Brothers and Sisters, here are the prophetic words from the joint prayer meeting. May I suggest you take them into your prayer closet.
Jack Flanagan
September 30th Joint Word of Life/Word of God Prayer Meeting
Ø Is.42:5-9 This is what God the LORD says-- he who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and all that comes out of it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it: "I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.
"I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols. See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you."
“And the Lord says to us, the Holy Spirit is moving in the world and doing a new thing. I am calling the hearts of many to come to me. I am calling you to come to me. I am building community around the world. Will you come and build with me? Will you come and gather together with me to worship me and reach out to the lost? I am building community around the world; will you come and build with me, says the Lord.”
Ø “I tell you, it delights my heart to see you here today for you are a people formed into my own heart. Those of you who have come from far distances, and those of you who have been near, those of you who have called my name and always know me, I say this to you, you are a people that have been given a great portion of my Holy Spirit. I imparted my Holy Spirit to you unlike any others. Whether you received this in your youth or you received this recently, it is a portion of my Holy Spirit not like any. And I ask you, what have you done with it? How do you use your gifts? When I called you up from your youth, I asked one thing of you – a radical heart. And as you grow in age and grace and wisdom, I ask the very same thing of you – a radical heart. I have never changed my call to you, no matter where you have gone, no matter where you live, no matter how far away you have fallen, I call you up day and I tell you that I have never left you. I have never left you, I have stood next to you and I have called to you. I have called you by name. I say, a radical heart is what I have asked of you. Give me that today.
Ø Psa 24:7-10 Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is he, this King of glory? The LORD Almighty-- he is the King of glory.
Ø “Break open the vessel. Break it, I said! You think the vessel is precious, but it’s what’s inside that is precious to me. Pour it out. Do not save the vessel because you think it is beautiful, but break it, I say, and pour out what’s inside. For it is beautiful, it is fragrant, it is Me.”
Ø “I gave you my life in the Spirit. I gave you my Spirit as I gave my Spirit to many others for the renewal of my people who confuse and harass my sheep without a shepherd, many of them. I gave you my Spirit in the past for the renewal of my people and you responded. But my wish is that you bear much fruit and not go to the past but go to the present. And today if you seek me, I will give you my Spirit. I will give you my Spirit to bear fruit today to welcome the renewal of my people who are even more confused and more harassed. I want each of you to bear much fruit. I want each of you to work for renewal. I want each of you to obey my Holy Spirit. I want each of you to take peace and joy in believing to those I have set in your life. My wish is that you bear much fruit and bear it now!
Ø The Lord gave me an image of a house with all the shades drawn down and the windows locked tight. And I felt like many of us, especially because of difficult times and some of the stuff with community, that the instinct sometimes is to retreat, to build a wall around your heart, to build a wall around your house and protect your family. In the image that I had I saw the shades just flipping up in this house and the doors being thrown wide open. And I feel like that is what God wants to say to each and every one of us. We have been given so much, so much of the Spirit, so much wisdom about how to live lives conformed to Christ, so much support in knowing one another and loving one another. We shouldn’t be ashamed of that, we shouldn’t be apologetic. Even if our lives don’t look like what we thought they were going to look like and things turned out differently for us, we’ve been given so much. And for the younger people, even if things don’t quite look like what we wish they should have looked like in your family or in your community or your churches, you’ve been given so much. We really need to open up the windows and throw open the doors and let people into our lives and literally into our homes. It doesn’t matter if they are dirty or chaotic. Let them in to our hearts and our lives, even if we feel a bit dirty and chaotic. God’s love and mercy is so present in our lives and we have so much to offer. Spiritually and literally the window shades can be lifted up in our homes, and not only can we let people in but it also allows the light and love of Christ to come into us with more and more of his life which is what he wants to do with us.
Ø The Lord gave us a word about being radical and having radical hearts. The Lord brought to mind that the word ‘radical’ refers to roots. The Lord wants our hearts to be rooted in Him, rooted in His Word, rooted in what His Spirit is calling us to. And He does NOT want us to be rooted in the world, in what the world says, rooted in what the world has given us or not given us. He wants us to be rooted in Him. And as we are rooted in Him and rooted in His Word, He will then be able to use us. He will then be able to use us in a way that is radical in the sense that we are more usually think of.
Ø Eph.3:14-19 For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ø I have been so greatly encouraged and was struck again by my favorite aspects of this community is that we represent so many churches. We are unified across denominational lines. This is a miracle of the Holy Spirit in our generation that cannot be appreciated too much. As I was reflecting, the Lord spoke to me. “Ours (this generation) is the generation that the Holy Spirit has declared the repair of the Body of Christ. We hold the deposit guaranteeing that inheritance. The Lord has declared that unity enviable. We are like Job who the Lord allowed Satan to shake, and worry and rob and over whom he declared ‘a line over which the enemy could not cross. We have been broken and split and scattered and disillusioned and disappointed and a lot of other things, but our affection for one another, our belief that God resides in one another, our respect for God within one another, remains untouched to this day. We are a foretaste, we are a prophetic announcement to the whole church that ‘the Spirit can do this, the Spirit did do this, the Spirit is doing this’. And the wounds and the amputations that the enemy has inflicted on the Bride of Christ are being healed and put right in our time. And the significance, the witness, the impact of the unity of the Body of Christ from this time forward will have a greater impact than it did in the time of the first Apostles.”
Ø “Indeed the Lord says 40 years ago in a sovereign way I poured out my Spirit upon you and my tabernacle among you. And it was for this very purpose, for the unity of my church. And I have brought you safely thus far and you have remained faithful and my hand is yet upon you. I have yet work for you to do. Today is a turning point. Today is a turning point whether or not you will receive the call that I have yet for you this day, whether each one of you will surrender and go on with me. I will be pleased to take you on into the move I have in this nation and around the world. For indeed I am moving in fresh and new ways, and I call you to be part of it, my people. I love you, my hand is upon you, I have not forsaken you, and you have not forsaken me. Do not tolerate division among you but walk together arm in arm, and I will use you, says the Lord.”
Ø You are my beloved children, and I am well pleased with you. I love you all. I know what you want, I know what you need, I know what’s in the depths of your heart and in your soul. And as your Father I want to give you these things. I want to give you all the things you want and need, the things you need in your daily life, the things you need in your daily lives: your food, your clothing, your shelter, your love of family. And more importantly I want to give you the things that you want – to do my will. I know that you have a burning inside of you, that you want to live for me, that you want to lead others to me, that you want to bring my light to the world. And I am well pleased. And I want to give you all that you need and all that you want. I need only for you to ask for it. Pray. Pray alone for it, but more importantly, pray together. Pray with your brothers and your sisters, with your mothers and with your fathers, pray with your husbands and with your wives, pray with your friends, pray with everyone. Pray, and I will do the things that I have promised. I will help you to do my will in this world
