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Welcome to Seek Night. We have gathered to seek God, to pray, and to expect Him to move in ways we have never seen before. Our focus tonight is Acts 1:8: "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses."
We are praying for three things: the power to be a witness, the strength to endure, and the boldness to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Jesus warned us in Matthew 24:12-14 about the last days in which we now live:
"And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold, but he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as witnesses to all the nations and the end will come."
Lawlessness means someone who is a law unto themselves—they cannot be governed, they cannot be led, and they refuse to follow instructions. Jesus tells us that as lawlessness increases, the love of many will grow cold. We must pray for endurance so that we remain faithful to the end. We must pray that the gospel of Jesus Christ will be preached in all nations.
When you first gave your life to Christ, you were on fire for God. You wanted to tell everyone about it. But over time, familiarity can breed complacency. You may have grown relaxed. However, when you are in a relationship with Jesus, the honeymoon phase is forever. We must remain constantly excited about who God is and what He does.
We do not need to see another miracle to be grateful for the love of God and the power of God demonstrated. We pray for fresh fire—that the Holy Spirit will quicken our mortal bodies, that we will not operate in anything stale or old, but that God will empower us again and afresh.
We come against every demonic power that will try to stop us from housing God's presence. We come against distractions that will cause our hearts to become unclean. We repent of anything that has separated us from God.
Breathe fresh fire into us now. We ask that God's fire will fall on our heads as it did at Pentecost. Pentecost is not just an event—it is a time and a cadence in heaven. God said He would pour out His Spirit upon all flesh, and our sons and daughters will prophesy and dream dreams.
We ask God to touch our tongues with fire. We come against every principality that would try to stop and hinder us. We decree and declare that our tongues will speak God's word—it will be the sword of truth. We learned on Sunday that we must use our words well and speak life.
Burn away everything in us that is not like You, God. Burn away anger where we have been held hostage by it. We repent where we have been angry and it has stopped us. God said we should be angry and sin not. Burn away malice. Create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. Give us a conviction of sin. Give us hearts that are convicted by what we have done wrong.
We recognize that God sees all. We do not have to hide anything from Him. We repent. Give us the grace to speak to people with language that edifies, that loves, that builds, that pours love on people. Do not let us pull them down. Guide our tongues. Let the tongue cling to the roof of our mouth before we speak ill or wrong.
We want fresh fire to heal the blind, to make the lame walk, to make the deaf hear. Forgive us where we have tried to do things our own way. Forgive us where we have gone into routines of moving as we used to move. Help us to have our ear to Your voice so that we move in freshness. Align our hearts to yield to Your will and Your way. Align our thoughts and our minds.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you. Help us to go for Your kingdom agenda. Help us to be focused in this season. We bind every spirit of distraction that tries to stop us from moving in power and fire.
We come against the spirit of excuses that tries to make us operate where we don't do what You say because we give excuses. We understand that we are made in Your image and likeness. You gave us power. It is Your gift to us to operate in. We will stand in Your authority and Your knowledge. You have called us. You have ordained us. You have promised this for our lives.
God is going to use you this year and the excuses have to stop. We have been called. We have been made in His image and likeness. We will be conduits of His power and fire. His fire comes to purify us. Help us not to abort the process of purification. We put ourselves on the altar and say, "Clean us up. Make us new." We want to be those who can be used by You. We don't want our love to grow cold for You. Keep our hearts burning for You.
We are delivered from every spiritual coldness and weariness. We rebuke the spirit of weariness over God's people. We come against every demonic power that would make them weary, sleepy, or tired when going after God in prayer or reading His word. We speak strength. There will be no compromise this year. We will not be one foot in the world and one foot in Christ. We will have the ability to stand.
The world is getting harder. The enemy is trying to run rampant. We need staying power and endurance to keep going even when our flesh is weak and we don't feel like doing it. We cannot do this by ourselves—that is why He gave us the Holy Spirit.
We thank God for momentum. Our momentum will not be stayed or stilled. We will move. We will not quit. We come against every spirit that tries to make us give up. We come against every demonic power that makes someone quit. We speak strength.
We decree endurance in marriages. A threefold cord cannot be untied. God is the center of every marriage. We come against the spirit of divorce. We come against every demonic power of argument. Husbands and wives, be slow to speak and swift to hear. We command peace in homes. For wives who are crying, we pray God will send peace to those houses. For men who are crying, we pray God will send peace to their hearts.
We come against weariness over mothers and fathers with their children. God, strengthen them now. We come against every demonic power that tries to wear out their hearts. Give them wisdom. Give them insight and foresight. Give them strategies for parenting. Let their hearts not grow cold but form with love.
We speak healing to broken places now. We decree that the gospel of Jesus will be preached in homes. Your word will be the center of every family. We cover families now in the name of Jesus. We come against disagreements, arguments, and misunderstandings. We pray peace, joy, forgiveness, and love.
We decree our families will be saved. We decree our families will be delivered. We decree our families will experience the power of God.
We thank God for the vision of this house and every leader, team leader, elder, and minister. We will stay focused on the vision at hand. We will not lose our strength. We come against every spirit of Delilah that tries to lull the church into a trance. We will not sleep on our watch but will stand our watch. We will see from the spirit realm.
We come against every demonic spirit whispering to remove our strength. We decree and declare we shall not lose our strength. We shall not go blind. We decree that our ears will be closed to every seduction spirit. We will stand our watch. We will be watchmen and watchwomen. We will stand our post. We will not lose hope or expectation.
We come against every demonic power that tries to make us lose expectation or stay unfocused. Your word says in Isaiah that as the rain falls from the sky unto the land, so shall Your word go forth out of Your mouth and it cannot return unto You void. It cannot come back empty. It must accomplish and shall prosper.
We thank God for a season of prosperity. Our dreams shall prosper. Our vision shall prosper. Our families shall prosper. Our children shall prosper. Our hope will not be cut off. Our expectation will not be cut off.
We command a stirring in our hearts again. God, help us to have a memory. We remember when You gave us 122 Brixton Hill in the midst of what shouldn't have happened—You gave us favor. We're standing in a miracle of a building that was sold three times, but You did it anyway. We remember when in the midst of all we were going through, You gave us two more buildings and 28 plus acres of land. We remember You gave us a theater with no money and You helped us buy it with cash.
If You could do it for this house, You'll do it for my house. We will not give up. We will not throw in the towel because You're more than able. Your word says You'll do exceedingly abundantly above all you could ever ask or think, according to the power that works in us.
We will not fall apart in the middle of the blessing. At Your word we trust You. We trust You when we can't trace You. We trust You when it doesn't seem like it can happen because You're a God that works with impossible things.
We trust You because You never lie. You said in Your word, "You are not the son of man that should lie. What I say, that settles it." We focus and stand on Your word. We stand on Your word because we know You're able. You're able to do it. You're able to fix it. No matter the situation we're bringing to You today.
We will not lose because we serve a God that's given us the victory. It's already fixed and finished. So we trust You, God, in the midst of our circumstance. We will not fall apart. We will not bow to any other god. We will stand knowing that You're able. You are Jehovah Gyra. There's nothing in You that we cannot get.
We will not go tired. We will not go weary. We will stay focused. Let us have the eyesight of an eagle. Let us have keen eyesight. You are the God Eleazar. You are the God of strength. You are the God that gives strength. You are the God that gives hope. You are the God that gives everything we need.
We will not lose momentum. We will not lose speed. We come against everything that causes delays and pushes us back. Some of you have lost your momentum and speed. We pray against the demonic power that tries to slow you down. We decree the cadence of God to be manifested. We will not be delayed. We will not be denied. We will not be slowed down.
We come against everything slowing the saints down. Some are slowed down in health, in mind, in the workplace. But God gives you grace. His grace is sufficient. You will have time to read your word. You will have time to pray. Give us a will. Give us a heart. Give us the strength.
We come against every delay, every slothful spirit. We bind laziness now in the name of Jesus. We rebuke it. It is not our portion. We come against unusual tiredness and fatigue. We rebuke it now. We will not be tired. We have supernatural strength and power.
You will have the strength to do what God has called you to do. You will not be tired. You will not be weak. Your age is just a number. It's not anything to stop you. People were being used at 60, 70, 80. Your age will not stop you this year. We decree strength, strength, strength.
We come against oppression of the mind. We command your thinking to align. You will think positive things. You will not give up. Your mind will not go wayward. Strength in your body. We bind sicknesses. We bind unusual diseases. We bind everything that would try to slow you down. We command health in the name of Jesus.
The scripture lets us know that people are going to grow cold. People are going to become mean and evil. But we want to be a testimony of God's love and light. We want to be the people that people see and go, "Oh my gosh, they represent God."
Our next prayer point is taken from Romans 1:16: "For I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Gentile."
Paul previously viewed the cross as a stumbling block before his conversion. He saw the early Christian church as a threat to Rome. But now the very thing he was being threatened by, he boasts openly. He says, "I will never be ashamed of the gospel for it is the glory of God for my life." After encountering Christ, the very message he despised became the message he boldly proclaimed.
We are not ashamed. Look at your neighbor and say, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ." Because it's the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes.
When the word of God goes out, it breaks chains. It transforms hearts. It redeems the lost. It brings dead people to life. No other religion can do that. Islam does not break chains. Hinduism does not break chains. Sikhism does not break chains. Buddhism does not break chains. But the gospel of Jesus Christ breaks chains. It transforms hearts. It redeems the lost. It brings dead people to life.
Salvation isn't earned. It's not inherited. It's not restricted. It's not limited by ethnicity, gender, or social status. It is received by faith.
We pray that we will speak the gospel of Jesus Christ with boldness and confidence. When we come face to face with agnostics and atheists, we can boldly declare the gospel that it breaks chains and that it redeems.
The gospel of Jesus Christ destroys addictions to drugs. The gospel of Jesus Christ breaks addictions. If you are addicted, if you have a habit, the gospel of Jesus Christ can break it tonight because it is the power of God unto salvation. The gospel brings liberty to those that are bound.
Hold fast to your belief tonight. Do not move from your belief. Be unmovable. Be unshakable. Be unstoppable. We are in a rapidly changing season. The government is quickly turning over legislation. It's a mess. But if they would turn to Jesus, if they would turn to the gospel of Jesus Christ, everything would be set back in order.
God hasn't changed. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. If they would just know that the gospel is the answer—not new legislation, not new decrees in parliament, but the gospel of Jesus Christ. That is the answer to end crime in our nation. Crime has gone off the scales. Knife crime is the highest ever seen. But if they would just know that the answer is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
There is a remnant here tonight that has not bowed to Baal, and we believe in the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ and we will continue to believe in the name of Jesus.
Some people once believed but they gave heed to seducing spirits. That will not be our portion tonight. We will continue to be proud of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Put on the belt of truth. When we witness to people the gospel, they will know that we are true disciples of Jesus Christ. When we speak, may we speak with boldness and confidence that the gospel is true and the living word of God.
You don't have to get into debates with anybody. Some religions love to argue and debate. They ask things like, "God had no son. Where did Jesus come from?" We don't do debates. We just know the gospel is true. Because of the blood of Jesus, we wouldn't even be here. The person you are today—had it not been for the blood of Jesus, we wouldn't be here.
If that's not signing off, the past is the past. We are no longer the same person. We are changed people because of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Because it's the power of God unto salvation.
We will put on the gospel shoes and continue to spread the gospel in the north, in the east, in the south, and in the west. We will let them know that Jesus Christ is Lord. We will not bow to the commands of this nation. But we know who God is. He is the I am that I am. He is the everlasting God. He is Jehovah Gyra. He is Jehovah Shamar. He is Jehovah Shalom. He is Jehovah Nissi, the God who is the Banner.
When the enemy comes against us like a flood, He stretches His banner like a tent and says, "Touch not My anointed and do My prophet no harm." That is who God is. That is the gospel that we believe in, and we will never stop believing.
Our next prayer point is that the oil of heaven—the Holy Spirit—will lubricate all the spiritual gifts inside of us so that we can become powerful witnesses for Jesus Christ in our community.
In Acts 2:1-4, when the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly, a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the entire house. They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. They were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Oil in the Bible is a metaphor for the Holy Spirit. Oil is a lubricant. As the oil fills us, it will lubricate and bring back all the things that dried up—our peace, our joy, our prayer life.
I know what it's like to have a broken heart. Some of you are nursing a broken heart. Some of you tonight are facing disappointment. Some of you have been let down and betrayed by people. But tonight, say to your neighbor: "But tonight, the Holy oil that flows down from heaven is going to permeate. It is going to bring back all the things in your life that dried up."
Maybe you're thinking, "We're in May already. I haven't seen change yet. It's the same old, same old, same old." But let me tell you: God sees you tonight. He has not forgotten you. The oil of heaven is about to lubricate all the things that seem barren in the name of Jesus.
Oil means to permeate. To permeate means to impregnate, to infiltrate, to infuse, to invade, and to pass through. Oil leaves a stain. It leaves a residue. If you have oil on your hands and you handle certain fabrics, it will leave a mark and a lasting impression. So may the anointing cause us to have an impact wherever we go, whatever we touch, and be powerful witnesses for Christ in our community.
You and I have spiritual gifts inside us that God wants to use in extraordinary ways to meet the needs in our community. May we walk out of this place tonight confidently in faith with Christ Jesus, and the Holy Spirit will direct us which way we should go. We are not ashamed of the gospel. It is the power of God that brings salvation.
Whatever time you feel tired, that's the time to keep praying and the Holy Spirit will infuse you. It will come like a sudden rushing mighty wind, like a blood transfusion, and it will revive you.
Those of you that have gifts and want to start a business—find that office space by faith and believe. Those of you thinking about university, "I don't know, I'm too old. Maybe it's past my time"—move by faith tonight. The Holy Ghost, the oil of heaven, is going to lubricate everything you thought was dried up because there is no failure in God.
Whatever it is you are waiting on God for, know tonight that He is lubricating every barren thing and every dry thing. Stir up the gift in you. The gift of prophecy. The gift of evangelism. The devil is a liar. You are going to make it. We might be in the fifth month. You haven't seen it yet, but God is lubricating those things that seem dried up.
Our next prayer point is that there will be no shortage of vessels that God can use. We are in the last days, and the gospel will be preached to the four corners of the earth. But we want to pray that there will be no shortage of vessels.
In Luke 10:2, Jesus said: "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest field."
Raise your hand and say, 'Here am I, Lord, use me.' When God was looking for a vessel, He looked down and Isaiah said, "Here am I, God. You can use me."
Say to God tonight: "Here I am, God. You can use me." As long as there are vessels, the oil will continue to flow and people will get saved. The harvest is great, but the laborers are few.
We come against distractions and everything that causes us to be so busy that we hardly have time for God. May we be sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit and ensure that we do not become so preoccupied that there's no room for the Holy Spirit.
The days have come when God has made a new covenant with man. The Spirit is new. The Comforter proceeding from the Father and the Son—the gospel is new. God has spoken to us by His Son. We preach Christ crucified. Since everything in Christianity is new, we must be new. We must be born again. There has to be a change—a change in our character. The life we live must be a changed life or people will not be convicted.
We want to pray for the youth. The youth of this day are under so much pressure. Those of you who are saved—it's not easy. You never had to deal with the things young people face today.
Father God, we pray for our young people. When they go to school, may they have their books in one hand and the Bible in another. They will say: "We will not bow, oh king, irrespective of what you try to put on us, irrespective of your teachings. We will not bow, for there is no other god but the one true God. He is the I am that I am. He is the alpha. He is the omega. He is the beginning, and He is the end. He is the one true mighty God."
We pray that leaders and influential people will rise up and be new politicians that will go into the houses of Parliament and say, "Thus said the Lord. This is immoral. This is illegal. We will not stand for it." We pray that the young people will rise up—a new generation of boldness with foreheads of flint that will say we stand for the gospel of Jesus Christ. We will not bow to any other god. We will not bow to Nebuchadnezzar.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar? Who is he anyway? We know him not. But we know the God who parts the seas. We know the God who sends fire down from heaven on Mount Carmel. He is the Lord. He is the one that we will serve. We will serve no other god.
Oh God, our young people—that they will not be confused with their identity. We come against every identity crisis. When it is forced upon them, they will say the gospel says this. My Bible says this. God created Adam for Eve and Eve for Adam. There is no confusion. The Bible is clear.
We pray that those young people will stand by the beliefs and what they've been taught in Sunday school and the vision will not be blurred. We come against the blurring of vision, especially when they get to that tender age of 13, 14, and 15—when things seem to get a little muddy and blurry.
We come against you, Satan. The Lord rebuke you tonight. Leave our young people alone. Take your hands off our youth. They don't belong to you. They belong to Jesus Christ. We will see our investment in Sunday school. The Sunday school teachers take time out and teach them from babes. When they get to a certain age and go to university, they shouldn't have an identity crisis.
We come against that spirit. The Lord rebuke you, Satan. Leave our young people alone. They will be who God said they shall be and nothing less. They will be pastors and prophets and teachers and evangelists in the name of Jesus.
We come against all of the messed up legislation. It is a mess in Parliament. We speak that there will be order. In the beginning there was darkness upon the face of the deep and the Lord breathed and He said, "Let there be light," and there was light. We command that there will be order in the name of Jesus in the houses of Parliament.
This is a time to pray like never before. Don't wait for it to happen. Pray that it will be God's will. Two will put 10,000 to flight. There is more than two here. We are dangerous people in this place tonight. We are dangerous people.
Look at what we can do if everybody prays tonight and says, "God, we have had enough. Enough is enough. We want the right people in government, God. We want the right leaders in government, God. People of integrity, God. People of honesty, God. We don't want crooks in Parliament. Enough is enough, God."
We were born in this country and we don't even recognize it anymore. What has it become? God is saying, 'Pray. Raise up your voice. Raise up a shout.'
When the children of Israel wanted Jericho, they didn't do anything but march around seven times. On the seventh day, Joshua said, "Now shout for the victory." And the walls came tumbling down.
What went before the children of Israel? The ark of God. The praise. The tabernacle. The tablets of stone. Aaron's rod. That was in the ark of God—the ark that they couldn't even touch. One man touched it and he felt dead. The ark went before them. Holy God went before them and they took Jericho without fists, without sword. The walls came down and they walked in and took what they should have had all the time.
You don't have to be on the outside looking in anymore. Enough is enough. Know that you have a mighty God. His name is Jehovah Sabaoth, who sends hosts of angels to His people's defense. Do you know who God is? He is the alpha and the omega. He is the beginning and the end. In today's alphabet, you would say He is a and zed. He is Yahweh, the self-existent one. He has always existed and will always exist. We can rely on Him because He is our eternal source of strength.
We decree and declare:
2 Corinthians 1:20 says: "For all the promises of God are yes and in him, amen, to the glory of God through us."
Praying or prayer is not convincing God. Prayer is agreeing with what God has already spoken. God is convinced. He knows our end from our beginning. He knows exactly what He is going to do in your life. Prayer is saying, "I agree with what God has already said."
When it says "yes and amen," the amen is in conjunction with Jesus. You can't have an amen without Jesus. The yes happens because it's in Him that the so-let-it-be can manifest. So when we're decreeing the promises, we are decreeing that our promises are fulfilled because God has already spoken it.
Prayer is not to convince God to manifest it. It's already done. It's already done.
Father, we just want to honor You. We just want to bless You. We just want to give You the glory. You have heard today that Your prayers are yes and Your promises are yes and amen. We come to stand before You in faith. We come to stand before You with our hearts as an open book.
You have inscribed precious promises and decrees on the inside of us. We have to contend for these things in the place of time. They have already been done in eternity past. But we stand on the precipice of time.
I pray in the name of Jesus that we won't give up on Your promises. We won't give up on Your promises. We won't lay them down. We won't turn around. We won't quit. We won't faint. We won't bury them. But Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that as we're praying today that there is going to be an excavation. There's going to be something that is dug up—the things, Lord, that we once thought were laid dormant or we experienced too much time or we experienced too much heartache and heartbreak. And so now, Lord, we've put those promises aside.
I pray, Father, that You will reach in the hearts of man and begin to stir up again the things that we have in our spirit, the desires that You have placed in our heart in the name of Jesus. Father, we see in Your word that You are not a man who should lie, nor the son of man that should repent. But Father, You are a truthful God. Your word is forever settled in heaven. There are some things that You have spoken over us—it's already settled.
I pray in the name of Jesus where we have felt unsettled, where we have felt uncertain, that we come back to a place of stability. We come back to a place of assurance. We come back to a place of certainty—not in ourselves, not in our own abilities, not in our efforts, but in what You have already done, in what the blood of Jesus has ratified, in what the new covenant has expressed towards us.
Oh Father, we will not turn back. We will not faint. I pray in the name of Jesus that everyone who is weary concerning Your promises, weary of believing—I pray in the name of Jesus that they will not turn back, that they will not faint, but Father God, they will press on towards the mark of the prize of the high calling.
I pray in the name of Jesus that You will give us language in this day and age, Lord, where we've begun to speak words of fear, where we've begun to speak words of doubt, where we've begun to speak words of unbelief. Change our language. Take a hold of our tongue so that we may say the right things, so that we may confess Your word, so that we may put Your decrees in our mouth. When we decree a thing, it shall be established.
I pray in the name of Jesus that there are some things that are going to be established in the UK, established in Ruach City, established in our homes, established in our jobs, established in our careers. Father, You promise some things concerning our finances. You promise some things concerning healing. You promise some things concerning breakthrough. You promise some things concerning our emotional well-being. You promised some things concerning our relationships.
Father, in the name of Jesus, may all these promises which are in You—yes and amen. May we enter into a season where these promises begin to take place, begin to take root, begin to come into fruition in the name of Jesus. Oh Father, we will not be turned away. This is not our season to turn away from the promises of God. This is not our season to cast away our confidence, which has great recompense of reward. But Father, our trust is still in You.
We are the just and the righteous, and the just shall live by faith. Father, help us to walk like it. Father, help us to talk like it. Father, help us to live in the realm of belief. Help us to live in the realm of vision. Help us to see these promises in actuality in the name of Jesus. And we walk like it. We talk like it. We pray like it. We praise like it. We serve like it. We worship like it—like it's already done in the name of Jesus, like it has already come to pass in the name of Jesus.
For it has already come to pass. It is already. Yes. It is already so be it. And so, Father, we thank You that we will walk in these precious promises in the name of Jesus.
Lord, may You take a hold of our hearts. Take a hold of our hearts. I sense warfare in the heart. I sense warfare in the mind. Lord, take a hold of our hearts in the name of Jesus where our hearts have begun to waver, where our minds have started to become double-minded concerning Your promises. Help us, Father God.
Root us back in Your word. Take us back to the journals of old. Take us back to the scripts of old. Take us back to the prophetic utterances of old—things that were decreed over our life that we've begun to waver from, that our heart has become discouraged.
I pray in the name of Jesus over all of us today that our hearts are being filled up again with courage, things that we stopped uttering because of fear. I pray in the name of Jesus our tongue will be loosed again and we will decree the promises of God with assurity in the name of Jesus.
I pray Father, you erase the residue of disappointment. Lord, we firmly fix our trust in You. Some have trusted in horses. Some have trusted in chariots. But Father, we will trust in the name of the Lord. We root our trust back in who You are—the God who never lies, the God who has spoken good things over us, the God who will withhold no good thing from those that walk uprightly before You.
Lord, we decree that You are watching over us faithfully to perform Your word. You are looking for the fruit of Your word to manifest in our life. And we step back into alignment in the name of Jesus.
Oh, we step back into alignment in the name of Jesus—that we will walk in the things that You have expressed, and that we will see Your goodness in the land of the living.
Oh, we receive Your promises today in the name of Jesus. Father God, where our disobedience has caused delay, where our disobedience has caused resistance, we come back into a place of repentance in the name of Jesus. We turn away from what we know we should not be doing and we step back into the grace of our living God. We step back into right thinking. We step back into right saying. We step back into right believing. We step back into right actions.
Lord, we won't just be a hearer of Your word, but we will be doers also. And Father, as we look into Your perfect law of liberty, we thank You that Your promises are released unto us. May we never ever forget again what You have decreed us to be.
As we look in the mirror of Your word, we see that we are men of valor. We see that we are women of virtue. We see we are a people of excellence. We see that we are the head and not the tail. We see we are above and not beneath. We see we are lenders and not borrowers. We see we are the victorious and the righteousness of God in Christ.
Thanks be to Christ Jesus who always causes us to triumph. I pray, Father God, for those that are believing You for victory—victory in a financial area, victory for healing in their body or healing over a family member, victory in our marriages. When the enemy has come trying to break up relationships, we pray the promises of the Lord over our finances. We declare the promises of the Lord over our natural body. We pray the promises of the Lord over our families, over our children, over our husbands and our wives, over our marriages in the name of Jesus.
Oh Lord, You have promised good for us and not evil. Your thoughts and intentions for us are good and not evil. All things are working together for our good. And so, Father, we will celebrate You as if Your promises are true.
Where the enemy has dulled our praise and stolen our joy because we feel that the promises are out of reach, I pray in the name of Jesus that You stir up the joy of the Lord once again. You put on us the oil of gladness for the joy of the Lord is our strength.
And we will rejoice again. We will see Your goodness in the land of the living. We will see the manifestation of every promise that has been spoken unto us and it will not be held back and it will not be delayed in the name of Jesus.
Some of you, God is going to help you see again the way He sees because sometimes our perspective when we're believing for the promises of God gets shifted. This is going to be a season where God is going to strengthen your identity. He's going to let you know that you are who He says you are. His word over your life is yes and amen.
You don't need approval of men to confirm what heaven has already declared. You are chosen. You are called. You are covered by God who does not go back on His word. God is confirming to you that the plans and the promises that He has for you are good to give you a future and a hope.
I confess and I decree over you that the purpose of God over your life is settled in heaven. That it is working it out on your behalf in the name of Jesus. I also decree over you that God is your provider. He will supply all of your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Lack does not have a thing on you. Lack is not what He promised.
Every resource, every open door, every connection, everything you need to fulfill the promise of God over your life will come to pass. I decree that by the stripes of Jesus Christ, you are healed. You walk in healing. That healing belongs to you. Deliverance belongs to you. It's a promise from the Lord. You don't have to beg Him for it. It's already a done deal in the spirit. It's already a done deal in the name of Jesus.
Healing belongs to you. And I come against every report that contradicts what the word of God says over your life. You are the healed of the Lord in the name of Jesus.
And father, we decree right now breakthrough on every side. Father, I decree over your children that every closed door that you have ordained will be open. Every mountain that stands in the way of your promises, you will lay flat. That this will be a season that your children walk through the open door.
That the promises of God, the yes and the amen are unlocking doors right now. The yes and the amen are opening up things that they never thought possible. Lord, I'm thanking you that as we stand here today, believing for Your promises, trusting You, that Lord, we will believe you for Your character. We'll believe you because we know your character.
And so, Father, in this moment, we lift our hands. We lift our hands and we worship You and we thank You for what You are doing. We thank You that our legacy doesn't end with us. We thank You that Your promises don't just end with us, but they go throughout the generations coming after us.
We thank You, Father God, that You are building us to be able to encapsulate and hold the promises that You have for our generations and the legacy of our families. Father, we thank You for Ruach. We thank You for Bishop. We thank You for First Lady Penny. We thank You for Elder Wanita and every elder that is a part of this house.
Father, we say breathe again. Breathe into the body of our bishop. Breathe into the body, Father God, of Pastor Penny. Breathe into Elder Wanita. Every elder, every person that holds a pillar in this house, we say the promises of God are knocking them down.
Father, right now, we thank You that this is a breakthrough season in this house. That Lord, they're about to walk in the promises of God like never before. Father, I thank You for what You're stirring in this house. Father, I thank You for what You're stirring—that Lord, there's a new realm of glory that they're about to walk in, Father God, that is going to impact not just this nation, but the world, Father.
That Lord, the word that You spoke even over our bishop from when he was in the womb, Father God, that there are things he hasn't even yet walked in, but we decree that this is that season. Father, we're thanking You that they will be known as the house of yes and amen. People will look in envy and say, "Blessed is Ruach City Church," blessed because everything that God has spoken has come to pass.
Our cousin, Bishop's nephew, Gareth, has had a stroke. We want to pray for him. We want to believe God that no weapon formed against him shall prosper. That every demonic power trying to hinder his body, we come against every sickness, everything that the enemy may try to do.
Father, we put Gareth before You right now in the name of Jesus. We speak healing and deliverance right now in the name of Jesus. Father God, You said in Your word that You were wounded for our transgression. You were bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon Your shoulders and by Your stripes we are healed.
Father, we thank You for the healing power that is touching Gareth's body right now. We send angels, oh God, to that hospital now. And we command in the name of Jesus every stroke be destroyed in the name of Jesus.
We speak to every nerve ending in his body. We decree that they shall hear the word of the Lord. We speak to every blood and every plasma in the name of Jesus. We speak to white blood cells. We speak to red blood cells in the name of Jesus. And we decree that they shall hear the word of the Lord.
We come against every signal that's gone wrong in his body that's spoken against his body. And we decree and declare that his body will align in Jesus' name.
We send Your healing power. You are the God that heals. Father God, You said that healing is children's bread. So we decree that healing come to his body now from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet.
We come against every power of darkness that will try to stop and hinder his life. You said that the righteous shall not be cut off. So we come against every premature death in the name of Jesus. And we decree life in the name of Jesus—life and life more abundantly.
We decree life in him in the name of Jesus. We command life, oh God. We decree that his hope will not be cut off. We decree life. We speak life to that room now in the name of Jesus.
God, send Your angel. God, You are the master physician. You're the one that knows every detail, and we decree and declare, Lord God, that You will do a 24-hour miracle. Let the doctors marvel at what You can do.
We place it in Your hands. We place it in Your care and we believe it is done in Jesus' name. The prayers of the righteous avail much. So we stand in agreement and we believe it done in Jesus' name.
Seek, pray, and expect. We have sought. We have prayed. Now we expect miracles. We expect manifestation. We expect answered prayer. We expect the promise of God to be manifested.
As you're getting your seed, we're decreeing that the promises of God will manifest in your life, over your house. We decree growth, revival, transformation, salvation. We decree kingdom impact. We decree the promises of your families be restored. We decree that your household will be saved. We decree that relationships will be healed. We decree that the prodigals will come home. We decree that God will be glorified in your answered prayers. We decree that you'll become the evidence of answered prayers.
We decree that glory will be made manifest through us because we believe that His promises are yes and amen.
As you're getting your seed, decree this: "The promises of God are yes and in him, amen. We decree that God is faithful to His word. We decree that my faith is being strengthened. My expectation is rising and God will be glorified in everything."
I pray that you've been blessed. May the promises of God be manifested in Jesus' name. Yes, it is so.
Welcome to Seek Night. We have gathered to seek God, to pray, and to expect Him to move in ways we have never seen before. Our focus tonight is Acts 1:8: "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses."
We are praying for three things: the power to be a witness, the strength to endure, and the boldness to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Jesus warned us in Matthew 24:12-14 about the last days in which we now live:
"And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold, but he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as witnesses to all the nations and the end will come."
Lawlessness means someone who is a law unto themselves—they cannot be governed, they cannot be led, and they refuse to follow instructions. Jesus tells us that as lawlessness increases, the love of many will grow cold. We must pray for endurance so that we remain faithful to the end. We must pray that the gospel of Jesus Christ will be preached in all nations.
When you first gave your life to Christ, you were on fire for God. You wanted to tell everyone about it. But over time, familiarity can breed complacency. You may have grown relaxed. However, when you are in a relationship with Jesus, the honeymoon phase is forever. We must remain constantly excited about who God is and what He does.
We do not need to see another miracle to be grateful for the love of God and the power of God demonstrated. We pray for fresh fire—that the Holy Spirit will quicken our mortal bodies, that we will not operate in anything stale or old, but that God will empower us again and afresh.
We come against every demonic power that will try to stop us from housing God's presence. We come against distractions that will cause our hearts to become unclean. We repent of anything that has separated us from God.
Breathe fresh fire into us now. We ask that God's fire will fall on our heads as it did at Pentecost. Pentecost is not just an event—it is a time and a cadence in heaven. God said He would pour out His Spirit upon all flesh, and our sons and daughters will prophesy and dream dreams.
We ask God to touch our tongues with fire. We come against every principality that would try to stop and hinder us. We decree and declare that our tongues will speak God's word—it will be the sword of truth. We learned on Sunday that we must use our words well and speak life.
Burn away everything in us that is not like You, God. Burn away anger where we have been held hostage by it. We repent where we have been angry and it has stopped us. God said we should be angry and sin not. Burn away malice. Create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. Give us a conviction of sin. Give us hearts that are convicted by what we have done wrong.
We recognize that God sees all. We do not have to hide anything from Him. We repent. Give us the grace to speak to people with language that edifies, that loves, that builds, that pours love on people. Do not let us pull them down. Guide our tongues. Let the tongue cling to the roof of our mouth before we speak ill or wrong.
We want fresh fire to heal the blind, to make the lame walk, to make the deaf hear. Forgive us where we have tried to do things our own way. Forgive us where we have gone into routines of moving as we used to move. Help us to have our ear to Your voice so that we move in freshness. Align our hearts to yield to Your will and Your way. Align our thoughts and our minds.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you. Help us to go for Your kingdom agenda. Help us to be focused in this season. We bind every spirit of distraction that tries to stop us from moving in power and fire.
We come against the spirit of excuses that tries to make us operate where we don't do what You say because we give excuses. We understand that we are made in Your image and likeness. You gave us power. It is Your gift to us to operate in. We will stand in Your authority and Your knowledge. You have called us. You have ordained us. You have promised this for our lives.
God is going to use you this year and the excuses have to stop. We have been called. We have been made in His image and likeness. We will be conduits of His power and fire. His fire comes to purify us. Help us not to abort the process of purification. We put ourselves on the altar and say, "Clean us up. Make us new." We want to be those who can be used by You. We don't want our love to grow cold for You. Keep our hearts burning for You.
We are delivered from every spiritual coldness and weariness. We rebuke the spirit of weariness over God's people. We come against every demonic power that would make them weary, sleepy, or tired when going after God in prayer or reading His word. We speak strength. There will be no compromise this year. We will not be one foot in the world and one foot in Christ. We will have the ability to stand.
The world is getting harder. The enemy is trying to run rampant. We need staying power and endurance to keep going even when our flesh is weak and we don't feel like doing it. We cannot do this by ourselves—that is why He gave us the Holy Spirit.
We thank God for momentum. Our momentum will not be stayed or stilled. We will move. We will not quit. We come against every spirit that tries to make us give up. We come against every demonic power that makes someone quit. We speak strength.
We decree endurance in marriages. A threefold cord cannot be untied. God is the center of every marriage. We come against the spirit of divorce. We come against every demonic power of argument. Husbands and wives, be slow to speak and swift to hear. We command peace in homes. For wives who are crying, we pray God will send peace to those houses. For men who are crying, we pray God will send peace to their hearts.
We come against weariness over mothers and fathers with their children. God, strengthen them now. We come against every demonic power that tries to wear out their hearts. Give them wisdom. Give them insight and foresight. Give them strategies for parenting. Let their hearts not grow cold but form with love.
We speak healing to broken places now. We decree that the gospel of Jesus will be preached in homes. Your word will be the center of every family. We cover families now in the name of Jesus. We come against disagreements, arguments, and misunderstandings. We pray peace, joy, forgiveness, and love.
We decree our families will be saved. We decree our families will be delivered. We decree our families will experience the power of God.
We thank God for the vision of this house and every leader, team leader, elder, and minister. We will stay focused on the vision at hand. We will not lose our strength. We come against every spirit of Delilah that tries to lull the church into a trance. We will not sleep on our watch but will stand our watch. We will see from the spirit realm.
We come against every demonic spirit whispering to remove our strength. We decree and declare we shall not lose our strength. We shall not go blind. We decree that our ears will be closed to every seduction spirit. We will stand our watch. We will be watchmen and watchwomen. We will stand our post. We will not lose hope or expectation.
We come against every demonic power that tries to make us lose expectation or stay unfocused. Your word says in Isaiah that as the rain falls from the sky unto the land, so shall Your word go forth out of Your mouth and it cannot return unto You void. It cannot come back empty. It must accomplish and shall prosper.
We thank God for a season of prosperity. Our dreams shall prosper. Our vision shall prosper. Our families shall prosper. Our children shall prosper. Our hope will not be cut off. Our expectation will not be cut off.
We command a stirring in our hearts again. God, help us to have a memory. We remember when You gave us 122 Brixton Hill in the midst of what shouldn't have happened—You gave us favor. We're standing in a miracle of a building that was sold three times, but You did it anyway. We remember when in the midst of all we were going through, You gave us two more buildings and 28 plus acres of land. We remember You gave us a theater with no money and You helped us buy it with cash.
If You could do it for this house, You'll do it for my house. We will not give up. We will not throw in the towel because You're more than able. Your word says You'll do exceedingly abundantly above all you could ever ask or think, according to the power that works in us.
We will not fall apart in the middle of the blessing. At Your word we trust You. We trust You when we can't trace You. We trust You when it doesn't seem like it can happen because You're a God that works with impossible things.
We trust You because You never lie. You said in Your word, "You are not the son of man that should lie. What I say, that settles it." We focus and stand on Your word. We stand on Your word because we know You're able. You're able to do it. You're able to fix it. No matter the situation we're bringing to You today.
We will not lose because we serve a God that's given us the victory. It's already fixed and finished. So we trust You, God, in the midst of our circumstance. We will not fall apart. We will not bow to any other god. We will stand knowing that You're able. You are Jehovah Gyra. There's nothing in You that we cannot get.
We will not go tired. We will not go weary. We will stay focused. Let us have the eyesight of an eagle. Let us have keen eyesight. You are the God Eleazar. You are the God of strength. You are the God that gives strength. You are the God that gives hope. You are the God that gives everything we need.
We will not lose momentum. We will not lose speed. We come against everything that causes delays and pushes us back. Some of you have lost your momentum and speed. We pray against the demonic power that tries to slow you down. We decree the cadence of God to be manifested. We will not be delayed. We will not be denied. We will not be slowed down.
We come against everything slowing the saints down. Some are slowed down in health, in mind, in the workplace. But God gives you grace. His grace is sufficient. You will have time to read your word. You will have time to pray. Give us a will. Give us a heart. Give us the strength.
We come against every delay, every slothful spirit. We bind laziness now in the name of Jesus. We rebuke it. It is not our portion. We come against unusual tiredness and fatigue. We rebuke it now. We will not be tired. We have supernatural strength and power.
You will have the strength to do what God has called you to do. You will not be tired. You will not be weak. Your age is just a number. It's not anything to stop you. People were being used at 60, 70, 80. Your age will not stop you this year. We decree strength, strength, strength.
We come against oppression of the mind. We command your thinking to align. You will think positive things. You will not give up. Your mind will not go wayward. Strength in your body. We bind sicknesses. We bind unusual diseases. We bind everything that would try to slow you down. We command health in the name of Jesus.
The scripture lets us know that people are going to grow cold. People are going to become mean and evil. But we want to be a testimony of God's love and light. We want to be the people that people see and go, "Oh my gosh, they represent God."
Our next prayer point is taken from Romans 1:16: "For I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Gentile."
Paul previously viewed the cross as a stumbling block before his conversion. He saw the early Christian church as a threat to Rome. But now the very thing he was being threatened by, he boasts openly. He says, "I will never be ashamed of the gospel for it is the glory of God for my life." After encountering Christ, the very message he despised became the message he boldly proclaimed.
We are not ashamed. Look at your neighbor and say, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ." Because it's the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes.
When the word of God goes out, it breaks chains. It transforms hearts. It redeems the lost. It brings dead people to life. No other religion can do that. Islam does not break chains. Hinduism does not break chains. Sikhism does not break chains. Buddhism does not break chains. But the gospel of Jesus Christ breaks chains. It transforms hearts. It redeems the lost. It brings dead people to life.
Salvation isn't earned. It's not inherited. It's not restricted. It's not limited by ethnicity, gender, or social status. It is received by faith.
We pray that we will speak the gospel of Jesus Christ with boldness and confidence. When we come face to face with agnostics and atheists, we can boldly declare the gospel that it breaks chains and that it redeems.
The gospel of Jesus Christ destroys addictions to drugs. The gospel of Jesus Christ breaks addictions. If you are addicted, if you have a habit, the gospel of Jesus Christ can break it tonight because it is the power of God unto salvation. The gospel brings liberty to those that are bound.
Hold fast to your belief tonight. Do not move from your belief. Be unmovable. Be unshakable. Be unstoppable. We are in a rapidly changing season. The government is quickly turning over legislation. It's a mess. But if they would turn to Jesus, if they would turn to the gospel of Jesus Christ, everything would be set back in order.
God hasn't changed. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. If they would just know that the gospel is the answer—not new legislation, not new decrees in parliament, but the gospel of Jesus Christ. That is the answer to end crime in our nation. Crime has gone off the scales. Knife crime is the highest ever seen. But if they would just know that the answer is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
There is a remnant here tonight that has not bowed to Baal, and we believe in the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ and we will continue to believe in the name of Jesus.
Some people once believed but they gave heed to seducing spirits. That will not be our portion tonight. We will continue to be proud of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Put on the belt of truth. When we witness to people the gospel, they will know that we are true disciples of Jesus Christ. When we speak, may we speak with boldness and confidence that the gospel is true and the living word of God.
You don't have to get into debates with anybody. Some religions love to argue and debate. They ask things like, "God had no son. Where did Jesus come from?" We don't do debates. We just know the gospel is true. Because of the blood of Jesus, we wouldn't even be here. The person you are today—had it not been for the blood of Jesus, we wouldn't be here.
If that's not signing off, the past is the past. We are no longer the same person. We are changed people because of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Because it's the power of God unto salvation.
We will put on the gospel shoes and continue to spread the gospel in the north, in the east, in the south, and in the west. We will let them know that Jesus Christ is Lord. We will not bow to the commands of this nation. But we know who God is. He is the I am that I am. He is the everlasting God. He is Jehovah Gyra. He is Jehovah Shamar. He is Jehovah Shalom. He is Jehovah Nissi, the God who is the Banner.
When the enemy comes against us like a flood, He stretches His banner like a tent and says, "Touch not My anointed and do My prophet no harm." That is who God is. That is the gospel that we believe in, and we will never stop believing.
Our next prayer point is that the oil of heaven—the Holy Spirit—will lubricate all the spiritual gifts inside of us so that we can become powerful witnesses for Jesus Christ in our community.
In Acts 2:1-4, when the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly, a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the entire house. They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. They were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Oil in the Bible is a metaphor for the Holy Spirit. Oil is a lubricant. As the oil fills us, it will lubricate and bring back all the things that dried up—our peace, our joy, our prayer life.
I know what it's like to have a broken heart. Some of you are nursing a broken heart. Some of you tonight are facing disappointment. Some of you have been let down and betrayed by people. But tonight, say to your neighbor: "But tonight, the Holy oil that flows down from heaven is going to permeate. It is going to bring back all the things in your life that dried up."
Maybe you're thinking, "We're in May already. I haven't seen change yet. It's the same old, same old, same old." But let me tell you: God sees you tonight. He has not forgotten you. The oil of heaven is about to lubricate all the things that seem barren in the name of Jesus.
Oil means to permeate. To permeate means to impregnate, to infiltrate, to infuse, to invade, and to pass through. Oil leaves a stain. It leaves a residue. If you have oil on your hands and you handle certain fabrics, it will leave a mark and a lasting impression. So may the anointing cause us to have an impact wherever we go, whatever we touch, and be powerful witnesses for Christ in our community.
You and I have spiritual gifts inside us that God wants to use in extraordinary ways to meet the needs in our community. May we walk out of this place tonight confidently in faith with Christ Jesus, and the Holy Spirit will direct us which way we should go. We are not ashamed of the gospel. It is the power of God that brings salvation.
Whatever time you feel tired, that's the time to keep praying and the Holy Spirit will infuse you. It will come like a sudden rushing mighty wind, like a blood transfusion, and it will revive you.
Those of you that have gifts and want to start a business—find that office space by faith and believe. Those of you thinking about university, "I don't know, I'm too old. Maybe it's past my time"—move by faith tonight. The Holy Ghost, the oil of heaven, is going to lubricate everything you thought was dried up because there is no failure in God.
Whatever it is you are waiting on God for, know tonight that He is lubricating every barren thing and every dry thing. Stir up the gift in you. The gift of prophecy. The gift of evangelism. The devil is a liar. You are going to make it. We might be in the fifth month. You haven't seen it yet, but God is lubricating those things that seem dried up.
Our next prayer point is that there will be no shortage of vessels that God can use. We are in the last days, and the gospel will be preached to the four corners of the earth. But we want to pray that there will be no shortage of vessels.
In Luke 10:2, Jesus said: "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest field."
Raise your hand and say, 'Here am I, Lord, use me.' When God was looking for a vessel, He looked down and Isaiah said, "Here am I, God. You can use me."
Say to God tonight: "Here I am, God. You can use me." As long as there are vessels, the oil will continue to flow and people will get saved. The harvest is great, but the laborers are few.
We come against distractions and everything that causes us to be so busy that we hardly have time for God. May we be sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit and ensure that we do not become so preoccupied that there's no room for the Holy Spirit.
The days have come when God has made a new covenant with man. The Spirit is new. The Comforter proceeding from the Father and the Son—the gospel is new. God has spoken to us by His Son. We preach Christ crucified. Since everything in Christianity is new, we must be new. We must be born again. There has to be a change—a change in our character. The life we live must be a changed life or people will not be convicted.
We want to pray for the youth. The youth of this day are under so much pressure. Those of you who are saved—it's not easy. You never had to deal with the things young people face today.
Father God, we pray for our young people. When they go to school, may they have their books in one hand and the Bible in another. They will say: "We will not bow, oh king, irrespective of what you try to put on us, irrespective of your teachings. We will not bow, for there is no other god but the one true God. He is the I am that I am. He is the alpha. He is the omega. He is the beginning, and He is the end. He is the one true mighty God."
We pray that leaders and influential people will rise up and be new politicians that will go into the houses of Parliament and say, "Thus said the Lord. This is immoral. This is illegal. We will not stand for it." We pray that the young people will rise up—a new generation of boldness with foreheads of flint that will say we stand for the gospel of Jesus Christ. We will not bow to any other god. We will not bow to Nebuchadnezzar.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar? Who is he anyway? We know him not. But we know the God who parts the seas. We know the God who sends fire down from heaven on Mount Carmel. He is the Lord. He is the one that we will serve. We will serve no other god.
Oh God, our young people—that they will not be confused with their identity. We come against every identity crisis. When it is forced upon them, they will say the gospel says this. My Bible says this. God created Adam for Eve and Eve for Adam. There is no confusion. The Bible is clear.
We pray that those young people will stand by the beliefs and what they've been taught in Sunday school and the vision will not be blurred. We come against the blurring of vision, especially when they get to that tender age of 13, 14, and 15—when things seem to get a little muddy and blurry.
We come against you, Satan. The Lord rebuke you tonight. Leave our young people alone. Take your hands off our youth. They don't belong to you. They belong to Jesus Christ. We will see our investment in Sunday school. The Sunday school teachers take time out and teach them from babes. When they get to a certain age and go to university, they shouldn't have an identity crisis.
We come against that spirit. The Lord rebuke you, Satan. Leave our young people alone. They will be who God said they shall be and nothing less. They will be pastors and prophets and teachers and evangelists in the name of Jesus.
We come against all of the messed up legislation. It is a mess in Parliament. We speak that there will be order. In the beginning there was darkness upon the face of the deep and the Lord breathed and He said, "Let there be light," and there was light. We command that there will be order in the name of Jesus in the houses of Parliament.
This is a time to pray like never before. Don't wait for it to happen. Pray that it will be God's will. Two will put 10,000 to flight. There is more than two here. We are dangerous people in this place tonight. We are dangerous people.
Look at what we can do if everybody prays tonight and says, "God, we have had enough. Enough is enough. We want the right people in government, God. We want the right leaders in government, God. People of integrity, God. People of honesty, God. We don't want crooks in Parliament. Enough is enough, God."
We were born in this country and we don't even recognize it anymore. What has it become? God is saying, 'Pray. Raise up your voice. Raise up a shout.'
When the children of Israel wanted Jericho, they didn't do anything but march around seven times. On the seventh day, Joshua said, "Now shout for the victory." And the walls came tumbling down.
What went before the children of Israel? The ark of God. The praise. The tabernacle. The tablets of stone. Aaron's rod. That was in the ark of God—the ark that they couldn't even touch. One man touched it and he felt dead. The ark went before them. Holy God went before them and they took Jericho without fists, without sword. The walls came down and they walked in and took what they should have had all the time.
You don't have to be on the outside looking in anymore. Enough is enough. Know that you have a mighty God. His name is Jehovah Sabaoth, who sends hosts of angels to His people's defense. Do you know who God is? He is the alpha and the omega. He is the beginning and the end. In today's alphabet, you would say He is a and zed. He is Yahweh, the self-existent one. He has always existed and will always exist. We can rely on Him because He is our eternal source of strength.
We decree and declare:
2 Corinthians 1:20 says: "For all the promises of God are yes and in him, amen, to the glory of God through us."
Praying or prayer is not convincing God. Prayer is agreeing with what God has already spoken. God is convinced. He knows our end from our beginning. He knows exactly what He is going to do in your life. Prayer is saying, "I agree with what God has already said."
When it says "yes and amen," the amen is in conjunction with Jesus. You can't have an amen without Jesus. The yes happens because it's in Him that the so-let-it-be can manifest. So when we're decreeing the promises, we are decreeing that our promises are fulfilled because God has already spoken it.
Prayer is not to convince God to manifest it. It's already done. It's already done.
Father, we just want to honor You. We just want to bless You. We just want to give You the glory. You have heard today that Your prayers are yes and Your promises are yes and amen. We come to stand before You in faith. We come to stand before You with our hearts as an open book.
You have inscribed precious promises and decrees on the inside of us. We have to contend for these things in the place of time. They have already been done in eternity past. But we stand on the precipice of time.
I pray in the name of Jesus that we won't give up on Your promises. We won't give up on Your promises. We won't lay them down. We won't turn around. We won't quit. We won't faint. We won't bury them. But Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that as we're praying today that there is going to be an excavation. There's going to be something that is dug up—the things, Lord, that we once thought were laid dormant or we experienced too much time or we experienced too much heartache and heartbreak. And so now, Lord, we've put those promises aside.
I pray, Father, that You will reach in the hearts of man and begin to stir up again the things that we have in our spirit, the desires that You have placed in our heart in the name of Jesus. Father, we see in Your word that You are not a man who should lie, nor the son of man that should repent. But Father, You are a truthful God. Your word is forever settled in heaven. There are some things that You have spoken over us—it's already settled.
I pray in the name of Jesus where we have felt unsettled, where we have felt uncertain, that we come back to a place of stability. We come back to a place of assurance. We come back to a place of certainty—not in ourselves, not in our own abilities, not in our efforts, but in what You have already done, in what the blood of Jesus has ratified, in what the new covenant has expressed towards us.
Oh Father, we will not turn back. We will not faint. I pray in the name of Jesus that everyone who is weary concerning Your promises, weary of believing—I pray in the name of Jesus that they will not turn back, that they will not faint, but Father God, they will press on towards the mark of the prize of the high calling.
I pray in the name of Jesus that You will give us language in this day and age, Lord, where we've begun to speak words of fear, where we've begun to speak words of doubt, where we've begun to speak words of unbelief. Change our language. Take a hold of our tongue so that we may say the right things, so that we may confess Your word, so that we may put Your decrees in our mouth. When we decree a thing, it shall be established.
I pray in the name of Jesus that there are some things that are going to be established in the UK, established in Ruach City, established in our homes, established in our jobs, established in our careers. Father, You promise some things concerning our finances. You promise some things concerning healing. You promise some things concerning breakthrough. You promise some things concerning our emotional well-being. You promised some things concerning our relationships.
Father, in the name of Jesus, may all these promises which are in You—yes and amen. May we enter into a season where these promises begin to take place, begin to take root, begin to come into fruition in the name of Jesus. Oh Father, we will not be turned away. This is not our season to turn away from the promises of God. This is not our season to cast away our confidence, which has great recompense of reward. But Father, our trust is still in You.
We are the just and the righteous, and the just shall live by faith. Father, help us to walk like it. Father, help us to talk like it. Father, help us to live in the realm of belief. Help us to live in the realm of vision. Help us to see these promises in actuality in the name of Jesus. And we walk like it. We talk like it. We pray like it. We praise like it. We serve like it. We worship like it—like it's already done in the name of Jesus, like it has already come to pass in the name of Jesus.
For it has already come to pass. It is already. Yes. It is already so be it. And so, Father, we thank You that we will walk in these precious promises in the name of Jesus.
Lord, may You take a hold of our hearts. Take a hold of our hearts. I sense warfare in the heart. I sense warfare in the mind. Lord, take a hold of our hearts in the name of Jesus where our hearts have begun to waver, where our minds have started to become double-minded concerning Your promises. Help us, Father God.
Root us back in Your word. Take us back to the journals of old. Take us back to the scripts of old. Take us back to the prophetic utterances of old—things that were decreed over our life that we've begun to waver from, that our heart has become discouraged.
I pray in the name of Jesus over all of us today that our hearts are being filled up again with courage, things that we stopped uttering because of fear. I pray in the name of Jesus our tongue will be loosed again and we will decree the promises of God with assurity in the name of Jesus.
I pray Father, you erase the residue of disappointment. Lord, we firmly fix our trust in You. Some have trusted in horses. Some have trusted in chariots. But Father, we will trust in the name of the Lord. We root our trust back in who You are—the God who never lies, the God who has spoken good things over us, the God who will withhold no good thing from those that walk uprightly before You.
Lord, we decree that You are watching over us faithfully to perform Your word. You are looking for the fruit of Your word to manifest in our life. And we step back into alignment in the name of Jesus.
Oh, we step back into alignment in the name of Jesus—that we will walk in the things that You have expressed, and that we will see Your goodness in the land of the living.
Oh, we receive Your promises today in the name of Jesus. Father God, where our disobedience has caused delay, where our disobedience has caused resistance, we come back into a place of repentance in the name of Jesus. We turn away from what we know we should not be doing and we step back into the grace of our living God. We step back into right thinking. We step back into right saying. We step back into right believing. We step back into right actions.
Lord, we won't just be a hearer of Your word, but we will be doers also. And Father, as we look into Your perfect law of liberty, we thank You that Your promises are released unto us. May we never ever forget again what You have decreed us to be.
As we look in the mirror of Your word, we see that we are men of valor. We see that we are women of virtue. We see we are a people of excellence. We see that we are the head and not the tail. We see we are above and not beneath. We see we are lenders and not borrowers. We see we are the victorious and the righteousness of God in Christ.
Thanks be to Christ Jesus who always causes us to triumph. I pray, Father God, for those that are believing You for victory—victory in a financial area, victory for healing in their body or healing over a family member, victory in our marriages. When the enemy has come trying to break up relationships, we pray the promises of the Lord over our finances. We declare the promises of the Lord over our natural body. We pray the promises of the Lord over our families, over our children, over our husbands and our wives, over our marriages in the name of Jesus.
Oh Lord, You have promised good for us and not evil. Your thoughts and intentions for us are good and not evil. All things are working together for our good. And so, Father, we will celebrate You as if Your promises are true.
Where the enemy has dulled our praise and stolen our joy because we feel that the promises are out of reach, I pray in the name of Jesus that You stir up the joy of the Lord once again. You put on us the oil of gladness for the joy of the Lord is our strength.
And we will rejoice again. We will see Your goodness in the land of the living. We will see the manifestation of every promise that has been spoken unto us and it will not be held back and it will not be delayed in the name of Jesus.
Some of you, God is going to help you see again the way He sees because sometimes our perspective when we're believing for the promises of God gets shifted. This is going to be a season where God is going to strengthen your identity. He's going to let you know that you are who He says you are. His word over your life is yes and amen.
You don't need approval of men to confirm what heaven has already declared. You are chosen. You are called. You are covered by God who does not go back on His word. God is confirming to you that the plans and the promises that He has for you are good to give you a future and a hope.
I confess and I decree over you that the purpose of God over your life is settled in heaven. That it is working it out on your behalf in the name of Jesus. I also decree over you that God is your provider. He will supply all of your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Lack does not have a thing on you. Lack is not what He promised.
Every resource, every open door, every connection, everything you need to fulfill the promise of God over your life will come to pass. I decree that by the stripes of Jesus Christ, you are healed. You walk in healing. That healing belongs to you. Deliverance belongs to you. It's a promise from the Lord. You don't have to beg Him for it. It's already a done deal in the spirit. It's already a done deal in the name of Jesus.
Healing belongs to you. And I come against every report that contradicts what the word of God says over your life. You are the healed of the Lord in the name of Jesus.
And father, we decree right now breakthrough on every side. Father, I decree over your children that every closed door that you have ordained will be open. Every mountain that stands in the way of your promises, you will lay flat. That this will be a season that your children walk through the open door.
That the promises of God, the yes and the amen are unlocking doors right now. The yes and the amen are opening up things that they never thought possible. Lord, I'm thanking you that as we stand here today, believing for Your promises, trusting You, that Lord, we will believe you for Your character. We'll believe you because we know your character.
And so, Father, in this moment, we lift our hands. We lift our hands and we worship You and we thank You for what You are doing. We thank You that our legacy doesn't end with us. We thank You that Your promises don't just end with us, but they go throughout the generations coming after us.
We thank You, Father God, that You are building us to be able to encapsulate and hold the promises that You have for our generations and the legacy of our families. Father, we thank You for Ruach. We thank You for Bishop. We thank You for First Lady Penny. We thank You for Elder Wanita and every elder that is a part of this house.
Father, we say breathe again. Breathe into the body of our bishop. Breathe into the body, Father God, of Pastor Penny. Breathe into Elder Wanita. Every elder, every person that holds a pillar in this house, we say the promises of God are knocking them down.
Father, right now, we thank You that this is a breakthrough season in this house. That Lord, they're about to walk in the promises of God like never before. Father, I thank You for what You're stirring in this house. Father, I thank You for what You're stirring—that Lord, there's a new realm of glory that they're about to walk in, Father God, that is going to impact not just this nation, but the world, Father.
That Lord, the word that You spoke even over our bishop from when he was in the womb, Father God, that there are things he hasn't even yet walked in, but we decree that this is that season. Father, we're thanking You that they will be known as the house of yes and amen. People will look in envy and say, "Blessed is Ruach City Church," blessed because everything that God has spoken has come to pass.
Our cousin, Bishop's nephew, Gareth, has had a stroke. We want to pray for him. We want to believe God that no weapon formed against him shall prosper. That every demonic power trying to hinder his body, we come against every sickness, everything that the enemy may try to do.
Father, we put Gareth before You right now in the name of Jesus. We speak healing and deliverance right now in the name of Jesus. Father God, You said in Your word that You were wounded for our transgression. You were bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon Your shoulders and by Your stripes we are healed.
Father, we thank You for the healing power that is touching Gareth's body right now. We send angels, oh God, to that hospital now. And we command in the name of Jesus every stroke be destroyed in the name of Jesus.
We speak to every nerve ending in his body. We decree that they shall hear the word of the Lord. We speak to every blood and every plasma in the name of Jesus. We speak to white blood cells. We speak to red blood cells in the name of Jesus. And we decree that they shall hear the word of the Lord.
We come against every signal that's gone wrong in his body that's spoken against his body. And we decree and declare that his body will align in Jesus' name.
We send Your healing power. You are the God that heals. Father God, You said that healing is children's bread. So we decree that healing come to his body now from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet.
We come against every power of darkness that will try to stop and hinder his life. You said that the righteous shall not be cut off. So we come against every premature death in the name of Jesus. And we decree life in the name of Jesus—life and life more abundantly.
We decree life in him in the name of Jesus. We command life, oh God. We decree that his hope will not be cut off. We decree life. We speak life to that room now in the name of Jesus.
God, send Your angel. God, You are the master physician. You're the one that knows every detail, and we decree and declare, Lord God, that You will do a 24-hour miracle. Let the doctors marvel at what You can do.
We place it in Your hands. We place it in Your care and we believe it is done in Jesus' name. The prayers of the righteous avail much. So we stand in agreement and we believe it done in Jesus' name.
Seek, pray, and expect. We have sought. We have prayed. Now we expect miracles. We expect manifestation. We expect answered prayer. We expect the promise of God to be manifested.
As you're getting your seed, we're decreeing that the promises of God will manifest in your life, over your house. We decree growth, revival, transformation, salvation. We decree kingdom impact. We decree the promises of your families be restored. We decree that your household will be saved. We decree that relationships will be healed. We decree that the prodigals will come home. We decree that God will be glorified in your answered prayers. We decree that you'll become the evidence of answered prayers.
We decree that glory will be made manifest through us because we believe that His promises are yes and amen.
As you're getting your seed, decree this: "The promises of God are yes and in him, amen. We decree that God is faithful to His word. We decree that my faith is being strengthened. My expectation is rising and God will be glorified in everything."
I pray that you've been blessed. May the promises of God be manifested in Jesus' name. Yes, it is so.
