Monday Prayer...

Father God ~ We come to you this day giving you thanks for you are awesome and your love endures forever. We have cried out to you and you have been there for us, strengthening and comforting us. Thank you Jesus!

All the glory goes to you alone for you are worthy. You continue to go beyond our expectations. With you we will gain the victory over whatever comes against us and we will trample down our foes.

Thank you Jesus! Thank you, Christ the Lord! You are the King of our hearts. In the good and great name of Jesus. Amen and Amen!

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I am on the run toward Him...

“How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth!” ~ Psalm 47:2 (NIV).

I am on fire for the LORD and I want more. I think you want more, too. I know he has so much more for us and I am praying he will prepare us so we can receive all he has for us.

The first thought going through my head this morning as my feet hit the floor was “If a person really loves Jesus, they can’t get enough of Him.” At this point in my life, that is exactly where I am at.

What made me move off the dime? I had a back ground of playing church in two different mainline denominations and even was Elder of one. But I had not let the LORD God Almighty wrap both arms around me.

God had followed me with His arms spread out and reaching down and lived in me as the Holy Spirit. But until I turned around and pursued Him I was not on fire for the King.

The very power that raised our LORD and Savior, Jesus Christ, from the dead, came over me and guided me as I tippy-toed toward God. Now I am on the run toward Him.

One would think the fire would burn out, but no, not this one. It is a raging wild fire. Stoked by the Holy Spirit. All honor, glory and praise goes to King Jesus.

Born to Love,

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries †

The fire still burns among us...

Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates” Deuteronomy 11:20 (NIV).

Imagine walking down a sidewalk with scripture written all over. Yes, Walking through the word of God. Walking through His commandments and His promises en route to a building to worship the Almighty. That is exactly what I did a month ago at God’s Advance.

With the help of Godly men, I put the graffiti on the sidewalk. But this graffiti was not the evidence of a neighborhood’s decline, but the evidence of a group of men advancing the kingdom of God.

In advance of God’s Advance we gathered together and prayed throughout the mountain ranch where we stayed for a week-end. We prayed and anointed with oil every bunk, every door post and every building. Every hill, every path and every road into the place was prayed over.

We came to the LORD as little children. A friend brought sidewalk chalk for us children of the LORD to have fun in sharing our favorite verses of scripture with the men that were yet to come to the Advance.

As the rain and snow came to wash away our words and drawings sketched on a sidewalk, no fear that the word of God is gone or that our efforts were washed away. For the flame of the LORD that was fanned in us, we took home and the fire is still burning. The Holy Spirit has fallen upon us!

Thank You Jesus!

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates.” Deuteronomy 6:4-8 (NIV.

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries †

Our hearts belong to Jesus

“Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.” Isaiah 45:22 (NIV).

Father God ~ You go unmatched in all of the universe. Not just in the stories of our family in the bible, but yet today. There is nothing greater than you. Not one thing!

You have defeated darkness time after time and continue to do that. Deliver us, O LORD, from the torment of the evil one. Keep the bad one and his cronies away from us and our love ones.

Satan, go back to the pits of hell where you belong. Give up on us for we are children of the LORD, and our God reigns now and forever. You were defeated at the foot of the cross. Be Gone!

Our hearts belong to Jesus and He is our great protector, great provider and great healer. Thank you, Jesus, for restoring families and healing the sick right before our eyes.

In the good and great name of Jesus. Amen and Amen!

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries †

Drenched with the Holy Spirit...

"And now I will send the Holy Spirit, just as my Father promised. But stay here in the city until the Holy Spirit comes and fills you with power from heaven." Luke 24:49 (NLT).

The Holy Spirit was poured out upon us at God’s Advance recently and the spirit of God has remained with us. I feel the Glory of the LORD and have drawn from God each day since.

Just like the early church, we are seeing the spirits presence. Many are being healed both physically and mentally, marriages and homes are being put back together, jobs are becoming tolerable, and jobs are surfacing for those who thought they had reached a road block in getting hired.

My faith continues to grow as I witness God using me as His hands and feet. Oh, how great it is that He has given us the strength and courage and all the gifts and abilities we need to further His kingdom.

The LORD has given you victory, too. Receive the presence of God. Welcome the Holy Spirit into your life and feel His Glory. Be clothed in the power from above and release it to others.

"I am the LORD, the God of all the peoples of the world. Is anything too hard for me?” Jeremiah 32:27 (NLT).

Shalom,

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries †

He is everywhere...

I am heading into the week-end in prayer. I am in hopes that you will join me. May Saturday and Sunday be a time of reconnection for you with our great God in heaven.

I can’t imagine a day without him and know that is something I would not want to experience. Take a few minutes right now and talk to God. More importantly…listen to Him.

Our God in heaven is far more loving and compassionate than we can ever comprehend. That’s what I have grown to know. I have found great joy in His presence and can’t get enough of Him.

A friend told me her five year-old girl has moved from Sunday Preschool to Sunday School at church this Fall. She is so excited. She told her BIG eight year-old brother, “I get to go to Sunday School now. I am going to see God.” Her brother told her, “you don’t see God. You feel him. He is everywhere…”

Jesus told us in Luke 18:17 (NIV), “I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."

Let’s all get as excited as these two children of the LORD. They are not worried about the things of the world. They are enjoying God and seeking His presence. They feel Him. He is everywhere…

My prayer for you is that you too will seek him and feel him. He is everywhere...

Shalom,

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries

Keep in step with the Spirit...

“Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.” 1 Peter 2:11 (NIV).

We are not of this world and we are destined to live differently than John Doe and Joe Crow down the street.

Jesus told us in Matthew 6:24, "No one can serve two masters.” Yet people two thousand years later are still trying to seek God and Money as they seek things of this world.

Many of us live the same lives as the non-Christians that live right next to us. We enjoy the same things in life as they do and work day and night to pursue the exact things they seek.

You have to understand that we are not from here. We are citizens of the Kingdom of God. We can not fix our thoughts on this present world, but must fix our eyes on the LORD.

Holy Nation! God has called us out of darkness. Live in his wonderful light. You are the King's kid! Release your Father’s presence.

“Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.” Galatians 5:25 (NIV).

Serving a Living God,

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries

“How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth! ~ Psalm 47:2 (NIV).

There goes God…We prayed for a brother in Christ’s daughter last week. Her dad was at God’s Advance with us at a ranch in the Rocky Mountains in northern Colorado. Her body temperature had rocketed to 107.

Her father later wrote, “Many, many blessings to you for standing in the gap for my daughter, Evelyn, during the Advance—within an HOUR of your prayers, her temp went down from an uncontrolled 107 to a manageable low 100’s.”

He continued, “ Her heart stopped racing, she was SAVED, PRAISE THE LORD! He is MIGHTY, a HEALER, He is FAITHFUL, He restores HOPE, He bestows GRACE, He is FULL OF GLORY, He IS the LOVE of the FATHER...

That’s Right. Our God is an awesome God. He is the mighty healer and our deliver in our hours of darkness. To you goes all the praise and glory. Thank you Jesus!

Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Psalm 62:8 (NIV).

Shalom,

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries †

6:10 Warriors Begins...

“Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.” Psalm 33:3 (NIV).

I am singing a new song to our LORD this week after attending a great men’s advance last week-end. We are revamping our men’s ministry program at church to be “6:10 Warriors”.

The 6:10 is for Ephesians 6:10, which says, “Finally, be strong in the LORD and in his mighty power.”

We are fired up, armored up, shoulder to shoulder with shields held high. A great team of men prayed for several months for the men’s advance. Results were 120 men at the advance. God exceeded all our expectations and worked in the lives of those in attendance.

God told us in Jeremiah 29:14 (NIV), “I will be found by you.” That is exactly what happened for some of the men last week-end. They finally got hooked up with Jesus after years of battling through life by themselves. Some men had been bound up in chains for over 40 years and are now free.

God’s specialty is bringing a person to the next level and the only way to get to the Father is through His Son, Jesus. He saves us from ourselves and His Holy Spirit guides us to become what God intended us to be.

Looking back on the advance we can see that God did “immeasurably more” than we ever “asked or imagined!” We can see that God used us to score a huge victory in the lives of many.

Walk with the LORD and be pleasing to Him. Hold your head and hands high. Release the presence of the LORD to all that you come in contact with. “I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD.” Micah 3:8 (NIV).

“The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,” Isaiah 61:1 (NIV).

Hearts were healed, chains were broken and prisoners were set free. Thank you King Jesus!

Shalom,

Rick Hawbaker †
Praying 4 U Ministries

It is your invitation...

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; Isaiah 55:1 (NIV)

Children of the LORD ~ Do not miss this! This is your invitation from God.

Just like the scripture says, if you are thirsty, come to the waters and drink. Satisfy your desire to become closer to your LORD and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Broken lives are populating earth, all because people do not come to His waters and drink. If you are NOT thirsty for what the LORD can do for you, you will keep wandering through this life and never be changed.

“For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.” Psalm 107:9 (NIV). The book of John tells us in chapter 7, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.” (NIV).


Don’t be left behind. Seek the LORD. I get glory bumps just thinking about how much my Father in heaven loves us. Because He sees us as what we will be and not what we are now. Let Him change you to be what you were meant to be.

"I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. John 6:35 (NIV).

“I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.” Proverbs 8:17 (NIV)

That's Right...You Can Count On It...Thank You Jesus!

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries

Hungry for the LORD...

“Praise the LORD. Praise the name of the LORD; praise him, you servants of the LORD,” Psalm 135:1 (NIV).

I ventured up to the mountains over the week-end with one hundred and twenty hungry men. Men hungry for the LORD. God’s kingdom grew and Satan trembled. Heaven’s gates were opened and we were drenched with His Holy Spirit.

Many men passed up going to the Advance letting Satan talk them out of it. Some said,“Oh, I am not going. I have been to Advances before. I don’t need to get filled up.” That’s where they have missed hearing God calling…You don’t go to an Advance or Retreat to get full. You go to get hungry. Hungry for the LORD.

Men’s lives were changed as they were set free from the chains they had been carrying. Hallelujah! The LORD was MIGHTY indeed as He restored marriages, put families back together, released guilt, healed all kinds of pain and more.

It was great getting a glimpse of heaven even if it was only for a week-end. Praising, worshipping and praying knee to knee with others. Men becoming men in the presence other men. Thank you Jesus!

“Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits— who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.” Psalm 103:1-5 (NIV).


Shalom,

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries