Memorial Day Conference Msg 6

The Prayer of the Age to Fulfill God's Economy and the Sacrifice of Praise to Display Christ's Victory

• To have a spirit of faith, to see what is really going on in the universe. Everything that happens on this earth is just a reflection of what is really happening. What is really happening is this warfare between God and His enemy. 
• God has raised up the church to deal with His enemy to bring in His kingdom. 
• Praise is eternal. Prayer has an endpoint. Prayer has a destination: praise. Praise in God's entire economy is higher than prayer. 
• We need to look at what has been ministered to us this weekend. The work in God's economy (to build up the church) is a warfare. This work of God to build up the church in itself is a warfare. As we are here endeavoring to build up the Body of Christ, we are engage in a warfare. 
• This work in a warfare. This work is a warfare because Satan's will is set against God's will. The church is in the middle. We can say the spiritual warfare has its source in the divine will and the satanic will. Every decision we make has to do with that conflict. How we align our will with the divine will with the satanic will?
• God wants man, his creature to deal w/ satan. 
• The human will MUST stand with the divine will and fight against the satanic will. We are in a warfare and God's will is at stake. Our will is key. Our will line up with God's will to subdue the satanic will.
• His will be done on earth and His kingdom will be done. The kingdom of God is to exercise that divine will to overflow the power of satan by the power and authority of God.
• All spiritual work is a warfare. There is no such thing as working without fighting. You are fighting by being engaged in God's work. 
• Don't be afraid. We know that God is with us. Christ is the victor. Jesus is Lord. 
• When we fight, we are with the victor whose leading the fight. We join Him, and share His position, and His authority. 
• Whatever touches the spiritual realm, is in the nature of warfare. The nature of the church is warfare. What hinders the gospel is not outward environment is the satanic power of darkness. The reason for all the confusion and conniving is Satan.
• We don't agree with Satan. We are one with God, we are for God's will. We don't deal with things on the surface. We are not only in resurrection, but in ascension. 
• We deal with the power of darkness that schemes behind these things and reigns on the earth. 
• The church has a commission. The commission is not even given to the angels, but given to men, the church. How important the church is. That is why Satan hates the church because it will cause his end.
• Among the children of God, there are not enough that are fighting the spiritual warfare. 
• We are not watchful because we think we can take a break. This is why Satan still rules and active in the air and on the earth. 
• Why are we covering the spiritual warfare now?
• There is an element of warfare even as we love the Lord. When we tell the Lord we love Him, it means we will fight with Him. 

The need is that we would transcend. The prayer of the age is the prayer of the church. This prayer exercises the authority of Christ. 

 That the ^1aGod of our Lord Jesus Christ, the ²Father of glory, may give to you a ^3bspirit of ^4cwisdom and ^drevelation in the ^efull knowledge of Him, Eph 1:17

• All this is to the church. We are on a receiving end that all Christ obtained. All that is given to him. His overruling power, His transcending power, His position in the highest place, His enthronement as the Lord and leader, His all subjecting power that subjects every creeping thing under His feet. The prayer of the age is the prayer of the church.-the fulfillment of God's economy.
• Don't look at the church w/ your eyes. 
• To enter into this kind of prayer, we need this kind of heavenly vision to see something beyond our natural concept.
• Lord, unveil me. Let me see through my own concepts. Help me to see what is Your concepts. 
• Ascension of Christ:
• the entire work of redemption has been completely accomplished.
• The lordship of Christ has been established. Christ was the Lord, and King but as a man.
• We need to see the heavenly fact. LEAVE YOUR FEELING BEHIND-STICK TO THE FACTS.--> Christ has been exalted by God, established as the Lord of the universe, made Head over all things to the church. All things are under His feet, and everything that He has obtained and attained is being transmitted to the church, which is His body.
• Speak the facts to the devil. NOT conversation. Read the facts to him directly.
• Faith needs to be nourished by the word of God. Not by feeling. Do not go to feeling. Go to the word. 
• Church's position as the Body of Christ. The church is the Body of Christ. We are His body. This is reality. Where He is, there we are. We are with Him in the heavenlies right now. Our spirit is connected to the throne.  The position of the Body is exactly the same as the Head.

And what is the surpassing greatness of His ^1apower toward us who believe, ²according to the ^boperation of the ^cmight of His strength, 20 Which He caused to operate in Christ in ^1araising Him from the dead and ^2bseating Him at His ³right hand in the ^4cheavenlies, 21 Far above all ^1arule and authority and power and lordship and ²every ^bname that is named not only in this ^cage but also in that which is to come; 22 And He ^1asubjected all things under His feet and ²gave Him to be ^bHead over all things ³to the ^4cchurch, 23 Which is His ^1aBody, the ^2bfullness of the One who ^3cfills all in all. Eph 1:19-23

• Faith needs to be nourished by the word of God. Not by feeling. Do not go to feeling. Go to the word. 
• We rightly assume the authority of the church. The only way we subdue Satan is by authority. Authority > Power.
• It's time that the church exercises this authority. We must exercise this authority. 
• Prayer of the church as the Body of Christ: 
• Not individual believers, but prayer of the church as the Body of Christ. Physically by ourselves, in our room, but spiritually, one w/ the Body. 
• Ie: Daniel: Even though he was by himself, his heart was for Jerusalem. He was praying for God's interest on the earth-for Him to gain His house, His city, and the land.
• We need to pray these kind of prayers. Can you imagine what will happen tomorrow when these kind of prayers happen?
• This kind of prayer is not begging to do something. Instead, we CLAIM what the Lord has obtained and attained. 
• Christ has ALREADY obtained the lordship and headship. He is the Lord and Head over all things to the church.
• Christ has ATTAINED the highest place in the universe; He has been raised from the dead and is seated at God's right hand in the heavenlies, far above all rule, and power, and lordship in the universe. --> This is our BASE, and we claim this reality and pray from that.
• Lord, we do not go along with the present situation; as Your Body, we take the ground of Your ascension and CLAIM your lordship over your present situation.
• Lord, open the way for you to rule and come in and work. Lord, we claim what you have already attained. Lord, I declare you are victor. You are in ascension. We are in the Body. The Body is in the Head, and the Head are transcendent and so are we. We are in transcendency in the heavenlies. This is the place where we fight. 
• We can tell all the negative things: "DO NOT bother me. Go to the lake of fire!!!! I am transcendent. You cannot touch me. You are under my feet." 
• Prayer causes us to be one with the heavens, and one w/ the throne, and one w/ God. We have the authority to bind and loose what has ALREADY been bound and loosed in the heavens. We need to realize that the Body is ONE with the Head in the heavens.
• The church is built upon a rock, and this rock is the ascended Christ. The gates of Hades cannot prevail against the church.
• The moment we lose our guard, this is the moment we cannot enter in this kind of prayer. We need to live, act, and move in the Body. In our DAILY life we must always put off the old man, and put on the new man by being renewed in the spirit of our mind; the new man is composed of the Head with the Body, Christ with the church.
• Praise is the highest work carried out by God's children.
• Prayer led them to a transcendent state. Thanksgiving is a form of praise, giving thanks to God. We need more of this in our meetings. Look up! Look beyond your situation and yourself. Look at the throne and God! Sing praises to Him! 
• God's throne is the HIGHEST point in the universe. 
• Especially when we are going through the valley of shadow of death, we can praise Him. God's name and God Himself is exalted through praise. 
• When you praise Him, God can be enthroned by our praise. 
• The Christian life is a soaring life, a flying life, because we mount on eagle's wings. Because Jehovah is our strength, and we are seated with Him in the heavenlies. Lord, I want to soar with you in the heavenlies. Praise you Lord!! You have already won the victory!! 
• Christian life soars through praises; to praise is to transcend everything to touch the Lord.

Saying, ^a"I will ¹declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the ²church ³I will sing hymns of praise to You.'' Heb 2:12

12³ This is the firstborn Son's praising of the Father within the Father's many sons in the church meetings. When we, the many sons of God, meet as the church and praise the Father, the firstborn Son praises the Father in our praising. It is not that He praises the Father apart from us and alone; rather, He praises within us and with us through our praising. In our singing He sings hymns of praise to the Father. If then we do not sing, how can He sing? The more we sing to the Father, the more we enjoy His presence, His moving, His anointing, and His life-imparting within us. Thus we will grow in Him and be brought into His glorification above all.

• Through Him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of lips confessing His name" 
• The book of Psalm is a book of praise, but the Psalm contains chapters not only of praises but also of sufferings. God wants His people to know that the praising ones are the very ones who have been led through trying situations and whose feelings have been wounded, yet God perfected praises out of these ones.
• For us who are suffering, that they don't even understand, it's harder to praise. But it's out of the environment, that will create a deeper part of praise. 
• Praise comes from suffering, pain and loss. God desire His children to praise Him through everything and in every situation. The nature of praise is an offering, a sacrifice. You don't understand this, you have no ways to reason or rationalize, you can only use faith and look at God and praise Him.
• You praise Him for what you don't understand. --> Principle of a sacrifice and offering. Nothing matures us like this kind of praise. It is in these moments we are being stripped, but being matured. 
• Loudest praise comes from the ones who are passing through harrdships, adverse environments, downtrodden feelings. This kind of praise is most pleasing to God and is blessed by Him.
• Praise is the way to display Christ's victory and overcome spiritual attacks: 
• Whenever we praise, Satan flees. We need this reality. The ultimate goal of Satan is to stop all praises to God. 
• Paul and silas, while praying sangs hymns of praise to God. 
• Even though they were shut in an inner jail of the Roman Empire, 
• Whenever you run out of strength to pray and you find your spirit heavily oppressed, wounded, sagging; praise Him. If you cannot pray, try to praise. 
• When you encounter unusual circumstances and problems and are bewildered and feel like collapsing, just remember one thing: Why not praise?"; if you offer you praise at that moment, God's Spirit will operate in you, open all the doors, and break all the chains. 
• Every time you encounter a problem, you should pray for mercy that you would stop manipulating and plotting and that you would learn the lesson of praising instead; much warfare can be won by praise. 
• Praise will last for eternity. It will never cease. 
• A person who praises God transcends everything; he overcomes continually by his praise; this is a principle and a fact. 
• To Praise is to glorify God; God is worthy of all glory; may God gain abundant praises from His children.
• The One new man is needed for the building work of God. The new man for warfare, for building, and constitution.