Like Christ by Andrew Murray Lesson 3

Like Christ
by Andrew Murray

Lesson 3. Like Christ: As One That Serveth

"If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one
another’s feet." — John 13:14.

"I am among you as he that serveth."—Luke 22:27.

Yesterday we thought of the right that the Lord has to demand and expect that His redeemed ones should follow His example. Today we will more specifically consider in what way we have to follow Him.

"Ye also ought to wash one another’s feet," is the word for which we want to understand the full meaning. The form of a servant in which we see Him, the cleansing which was the object of that service, the love, which was its motivating power,—these are the three chief thoughts.

First, the form of a servant. All was ready for the last supper, to the very water to wash the feet of the guests, according to custom. But there was no servant to do the work. Each one waits for the other: none of the twelve thinks of humbling himself to do the work. Even at the table they were full of the thought about who should be greatest in the kingdom they were expecting (Luke 22:26, 27) All at once Jesus rises (they were still reclining at the table), lays aside His garments, girds Himself with a towel, and begins to wash their feet. O wondrous spectacle on which angels gazed with adoring wonder. Christ, the Creator and King of the universe, at whose beck legions of angels are ready to serve Him, who might with one word of love have said which one of the twelve must do the work,—Christ chooses the servant’s place for His own, takes the soiled feet in His own holy hands, and washes them. He does it in full consciousness of His divine glory, for John says, "Jesus
knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He was come from God and went to God, rose." For the hands into which God had given all things, nothing is common or unclean. The lowliness of a work never lowers the person; the person honors and elevates the work, and imparts his own worth even to the lowliest service. In such deep humiliation, as we men call it, our Lord finds divine glory, and is in this the Leader of His Church in the path of true blessedness. It is as the Son that He is the servant. Just because He is the beloved of His Father, in whose hands all things are given, it is not difficult for Him to stoop so low. In thus taking the form of a servant, Jesus proclaims the law of rank in the Church of Christ. The higher one wishes, to stand in grace, the more it must be his joy to be the servant of all. "Whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant" (Matt. 20:27); "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant" (Matt. 23:11). The higher I rise in the consciousness of being like Christ, God’s beloved child, the deeper shall I stoop to serve all around me.

A servant is one who is always caring for the work and interest of his master, is ever ready to let his master see that he only seeks to do what will please or profit him. Thus Jesus lived: "For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45): "I am among you as he that serveth." Thus I must live, moving about among God’s children as the servant of all. If I seek to bless others, it must be in the humble, loving readiness with which I serve them, not caring for my own honor or interest, if I can but be a blessing to them. I must follow Christ’s example in washing the disciples’ feet. A servant counts it no humiliation, and is not ashamed of being counted an inferior: it is his place and work to serve others. The reason why we so often do not bless others is that we wish to address them as their superiors in grace or gifts, or at least their equals. If we first learn from our Lord to associate with others in the blessed spirit of a servant, what a blessing we should become to the world! When once this example is admitted to the place it ought to have in the Church of Christ, the power of His presence would soon make itself felt.

And what is now the work the disciple has to perform in this spirit of lowly service? The foot washing speaks of a double work—the one, for the cleansing and refreshing of the body; the other, the cleansing and saving of the soul. During the whole of our Lord’s life upon earth these two things were ever united: "The sick were healed, to the poor the gospel was preached." As with the paralytic, so with many others, blessing to the body, was the type and promise of life to the spirit.

The follower of Jesus may not lose sight of this when he receives the command, "Ye ought also to wash one another’s feet." Remembering that the external and bodily is the gate to the inner and spiritual life, he makes the salvation of the soul the first object in his holy ministry of love, at the same time, however, seeking the way to the hearts by the ready service of love in the little and common things of daily life. It is not by reproof and censure that he shows that he is a servant; no, but by the friendliness and kindliness with which he proves in daily interaction that he always thinks how he can help or serve, he becomes the living witness of what it is to be a follower of Jesus. From such a one the word when spoken comes with power, and finds easy entrance. And then, when he comes into contact with the sin and perverseness and contradiction of men, instead of being discouraged, he perseveres as he thinks with how much patience Jesus has borne with him, and still daily cleanses him; he realizes himself to be one of God’s appointed servants, to stoop to the lowest depth to serve and save men, even to bow at the feet of others if this be needed.

The spirit which will enable one to live such a life of loving service, can be learned from Jesus alone. John writes, "Having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them to the end" (John 13:1). For love nothing is too hard. He never speaks of sacrifice. To bless the loved one, however unworthy, it willingly gives up all. It was love that made Jesus a servant. It is love alone will make the servant’s place and work such blessedness to us, that we shall persevere in it at all costs. We may perhaps, like Jesus, have to wash the feet of some Judas who rewards us with ingratitude and betrayal. We will probably meet many a Peter, who first, with his "Never my feet" refuses, and then is dissatisfied when we do not comply with his impatient "Not only the feet, but also the bead and the hands." Only love, a heavenly unquenchable love, gives the patience, the courage, and the wisdom for this great work the Lord has set before us in His holy example: "Wash ye one another’s feet." Try above all to understand that it is only as a son you can be truly a servant. It was as the Son that Christ took the form of a servant: in this you will find the secret of willing, happy service. Walk among men as a Son of the Most High God. A Son of God is only in the world to show forth His Father’s glory, to prove how God-like and how blessed it is to live only and at any cost to find a way for love to the hearts of the lost.

O my soul, your love cannot attain to this; therefore listen to Him who says, "Abide in my love." Our one desire must be that He may show us how He loves us, and that He Himself may keep us abiding in "His love." Live every day, as the beloved of the Lord, in the experience that His love washes and cleanses, bears and blesses you all the day long. This love of His flowing into you, will flow out again from you, and make it your greatest joy to follow His example in washing the feet of others. Do not complain much of the want of love and humility in others, but pray much that the Lord would awaken His people to their calling, truly to follow in His footsteps that the world may see that they have taken Him for their example. And if you do not see it as soon as you wish in those around you, let it only urge you to more earnest prayer, that in you at least the Lord may have one who understands and proves that to love and serve like Jesus is the highest blessedness and joy, as well as the way, like Jesus, to be a blessing and a joy to others.

My Lord, I give myself to You, to live this blessed life of service. In You I have seen it, the spirit of a servant is a kingly spirit, come from heaven and lifting up to heaven, yes, the Spirit of God’s own Son. You Everlasting Love, dwell in me, and my life shall be like Yours, and the language of my life to others as Tours, "I am in the midst of you as he that serveth."

O You glorified Son of God, You know how little of Your Spirit dwells in us, how this life of a servant is opposed to all that the world believes honorable or proper. But You have come to teach us new lessons of what is right, to show us what is thought in heaven of the glory of being the least, of the blessedness of serving. O You, who does not only give new thoughts but implants new feelings, give me a heart like Yours, a heart full of the Holy Spirit, a heart that can love as You do. O Lord, Your Holy Spirit dwells within me; Your fullness is my inheritance; in the joy of the Holy Spirit I can be as You are. I do yield myself to a life of service like Yours. Let the same mind be in me which was also in You, when You made Yourself of no reputation, and took upon Yourself the form of a servant, and being, found in the likeness of a man, humbled Yourself. Yes, Lord, that very same mind be in me too by Your grace. As a son of God let me be the servant of men. Amen.

Like Christ by Andrew Murray Lesson 2

Like Christ
by Andrew Murray

Lesson 2. Like Christ: He Himself Calls Us To It.

"I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you."—John 13:15.

It is Jesus Christ, the beloved Redeemer of our souls, who speaks this way. He had just, humbling Himself to do the work of the slave washed His disciples’ feet. In doing so His love had given to the body the service which it needed at the supper table. At the same time He had shown, in a striking symbol, what He had done for their souls in cleansing them from sin. In this twofold work of love He had set before them, just before parting, in one significant act, the whole work of His life as a ministry of blessing to body and to soul And as He sits down He says: "I have given you an example, that YOU ALSO should do, EVEN AS I have done to you." All that they had seen in Him, and experienced from Him, was made the rule of their life: "JUST AS I have done to you, DO YOU ALSO."

The word of the blessed Saviour is for us too. To each one who knows that the Lord has washed away his sin the command comes with all the touching force of one of the last words of Him who is going out to die for us: "EVEN AS I have done to you, SO DO YOU ALSO." Jesus Christ does indeed ask every one of us in everything to act just as we have seen Him do. What He has done to ourselves, and still does each day, we are to do over again to others. In His condescending, pardoning, saving love, He is our example; each of us is to be the copy and image of the Master.

The thought comes at once: Alas! how little have I lived like this; how little have I even known that I was expected to live like this! And yet, He is my lord; He loves me, and I love Him; I dare not entertain the thought of living otherwise than He would have me. What can I do but open my heart to His word, and fix my gaze on His example, until it exercises its divine power upon me, and draws me with irresistible force to cry: Lord, even as You have done, so will I do also.

The power of an example depends chiefly on two things. The one is the attractiveness of what it gives us to see, the other the personal relation and influence of him in whom it is seen. In both aspects, what power there is in our Lord’s example!

Or, is there really anything very attractive in our Lord’s example? I ask it in all earnestness, because, to judge by the conduct of many of His disciples, it would really seem as if it were not so. O that the Spirit of God would open our eyes to see the heavenly beauty of the likeness of the only begotten Son!

We know who the Lord Jesus is. He is the Son of the all-glorious God, one with the Father in nature and glory and perfection. When He had been on earth it could be said of Him, "We show you that eternal life which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us." In Him we see God.

In Him we see how God would act were He here in our place on earth. In Him all that is beautiful and lovely and perfect in the heavenly world is revealed to us in the form of an earthly life. If we want to see what is really counted noble and glorious in the heavenly world, if we would see what is really Divine, we have only to look at Jesus; in all He does the glory of God is shown forth.

But oh, the blindness of God’s children: this heavenly beauty has to many of them no attraction; there is no form or beauty that they should desire it.

The manners and the way of living in the court of an earthly king exercise influence throughout the empire. The example it gives is imitated by all who belong to the nobility or the higher classes.  But the example of the King of heaven, who came and dwelt in the flesh, that we might see how we might here on earth live a God-like life, alas! with how few of His followers does it really find imitation. When we look upon Jesus, His obedience to the will of the Father, His humiliation to be a servant of the most unworthy, His love as manifest in the entire giving up and sacrifice of Himself, we see the most wondrous and glorious thing heaven has to show; in heaven itself we shall see nothing greater or brighter. Surely such an example, given of God for the very purpose of making the imitation attractive and possible, ought to win us. Is it not enough to stir all that is within us with a holy jealousy and with joy unutterable as we hear the message, "I have given you an example, that even as I have done, you should do also".

This is not all. The power of an example consists not only in its own intrinsic excellence, but also in the personal relation to him who gives it. Jesus had not washed the feet of others in presence of His disciples; it was when He had washed their feet that He said: "Even as I have done to you, ye should do also." It is the consciousness of a personal relationship to Christ that enforces the command: Do as I have done. It is the experience of what Jesus has done to me that is the strength in which I can go and do the same to others. He does not ask that I shall do more than has been done to me. But not less either: EVEN AS I have done to you. He does not ask that I shall humble myself as servant deeper than He has done. It would not have been strange if He had asked this of such a worm. But this is not His wish: He only demands that I shall just do and be what He, the King, has done and been. He humbled Himself as low as humiliation could go, to love and to bless me. He counted this His highest honor and blessedness. And now He invites me to partake of the same honor and blessedness, in loving and serving as He did. Truly, if I indeed know the love that rests on me, and the humiliation through which alone that love could reach me, and the power of the cleansing which has washed me, nothing can keep me back from saying: "Yes, blessed Lord, even as You have done to me, I will do also." The heavenly loveliness of the great Example, and the Divine lovingness of the great Exemplar, combine to make the example above everything attractive.

Only there is one thing I must not forget. It is not the remembrance of what Jesus has once done to me, but the living experience of what He is now to me, that will give me the power to act like Him. His love must be a present reality, the inflowing of a life and a power in which I can love like Him. It is only as by the Holy Spirit I realize WHAT Jesus is doing for me, and HOW He does it, and that it is HE who does it, that it is possible for me to do to others what He is doing to me.

"EVEN AS I have done to you, do YOU ALSO!" What a precious word! What a glorious prospect! Jesus is going to show forth in me the Divine power of His love, that I may show it forth to others. He blesses me, that I may bless others. He loves me that I may love others. He becomes servant to me that I may become a servant to others. He saves and cleanses me that I may save and cleanse others. He gives Himself wholly for and to me, that I may wholly give myself for and to others. I have only to be doing to others what He is doing to me—nothing more. I can do it, just because He is doing it to me. What I do is nothing but the repeating, the showing forth of what I am receiving from Him.

How beautifully the principle is expressed in the words of Moses to Hobab (Num. 10:32 ), "And it shall be, if you go with us, yes, if you go with us, - indeed it shall be- that whatever good the Lord shall do unto us, the same will we do to you"!

Wondrous grace! which calls us to be like our Lord in that which constitutes His highest glory. Wondrous grace! which fits us for this calling by Himself first being to us and in us what we are to be to others. Shall not our whole heart joyously respond to His command? Yes, blessed Lord I even as You do to me will I also do to others.

Gracious Lord! what can I now do but praise and pray? My heart feels overwhelmed with this wondrous offer, that You will reveal all Your love and power in me, if I will yield myself to let it flow through me to others. Though with fear and trembling, yet in deep and grateful adoration, with joy and confidence, I would accept the offer and say: Here I am; show me how much You love me, and I will show it to others by loving them even so.

And that I may be able to do this, blessed Lord, grant me these two things. Grant me, by Your Holy Spirit, a clear insight into Your love to me, that I may know how You love me, how Your love to me is Your delight and blessedness, how in that love You give yourself so completely to me, that You are indeed mine to do for me all I need. Grant this, Lord, and I shall know how to love and how to live for others, even as You love and live for me.

And then grant me to see, as often as I feel how little love I have, that it is not with the love of my little heart, but with Your love shed abroad in me, that I have to fulfill the command of loving like You. Am I not Your branch, O my heavenly Vine? it is the fullness of Your life and love that flows through me in love and blessing to those around. It is Your Spirit that, at the same moment, reveals what You are to me, and strengthens me for what I am to be to others in Your name. In this faith I dare to say, Amen, Lord, even as You do to me, I also do. Yes, Amen.

Like Christ by Andrew Murray Lesson 1

Like Christ
by Andrew Murray

Lesson 1
Like Christ: Because We Abide In Him

"He that says he abides in Him, ought himself also so to walk just as He walked."—1
John 2:6.

Abiding in Christ and walking like Christ: these are the two blessings of the new life which are here set before us in their essential unity. The fruit of a life in Christ is a life like Christ.

To the first of these expressions, abiding in Christ, we are no strangers. The wondrous parable of the Vine and the branches, with the accompanying command, "Abide in me, and I in you," has often been to us a source of rich instruction and comfort. And although we feel as if we had very imperfectly learned the lesson of abiding in Him, yet we have tasted something of the joy that comes when the soul can say: Lord, You know all things, You know that I do abide in You. And He knows too how often the fervent prayer still arises: Blessed Lord, grant me the complete unbroken abiding.

The second expression, walking like Christ, is not less significant than the first. It is the promise of the wonderful power which the abiding in Him will exert. As the fruit of our surrender to live wholly in Him, His life works so mightily in us, that our walk, the outward expression of the inner life, becomes like His. The two are inseparably connected. The abiding in always precedes the walking like Him. And yet the aim to walk like Him must equally precede any large measure of abiding. Only then is the need for a close union fully realized, or is the Heavenly Giver free to bestow the fullness of His grace, because He sees that the soul is prepared to use it according to His design. When the Saviour said, "If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love," He meant just this: the surrender to walk like me is the path to the full abiding in me. Many will discover that just here is the secret of their failure in abiding in Christ; they did not seek it with the view of walking like Christ. The words of John invite us to look at the two truths and their vital connection and dependence on each other.

The first lesson they teach is: He that seeks to abide in Christ must walk even as He walked. We all know that it is a matter of course that a branch bears fruit of the same sort as the vine to which it belongs. The life of the vine and the branch is so completely identical, that the manifestation of that life must be identical too. When the Lord Jesus redeemed us with His blood, and presented us to the Father in His righteousness, He did not leave us in our old nature to serve God as best we could. No; in Him dwells the eternal life, the holy divine life of heaven, and every one who is in Him receives from Him that same eternal life in its holy heavenly power. Therefore nothing can be more natural than the claim that he that abides in Him, continually receiving life from Him, must also so walk even as He walked.

This mighty life of God in the soul does not, however, work as a blind force, compelling us
ignorantly or involuntarily to act like Christ. On the contrary, the walking like Him must come as the result of a deliberate choice, sought in strong desire, accepted of a living will. With this view, the Father in heaven showed us in Jesus’ earthly life what the life of heaven would be when it came down into the conditions and circumstances of our human life. And with the same object the Lord Jesus, when we receive the new life from Him, and when He calls us to abide in Him, that we may receive that life more abundantly, ever points us to His own life on earth, and tells us that it is to walk even as He walked that the new life has been bestowed. "Even as I, so you also:" that word of the Master takes His whole earthly life, and very simply makes it the rule and guide of all our conduct. If we abide in Jesus, we may not act otherwise than He did. "Like Christ" gives in one short all-inclusive word the blessed law of the Christian life. He is to think, to speak, to act as Jesus did; as Jesus was, even so is he to be.

The second lesson is the complement of the first: He that seeks to walk like Christ, must abide in Him.

There is a twofold need of this lesson. With some there is the earnest desire and effort to follow Christ’s example, without any sense of the impossibility of doing so, except by deep, real abiding in Him. They fail because they seek to obey the high command to live like Christ, without the only power that can do so—the living in Christ. With others there is the opposite error; they know their own weakness, and count the walking like Christ an impossibility. As much as those who seek to do it and who fail, do those who do not seek because they expect to fail, need the lesson we are enforcing. To walk like Christ one must abide in Him; he that abides in Him has the power to walk like Him; not in himself or his own efforts, but in Jesus, who perfects His strength in our weakness. It is just when I feel my utter impotence most deeply, and fully accept Jesus in His wondrous union to myself as my life, that His power works in me, and I am able to lead a life completely beyond what my power could obtain. I begin to see that abiding in Him is not a matter
of moments or special seasons, but the deep life process in which, by His keeping grace, I continue without a moment’s intermission, and from which I act out all my Christian life. And I feel emboldened really to take Him in everything as my example, because I am sure that the hidden inner union and likeness must work itself out into a visible likeness in walk and conduct.

Dear reader! if God give us grace, in the course of our meditations, truly to enter into the meaning of these His words, and what they teach of a life in very deed like Christ’s, we shall more than once come into the presence of heights and depths that will make us cry out, How can these things be? If the Holy Spirit reveals to us the heavenly perfection of the humanity of our Lord as the image of the unseen God, and speaks to us, "so, even so ought you also walk," the first effect will be that we shall begin to feel the distance that we are from Him. We shall be ready to give up hope, and to say with so many, why even attempt it: I never can walk like Jesus. At such moments we shall find our strength in the message, He that abides in Him, he must, he can, walk even as He walked. The word of the Master will come with new meaning as the assurance of sufficient strength: He that abides in me bears much fruit.

Therefore, brother, abide in Him! Every believer is in Christ; but not every one abides in Him, in the consciously joyful and trustful surrender of the whole being to His influence. You know what abiding in Him is. It is to consent with our whole soul to His being our life, to rely on Him to inspire us in all that makes up life, and then to give up absolutely everything for Him to rule and work in us. It is the rest of the full assurance that He does, each moment, work in us what we are to be, and so Himself enables us to maintain that perfect surrender, in which He is free to do all His will. Let all who really long to walk like Christ take courage in the thought of what He is and will prove Himself to be if they trust Him. He is the True Vine; no vine ever did so fully for its branches what He will do for us. We have only to consent to be branches. Honor Him by a joyful trust that He is, beyond all we can imagine, the True Vine, holding you by His almighty strength, supplying you from His infinite fullness. And as your faith thus looks to Him, instead of sighing and failure, the voice of praise will be heard repeating the language of faith: Thanks be to God! he that abides in Him does walk even as He walked. Thanks be to God! I abide in Him, and I walk as He walked. Yes, thanks be to God! in the blessed life of God’s redeemed these two are inseparably one: abiding in Christ and walking like Christ.

Blessed Saviour! You know how often I have said to You, Lord, I do abide in You! And yet I sometimes feel that the full joy and power of life in You is wanting. Your word this day has reminded me of what may be the reason of failure. I sought to abide in You more for my own comfort and growth than Your glory. I did not apprehend fully how the hidden union with You had for its object perfect conformity to You, and how only he who wholly yields himself to serve and obey the Father as completely as You did, can fully receive all that the heavenly love can do for him. I now see something of it: the entire surrender to live and work like You must precede the full experience of the wondrous power of Your life.

Lord, I thank You for the discovery. With my whole heart I would accept Your calling, and yield myself in everything to walk even as You walked. To be Your faithful follower in all You were and did on earth be the one desire of my heart.

Blessed Lord! he that truly yields himself to walk as You did walk, will receive grace to wholly abide in You. O my Lord! here I am. To walk like Christ! for this I do indeed consecrate myself to You. To abide in Christ! for this I trust in You with full assurance of faith. Perfect in me Your own work.

And let Your Holy Spirit help me, O my Lord each time I meditate on what it is to walk like You, to hold fast the blessed truth: as one who abides in Christ, I have the strength to walk like Christ.

Amen.

ANGEL ARMIES COME

ANGEL ARMIES COME

We declare that the United States of America is YHWH’s territory. YHWH rules this geography. We declare the dominion of the Lion of Judah over the border regions of the United States. He ROARS in heaven and on earth!

We declare that the hosts of heaven are welcome in this earth realm. You are welcome here, you are welcome in this region, you are welcome in this state, you are welcome in our nation, America, where all things are possible to them who believe. We declare that “We believe!”

We speak this forth, “Angels on assignment, angels on assignment, angels of His presence, angel messengers, angels of war, angels of guarding, Welcome!”

Angel Armies patrol our borders and our nation.

We declare that the angelic hosts of God are being released to us and we shall be strengthened by heaven’s arsenal. We shall be strengthened, we shall be reinvigorated, we shall be protected from marauding invaders. We have supernatural strength to resist and turn back the enemy from our nation’s borders. We have supernatural strength as heaven’s army is being released in this region.

Our ancient boundaries and borders will not be moved by the enemy. Angel armies stand guard at our borders!

The angel movement that moves is now moving!

Angel armies you are commissioned to be present and minister to us and with us. Greater power than has ever been seen in church history is now flowing to us and through us.

We declare there is now an alignment of heaven’s Angel Army with the Remnant Warrior army and the War Eagle army of the present and coming generation. They will now synergize together under Holy Spirit supervision to demonstrate that the Kingdom of God is present, energized, activated and successful.

We call them forth to reinforce first responders, strengthen and energize the ICE teams, the US Border Patrol, the National Guard, the US military troops who defend this nation from both foreign and domestic demonic enemy invaders. Holy Spirit “Inspire our Homeland Security with a blueprint strategy” to protect this nation and the innocents caught up in the lies and deceptions of the migrant caravans

Presidential angels assigned to assist President Trump with a cohesive and just plan for immigration control at our national borders, be activated and go now to his aid. Remove every obstacle and embargo that the enemy has deployed.

Congressional angels assigned to the members of Congress assist every member of Congress to move into a willing position to swiftly enact bi-partisan legislation to solve the crisis at the border. If they are unwilling, escort them from Congress.

Power for mighty deliverance from border chaos be loosed! We loose Angel Armies! We loose the troops of heaven to fight alongside of us. In Jesus name we deploy them!

We declare we will see more angel activity than demon activity. We forbid demon activity in Jesus’ name. America has far more righteous angels on our side than demons against us. The natural number is not the Kingdom number.

YHWH Tsabaoth, the Lord of Angel Armies, is on our side. We will win! Enemy resistance in the natural realms and spiritual realms is being scattered and shattered in Yeshua’s name!

Angels are striking the enemies of the King. Angels are ambushing hell’s forces as our praise ascends. Our praise decrees are producing victory that looks impossible.

The Kingdom of God is now being extended locally, regionally and throughout the earth.

Bold, passionate, energized, and authoritative angels are assisting us to do the works of Jesus.

The Angel Armies are camped all around us because we respect the Lord and decree His Word. In Jesus name, we loose them now. Work for us. Assist us to turn back the enemy at the borders of this nation.

We declare that angels are circling to protect our borders. Angels are revolving around us to deliver and bring salvation. In the spirit realms and natural realms.

Angels are present-time deliverers here, right now, to deliver us.

Angels are circling our borders to make ugly situations turn to lovely. Be loosed to take hold of bad circumstances and events in migrant caravans and turn them around for good.

We prophesy into the midst of migrant camps and say”Depend on the Lord, not the United States. Your only hope is to turn to Christ.”

We loose angels to rescue, strip away bondages, remove obstacles that hinder, and protect us from hell’s strategies to destroy this nation.

We ask You, Lord Jesus, to release Angel Armies to bring answers to our prayers.

Release angels to tip prayer bowls of heaven into the fire on Your altar. We decree heaven’s Angel Armies are released into the affairs of Immigration and Homeland Security of America. As a result of our crying out to You, O God! Angel Armies apprehend trafficking and drug cartels and immobilize them.

We cry out, God, give us mercy. Grant us loving kindness. Hear our prayers.

We invite, in Jesus name, angels to come execute judgement upon deep-rooted iniquity and satanic perversion in this region and nation.

We sever demonic traffickers from the false deity of the demonic blood-soaked aztec altars in Mexico and all copycat deities at our southern borders.

Your power is broken, be dismantled in Jesus name! We take authority in Jesus name and sever all demonic ley lines binding the occult sexual perversions, prostitution and blood sacrifices of the Aztecs between the nations of the United States and the Americas.

Holy Spirit pour Your anointing on our nations to cleanse us of all iniquity.

Angel Armies engage in combat against sin and perversion. Engage with us and fight doctrines of devils. Angels who cut off enemy attacks be loosed in Jesus’s name.

Angels who bring us supernatural strength to finish our assignments- be released in Jesus’ name. Release the angels of strength.

Release on our borders and in our nation, angels who attack Jezebels, Absalom, and Arab spirits. Loose them to free our assignments. Loose them to give us great victory, loose them to protect property from being stolen and destroyed by the enemy.

The years that the locusts, the Palmer worms, and the canker worms have eaten will now be restored to this nation America.

We decree angels who assist kingdoms of America, of Canada, of Mexico to shift their regions into alignment with God’s will - be loosed. Angels who help apostles shift their regions- be loosed now in Jesus’ name

We decree confinement of humans being trafficked “Be broken and great liberty be restored to you.” Alcohol, opioid and narcotic addictions be broken in Jesus name. Supply sources of drug cartels and independent smugglers be dissolved and dried up. Financial funding of migrant caravans be paupered in Jesus name.

We decree a shift from being owned to owning- be loosed! Power for new beginnings- be loosed!

We decree a shift in this nation to move from complacency to discipleship. From intimidation to valor. From hopelessness to confidence. From selfish Christianity to servant Christianity. From consumer Christianity to discipleship. From lost harvest to ingathering.

Waves of Holy Spirit enablement are now gathering Angel Armies to partner with the church to battle for the throne of this region and nation.

We rise now to occupy the throne of this region and nation. King Jesus gives us authority to overrule hell’s government. We make this ruling today and Angel Armies are now assisting us.

We rise to make ruling decrees backed by Father God, King Jesus, Holy Spirit, the Kingdom of Heaven and Angel Armies.

In Jesus name, we cleanse the heavens over our region of principalities and powers of darkness. We cast down and displace demon princes from iniquitous thrones. Be removed in Jesus name!

YOUR RIGHTS TO THIS TERRITORY ARE BROKEN BY SUPERIOR POWER AND AUTHORITY. IT WAS BROKEN BY THE CROSS AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS.

The power of God destroys your strongholds, in Jesus name.

Holy Spirit and His angels are working with the New Testament church to take the seat of power in the border regions. The heirs seated with Christ in heavenly places occupy the territorial thrones of these regions. We will occupy seats of power and influence for Christ’s Kingdom.

Angels are protecting us, delivering us, and enforcing our decrees of faith.

Powers, mights and dominions of hell will be shaken down from their positions of influence. Our God is right now shaking the earth and the heaven’s.

YHWH Tsabaoth loose Angel Armies to battle against fallen demons . Battle them with us. Loose battalions of angels ordained for these times on earth.

We decree hell’s ideology, oppressive nature, lust for spiritual power over governments and nations, idolatry, greed, and demon thinking promised through rebel government- be bound in Jesus name. We forbid your operations.

Angels sent to assist us in removal of oppressive government-be loosed in Jesus name.

God, call rebel powers of the sky and rebel kings of drugs and trafficking cartels in on the carpet.

God we ask you to punish the hosts of hell and the rebel kings who oppress the innocent. In Jesus name, we the heirs, the ekklesia, the church, overthrow demon powers in this border region and nation.

Angels from their spheres are fighting principalities and powers according to our decrees. They are orbiting to hearken to God’s Word that we decree.

They are hearkening to prophetic words that we decree. They are listening for prayers we pray in alignment with God’s will. They are moving with power to bring God’s Word to pass.

They are moving with power to give us great victories.

We the remnant church declare what God says. Angels will hear it and together we will fight heaven and win.

ANGEL ARMIES COME AS WE GO FORTH AND CONVERGE IN THE NAME OF JESUS!
AMEN

Please note: These decrees are based upon the book, written by Tim Sheets, called "Angel Armies."

Adapted for current use by Stephania, "the Shofar Sounder".

Permission is granted to distribute this decree, far and wide, via Facebook, email, and other social media.

Thank you.

PRAY FOR OUR STUDENTS - PRAYER GUIDE

PRAY FOR OUR STUDENTS

PRAYER GUIDE

Purpose –

To pray for every student from kindergarten through college/university.

To pray for every teacher, administrator, and everyone else involved in the education of our students.

Pray for -

Protection and safety at home, from home to school, at school and from school to home,

Great atmosphere for learning.

That no weapon would be brought to school.

That the presence of God would be in our schools

That Father would cover our schools with His shalom (peace)

For parents to be “all In” and help their children to make wise choices.

Sample Prayer -

Father, we lift up all the students in Marion County to you no matter their race, creed , color, family origin, life experiences or socioeconomic background, they need you..

Please provide protection for each student while at home, and from the time they leave home until they return.  As you know everything. please intervene in any attempt to bring harm to our students.  Let no weapon be brought on to school property.  If any weapon is brought to school may it be discovered prior to its use.  Please fill our schools with your presence as you walk among them.  Let your shalom (peace) flood our schools creating a great learning environment.

For those with no hope, help them to understand that there is a glorious hope in Jesus.

For those who have no father, or an absent father, help them to know that you are a Father to the fatherless and You will always be there for them.

For those who feel rejected and that no one cares, help them to know that You love them and if they come to you through Jesus you will accept them as Your own.

For those who are angry and full of rage, let them know that they can lay their anger and rage at Jesus feet and He will bring them shalom.

For those who are bound by addictions and destructive habits, help them to know there is power in the name of Jesus to break every chain and set them free.

For those who have suffered wrong and whose hearts are full of revenge, help them to know that you are the Righteous Judge and vengeance belongs to You, and not to them.

Father, draw them unto you by your Holy Spirit and break up the hardness in their hearts.

Father, we ask for the salvation of every student and all who are involved in the education of our students.

Father we ask that all parents be “all in” in the education of their children. Help them train them up in the way they should go and to make wise decisions,  If the parents don't know you draw them unto Yourself.

These things we ask in Jesus name.