Jan 25, 2019 – Prayer Focus

24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call Friday, January 25, 2019 

“A CALL TO THE WALL…ONE NATION UNDER GOD” 

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We will not tolerate any demonic interference on this 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call. In taking measures to protect and defend our 24/7 family and this call, at the top of every hour, the facilitator will take the first 3 minutes to bind all forces of evil and cast them down into the abyss. They will then pray a shield of protection over the call and our 24/7 family! 

*The key assignment for the 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call is to intercede hourly 

for the safety and security of our President and to pray for that which pertains to our nation!

We pray for the protection of our President, Donald Trump and cover him with the Blood of Jesus. 

Thank You for instructing and guiding him, giving him wisdom through Your Holy Spirit. 

We bless his wife, our First Lady, Melania, their young son Barron and each of their family members. 

We also cover our Vice President Mike Pence, his wife Karen and their family with that Precious Blood,

and include all those in the Trump Administration who are serving You and our nation! Thank You, Father!

Strategic Focus for Friday 

WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES

Gifts of the Holy Spirit – Discerning of Spirits

“You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

John 8:44

In His earthly ministry, Jesus dealt much with the demonic realm, primarily in casting out demons. He trained His disciples to do the same, and told us that it was one of the signs that would accompany and validate believers. One of the gifts we receive when we are filled with the Holy Spirit is the spiritual gift of “discerning of spirits”. It is available to all believers, and when employed, it allows us to understand what the demonic realm is doing. It is much needed in the dangerous and perilous times in which we are now living.

This gift of “discerning of spirits” is spelled with a small “s”, which means it is not referring to the Holy Spirit. There are three kinds of spirits that it refers to demonic spirits, God’s angels and human spirits. 

In using this gift, the Holy Spirit gives Christians supernatural discernment, insight, and knowledge involving these spirits. Many times, they will fully expose what is operating behind the scenes with someone. Here is how this gift operates with each of these kinds of spirits.

We pray:

• Lord, we thank You for giving us the Holy Spirit Who leads us into all truth. Thank You for the gift of discerning of spirits. Teach us how to use this and all the gifts You give us wisely and well, for Your glory!

Demonic Spirits – interact with us in this life, so we really need this gift in full operation to handle them. Many times demons can enter a person’s body if they have been given the appropriate legal rights to do so. Once they take possession of a body, they hide and try not show themselves. They know that if they are exposed, there is a risk that person will receive Jesus and be set free, or if they are Christians, they might seek out another believer to be prayed for and be delivered! God activates this gift through His people, so they can detect when a demon is (inside) possessing someone or (outside) oppressing them. Once that is determined, the person can receive deliverance and be set free!

Those operating in this gift might “see” the demons manifest through a person’s eyes. Sometimes the demons will rise up, show themselves and be looking directly at us through this person’s eyes. Examples of this can be seen in the eyes of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and others who are given over to evil! (Not to mention the likes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.)

• When we see this kind of manifestation happen, we see pure hate… pure evil looking at us. We are able to tell that we are seeing a demonic spirit…and not the person they are residing in. 
• This kind of look is often caught on camera, as demons like to show themselves when their “host” is having their picture taken. It is easily seen by the people who have this gift of the Holy Spirit!

We also might discern and sense demons through either a sense of smell or a sense of feeling. 

• Some people literally smell their presence, and their smell is extremely noxious and toxic. The people who have this kind of gift say it is the worse smell they have ever smelled.
• Others will get a sick feeling in their stomach, like they want to vomit when they either see or are around someone who has a demon inside them.

We might also discern a demon inside someone through a strong inner knowing from the Holy Spirit.

• Even if we don’t see them in the person’s eyes, feel them or smell them, we can get a strong sensing from the Holy Spirit of the demons inside them.

We pray:

• The exposure of the demonic forces that are operating through Schumer, Pelosi and Cortez. 

God’s Angels – These are ministering spirits. Throughout history, God’s angels have appeared to people from the Virgin Mary to Daniel, to the apostle John in the Book of Revelation. However, the Bible also warns us that satan and his demons can appear to us as “angels of light”. As a result, we need the gift of discerning of spirits.

• The false religions of Islam and Mormonism are two perfect examples of demons appearing as angels of light. They manifested to those who started these two false religions.
• If those people had known how to properly test a spirit appearing to them, those two demonic angels could have easily been stopped in their tracks and those two false religions would have never started! 

If and when an angel ever should appear to us, the first thing we would need to do is to test it. The Word says:

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, BUT TEST THE SPIRITS, whether they are of God; 

because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: 

Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 

and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.

And this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.” 

1 John 4:1-4

What does this look like? 

• If it is an angel from God, we will feel a sense of peace and comfort as the Holy Spirit bears witness that this is one of God’s angels.
• We might receive a strong discerning of spirits direct from the Holy Spirit and immediately sense something is not right with this angel, OR we might have a strong inner knowing that this is not an angel from God.

How do you deal with it?

• Directly ask the angel to identify who his Lord and Master is. The answer is Jesus Christ!
• Then we ask him to confess that Jesus Christ has come to our earth in the flesh.
  • If the angel cannot make this direct confession to us, then we are dealing with a demonic spirit masquerading as an angel of light. 
  • At that point, command the demon to leave in the name of Jesus.

We pray:

• The Word tells us that besides “submitting to God”, we are to “resist demons so they will flee”. 

“Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”

James 4:7 

Lord, teach us what we need to know in order to stand against the wickedness and snares of the devil!

Human Spirits – in addition to angels and demonic spirits, the third kind of spirit is our own human spirits. 

• For instance, someone could have a spirit of pride operating in and through them.
• It will not be a demonic spirit but rather, it is coming from the person’s own natural spirit. We are all vulnerable to having spirits build up in our systems without the help of any kind of demonic spirits since we have already been born into this world as corrupt sinners.

This gift is helpful in discerning the real “bad apples” that are out there, especially the criminal types: sexual offenders, money scammers, liars and swindlers. 

• Pedophiles are especially good at seducing family members, so they can then work themselves into positions where they are allowed access to young children. Parents need this gift so that they might guard their children, and discern those who enter into their immediate circles of influence.

Whenever we encounter these types of spirits, this gift of discerning of spirits will manifest in and for us. We will be able to discern the source and intent of the individual spirits. We only need to keep ourselves open and remain sensitive to whatever the Holy Spirit may want to show us, at any given moment! What a sweet communion …and He wants to share in it with us… continually! 

We pray:

• Heavenly Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit, we thank You for the protection that You extend to those of us who are Yours. Thank You for giving us warning signs when we cross paths with an evil spirit that is either targeting us, or our friends or family members and instructing us in how to deal with and dismiss it! 

There is definite Biblical precedent for binding spirits and the Word teaches us how we are to “bind” and what we are to do once we have bound a spirit! Jesus gave a succinct teaching on binding and loosing. 

“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, 

and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” 

Matthew 16:19

As disciples of Christ, we need to recognize that we have been given authority to bind on earth that which has been bound in heaven and to loose on earth that which has been loosed in heaven.

The word “bind” is defined as: to tie or fasten something tightly. Mark 3:27 and Matthew 12:29 tell us that before we can enter a strong man’s house we must first bind him. In Revelation 20:2, we see an angel binding satan for a thousand years. “And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, which is the devil or satan, and bound him for a thousand years.”

Believers have been given authority over demonic spirits who are tormenting people. We speak out loud and declare that the demons are bound and will not torment the person. We then cast the demon spirits down into the abyss. 

We are in an intense battle, and many, including our President, are under constant attack by the demonic realm. We must proactively wage spiritual warfare on behalf of our leaders and our loved ones.

We pray:

• That You will help us to act as You have instructed us so that we might discern the spirits operating against our President and our government. Help us to discern, identify, bind and immediately cast them into the abyss.

 (Portions adapted from articles by Michael Bradley and Don Ibbitson)

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Specific Prayer Topics for Today

Praying for the Congress of the United States: Senate and House of Representatives

PRAYER FOR THE SENATE offered on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 -by Chaplain Dr. Barry C. Black

Eternal God, the center of our joy, on September 11th, 2001 our Nation united because of an external threat. Remind our lawmakers that nations are not only destroyed from without but from within. As each Senator has taken an oath to protect our Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, defend this land we love from the most subtle incursions. Lord, as some members of our armed forces seek sustenance at charity food pantries and prepare to miss a second payday, something has to give. Forgive us almighty God, for our sins of commission and omission. Remind each Senator of the words of Jesus of Nazareth in Luke 10:7: “those who work deserve their pay.” We pray in Your Sovereign Name. Amen.

We pray:

• That the words of this precious Chaplain’s lips and the meditations of his heart will cause those “out of order” in the Senate to shift into alignment with You, Lord and our President! Touch them now, Father, and turn their hearts toward You and him…that our nation might thrive, survive and prosper! 

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Hineni, Adonai! Here I am, Lord!

Engaging in a Warfare of Love! The Battle of the Bride!

KADIMA! Onward…forward!

“LAYNA!” LIGHT and TRUTH!

Be Strong…Courageous…Brave!

Unashamed of the Gospel of Christ!

God’s Champions for Life!

Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus!

BE READY! REVIVAL IS COMING! 

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