This week Serena Gallagher brings a word outlining the role of forgiveness within our prayer lives and God’s role to be the Restorer of the breach. She exhorts the believer to strive for maturity in their lives, seeking to go after the uncomfortable places of pain, and grow in the freedom of forgiveness and love.

We continue our prayer series with a powerful word from Psalm 110, where David prophesied to “rule in the midst of your enemies”. This ties in completely with Psalm 23, “you prepare a table before me, in the presence of my enemies”. The Father’s authority is in us and on us, to reign over our strongholds and over the strongholds in cities. How do we engage the cosmic level powers of darkness that prevail over a region or a city?

1.We need to identify these powers through spiritual mapping.

2.We need to first overcome these issues in our own personal lives.

3.We must live a life of prayer, praise and worship and watch as the powers of darkness are displaced by our rulership with Him.

We can expect great victories when we defeat in roads on the ground with hand-to-hand combat, destroying strongholds like rejection, shame and fear. Then at the cosmic level the larger powers will be displaced. Cities can be transformed, but we must take up the fight in the prayer room, the counseling/deliverance room and our personal prayer rooms too. The Kingdom suffers warfare, and so there is a fight - but the outcome is always victory if we don’t quit! Don’t give up, but put on the armour He provides, and stay in the peace and joy! God is the winner with you at His side beloved!

This week Serena Gallagher continues our prayer series with a focus on the power of having a vulnerable personal prayer life. John’s gospel reveals the way that Jesus’ life impacted those around him; in this talk Serena draws from John’s account of Lazarus and his sister Mary, highlighting how we too point to Jesus’ life death and resurrection by how we engage with God in our personal lives.

Jesus and the Exodus story have some amazing parallels. The plagues of the Exodus start with water into blood and finish with the death of the firstborn. Jesus starts his ministry by turning water into wine and then becomes the crucified first born. Jesus is the great deliverer who pays the debt for all sin. He becomes a plague to the powers of darkness. He is the great Jubilee freeing Israel, Egypt and the nations.

In this message Phil seeks to normalize the practice of spiritual cleansing. Nothing we do is done in a vacuum. The enemy of our souls is always looking for an inroad into our inner world. Paul taught that we can all experience defilement from the invisible world of spirits that surround us. The remedy for defilement is to cleanse ourselves of every fleshly and spiritual defilement. (2 Corinthians 7:1) Spiritual stuff comes on us and we need to learn how to break it off ourselves and one another on our spiritual journey. This is a normal part of the Christian life.

This week, in our Prayer series, Maria teaches us on Crafted Prayer for our spiritual maturing. Crafted prayer is a great tool to stand in our authority and see the promises of God fulfilled. This teaching is a practical unpacking of how to form a crafted prayer.

Crafted Prayer is a prayer that we write down for a specific battle. It is layered prepared prayer to be used in proclamation and decree! In crafted prayer we also speak to our mindsets, attitudes or heart conditions calling our responses to be Godly and faith filled. We declare the promises and purposes of God for freedom, life and breakthrough.

We are in a battle. Some of our battles are tough! It may be a battle for our emotional or mental health, a finance battle, marriage issues, singleness issues, parenting, career issues, business or others. Our ability to engage this battle is vital! We must move out of being a victim to becoming a victor and use everything to overcome.

The crafted prayer will also have many other benefits: we are speaking life not curses, it will renew the mind, forming new neural pathways and it helps create our culture and increase our faith!

The enemy has a plan to keep us ineffective as Christians, but we are bearers of victory, we are bearers of the good news and God has equipped us with so many weapons to fight these battles. When we pray a crafted prayer, we engage with the Spiritual Realm with prepared declarations that prophesy that we will win this battle! Jesus our victor will show us the way!

The Exodus story demonstrates Israel’s need to be delivered from both the powers of darkness, and from Pharaoh who had come into total agreement with the demonic realm. King Jesus came to deal with both realms; sin and Satan. He is from both the line of David and is the Son of God. He rules over both realities. Deliverance is something that happens in both realities. We break agreement with the demonic realm so we can be free in the natural realm.

Throughout Paul’s epistles he finds himself praying specific targeted prayers over those for whom he was pastorally responsible. Paul taught in Romans 8 that the Spirit teaches us what to pray and how to pray. Paul’s apostolic prayers become a powerful template for our personal and corporate prayer life. Join Phil as he journeys through the Apostolic Prayers of Paul, highlighting the themes of Spirit-born prayers that are designed to accelerate our transformation.

Rosie continues our prayer series on the live stream this week by talking about prayer as an invitation from the Father into the secret place.

In Matthew 6, Jesus teaches us how to pray and exhorts us to build a secret life of prayer with God, as he unpacks what the reward culture of heaven looks like.

The communion meal is a dinner appointment with God. It is a covenantal declaration of how eternally we are connected to the Father, because of Jesus death and resurrection. In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul gives several powerful truths that occur when we take the bread and the wine. The communion table is a time to remember, proclaim, repent, cleanse and declare the finished work of Christ by engaging our hearts to the gospel. There is a blood stronger than all defilement. There is a body broken that can take all the pain. What will the outcome be? Simply put – miracles occur when we live in the fullness of the blessing of communion practice and communion prayers! Let’s do this sacred practice daily!