Prayers & Prophecies from October's Prayer Night
Our Fall Prayer Night was alive and full of fire! Read some words, prayers, and prophecies captured below:
Confession: As a church, we have missed the mark, valued our preferences over your presence, valued preserving over perseverance, and valued our way over Yours.
Lord, I believe you are poised to give us abundantly more than we can ask or imagine if we only seek you and yield ourselves to your purpose and kingdom.
Luke 9:62. Plowing, sowing, reaping. "No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God." Hold on! Hold on the plow and don't look back - look to what God will do and not to what is past.
Psalms 46:10. He says, "Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."
This room is hot. The room we are in now. The room is hot with the flame of the Holy Spirit. Every room is hot at NHLC. I got a photo of a flame, saw a raging fire. North Heights, burn for me. Keep burning for me.
Uproot and cast into the fire. When tilling the soil, God can then plant what will bear fruit. Psalms 1:3, Ezekiel 47:12, Jeremiah 17:8, Isaiah 28:24-29, 1 Corinthians 3:9. Calling and anointing. Jeremiah 29:11, Psalms 138:8, Romans 8:28, 2 Timothy 1:9, Isaiah 46:9-10, Luke 4:18.
Isaiah 43: 18-19. "Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing, now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."
Arise, for your fight has come. And the glory of my Lord is upon you. Isaiah 60:11. Let North Heights rise up and show the glory of the Lord to the world around us. Show joy, peace, and love that attracts people to know God's love.
Matthew 18. "Where two or more are gathered together in my name, I am there in the midst of them." I had a picture of Jesus walking around, table to table, loving His precious ones. He longs to fill us, teach us, fellowship with us.
You are to be a light in this dark world. Oh my lost children, oh my lost children.
Can we be a people of God that loves and encourages each person that we meet? Have a servant's heart of love.
When fully surrendered, it is simple to respond to the Father's joyous majesty.
Ezekiel 37: 15 - 23. Son of man, take a stick of wood, and write on it.
I am overwhelmed in your Presence, Lord. I am overwhelmed by your mercy, grace, and love. I do nothing to earn it. I don't deserve it. It's all about who you are. It's all about what you've done. It's all about you, Lord. May we never become complacent, may we never become content. May we never become so full that we don't want more. As we are filled, we pour out to others. Help us to hunger for more. Help us to never be satisfied. Help us to hunger and thirst for righteousness. Help us to long for more of You. Help us to become more aware of your personal, intimate, overwhelming Presence. Help us to be saturated to the point of overflowing - leaking to ALL around us.
Cleansing. Renewal. God is a surgeon performing surgery. We bow before Him, only to be lifted up by Him. Jesus flips over the tables of the temple. In John 5: 2 - 8 we are the person who is ill.
I saw a huge hot air balloon that was fully fueled and ready to go, but it was tied down to the earth. It was straining against the bonds but not breaking free. I prayed, "Lord how can we break the bonds that are holding us down." I felt the Lord say, "through prayer and fasting."
Entertain no anxiety. The end is getting nearer and nearer. Do not worry! I have the future in My hands.
I saw a huge, beautiful rainbow connecting both North Heights locations. It was high in the sky for all to see and enjoy. 1 Corinthians 1:10, "Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind in the same judgment." The result of unity of believers living in harmony with each other is 1 Corinthians 2:9, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him." I believe Roseville and Arden Hills will be blessed with the love of Jesus and salvation!!
The Lord has really put our congregational prayer time on my heart. As I have been praying for this night, the word I kept hearing was "holy." Then recently, He showed me a picture. It was Jesus on His throne. His arms were open, and He was calling us all to come to Him in unity and faith on this very special Wednesday night. It will be a holy night; everything about our time together will be under his holiness: our worship, our prayers, our listening for His voice, and the prophetic words that He shares with us. It will be as if we are entering His throne room together, His beloved North Heights family. We will gather around His throne in the Holy of Holies to praise and worship Him, to listen for His voice, and to seek His heart for our new season. I've even seen angels gathered with us around the room, joining us in our praise and worship! Hallelujah! Jesus wants to pour His love into us. He has so much He wants to share with us, to teach us. With great expectations, let us joyfully enter the Holy of Holies; it will be a glorious night with the King! Let us go to the sanctuary of the Lord; let us worship at the footstool of His throne. Psalms 132:7.
Do not live on the leftovers of a former season. Do not be content with a spiritual high from the past. For I am a God of abundance, power, and fresh outpouring. Strain forward into the new that I have for you. Let your heart be set on fire again as the Spirit is poured out.
Pride is the garment of praise to the kingdom of darkness. And until pride leaves, glory cannot be fully manifested in God's people. Are we not called to submit to the Lord and resist our carnal thoughts and actions? Guaranteed that the enemy has to flee for He is greater than any temptation. Now look again-you have the Light to see. Make yourself ready to be the sacrifice on the altar. One ready to climb upon the Mercy seat and not climb off and falter. The finger of God is upon us, standing and knocking. The Lord's presence is as near as the enemy crouching at the door. Choose this day who you will serve. God is waiting for your heart to return as a lover returns to the Beloved. With a heart that burns. Return to your first love. Bind your heart with His; to the Heart position. Where the Beloved is mine, and I am the Beloved's. He is calling forth His Bride. In His love, we are flooded... Let us make ourselves ready. For He is faithful. The Rock which is every steady. Delight in the Lord. Hear a song of love as a Banner over you. Where they that receive an abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign by One, Jesus Christ.
