▪️ Remember that this is a different kind of prayer. It’s a prayer of preparation for the second half of the year.
▪️The second half of the year really needs to be prepared for.
▪️The beautiful thing is that the Lord is with us and he’s leading us in the preparation, so we can be confident.
▪️In life there are so many who just live, taking every day as it just comes to them.
▪️If you want to define the life that you want to live, you cannot just live as you choose and live each day just as it comes. You must walk with the Holy Spirit.
▪️T.L. Osborn used to say; God needs me as much as I need him.
▪️By God’s principle, there are things God would not do without you. He has certain things in focus.
📖Ezekiel 30:3-4
3 For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near — a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
4 A sword will come against Egypt, and anguish will come upon Cush. When the slain fall in Egypt, her wealth will be carried away and her foundations torn down.
▪️There are clouds of evil.
📖Zephaniah 1:14-2:3
14 The great day of the LORD is near — near and coming quickly. The cry on the day of the LORD is bitter; the Mighty Warrior shouts his battle cry.
15 That day will be a day of wrath — a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness —
16 a day of trumpet and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the corner towers.
17 “I will bring such distress on all people that they will grope about like those who are blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their entrails like dung.
18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the LORD’s wrath.” In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live on the earth.
2:1 Gather together, gather yourselves together, you shameful nation,
2 before the decree takes effect and that day passes like windblown chaff, before the LORD’s fierce anger comes upon you, before the day of the LORD’s wrath comes upon you.
3 Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
▪️There are several clouds. The most important are our clouds, our gathering clouds.
▪️In the scriptures that we read, the prophet calls on the people to seek the Lord.
📖Joel 1:1-17 NIV
1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
2 Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?
3 Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
4 What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten.
5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips.
6 A nation has invaded my land, a mighty army without number; it has the teeth of a lion, the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white.
8 Mourn like a virgin in a sackcloth grieving for the betrothed of her youth.
9 Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
10 The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the olive oil fails.
11 Despair, you farmers, wail, you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field is destroyed.
12 The vine is dried up and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree — all the trees of the field —are dried up. Surely the people’s joy is withered away.
13 Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
14 Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
15 Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
16 Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes — joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up.
▪️He declares ruin, distress, and anguish of the nation and out of his love offers his kindness.
▪️If they would pray!!!!
▪️THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE CHILDREN OF ISRAELITES THAT THE PROPHET WAS TALKING TO AND WE ARE THAT WE ARE IN THE DAYS OF THE LORD’S GRACE AND MERCY.
▪️So, what has been happening in our world is the work of satan.
▪️In their time, they had to repent and return to God. In our day, we address the devil. We are in the day of the Lord’s grace.
📖Romans 8:1 KJV
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
▪️We can understand when satan is trying to make people believe that God is the one trying to punish the people.
📖Romans 2:3-4
3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
▪️God changed the plan. His goodness leads people to repentance.
📖2 Corinthians 5:19
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
▪️Jesus was punished in their place.
▪️Now God’s goodness should lead you to repentance.
▪️God is not counting their sins against them.
📖Joel 2:18-19
18 Then the LORD was jealous for his land and took pity on his people.
19 The LORD replied to them: “I am sending you grain, new wine and olive oil, enough to satisfy you fully; never again will I make you an object of scorn to the nations.
▪️If God could think this towards Israel on whom he bore judgement, what about you who is in Christ Jesus?
▪️Whatever God promises his people, we get better in Christ Jesus.
▪️We know how to pray and we do pray effectively.
▪️There are things we say that produce results and that is the beauty of Christianity. It is not a religion.
▪️Now God is in us, running this world.
▪️Let your words be effective.
▪️ During the healing streams, how come we speak a few words and throughout the world miracles take place?
Because in the name of Jesus Christ, our words are effective.
▪️So from yesterday, I told you about the war in Ukraine.
▪️This proxy war that NATO is fighting in Ukraine is very sad, it’s a deceptive war. To destroy the economy of the world and create a new economy for their class.
▪️Their pledge is to turn this world into a luciferean order. Well, they will not be able to do so until the rapture of the church.
▪️These satanists are creating an artificial shortage of food and energy.
▪️If you have the Holy Ghost, you have to tell the truth.
▪️What we are seeing is the polarization of nations.
▪️ You gain nothing from the commonwealth and you will get nothing from the commonwealth.
️The commonwealth that is run by the UK is a fraud.
▪️The only original commonwealth is the one that God gave us. We run this world together with Christ.
▪️ Polarization of the world; everyone is looking for who to join.
▪️I say to the leaders; help your people with good roads and security.
▪️Make no mistake about it, those who are praying, God knows how to deliver his own. We are not all in the same boat. So when we call for prayers, do well to pray.
📖 Ezekiel 34:12 AMPC
12 As a shepherd seeks out his sheep in the day that he is among his flock that are scattered, so will I seek out My sheep; and I will rescue them out of all places where they have been scattered in the day of clouds and thick darkness.
▪️God knows there are many animals. He knows the goats can resemble the sheep at birth
️ Don’t think everybody will be in the same boat, No way!!!!
📖2 Peter 2:7-9 AMPC
7 And He rescued righteous Lot, greatly worn out and distressed by the wanton ways of the ungodly and lawless—(A)
8 For that just man, living [there] among them, tortured his righteous soul every day with what he saw and heard of [their] unlawful and wicked deeds—
9 Now if [all these things are true, then be sure] the Lord knows how to rescue the godly out of temptations and trials, and how to keep the ungodly under chastisement until the day of judgment and doom,
▪️God knew how to rescue righteous lot.
▪️Look at verse 9 again – He’ll leave the ungodly under chastisement.
▪️ It’s either God will hear us and rescue and deliver everyone or he will rescue his own.
1ST SEGMENT OF PRAYER
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🗣️We are going to pray for the nations of the earth that they may see and enjoy the goodness of the Lord.
📖Joel 3:1 The Complete Jewish Bible (1998)
(2:28) “After this, I will pour out
my Spirit on all humanity.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions;
📖Acts 2:16-17
16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
🗣️ It happened, what Joel the prophet prophesied.
🗣️The favour of God is possible for everyone.
🗣️The shortage of food that they are orchestrating, we bring it to a halt in the name of Jesus.
🗣️We break the influence of satan over the nations.
🗣️This shortage will not continue. It will not be as they have planned.
BEFORE WE GO INTO THE 2ND SEGMENT OF PRAYER
📖 Revelation 6:8 TLB
8 And now I saw a pale horse, and its rider’s name was Death. And there followed after him another horse whose rider’s name was Hell. They were given control of one-fourth of the earth, to kill with war and famine and disease and wild animals.
📖Revelation 13:11-14
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
▪️This is the prophet of the antichrist, in order words, he’s the publicist of the antichrist.
📖Titus 1:10-12
10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
📖Revelation 6:8
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
▪️So those antichrist publicists, these prophets of the antichrist, he calls them beasts of the earth and these killers.
▪️These beasts of the earth are not really animals, they are characters.
▪️ He’s dealing with people, calls them beasts.
▪️So when we pray, we put them where they belong through the power of the Holy Ghost.
📖Ecclesiastes 11:3
3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
▪️There are many clouds.
▪️Our clouds carry spiritual water.
▪️There are calamitous clouds.
📖John 7:38
38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
▪️Speak words and cancel the artificial hunger they planned.
▪️Cancel inflation in the name of Jesus Christ.
▪️Pray that the hearts of the leaders are turned from deception unto the wisdom of the Lord.
▪️The leaders will know what’s right.
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PRAY RIGHT NOW
🗣️We break the influence and power of satan over the nations in the name of Jesus Christ.
🗣️ They will not dominate the world with vaccines.
🗣️Their plans will not be able to rise.
🗣️The nations belong to you Lord.
🗣️All of us are the works of your hands.
🗣️ Whether they be vessels unto honour or dishonour, God made them all.
🗣️Let the angels of the Lord go forth even as we have spoken.
🗣️This plan of satan is cancelled in the name of Jesus.
🗣️The nations that the Lord have blessed will remain blessed and the peoples will see the goodness of the Lord.
🗣️We exercise dominion over them in the name of Jesus Christ.
🗣️ Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world.
🗣️We are triumphant over the world.
🗣️We speak our blessings over the nations.
🗣️Thank you Lord Jesus.
▪️ Hallelujah!!!!!!
▪️The Lord is great and greatly to be praised.
Written by Charles Clement.
Campus ministry
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