Friday, January 21, 2011

Praying over the land…








My husband reminded me last weekend that it’s time to pray over the land.  This is something we do every year.  Even if we can’t walk the whole perimeter, we walk the yard and pray.  During the hurricanes we anointed and prayed over the trees and our neighborhood.  Prayer does make a difference!  We even pray over all the doors and entrances to our home and every wall in every room.
If you decide to pray over your land and home…there are n0 set rules, I don’t think our Father God is so much concerned with rigid formulas, he’s more concerned about the intentions of our hearts and our trusting him with everything we have.  Here’s a example of what you can pray…
Here’s an example prayer…reword as you see fit, but I believe it covers just about everything!
Daily Prayer Covering
Dear Heavenly Father,
I pray this prayer in the power of the Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus Christ I bind, rebuke, and bring to no effect; all division, discord, disunity, strife, anger, wrath, murder, criticism, condemnation, pride, envy, jealousy, gossip, slander, evil speaking, complaining, lying, false teaching, false gifts, false manifestations, lying signs and wonders, poverty, fear of lack, fear spirits, murmuring spirits, complaining spirits, hindering spirits, retaliatory spirits, deceiving spirits, religious spirits, occult spirits, witchcraft spirits, Ahab, (including Jezebel, Delilah, and Apollyon), and spirits of antichrist.
I bind all curses that have been spoken against me. I bless those who curse me, and pray blessings on those who despitefully use me. I bind all spoken judgments made against me and judgments I have made against others. I bind the power of negative words from others, and I bind and render useless all prayers not inspired by the Holy Spirit; whether psychic, soul force, witchcraft or counterfeit tongues that have been prayed against me.
I am God’s child. I resist the devil. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. I put on the whole armor of God. I take authority over this day, in Jesus name. Let it be prosperous for me, and let me walk in your love Lord.
The Holy Spirit leads and guides me today. I discern between the righteous and the wicked. I take authority over satan and all his demons, and those people who are influenced by them. I declare satan is under my feet and shall remain there all day.
I am righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I am God’s property. Satan, you are bound from my family, my mind, my body, my home, and my finances. I confess that I am healed and whole. I flourish, am long lived, stable, durable, incorruptible, fruitful, virtuous, full of peace, patience and love. Whatsoever I set my hands to do shall prosper, for God supplies all my needs. I have all authority over satan, all demons, and beasts of the field.
God, I pray for the ministry you have for me. Anoint me God for all you have called me to do for you. I call forth divine appointments, open doors of opportunity, God ordained encounters, and ministry positions.
I claim a hedge of protection around myself, spouse, children (names) throughout this day and night. I ask you God, in the name of Jesus, to dispatch angels to surround our cars, homes, land, souls, and bodies. I ask angels to protect my house from any intrusion and to protect me and my family from any harmful demonic or other physical or mental attacks.
I ask this prayer in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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Rachel says:
I like this and need to do this again over our house, land, etc.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Huffy and God


Huffy and God
With us being human and all, from time to time we will have huffiness or maybe better put, we will get exasperated over a situation we are in.  There’s never a good enough excuse for getting huffy but it happens.  Last night I was tired and slightly on the grouchy side!
I had gone to the doctor for an ear infection late yesterday afternoon.  I was tired from the night before from lack of sleep because my jaw and ear were swollen from infection.  After the doctor visit all I wanted to do was get my prescriptions, go home and sleep.
As I waited in line for my prescriptions all I was thinking about was how miserable and tired I was, wishing everyone would hurry so I could go home, the line was long.  When I finally made it to the counter I was hopeful and anxious, but the young lady said my prescriptions wouldn’t be ready for another 10 minutes, so I preceded to walk around the store aimlessly, finally sitting on a bench next to the pharmacy to wait.
By this time the line was even longer and now I was also hungry…so I got back in line and waited some more, this time I was EXTREMELY hopeful since about 30 minutes had gone by…but alas it wasn’t to be, my prescriptions still weren’t ready!!!  The nice young lady said it would be another 10 minutes….SIGH!  Now I was really feeling “heated”.  I went and sat back down feeling quite perturbed, I was ready to go home, I was hungry, my ear and jaw hurt and I was sleepy!  At this moment of feeling sorry for myself God showed me why I had to wait.
Another lady that had been waiting in line way in the back found that her prescriptions weren’t ready either.  She came to sit beside me and we started talking about waiting, she was such a sweet lady, told me about her job and it turned out that I knew her employer, then she told me about her husband, he has cancer.  I knew right then why I had to wait, she needed someone, a stranger to encourage her, to pray for them, to let her know that someone cared, God had me wait so I could be the one to help and minister to her.
Another lesson learned.  I immediately felt humbled and thankful.  My aches and pains were forgotten as we talked about God, prayer, His strength and faithfulness, her husband and their struggle.
Sometimes, in fact a lot of times we have to wait…maybe waiting isn’t about us, maybe it’s about slowing down long enough to care for someone else in their time of need.  Next time you find yourself waiting, resist the urge to get out of sorts.  Look around, someone may be there that needs you.  Open your heart and let God lead.
nila~