Early Prayer April 26, 2011 50 Days to Pentecost John sings: We bless the Name of the Lamb of Glory. We bless the Name of the King of Kings. We bless the Name of the Lamb of Glory. We bless the name of the King and with our hands lifted high we come before You and sing, with our hands lifted high we come before You rejoicing, with our hands lifted high to the sky when the world wonders why we ll just tell them we re loving our King. Anne: This morning we want to welcome everyone to the watch. We have a lot of visitors with us from the celebration of Resurrection this weekend. We want to start off on the right foot. We want to start off this season from Resurrection to Pentecost in a new way. This year we are going to count the days between now and Pentecost. We are going to rise up expectant. We are going to rise up and thank God for all that He has done and He is going to release to us the reality of all of that. The disciples, when Jesus died and the women went to the tomb, the political and the Sanhedrin had already set a plan to keep Him from being acknowledged as the Resurrected One. They said, The disciples could come and steal the body during the night and so we want to put a large stone over the grave so they won t go later and say that He is risen because He said that He would rise from the dead. He said it enough times that even those of the Sanhedrin understood that the prophecy was that He was going to rise from the dead. When the women went to the tomb and the stone had been rolled away, they began to encounter Jesus in a way they had never seen Him before; in the fullness of His glory; in His resurrected body and for 40 days He appeared. The disciples thought He had died, thought He was gone or they would not have gone back fishing. They would not have gone backwards in that time if they had had the fullness of revelation of what that period of time was about. Lord, we come before You. We don t have a revelation of what the fullness of these days means. Chuck has said that this will be a hard season. These 50 days will be the hardest season that we will have to push through. As the Triumphant Reserve is being called and assembled, we have to make every day count. Lord, equip us every day to come up over the assignments that are trying to lie about who Jesus was and what Jesus did and how we are overcomers who will be full of power when the Day of Pentecost has fully come. That is 50 days. Pentecost came 50 days after Passover. As we count those days between now and the fullness of Pentecost, we are going to gather a new sheaf every day of the word. We are going to gather a new sheaf of who Jesus was. We are going to gather a sheaf of who Jesus is every day because He lives. He has arisen from the dead. As we begin to move this morning, we are going to move in the fullness of what we hear God say. During the weekend Chuck said over and over that we are going to have more and more revelation released to us. We are going to see and hear in a new revelatory way. We are beginning today. Lord, pour out Your revelation. Just like You poured out manna in the wilderness and You made provision when they moved into the Promised Land, You have a new portion of provision for us this day. It is the wheat that falls to the ground and produces a great crop. This is the day the Lord has made. He has newness of life in this for us. He has newness of direction. We re going to hear Kingdom. It is the pressing out of the Kingdom. Lord, today we come before You. We are ready to hear the lessons of what these 7 weeks and one day mean until we arrive at Pentecost where we have a new portion of power, a new portion of strength, and a new portion of light as we press out each portion that You give us for each day. Lord, we give You praise and glory before we hear the first thing. We give You praise and glory because we know that our Savior lives. He interacts with us day by day. Today is the day that He is pouring out a new portion, releasing new life. We have come this morning to awaken the dawn and appropriate that new portion. John sings: I will lift up my voice with a song. I will push against the darkness, push against despair. I will sing of the good things of the Lord, O I will sing. I will stir up my spirit in praise. I will push back the darkness, push back despair. I will sing of the good things of the Lord, O I will sing. Shadows and whisperings all disappear. I see the atmosphere starting to clear; O, I will sing. The angels will come and join in my song and demons will flee. O, I will dance; yes I will dance and tread out the sound of what s coming down take a new stand. Yes! I will stand against the darkness! Stand against the darkness! O, I will sing! The angels will come and join in my song and demons will flee. O, I will dance; yes I will dance and tread out the sound of what s coming down take a new stand. Anne: This season started with the angels appearing at the tomb and saying, He s not here. He has arisen. Lord, we start this season partnering with the angelic. Lord Sabaoth has come to lead us into our next place of provision so that Pentecost falls in a new way in this season. We take angelic assistance and work with them; hear what their message is and begin to move with the angelic in this season in a new way. Linda: There is so much revelation falling that I can hardly get it out my mouth. The season began for Israel; it is very likely that they crossed the Red Sea at Firstfruits, from the night of Passover until they crossed the Red Sea. There was an obstacle that said, You will not get out of here just like the stone was at the grave saying, You will not get out of here. But God sent His angel, the way was opened and they came through.
At Jericho with Israel, if you look at it, from the time that they celebrated Passover in the land until the time that they came up against Jericho, you have a season of seeing that immovable force and the enemy saying, You will never take this city. You will never get past here. You are not moving forward. But God had the way to remove that obstacle and give them victory. At Pentecost in Acts 2 it seemed an impossible situation. The savior was gone and the disciples were scattered except for 120 who were terrified in the upper room. It looked like it was all over, but God! He had a power breakthrough that enabled them to take a city. God, we are going to fix our eyes on the pattern that You are giving us between Passover and Pentecost. It is a time that will seem rough. It will seem like we are up against an insurmountable obstacle, but God! It is a time to fix our expectation on a power breakthrough that will launch us into a season of doing what is impossible. We stand at this beginning of counting of days and we say, day by day give us new revelation that will put us into position to be launched into something we have never imagined. Robert: That time period was a difficult time period but it was also a time of miracles. When Israel was in the wilderness going down to Sinai, they had one thing after another go wrong. One thing after another caused fear to rise up in them but in every case they saw God work a miracle to break them through and keep them going. It was the same thing with the disciples. They were in fear. Many had fled. They were in confusion. What they thought they understood they were not sure they understood anymore, but they saw the resurrected Jesus. For 40 days He appeared to them. He manifested Himself and released the power of the Holy Spirit and did incredible things. This is a time, when you are in confusion, when fears rise up, it is a time to say, Lord, I will choose to look to You. I will choose to trust You. We declare that it is a time of miracles. It is a time of breakthrough. It is a time to face down fears, look to God and see the power of an almighty, resurrected Lord release His power in the earth. Allen: The Lord says, Get ready to launch! That s what the countdown is about. It is a countdown to a time to launch. What the enemy wants to do is to get us out of the sequence of that countdown so that when the launch is ready to happen, for whatever it is God is going to launch you into, you miss the sequence. Out of the 500 who were there and saw Jesus raised, 120 remained when it was time to launch. This is when the Discovery space shuttle is getting ready to launch again. This is a period to be prepared for the countdown to launch. Lord, we are going to be prepared. We are not going to miss the countdown. We are going to walk with You through the sequence that You have laid out for us so that we are able to follow the countdown and are ready to launch. Anne: Linda and I have been talking about this and I looked back and saw that they had the testimony of Lazarus. The disciples scattered like they thought Jesus was dead and that was the end. They scattered and were disheartened. They did not know how to put together what Jesus had said to them even though He had told them, I will rise again. They saw Lazarus raised from the dead, but the resurrection of the man was different than the resurrection of the Son of God. He said, I Am the resurrection. He did not need the disciples to come and pray over Him for Him to be resurrected. He was the resurrection. He demonstrated the resurrection out of Himself. Out of the fullness of Who God is, He was resurrected. He was the resurrection. They saw the resurrection of a man. They saw that Jesus was able to resurrect a man, but the way Lazarus was when he was resurrected was different from the way the Son of God was when He was resurrected. Lord, when the resurrected Jesus is inside us, You are activating Him inside us. During this season we are stirring up everything that we have seen and heard. We are watching the resurrection in a new way this morning. As we are counting this as day one, we are beginning to move in a new way. We are receiving the revelation that You are pouring out this morning. We decree that we will track with You and with this resurrection every day until we come to our appointed place and appointed time full of the power of God. John sings: O I will sing and the angels will come and join in my song and the demons will flee. O, I will dance! Yes I will dance and tread out the sound of what s coming down take a new stand. I will lift up my voice with a song. I will push against the darkness and push against despair. I will sing of the good things of the Lord. O, I will sing. I will stir up my spirit with praise. Adriano: In this season of resurrection the same way the angels appeared after resurrection also when Israel celebrated Passover and entered the Promised Land, the angels manifested. The angels manifested to bring a strategic word. This is a time to receive strategic revelation for war, a strategic time to advance in your promise and cross all the obstacles. This morning we decree and declare that we are ready to receive this strategic revelation through the angels of God, a new level of strategic wisdom that will take us to provision in the Name of Jesus. Anne: Things were in political upheaval because Jesus split time. All of the government was watching what was happening with this. They knew He had said that He was the King of the Jews. They thought, How is this going to
come to pass in a new way? What is it going to mean for the governments of men? How are we going to move in the church? How is the Sanhedrin going to move? The veil had been rent in the Temple. There was enormous change in all of Israel and Jerusalem. They were hearing rumors flying from one place to the other. People were fearful. They were afraid of the disciples and the disciples were afraid for their lives. It was a time of great upheaval. Maria: I heard the Lord say that from now to Pentecost is 50 days. He said it is all about His grace. It s His grace that is going to carry us over until Pentecost. He is also saying that what He is about to release is too big for man s mind to comprehend. We cannot concoct all this. It will be all by His grace for His glory to be released. He is saying that it is not by might or by power but it is by My Spirit that this next move is going to happen. James sings: So we breathe in Your grace and we feast on You Lord. You will manifest Yourself as Jehovah Jireh. You will manifest Yourself as the Lord of Hosts, the One Who stands in the face of His enemies, the One who rises in the face of Pharaoh, the One who rises in the face of the giants. You will manifest Yourself as the One who stands, the One who rises. We will stand and we will rise with the Lord of Hosts. Linda: One of the things that typifies this 50 days is confusion. Israel did not find what they expected when they got into the wilderness. They did not find what they expected when they got into the Promised Land. The disciples certainly did not find what they expected. Especially with the disciples you read account after account of Jesus appearing but they did not recognize Him. They did not know it was the Lord. He was appearing in a different form. This is a time when the Lord is saying, I m going to manifest in different ways than what you have expected. Ask Me to open the eyes of your heart; the eyes of your spirit so that you are not looking for what you expected but you are allowing the Spirit to reveal new things to you. One of the things that happened because things were not what they expected was that they tried to go back to what they were familiar with. That is the big trap of these days. That is the consistent pattern. When they got out there and it wasn t what they thought it was going to be, they wanted to go back to what they knew. That is why the Lord says, Count every day. Realize every day, I ve got to have what I need for today. If I can make it through today, that is what He is asking me to do. If I can make it through today then I can make it through tomorrow. I don t know if you ve ever been in a hard season. I remember that Robert used to take long trips to Ukraine in the early 90 s. We could not call. We did not have email. He would get home before a letter if he mailed it from over there. We basically did not have communication. He might be gone for two or two and a half weeks, sometimes longer than that and I was home with three kids. I would count the days. I would mark the day when he was coming home and every day I would say, We made it! We made it through today. I had 21 days, now I ve only got 20. Now I ve only got 19 days. Now only 18! I would count the days. This is the only time that the Lord says to count the days. That should tell us something. That should tell us that it is a season that we need to be aware every day of what s going on. Be aware of the confusion. Keep your eye on the goal. If I would keep my eye on the goal I would say, I ve made it this far. I think I can make it until he gets home. I think I can make it until he gets here. Lord, we want to acknowledge this season that You have put us in. Thank You that You have aligned us in such a way that we are not unaware of what You are trying to do but also what our enemy will try to do to us in this season. Lord, we will count every day. We will have our eyes fixed on that goal and know that all You are requiring of us is to make it through today. Receive your manna for today. Receive your provision. Receive that new sheaf. Receive what I am giving you today and make it through; then do it again tomorrow. Lord, we set out hearts on making it through these 50 days to the outpouring at Pentecost. When that day comes we will be prepared for more than what we don t expect. Anne: There was no precedent for the form that Jesus took when He came at Pentecost. The disciples did not expect that. They were expecting a leader, a military leader that would come and punish the enemies that were persecuting them. They were expecting Jesus to come in such a way. Can you imagine how amazed they were when He showed up inside of them? They were speaking in tongues. He kept coming every day. It says that He opened their eyes. During the 50 days their eyes were opened and the scriptures were opened in a new way to them so they could identify. It s like us. When we get a word from the Lord, we expect it; we imagine how it s going to come forth. We have it all worked out. The Lord s going to use me and I m going to do this and that. When it actually comes you say, Oh, this is what God was talking about. I see the rightness of it. It all fits down in here now that it s happened but it is not at all what I imagined. When He opened their eyes and opened the scriptures to them, they began to go back and look at what He actually did say. In this season, we want to go back and look at what He actually has said. In this season, pray in the Spirit. He knew that we were going to come to this day where the church was going to enter into a new age and all that was lost was going to be restored. Those who have resisted the Holy Ghost will resist no
more. Those that have been lost and those that have said, Jesus died and the disciples lied about it He is going to bring them power. We have seen a fruitless church or a church with very little fruit but in this season He is going to come back in a new way inside us so that our power is to go over the Muslim boundaries, to go over the wall of Islam. We re going to be like Joseph and our bough is going to stretch over that boundary. This is a season where our bough is going to ascend and go over the walls and boundaries that we ve been in during past seasons. This season we can see where we have fallen short, where we have not had the fullness of You. We can look back on the ages of the church and say, We fell short of the mark. We did not know how to move forward. Lord, we are counting the days and we are asking You to stir up within us Yourself. We are asking You to come with a new measure so that we begin to move in a new way. There are boundaries that are political or religious, boundaries that we have never gone over. This is a season where we want to increase in strength, in wisdom, in courage, in purpose, in revelation. Lord, today we are appropriating that new portion so that Jesus can rise up and release in a brand new way. John sings: Like a flood! He s breaking all the boundaries like a flood! Like a mighty rushing river flowing through the land. Like a flood! Breaking all the boundaries! Like a mighty rushing river flowing through the earth. Washing away injustice, washing away fear, washing away fear like a mighty rushing river! Like a mighty rushing river. Anne: We call ourselves back to Jerusalem in the Spirit. We will wait and see what You would have us do. We are going to look at the scriptures with a new honesty about who we are and Who You are. We are going to move in a new way in this season. We are going to allow You to confront everything in us that does not align. We ve had some misconceptions and some wrong ideas about how You move. We ve had fantasy in the body of Christ about what the glory means, what grace means and what the power of God means. We are going to let go of that fantasy during this time and see in reality in this season how You are moving with us. We re going to embrace the word and the way and the strength of God in a new way. Raymond: What I am hearing is that our flesh wants to do something else. When they went into the desert, their flesh cried out, murmured and complained. When they crossed over into the Promised Land, they had to be circumcised. They had to cut away that flesh. When Jesus was resurrected, He said, Wait for Me. Our flesh does not like to wait. We say, Let s go! Let s go! As we count the Omer, we speak to our flesh and say, Align with the Spirit of the Lord. Align with our spirit. You come into line. Yesterday I was tired from the conference but I said, Flesh, you align. We have things to prepare. We have to move forward. Even if it is one step each day, Father, we will take our flesh and tell it to submit to You in this hour and in this 50 days. We will allow our spirit to arise. We say to our spirit, Arise and lead us into that which the Lord has for us. As we are connected to You, Holy Spirit, You will show us how to wait, wait, wait on You. In that waiting we will see Your glory manifest. James: I want to share something from this past weekend. The Lord spoke to me and said, In this next week I want you to cut off and fast from the little distractions, those little things you are holding from last season. Yesterday I started the fast, after the conference was over. I did not realize how many little things were keeping me from receiving the fullness of what God has. He said, I want you to focus on getting Me in your mind. Feast on Me in this season. When you need to eat, just eat what you need then move on. I wanted to add stuff and make it taste good. At the end of the day I said, God, I have failed miserably. The Lord is really speaking in this season saying, Cut off those little things that you are holding onto from the last season, those little things that will keep your mind in a place where it can t focus fully on where I m trying to take you. When you do that, you will see that in this next season you will be able to rejoice into what I have. The world is falling apart. The world is in chaos but you will be able to stand, arise and move forward. It s like the circumcision He is doing in this season that Raymond just said. It s like a circumcision that He is doing this season. We re not carrying what we carried when we left the last season. Robyn: As I was praying this morning the Lord said, If you will open your eyes, I will fill them. If you will open your mind and your heart, I will fill them. I will fill them with awestruck wonder, your eyes, your heart and your mind. I started singing that song from Revelation that has that line in it, Awestruck wonder. As I started singing that, I also started thinking of that old hymn, Do not pass me by, gentle Savior, do not pass me by. I started singing that song and was brought to the scripture in Genesis 18 of Abraham and the three angels. It says, He lifted up his eyes and looked and behold three men stood at a little distance from him. He ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the ground and said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in Your sight, do not pass Your servant by I beg of You.
We are saying that. We are bringing our eyes, our heart, our mind into alignment with the trinity of God. We are bringing our hearts and minds into full alignment in this hour so that we can see that revelation, that awestruck wonder of the Lord. We decree that over ourselves every day. We are coming into full alignment with the trinity. Anne: Yesterday I told Linda that when the Lord woke me up, I did not want to get up. I was tired like everyone else. The Lord said, Open your eyes. When He said that I knew He meant that this is a season when you need to open your eyes in places that you would not open your eyes before where you were not willing to see. It s like a wife whose husband is running around her or vice versa. She knows it but she does not want to acknowledge it; she does not want to see it. Lord, in this season You are free to open our eyes. We are going to bring our body in agreement with it. We are going to open our eyes to see things that we have not wanted to see and allow You to open our eyes to the truth; to see the way You really are and the reality of what it means to follow after You. James sings: Filled with wonder, awestruck wonder, at the mention of Your name. Jesus, Your name is power, breath and living water, such a marvelous mystery. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty Who was and is and is to come. With all creation I sing Praise to the King of Kings. You are my everything and I will adore You. Deborah: All week since Passover I have been hearing in my spirit these words coming out of me, What now? I was thinking, Lord, I m not hearing from You. I don t know what the blockage is. The Lord began to speak to me this morning before Robyn and Anne came up and confirmed what she was saying. The Lord began to speak to me out of Proverbs 3. My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. The Lord was saying that we ve got to turn our eyes in another direction. We can t be wise in our own eyes. The two major words that He has been saying that I need to keep in my spirit for this season are, What now? That puts us into a position where we must acknowledge God in all of our ways so that He can direct our path and crown our efforts with success. Lord, we say, What now? over every day as we walk from Passover to Pentecost. We say, What now? We will not be wise in our own eyes. We will not think that we have our own pathway cut out. We will see You in everything that we do. Turn our eyes to You in this season. We declare that we will not be wise in our own eyes but we will look for You in every circumstance. We will allow You to direct our path. We will allow You to show us the next step to make, the next thing to say, the next thing to rise up in, the next thing to move forward toward. We decree and declare today that we are a people who have our eyes on You. You are the One who has called us forth in this season. We know that the fullness of what will be manifest will only be because of You so our eyes are ever toward You. Linda: Something happened at the Daybreak service that I have had happen before. Chuck was talking about how Jesus appeared in different ways. He manifested in a different form. I thought, What would that have been like? How could He do that? We are and they would have been so accustomed to His physical appearance and yet He changed it and they had to be able to recognize Him in a different physical appearance. All of the sudden I became so aware of Jesus with us in that service, the presence of Jesus. It made me afraid to move, almost afraid to look around. I thought, Oh my gosh! He could be here right now in a different form than what we are expecting. That was part of what He was trying to communicate to the disciples when He would just appear at odd times, in the room without knocking on the door. He just appeared. He was trying to impress on them, I Am here. If you see Me or if you don t, I Am here. Be prepared to recognize Me by the Spirit. It is just what has been being said: be so attuned to My presence and My Spirit that you won t miss Me when I m in your midst. I was sitting there at the Sunrise Service thinking, This is really different. I ve never sensed the presence of the Lord this way. I ve never felt this. I said, God, is this really You? I don t want to be off in some fantasy. Right at that time Chuck looked up and saw that young man, the Hispanic man that got baptized. His name is Jesus. Chuck said, Look, Jesus is here. Jesus is among us! I thought, O God! This is a new season of learning to recognize You. Lord, we declare that between Passover and Pentecost, You are going to be training us in some new ways of discerning Your presence by the Spirit. We don t want to block it out with our mindset or what we have known in the past. We acknowledge that we haven t gone this way before. We don t know how to recognize You in some of the ways You are appearing. We know Your Spirit and You will confirm to us that it is You that is with us.
Anne: Rabbi, if you and Linda will anoint each of us. We are going to be anointed today to recognize Jesus in our midst. He would just appear. They would be having dinner and He would be there. They would eat and would not know that it was Him until He opened their eyes. We are going to carry an anointing today. We will recognize Jesus. One of the hardest things for me to do was when I would hear LeAnn and Chuck talking about circumstances or situations that had gone on in their day and they would say, Here is what the Lord was saying in that. I thought, How do you get that? My situations are not that redeemed. I don t understand. Chuck would say, You need to prophesy that. I thought, I don t even understand it. But when I counted the Omer last fall, I did not understand that s what I was doing, but at the end of those 50 days, I was able to understand in that way. I was able to perceive Jesus as He moved in my circumstances to speak to me. That is the reason we carry Jesus. That s why we become the Ark, so that we can see and hear and move with that power. Today Lord, we say that eyes are being opened. This morning, every day, day by day we are going to expect that You are speaking to us out of our circumstances. You are speaking to us through the phone calls that we receive. You are speaking to us by the things that we see and discern from movies to whatever. We are going to expect. We have become so religious in how we expect to find God. We cut off religion. We take a religious circumcision today. The disciples did not know how to perceive You in Your new form any more than we do. This is a season that we are going to begin to perceive the Lord in all of our circumstances, in all the ways He appears to us during these 50 days. We have great expectations that You are going to show us how You really are. Don t leave until you get anointed. John sings: I see the Lion and the Lamb, Lord Sabaoth and the Lily of the Valley. I see the Lover of my soul and the Judge of all the earth, my Bridegroom and my Redeemer. You have come to me O Lord as a Mighty Warrior and You have come to me O Lord as a Friend like no other. Sometimes eyes shining with fire, sometimes eyes as gentle as doves. You are all the same My Lord. Anne: Lord, thank You that this is a season where You are coming to us as the Champion of the Kingdom, that One Who can work out Kingdom, Who knows exactly what to put in Acts 2 and what to bring forward. We admit freely that we don t know how to do that. We don t have the wisdom to do that. We don t have the grace to do that. We don t have the understanding to do that but You have all things. We are totally and utterly dependent upon You and Your word. We have to see what our Father in Heaven does, just like You did, in order to know how to move. We pull into You in this season hoping for any glimpse along our way, looking in the scriptures just like they did in the upper room, coming into one accord that our quest is You. Thank You that You are bringing us to a new place. You have attended us in a new way today. You are the revelation. You are the resurrection. You are the life. You are the door. We come to that door today and say, Knock no more! Come in! Come in and have Your way in us; in our territory; in our families; in our nations. We are throwing wide the gates. We freely admit You. Whatever You do will be good. There are some that are going out, Raymond and Lisa are taking another journey. Raymond is going and he has a team. They are going to Ponca City to do a prophetic weekend. We release them to move in a new way in this season to release all that is in them. They are sent out by the house. They are full of life and light and glory. Things will shift in Ponca City. They will leave a deposit in Ponca City and Ponca City will leave a deposit in you. Thank You, Lord, that we have sent out an apostolic number of five. Lisa, come. Lisa is going to minister in Missouri in St. Louis with the prayer movement there. Thank You, Lord, that she takes in a new portion and she will impart vision and strength. Thank You, Lord, that as she moves they will begin to speak with a new tongue and a new way in Missouri. John sings: Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.