DAD'S KEYNOTE PRAYER FOR THE FAST!
DO 2757 14/2/92
(The morning before the Fast, upon awakening:)
1. Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! This is the day which the Lord has made, we will be glad and rejoice in it! Thank You Jesus for this wonderful day, and for a wonderful night's rest, for safekeeping, for Thy beautiful creation and for all Thy Family! Thank You for all Thy blessings and provision of our needs. Thank You for how good You've been to us. Thank You Jesus! Do bless and keep and make us a blessing. Lead and guide us in anything that must be done. Help us, show us the way step by step. Thank You Lord! Keep us safely, Lord.
2. Bless and keep Thy Family worldwide, Lord! Make them a blessing and we know that You'll take care of them. Bless our children everywhere, Thy children. Thank You for health and strength and all Thy many blessings!--Mostly that You love us and we can love You, and that we can love Thy children and help them. Thank You for such a wonderful life and love! Continue to provide for Thy Family and protect and keep them. Help them, Lord, and solve their problems. Thank You Jesus! Thank You Lord!
3. Bless those of our folks and Family who are having any problems anywhere, and give them strength and wisdom, love and power and patience. We know when You've tried them, You'll bring them forth as gold. These tests and trials are good for them, Lord, since You send them, You allow them. May they all work together for good. And when You're through using the tests, punish the enemies that cause them, and if they're wicked enough, destroy them! Thank You Lord! Praise the Lord! Thank You Jesus! The Enemy's always fighting somewhere! He keeps us on our toes and on the ball and prayerful, to make us strong to fight against him.
4. Do bless us now today and make us a blessing. Keep us and guide us, help us to accomplish what You want done today. Thank You for such good children! Bless our schools and all our Homes, whatever their jobs may be--all our Family around the world! (Mama: Amen, do great things for them, Lord! Show Thy power and Thy miracles as we call on You. Really open their hearts to the sheep.) Amen! And do lead us for Thy glory, whatever's best for Thee and Thy work.
5. Thank You for our afflictions that have taught us so much and kept us closer to You, more dependent on You, Lord, so we stay close to You and in better communication with You. Thank You for Thy discipline, Thy training. Thank You that this food is going down so well. Help it to do me a lot of good. Thank You for how it has and You have. Lord, we just can't thank You enough for everything! Praise You Lord! Hallelujah! Thank You for Thy Word to guide us, and for You, Jesus--Thy love and mercy and Thy faithfulness and all Thy goodness, how good You've been to us, using us for Thy children and their guidance!
6. Thank You for safekeeping. Keep the handymen, bless them in whatever work it is they do today. Thank You for all the work they've gotten done, all the improvements. Praise You Lord! Thank You Lord!
7. Help those who are rulers, kings, magistrates and politicians to do the right things.--Also to be honest and fair, and particularly economical. Especially in those richer countries they're so wasteful and so extravagant! Help the poor and the unemployed. Have mercy on them. Provide for them somehow, Lord, and help this worldwide depression to teach them to depend more on You. Help them to learn all the lessons they need to learn.--To be more mindful of You, to pray more, to lean more on You and obey You and not live so selfishly. Thank You Jesus!
8. We're sure You're teaching them lessons, Lord, through this trial and testing time of privation and famine. Help the little ones! Help the little ones that You can use here on Earth to survive, but those that are in such dire conditions, maybe it's best for You to take them. Thank You Jesus. At least they got their start here. You can certainly take better care of them in Heaven and populate Thy world in the future. Thank You Lord!
9. We don't worry so much about the dying, Lord, as the living. The dying You'll take care of!--Of course, the living You'll take care of too. But it's so much easier for You to take care of the dying than the living, because the dying will find out how things really are, that You're really in control and need to be loved. Thank You, Lord! You'll provide for them and take care of them. It's the willful living that You have such trouble with, people who won't obey Thy rules and laws and refuse to accept Thee, receive Thee, love Thee or follow Thee. It's the rebellious that cause all the trouble. Thank You, Lord, it won't be long before You're going to get rid of them! You have to let it get worse before You can make it better, to teach man a lesson that he can't get along without You, to give all the glory to their Creator and to thank You for everything as we do! Thank You Jesus! Praise You Lord!
10. Help us to do things right today. Thank You for teaching us to pray, "Our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever!--In Jesus' name, amen!" "Thank You, Jesus, for this day and for our Home so fair. Help us, Lord, to do some good and keep us in Thy care, and bless our loved ones everywhere!"
11. Thank You for Thy angels and ministering spirits who help us day and night, all of our loved ones who have gone on to be with Thee and are praying for us. Thank You Lord! Help our Family to pray during these days of fasting and prayer. Help them to learn how to pray and to receive from Thee Thy messages, revelations of Thy will. Help them to learn how to depend on You and expect You to answer their prayers. May it be a time of great blessing, of greater receiving and hearing from You, Jesus!--Not only to say, "Hear, Lord, Thy servant speaketh," but to say, "Speak, Lord, Thy servant heareth!" It's a two-way street of communication: We speak and we hear. We believe it's going to be a great time of blessing, and learning and healing and following and making us a blessing!
12. Bless our Family around the world as they pray together and devote this time almost entirely to prayer. Give them the strength for it! Show them that they don't need so much food, they don't need to spend so much time on food and cleanup, but they can devote more time to prayer and listening to You! We believe a great benefit will come from all of this, Lord.--Not only healing, but guidance and blessing. Make us all a greater blessing to the whole world until You come! Thank You Jesus! Praise the Lord!
13. Help it to help our young people to learn how to pray, and to see that prayer works because You work when we pray! Thank You Lord! We cannot work without it, without looking to Thee, listening to Thee and following Thy guidance, and then we'll succeed, doing Thy will. Thank You Jesus! Praise You Lord! Show our young people especially during this time that prayer works, because You work when we pray! If we stir ourselves, then You're stirred to answer! If we stir ourselves, You'll answer. You promised that when we call unto You with our whole heart, You'll answer and show us great and mighty things, even things we know not of, things we didn't know about, hadn't thought about, but things that we can do to better serve You (Jer.33:3). Praise You Lord! Thank You Lord!
14. Help our Family to learn how to pray, to look to You and see Thy face and receive Thy Word, Thy blessings. Because we know if we look to You, You'll lead us and guide us and bless us and make us a blessing! Thank You Jesus!
15. Thank You for this prayer time that You give us time for, Lord. Bless our families around the world as they learn to see how much more time they can spend in prayer and how much greater blessings will come from it and how we'll benefit from it, how much we'll learn about You and Your Word and Your will and how it works best as we follow You, Jesus, look unto You and keep our eyes on You, because You know the way!
16. Keep our hand in Thine, Lord, because You know exactly which way to lead us and preserve us during these troubling times. They're troubling times, nevertheless times in which You can even more greatly show Thy power, protection, provision and blessing and usefulness as we follow Thee, because You know what's best. Help us to look to You for guidance in everything, to give thanks and follow Thee and Thy will, because You know what's best.
17. Have Thy way in all of these prayers and days of prayer, that You might have Your way in the future, that we might follow Thee more closely than ever before, as we enter these days of great trouble.--Great trouble for the world, Lord, but we believe great blessing for us! Even if we suffer some, You will turn burdens to blessings, trials to triumphs and seeming defeats to victory, to show Thy mighty power, Thy great love in these trying days when some will be really tested! Help them to come through as gold, pure gold, purified and made white, shining examples of witnesses for Thee, to turn many to righteousness! Praise You Lord! Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus! In this last great opportunity, this era, as we approach the end of this age, may we do our best, Lord, Thy best! Our best is to do Thy best, what You want us to do! Thank You Jesus! Praise You Lord! Hallelujah!
18. May it be a time of praise as well, one in which we'll thank You for all our blessings--Thy provision and protection and wonderful fruit that You've given us!--The thousands and thousands of souls that You helped us lead to You, Jesus! We're ministering to thousands even in the land where it seemed impossible, but which is now becoming the most fruitful (Russia)! "For where sin did abound, Lord, grace doth now much more abound!" (Rom.5:20).--Thy grace and Thy love and Thy healing message to heal that land that is so distressed! But through it, You're turning many to You for Your answers, and away from the lies of the Devil!
19. Thank You, Lord, for breaking down that evil, deceitful system and turning Your people to You! Thank You for opening a door that no man can shut, as You promised. Thank You Jesus! Though we have but a little strength, You can greatly multiply it.--Strength in numbers and power, through Thy great mercy to mightily use us to lead thousands to You, even as You're doing now.--And tools to do the job, and the workers, laborers for the harvest. Thank You Lord! You promised, Lord, You're doing it, and we thank You for it.
20. We cannot do it all ourselves, Lord. We need helpers, and You're sending them. You're giving them, and they're grasping it from our hands eagerly, to take it forth and publish it to others, that they might all learn of Thy love and Thy Salvation! Thank You Jesus! Praise You Lord! Hallelujah!--That You may work Thy work while it is yet day, until the night cometh when You gather us to Thee in great power and glory, to move on to the next age, the next dispensation of Thy grace, the glorious wonderful day of Thy Kingdom here on Earth, for which You're preparing Thy people to rule and to govern this world as it should be, as the last final testimony to the people of this world of Thy love and Thy Word, Thy Salvation and Thy answers!--To show them how it should have been done if they had only followed You!
21. I'm looking forward to that wonderful day when You come into Your Kingdom and take full control! Thank You Jesus! Hallelujah! We're trying to do our best to do Thy work and the works of You that sent us while it is still day, that we might prepare for the night when it comes and Thy glorious dawn when we enter in to Thy Kingdom! "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven!" Thank You Jesus! Praise You Lord! Hallelujah!
22. Teach Thy children to pray, Lord, and show them the results! May it be a time of great blessing, great fellowship, wonderful inspiration and of unity, as it was in the beginning, when they spent those days of prayer together in the upper room in Jerusalem at the beginning of the Church, when You poured out such a blessing they couldn't hold it, and they spread it abroad in the power of Thy Spirit! Thank You Lord! So be it, Lord, here and now, that You'll pour out such a great blessing of Thy Spirit and Thy power that things will happen--good things, wonderful things which we even know not! Praise You Lord! Hallelujah! Thank You Lord!
23. This is the time when we need to pray, Lord! So help us, teach Thy children to pray! Teach our Family to really unite in Thy Spirit as they unite in love and prayer and give more of their time to Thee, looking more to Thee, the author and finisher of our faith! Hallelujah! Finish the good work that You've begun in us, Lord. We know You will. As we pray and draw nigh to Thee, You'll draw nigh to us, helping us in a great and mighty work which we don't know anything about right now.
24. You're doing a great and mighty work already that we never even dreamed of! Thank You Lord! Help us to do it while it is yet day and finish the job as best we can. Hallelujah!--All around the world, everywhere, in all the needy fields! In South America, Europe, and in the East, the West, the North and South, everywhere! This will be a time of great blessing, great rejoicing, great reaping and great manifestation of Thy power and Thy gifts, Thy blessings! Praise You Jesus! Hallelujah! Thank You Lord!
25. Show them what You can do, Lord, as they give You a chance and pray and look to You and expect great and mighty things, even greater works than we have done before! Thank You Jesus! Hallelujah! Praise You Lord! Thank You for Thy wonderful, wonderful power and grace and love and Salvation that does so many miracles, daily miracles, big and little in our eyes, every day! Thank You Lord! Hallelujah! Praise You Jesus! We believe You, and we know You're going to do it! We're going to see results from these days of prayer! Thank You Jesus!
26. Lord, give them faith to believe that You'll supply all their needs according to Your riches in glory if they'll obey and do Thy will and follow You. Help them to seek first Thy Kingdom, then You promised that You would supply all of these things, all of these physical and financial and spiritual needs. You said, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God," then You'd supply all of these things (Mat.6:33). It's Your Kingdom so You're certainly going to bless it and supply everything we need to do the job, so help them to know You will and to trust You for it. We know that You have--they have tried and You have supplied--and that's why we've done such a great work, or You've done such great work through us! Praise the Lord!
27. It looks to me like they've had lots of faith and You have supplied all of their needs. But they still go day to day, just worrying about eating when they should be concerned about doing Your work and really having the faith for You to supply, putting You first.
28. I have no fear that You will not supply and that You will not provide and protect and bless and bring blessing. I know You'll do it! We know You will, You always do! (Sings:)
Only Jesus! Only Jesus!
Only He can satisfy;
Every burden becomes a blessing,
When I know my Lord is nigh!
29. So Lord, we believe with all our hearts that You'll make every burden a blessing and bring blessing out of cursing and work all things together for good to them that love Thee! Thank You Jesus! Praise You Lord! Help them to look on the bright side and be thankful! "In everything give thanks" (1Th.5:18). Help them to find that they can get the victory through prayer, through You, Jesus! Amen! Thank You Lord!
30. Now we've had a little time to pray ourselves before the Fast! I guess that's sort of the kickoff, the keynote! I trust they're not going to stop praying when the three days are over! This time of prayer is just getting them started. We hope it'll keep'm praying! I hope the Lord doesn't have to send us too many trials and tribulations to make us pray, but that they'll pray to avoid them. That was a sweet little chorus that came to me, a sweet little keynote inspiration, thank You Lord! "Every burden becomes a blessing!" If we could just learn that burdens are blessings in disguise! Trials and tribulations are triumphs in disguise! Thank You Lord! Praise You Jesus! Hallelujah!
31. You're going to bring us through, Lord, You promised! Of course You will, You're God! You cannot fail! Thank You Lord! "Praise God, He cannot fail!" That's from another chorus. (Sings:) "Praise God, He cannot fail." (Mama sings:)
He cannot fail, for He is God,
He cannot fail, He pledged His Word.
He cannot fail, He'll see you through,
He cannot fail, He'll answer you!
32. Thank You Jesus! Amen! Praise You Jesus! Thank You Lord! Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus! The bigger the trouble, the bigger the victory, the greater the triumph, the greater the power of every hour! Power for the hour! We know You'll give it to us when the hour comes, in Jesus' name, including right now for this hour and time of prayer.--Not just our healings, but for the healings of the whole Family!--For the healings of all Thy children everywhere all over the world, healings You want to bring to their peoples and their lands through Thy love and Salvation! Thank You Jesus! Hallelujah! Praise You Jesus! Thank You, Lord! (Tongues) In Jesus' name, we claim the victory, Lord! (Sings:)
Faith is the victory!
Faith is the victory!
Oh, glorious victory,
That overcomes the world!
33. Hallelujah! Thank You Lord! The Lord has heard and it's His Word, so believe it now! Thank You Jesus! It is His vow, so believe it now. You know what a vow is?--A promise! So His promises are His vows to us. Thank You Lord! It starts with His marriage vows with Salvation, His vows to supply and provide and protect and bless and make us a blessing throughout our whole marriage to the Lord, which is forever! Thank You Jesus! Praise You Lord!
34. Right now, we have to finish the work that He's given us to do here on Earth until He comes and sets up His Kingdom to rule and reign forever! Thank You Jesus! Praise You, Lord! (Dad and Mama sing together:)
It will be worth it all,
When we see Jesus!
Life's trials will seem so small,
When we see Christ.
One glimpse of His dear face,
All sorrow will erase,
So bravely run the race,
Till we see Christ!
35. Praise You Lord! Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus! So let's end on that victorious note! xxxxxxx! Amen, Lord, bless them and help them to receive these, Thy kisses. Thank You Jesus! Thy Words are Thy kisses! Thank You Jesus! Praise You Lord! My, how wonderful it would be if people would receive His Words like a bride receives kisses from her lover! He wants His people, His Family, His Bride, to receive His kisses through His Words to inspire her and cause her to love and lead to total copulation with Him to bring forth fruit for His Kingdom! Thank You Jesus! Praise You Lord!
36. Hallelujah for all the wonderful children You've given us, the little ones to raise in Thy nurture and admonition! Thank You for these most precious disciples of all, who can be raised in Thy Kingdom, Thy Kingdom right now that's in our hearts, in the nurture and admonition of the Lord! Thank You for these little ones that You bless us with, Lord, and make us a blessing to them, that they can be a blessing to the world! Hallelujah! They have been!
37. (Mama: Help us to remember that You're going to take care of them and You love them even more than we do.) Amen, of course! (Mama: So You're not going to let them get into more trouble than You can get them out of.) Amen! Of course He'll take care of them! He promised! Remember when He gave us that one? (See "He'll Care for His Own," ML #900.) (Mama: Yes, but it seems to be one of the Family's biggest fears, that their children will be taken away.)
38. We need to be willing to give our children to the Lord, amen?--To trust God with them! (Mama: In every case where they've been taken away, they've been given back, thank the Lord!) What makes us think we can take better care of our children than He can? (Mama: Because of the way they look at it I guess, the wrong way.)
39. He knows how to take care of them better than we do! And if they should be taken away, He'll just make them stronger than ever! He'll teach them how to trust in Him and lean on Him and look to Him for strength and guidance and keeping! Thank You Jesus! Praise the Lord! And He'll make them a testimony to others! (Mama: Amen, we can't hold back our witness to the world just because we're afraid that our kids are going to get in trouble, or our kids are going to get taken.)
40. Our children are our witness to the world, they're the proof of the pudding! They're the absolute proof of God's love, that it works! Our children have become our greatest testimony, our greatest witness to the world! They marvel at our children! Thank You Lord! Thank You Jesus! Praise You Lord! So it's the Lord that's given them, and if the Lord should take them away, blessed be the Name of the Lord! He won't do it unless it suits His good purpose. "All things come of Thee!" (Col.1:17). Thank You Jesus! Praise the Lord! And "all things work together for good to them that love the Lord" (Rom.8:28). He won't take our children unless it's good for them, and good for us, and good for His Kingdom!
41. Abraham's greatest test was when he was asked to be willing to give up Isaac. I'll never forget when that great missionary prayed for my mother and prophesied that I would be her Isaac, that she would have to give me up and give me to the Lord, but that through that would come great blessing. That certainly came true! My mother had to leave and forsake me many times to go off for weeks and months at a time to serve the Lord, leaving us children with governesses and nurses and caretakers, even when I was very small. I really missed her!
42. But even then, at the early age of four or five years of age, I learned to look to the Lord, and the Lord took care of me. Praise the Lord! And I think through it the Lord made me stronger to really look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of my faith! (Mama: You didn't get bitter?) No. Sometimes I had tests and trials about it, but you've heard the stories, how I finally came in and said, "Mother, I'm going to give you to the Lord and put you on the altar. You do whatever you have to do for Jesus and I'll be happy." (See ML #727:71-90.)--And the Lord blessed me and her for that, and gave her a great work for the Lord. And eventually when she was willing to finally give me up to another woman, my first wife, He was preparing me for the greatest work!
43. I believe we've actually done a greater work for the Lord now than she was able to do in those days. Praise You Jesus! Thank You Lord! I believe we've reached more of the world and witnessed and won more souls than she was ever able to do even in her great work! But that was my training and preparation. If she hadn't done that, I couldn't have done this!
44. Lord, You do give us everything, even sex! Look at the great blessings He has brought through sex, our wonderful children that the Lord has given us for His glory! Thank You Jesus! Praise You Lord! Well, I always realized that, but I'm afraid many of our Family sometimes have not been too thankful, or have thought maybe it was too much, that our children were too many, but He's going to return blessings for burdens! Every burden will be a blessing when we realize our Lord is nigh, and who it's by! Praise You Jesus! Thank You Lord! They're going to be so thankful that they had them, and that the Lord gave them!
45. He's never given them more than they were able to bear! Praise the Lord! Like the woman who had nine children, she said the Lord never gives you more than you're able to bear. She said, "It's amazing how much you're able to bear!" When Mother Eve said to her, "I don't see how you ever did it; one takes all my time!" The woman said, "That's just it, nine can't take any more!" The fruit of His Kingdom!
46. Amen, praise the Lord! Honey, now let's not give them more than they're able to bear! There are other things that have to be done. There's a time to pray and there's a time to work and a time to receive, a time to rejoice, a time to praise, a time for everything! So praise God, what time is this for you? Praise the Lord! Be sure you spend your time the way the Lord wants it spent, whatever it is, in Jesus' name, amen! God bless you! I love you all!
47. I certainly didn't expect that prayer! I just sort of felt it bubbling up, like something was coming. The Family needs to pray for a spirit of prayer, that the Lord will pray through them with groanings that cannot be uttered, and also groanings that can be uttered! (Rom.8:26). "Groanings" doesn't always necessarily mean pain, but pleadings, supplications, pleas and intercession! Such is prayer. Thank You Lord! (Sings:)
I need Jesus, I need Jesus,
I need Jesus every day!
Need Him in the sunshine hour,
Need Him when the storm clouds lower*,
Every day along my way,
Yes, I need Jesus!
(*lower [pronounced "lour"] = to be dark and threatening, as the sky or the weather)
48. Praise the Lord, amen? That's an old-timer! Why do we pray? (Mama: Because we need Jesus!) (Sings:)
We need Jesus hourly,
We need Jesus daily,
We need Jesus every day!
Need Him in the sunshine hour,
Need Him when the storm clouds lower,
Every day along our way,
Yes, we need Jesus!
49. Praise the Lord! Power for the hour! Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus! Now let's praise Him! Amen?
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