The Father is Leading Us to Worship in a New Way – Part 6 Are You Worshipping Where You Are? “Some religious people say that some Christians go to football games and worship an idol when they scream. Not necessarily. They are just screaming for their favorite football team. If the Father remains preeminent in their life at the football stadium, they’re fine! This is what’s keeping us from coming into the next harvest. We don’t see ourselves in worship when we’re having to sit in a place that’s not the sanctuary. I have to see myself in worship on a plane. I have to see myself in worship at work. Sometimes the only place we can go to eat when our team is traveling overseas is to the bar, because it’s so late or in the middle of the night. We have to see ourselves in worship there. We have to be the influencers in that place. We have to bring Him into and loose Him into that place. If you do that, then all of a sudden, His atmosphere begins to permeate the atmosphere you are sitting in. You have to see yourself in worship when you go out to eat, because all eating when you are with other Believers is communion. You have to go out there and have a worship attitude, so you can express Who is preeminent in your life. It’s not about you just running up to everyone and asking them if they want to get saved. That can scare people off. But if they see Him as preeminent in your life, and you’re voice reflects that, and your conduct reflects that, the lost will be drawn to Him. Now, if football is what is preeminent in your life, that is what you are worshipping.” (Chuck Pierce) “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell.” (Colossians 1:16-19; NKJV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Examine yourself and ask the Lord what things are preeminent in you. Make heart adjustments, if need be. Ask the Father to show you how to make Him preeminent in your life everywhere you go. Pray for the Church to be comfortable worshipping Him in all the public places we go every day. Intercede for the Body of Christ to honor the Lord and make Him preeminent. Pray for the world to be convicted by His Presence in Christ’s worshipful ones in the public square. May they be drawn to Jesus by our example and love of Him. A prayer you can pray: Lord, You see all things and know all things, and You tell me I am not able to know my own heart. So, please examine my heart today for places of preeminence. What has taken preeminence in my heart? Is it You or something or someone other than You. I will wait for Your determination and revelation. Do a work in me, so that I am not embarrassed or afraid to honor You everywhere I go. I want Your preeminence in my life to show any place I find myself—at work, at play, traveling, at family events—anywhere. Lord, let an attitude of worship permeate my life. Let You be seen in me at all times. Let those around me think, “There is something different about that person.” Then, let me be able to share what that is—You in me. Let the whole Church start to live like this! Break fear and religion off of us. Fear keeps us from sharing You, and religious motivations and activities keep others from wanting You. When we share You with an expression of love, honor and place of Your preeminence in our lives, what can keep the lost from You? Grace us, Jesus. Amen. Today’s decree: We will make Him preeminent in every place we find ourselves! Then, He will be seen in the earth! Learn more about Chuck Pierce here.

The Father is Leading Us to Worship in a New Way – Part 5 God is Rearranging Worship “We are in a new move of the Holy Spirit. What does that mean to us? That means that the third person of the Trinity is working on you from the inside out. Our Father inside of you, by the power of His Spirit, is trying to break out and make you into who you are called to be in this season! The Father is saying, ‘I am getting ready to divinely rearrange worship.’ Father is over worship. So, if He is going to divinely rearrange it, we are going to go with the Parent of the initiation of what we’re doing. I have been hearing the Father say for the last week, ‘I am divinely rearranging worship.’ So, I finally said to Him, ‘Happy Father’s Day! I want You to get what You want. I want to be able to provide for You what You are looking for.’ Start thinking, ‘How am I going to express myself to Him, so He can say, ‘Well done, My good and faithful servant.’ That’s Father’s Day to Him. The Lord also said to me, ‘Define what worship is, Chuck, because many don’t know what it is, therefore they are not going to know when I rearrange it.’ So, I began to seek Him over how He defines worship. I began to see that the expression of the way we worship is how we define worship, rather than what worship really is. The Lord is saying, ‘I’ve got to shift your expressions. I have to bring you to a place where you understand worship, so I can rearrange it.’ Worship isn’t music. Worship is to honor with extravagant love and submission that which is preeminent in our life.” (Chuck Pierce) “And Samuel said, ‘Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen, than the fat of rams.’” (1 Samuel 15:22; ESV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Tell the Lord that You want Him to receive what He wants from you in worship. Say, “I want to be able to provide for You what You are looking for as I worship.” Search the Bible for the word worship and begin to get a fresh revelation of what worship is. Worship Him in the new revelation you have gained. Ask Him to rearrange worship in your life and to make you a facilitator of worship-rearranging in those places you have authority. (Pastors, prayer leaders, heads of families, business owners, etc., this is for you.) A prayer you can pray: Father, You are worthy of our worship. We want to worship You the way You want to be worshipped. We want to understand worship and participate in this season of You rearranging worship in the Church. We want to be able to provide for You what You are looking for in worship. Draw us to Your Word and teach us. Open our eyes to see what worship of our God means. We are stuck in ruts and limited to the concept of worship as singing. It is so much more! Let every expression of worship we see in the Word begin to flow from our hearts to You, Heavenly Father. Make us worship rearrangers. Make us facilitators of greater expressions of worship—heaven meeting earth. It is time for worship filled with Your Presence. We make You preeminent in our lives and meetings, inside and outside the walls of our meeting places, Lord. Make worship in our midst all that You desire to receive from we, Your people, in Jesus’ name, amen. Today’s decree: God is rearranging worship in His Church and He will be seen in our expressions of love and our submission to Him! Learn more about Chuck Pierce here.

The Father is Leading Us to Worship in a New Way – Part 4 Our Father’s Transforming Power “Some of you are limiting yourselves based upon your earthly lineage. Some of you are forgetting that He created your spirit. Though you may have all these curses in your family lineage, you are limiting Him from breaking through in your spirit to break off everything in your earthly lineage. When we pray, ‘Our Father who art in heaven,’ we are saying three things; He has a realm and scope that we’re honoring. We are saying that He has a reign and power to rule in a way that nobody on earth has the power to rule. We are saying that He has a royal authority that brings you out of poverty. Even though you might have been on the wrong side of the tracks, He can seat you in the palace. I don’t think we think like this. I think we get bound in who we were, and daddy was, and grand-daddy was, and great-grand-daddy was. We get bound in all their mistakes. Then, we get bound in all our mistakes. But, there’s a different scope that God is calling you to. There’s a different power God has for you. There’s a different royalty that you are about to wear.” (Chuck Pierce) “In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.” (Matthew 6:9; NKJV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Repent for limiting the Lord. Ask God to reveal Himself to you as Heavenly Father, full of power, full of Glory, able to break through all the attack of the enemy against you. Say, “Father, who art in heaven.” Read what Chuck says about this statement above. Now, say it again and again until the revelation of the statement sinks in. Acknowledge His reign and ruling power over your life. Call for His reign and power to break through in the earth realm and in America in a new way. Reject any curses in your family lineage and say, “Father, You have the authority to break all poverty off of my life—financial poverty, relational poverty, and spiritual poverty. I am no longer bound by the earthly sins and iniquities of my earthly fore-fathers. You are my Heavenly Father and I am now in the lineage of Jesus Christ.” A prayer you can pray: Father, glorious Heavenly Father, hallowed be Thy Name! Maker of all things, You still intimately care for me. Forgive my limiting of Your power in my life, due to my lack of revelation as to who You really are. I have allowed my view of earthly fathers and mothers, and my human lineage, to dictate my view of You. Reveal Yourself to me at a deeper level as Heavenly Father, full of power, grace and Glory! Heavenly Father, You are the one fighting for me. What can the devil do to me, if this is so? Father, who art in heaven. Father, who art in heaven. Father, who art in heaven! You rule! You reign! You are the Maker and You are the Breaker! You are the one bringing breakthrough to me and to my country! Hallelujah! My God reigns! You destroyed the power of past sin and iniquity when I made  Jesus my Savior and Lord. Father, You have the authority to break all poverty off of my life—financial poverty, relational poverty, and spiritual poverty. I am no longer bound by the earthly sins and iniquities of my earthly fore-fathers. You are my Heavenly Father and I am now in the lineage of Jesus Christ with all of the blessings and promises that salvation carries. Amen. Today’s decree: God’s royal power can break us free from our earthly lineage and curses! Learn more about Chuck Pierce here.

PRAYER FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP Tuesday evening Pastor Paula White prayed for President Trump. Let’s pray that prayer together today: Father, I come to You in the name of Jesus, and first and foremost, I give You thanks for our great United States. I give You thanks for our president, and for Your blessings, and Your goodness. Your Word declares in Psalms chapter 34 and verse 1 that I will bless the Lord at all times and His praise shall continually be in my mouth. So, we thank You and we bless You, God, for Your goodness, for Your grace, for Your mercy. I pray for the Spirit of the Lord to rest upon our president. Let Your favor cause his horn, his power, to be exalted according to Psalms chapter 89 and verse 17. Lord, Your Word says in Psalms chapter 2, verses 1 through 4, “Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and rulers ban together against the Lord and against His anointed, saying, ‘Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.’ The One enthroned in the heavens laughs. The Lord scoffs at them.” Lord, You have raised President Trump up for such a time as this. You are a God that reveals secrets, so reveal the secrets and the deep things to President Trump, according to Daniel 2, verse 22. Make known unto Him the mystery of Your Will. I declare that skillful and godly wisdom have entered into the heart of our President and knowledge is pleasant to him. Father, we ask You to compass him with men and women, and make their heart and ears attentive to godly counsel, to do that which is right in Your sight. Let every evil veil of deception be removed from people’s eyes in the name, which is above every name, the name of Jesus Christ. For You said in Your Word in Ephesians 6, verse 12, that we’re not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. So right now, let every demonic network that has aligned itself against the purpose, against the calling of President Trump, let it be broken. Let it be torn down in the name of Jesus. Let the counsel of the wicked be spoiled right now, according to Job chapter 12, verse 17. I declare that President Trump will overcome every strategy from hell and every strategy from the enemy. Every strategy. He will fulfill his calling and his destiny. Destroy and divide their tongues, O Lord, according to Psalms chapter 55, verse 9. Give President Trump strength to bring forth his destiny according to Isaiah chapter 66, verse 9. Let the secret council of wickedness be turned to foolishness, right now, in Jesus’ name. I declare that no weapon formed against him, his family, his calling, his purpose, this council, will be able to be formed. Now, I declare that You will surround him and protect him from all destruction, Let the angel of the Lord encamp all about him, and around his family in accordance with Psalms chapter 34, verse 7. Establish him in righteousness, and let oppression be far from him, according to Isaiah 54:14. I deploy the hand of God to work for him in the name of Jesus. I secure his calling. I secure his purpose. I secure his family. And, we secure victory in the name which is above every name, the name that has never failed for this nation, the name of Jesus Christ. Everybody said, amen! Watch the video here.

The Father is Leading Us to Worship in a New Way – Part 3 Honoring the Father “God is our ‘Beginning Parent’. There are some things we need to understand about our Beginning Parent. This is one of America’s problems right now. So many do not know their Beginning Parent. If we don’t understand our Beginning Parent, we will have a hard time understanding our makeup. We need to say, ‘I understand where I am in the earth, but there’s a different realm for me. There’s a different dimension for me.’ Each one has to determine their lineage, spiritually, and their beginning parenthood. If you don’t make that transference (through salvation), all you have is your earthly inheritance. This is why it really doesn’t matter if you can’t determine your beginning parent in the earth, because some don’t even know who their natural father and mother were. If You know God as your Beginning Parent, then you can say, ‘I can go on up, because I’ve got the best there is. I’ll just start with God being my Father. He created my spirit. So, instead of me trying to work to figure out who I am in soul and body and in the earth realm, I’ll just start from a heavenly realm and work from the inside out.’ If you know who your Father is from the start, then you will be who the Father meant you to be from the beginning. Most of us are trying to work from the earthly dimension of who somebody wanted us to be. It will wear you out if you are trying to be what someone wants you to be in the earth realm.” (Chuck Pierce) “As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.” (Psalm 103:13; ESV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Say, “God is my Beginning Parent.” Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the Heavenly Father as your Good Father, your Beginning Parent. Declare, “I understand where I am in the earth, but there’s a different realm for me. There’s a different dimension for me. It is a place my Good Father has prepared for me. There is a new freedom for me in that place.” Invite the Lord to break any hard places in you where He wants His riches to rise up out of you. Do not be afraid. His love will do this. Say back to the Lord, “There’s a different realm for me than the place I am in the earth realm. There’s a different dimension God has prepared for me.” A prayer you can pray: Father, reveal Yourself to me as my Beginning Parent. Lord, help me to see myself the way You see me. I need to move the way You made me to move. I need to do the things You created for me to do in the earth. If I can’t see myself through Your eyes, my loving Father’s eyes, then, I will never be truly free to worship You! As I read the prophet’s words, I am being set free! I have felt bogged down with everyone’s idea of who I should be. It can wear me out! I feel beat up at times by the earthly expectations of me. I need to see me through Your eyes, so I can see from a spiritual perspective and get free of what I am dealing with. I decree, “Your Spirit will cause me to see Your love for me. Your Spirit will reveal Father to me. Your Spirit will trump my mood.” The Father says, “I know You’re going through some hard things and you’re feeling hit over and over again. But, I have to break that hard place in you. As a good Father, I have to break it—so the Glory can come shining through you! Understand how a Good Father is. I see the places where you are trapped and held back and I have to break that earthly influence off you, so you can be who I created you to be. There are spoils under that hardpan of yours. There’s oil under that hardpan of yours. There’s a new well that I can bring forth. Let Me break it until the gold is bubbling up out of you.” Who You created me to be is being revealed in the earth realm, Good Father. Amen. Today’s decree: We have a heavenly inheritance from God, our Beginning Parent! 1 Learn more about Chuck Pierce here.

The Father is Leading Us to Worship in a New Way – Part 1 He is the Father of Fathers “Look at 1 Corinthians 4:14. It says you have few fathers. Paul is talking about fathers in the earthly realm. This is something confusing in the Church. You have many teachers, but you have few fathers in your life. You have to look and see who is being used to father your spirit by Father. This is what alignment should really be about. Many say they want to be aligned with this one or that one, but what they really want to be is taught. When you are truly aligned, you submit yourself to be reformed. Without this understanding, we can feel and act abandoned. We say that person has an orphan spirit. So, instead of coming into our inheritance that Father is offering us, we wander and feel rejected. We need to come into that inheritance and understand He is a good Father, because that is what causes us to worship Him. Look at Matthew 6:5-9. Read it and mediate on verse 6 and verse 9. If I have one desire for you, it would be that you would understand that He is a good Father, and if we ask Him for something, we would see Him open that up to us. I want to see you trust Him with things in private, then see Him openly reward you for your private worship.” (Chuck Pierce) “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. 9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.” (Matthew 6:5-9; NKJV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Say, “Lord, Father me.” Intercede for anyone the Lord has placed in your life who “fathers” your spirit. This is not those who teach you, but anyone who ministers the Father heart of God to your spirit. Say, “Father, reform me.” Ask the Lord for your inheritance. Worship Him! Decree that the things you are asking Him for in private, He will reward you for openly. A prayer you can pray: Lord, Father me. We, Your Church, have many teachers, but not many fathers. Thank You for those who do. (If you have any true “fathers” who nurture your spirit, bless them and intercede for them.) Raise up spiritual mothers and fathers for this next generation. We need them. We need their gift to speak truth into our lives, to encourage and correct. We need those who nurture without enabling, thereby helping the Body to grow into maturity in Christ. Reform us, Father. Mature us, so You can entrust us with the inheritance You want to release to us. Do not allow the enemy to hold our inheritance from us. Don’t let us think that we are abandoned and orphans with an inheritance. You have alloted a portion to each of us that will help us advance Your Kingdom. The inheritance is to bless us, but also fulfills Your heart’s plan for mankind. We worship You, for You are so good to us! As we worship You in our private time with You, You will pour out Your blessings on us, in Jesus’ name. Amen. Today’s decree: Father, we worship Your Holy Name! 1 Learn more about Chuck Pierce here.

The Father is Leading Us to Worship in a New Way – Part 1 God as Father “The Lord said to me about 2 in the morning on Father’s Day, ‘I’m rearranging worship.’ Turn and tell somebody or text somebody, ‘The Father is rearranging the way we worship.’ This led me to dig in and study the Bible about this topic and the more I dug into it, the more I saw that the two are one – honoring the Father, and allowing the Father to rearrange worship. In order to understand this, we have to understand the term ‘father’ from looking at our heavenly Father. Too many define ‘father’ from our earthly relationships. If you do that, you are going to miss the dynamic of who Father really is in your life. You are also going to miss coming into a new place of worship. The description of Father begins with the first verse in scripture, ‘In the beginning, God (Father).’ ‘Father’ is the beginning concept each one of us has to have to come into the fullness of who we are. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.’ The power of creation is in Father. This begins to define who we are. Hebrews 1 and 2 are filled with this concept. Not only did Father create man, you are just another generation of His creation. Your earthly mom and dad may have created, with the egg and sperm, your body and soul, but your spirit was created by God. You will never be complete until your spirit realigns with the Creator. This is important to remember when you pray for people. Our spirit needs to be fathered by the One that made it.” (Chuck Pierce) “But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.” (Isaiah 64:8; ESV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Say, “Father, we honor You!” Acknowledge to the Father that He created you. Now, listen, don’t be flippant with this. This is important. He created you with a distinct personality, with distinct gifts, with a distinct purpose for the exact time in which you live. Let all of that sink in as you thank Him for creating you. Invite God to “father” your spirit. Understand that He is not like any earthly father you may have or have had. Look up scriptures on God the Father to help you. Read Hebrews 1 and 2, meditate on it and pray through it. A prayer you can pray: “Father.” What a powerful word that we don’t think about much. Heavenly Father. God, my Father, I honor You! I worship You and want to worship You more fully than ever before. Show me anew who You are as Father. You are my Creator. Show me who You really created me to be. What did You take joy in adding to my personality? What gifts did You give me and for what purposes did You give them to me? What are Your Divine purposes for my life? Good Father, what am I missing of Your goodness to me? God, I invite You to “father” my spirit. Minister, train, encourage, discipline my spirit, as only You, Heavenly Father, know how. I know I will be different as You do so. Forgive me for not thinking to invite You to do this before now. How much I may have missed, thinking You only cared about my salvation and basic belief structure. As I walk through the Word, learning about You as Father, teach me new things. Reveal yourself to me in new ways. I can feel the worship already rising up within me from a new place of expectation and gratitude! As I read through Hebrews 1 and 2, let my heart overflow with worship and honor to You, my Father! Amen. Today’s decree: God the Father is worthy of our honor! Honor Him! 1 Learn more about Chuck Pierce here.

Racism Against African Americans and the Link to Abortion – Part 1 “When we are talking about abortion and the race issue comes up, some people think that’s just kind of a forced bringing of two things together. However, if you look at the history of abortion in America, you can see what was really going on and it has everything to do with race. It has to do with the dehumanizing of African Americans. It’s easier to eliminate someone when they have been dehumanized. African Americans have been fighting against that for quite some time. In 1905 there was an animal trainer in Africa named Ota Benga. He was very good at what he did. A man from the Eugenics Society at the time wanted to bring Ota Benga to America. Eugenicists believed in scarcity and the survival of a primary species – and that species was the white race. They were racists. They felt that people of color, the poor, the disabled, etc., were undesirable to society and should be eliminated. It was very popular in England, America, and other parts of Europe, primarily. Adolph Hitler later adopted this point of view. So this eugenicist captured Ota Benga and put him in a cage with monkeys and apes and put him in the World’s Fair to say that Africans were closer to apes and monkeys than humans on an evolutionary scale. In 1906, another man bought Ota Benga and the display and put them in the Bronx Zoo as an educational exhibit! This was long past the end of slavery. Over 40,000 people a weekend came to see this exhibit. Ota Benga, such a gifted man, eventually committed suicide because of the way he was treated. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a Eugenicist in that time period, as well. She was a racist who recommended birth control for the ‘undesirables’. She promoted sterilization and abortion to control lower-class and ‘colored’ populations. Her first abortion clinic was opened in Harlem, New York, an African American community. Even today, most Planned Parenthood clinics are in African American neighborhoods across the nation. They are still trying to control the population of those people they think are going to be ‘the dregs of society’.” (Will Ford) “He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation.” (Acts 17:26; NASB) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Cry out for eyes to see the root of abortion in America! It is rooted in racism. Ask God for His heart for people that are a different color or culture than yours. Intercede for this appalling background information to be known by the public, to be taught in our schools, so history cannot repeat itself. Pray for unity in the Body of Christ, that we may be one, even as Christ and the Father and the Holy Spirit are One. A prayer you can pray: Lord, forgive our society for the sin of racism, leading to massive rates of abortion of the African American community in our country. The elephant in the room when we talk about abortion in America is eugenics and racism. It’s all connected. This is a powerful truth that we must see, so we can repent and work to correct history. We must intercede and we must work hard to undo the damage done to African Americans. The blood of their children is crying out from the land. We have distanced ourselves from the everyday reality of our Black brothers and sisters. We have not loved one another, even as we love ourselves. We thank You that Life is taking on a whole new value in our country now, Lord. You are giving us Your Life in exchange for all the death we have allowed, even promoted, to come into our land. Science has invalidated many of the claims that eugenicists and other racists leaned on in the past to separate and destroy whole groups of people. Science is invalidating arguments from abortionists that life in the womb is nothing more than a blob of tissue. We say that African Americans and all others of various races will be seen in all their beauty and giftedness in our country. Babies in the womb will be seen in all their beauty and giftedness. We will not come up with any excuses to destroy life any longer! In Jesus’ Name, amen. Today’s decree: We are done with racism in America! Seeing the beauty and giftedness of every race will help us value the hidden life in the womb. Learn more about Will Ford here.

How Does God Feel About Abortion? “Across the nation, there is a fight for life. There are a lot of different opinions out there. We can’t have an opinion on this topic. We have to look at the scriptures. What does God believe? How does God feel about the shedding of innocent blood? We need a biblical foundation under us before we can discuss this. One of the major issues we see that God has with abortion is that it destroys a man or woman that God has made in His image. Yes, that baby in the womb is a future man or woman. In Proverbs 6, the Lord clearly says that He hates the hands that shed innocent blood. So, how does God feel about abortion? Scripture says clearly that God hates abortion. The blood of 60 million babies cries out from the ground in America. What if we began all of our debates about abortion or the rights of a woman with the understanding that God hates abortion and will demand a reckoning if a life is taken? The Church has to understand that abortion is not a casual thing. Abortion fuels the demonization of a culture. Killing any person, including a child in the womb, is the murder of the image of God.” (Jeremiah Johnson) Thank God for the shed blood of Jesus that now washes away all blood-guiltiness when we embrace Jesus as Savior and repent of all of our sin! “”Surely for your lifeblood, I will demand a reckoning. From the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of a man. Whoever sheds this man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed. For in the image of God, He made man.” (Genesis 9:5-6; ) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Note from Dutch Sheet Ministries: Our hearts go out to the women who have found themselves pregnant due to rape or abuse. We understand the mental anguish involved. We want you to know that God still loves you and the child in your womb was not a surprise to Him. He is able to provide merciful answers to every situation, if you will seek Him and trust Him with your life. We pray a special measure of God’s grace over you today. If you have aborted your child, there is forgiveness. If you are still pregnant and unsure what to do, please call the National Right to Life’s Help Line for options in your local community. It is available 24 hours a day. You can also email them. Read Psalm 106, focusing on verses 36-46. Note how the Israelites sacrificed their children to foreign gods. Note God’s response. Intercede for the people of God to have a revelation that abortion is not a civil rights issue. It is a moral issue. It is a very serious matter before the Lord. Pray for women in the Church that have chosen to abort a child. Pray with love and compassion for them to repent, so they can be free of the guilt and shame and any curse that may have come upon them. The enemy wants to destroy them, not just their child, spiritually, physically, and/or emotionally. Pray for men in the Church who have impregnated women and participate in the abortion process. Pray for Christian  parents, pastors, and friends who have encouraged women to abort their babies. Ask God to convict them of sin and cleanse them from all unrighteousness. Ask God to remove judgement from the Church, replacing it with compassion, wise counsel, and answers for those whose sin finds them out with a pregnancy. The child should never pay the price for the sin of the parents. A prayer you can pray: Lord, minister in a very speical way today to those women who have found themselves pregnant following violent acts against them, such as rape or abuse. The enemy is seeking to destroy both the life of the mother and the life of the child. Embrace them and lead them through this unimaginable season with a special grace to resist the abortion of the child within them. Help them find answers through the trained ones You have raised up across the nation for such a time as this. Bless National Right to Life’s 24 hour helpline. We need many more services for these women. Draw to repentance those Christian women who have aborted children due to inconvenience or fear that their sin of immorality will be discovered. Satan loves to blanket us in shame when we sin, adding even more pain and destruction. Convict the fathers who impregnated and encouraged their partner to abort their child. Convict the Christian parents, friends and pastors who participated, as well, just to keep their pride intact. Or maybe, they were simply deceived, thinking they should mind their own business and let this be between the woman and her doctor. Since when do we just shut our eyes and ignore anyone else killing another human being?! Forgive us all for keeping our mouths shut on this moral issue, Father. We ought to fear You, not man. Remove abortion from our land in Jesus’ Name, amen. Today’s decree: We will no longer tolerate abortion in America.

It Begins With a Fresh Love of the Word The Lord is watching us. He is pulling something Divine out of each one of us. He is asking us to give in a new way. He is asking us to line up with the Word of God in a new way. He is asking us to love it, to eat it, to preach it as if it is new. Holy Spirit is breathing a new wind on it. Fiery preachers will come from their closets where they have been interceding and they will come with a Word and deliver it with fire. Hearts will be convicted. No one will be able to escape the words or hide from their effect. Altars will fill. Weeping and wailing will spring forth from the conviction of hearts. People will rise up in righteous indignation and demand to receive back what the enemy has stolen from them. They will ask for relationships back, finances back, careers back, property back, and prodigals back. The nation will shift as these militant ones make demands and decrees against the enemy. This is the new spiritual warfare in which we will engage. The pastors will shift. The Body will shift. The nation will shift. Some things will go back to the way they were meant to be. Some things will change completely. Nothing will look the same, but when the dust settles, we will have our Christian roots back. We will be that nation set on a hill that sends the Gospel to the whole earth from these shores. God’s heavenly mandate given at Plymouth Rock can still come to pass! “The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of our God shall stand forever.” (Isaiah 40:8; NKJV) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Repent if you haven’t been in love with His Word and/or haven’t been reading it. Get your Bible out and ask Holy Spirit where He would like you to read. Intercede along the lines of what you have just read. Write out a verse form that section of scripture and commit to study it, memorize it, and apply it to your life. Ask Jesus to let His Word change you. Declare, “The words in this Bible will change me. They will change my circumstances. I will see things around me change, even my prodigals come home. I will see promises come to pass that God gave this nation at its inception.” A prayer you can pray: “Lord, we pray for the pastors in this nation. We need the pulpits to thunder truth like never before. They need to hear Truth and begin to declare it. They need to go into their pulpits with truth bathed in intercession, that will go forth into the pews, so it will raise up an army. Let them say, ‘The B-I-B-L-E, yes, that’s the Book for me. We stand alone on the Word of God, the B-I-B-L-E.’ As we begin to take back what the devil has stolen, that we will begin to turn this nation back to its Judeo-Christian roots. We declare it shall happen. It will take place. Our eyes will see it. We will behold Your Glory over this nation. We will be one nation – one Christian nation – under God. Whether people want to admit it or not, this will be, once again, a Christian nation. We are the nation ‘in whom God we trust.’ We are the nation on a hill that will not be hidden. Your Gospel will go forth from here, because an awakening is taking place and manifesting. We release it. Let it flow. Now, raise up Your voices. Give the Church Your prophetic voice. It is coming. It is arising in Jesus’ name. Amen.” (Mark Gonzales, Hispanic Action Network) Today’s decree: Falling in love with God’s Word again will cause His heavenly mandate given at Plymouth Rock to come to pass!

What is Behind the War on Gender in America? Dr. Michael Brown has written a new book to be released in August 2019, Jezebel’s War with America: The Plot to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide. In an article he recently wrote for TownHall.com he discusses what he believes to be behind the “gender-neutral” agenda in America: “‘Today,’ he writes, ‘gay activist curricula dominate our children’s schools, beginning with preschool, and drag queens read to toddlers in libraries. Today, students have been expelled from universities and workers have been fired from their jobs for daring to differ with gay activist talking points. As I began warning in 2004, those who came out of the closet have wanted to put us in the closet. They have been incredibly successful in their actions. “‘Today, in state after state, it is against the law for minors with unwanted same-sex attractions to get professional counseling, with the end goal being a ban on all professional counseling for people of all ages struggling with same-sex attractions. “‘Today, elementary school children are encouraged to question their gender identity, and under President Obama, high schools would lose federal funding if they refused to allow 15-year-old boys who identified as girls to play on the girls’ sports teams and share their locker rooms. “‘…The spirit of Jezebel is at work in the 21st century through sexual immorality, abortion, radical feminism and even the fascination with witchcraft and sorcery.’”1 Believers must be equipped in a new generation to defeat the spirit of Jezebel on a personal and national level. “But I have this complaint against you. You are permitting that woman—that Jezebel who calls herself a prophet—to lead my servants astray. She teaches them to commit sexual sin and to eat food offered to idols.” (Revelation 2:20; NLT) Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Jezebel is an age-old enemy of God’s purposes and His people. It is a spirit, not a person. It borrows people of both genders to carry out its demonic plans and purposes. Educate yourself on this spirit. Click here and here for a couple of resources. Read 1 Kings 18:13 through 19:3, 1 Kings 21:1-16, 2 Kings 9, and Revelation 2:18-29 for the story of the woman Jezebel for whom this spirit is named. Repent for any place you have participated with the Jezebel spirit, especially if you have been compassionate toward its agenda. Please be compassionate toward those deceived by it. Intercede for those struggling with their gender identity in this nation, understanding that there is a spirit behind this sudden wave of confusion, especially among our youth and young adults. Pray for your state and local school boards to realize how harmful the gender-neutral agenda is. Pray that they come to their senses. Pray the same for governors and state legislators. Pray the same for national leadership. A prayer you can pray: Lord, Jezebel is a spirit in Satan’s camp that perverts sexuality. It manipulates, controls and threatens to get its way in the earth. This genderless spirit is attempting to make humans genderless, as well. However, your plan is that male and female together would show forth Your nature and glory. We are to multiply and fill the earth with Your glory. You created men and women differently for a purpose and we can embrace who You decided we would be. Teach us about the Jezebel spirit, this enemy of the cross and our nation. It is working hard to turn the natural mind its direction. Forgive us where we have not heeded your Word, or where we have remained ignorant of it. If we do not deal with this, we will suffer in a nation that persecutes the Church. Let school board officials in our localities and states come to their senses and reverse course, shutting Jezebel out. May our national leaders “see” the long-term effect of allowing this spirit free-reign. This is not compassion! People need to be set free from deception. Jezebel will destroy them, and then destroy our society, attempting to limit the Kingdom-advancing activities of the Church. Teach us to pray against the Jezebel spirit in Jesus’ name, amen. Today’s decree: We deny the Jezebel spirit to remain active in America! She will be thrown down! 1 Excerpted from an article on TownHall.com by Dr. Michael Brown.

A Need to Petition Both God and Man – The Equality Act “The LGBT community, which likely represents a minority of the U.S. population, is credited with now pushing a narrative, one which maintains the position that they deserve total equality. This would include the right to be denoted as whichever gender they chose with all such rights accorded them — regardless of genetic endowments. Such an unrealistic comprehension of biology and social dynamics have led to U.S. House passage of HR5 – The Equality Act. A bill which erroneously does just that. The bill’s preamble declares simply, ‘To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes.’ This is laudable. But does this portend amending the 1964 Civil Rights Amendment which might be fine, but the substitution for sex with the words sexual orientation are not the same. Therefore, an undermining of the genetic and biological basis of human life and sexuality would hit both women’s issues and concerns hard. By the same token HR5’s enumeration of inclusions state pregnancy, sexual orientation, or based stereotype, same-sex unions (with all associated ramifications), adoption of children by any person discounting any of these protected classes, the prohibition of ‘conversion therapy’, and personal behavior acts or any activity in which funding by the federal government is included, and are too numerous to fully detail.”1 From Intercessors for America: “The Equality Act, HR5, passed the House with total Democrat support and the crossover support of eight Republicans. Dubbed one of the ‘most disastrous bills’ in recent history, if implemented, HR5 would impact every area of civic life with favor for the LGBTQ agenda trumping freedoms of Americans. Click here to read more about this sweeping move of gender identity language that is already impacting many states and municipalities.” Give Him 15 minutes in prayer: Intercede for individuals who have chosen a lifestyle within the LGBTQ community, especially those you know and love. Ask God to reveal Himself to save, heal, and deliver them. Pray that HR5 will not come to the floor of the Senate for a vote. Ask God to give Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a backbone of iron, resisting political pressure to entertain a vote on this bill. Contact your two U. S. Senators and ask them not to vote for HR5. It has passed the House and must go to the Senate floor for approval before becoming law. Ask God for the fear of the Lord to be on our elected officials. Pray fervently for your Senators and Representative to come to know Jesus as Savior and Lord, if they do not already know Him. A prayer you can pray: Father, You are a good Father. You love each and every human being, regardless of the life choices they have made. Please draw the lost to Yourself. Please heal and deliver those deceived by the enemy into believing they are something other than Your perfect design for them. You desire that we would choose life and godliness. We, Your Ekklesia, do choose that for ourselves, our families and our nation. HR5, “The Equality Act”, is unnecessary. It makes sexual preference and gender a protected class under the law. This could cause all kinds of confusion and sin in America, should it become a law. Its words would prevent counselors from helping those confused about gender issues. It is a trap. So, Lord, we ask You to intervene. We will do our part and call our Senators and let them know we do not want this to be the law of our land. We will ask them to vote “no” on this bill. Touch their hearts and minds, Lord. Don’t let them give into political pressure. We also ask You to encourage Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to prohibit this bill coming to the floor of the Senate for a vote. He can turn it away and we ask that he would. Lord, purify our hearts. Purify our country! Give us righteous laws. In Jesus’ name, amen. Today’s decree: The U. S. Senate will reject HR5, the so-called “Equality Act”, and it will fail to pass into law. 1 Excerpted from Newsmax, article by Ada Fisher.