your will, O God, for Your instructions are written on My heart.” (Psalm 40:8; NLT) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Read Luke 14:26-28. Talk to the Lord about where you are on your own discipleship journey. Let Him show you where you might be stuck and unable to finish your current season. Are you weary in well-doing? Maybe it’s because you can’t rest, because you haven’t finished your last assignment. Repent and believe God will show you how to move forward. Declare, “I take joy in doing Your will, O God, for Your instructions are written on my heart.” Determine to do what He is asking you to do. A prayer you can pray: Father, thank You for Your Word. Thank You for spelling out for us how to walk with You and how to finish a season well. We want to be able to finish an old season so we can move into any new assignments You have for us. We also want to get finished, so we can rest! We can see that we will war unnecessarily when we try to control our movement forward when You have told us what to do. As we sit before You, make clear to us what we have missed. We want to carry out Your will. We want to be quick to repent and get done what we have missed, purposely or accidentally. It is so human to want to decide how to carry out Your will. You give the release or assignment and then we just take over the process. If we could only learn to trust You completely for the fullness of the process completely! Help us to seek You more. Help us to hear You more clearly. Teach us Your ways, so we might not sin against You, Lord. We know You know this about us. You are not angry with us, but You don’t want us to have to suffer needlessly. You are holding blessings in the wings that we will see when we get aligned with You. There is rest for us on our journey, as well! We say, “We will take joy in doing Your will, O God, for Your instructions are written on our hearts.” Thank You, patient Jesus, Lord of our lives! Amen. Today’s decree: We are letting go of the old season, so we can move into the all God has for us! Learn more about Chuck Pierce here.

The Finishing Anointing in the New Era – Part 2 [We began a very encouraging series 7/16 from a message Chuck Pierce released on Sunday, 7/12.] “We are going to need a finishing anointing. Jesus talks about this in Luke 14. There are many passages in scripture about finishing. In some, the person finished well and in others they didn’t. However, this is a passage Jesus used to try to teach us about the finishing anointing. The Lord did miracles to let people know something. He didn’t do miracles just to do them. He did them to present a message that was necessary so people could understand who Father was and what Father wanted to do. In Luke 14, verse 25, He turned and said to them, ‘If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, and brothers and sisters, yes, even his own life [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God], he cannot be my disciple.’ This means, ‘I can’t teach him.’ “I think He is saying here, ‘There’s a long journey ahead of you, and before you jump in to be taught by Me, you’re going to need to count the cost of that journey. Because you might get labeled as one of My followers. Your family might even turn against you.’ There comes a time when you have to choose to go to war. There will come a time when you have to go beyond ‘self’ and do what He’s telling You to do. “When God called me at 18, He said, ‘I have called you for the healing of the nations.’ For me to accomplish His will, I’ve gone 15 million air miles. I have had to give up my family. I had all these times of missed ball games and other family events. I came to a realization one Christmas of how much I had missed, and yet, I had no regret. That’s because I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt I have done what God has asked me to do. I did pray and asked God not to let me be gone one day that I wasn’t supposed to be gone. I want to take responsibility for my family, but I must follow Him. Some of you know this, but until I submitted to follow Him, He didn’t let us have children. “See, God is really not God in Your life if He is not first. He’ll still be God of the universe, but He won’t be the Lord of your life.” “But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ … that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.” (Philippians 3:7-8 and 10-11; ESV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Say, “Lord, I want to finish well. Make me teachable.” Ask Him to remove any earthly passions that keep you from fulfilling His call on Your life. Sit with Him and count the cost to follow Him to the end. Think about what could happen to you. Is this still what you want, or like the rich young ruler in Mark 10, will you walk away? Say, “Jesus, I want to know You as the Lord of the universe, but I also want You to be Lord of my life!” Declare to Him, “I want to know You in the power of Your resurrection, the fellowship of Your sufferings, becoming like You in Your death, so I may enter into Your resurrection power!” A prayer you can pray: Lord, I want to fulfill my destiny on the earth. I want to be an expander and demonstrator of Your Kingdom. I want to walk with You all the days of my life and I want to finish well. Make me teachable. Many fears try to keep me from giving You my all. Fear of what others may say to or about me may stop me. Fear of rejection from my own family. There are many things that could happen. I might do everything You ask me to do and never see anyone come to You through my efforts. I could lose everything or never own anything to begin with. Please let me be able to count the cost and still choose You. Jesus, I want to know You. I want to know You as the Lord of the universe, but I also want You to be Lord of my life! I want to know You in the power of Your resurrection, the fellowship of Your sufferings, becoming like You in Your death, so I may enter into Your resurrection power! Keep me on Your plath and teach me. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and send me. The world needs Jesus and I want the world to know Him. I ask You for grace to run the race with endurance and make Your name known in my realm of influence in Jesus’ Name, amen. Today’s decree: We will give Him whatever He asks, so we can fulfill His will in the earth! Learn more about Chuck Pierce here.

The Finishing Anointing in the New Era – Part 1 [Chuck Pierce released a message on Sunday, 7/12, that I feel everyone needs to “grab hold of”, as he would say. It’s very encouraging. We’ll start this new series today.] ‘The apostolic gifting is known for warring, sending, governing and generational transfer. It’s also known for building and finishing. We need to understand this, because we are at the end of a time and getting ready to move into a new order. We will need the apostolic for our movement forward. “God has an order for your restoration. He wants you fully restored. He wants your bloodline to come into fullness, so that prosperity and breakthrough can occur. One of the things we kept saying at the beginning of this year was that we have entered into a new era. People have been telling us they can feel it and they can see it some, but they don’t feel like they are getting there. However, a new era has broken into the earth realm. All hell is warring against it. “One of the things this era is about is Judah arising with a voice of decree. It’s about moving from the best place you ever had in Egypt and starting a journey. It’s about making choices in your journey to settle in the wilderness or move forward into the promise God has for you. It takes quite an effort to keep going. We can live in maintenance or we can have a conquest mentality. Conquest means you will keep moving and overcoming until God says rest. “Hebrews tells us that we war to enter into rest. A wrong teaching has come into the Body saying that we never have to war. Jesus did finish and triumph on the cross, but we have to enforce that until we stand in the place that He tells us to stand. Determine to war to get there. “This era we are in is about sound, breath, and your voice. Think about us decreeing this back in September when the new year turned. Think about the war we have been in over the breath. I’ve never seen anything like it. Worldwide, we have gone into the battle of all times to breathe. Then, on top of that we have gone into the battle to be free to breathe. This era is about your testings from one season becoming your testimony in the next season. It’s about the voice of your testimony that overcomes the enemy.” “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!” (Psalm 150:6; ESV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Decide to enter into this era with gusto! Decree, “I will enter His rest, but I might have to war to get there!” Determine to war until you see God’s victory manifest in your situation. Say, “I want to be fully restored!” Let go of the best you had in Egypt, so you can move into the new, even if it is into an unknown future. You can trust the Lord! Pray that for the Church, as well. Declare, “God’s people will praise Him with the breath He has put within us. We will war to breathe and we will war to be free to breathe, so we can praise Him! A prayer you can pray: God, we have entered a new era, whether or not we were ready. Help us recognize the signs of the new. There are new structures forming and new ways emerging. There is new warfare and a new place you are bringing us into. We say that we are willing to war until You say we can rest. The road may be long and hard, so send us the prophets and apostles to help us get there. They will help us stay on track and know how to navigate the new paths ahead. We say that we want to be fully restored. Any losses we have had in the past, especially generationally, we are going to war to recover in this era. We aren’t willing to leave anything behind that You said is coming with us. Egypt blessed the Israelites as they moved out. Israel took the plunder of 400 years of slavery with them! We want our portion, as well. We couldn’t get it before, but we believe we can obtain it now. We let go of everything else that doesn’t matter. We let go of old mindsets, limited teaching, old ways of doing things, and any operations that are old rote and form, instead of birthed from relationship with You! We say, “We will breathe again! We will not be stifled any longer. Our voices will not be shut up in boxes any more! We will war to breathe and we will war to be free to breathe in Jesus’ Name. Amen! Today’s decree: The Church will war in the spirit until we are free to fully praise our God and King! Learn more about Chuck Pierce here.

Intercession for America’s Leadership [Dave Kubal, CEO of Intercessors for America will exhort us to pray today.] “The Lord continually has me pray Romans 13. It says there is no authority that has been created, except that which has been created by God. God has created America’s government, just as He has all governments around the globe. Not only that, but He has created this government with a purpose in His heart for this nation to accomplish. We don’t believe God is done with this nation. “The other scriptural promise I rely on is 2 Chronicles 7:14, ‘If My people who are called by My name would 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 sin and will heal their land.’ See, God has invited us to make history through prayer. So, we have the opportunity to participate with Him, and to pray and to seek God’s face. That’s for this nation, for our children, and our children’s children’s future. “I don’t want to say a lot more. I want us to have time today to pray specifically for a number of governing leaders from the President and Vice President to Cabinet members, members of both houses of our Congress, and our Supreme Court Justices. May God richly bless America!” “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people—for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.” (1 Timothy 2:1-2; NIV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: We’re going to lift our government leaders to the Lord in prayer today. Links are provided for specific information to help you pray. Pray for President Donald John Trump and his family. Pray for Vice President Mike Pence and his family. Pray for the President’s Cabinet members. Intercede for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Pray for your own state’s two senators and your local member of the House of Representatives. Intercede for the 9 Supreme Court Justices. A prayer you can pray: Father, we come before You now and lift up the President of the United States of America Donald John Trump, together with Vice President Mike Pence. Speak to President Trump in the quietness of the night. Speak to his heart and give him wisdom and understanding. We lift up Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader McConnell. In their leadership within this government and all that they oversee, give them wisdom and understanding. We need it. It is only You that can bring a spiritual answer to the problems we are seeing in our nation today. We pray for the congressional minority leaders and those in the president’s cabinet. Each of these people desperately needs to hear from You. Whether they know You or not, they need Your wisdom and guidance, for You have put them in their places. They need wisdom from above; wisdom from You. We ask that the power of Your Holy Spirit would dispatch that wisdom. You have called this nation into being for a purpose. We know You still have that purpose in Your heart. There are still things You want this nation to accomplish. You want it to accomplish the spreading of the Gospel throughout all of the world. You want religious freedoms to be protected. You want the value of life to be communicated across this globe. We pray into the covenant You made with our country through our founding fathers. Activate that covenant in this day. Your Word says, “Return to Me and I will return to you. So, Lord, we return to You today. We return to You so that the destiny of this nation would be accomplished. We ask You for all of this in the powerful name of Jesus, amen. Today’s decree: May God bless America and the governing leaders He has given us!

Watching Over Our Spheres of Influence [Jonathan Hamill is a leader in the governmental prayer movement and has shared this recent word of exhortation.] “God is the ultimate watchman. He who watches over Israel, His covenant land, never slumbers and never sleeps. We are called to be White House watchmen right now. We are called to be watchmen over our spheres. We need to hear the Divine intelligence ahead of time that will prepare the way for what God wants to do and mitigate what the enemy is trying to do. “I feel like we need to increase our prayers for the security of our homeland. As much as we’re focused on some of the internal challenges and turmoil, we have to remember that there are enemies from the outside. They would desire to use our place of pain as a window to strike us. We need to shut the gates of sabotage. “Let’s pray for healing from trauma. Look at our nation, and other nations, as well. The trauma of COVID-19 has hit us, and everything we’ve been working to move forward is suddenly in a state of upheaval. All of this has affected all of us personally. We see uprisings in the middle of this. Yet, there is also a righteous justice movement rising up in the middle of it all. Some are wanting to co-opt it and further sabotage our nation, but I believe God’s hand is on it. “We have felt there are unprecedented challenges. That often causes us to look inward and focus on us. This keeps us from seeing the value of those that are protecting us, whether the police on the streets or the military or intelligence communities. We must pray for them.” “Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.” (Psalm 127:1; NKJV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Pray for your police departments, sheriff departments or other local law enforcement in your area. Pray protection over those who protect us. Reach out and ask your local department what you can do for them, or write a card or letter of support. One community held a coffee meet-n-greet where citizens could come and meet their local officers. Intercede for wisdom for the military and national guard units deployed into city and state situations. Ask the Lord to provide His intelligence to our national intelligence agencies, such as the Secret Service, Homeland Security, and other agencies. Pray they will see and find what they need to unravel every potential plan of attack against this country. Pray Romans 13 over your area, breaking the power of any lawless spirit that has been released there. A prayer you can pray (by, Jonathan Hamill): Lord, we want to thank You for our military and our intelligence communities. We thank You for our local police and sheriffs’ departments. We thank You for the Department of Homeland Security and other federal law enforcement agencies. We don’t look at these organizations politically, but with Your heart. We thank You that they seek to protect the lives of every citizen every day, regardless of background. We desire to see the protection of the Lord restored over our nation. So, we rise up with a united cry as watchmen of the Lord over our realms of influence and our homeland. Release Your wisdom and protection to them. Raise up the watchmen to sit in their place on the wall and to take their stand. Where we have been asleep, we call the Church to awake! It’s time to arise! It’s time to mobilize prayer for the protection of our land, as well as the restoration of God’s best intentions for our nation. We are not relying on the political realm. We are relying on the Lord our God to act on our behalf. Thank You for protecting that which was established by Your heart for America, Jesus. Amen. Today’s decree: Together with the Lord, we will watch over America! Learn more about Jonathan Hamill here.

Declaring His Goodness Through Proclaiming His Word [Daniel Cline shared on the One Voice Prayer Call on 7/7/20. You’ll enjoy the wisdom from scripture he has to share.] “I want to share from three scriptures. Psalm 107 came to mind, as did James 5, and Philippians 4. Psalm 107 begins by saying, ‘I will give thanks to the Lord for He is good. His lovingkindness endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story.’ What I believe to be true is we can look back and see that the people were hungry at the time this Psalm was written, and the Lord took care of them. They were sick. They cried out to the Lord and He healed them. What we know is what the Lord has said. What we know of the Lord is that He is good. His love does endure forever. His mercies are new every morning, because He is faithful. “In James 5, it says, ‘Let the righteous pray.’ He has declared us righteous. We can pray in faith, and that’s the test.  This is the test of Mark 9. I pray this every single day. A father had a son and he said, ‘Jesus, can You…if You would, You would heal him.’ Jesus essentially says, ‘If?’ The man says, ‘Look, I believe, but help my unbelief.’ That’s the prayer right now, ‘Father, would You do a great surgery inside of us and remove anything that lacks faith in who You are.’ “Finally, we all have family members or friends who are struggling. We have friends who have been diagnosed with COVID-19, cancer, and other illnesses. Some of us even know those who have passed away in this season. We can find comfort and encouragement in Philippians 4. Paul starts off by saying, ‘Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, dear friends!’ Then, he reminds them, ‘Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.’ He concludes the passage with, ‘Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.’” “I will worship toward Your holy temple and praise Your name for Your loving-kindness and for Your truth and faithfulness; for You have exalted above all else Your name and Your word and You have magnified Your word above all Your name!” (Psalm 138:2; AMP) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Thank the Lord for His Word! Declare Psalm 107:1-2, “I will give thanks to the Lord for He is good. His lovingkindness endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story.” Speak out Mark 9:23-24, “Jesus said, ‘Everything is possible for one who believes.’ ‘I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!’” Proclaim James 5:15-16, “And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore we will confess our sins to each other and pray for each other so that we may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.” In accordance with Philippians 4, decree, “We will rejoice in the Lord always. We will not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present our requests to God. And, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy— we will think about such things.” A prayer you can pray: Father, we come to You with Your Word today. Holy Spirit, as You laid it on our hearts, and we just want to say that we will rejoice! We want to rejoice in You! Let our gentleness be evident to all, because You are near. Father, You said to bring everything to You. We don’t need to be anxious about anything, but we can bring everything with tears and petitions to You. We do this with thanksgiving. That is not easy, Father, so would You shift our perspective, even in this moment, that we would have thanksgiving, and have our mouths be filled with Your declaration. We ask You to honor these words and we know that You will, because You always honor Your Word. Your Word says Your peace surpasses all understanding. It guards our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Thank You for guarding our minds. So we say this to You, ‘Whatever is true and noble and right, lovely, admirable, pure, and praiseworthy, these are the things we will think about. As You declare us righteous, then we come before You with these requests. You say we don’t have because we don’t ask, so we ask and declare against anything that would come against a body for a friend or ourselves. We declare healing and grace in Jesus’ Name. Amen. Today’s decree: We will proclaim the story of what the Lord has done for us!

Appeal to Heaven Over Your Barrenness Most Americans don’t know it, but America was actually born under a prayer movement. During the Revolutionary War, George Washington commissioned a flag to be created. It had a pine tree on it and across the top it said, “Appeal to Heaven”. He did this because the early American settlers knew there was no way they could possibly overthrow the rule of the British—the greatest empire in the world at that time. They didn’t have the weapons, the money, the training, or the organization. However, they latched ahold of a phrase by a man named John Locke, “When you’ve done all you can do, then you appeal to Heaven.” So, Washington had a flag made and put those words on it. That flag flew over the ships and all the battlefields. It became the flag of the day before we had our stars and stripes. The flag disappeared into history for a couple of hundred years. That was probably the providence of God. He has reintroduced it to us today, because the same thing that birthed us as a nation is what it will take to re-birth us—an Appeal to Heaven. We need to seek Him for His mercy and for His help. I don’t believe the Lord would have brought this flag back on the scene now if he was not willing and ready to give us a re-birth. So, as we appeal to Him for His mercy and His grace, I believe He’s going to respond to us. The Lord just took me back to Genesis 1 where it says the earth was without form and it was void. Those words are very strong in Hebrew. The best translation is “desolate” or “devastated” and “barren”. Yet, in that barren, devastated place, the Bible says Holy Spirit moved over that situation. The Bible uses the word “racaph”, which is a reproductive term and means “to bring forth or bear, as in bearing a child.” Holy Spirit released His power over the barren, desolate, devastation, and brought forth life. He did the same thing with Abraham and Sarah. She was barren, and it says Holy Spirit came and “rachaphed” around her. Any time you see a barren or devastating situation where there’s no life, no fruit, no ability to move forward or reproduce, what is needed is the hovering, “racaph-ing” presence of Holy Spirit. He’s never been intimidated by barrenness or devastation. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” (Genesis 1:1-2; NIV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Ask God to heal our nation’s devastations. Let His healing flow across this land. Thank the Lord that His Spirit is hovering over America and birthing something new. Appeal to Heaven for something extreme, supernatural and extraordinary to happen in our land. Call forth the hovering of Holy Spirit to racaph over our government, our states, over places where people are in unrest; over violence, over schools, and all across this nation. A prayer you can pray: Holy Spirit, Father God, and Lord Jesus, Head of the Church, we appeal to You now in our time of devastation. We appeal to You in this season where there is so much unrest, strife, and fear. Many in this nation have rejected You. That has caused barrenness. It has caused devastation. We’re asking You in Your mercy to hover over this nation, Holy Spirit. We’re asking You to overshadow this nation just as You have in past times when there is no sign in the natural that You are about to move. There was no sign when Elijah travailed, and You began to hover and birthed the rain and caused a nation to repent. There was no sign; not a cloud in the sky. Lord, there was no sign before Azusa that You were about to pour out Your Spirit. There was no sign before the Hebrides revival, the Welsh revival, or the Cane Ridge Revival. You come into barren situations that are lifeless and are devastated. All it takes for a turnaround is Your hovering and release of Your power. We’re asking You to do that over our nation right now. Release Your power over our government, over our states, over places where people are in unrest, over violence, over schools, all across this nation. In inner cities and in rural communities, we’re asking You to hover and to release Your birthing power over us. Birth another Great Awakening in this nation. We appeal to You. You are our only hope. We pray for our government. We pray for our leaders. Yet, our hope, our faith, is in You and we cry out to You, Jesus. We believe You are coming to rescue this nation. Amen. Today’s decree: As we appeal to Heaven, the Lord will bring every devastated place back to life!

God is Birthing His Redemptive Plan [This helpful comment is from Chris Mitchell, Jr., on the monthly One Voice Prayer Movement Call, 7/7/20.] “God is redemptive. I remain conscious and aware that in the midst of all of the upheaval we are watching right now, there is something we need to remember beyond what our eyes can see. There is an original intention and redemptive purpose of God. It helps us to look from heaven’s vantage point. We should be able to receive our intel and what our perspectives are on what’s taking place in our culture from that view. We must understand in the midst of it all, God is working redemptively to restore His purposes. “I have come to a place where there is a positive expectation of things God wants to birth through this crucible we’re facing as a nation. There are times where we see things have become so compressed and tight and challenging that it can almost feel like a death sentence. However, it is in those very moments where God has life in the birth canal of His people. He’s birthing something new into the earth according to His purposes. We have to keep that reality in mind and realize God is working redemptively in this hour. “In the day of King David, when God was going to establish the true throne of David where His son, Jesus, would sit, a giant arose in the land. Goliath mocked both God’s people and God’s promises. His voice was loud and consuming and he caused the armies of the living God to cower and to be stricken with fear. I see something very similar playing out in this nation now. There are voices mocking God’s purpose and intention for this nation, as well as mocking the people of God. These voices have loomed louder and louder over these last few months. It is over the racial unrest, over the coronavirus, etc. The volume of this mocking has caused fear to grip so many. However, we have got to see the redemptive purpose of God in the midst of it. “I believe that just as in the day of David, the people of God are being given the charge to possess the entire promise of God. Here is the wisdom of God: He caused to arise someone in the land whose heart was totally dedicated to Him, who spent time in His presence, and who spent time hearing the intel of heaven. In the midst of the fear, courage and a sense of mission and purpose gripped him, while fear was dominating the landscape. Today, in the midst of all of this shaking, just like then, God is raising up Davids and unveiling His unshakeable Kingdom.” “Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” (Psalm 37:1-4; NIV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Ask the Lord to bring a calmness over our land. Ask Him to give us a spirit of unity to counteract any spirit of divisiveness. Ask God to do some internal healing. Ask the Father to grant unity to the Body of Christ that can then filter out throughout the country. A prayer you can pray (by, Chris Mitchell, Jr.): Lord, I speak to the Davids. You said that when brethren dwell together in unity, it’s like the dew that settles on Mount Hermon. What begins as simple droplets of water upon the top of the mountain, ends up as a mighty rushing river in the valley. I thank You that You are causing this unity to emerge within the Body of Christ that will cause an explosion of Your purpose. It will be an explosion of glory that will burst through barriers and will bring life wherever it flows. Psalm 133 says it is like the oil that is poured on the head of Aaron. It flowed down his beard and onto his garments and even to the edges of his skirts. So, we thank You for the healing flow of oil that is now poured out upon the Body as You make manifest this unity among Your people. Unity is a healing balm that begins to remove generational breaches. There are doors that the enemy has exploited to keep us disjointed and weakened in the land that You have called us to possess for Your purposes. So, we release the balm that brings healing into Your people. It brings Your fractured Body back together, Your disjointed people back into lock-step with Your purposes and Your plans. We come against all forms of violence that would incite fear. We shut the doors of sabotage in Jesus’ name. We declare that the mocking voice is being unveiled. You have allowed the mocking voice to manifest, so that the headship of this system of fear and bondage can be dealt with once and for all. Your people are now emerging in the glorious power of Your unshakeable Kingdom in Jesus’ name. Amen. Today’s decree: The original intention and redemptive purposes of God are emerging now! You can learn more about Chris here. Learn more about the One Voice Prayer Movement here.

Brave Pioneers The Church is called to build and extend Christ’s Kingdom. We are called to be pioneers. We are meant to be forerunners. We need to be risk-takers. Without the apostolic and prophetic gifts in operation, we don’t often even know how to be brave. If we are not brave risk-takers, we will miss opportunities. If you are going to be a forerunner, pioneer, or pathfinder, you will not always be successful. Somebody has to get on horseback and ride across unknown territory, or wade across two feet of snow. Someone has volunteer to represent the wagon train around the campfire and navigate their way through an undiscovered pass to figure out the best way through the mountain. Sometimes they may have to go down 2 or 3 of those to know which way is not the right way. In fact, they are the ones who say, “Don’t go that way or you may die. Or, that’s a dead end.” If you are going to be a visionary and apostolic and prophetic in your thinking, you have to be willing to make mistakes. You have to be willing to hit dead ends. You would rather do that than just sit and build a little settlement, because that’s not your nature. Some of us are not satisfied unless we are seeing the dead raised and seeing the multitudes saved. We’re not okay to settle and compete with others in the city where nothing is really happening and everything is going to hell in a handbasket. I get the fact that you have to have some balance. Wisdom has to be applied. There needs to be a holy tension happening where life is springing forth. Jesus would put an apostolic Kingdom vision to take back planet earth on hold for an afternoon while He ministered to one woman at a well. He did this because He is not just the King of Kings, He is also the great Shepherd. He is perfect in His balance. If we will pay attention, He will bring the diversification of giftings together in a region where the leaders all think differently from one another, and that’s His design! Then, we can together build an army healthy enough to impact the world. As we understand this, we can have a greater harmony of purpose, extending and revealing the fullness of who He is. Some of the places we are taking the Gospel to are dying because of crime, poverty, and disease. Some of us will be called to go into these places and care about more than just the souls of the people there. We are going to need apostolic and prophetic vision to provide answers to the problems and demonic plans of destruction that are in those areas. If we compete with each other, we’ll never get there. If we feed and house them only, we won’t get there. We need societal transformation strategies birthed in the heart of God to be brought in there. Only the brave pioneers can lead us into battles like that. “And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.” (Matthew 4:23; ESV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: If there is anything in you to be a pioneer in any arena of influence, proclaim that before the King of Kings now. Pray for the timid ones to become brave! Every Believer will be needed; every gift. All hands on deck! Intercede into this season of chaos. Intercede for miraculous answers that are God-breathed and practical, new and exactly what is needed. Pray for the connection of different giftings across cities and regions, so that their divine tension can cause holy disruptions and great societal transformations. A prayer you can pray: God, I want to be a pioneer! I want to be one who finds new ways forward in the area you have gifted me in. [Talk to the Lord specifically about that. It could be music, or art, or government, or teaching, finance, or medicine, even manufacturing, or mechanics. It could be media or social services, food services, writing, or real estate. How about retail, personal care, engineering, or ministry? It could be anything.] Lord, I especially pray for the timid, the fearful, and the insecure. The devil has beat some people down so hard they don’t even know who they are. But, You do, and You need and want them in this end time gifted army You are putting together to reach our communities. Our society is in an uproar. It seems like all the enemies of the cross are coming out in force. Clearly there is a battle for souls raging, but there is also a battle for society. We have hope in the very change You have made in our lives, Jesus! You can cause us to find each other, and use our gifts to effect heaven’s strategies in our communities and our nation. We can do this by Your grace. We want to save the lost, but not send them back into the same destructive environments they have come out of. We need downloads from heaven to know how to shift and change our toughest areas and problems. You have those plans. You put Your gifts in us. It is time! Make us bold, brave, vocal, and unified and establish Your Kingdom everywhere we are in Jesus’ name. Amen. Today’s decree: God is raising up armies of brave pioneers who will work together and pull heaven’s strategies into the hardest challenges our cities face.

Movement is Happening Now [The following Word of the Lord was released by Chuck Pierce Sunday, 7/5/20.] “The Lord says, ‘What has been stalled out is beginning to start moving. Watch the movement this week. For things that have not been moving will move. And what had the hands of My clock stuck, I have now blown down from heaven and have caused the hands of the clock that was stalled out to start moving. Hear the ticking of My time.’ “‘Face My enemies in My time and My place and face them with the whirlwind on the ground. As you begin to move, let the movement of your sound make a wave that the enemy will flee seven different ways from. Leave the booty at the door.’ “When Israel gets up every day they know they have to go to war. Let me tell you something. We have got to shift our mindset. We have to know things are changing around us. Things are rearranging around us. There are interjections coming into your life. Do you know what that means? Exclamation points all of a sudden are going to show up in your daily life! You are going to have to determine how to move with that exclamation point. I say the announcement of heaven is saying today to us, ‘Times have changed. Get in the movement that I choose for you.’” “The Lord answered, ‘If you have raced on foot against men and they have worn you out, how will you be able to compete with horses? And if you feel secure only in safe and open country, how will you manage in the thick undergrowth along the Jordan River?’” (Jeremiah 12:5; NET) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Thank the Lord for the prophets that help us keep moving when we get spiritually or emotionally stuck, confused, or afraid. Are you stuck? If so, this is a good time to press into the Lord to get things moving forward in your personal circumstances. Ask the Lord to give you wisdom and discernment to know if a movement is your movement to move forward with. Intercede for your church. Many are in a stuck place right now, unsure of how to move forward. If you are an unstuck leader, call other leaders in your area and minister hope to them. Maybe you can provide some thoughts on how you can minister to your community together. Declare, “God, let the scary, shocking moments happening around us motivate us to action. Do not let them confuse us and freeze us in our tracks. Our mouths must open in wisdom and declaration, creating hope for a future, not fear and confusion!” Say, “We will get in the movement God has chosen for us!” Decree, “The Church of America will align and find their place of movement forward!” A prayer you can pray: Father, we are so thankful for the gift that the prophets give to us. They are able to see and hear into the spiritual realm. They can hear You. They can understand Your heart and thoughts on current affairs and communicate them to the Church. Where would we be in this era without their helpful voices? Lord, we pray that You continue to speak the way forward to them. Tell us what You are doing that the enemy is trying to stop. Let them help us focus on what You are saying is the way forward for the nation. We know that how this nation aligns with Israel right now is critical! It is hard for many American Christians to understand how critical that alignment is. It is a primary reason the United States has been so favored by You. We want to keep that relationship properly aligned, Lord. We need to follow Your heart and Your covenant promises given to Israel in order to navigate our nation’s way forward. There are many movements rising right now. There are racial movements and political movements. There are national movements and spiritual movements. We need to know what our movement forward is to look like and align with You in that movement. God, let the scary, shocking moments happening around us motivate us to act in the way You want us to act. Do not let them confuse us and freeze us in our tracks. Don’t let us embrace a movement that You are not in. Indeed, there are anti-Christ movements arising. We must find Your movement, and we must not be silent. Our mouths must open in wisdom and declaration, creating hope for a future, not fear and confusion! We declare, “The Church of America will align and find our place of movement forward!” We will create the future of America by our humble intercession and acts of love, unity, and kindness in Jesus’ name, amen. Today’s decree: We will move the Kingdom forward in our realms of influence!

Five Gifts Make Up a Whole Picture of Jesus God is raising up a Church that is five-fold in its thinking. We have traditionally thought and operated pastorally. Now we will be thinking apostolically, prophetically, evangelistically, and with an equipping, teaching mindset, as well as pastorally. These gifts are parts of Christ Himself. He tells us in Ephesians 4 that He is giving Himself to us in these parts. He essentially says that no one of us can be fully like Him, but together we can be like Him. So, He gives us manifestations of portions of Himself as a gift. These are not positions, titles or hierarchies. They are manifestations given so we can equip the saints for the work of ministry. They are to connect the Body and align it to Christ, so the whole Body can function well. See, if we don’t have the fullness of Christ, we can’t reveal the fullness of Christ. If we only have pastors functioning, then that’s all people are going to see. If I am only walking in 1/5th of His anointing, then I can only manifest 1/5th of who He is. There is nothing wrong with that, but it is limited. If a group or community or region has a fullness of giftings, then they can show the fullness of who He is to that territory. We are doing this better and better across the nation. We are being intentional about it. For the first time in perhaps hundreds and hundreds of years, the Church has the potential to reveal Christ to the planet. The final gift the Lord has helped us understand in the last 50 or 60 years has been the Apostle. It’s a foundational gift together with the Prophet. This gift isn’t better than a pastor. Apostles don’t know more than other gifts. An apostle is a coordinator. He is like a General in an army. He knows all the parts and what they do, so he can help get the right ones properly connected for the task at hand. He knows that without many pastors the Body won’t be well and whole. He knows that without drill instructors, teachers, we won’t be taught properly. If the people aren’t taught well, we don’t have a good army. Somebody better be recruiting, evangelizing, or eventually we won’t have an army at all! Someone has to have the big picture. So, let’s talk about the prophets. They are the intel. Somebody has to know what’s happening in the spiritual realm, because that’s the nature of this Kingdom we are a part of. They have to be able to help the apostles know what God’s saying, and where the enemy wants to come in and work against what God’s saying. If not, there’s no way we can win the battle. “So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” (Ephesians 4:11-13; NIV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Worship the Lord Jesus Christ for the wonderful gift that He is to us! Bless Him for His blessing us by parceling out His gifts to all of us, so we can display a complete picture of who He is to the world around us. Thank Him for His great wisdom in desiring us to work together in unity so much that He separated His own anointings into five and gifted us with them. Thank the Lord for giving us apostles, the Generals of His army, who coordinate the Church. Thank Him for the spiritual intel He gives the prophets. Thank Him for the “drill sergeants” that teach and train the church, so we can be a mighty army all on the same page together. Thank Him for the evangelists recruiting new believers into the faith. And, thank Him for the precious pastors who watch over us, clean us up and make sure we are well and whole. A prayer you can pray: Lord, You are an amazing gift to us. We could never deserve You, yet You loved us so much You made a way to the Father for us. We are so grateful for You! In Your goodness, You desired that we could express You to the world around us. You want the planet to see Jesus, but You knew it was not the best to mantle one person with all that You were carrying. You knew we could too easily abuse that level of anointing, or at the minimum, we would try to go it alone. No. You wanted us to show the world what love and unity looks like. We don’t do that perfectly, but now we have a better opportunity. So, Lord, we thank You for giving the Church Your five-fold giftings to equip the Church for the work of service. We thank You for the apostles who can see the big picture and make sure every area is covered and ministered to in some way. We thank You for the prophets who gather intel from the Holy Spirit and the spiritual realm. They help us navigate the world around us and they help us hear Your directions. Thank You for the evangelists ever recruiting the lost into the folds so the Church always grows and never dies out. The teachers make sure the Word of God goes deep within us and stays true to what You meant it to say. And, we could never make it without the precious pastors who love us, minister to us, make sure we and our families are well and whole. Your wisdom is amazing, Jesus! Now that all five gifts are revealed again in the earth, send us forth together to spread the Gospel of Your Kingdom in every place. Amen. Today’s decree: The five-fold gifts of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor, and Teacher can now reveal Christ to the planet!

Seeking the Welfare of Our Cities God is making us think differently in this season. He is asking us to embrace His heart. We can no longer, as the Church, divide by the way we think politically. We can’t divide denominationally. We can’t divide racially. We are going to have to find a way, especially as leaders, to unite in a new way. To reach our communities, we are going to need to be regional and territorial in vision and mission as opposed to primarily congregational. We are going to have to find a way to work with other congregations and we are going to need to pastor our cities. As the Lord exhorts us in Jeremiah 29:7, we need to choose to be those who will seek the welfare of the city to which we have been sent. We may have to break the city into segments, so it can be effectively reached. We may have to take a completely new look at our cities. We must always remember that in the heart of God it is not broken up, especially by who attends which congregation. So, someone in each city needs to take it on themselves as a calling to find out the condition of their cities. Some leader needs to rally the other leaders and dialogue with them what is going on in other parts of town. Some things affect whole cities, while other issues may affect only one section of a city. Looking at the health of a city means looking at every part, even the part that is not your assignment. You likely have people within your own congregation who have a heart for a specific issue. Some love taking care of the needs of the homeless or the poor. Others have a heart for children or supporting law enforcement. Some are into community gardens or city beautification, both wonderful ways to reach the lost. Maybe there’s a group that likes to pray for city council meetings and participate in “get-out-the-vote” efforts. Others want to prayer walk their neighborhoods and local schools. Now, imagine all those in every church working together to meet all those needs. Might a city be saved in a day? I cannot think of a better time in history than right now to come out of lockdown with the welfare of our cities as our new Church vision. “Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.” (Jeremiah 29:7; ESV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Worship the Lord for a while until you know you are in His Presence. Ask Him to give you a new heart for your city. Ask Him to let you see the city as He sees it. Intercede for the Church to lay aside all division and differences and come together with new vision to reach your city for Christ. Intercede for the leaders, especially to desire to look past their congregational walls to the city as a region or territory. Pray passionately for the welfare of your city! A prayer you can pray: God, I worship You today with my city on my mind. I don’t care about the part of the city I live in or the church I go to. I want to line up my thoughts and my view with Yours. You want to reach a city. How does that happen? You are magnificent and benevolent, Lord. You are loving and caring, kind, and just. Give me Your heart for this city You have called me to. Whether I was born here or whether I was a transplant, my heart must connect to the region in a new, fresh way, because that is what You are saying You are calling us to. God, let me really see this city. I want to see the good and the bad, all of it. I want to see what You love, what You established, and what the enemy is trying to do to destroy people’s lives here. Show other Believers, also. Surprise us as we come out of this secluded season. Show us that Your Holy Spirit has been at work shifting our view, and our heart, our prayers. We must grow to love others more, not divide more! God, help us to unite across every social boundary, so we can get the job done. I call forth the intercessors, the seers and the prophets. I call forth the ones called to benevolent ministries and outreaches. I call forth those called to government in every regard. I call forth those called to pray for and support our educators. I call for those who love to beautify the city, to maintain it, and to grow beautiful things for the communities to share. There are so many things we can do to love our cities to Christ. Jesus, teach us. Amen. Today’s decree: As the Church seeks the welfare of our cities, we will find peace.