Lord,
As I begin this night watch and in preparation for this day, teach us to become disciplined men and women. You have said repeatedly this year "I am not a sugar daddy - I am God!". Father we repent for looking to you as one to meet our needs and desires, but not the Creator of everything. Forgive us for not honoring and respecting You. Let us truly learn that our living, moving and being is in You and only You (Acts 17:28). Teach us to put everything in proper perspective. Give us a heart and passion to stand in the gap and contend with you for souls so you do not have to pour out your wrath on them (Eze 22:30).

Teach us how to no longer live "sloppy Agapa" lives, where so much is about us and so little about You. Teach us discipline in every area of our lives, that we begin paying attention to the "little" things. Let us not be as King Hezekiah was (2 Chr 32), who You said there was none like him either before or after. And yet You laid bare the pride in his life that cost him his life, and that pride cost him a shortened life. Give us a willingness to search our hearts, to acknowledge what we find and to throw ourselves on Your Altar until You change our hearts!

Amen

Vaughn,
The Lord says, "I am the Lord. I am the one who birthed this web site and ministry, who put the idea and passion in you to see it succeed. I am the one who has spoken. Therefore I am the one who will see it accomplish what I desire. The attacks you face, the financial attacks to pull you away from this ministry - they are not attacks against you but attacks against Me. I will answer those attacks. I will guide your hands and give you what to speak. Turn your heart and eyes fully to Me. Contend with Me to see My hand move. Lift your eyes up and see the angelic hosts I have positioned on the hills surrounding you, and realize the battle truly is Mine!"

Be blessed my brother, and know that He loves you!

Lord,
In these troubled times, teach us to take our eyes off our circumstances and put them on you. Teach us to war, and when we are warring to stop looking at the blood and gore on the battlefield, but to look up and realize the battle is Yours and not ours. Teach us to take what is spoken in your and apply it to our situations. Teach us to understand your word and how it applies to our situations, and therefore is our deliverance and way out of battles!

Let us read 2 Ch 20:15 and take it to heart in our situation! And let us raise the standard in 1Sa 17:47 "And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for it is his battle, and he will deliver you (this is whatever situation we are in!) into our hands."

Teach us to praise and worship our way through battles. Teach us to follow Your directions and guidance, and not lean on our emotions and thoughts. Teach us to eat meat and not longer desire just milk. Teach us the power of repentance, of standing in the gap for our brethren and the nation and repenting for our sins, that your hand may be loosed and not remain bound.

We call upon you Oh Lord. Remember Your word of days old. Remember what you have spoken. Vindicate your Name and your Word. Let not the enemy ridicule your Name.

We pray these things in the mighty name of Jesus,
Amen and Amen!

The Lord is consistently speaking about our becoming disciplined men and women of God, of allowing Him to build character is us, so the world sees something different in us.

As I was grousing before Him on the way home today, He began talking about King David,Joseph and Moses. The process of building discipline and therefore character in these men was fascinating! David - running for his life for so many years, wondering what he did to deserve this, why Saul wanted to kill him. And then later committing murder, adultery and thinking how he had lost everything. Joseph - brutally removed from his homeland, sent to a difficult place, locked in prison for things he didn't do, treated badly, and all of this for many years. Moses - committed murder, spent 40 YEARS(!) walking around a mountain in the middle of nowhere, tending sheep, wondering what ever he was going to do.

And look at the results - David reigns as king of all Israel, Joseph becomes second in command of all Egypt, whose word was obeyed the same as Pharoahs, Moses becomes leader, prophet and man of God responsible for leadings Millions of people. All positions of extreme power and privilege. All positions where their words and actions had direct and serious repercussions. All positions where they had unprecedented access and interaction with the God of the universe. All positions requiring very disciplined lives and incredible character!

Lord,
You are about to do some incredible things in this nation and the world. We will see your judgment and glory poured out as never before. And yet you keep calling "Is there none who will stand in the gap and contend with me so I do not have to pour out my wrath and judgment on this people?".

Do not look any further Lord. Here we are, use us to reach, touch and change a dying nation. Let us be your hand extended that your glory can pour through to touch and change lives. Do in us whatever is necessary to build the discipline and character so we can be carriers of your power and glory. Break off the things of this world and our flesh that would pollute your glory. Complete what you have spoken regarding us. Give us fresh vision, remind us of the call on our lives.

Change us, break us and crush our hearts so your sweet savor can flow forth and touch a nation.

And I pray these things in the matchless name of Jesus!
Amen

Lord,
I will say to you "You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. You will save me from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence. You will cover me with you feathers, and under your wings I will find refuge; Your faithfulness will be my shield and rampart. I will not fear the terror by night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. A thousand may fall at my side, ten thousand at my right hand, but it will not come near me. I will only observe with my eyes and see the punishment of the wicked! For Lord my living, moving and being is in you and you alone!

Father, teach us to walk in simple obedience and trust before you, that we will not lean on our own understanding any longer, that we will turn with our whole heart to you as a chick does to its mother. Teach us to commit EVERY thought, EVERY worry, EVERY care, EVERY anxiety at your feet - AND LEAVE THEM THERE. Let us no longer put things at your feet and then pick them up again and start worrying about them. For we cannot change one that that has already passed, and we cannot change one thing that will occur tomorrow. We can only THIS DAY choose to trust you and abide within you.

Thank you for loving us, for being so very faithful and steadfast. We bless you tonight Lord!

Amen!

While in prayer one day I had this vision:
I saw this beautiful white church with beautiful white siding, white windows and shutters - just immaculate looking. And as I gazed on it and admired it, the Lord came and stood beside me and began critically examining the church, looking at it from all angles. Then He began ripping the boards off the sides of the church - I cried because it hurt. When He had ripped all the boards off He began ripping the tar paper under the white boards off of the siding. I screamed because it hurt soo bad. When He had removed all the tar paper you could see the wood rot in the boards, some boards only had spots, some had huge amounts. He said, "Son of man, what shall we do? Shall we remove just the areas of rot or shall we remove the entire board?" The vision ended at that point.

The interpretation: the church represented us (the saints). The tar paper and white boards represented all the efforts we had done to cover over who we really were, what we really were, so we would appear clean and pretty to those around us. God says "No More! I will have a spotless and holy bride!"

He is requiring us to examine our lives and our walks and our ministries. He is requiring a level of honesty with Him where we acknowledge our sins and shortcomings, throw ourselves on the horns of the altar and cry out for Him to change us, clean us up and give us new hearts. We have a window of time to work with Him on these areas. If we will not deal with these areas between Him and us then there is a day coming when He will publicly deal with us, stripping all the facades away, laying us bare that we may have an opportunity to repent. He will do this because He loves us too much to just allow us to go to hell.

The reason He will deal with these areas (and ALL of us have areas He wants to change), particularly those of us in ministry, is bring us to a place where we represent Him, the King of kings and Lord of all. Remember when God told Moses to speak to the rock, and in his frustration he smote it? That action cost Moses the promised land because he misrepresented God to the people. We must represent Him accurately. And when we have "cooties" and lie about them being there we represent Jesus as a liar.

I challenge each of us to begin truly dealing with our lives, walks and ministries before the Lord while it is yet day. We have an awesome job just ahead of us with a huge number of souls coming into the Kingdom. Let's complete the job He gave each of us.

Lord,
Give us the courage and willingness to open our hearts and expose everything to you. You already know what is there anyway. We're only fooling ourselves. Let it end this day. Open us up, clean us up and let us walk with you in holiness and purity.

Amen

When Jehoshaphat was going out to battle (2 Chr 20) the Spirit of the Lord spoke through Jahaziel and said "Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's .... You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the Lord will give you .... Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged"

Lord,
Give us courage and faith to stand in the midst of the battles coming against us. Break the yoke of fear and passivity we have lived under. Teach us to lift our eyes and hearts to You and not get hung up on the devil. Break the emotional ties we have lived under.

Teach us how to pray and take our positions on the wall and battlefield You have called us to. That means we need to know what our positions are, where they are, and how do we stand in those positions.

Teach us how to stand firm, unwavering, not matter how boisterous the enemy gets. We put our eyes on You Lord. Teach us to be as a stallion that fully obeys its Master, no longer seeking to play and run with the colts. Teach us to stand unwavering until You give the command to move. Then let us move AS YOU SPEAK AND NOT ONE INCH FURTHER OR LESS. Teach us hear Your voice and no other.

Lord, I bind the emotions of fear, weakness and passivity that have come against us. I loose supernatural faith, courage and strength upon us, that we will quit ourselves as men and women of God, that we will be as David's mighty men who fought until the sword had to be pried out of their hands, that stood and withstood knowing no fear. I loose the faith and courage that was upon Deborah as she led the men out to battle.

Lord, let each of us take up our assigned positions and no longer step aside. We are in a war and You are our leader. Give us a taste for battle, blood in our mouths and a passionate unquenchable desire to see the enemy removed from our land. Look no further Lord, for here we are. Let us be your hand and sword extended.

And I pray this in the mighty name of Jesus!
Amen

Oh Lord,
This day - THIS DAY - we call out for your Presence. Come Lord! Come and fill our homes and gathering places! Come Lord. Do not stay away. Put such a passionate hunger in our souls that we will truly seek you with all our strength, with all our mind, with all our hearts. I say again, come Lord!

Affect our hearts and minds to the point we begin giving you ALL of us, and not just a portion. Become the center of our lives and thoughts. Your presence comes when we seek You with all of our hearts. Oh Lord! Teach us how to pursue with wild abandonment. Take us back to the days when we were pursuing our spouses, and how we would do anything, be anything, go anywhere just be be in their presence. Let us be that and more with You.

We repent for holding our hearts back from you, or just giving a conditional part of it to you. In repentance we commit to turning and giving our all to you. We love you so very much! Have an awesome night my Lord!

Amen

I am very stirred tonight! Chuck Pierce in his book "Reordering Your Day: Understanding and Embracing the Four Prayer Watches" brings out two excellent points: Where the is prayer, praise and thanksgiving God's Presence will come; Where there is CONTINUAL prayer, praise and thanksgiving God's Presence will DWELL!

We have an opportunity as never before in History! to usher in the Presence of the Lord, not just for a short period of time, but ongoing! The Moravians grabbed ahold of this principle at Herrnhut. They kept the fires of prayer and praise burning on God's altar for over 100 years! And for over 100 years God dwelt with them, poured through them and turned the world on its ear! For over 100 years! God is calling us once again to man the night watches, to stand in the gap and contend with Him, to worship and adore Him - until He can stay away no longer!

Our key to fulfilling the mission laid before us, individually and corporately, is to dwell in the Presence of the Lord, continually experiencing His power and love. If we will grab ahold of this and run with it, we will have the very Shekinah Glory of the Living God dwelling in, with and around us! Do we want revival? Do we want God's presence? Then let us contend with Him in prayer and worship! Let us pull down Heaven until we and Him are one! Let us lay aside all hindrances and press in to the very throne room of God! Let us do what He has called and appointed us to do!

Oh God,
This day we choose to change our walks - this day we choose to press into your throne room and worship you. This day we lift our eyes off the battle fields and doubts and place our sight fully upon You. This day we ask you to come - mess up our schedules and lives, rearrange everything and draw us back into what you have called us to do. This day we contend with you to be in your presence. Let us be as men and women who spend the better part of each day in prayer seeking your face. Teach us Lord, break the old patterns and set new patterns in place. The hour is late and the need is great. Do not pass us by, but rather draw us to you! Lord we love, worship and adore you. Thank you for teaching us how to love you!

We pray this in the mighty name of Jesus, to the pulling down of every stronghold and pocket of resistance. Loose your hand upon us.

Amen!

Lord,
Throughout the Old Testament You have spoken repeatedly of how Judah and Israel's kings did what was right in Your eyes but left the high places and both the kings and the people committed sin in these places, which eventually led to judgment against them (As a example: 2Ki 12:2,3 "Joash did right in the sight of the Lord all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. Yet the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.")

Lord, this chain of sin and unwillingness continues unbroken to our current time. We need to take a stand and deal with these areas in our lives. Teach us what the high places are in our lives. Let us not go on as we are, but give us the courage and willingness to probe our hearts and be changed. Do not let us continue as generations have in the past. We want Your presence and shekinah glory to DWELL with us! But You have not changed - You have spoken both in your word and other ways that we have a choice: life or death. If we choose sin and death then you cannot dwell with us, for you are a Holy God. You have given us a way to repent and be cleansed of our sing, to be changed from Glory to Glory. If we choose the way of life then you can dwell with us and we with you.

We repent and cry out to You. We repent for allowing moral perversion and sin to continue unchecked. We repent for allowing (and yes, voting into office) open homosexuality and other sins in our schools and governmental offices. We repent for allowing babies to be murdered and then justifying it. We repent for our arrogance and pride

We deserve your judgment, but I cry out for your mercy, that you will work with us a little longer. I pray that you will expose the sin we have covered over, giving us a chance to repent and change. I pray that you plough up the ground we have so carefully covered over and lay the roots bare. Bring us to a place of repentance where you can dwell with us, Lord.

I pray these things in the mighty name of Jesus,
Amen

Lord,
This day - THIS DAY - we lift President Obama and his cabinet before You. Father, it does not matter who we voted for, whether we like President Obama's political stand or anything else. We must remember that it was not man that put him in office, but You. If we would have stood before You differently things might have turned out different. But that door is closed, and when we step through a door everything that was is no more! Before us now is an entirely different set of options, neither good nor bad. We cannot change the past and we cannot change the future - both of those areas are yours. We can affect the present.

Lord, we choose not to rebel against you any longer. As with the Babalonian exile in days of old where there was a 70 year time period that had to pass, so there is a time period that must pass now. Teach us to discern the times and seasons. Teach us to walk in the place You have put us now. Teach us to contend with You. Teach us how to pray in this hour, how to grab ahold of You and not turn loose. Teach us Lord how to stand in front of You and contend until we move Your hand. Teach us Lord that it really does not matter who is in office, for they will move and do as You direct and allow them - and You move and direct them according to our prayers and stance before You!

Lord, I rebuke that rebellious spirit we have walked with for so many years. I bind that spirit that leads us to be little self-gods who rebel against Your commandments and judgements. Lord, I put a hedge around us that we will humble ourselves before You, that we will settle in an seek Your face. Lord, have mercy that do not have to bring the following to bear against us:

2Ch 36:15-21 The LORD God of their ancestors continually warned them through his messengers, for he felt compassion for his people and his dwelling place. But they mocked God's messengers, despised his warnings, and ridiculed his prophets. Finally the LORD got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment. He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered their young men in their temple. He did not spare young men or women, or even the old and aging. God handed everyone over to him. He carried away to Babylon all the items in God's temple, whether large or small, as well as what was in the treasuries of the LORD's temple and in the treasuries of the king and his officials. They burned down the LORD's temple and tore down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned all its fortified buildings and destroyed all its valuable items. He deported to Babylon all who escaped the sword. They served him and his sons until the Persian kingdom rose to power. This took place to fulfill the LORD's message delivered through Jeremiah. The land experienced its sabbatical years; it remained desolate for seventy years, as prophesied.

Now Lord, move Your hand in President Obama's behalf. The enemy thinks he now stands in power in the White House, with a freedom to direct the President's actions and directives. But Lord, it is You that directs and controls all things. I loose Your angelic host round about him and the White House that all demonic influences will be broken off, that a Holy reverence and fear of God will settle on them, that they will make decisions to turn this country back to you. Do not let President Obama be as Nebushaddnezer who rebelled against you, and ate grass and lived as an animal until he learned to humble himself and fear God.

Do a mighty work in this hour and turn this country's leadership and people back to You. Be glorified and honored in this land.

I pray this in the mighty name of Jesus,
Amen

Lord,
Your favor is such an interesting thing, like Your Grace and Glory. When we respond to Your sovereign hand, to Your will and desire, You begin dropping Your favor on us and we begin accomplishing things we were unable to do before and we begin accessing places we did not previously have access to.

Conversely, when we do not respond to the moving of Your hand, when we do not listen to Your voice then Your favor lifts and we begin finding fault with things and people, we begin blaming and criticizing.

Your favor is something we must pursue each day, like the dew each morning. It is there and waters and nourishes, but then it goes away as the day progresses. Your favor is there for a season of time, and as we seek You each day it is replenished. But if we pull away and cease praying and worshipping You it lifts and we become cold and dry, useless like salt that has lost its ability to be salt.

Lord, all through Your word the high places are linked with places of sin and iniquity; places of idolatrous altars. These places have been there since the beginning - because we have not heeded Your word and destroyed them. When we turn to these high places, these places where we sin and commit idolatry, these places where we worship anything and everything except You then Your favor lifts from our lives and we become a stench.

Lord, I bind this spirit that we have yielded to for so long. You have said in Your word that what I bind on earth You will bind in Heaven and what I loose on earth You will loose in Heaven. I bind the spirit of idalotry and witchcraft. I bind the spirit of pride and ego.

Rind the heavens Lord. Strip away the facades we have put in place to make it look like we are doing okay. Rip off the bandages we have placed over our wounds that prevent them from being healed. Rip this Laodicean spirit from our eyes and minds that we no longer be passively let things be. Lord, when Israel crossed into the promised land You told them to utterly destroy the various tribes of people (all the "ites"), leaving nothing alive. You did this because You knew if we left them alive we would join with them and begin doing as they did. Those tribes left alive, when we look at who and what they were and represented are the very things we battle today - lust, envy, jealousy, sexual sins - all of the things that turn us from You.

Lord, this day, separate them from us. Give us a taste of blood in our mouths that we will go afte the high places in our lives and utterly destroy them. Bring a division, not only in the church but in the nation that we become two distinct camps - those who love you and those who hate you. Do not allow us to continue in a lukewarm state. Cause that "line of demarkation" to become very visible and apparent.

Lord, even in this ministry - I put a wall of fire, of Your annointing around this ministry and everyone connected with it. I tear down every permissive spirit. Deal with each and every heart, with our motives and intents. Bring a holiness and fear of the Lord into all our dealings. Cause every heart to be examined, every action and thought to be examined and judged. Cause "Holiness Unto the Lord" to be written across our foreheads.

Lord, in this nation write "Holiness Unto the Lord" across each doorpost in the Capitol. Deal with and judge each ones actions and intents. Cause a level of accoutability - a standard for righteousness - to be raised. Expose every action that would be hidden. What we would seek to do in private, bring it out publicly. Let a reverential fear of the Lord be instilled in us. Loose Your angelic host and deal with us on every level. Visit us with Your Glory!

Lord, I pray these things in the name of Jesus, that name above EVERY OTHER NAME.
Amen!

2Ch 33:8-13 ... I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given to Moses." But Manasseh misled the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed ahead of the Israelites. The LORD confronted Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.
So the LORD brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon. In his pain Manasseh asked the LORD his God for mercy and truly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors. When he prayed to the LORD, the LORD responded to him and answered favorably his cry for mercy. The LORD brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh realized that the LORD is the true God.

Lord,
I cry out for Your mercy AND judgment. We have sinned greatly. We have lied, cheated, defrauded and stole from those You entrusted to our care. We have passed laws saying it is okay to murder babies. We have passed laws saying it is okay to live with the same sex and commit attrocities and unspeakable acts. We have attempted to legitimize detestable acts.

But the real tragedy here, Lord, is that we did this to cover over our shame at doing lewd and indecent acts, of fornicating and committing adultery, of committing idolatrous acts with spouses that we are not joined with. We passed these "laws" to ease our own conscience, to make it look like we were just doing "natural" things.

We refused to listen to and murdered Your prophets when You sent them to admonish us. We refused to bend our necks and humble ourselves, but rather continued our abominable practices. We have set ourselves up to suffer the same consequences that Manasseh suffered in the above scripture! We have set ourselves up to bring Your anger, wrath and judgement upone our heads, all for the sake of a fleeting moment of physical and emotional pleasure!

Lord, I cry out to You and repent for our nation and the abominable acts we have done. I cry out for Your Mercy in dealing with us. But I cry out for Your Judgement. I cry out for Your Judgement now, that we might be saved later when we stand before Your Judgement seat. Lord, Manasseh learned humility and contriteness from the sufferings at the hands of the Assyrians. He learned these things through torture and sufferings.

I plead for Your mercy in how You deal with us, but I cry out for Your dealings now that we may be saved later. Lord, break the self-god spirit that rules us, break the arrogance and pride we have lived with. Humble us in Your presence.

Visit this nation Lord. Shine Your light in every corner, clean the cobwebs from the closets. Lay bare those things we have attempted to hide. Do not let darkness hide any longer. Bring this nation to accoutability before You. Show Yourself as God to this nation that we may learn humility now and be saved later.

Let Your words come through Your prophets in a manner that cannot be refuted. Demonstrate Your Power. Demonstrate Your Holiness! Save this nation - remember what You have spoken over it in days past - remember Your Word, and defend this nation FOR YOUR WORD'S SAKE!

Amen!

Hab 1:1 The following is the message which God revealed to Habakkuk the prophet:
Hab 1:2-4 How long, LORD, must I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you, "Violence!" But you do not intervene! Why do you force me to witness injustice? Why do you put up with wrongdoing? Destruction and violence confront me; conflict is present and one must endure strife. For this reason the law lacks power, and justice is never carried out. Indeed, the wicked intimidate the innocent. For this reason justice is perverted.

The Lord's answer to Habakkuk: Hab 1:5 "Look at the nations and pay attention! You will be shocked and amazed! For I will do something in your lifetime that you will not believe even though you are forewarned.

Now open your ears and hear the heart of your God -
Repent! Repent! Change your ways, turn from the wicked path you have continued to follow! Know that the Lord is coming, and He will not tarry. He has sent His messengers the prophets compelling you to repent and change your ways, and you have steadfastly refused to listen.

Listen to what God has to say in His word:

Rom 1:18-32 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Rom 2:1-5 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. Now we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment? Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.

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These charges God has presented are true and accurate. I charge you this day - Repent! turn from your ways, and cry out for God's Mercy. Know that He is coming soon and will execute judgement upon us. Repent! Cry out to Him while there is still time, for the day comes when it will be day no more, and you will have no recourse.

President Obama, know that God put you in office. Do not listen to those who would lead you away from the one true God. Do not listen to those who would lead you down a stony path. Turn with all your heart to the one true God. If you will humble yourself before God and cry out to Him for guidance and direction He will guide you and you will have a very fruitful presidency. You will see this nation turn back to the one true God.

If you will not humble yourself before God then know that He will humble you. The decision lies in your hand, for God has given you free choice. Choose wisely sir, and watch the Glory of God fill your presidency.

Lord,
Take us in your chambers today. Teach us how to pray and walk holy before you. Teach us to be open and vulnerable. Show us how to get in each others faces and draw one another deeper with you.

All too often, Lord, we just deal with facades and cliches. When asked how we are doing and what are we doing to go deeper, we give the pat answers "I'm doing good. Yes, I am reading my Bible and praying."

But, what are you reading, what did it mean to you. Tell me how it affected you. What are you praying, specifiically. How did it affect it and what did the Lord speak to you.

Lord, teach us how to encourage and draw each other out of the normal and into the supernormal. Bless my brethren today, mess up their days and time tables. Draw them closer to you. Give them dreams and open visions. Take each one deeper than where they are today. Speak your mysteries to them. Give them your heart.

Lord, I bind all distractions that would pull them away from you. I loose your angelic host round about them. Let them be about Kingdom business this day.

Amen.

Tonight's prayer comes out of how I feel God is dealing with me. I love to eat, and for years have eaten anything and everything I wanted. For years I have been a very undisciplined man, doing whatever I wanted. For years I have had very high blood sugar and chose to ignore it, feeling that as a man of God He would take care of me. For years I have followed those portions of God's word I wanted to follow and ignored the rest!

Several months ago, the Lord began dealing with me regarding discipline, about becoming a disciplined man and a man of discipline. In this dealing He is requiring me to walk a very fine line with Him. I can no longer eat what I want or do the things I used to do. I can no longer pick and chose the parts of His Word I like and ignore the rest! He has had mercy on me in the past, but it is a new day and a new season. Those things He used to allow in the past are not allowed now.

He told me I can walk with Him and learn discipline or I can do my thing. If I choose to do my thing He will still love me, but I will suffer the consequences of my actions and choices. To put it bluntly, He said He will heal me and set me free IF I listen to Him and follow His guidelines. If I choose to continue doing my own thing then I can lose body parts and suffer greatly. Not a very pretty picture, huh?

The last several days I have been lax, not eating a lot of bad food, but not paying attention to what I was eating and eating too much of those things - bottom line, my blood sugar went up 100 points and I began feeling really funky and uncomfortable.

We have entered a season where we do not have the lattitude we used to. DAILY we must take up our cross and follow Him. DAILY we must put our flesh to death. God is calling for His word and commandments to be listened to and followed. When He speaks a word He EXPECTS it to be followed, or we reap the results of our disobedience.

Now the prayer:

Lord,
You are a Holy God, a Just God, a loving Father who desires the best for His children. But You are also God, the Creator of the universe, the Maker of all things, the One to whom EVERY knee shall bow. You are not a sugar daddy, one whom we can do whatever we want and then come to when we have an hurt and expect You to take care of the hurt, but otherwise just ignore.

Lord, you are like a full-meal-deal. We take the whole package or nothing at all. Teach us to understand and follow Your commandments. Teach us the court system we operate within. Teach us how Your Son died on the cross for our sins, that we can be free and not locked in bondage of any type. But teach us how that court system requires blood to be shed, that to be Your sons and daughters and walk in the freedom Christ purchased for us, we must follow and adhere to Your commandments and laws. As You have said in Deuteronomy chapters 7, 8 and 9 IF we remember You are God who loves us, IF we do not become proud and haughty, IF we destroy the idols in our lives, IF we keep our eyes on You then You will save us and do what You have spoken to our forefathers. If we do not do these things then You will destroy us.

If we choose to ignore Your word and commandments, then we effectively make Christ's death on the cross null and void, and when we stand in that court room it is our blood that is shed. But our blood does not pay the penalty and we lose our lives and spend eternity in hell.

Lord, teach us to be a disciplined people who seek with a whole heart to do Your will, who pursue You with a passion, who swerve neither left nor right, but stay focused on You. Forgive us Lord for doing our own thing, for violating Your laws and statutes, and then expecting You to just look the other way. Forgive us for our arrogance and pride.

Remove these things from our lives and set us on a right course. Remember the word You have spoken over us. Do not forsake us, but deliver us.

We choose LIFE. We choose to turn from our wicked ways. We choose to trust You and lean on You. We choose to remember as it says in Acts 17:28 that our living, moving and being are in You and only You. We love You Lord.

I pray these things in the mighty name of Jesus,
Amen!

A word from the Lord for President Obama,

The scripture preceding the prayer is from the book of Daniel and it involves a dream that King Nebuchadnezzar had:

Dan 4:18 "This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, had. Now, Belteshazzar, tell me what it means, for none of the wise men in my kingdom can interpret it for me. But you can, because the spirit of the holy gods is in you." 19 Then Daniel (also called Belteshazzar) was greatly perplexed for a time, and his thoughts terrified him. So the king said, "Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its meaning alarm you." Belteshazzar answered, "My lord, if only the dream applied to your enemies and its meaning to your adversaries! 20 The tree you saw, which grew large and strong, with its top touching the sky, visible to the whole earth, 21 with beautiful leaves and abundant fruit, providing food for all, giving shelter to the beasts of the field, and having nesting places in its branches for the birds of the air - 22 you, O king, are that tree! You have become great and strong; your greatness has grown until it reaches the sky, and your dominion extends to distant parts of the earth. 23 "You, O king, saw a messenger, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, 'Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven; let him live like the wild animals, until seven times pass by for him.' 24 "This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree the Most High has issued against my lord the king: 25 You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like cattle and be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes. 26 The command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots means that your kingdom will be restored to you when you acknowledge that Heaven rules. 27 Therefore, O king, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue." 28 All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar. 29 Twelve months later, as the king was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon, 30 he said, "Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?" 31 The words were still on his lips when a voice came from heaven, "This is what is decreed for you, King Nebuchadnezzar: Your royal authority has been taken from you. 32 You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like cattle. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes." 33 Immediately what had been said about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people and ate grass like cattle. His body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird. 34 At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever.

President Obama,
As I stated in an earlier prayer, God has put you in office as the President of this country. Whether it is right or wrong is not the issue any longer. The issue is God has established you as the President of this country. He has put you in a position of great power and authority, where you have the opportunity and responsibility of guiding a nation of people.

Nebuchadnezzar was in a similar role in his time. God put him in office (re: Jer 27:6 Now I will hand all your countries over to my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him.). He wielded great power (life and death) over a large empire, but his heart was lifted up and he became prideful - and God humbled him, putting in the field with wild animals until he became a wild animal. After a lengthly period of time Nebuchadnezzar humbled himself and repented, and God returned him to office.

Sir, you are in a similar situation. You wield tremendous power in this country and the world. God has given you the opportunity to turn this country back to Him. He has given you the opportunity to end abortion and stop killing babies. He has given you the opportunity to help and be a friend to Israel. He has given you an opportunity to humble yourself before God, to cry out to Him for help and guidance, and to stay the course He has put you on.

Sir, I beseech you, beg you - yea - cry out to you. Hear the word of the Lord, harken unto Him, do what is right in the Lord's eyes. Read the Bible and let it pierce your heart. Turn to the Lord with all your heart, mind and spirit. Serve Him and watch His hand move to establish you.

By the same token, Sir, study history and see what has happened to those men who rebelled against God, served their own ends and ignored what God spoke to them. Their end was never pretty.

Choose wisely Sir. Choose life and not death. You do not have to fear man, for man cannot do anything to you. You and I alike to need to fear the one and only living God, who has life and death in His hand. Choose life Sir! Choose to be all God has appointed you to be. Choose life!

Lord, I call upon you to strengthen and guide President Obama in the office You have placed him. Give him wisdom and understanding. Give him the courage and fortitude to stand and therefore to withstand all the pressures of the office. Guide him hand and mind. Speak to him in the night hours. Turn his heart fully to you Lord. I commit him into your hands Lord.

I pray these things in the awesome name of Jesus,
Amen

Lord,
We will dwell in the shelter of You the Most High, we will rest in Your shadow. You are our shelter and our fortress. You are our God and we trust in You. Surely You will save us from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence. You will cover us with Your feathers, and under Your wings we will find refuge; Your faithfulness will be our shield and rampart.

We will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. A thousand may fall out our side, ten thousand at our right hand, but it will not come near us. We will observe with our eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.

We will make You our dwelling, and our refuge, and no harm will come near our tent. For You will command Your angels to guard us in all our ways! They will lift us up in their hands so that we will not strike our foot against a stone. We will tread upon the lion and the cobra; we will trample the great lion and the serpent.

You will rescue us because You love us. You will protect us, for we acknowledge Your name. We will call upon You, and You will answer us. You will be with us in trouble, and deliver us and honor us. You will satisfy us with long life and you will show us Your salvation.

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Lord, we hold you to Your word as spoken in Psalms 91. We remind You of Your word and what You have spoken. We remind you that Your name is at stake, and it is for Your name sake that You will perform what You have spoken. We are but a little bit of dirt and water - but You breathed life into us, set us on high with You and gave us the inheritance that You spoke to our fathers of old. It is for these reasons that we stand before you this day and plead our case.

Save us, change us and continue molding us into Your likeness FOR YOUR NAMESAKE AND WHAT YOU SPOKE. Break the bondages we have been under. Heal our land. Teach us to rebuild our walls, to build with one hand, and to war with the other. Teach us to stop resting during a season of war, but to be constantly vigilant and on watch.

Lord, I rebuke those things that have hindered us, and I loose a spirit of trust and strength and willingness to walk in what you have called us to walk. I loose hope and encouragement that we will look to you and not to ourselves. I give your our love, for it is rightfully yours. We bless you this day my Lord!

Amen!

Job 22:28 What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways. (NIV)
Job 22:28 Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.(NET)
Job 22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. (KJB Pure Cambridge Edition)

To decree a thing, to decide on something - whatever translation you look at tends to mean the same thing - it is rendered "to divide", "to cut down", "to cut off", "to decree", "to snatch"

Hold on - we're going someplace with this!

The implication seems to be that whatever we set our minds on, whatever we speak, whatever we purpose in our hearts - when we speak it we are setting in motion a chain of events that causes a rift in the heavenlies. That what we decree or cut off, God will ratify or do that that we speak. In other words, God impresses something on our heart or shows us an area in our life that needs to change. As we answer that still small voice, then God sets in motion events to fulfill that request. The latter part of this verse " ... and light will shine on your ways" seems to imply that NOW God's favor and blessing will flow in your life!

In other words, God speaks it to us - we come alongside His words and decree it in our lives or country - God answers that decree and sets events in motion to bring it to pass - God then blesses us with His favor and blessing for doing that that He ask us to do!!! That looks to me like a WIN - WIN situation!!

Lord,
You have called us to take care of the gardens You have placed us in, to plow up the soil, to water and care for those put in our charge and clean their wounds. You have called us to be watchful and sound the alarm when danger approaches. You have called us to contend with You for change to take place.

Lord, this day we put Job 22:28 into affect. We declare that we will uncover and deal with the secret sins in our lives. We declare that we will draw a line between what we have allowed in the past and what we will permit in the future. We declare that from this day forward we will walk in holiness and purity.

We give You permission to mess up our lives, to change our way of thinking, to break the cycles that have held us, to heal our hearts and give us the strengh and courage to say "No" to our flesh and "Yes" to You.

Lord, shine Your light in every closet and expose those things we have been afraid of and bound by. Bring us to full awareness of our actions. You have set this nation apart as Your people. You have spoken over this nation and its path since its very beginning. I hold You to Your word, that You remember what You have spoken. Let not Your name be blemished or reproach brought against You. Remember Lord!

I pray these things in the Mighty Name of Jesus!
Amen

Hey Darrel
I am now sighned up, your daily prayers are really awesome, I liked the one the other day you wrote for the President. So loving and yet derective and so true.

1Co 6:12-20 You say, "All things are permitted for me," but not all things are profitable. You say, "All things are permitted for me, but I will not be under authority by any." Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food; but God will make useless both of them. Yet the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body. Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Messiah? Shall I then take away by violence and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "THE TWO WILL BECOME ONE FLESH." But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee fornication. Every other sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who is committing fornication sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a Temple of the Holy Spirit Who is in you, Whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price, so indeed glorify God in your body.

Lord,
We have sinned greatly. You have called us to walk in holiness and purity before You. You have given us man for woman and woman for man. We have sinned - we have chosen to take our bodies back from You and to pleasure ourselves one with another, out of marriage, and doing vile things woman with woman and man with man. We have attempted to legitimize it through laws saying that we were born with these sexual preferences. In doing that we have lied to ourselves and to You, making You out to be a God who makes mistakes. Away with that!

Lord, let us be honest with ourselves and with You. We have poluted our bodies and minds out of selfishness and and a desire to please ourselves. We have chosen to throw caution to the wind, to not believe Your word regarding why we are like this and what the results of our actions will be. You are a just and holy God; You have given us simple commandments (the Ten Commandments) to follow, You have given Your written word to guide our daily lives and activities. You have made it so simple and easy to obtain everlasting life with You. Because of how easy it is to walk with You and the enormity of the blessing You have given us, therefore the judgement for willfully choosing to ignore and walk away from what You have offered must be equally enormous! You never created Hell for mankind - You created it for satan and his fallen angels.

But if we choose to turn from You as our loving Father and willfully choose to walk with satan in his depraved passions then we take him on as our father, and therefore must take on his punishment - eternity in hell, separated forever from Your love.

Oh Lord, we repent for the hardness of our hearts, for how quickly we settle back into our sinful ways. Expose us now, show us what we are doing, judge us now Lord, so we do not have to receive judgement later. Uncover our sin, break the bondages we have been under. In Your mercy set our captive souls free. Turn our eyes from ourselves back on You, where they belong. Heal our land and we will be whole. Cleanse our minds and hearts and we will be clean.

Lord, give us the courage and resolve to quit ourselves like men and women of God, turning from how we have been in the past, and setting our sight on You. Let us no longer fall under the judgement of Romans 1:21-32, shown below.

Heal our land Lord! Heal our minds! Break the cycle, that we may come before You and worship You!

Rom 1:21-32 For although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks; but were made vain in their reasonings, and their undiscerning heart was darkened. Asserting themselves to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God into an image in the form of corruptible man, and of birds and four-footed animals and reptiles. Therefore God delivered them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the Creature besides the Creator, Who is blessed forever. Amein. For this reason God delivered them up to dishonorable passions; for their females exchanged the natural sexual function for what is against nature,and in like manner also the males left the natural sexual function of the female and were inflamed in their longing toward one another, males with males working shame and receiving back within themselves the necessary reward of their deception. And just as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God delivered them up to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, iniquity, covetousness, malice, envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous order of God--that those practicing such things are worthy of death--not only do the same, but also join in approving those practicing them.

Lord, I lay these petitions before you and ask for Your hand to move upon us now. Expose our sin, break the bondage. Judge us now.

I pray these things in the matchless name of Jesus!
Amen

Lord,
One final prayer for tonight. I call for Your peace that transcends all human understanding to wash over the folks that run the website, and that same peace to wash over all who use this site.

I bind the efforts of the enemy to bring discension among the staff and users, to disrupt the work You are doing both on and through this site. I bind those spirits that would use people to attack people. I bind the pride and arrogance that would have folks snipping at one another.

Lord, I know it is not their hearts.

I loose a spirit of Mercy and Grace upon all involved. I loose a spirit of compassion and gentleness. I loose a spirit of faith and trust upon all parties. I loose a willingness to forgive others, that we will be quick to forgive and VERY SLOW to hold a grudge or hurt.

Give us the ability to work together as a team. Affect and change each person connected with and/or using this site. Lord, perform all of what You have destined to do on this site, and let nothing deter or slow down Your desires and plans for it.

I call these things forth and decree them in the mighty name of Jesus,
Amen!

I believe this is a Word from the Lord for the church in this hour:

I believe the Lord is drawing a line in His church. We have lived a "sloppy Agape" life in the past, picking and choosing from God's plate those things we wanted to do and leaving those things that did not appeal to us. We would accept what came from the pulpit as long as it tickled our ear and sounded good, but if it required us to change or pricked our hearts then we put a wall up and refused to accept what was spoken. As I have spoken previously we have treated the Lord as a "sugar daddy", expecting Him to heal our hurts, but staying out of our way. The Lord has spoken consistently that "I am not a sugar daddy - I am God!"

I believe the Lord is saying "No more", that from this point forward we will find a split taking place within the church - a dividing of camps. You will be forced to choose one camp or the other, but you will not be allowed to live in both camps! I believe this dividing of the church is beginning to happen now, and will accelerate very rapidly.

One camp will be passionately in love with Jesus, seeking His heart in everything they do. They will press the Lord hard and consistently to be taken deeper with Him. They will grab ahold of His word and run with it. They will be quick to repent and slow to speak. They will be become a praying people, with knees like a camel from spending so much time communing with their beloved. They will be like Jesus who spent soo many nights in prayer to find what His Father would have done the following day. This camp will come more and more to a place of only doing what the Father shows them to do. This camp will come more and more to a place of standing against the things of this world and satan, of taking the stand for righteousness no matter what the cost. This camp will pull the Glory of God down to earth, ushering in a move of God that will truly bring multitudes to the Lord.

The other camp will become more and more aligned with the things of this world. They will not be willing to turn loose of earthly pleasures. They will be sensually aligned to each other and those of the world. They will allow the world to dictate and run their spiritual lives, becoming like bread with too much yeast. They will become puffed up with themselves and be of no spiritual use. They will not listen to correction, nor will they receive reproof. They will passively allow anything the world wants to do, saying that it must be the Lords will. This camp will have no desire to spend time in prayer or worship, choosing instead to do things that bring immediate gratification to their emotions. This camp will grow more and more cold, fighting anything that attempts to move them towards righteousness. This camp will allow homosexuality and othe perversions to exist in the church and will teach gullible people that it is okay in the Lords eyes.

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My brothers and sisters in the Lord, choose wisely for the decisions are being laid before you. The cost of being a son or daughter of the Most High will escalate until it requires everything of you. The longer you delay in making a decision for Christ the harder it will be to make that decision, for you will have planted too many seeds in satan's vineyard.

Remember the scripture I shared the other night?

Job 22:28 Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

The more decisions you make unwisely on following the Lord, the more those decisions will be established and the light (or the blessings of God) will shine less and less in your life. Your senses will become deadened until all you can hear is satan's voice. The day of Judgement will come upon you quickly - and you will hear those frightening words from the Lord - "I do not know you. Depart from Me to everlasting darkness!"

Pay particular attention to the following scripture:

Eph 5:3-10 But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints. Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting — all of which are out of character — but rather thanksgiving. For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God's wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.
Therefore do not be partakers with them, for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light — for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth — trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

Lord,
I pray we will choose wisely, that we will cry out to You from a repentant heart confessing our sins, then You are faithful and just to forgive our sins and cleanse of from all unrighteousness.

Lord, the heat is going to be turned up and it will be harder and harder to take a stand for righteousness. As the world system makes it a hate crime to stand against homosexualism and lebianism, give us the courage and strength to stand and therefore to withstand. Give us Your love to love the sinner (the one caught in these despictable acts), but to hate the sin. Give us the courage and love for You that we will take a stand and draw a line in the earth and say "No more! It stops here and now!" Show us who we are in You, sons and daughters of the Most High, that every knee will bow before You, that we are carriers of Your Glory and so we will act accordingly!

I pray these things in the mighty, matchless name of Jesus!
Amen

My brethren,
Tonight I want to encourage you. I just read a portion of Chuck Pierce's book "Interpreting the Times". He quotes Rev 12:7-9 on page 28:

Rev 12:7-9 Then war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels went forth to battle with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought. But they were defeated, and there was no room found for them in heaven any longer. And the huge dragon was cast down and out--that age-old serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, he who is the seducer (deceiver) of all humanity the world over; he was forced out and down to the earth, and his angels were flung out along with him.

He then writes, "The obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ to be a sacrifice for mankind secured the triumph over the dragon. However, today we are still engaged in the conflict to enforce the right of dominion that we have been given. The more you pray and cry out to the Lord, the more He pushes the enemy into your sphere of authority in the earth realm. So when the enemy manifests against you or shows up in your path, this is because you are on the verge of winning a great war against him or because you are at a place of birthing your next vision. This is the time that you should shout, "NOW salvation and strength have come!" The manifestation of resisting tactics of the enemy is one of the key road signs that you are walking in victory and entering a NOW season."

My brethren, I don't know about you but when I read that section regarding the more we pray and cry out to the Lord, the more He pushes the enemy into our realm of authority - Oh Glory! I have been speaking on realms of authority for quite awhile now, and about the garden that the Lord has placed each of us in.

We have been given authority in that garden to tend it, clean out the rocks and dirt clods, pull the weeds, nurture those in that garden - and to expand its borders. We are to draw a line in the earth and tell satan and his cohorts - "No further! Out!" We are to stand strong and firm and watch the salvation of the Lord!

Did you expect it to be a cakewalk? Satan knows where he is going. His whole purpose on this earth is to take as many souls with him as possible, thereby attempting to hurt God as much as possible. The battle really has nothing to do with us, other than we are the battlefield - the battle is truly between God and satan, and the battle is already over. Three times I have seen an open vision of the Lord returning on His stallion - the look in his eyes is cold and set as stone, the veins stand out on His forearms, His beard is close-trimmed, His left hand is resting on His thigh, His stallion is cantering at a ground-eating lope. He is not coming to fight a battle! He is coming to claim those that are His, for the battle is already over!

The more satan goes about blustering and attempting to create doubt in our minds, the more you know that you are on a right path. Stand strong, stand true to God's word, hold your ground no matter what things look like in the natural. Remember what it says in Ephesians. Hold these words firmly in your heart!

Eph 6:10-18 In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides].

Put on God's whole armor [the armor of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies], that you may be able successfully to stand up against [all] the strategies and the deceits of the devil.

For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.

Therefore put on God's complete armor, that you may be able to resist and stand your ground on the evil day [of danger], and, having done all [the crisis demands], to stand [firmly in your place].

Stand therefore [hold your ground], having tightened the belt of truth around your loins and having put on the breastplate of integrity and of moral rectitude and right standing with God, And having shod your feet in preparation [to face the enemy with the firm-footed stability, the promptness, and the readiness produced by the good news] of the Gospel of peace.

Lift up over all the [covering] shield of saving faith, upon which you can quench all the flaming missiles of the wicked [one]. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword that the Spirit wields, which is the Word of God.

Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty. To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints (God's consecrated people).

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We have much work to do and many souls to bring into the fold before the Lord returns. Fight a good fight, lock your vision on Jesus Christ and Him risen, pay no attention to the blood on the battlefield, for the battle is the Lords and not yours. Focus ENTIRELY on Jesus, trust in His strong right arm. He will perform all He has spoken, He will bring you through the battle, He will strenghen you and He will not lose any that His Father has given Him.

Trust Him!

In the precious name of Jesus,
Goodnight!

I want to share why I bring so many of the prayers I bring:

The word of the LORD came to me: "Son of man, speak to your countrymen and say to them: 'When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman, and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people, then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not take warning and the sword comes and takes his life, his blood will be on his own head. Since he heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning, his blood will be on his own head. If he had taken warning, he would have saved himself. But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes the life of one of them, that man will be taken away because of his sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.' "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you will surely die,' and you do not speak out to dissuade him from his ways, that wicked man will die for [a] his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you do warn the wicked man to turn from his ways and he does not do so, he will die for his sin, but you will have saved yourself.

I pray these things that perhaps at one soul will be turned back to God, that the powers of darkness that have ruled us will be broken, and my God's children will be turned back to Him!

Now for tonight:

Eze 8:5-18 Then he said to me, "Son of man, look toward the north." So I looked, and in the entrance north of the gate of the altar I saw this idol of jealousy. And he said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing—the utterly detestable things the house of Israel is doing here, things that will drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see things that are even more detestable."

Then he brought me to the entrance to the court. I looked, and I saw a hole in the wall. He said to me, "Son of man, now dig into the wall." So I dug into the wall and saw a doorway there.

And he said to me, "Go in and see the wicked and detestable things they are doing here." So I went in and looked, and I saw portrayed all over the walls all kinds of crawling things and detestable animals and all the idols of the house of Israel.

In front of them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.

He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, 'The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.' " Again, he said, "You will see them doing things that are even more detestable." Then he brought me to the entrance to the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, mourning for Tammuz. He said to me, "Do you see this, son of man? You will see things that are even more detestable than this."

He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east.

He said to me, "Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the house of Judah to do the detestable things they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence and continually provoke me to anger? Look at them putting the branch to their nose!

Therefore I will deal with them in anger; I will not look on them with pity or spare them. Although they shout in my ears, I will not listen to them."

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Lord,
Deal with all of our secret sins, those things we do in private thinking you do not see. Expose and uncover those things we try to hide. Whether they are secret sexual sins, wrongful business dealings that align us with the world rather than you, wrongful governmental dealings that are covered over so no one sees them. You see all of these things Lord.

Lord, everything flows from the top down, whether in business, government or the church. When we sit under good leadership or stewardship we become like those over us. When we sit under putrid, wrong leadership or stewardship WE BECOME LIKE THOSE!

Lord, I decree that this nation and its leadership will become a Godly leadership. I decree that ALL wrongful acts (those things done outside of Your counsel) be exposed and broken. I decree that we will not break covenant with Israel! I decree that ALL secret hidden sexual sins be uncovered and brought into the light. I decree that where we have formed liasons with women or men outside of marriage be exposed and broken, that where we have formed ungodly business relations with the world they be broken, that goverment dealings with those nations and peoples You have told us not to be involved with be broken!

I decree that "Holy Unto the Lord" be written across our thresholds, that a reverential fear of God be burned into our hearts and souls. I decree that we will turn back to You and destroy our idolatrous ways.

Lord, I remind you of Exekiel 37, the valley of dry bones. When You have brought us down and destroyed the world in us, that you breath life into us again, that you raise us up as Your mighty army, that our hearts be turned fully to You.

I pray these things in the Name of Jesus!
Amen

This is an early prayer tonight, for I must go to bed - am feeling really rough.

Lord,
Bless each one of my brothers and sisters in the Lord. Grant the cries of their hearts by removing the covers, exposing what is beneath, heal their hearts and remove the javelins. Then, Lord, take them deeper in your throne room.

Bless their homes and businesses. Supply all their needs, for not only do you own the cattle on a thousand hills - You own the hills also.

Restore relationships in their homes, take their marriages deeper. Teach the men how to be priests of their homes.

Provide for Vaughn's finances and needs, and any other saints who are being pressed. Give unto them as they are obedient and give all of themselves unto you.

Give President Obama guidance and leadership. Guide his hands properly in the decisions he is making. Break off the lies an those who would tickle his ears. Put godly men and women full of your wisdom in his cabinet.

I pray these things in the name of Jesus,
Amen

The Lord has had His hand on this country from its very beginning. Up through the Revolutionary war period men of God and government leaders sought to keep the Lord first in all their dealings, and God blessed them for it. When they would turn aside He would withdraw His hand, the people would repent and cry out to Him and turn their hearts back to Him, and He would bless and cover them again.

But since that time we have turned colder and colder, and withdrew further and further from the Lord. Yes, we have had pockets of revival and pockets of people seeking Him, but by and large as a nation we have continued to turn away from Him.

We have openly flaunted abortion, idolatry, adultery, homosexuality, lesbianism - every sick and destable thing - we have flaunted before God. We have openly spat upon Him. Not only have we done these things in the public marketplace, but we have brought them into our churches and government houses and erected altars to them, saying that God would understand.

We preach from our pulpits a watered-down gospel that says God will understand. We talk about the times of prosperity that are coming and how God will bless us. We steadfastly refuse to preach the whole truth, to fill the altars with people praying and crying out for God to move and turn our nation around. We justify it by turning blind eyes to those around us, and just focusing on our own little world!

I cry out to you - REPENT, Repent. Time is drawing close when the room to repent will be no more, when the viles will be filled and overturned. We must put an end to our idolatrous behavior. We must stop calling abortion an "ok" thing - it is murder, plain and simple. We must stop saying it is "ok" for a man to be with a man, a woman with a woman. These things happen because of the hardness of our hearts. We must stop justifying our sinful ways!

In the following scripture I have substituted America for Jerusalem.

Here the word of the Lord,

Eze 5:5-13 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This is America, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.

"Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even conformed to the standards of the nations around you.

"Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself am against you, America, and I will inflict punishment on you in the sight of the nations. Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again. Therefore in your midst fathers will eat their children, and children will eat their fathers. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.

Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your vile images and detestable practices, I myself will withdraw my favor; I will not look on you with pity or spare you. A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue with drawn sword.

"Then my anger will cease and my wrath against them will subside, and I will be avenged. And when I have spent my wrath upon them, they will know that I the LORD have spoken in my zeal.

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Lord, I repent for our actions and hardness of heart. We have truly sinned against you and have become very calloused and hard of heart. Break through our walls, expose the sin we have committed. Lay bare our inner motives, pull the scabs off our wounds, that the puss may be removed and we may be healed. Remember mercy in your dealings with us Lord, but above all remember mercy. Judge us now that we will not be judged later.

Amen

Mat 25:1-13 "At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise.

The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps.

The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. "At midnight the cry rang out: 'Here's the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!' "Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.

The foolish ones said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.' " 'No,' they replied, 'there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.'

"But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.

"Later the others also came. 'Sir! Sir!' they said. 'Open the door for us!' "But he replied, 'I tell you the truth, I don't know you.'

"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

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Oh Lord,

Let us not be as the unwise virgins who did not prepare their hearts and souls for Your return. They were slothful with their time and resources, choosing to not build relationship with You, choosing not to kill the sin in their lives, not to deal with those things that are abominable to You.

Let us be as the wise virgins and teach us to cry out to You, to acknowledge our sin and errors, to lay these things before You. For You have said that if we confess our sin and turn from our wicked ways that You will forgive us and wash us clean.

Lord, strip the covers away from each of us, laying bare those things we have tried to hide in the past. Expose the sin in our lives and bring us to a place where we must deal with You.

Do not allow us to remain lukewarm, riding on the center post, but separate us into those who are burning hot for You or freezing cold with no interest in You. Let there be no more middle ground of complacency, for this is a stench in your nostrils!

Give our Pastors the courage and boldness to take a stand of righeousness and holiness before You. Let them no longer preach "fluffy" messages that make people feel good. Let church be as it was in the old days, where Your power flowed and sin was exposed and lives were required by Your Hand for lying and cheating.

Let Your Holiness and Awe fill the house once again. Let Your Glory rest in Your temple once again. Judge us that we may cry "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty!" Reign supreme in Your house again.

Let it begin HERE Lord. Let it begin NOW. I decree these things in the mighty name of Jesus!

Amen

In business circles you have what is known as the "Peter Principle", which essentially states that you will advance in business to your level of incompetence. When You reach that point then you advance no further and run the risk of failing.

In Christian circles the same principle applies, except its interpretation is you advance in God's Kingdom and spiritual realm to your point of unwillingness. When you reach that point you advance no further in your calling and/or gifting, you go no deeper in the Spirit, and you run the risk of loosing your salvation!

This level of unwillingness is reached when you start answering God with "yea, but ..." and justifying your sinful ways and behavior. When God puts His finger in an area where you are sinning and asks for that area, and you refuse - then you are starting on a path of unwillingness.

When King Saul was confronted with disobedience and not doing what God called him to do, the result was God stripped the kingdom from him. As he continued down the spiraling path of disobedience and sin it cost him his life!

When King David was confronted with disobedience, adultery, murder and lying his outcome was different. For David through himself on God's mercy, confessing his sin and asking for God's judgement. The result was God spared his life, even though the price he paid for his sin was very costly.

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Lord,
We as a people have sinned very greatly, and we have justified our sin at every step.

We have repeatedly committed adultery and fornication, producing babies out of wedlock and then murdering those babies so we did not have to look on our sin. Then we turned around and did the same abomidable thing again. And we repeatedly did this sin to satisfy our own carnal desires.

We have laid men with men and women with women, committing abomidable acts on our bodies that we should never be mentioned. We have done these things to satisfy our carnal needs, and then justified our actions by saying that You created us mistakenly with this propensity. We have made You out to be a liar.

We have committed fraudulent business and government deals that hurt and kill people. We have lied and cheated in business and government and covered these sins over so others would not know. We have removed You from our dealings and attempted to become one with the heathen nations.

Lord, we have sinned greatly! You have drawn a line in the earth and said "No More!" I believe You are separating the people, both within and without the Church. The cup of iniquity is about full and beginning to overflow.

Lord, as we begin entering this season of reaping what we have sown, walk with us. Let us not walk it alone. Be our encouragement and hope. Bring a marked separation between the two camps, so we have an opportunity to be purged and stand with You in righteousness. Let us no longer cover sin and hide it, but let us stand naked before You, covered only by Your righteousness.

Lord, we give ourselves fully to You!

I pray these things in the Unchanging Name of Jesus!
Amen

Lord,
Extend Your hand over us, cover us tonight, be our shield and strong right hand. Lord, we are but flesh, and all too often make decisions and choices based from our flesh and emotions - rather than Your word. We fail to go before You and wait to hear Your voice.

Father, I ask You to forgive us, to break the stranglehold of our flesh - to teach us your ways. Give us the courage and willingness to cry out to you, to seek Your heart and not our own. Our sin is great and we do deserve to have brought down on our heads what we have done.

And yet, I cry out for Your mercy - that you dig around our trees just a little longer - not for our being worth anything, but for Your names sake.

Lord, shine Your light on President Obama tonight - give him the courage to cry out to You for guidance. Allow him to see that he really needs You to guide this nation. Speak to him in the night hours, give him dreams that stir him, that no one can give him answers for, so that he must seek out the true man of God. Write "Holiness Unto the Lord" across his doorstep. Bring him up short before You and open his heart.

Lord, it is You that put him in office. Now do with him as you have other leaders - bring him to a place of hearing Your voice and obeying Your commands. I bind those people and spirits that would bring false counsel to him. I forbid their mouths to be opened. I loose Your angelic host to stand guard over him, to speak Your words in his ears. I loose a passion for truth over him. I loose a spirit of humility over him, Lord.

I pray these things in the name of Jesus,
Amen

The Lord said,

"No More Band Aids!"

The Lord has said to stop using band aids to cover our insecurities, emotional inadequacies and emotional needs.

He says He is going to remove the ROOT system and not just the leaves! He says we are not to cover up any longer.

For years we have lived a two-fold life. For those of us in ministry, we have been told we cannot discuss our shortcomings and areas of sin because the people watching will not understand. So we have been left with trying to live a lie and end up looking like hypocrites. God says "No More!" We have been told that as ministry leaders we cannot be walking in sin, that people will not understand. Poppycock! God says "No More!"

We are to live lives of honesty, admitting that we are human just like everyone else. People already know it anyway. I don't know about you, but God called me to the office of prophet while I was still knee-deep in alligators. And He is still cleaning me up and polishing me, taking the world out of me and putting His Kingdom into me. I love Him for that! I think I am in pretty good company, with David, Moses and a whole host of other saints (both old and new) who were and are in the process of being made into what God called them and us to be!

I am watching as God has me bare my soul before groups of people, laying all my dirty laundry on the table. And through it I am watching God break down walls and open up hearts. I am told by people that you just can't do this, but I fear God more than man - and if He is saying "No more band aids, no more walls covering your heart, no more lies" then I will my level best to live that.

Men, God has called us to be the priest of our homes and realms of authority. We have lived for years with misconcepts of sexual needs and the role our wives play in our lives. God is calling us to deal with these lies, to stop butchering and crippling the help mate He placed in our lives, and to start becoming true men after God's own heart. We must learn that sex is not part of intimacy, that the Bible does not say that woman is to satisfy our every need and desire. We have had messed-up concepts and understandings, and God says "No More!" We have damaged His daughters too long. We must stop responding to our emotional twinges with fantasy, self-gratification, pressure-trips on our wives, frustration, etc. We MUST start going before our Father and crying out, "Help me Lord! I am caught in a vice and don't know how to get out! Teach me and set me free, Lord!"

Women, God has called you as a help-mate to the priest of your home. That is a pretty high role, and if you are not married then He has called you to be a help-mate to Him! You are not a door mat, piece of meat, or second-class citizen. You are the daughter of the Most High King, a co-laborer and co-equal with the man you have married. Without you, he will never reach his full potential. But equally so, without him you will never reach your full potential. It is time you began moving in the fullness of what and who God created You to be.

Both men and women must come to a place of realizing your body does not belong to you. It belongs to the one you are joined with. We must start looking at the motives that we live by, shining God's light on them, cutting out those things that are not of God, crying out to Him to help and set us free. We must stop yielding to the emotional cravings we have lived by.

God is beginning to move in an unprecedented manner. He is uncovering and laying bare everything we have covered over. He is saying "No More Band Aids!" He will begin removing the covers. We still have time to do this ourselves before our God. If we will not then He will remove those covers. I beg of each of you, Look at yourselves in a mirror. Look at the motives that have driven you. Look at the emotions that you have always responded to, and how and what you have done to satisfy those emotions. DO NOT PRETEND YOU ARE OKAY AND IT IS THE OTHER PERSON. God says EACH of us must uncover and deal with ourselves.

If we will do these things He will deliver us, heal us and raise us up to a new level an standard before Him.

I pray you enjoy the journey and that it bears MUCH fruit in each of your lives. Remember the message the other day - God has drawn a line in the earth, and there will be a separation of camps. God will lay bear your motives, desires, wants, etc and clean you up.

I love you in Christ!