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Great message from Rick Godwin.

It takes more faith to stay in the boat than to walk on the water.

Keep your focus and purpose and you will blow away every weapon formed against you.

Really enjoyed the worship and a good message at City Church this weekend.

What you compromise to get, you have to compromise to keep. When we lose the Holy Spirit in our worship, we lose Gods power and presence. Here is an example.

Luke 4:14
Jesus Begins His Galilean Ministry

14 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region.

Luke 11:13
13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

It is a great thing to pray for revival for your area. Start by praying for revival in your church

Visited a prayer meeting of men from different nations in the US this week. It was fun to get together and pray with Spirit-filled believers. You could see their passion as they prayed fervently in tongues and we interceded for the United States, Kenya, and Japan. It was a good time.

At the end of the prayer time one older guy said that he had a word from the Holy Spirit. He talked about how the United States was under the judgment of God and in economic turmoil because of judgment for four reasons. He mentioned it was judgment for allowing abortions, allowing homosexuals to push their immoral agenda and two other reasons which I have forgotten. Frankly, I was disappointed to hear his points.

One of the guys in the group told him to pray and intercede for the nation for those areas rather than just talk about it. He did.

However, we must remember that we have earthquakes, wars, famine, physical abuse, and all sorts of evil happening on the earth. Economic turmoil is not a good sign of the judgment of God. If that is the logic can we say Saudi Arabia is healthy because they have a healthy economy? Absolutely not.

God will judge all nations but God is not evil. We are now in a time where we are in control of the earth and we have to fight with the enemy so that it doesn’t go towards darkness. The enemy is trying to take that authority.

We currently have authority over the earth with the enemy fighting to kill steal and destroy us. King Jesus is coming back soon and everything will be changed. The Holy Spirit confirmed that in my readying of 1 Corinthians this AM.

1 Cor 15:24
24 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power.
NKJV

Evening and morning and at noon I will pray.
(Ps 55:17 NKJV)

D.L. Moody: “If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it, you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.”

Jill Briscoe: “The management of time is the management of self; therefore, if you manage time with God, He will begin to manage you.”

Helmut Thielicke: “The Word of God is demanding. It demands a stretch of time in our day—even though it be a very modest one—in which He is our only companion…God will not put up with being fobbed off with prayers in telegram style and cut short like a troublesome visitor for whom we open the door just a crack to get rid of him as quickly as possible.”

A.W. Tozer: “Now, as always, God discloses Himself to babes and hides himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without a doubt God will quickly respond.”