PRAYING FOR BREAKOUT

Last week I talked to you about how we were praying for a breakthrough in several areas of the church. If you watched prayer you are aware of the fact that we were in the midst of having a weekend Encounter Retreat as one of the targets for that breakthrough.

In preparing for prayer on Tuesday for this week’s prayer, much of what happened in the Encounter was driving the desire for the prayer time.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED.

Or should I say, this is most of what happened. We had prayed for a breakthrough at Encounter. Everything was rocking along really good on Friday night and most of Saturday. You could feel things building as the day wore on. When we started the evening service worship, not long into the worship someone fell into the floor and began to throw up. Remember this is an encounter where people get delivered of all kinds of unseen entities. Yes, they do exist! On occasion as we do encounters I see this happen. We will be in the altars praying for people and some will get delivered and end up throwing up. I don’t know why that happens, and it doesn’t happen to everyone. Just to say, that is not totally unusual as we have done this over the years

Well, as the worship ended, I tried to get up and begin my session on the cross of Jesus. It is one of my favorite things to preach. I love the message of the cross and could preach it in my sleep, but as I started to try to minister, I couldn’t find the words. Not only that, if I said a sentence, then I couldn’t remember what I just said. I tried three times to start. Each time I stopped and tried again saying just give me a moment! Everyone is just looking at me. I honestly had no idea what was happening! Finally the third time I asked someone at the back of the room to go tell the prayer warriors that I couldn’t think!

Right at that moment the guy to my right started throwing up and then a woman to my left started doing the same. I knew it was divination, witchcraft. I said it and throwing up started in the back of the room. There were 170 people registered for this encounter and 8-10 or so are throwing up at the same time! No one is touching them or doing anything that could be making this happen. Then violent screaming broke out. I feel like I’m describing a horror flick, but it was the raw power of God setting the people free all by Himself! I don’t think I have ever seen this happen like this in my life in ministry. Don’t get me wrong, I welcome the power of God to set people free!! I am not afraid to look like I don’t have a clue…I didn’t have too much of a clue!

THEN THE FOLLOWING MORNING AT END OF ENCOUNTER

Sunday mornings are the Holy Spirit times. People will get filled with the Holy Spirit and start speaking in tongues. I have prayer workers and typically we will lead the people in prayer and then lay hands on them, working with those who are having a difficult time receiving. I wanted to see however, if the Lord would do what He did the night before. So I had the 60-70 line up and just begin to talk to Jesus and then I planned to pray with them. The Holy Spirit began to fall on the people. They started getting filled with the Spirit instantly! There were very few that we ended up praying with. Well over 60 filled with the Holy Spirit!! Then they were activated in prophesy and began to give words to one another!

SO WE GOT A BREAKTHROUGH BUT WE ALSO GOT A BREAKOUT!!

With that in mind, the Lord gave me scripture and the heart to pray last night that we will not only see breakthrough but we will experience breakout! As you pray with us, pray these things over your church, city, family, and business.

I AM WRECKED

I have learned over the years to pace myself. That is what it has taken to wait for the church to catch up with my deepest desire for a move of the Holy Spirit. Now I am wrecked!!! I want the power of God to breakout more than ever and I cannot stand to go back to the mundane. I wish you could have been there this weekend! Maybe as I talk about it you will get inspired and free.

AT PRAYER LAST NIGHT

As we prayed what we prayed a woman in the back of the sanctuary started getting delivered!!

Blessings,
lisa

THE NIGHT OF BREAKTHROUGH PRAYER AND KEYS TO IT

If you decide to pray with the video from last night’s prayer night you will find that it is all about “Breakthrough”. What do I mean by Breakthrough? Breakthrough is the place where life-changes happen. In the life of a church, it is when the Holy Spirit is in control. The people are being saved, healed, baptized in power and relationally filled with love. This is always my goal in a breakthrough.

I’ve also seen breakthrough for individuals be financial, emotional, spiritual and relational. I see it in my mind as truth violently hitting the deception or lie that has kept us from believing our heavenly Father! Remember it is the Intimate knowledge of the truth that brings freedom!

Breakthrough is not always a one-time thing. Although it can come all at once but I’m never surprised when it comes in smaller installments as we grow and pray. There have been some things that get a break, but then the season changes and another break is needed. So with that said…

THINGS WE NEEDED TO SEE BREAKTHOUGH IN THIS WEEK

At the end of this week is an encounter retreat at the church where I am the prayer pastor. It is a weekend that requires a breakthrough! A real move of God cannot be manufactured by us.

That is part of the thought process that was over my heart as I prayed the better part of the day on Tuesday. I use the word pray as including time in the Word. I also had some emails and such to answer as part of my office duties since we are in encounter week.

AREAS NEEDING BREAKTHROUGH THIS PARTICULAR WEEK

The Lord spoke during the day about three areas that we needed to see “Breakthrough” this week so the prayer people could pray effectively.

1. Encounter
2. Sunday services/weekend services
3. Network pastors (they are pastors that come to our church and our senior pastor ministers and mentors them)

With breakthrough in mind I used the verse out of Micah.

Micah 2:13 (NKJV)
13 The one who breaks open will come up before them; They will break out, Pass through the gate, And go out by it; Their king will pass before them, With the LORD at their head.”

THREE THINGS THAT ARE NORMAL TO THE PROCESS OF BREAKTHROUGH

When we come to pray together for breakthrough I look for several things to happen. I love when it all happens in one night. When I first started leading prayer in the church where I am now, it took more than one night for these three things to happen. After years of prayer here, it can happen in one night so don’t get discouraged if the process takes a little while.

THESE ARE THE THREE ELEMENTS

1. First we come into agreement with God that He wants breakthrough (We did this with scripture)
2. Then we identify the areas that the Holy Spirit wants broken through and we come into agreement with that Word (the Word of God) and we speak and pray it
3. Then we do spiritual warfare

Why do we do warfare? Didn’t Jesus already take care of that? Yes!!! Jesus did take care of defeating the devil so we are now Jesus’ representatives in the earth (Bible calls us ambassadors) to enforce the victory that Jesus bought and paid for with His own blood!

Matthew 12:29 (NKJV)
29 Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

Jesus makes it known in these verses, in the context of the demonic, that there are strategies formed by darkness to protect Satan’s interest. So if we are going to see the release of the captives of an enemy, we must use our spiritual authority to bind darkness and to set the prisoners free. On the video you will hear me do this very thing using authority.

These three things will release breakthrough!!!!

THIS WILL WORK WHERE EVER YOU GO TO CHURCH

Many ask me how they can see a breakthrough of the Holy Spirit in their church. This is what I say. “God wants to breakthrough more than you want Him to!” So you may wonder what the problem is.

Is God weak? Can He not breakthrough and revive His church and transform a city? I assure you that He is not weak or incapable of getting the job done. Truth is, Jesus already completed the task of releasing the entire human race from the arms of wickedness if they will accept His sacrifice on the cross sealed by His resurrection.

But there is dark propaganda in the world running interference with the hearts and minds of the people. So even though their freedom and breakthrough has been secured, a cleverly formed lie keeps them from God’s intentions over their lives.

So here we are on the earth amidst darkness that is technically defeated but still active and we must agree with God’s Word and pray and bind and loose. This is why we are intercessors…prayer warriors…watchers on the wall. To enforce what Jesus did for the people. That’s why we use our authority!

SO KEEP AFTER IT!

If you will keep after it concerning these three things, then you will see breakthrough in due season and changes will begin to be obvious.

I’VE SEEN THIS IN EVERY WORK

Over the years, I have seen this type of relationship with praying people, the Lord Jesus and His Spirit bring a move of God everywhere we have done it. It has worked in small churches and large ones, in schools and places of business.

USE THE VIDEO TO HELP YOU PRAY FOR YOUR CHURCH, FAMILY, CITY OR BUSINESS

This time of prayer can be used to help you know how to pray over areas of life that need breakthrough.

BY THE WAY

I had a word of knowledge about a woman who thought dreams about people dying, and then they did die, was a gift. She was there at prayer and came up afterward and we renounced that demonic gift and time will tell she is free of that terrible burden!!!

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