The purpose for this blog

I have been leading a Tuesday night corporate prayer meeting in various churches throughout almost 40 years of ministry. I will have to admit, I never intended to be on a church staff as a Prayer Pastor. I would say it just happened but when you serve Jesus nothing is accidental but by divine design.

The purpose for this blog is to take the process that the Holy Spirit guides me through weekly to lead the Body of Christ in prayer and give the information to you. My prayer is that it will help you learn how to work with the Holy Spirit to see breakthrough in your church, business, home and relationships.

What happens on Tuesdays before the evening corporate prayer time?

Tuesdays are preparation days for me as much as possible. I take my time with Jesus very seriously. After all, He is the King! I am convinced that leading the people in prayer is important to everything the church accomplishes. With that in mind, I want to make sure that I am working with the Holy Spirit to lead the people.

I am on staff at a large church and Prayer Pastor is my title, but it is still a fight sometimes to avoid letting the business of ministry edge in on preparation time. My goal for Tuesdays is to be in prayer and in God’s word for the majority of the day. Don’t let that intimidate you. To spend long times with Jesus just start with short times. After a while long times won’t seem so long and it gets easier.

I am not mosaic

There are those that can come in and out of concentration but I am not one of them. If my focus is broken, it takes a while to get it back. That is why I choose to remain alone with Jesus on Tuesdays. I like to have a clear head and heart so I am sensitive to the voice of His Spirit. Many days I don’t come into my time with Him with a clear head and it takes a while to unload all of it in prayer before I can just enjoy Jesus. Then I go back and forth talking to Jesus and reading His Word. I spend time praying in my prayer language as well.

Yesterday’s prep time

If you decide to click on the link and pray with me you will hear part of the process.

The first part of the prayer last night was based on the Word the Lord gave me at the end of last year 2016.

“There will be a cosmic clash between truth and deception this year.”
This equals “breakthrough” but the intercessors must do their part in prayer.

I mulled over that and prayed over that during the day Tuesday.

This led to us spending a good while praying over truth in the corporate prayer meeting. We prayed God’s Word about truth; where it comes from, what it is, and for it to prevail. We prayed this over our nation, city, churches and families.

The end of the prayer time we prayed a “Psalm 57 grace”. This came out of a dream the night before where God would speak to me after He helped me in the dream and identified His help as “a Psalm 57 grace”.

Since I wasn’t sure what Psalm 57 was I got up and read it the next morning and it resonated that we were to pray the Psalm 57 graces (God’s divine empowerment) over the church. I meditated on Psalm 57 during the day on Tuesday as I prepared to lead the church in prayer. By the way, 5 is the number for grace and 7 is perfection, the God number.

As we prayed in the video I explain a little more. If you decide to pray with the prayer night, just put in the name of your city, church and family as you come into agreement.

You may notice that we will pray a lot of scripture. There is a reason for that. It’s not because I don’t have anything to say. It is because that is how we can pray the ultimate prayer of agreement.

Matthew 18:19-20 (NKJV)
19 Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth    concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them  by My Father in heaven.

20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.

When I was young I used to think that we were just to be in unity and whatever we asked would happen. That definitely has some truth in it. But have you ever tried to get a room full of people in agreement about anything?

I have found over the years in corporate prayer that if we can come into agreement with God’s Word together, that is the place of miraculous answered prayer!!!!!!

I hope you will hang out with me in the prayer service. I’m believing God for your breakthrough!

lisa

Why pray. Why do we want to pray?

This is a talk we had at Trinity Church back at the end of October on why we want to pray. You might be surprised at the reasons I give for us wanting to pray. I try to make this topic simple and relatable.

You may not have been to the auditorium venue at Trinity so let me describe it so I can provide a story. It has a large platform the length of the front of the auditorium, then a flat area leading into the back where theater seats reach to the ceiling. On one side is a painted wall and on the other side is a set of floor to ceiling shaded windows that look out into a park. The flat flooring seating feels more homey and the theater seating feels further away and out of the main flow of the service. Different types of people like to seat in different sections. Those who have radically prioritized Jesus as part of their lives like to live on the front row. Those who are still considering if they believe any of this like to float around the top of the theater seating so they create a little personal distance between themselves and what’s going on at the platform until they make up their minds and commit. Neither of these positions are good or bad, they just are what they are.

Now my story. I enjoyed watching the audience while I spoke. Some of the big strong men up at the top of the theater seating, who worked really really hard not to be involved during the first of the service, literally came to the edge of their chairs and remained involved during the whole conversation.

I think you will find this a fresh word for you on why pray.

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