(Myles
Weiss)
We are gathered here this weekend to
say that Jesus is Lord. Right now as we gather here,
there are people all over the world saying what we are
saying, and that is that there is one Lord and His name
is Jesus Christ. What I would like to do tonight is
to open us up with a Hebrew prayer, if you don't mind.
It is the central prayer to Jesus in Hebrew. Close your
eyes and listen.
(Hebrew Prayer)
Hear oh Israel, The Lord our God, The
Lord is one. Today we say, hear oh earth, the Lord our
God, the Lord is one.
(Worship)
(R.C. Carillo)
These are some statistics from last
year; 154 nations across the earth, 220 million people
were praying last year. Today there are already 190
+ nations that have registered that have said that their
nation will be praying. I believe that there is somewhere
in the mix of over 500 million people praying across
the globe. Praise the Lord. I want to give you a quick
low-down of what to expect tonight. Are you expecting?
We have pastor's, worship leaders and choirs from churches
all over this county. The goal is to pray and worship.
There will be times when pastor's pray and the conclusion
will be the congregational response, that is your part
and it will be up here on the screen. Pastor's, don't
forget the congregational responses. So, congregation,
let's respond tonight and pray and look forward to a
great night.
Father, I do pray that you would bless
tonight. That your will would be done in this room.
Father, that you would do what you want to do here in
Santa Rosa tonight. I thank you for this opportunity
to gather with your people, with your church and we
exalt you in this place. We say Father come. Rend the
heavenly's even now. Spread through out our hearts tonight
and spread like a wild fire throughout this region tonight
and throughout the globe for your glory, in the name
of Jesus, amen.
(Adam Peacock)
Tonight we celebrate the unity of the
body of Christ. I am going to pray along those lines
after I read Psalm 133. This Psalm prays about the unity
and the blessing that would come. We experience that
here in Santa Rosa and we experience it now around the
world. Behold how good and pleasant it is when the brethren
dwell together in unity. Almighty God, Father, Son and
Holy Spirit, as we unite the world wide body of believers,
we are gathered on today to glorify your name. We bow
before your throne of grace and acknowledge that you
are the creator of heaven and earth. You existed through
all of eternity and in you all things hold together.
There is no one like you, Holy and righteous in all
of your ways. We submit to your authority and sovereignty
as the king of the universe and pray with one voice
to enthrone you in our hearts and to honor you before
the world.
(Congregational response)
Lord God, you alone are worthy. Great
is our admiration. We worship you.
(Adam Peacock)
John 14:6 - Jesus said to him, "I
am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes
to the Father except through me." Jesus came to
make a way. He came to make a way for the kingdom of
heaven to come to earth. He came to make a way for forgiveness
of sin. He came to make a way for reconciliation between
us and God and between us and one another. He came to
make a way so that we could walk in the purposes of
the promises of God. He came to make a way for us to
go to the Father, so that we could find identity and
walk in incomparable intimacy. We have a lot to be grateful
for, amen. We want to lay a foundation of gratitude
in this place tonight together. I cannot do that alone,
so I want to encourage you to gather with those who
are in your immediate area, let's just take a few moments
here together and thank our Father for our Lord Jesus
Christ. Thank him for allowing us to come into that
relationship with him. For the identity, intimacy and
purpose. Let's pray with gratitude.
(Prayer)
Thank you for loving the world so greatly
that you gave your only son Jesus Christ to die on the
cross for our sins, so that we could be reconciled to
you. Thank you for giving us the right to call you Father,
because of our faith in Jesus Christ as our savior.
Nothing, not even principalities and powers is able
to separate us from your love that you demonstrated
in your son, Jesus Christ.
(Congregational Reading)
Thank you Father for adopting us into
your family. We now cry, Abba Father!
(Ben)
 Bear
with me a little bit as I worship. To know for sure
that His faithfulness resounds in the earth. His sovereign
grace and mercy is established in that we have come
to know the king of glory. Today the Miwok people have
heard the way of the salvation of the Lord. We have
been here for quite some time, but I can tell you that
today in this geographical territory, the kingdom of
God is established. We have seen with our eyes and beheld
his transformation and eternal purpose, in that Christ
be glorified. We walk in the awesome transformation
of the eternal spirit, the promise, eternal life. The
transformation that He is sovereign, declares us to
bring forth His praise. Lord Jesus Christ, you alone
are worthy to open the scrolls of history, where you
were slain and have redeemed us to the Father by your
blood. Thank your interceding for us as our high priest.
As we stand before you as many tribes and nations, we
confess that you are head of the church and Lord of
everything that is in heaven and on earth. Come and
draw followers to serve you from every tribe and language.
May these become your inheritance in all of the earth.
Let your kingdom be established in every nation of the
world. Let the governors rule with righteousness and
justice and may your Gospel be known to every person
on earth and may the blessing bring transformation upon
every people. May your name be great from the rising
of the son, to it's setting.
(Congregational reading)
Jesus Christ, you are the savior of
the world and the Lord of all.
(Barney)
I have been asked to pray into the
section regarding confession and forgiveness. How many
of you have prayed for revival?
What is keeping it from happening on
a greater scale? 2 Chronicles 7:14 tells us that it
is because of sin, and you know what?
It is not the sins of the world that
is keeping it from happening, because when the world
sins, it is just doing what it is supposed to do. It
is the sin in the church.
In a George Barna study a few years
ago, he found that there is basically very little difference
in the lifestyle of those who call themselves Christians
and the lifestyle of the world. It's the sin of the
church that we want to pray into tonight. I want to
read a section of scripture from Psalm 51, but we are
first going to have a time of silent reflective prayer,
where we bring our sins before God. I don't think we
really need to think about it a lot to figure out what
our sins are. I think we all know the things that we
struggle with, so we are going to take some time to
bring those things before God.
Psalm 51 - according to your unfailing
love; according to your great compassion blot out my
transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse
me from my sin. Let me hear joy and gladness. Let the
bones that have been crushed rejoice. Hide your face
from my sins and blot out all of my iniquities. Create
in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within
me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy
Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation
and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me. You do
not delight in sacrifice or I would bring it. You do
not take pleasure in burnt offerings. The sacrifices
of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart,
O God you will not despise.
Let's just come before the Lord for
a few moments of silent reflection and confess our sin.
Lord, we come before you and seek
your forgiveness and bring before you our hurt, because
of the loss of innocent life in war, because of terrorism,
abortion, persecution and senseless murders. Our hearts
are broken by every rejection of Jesus Christ as Lord
and Savior. God, as we stand before you, we know that
your eyes behold all things. Our homes are broken by
selfishness and immorality. Our lives are polluted by
greed, idolatry and sexual sin.
Our churches are divided by
rebellious pride. All of the sins that may
be found in our world, you have found among your people.
We have grieved your heart and Lord we have brought
shame to your name. We approach your throne of grace
in this hour of need. We ask for your mercy and help
to truly repent. We praise you and we thank you for
the forgiveness that we have in Jesus Christ, amen.
(Congregational prayer)
God of mercy, pour out your grace.
Forgive our sins. Heal our land.
(Steve)
God has said in His word, "If
my people who are called by my name will humble themselves
and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked
ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sins
and heal their land."
(Fernando)
Dios te bendiga! Turn to your brother
or sister next to you and say, "Dios te bendiga."
Let me pray. Holy Father, the spirit
of the living God, we confess that we can do nothing
apart from you. Living God, we know that you are above
all things and Father, that you have done all things.
We lift up our prayers to you, in the name of the living
Christ. Create in us the desire and ability to carry
your heart and to answer the call of the homeless, hungry,
desperate, dying, widows, orphans. Take them into your
arms and show them your mercy as you meet their needs.
Grant wisdom and insight into every
circle of life, so that we can help those that we come
in contact with and within our own lives, for your glory
and for the well-being of all. Fill us with compassion
and the power of the Holy Spirit as a witness in our
lives. Amen. En el nombre de Christo Jesus.
(Congregational Reading)
Holy Spirit, we need your comfort and
guidance. Come and transform our hearts.
(Sam Tillery)
There is a way for the spirit of God
to come down to our hearts. There is a way. We just
sang a phrase in that song, "Lord, have your way."
In John 17, His way, His prayer is that we be one. Why?
So, that the world may believe. Today is the global
day of prayer. His way is happening today, because all
over this planet the body of Christ is seeking to become
one.
We are praying the same prayers, declaring
the same things and asking of God with one heart for
his purposes to come to our land. That's his way. This
section that we are in now is about victory over darkness,
the work of the evil one. What is the way that brings
down the works of the evil one? It is not our independent
way. In fact, what's happening tonight when we worship
in song together, that's one way and actually it is
a small way in comparison to the rest of our life.
Worship means to attribute worth, so
as we begin to embrace the body of Christ, diverse in
color and gifting, and we honor prefer one another,
we begin to embrace the heart and image of God, for
we are created in his image. As we love one another
in our diversity, in our differences, so it is we begin
to posture ourselves with a different kind of authority
to declare His truths and to call down the works of
darkness. So, before I pray and you respond, we must
understand that there are many ways to do spiritual
warfare. God is calling us to a place of oneness.
A little over 4 weeks ago we came
together as one to overcome evil with good. Take a look
at this video as it illustrates spiritual warfare.
(Spring Clean Video)
When you start hearing the city workers
saying that they have seen a miracle today, that is
evidence that we are in the process of transformation.
Now, when you're called upon in your churches to gather
together, that is a spiritual call to war. When we come
together to overcome evil with good, stand in the purposes
of God and embrace the body of Christ. Even here on
this stage as you have seen different representation
of various churches and worship, that is an act for
incredible posturing for authority. When we pray and
come together as one, the heavenly's are shaking and
God begins to move to bring healing to our land. These
acts of kindness and gathering together are not just
another thing to do, we must understand the weight of
God. We are saying, "God, have your way tonight."
Things like Spring Clean and City Kids Festival and
on and on as it may go, as we come together, things
happen. Bow with me in prayer,
Lord Jesus Christ, because you were
once dead, but now you are risen and alive. Because
the Father has given you the name that is above every
name, you will defeat all of the powers of darkness.
You have prevailed that the gates of hell will not prevail
against your church, so we pray for deliverance from
demonic oppression over our land. We pray for the tearing
down of the strongholds and ideologies that hinder and
resist the spreading of the knowledge of God of the
Lord Jesus Christ. We resist the plan of the evil one
to keep the nations in darkness and we pray heavenly
father that you would remove the veil that covers the
people's of our land. We ask for open doors, so that
the Gospel may enter every nation. Restrain the evil
that promotes violence and death. Break the hold of
slavery, tyranny and greed. Fill us with the courage
to fearlessly and faithfully preach the word of God,
and give us the spirit of intercession to cry out on
behalf of the lost, and so together we say,
(Congregational Response)
Almighty God, deliver us from evil
and the evil one.
(Rick)
Lord Jesus, we pray to acknowledge
you tonight as we come together as one to establish
heaven's government here on earth. We praise you Lord
God that your shoulders are big, strong and good and
that you are from beginning to end, Lord of all of the
universe. Lord, you are the wonderful counselor, the
mighty God, the everlasting Father, the prince of peace,
and of the increase of your government there will be
no end. Lord, as we look at our world tonight, we pray
that you would establish your government in places that
have been devastated and your kingdom light might flow
into these places. Father, we think of those nations
that have been effected by the Tsunami, that your kingdom
principals of righteousness would be established in
these places. Let it come Lord. Indonesia that has been
rocked by an earthquake, let your kingdom of righteousness
be established and your light flow to those trapped
in darkness.
Lord, we think of our own nation,
those in New Orleans and we pray for the various leaders
and pastors in that area, that are re-establishing that
city. We pray, Father that they would be built up in
your righteousness and that kingdom light would flow
to New Orleans. You promised long ago that you would
restore all things and we welcome you to finish the
work in our city, in our people and in our nation. We
lift our voices in unison with believer's from across
the face of the earth. From Africa, the Middle East,
North and South America, Asia, Europe, Australia, the
Pacific Islands and from every tribe.
Let's pray together church.
(Congregational Reading)
We lift up your head, oh you gates.
Be lifted up king of glory, so that the king of glory
may come in.
As your deeds increase throughout
the earth and as your blessings abound to all the nations,
they seek you asking, "Who is this king of glory?"
Together we will answer, "He is the Lord almighty,
blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord."
Father, come fill the earth with your
glory as the waters cover the sea. The spirit and the
bride say, "Amen, Come Lord Jesus."
As we go from this place, may we be
carriers of your presence, in Jesus name, Amen.
Special Thanks to Christelle Eddy
who transcribed this document. |
