¶ Praise for God's Power and Deeds
The Word says in Psalms 88 and 2, Let my prayer come before thee. Incline thine ear unto my cry. Welcome to Focus Prayer with G. Craig Lewis.
hears us amen father god in jesus name lord we come before you as your people and we recognize your power right now we recognize how powerful you are we recognize all the things that you've done in the old testament all the things that you did in the new testament all the things that you've done father god all of the wonderful works that are written about you
that show your power the earth that you created the world that you created man that you created we're here because you created us so we recognize your power What we're talking about, what we're needing, what we're wanting is just a small thing for you. Father God, because you are so big, you are so great, you are so mighty. So we just thank you, Lord, and give you glory and honor for who you are. who you are to us, who you are.
what we're teaching our children about you what we're learning in church about you what we learn from you uh in the word ourselves and what we learn when we study your word and father god all the things point to you being the only god And you're the only God that we will serve. You are powerful. And we believe it, Father God. Ephesians 3 and 20 says, Now unto him that is able to do, exceeding abundantly above all that we ask.
or think according to the power that worketh in us so father god we believe that right now we believe that you're able to do more than we can even think of father god you're able to do it lord even when we don't know what to ask, even when we don't know what to pray, you're able to do it for us. If we trust in you, if we give it to you, you will do it for us. So we thank you, Lord, for being God and able to do exceeding abundantly.
Above all that we ask or think. According to the power that worketh in us. And we come before you with thanksgiving. Thanking you God. Not just for what you're going to do in the future, not what you're going to do tomorrow, but for what you've already done. Thank you, Lord, for all that you've done. Father God, when we thought we had blown it, when we thought we had gone too far, when we thought it was over for us.
you came you loved us you loved us back into you back into fellowship with you god you said that you would never leave us or forsake us so we thank you lord we give you glory for that God, when we didn't have money, when we didn't have means, when we weren't able to do certain things, Father God, you came through for us. You've come through in the past. You've always been there. You've always kept your word. You're not a man that will lie.
You've done everything you've promised. So we thank you, Lord, right now. We come before you thanking you from our hearts, God.
Psalms 104, enter into his gates with thanksgiving. So we come into your gates right now with thanksgiving on our lips. Father God, just forgetting the things that had us sorrowful or the things that had us afraid or the things that had us... depressed or the things that had us anxious we forget those things right now and we just give you thanks right now we thank you lord because we know your way is the right way so we enter into your gates with thanksgiving and into your courts with praise
We praise you and we bless you. Your word says be thankful unto him and bless his name. So we bless your name right now. We bless you right now for being God of all gods. For being the true and living God. for being above the devil, for Father God being just...
Having heaven as a place where you're going to bring us and the place that the devil can't go. And why he's so angry because he can't go back. And God, we just thank you, Lord, for opening up heaven and creating a mansion for us with our names on it. That's how much you love us. So we thank you, Lord. And we bless your name, God. God, we just fall out of love with this world and fall in love with your kingdom right now, Father God. And we bless.
¶ Confession and Cleansing from Sin
You for all that you're going to do, all that you promise, all that's in store. We just thank you and bless you. And Father God, we ask for forgiveness for all of our sins. God, anything that we've done. Anything that we thought, any action that we may have made, any place we may have gone, anything we got into that wasn't what you wanted, Father God, we ask for you to forgive us right now. It is because of what your son Jesus did on Calvary.
That we can come before you and ask for forgiveness of our sins. That you will cleanse us, Lord. Not just cleanse us, but separate us from the world. So when your judgment comes upon this wicked world, Father God. you will be smiling upon us. So forgive us of our sins, Lord, and cleanse us, Father God, and just make us new. If any man be in Christ, he's a new creation and old things are passed away. Behold, all things become new. We stand on your word right now, believing that we are new.
So forgive us, Father God, of everything that we've done that we shouldn't have done, even the things we can't think of, even the things that we forgot. Father God, in any way, if we've hurt anyone, forgive us, Father God. Help us to just mend that and make that right even with them, Father God. And help us to forgive them if they haven't forgiven us.
But Father God, just forgive us for all of our sins. 1 John 1 and 9 says, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us all. will cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So we believe what your word says. So we are confessing our sins to you. You said you are faithful and just and by faith we believe that our sins are forgiven and we're cleansed from all unrighteousness.
¶ Believing God Hears Our Prayers
In the name of Jesus. And God, we come to you in faith, believing that you hear us. Father God, this is not a formality. This is just not something we do because we're Christians. We don't gather just because we're supposed to. We don't talk to you just because that's what Christians do. But Father God, we talk to you in faith.
believing that you hear us, especially in a time like this, Father God, when the world has gone crazy, Lord, and sin has abounded in the land. And just, Father God, just the worst of the worst is going on all over the world right now. But we know when we come before you and open our mouths, we know by faith that you hear us. You not only hear us, but you know us.
you know us by name you know the number of hairs on our head father god we belong to you because we're your creation you know us and we believe that you're concerned about us we believe that you care about us
We believe that you haven't left us. We believe, Father God, that you haven't turned your back on us. We believe that you hear us, Father God. So we thank you, Lord. Mark 11 and 24, therefore I say unto you, what... things so ever ye desire when you pray believe that you receive them so help us father help our belief today help our unbelief in the areas where we struggle with believing
So much has happened. So much. So many people have told us so many things. We've watched so many videos and done so much research on the internet and just different things. Father God, it has just messed with so many of our beliefs. But Father, we ask that you help our unbelief so we can believe. Like I preached on last Sunday.
we can have the innocence of a child, Father God. Take us to that childlike innocence before all the drama, before the trauma, before all of the stuff that the New World Order is doing, before Bill Gates, before... Biden, before just this government and this world and this world system, the beast system, before all of this happened, Father God, we thought that we could just move a whole mountain just by saying it because your word said it.
And because your word said it, it is true. So take us back to that childhood innocence where we thought that way, where we had that strength, where we had that vigor, where we had that purpose, Father God. And we believe that you hear this prayer and that you're going to restore those things to us, Father God. And we believe that you hear us right now. And we believe, like your word says, whatever we say when we pray and believe that we receive them.
we shall have them. So we believe that this prayer tonight at ABC on Zoom this Wednesday, Father God, we believe this prayer is going to be effective in Jesus' name.
¶ Rebuke Fear, Embrace Sound Mind
And we are not afraid of things to come. We are not afraid of things to come. Come on, say that to him. We are not afraid of things to come. Mean it when you say it. Father God, we are not afraid. of things to come. I rebuke the spirit of fear right now. I rebuke every spirit that has brought fear, every spirit that is not like God, every spirit that is against love.
Spirit that is against a sound mind. Every spirit that has come against the peace of the saints of God. I rebuke that spirit right now during this prayer. I rebuke it Father God. It cannot stay as we are talking to you and speaking. We're speaking it with the yard of the tongue. Death and life are in the power of the tongue. So we use the power or the yard or the hand of the tongue to speak it and declare right now that we are not afraid of things to come.
You have not given us the spirit of fear. We don't receive it. We won't receive it, God. We're not afraid of anything they're talking about because we don't receive the spirit of fear. We know who's more powerful. We know who the most powerful being is. We know where all the very source of power comes from.
got that power that operates in you that power that operated in jesus to raise him from the dead that's the same power we wield right now that's the power we use and with that power we speak against the spirit of fear Ready to tackle anything that comes our way with the Spirit of God. The Spirit of the Most High God. 2 Timothy 1 and 7 says, For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love.
And of a sound mind. So we pray. Father God that you would give us that power. Father God give us that love. and god restore that sound mind that mind that has been fractured fragmented just so many different ways by the cares of this life all the things that they've heard all the things that we've seen all the things that people are saying father restore it
Give us mental health, spiritual health right now, God, and heal that sound mind so we will rest, so we'll be able to sleep. Father God, so we won't think of things that they're saying and those things coming in. haunting us in our sleep or at night we're afraid to get up and leave our bedrooms and all these kind of things father god we aren't afraid of the terror by night because we know who the god of all gods is
So we rest in you, God. We're not afraid of the noise and pestilence, Father God. We have power, love, and a sound mind. That's why we gather. That's why we gather and don't social distance. That's why we gather without masks. We're not afraid of... pestilence because we know father god you're greater than any pestilence we exercise our faith every time we come together in fellowship because we believe you're going to keep us safe and that same power that keeps us safe
It's going to continue to keep us safe from harm. No matter what the plan is, Father God, you give us power in Jesus.
¶ Spirit-Led Living, Free from Worry
And this prayer is to be spirit led. We need the Lord to lead us. Lead us so we do not worry, Lord. You know, if we're leading ourselves, we're going to worry. But Lord, if you lead us. We don't have to worry. We can follow you as a child follows their own father. Not knowing where they're going many times. Not knowing what's in store. But they trust the authority of that father. They trust that mother in front of them. Just the love.
is what they trust so god we ask that you lead us tonight so that we do not worry no matter what the enemy is showing us telling us doing to us or doing to others we will not worry about it. Father God, we put worry down right now. We come against a worrying, worrisome spirit right now. We will not spend hours over the night worrying. We will not spend days just thinking and worrying. Father God, we trust you. So lead us. We'll follow you and not worry.
Give us your blessed hope of being caught up to meet you and be with you forever. Father God, let that be more important than anything that this earth can offer us. Being with you. Father God, raise the level of that in our hearts. Help us to do the things we need to do. To raise the level of awareness of that in our hearts so that we will fall out of love with this world and fall in love with your kingdom. That we will, Father God,
See you and be with you and be blessed by that hope, Father God. Blessed by the hope of being caught up to meet you, Father God. and be with you forever this world is not our home and it's definitely not under our control it's under your control so lead us holy ghost and we will follow you No matter what the enemy's showing, lead us, Lord. No matter what he's telling us, no matter what we've heard, lead us, Lord.
Help us to set our sights on you, our eyes on you. Help us to know and recognize your voice. Help us to know your leaders, God, so we'll follow the right voice. We'll follow the right shepherd. We'll follow the right... Father God, help us. Teach us. In this last hour. So we don't get caught up in something. That takes us off the path. Takes us off course. Lead us God. So we will not worry. Your word says in Matthew 6 and 27.
which of you by taking thought can add one cubic unto his stature none of us we we weren't made by ourselves so we can't add life we can't stop death we can't do any of those things only you can do it god So I pray, help us to put our faith, our confidence in you, God, even for our health. Father God, help us to place it 100% in you so we won't worry when we get a cough or when we sneeze or when somebody gets sick.
We're not afraid of this stuff. Father God, we're trusting in you. So lead us. We'll follow you and take worry away. In the name of Jesus. Cast down the spirit of worry right now. With the authority of the Holy Ghost, I cast that spirit off all of us, including myself. No worry. We will not worry if we follow you. We put it all in you and Jesus.
name and lead us so we are not stressing father god help us to not be stressed father god help us to not be stressed getting headaches and father god just all kinds of illnesses that can come from this father god we rebuke stress right now stress we rebuke it right now lord our blood pressure father god let our blood flow be normal in the name of jesus
De-stressed in Jesus name, whatever it's causing, we take it out of our hands and put it in your hands. You are our eliminator of stress and we will not give room.
¶ Healing from Stress-Related Illness
to it so right now we take the room for stress away and we fill it with the joy of the holy ghost we will not be stressed but father every time a thought comes or a situation comes that will stress us we ask father god that you would ignite us with the joy of the holy ghost at that moment father god that we will pray the stress away
We will speak to stress. We will command that it leaves our minds and our bodies in the name of Jesus. And we ask that you heal us, God. Heal our bodies. Those of us that have carried around stress. Those of us that have been stressing for many years, not knowing how to... balance it not just taking on too much just doing too much whatever it is heal our bodies of any disease or any issues caused by stress right now god have mercy
Let your grace and mercy come. Father God, we held on to things and we didn't know it. We were bothered by things that we shouldn't have been. So Father God, we ask that you heal us. Have mercy on us. Heal our bodies, God. Cleanse us from it. Any issues that... was caused by harboring stress Father God. we speak to it right now any tumors father god any growth any masses father god anything that our body developed to try to house stress we come against it right now in the name of jesus
With your power and your authority, God. Cleanse us from it. And free our minds and our hearts of it all in Jesus. name whom the son has set free is free indeed so free us free our minds free our hearts free our bodies from it father god a lot of these people that they're saying are dying of covid it's covid related because of pre-existing conditions and most of the conditions came from just the wrong lifestyle so father we pray right now against that just healing in our bodies god
When we didn't know, we just didn't know. Heal our bodies, Lord. Heal our bodies. Psalms 55 and 22. Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee. shall never suffer the righteous to be moved the key word here is sustained we pray for sustained life sustained help health god in the name of jesus We even pray for our immune systems, God, that you will make our immune system sufficient.
for whatever it is we have to live through in this time god whatever it is broadcasting of towers and 5g whatever it is the gmo stuff in the food whatever it is father god we ask that you would just supercharge our immune systems and lead us to the stuff we need to put in ourselves to be able to combat it in Jesus name and lead us so we're not anxious Lord
¶ Overcoming Anxiety and Hypocrisy
We speak against anxiety and depression right now, Father God. We speak against the chest tightening and just the heart flutters and the palpitations. All of the shortness of breath. All the things that anxiety brings, God. We speak against anxiousness right now in the name of Jesus. We ask, Father God, that you would remove that. Right now in the name of Jesus. And give us courage to expose ourselves and not hide who we really are from. From you or our loved ones, God.
Give us courage Lord. Give us courage to speak. Give us courage to speak to you Lord. In the name of. Jesus, give us courage to bring up the things that are hurtful, the things that are harmful to us, God, that we've built fences and perimeters around us to protect us from. Father God, we ask that you would just... just expose those things so we don't hide from you father god in the name of jesus give us that courage and take away all anxiety and replace it with peace and joy in the holy ghost
And Father, help us, Father God, even with stress that comes from loved ones, Father God, stress that has come from family, stress that comes from a lot of our family are getting the vaccine and a lot of them are talking to us and putting pressure on. on on us to do it and all of these things father god help us with that lord so we don't carry that as stress but we carry it as confidence in you knowing who you are father god knowing who you are
In the name of Jesus. And help us to live according to your standards and not harbor sin. in hypocrisy so father god help us lord no secret lifestyle nothing that we're hiding nothing that we are trying to do that was a part of our past and we haven't let it go father god help us as your believers to not harbor sin and hypocrisy and be hypocrites because these things cause anxiety a lot of anxiety is attributed to just hiding things and not being
forthcoming with things even with god a lot of times we try to hide from you lord and we know you see everything so help us father god to overcome those things i pray father god that we are able to overcome those things, no matter how long it's been going on, no matter how long it's been in our lives, no matter who caused it, no matter what happened, no matter how it started. Father God, I pray, Father God, that you help us to live according to your standard.
and not harbor sin in our lives in Jesus name Philippians 4 6 and 7 says do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving Let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God. And this is the first time I've connected these two scriptures, but they are connected.
The peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your heart and mind through Christ Jesus. So be not anxious about anything because the peace of God is going to keep your heart and mind. So I pray right now, Father God, against anxiety. Father God, against anxiousness. Father God, against those feelings, even those physical feelings. And that your love, God, your peace.
¶ Trusting God with Our Future
We'll keep our hearts and minds in you, Father God. In the name of Jesus. And Father, lead us so we're not thinking past you. The future is yours, not ours. So we cannot overthink and burden ourselves down with what is not in our control. Like you spoke it to me today and I know it was you because I know me and you know me.
And I'm overthinking, thinking way in the future, trying to plan. But it was just like when this pandemic started, Father God. I had no idea it was coming. And all I could do was just follow you step by step.
and actually before i could do anything i needed to know from you what to do because i had no idea what was going on and we're back in that place right now father god so i pray that you lead us god so we don't think past you and get ahead of you and try to plan for something that we don't even understand or know about god the future is yours so we give it to you god you can have it
And we'll just follow you. You can deal with it. And we'll just follow you. Father God, it's not ours. And we can't overthink and burden ourselves down with things that are not in our control. You hold the future. So we must trust in. You, God, our faith, our hope, and our future lies in the one true living God. You are the Alpha and Omega. And you are not surprised by the evil plans of the enemy.
So go before us, Lord. Go before us, Lord. Let your spirit lead us. Let it guide us, God. Go before us, Lord, so we can follow you to safety. In Jesus' name. Matthew 6 and 34 says, Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient until the day is the evil thereof.
So, Father God, we give it to you. We're not thinking about what could happen in America, but we're thinking about who you are and what you're going to do for us no matter what happens in America. We'll follow you, Father God. And in other countries, those others that are even listening on Zoom or wherever, Father God, we just have to follow you. So go before us and lead us in Jesus. God, we've gotten so comfortable.
with so many things and so used to so many things that don't even matter that it seems some of these things seem important and they're not so help us father god to just think past all the things the things we've want to achieve the things we dreamed about achieving the things that were our earthly goals and our societal goals and all the things we want father god help us to just follow you just follow
¶ Resisting Temptation and Seeking Protection
Just follow you. Lead us in Jesus' name. And lead us so we do not fall in divers temptations, Lord. You know the sins that easily besets us Lord. You know what tempts us beyond our ability to resist at times. You know every part of our heart and how we function. So God.
lead us not into temptation go before us and lead us not into temptation father god the things you can see father god and it's not just seeing but just tempted with money tempted to get the vaccine to keep money tempted to just whatever it is that we'll be tempted with in this last hour of temptation father god go before us
Go before us. You're not going to tempt us above what we can bear. So strengthen us Father God for this last hour. Deliver us from all evil and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And if we follow you God, we will. not fall. Jude 24 says now unto him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory. With exceeding joy. So keep us from falling Lord. No matter what the temptation is. Keep us from falling.
God, there's a report even overseas and we pray for those families whose children are being beheaded right now in the name of ISIS and they're doing it right now. Father, just like the word said, it would happen. You said, woe unto those that give suck in those days or in the last days. And they're being threatened with their own children over there.
And Father, we pray for those families, God, as they stand strong, even watching that. Father God, you said that you would keep us from falling. So give us the strength we need. in this hour and give them the strength they need and all over God wherever believers are being tempted wherever believers are facing death for their beliefs father we pray for them right now that you keep them from
Falling in the name of Jesus. And Lord, lead us so that we do not fear. Be our protection in this final hour, Lord. Stay in front of us so we can be protected by you. Your truth is a shield for us. Your truth is a shield for us. We've been preparing all this time. With your truth. Father God we've been preparing for this hour. With your truth. So your truth is a shield for us. No harm can come to us. If you are covering us. No harm.
can come to us if you are covering us. We believe that you are with us just as you were with your people in the Old and New Testament books. Just as you deliver them, you will deliver us. So lead us. to safety in the name of jesus psalms 91 and 4 he shall cover thee with his feather so god protect us with your feathers lord and under his wings shall thy trust his truth shall be thy shield and buckler so father right now in the name of jesus we ask lead us
So we do not fear in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Trust in you, Jesus. You are a shield for us, Lord. You are. Help us not to forget your protection, Lord. Help us not to forget your power, Lord. of the Lord is a strong tower and the righteous can run in and find safe Come on, y'all sing it out.
¶ Standing Firm as God's People
psalms 31 and 1 says in thee oh lord do i put my trust let me never be ashamed deliver me in thy righteousness Bow down thine ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be thou my strong rock for a house of defense to save me. For thou art my rock and my fortress. Therefore, for thy name's sake, lead me and guide me. Pull me out of the net that they have laid. Privately for me. For thou art my strength. Into thine hand. I commit my spirit. Thou has redeemed me. Oh Lord God.
of truth come on and just lift your hands thank you lord for redeeming us thank you for pulling us out of the net father god that this world is trying to lay we will not be one that is caught in it We will not be one that is deceived. We will not be one that is believing strong delusion. We will not be one making decisions based on feelings.
But God, we're going to be ones that stand on your word in this last hour. We've come too far standing to stop standing. And we are going to stand together as a unified body of believers, trusting and believing. that in this hour you've called us together you've called us to stand and you've called us to represent you in the earth as the last representatives of christianity and of believers that this world will ever see
We're the last of the last and we're here to stand and represent you well. Father God, we will walk the way you want us to walk. We will talk the way you want us to talk. We will do the things that you want us to do. Father God, we will follow after you as you lead us and guide us and navigate through these end times, God. We are the ones you've called for this purpose. We're the ones that you birthed for this very reason. We are here for this reason to represent you in these last days.
So we give you glory and we thank you Lord for the call and we thank you for selecting us. We thank you God for the mantle. We thank you for the mandate. And we thank you most of all for the strength and the power that it's going to take. To endure it God. We know that you are with us. And we thank you for being with us. We know you are with us. And we thank you Lord. We put our trust in you. To lead us. And guide us. In the name that is above every name. Jesus we pray. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
¶ Fellowship for Strength, No Fear
Come on and give him some praise. Hallelujah. Come on and give him some glory. Hallelujah. Be thankful unto him and bless his name. hallelujah you were called for this hour you were brought here for this hour god fashioned you for this hour he empowered you For this hour. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. And we're going to make it through. Amen. We're going to trust and believe. Amen.
No fear look at somebody say I won't be afraid Come on look at him and say I won't be afraid Look at him and say when I get afraid I'm gonna stop being afraid Because my truth Because my trust lies in the true and the living God. Amen. Like I told y'all Sunday. Elijah, the greatest, one of the greatest ever to do it. Got afraid. And he got afraid of Jezebel. And he went and hid. And while he was afraid, the spirit of fear did not overtake him and destroy him.
But God came, fed him, strengthened him, and put him right back out there. Amen. So if you've been afraid, don't just skip. the fellowship and try to break free from everybody no no no let God put you right back out there we'll admonish you we'll strengthen you that's what the numbers do You see what I'm saying? That's what humans do. This ain't virtual. This is not virtual energy with a bunch of ones and zeros we're trying to manipulate. No, it's real energy in here.
So when you're down, when you're afraid, call somebody. Bump up against somebody. Be charged again so that you can face what is to come. Amen? All right.
