Let heaven and nature sing in 2012

“Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains! For the LORD comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.” Isaiah 49:13 (NIV).

Our God is a mighty God. In His holy word we read over and over again how awesome he was and we see daily how awesome he is.

Heading into a new year I ask you to keep the fire of the LORD within you stirred. The light of the Spirit of God has been lit in you and you must fan the flame of the holy fire. Let the light of the Lord shine from you into darkness and may it shine ever so brightly.

Release the presence of God to all the earth being his hands and feet, comforting his people, and having compassion on the afflicted ones.

Let heaven and nature sing in 2012.

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries †

Celebrate Jesus Everyday...

"Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did." 1 John 2:6 (NIV).

Celebrate Jesus every day not just on Christmas Day. Put God first in your life and on display through you. Wear Jesus on your sleeve. Nobody should wonder if you are a Christian or not. Your Christ-like life should dash out any question in any one's mind.

Usher in the Holy Spirit and share it with others. The very power of God that Jesus used healing the sick and driving out demons and resisting the Devil is in you. The same power that Jesus used to walk through the dead. Jesus left you that power and said you would do greater things than He.

Get about doing the Lord's work right here and right now. Jesus came to undo what Satan had done. Satan flees at the very sound of the name of Jesus. Bring a bit of heaven to earth each and every day you are here.

Praying for you today!

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries

Thank You Jesus and Happy Birthday!

Let’s all rejoice in the fact that the word became flesh over two thousand years ago and it dwells with us still. Is not that what we are actually celebrating at Christmas?

God became flesh at Jesus birth and Jesus gave us authority over everything just before he ascended to heaven. You have to know the author to use the authority. We have been given divine power and if you are a believer there is nothing you do not have power over.

Thank You Jesus and Happy Birthday!

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries †

Been leaning on Jesus...

"Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things;" Psalm 98:1 (NIV).

Hearing and seeing our great God move in and around us is becoming the norm around the friends I hang with. God is faithful. He still hears our prayers and He still answers prayers.

The Kingdom of Heaven is right here among us. Just reach out and grab a piece of it. Bring Heaven to earth praying for others, watching God do amazing things, and tell others what you have seen.

We prayed with a man last week that his wife had been without work for three months. Two days later his wife’s previous employer called and offered her old job back and with a raise. Praise Jesus!

My wife laid in a surgical center in need of a blood transfusion. She was prayed over before being transported to an emergency room at a hospital. Once she arrived at the hospital it was determined there was no need of a blood transfusion. More answered prayer.

What a friend we have in Jesus and what a privilege it is to carry everything to God in prayer! I have leaned on Jesus this past week and he delivered.

“…and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me." ~ Psalm 50:15 (NIV).

All honor, glory and praise to the almighty!

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries †

Woohoo...Go God Go...

“Sing to the LORD, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world.” Isaiah 12:5 (NIV).

God’s glory is raining upon us. It is great being surrounded by the things God is doing today. The children of the LORD are calling upon their Father in heaven and the loving Father is answering prayers.

I talked with a man that said his dad was once told that he would die in 24 hours. His father lived through the next 24 hours and lived another 17 years. A friend said his grandmother was told to take the family trip you have always wanted to take because the cancer she had was taking over her body. That was in 1988 and the woman is still alive 23 years later.

A young woman injured over two years ago suffered from back spasms. After prayer in the past three months, she has ditched the spasms and is almost completely off the addictive pain killers.

Hearing and seeing our great God move in and around us is becoming the norm. What a friend we have in Jesus and what a privilege it is to carry everything to God in prayer!

Praise be to his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.” Psalm 71:19 (NIV).

Glory Be To God,

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries †

Sing to the LORD a new song...

Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things; Psalm 98:1 (NIV).

Really BIG things happen when you ask God to show up. Is not that the truth? It makes sense. Supernatural things are bound to happen around you when you hang out with the creator of the universe.

I prayed with a man several months ago that was at his wits end. He was about to lose his family, his home, and he was already without work. He was more than a bit perplexed. He was deep in pain as his next move on earth ran through his mind.

Knee to knee on the floor with him and other Godly men, he surrender his life to Christ. We got together and prayed several more times in the next couple weeks and then he disappeared.

Six weeks later he walked into a room of men who had previously passionately prayed over him. Joy now filled the man’s body from head to toe. He was full of excitement as he shared how God had shown up BIG time in his life.

This man was in the process of packing up things to move several states away when we first met for prayer. Not now! Now he was knocking down a pay check, had not lost his home to the bank, and his family was all under one roof with food on the table.

This man was going through a dry season in his life. He put God back in the driver’s seat and poured out his heart to Him. That’s right. Just as the Psalm 62:8 says, “Trust in Him always, pour your heart out to Him. For God is our refuge.”

Thank You Jesus!,


Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries †

Mighty Acts of the Holy Spirit Continue...

Not so many years ago on the way to visit born-again friends, I told my wife, “They start flipping that religious crap on us I am going to let them have it.”

The LORD God almighty has since changed my heart. Now I would guess these people we visited that night are getting tired of hearing me constantly talking about our great God.

The mighty ACTS of the Holy Spirit that we read about in the word of God are definately continuing to happen two thousand years after Jesus walked through death. And they are happening through a coming and risen Jesus.

I break out in glory bumps just thinking about how our great God came forth and healed a baby given slim to none chance of surviving. Many lost hope, but NOT the hundreds of prayer warriors around the world praying to the almighty for a healing.

The God who heals, Jehovah Rapha, showed up like it says in Psalm 103:1-2, “Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits— who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases.” He came that day and by his wounds the baby was healed.

“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5 (NIV).

Dear God in heaven…I thank Jesus for carry my sins and my sorrows to the tree years ago. I also thank the LORD for the presence of the Holy Spirit in my life. Thank You God! In the name of Jesus. Amen and Amen.

Shalom,

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries †

Where are you planted...

“He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.” Psalm 1:3 (NIV).

Where are you planted? Has it ever crossed your mind? I was born into a family that played church once a week and we provided that same kind of upbringing for our children. I thanked God in the high heavens for uprooting me out of the mainline church and planting me among a group of friends that have a real passion for the LORD.

I will not cover up the light of the HOLY SPIRIT that has been lit in me. God has planted me by a continual source of water from Him and the roots are going deep down making me strong and stable.

I have been born again, baptized in the HOLY SPIRIT, and have seen the glory of God in my midst. I can not turn my head from the LORD and act like I have not seen his mighty works. I must tell others and in doing so, release the kingdom of God.

I have been healed and have seen people being healed. I prayed with a man that his marriage was thought to be so close to the end of the road that a turn could not be made. Jesus put that marriage back together almost before the young father of three could get home that night.

Baby Wyatt was given three hours to live by man when he was born and is now six days old. A friend out of work for 21 months is now working. A felon that did not have a job or a car found both last month. The list of the things our amazing God is doing goes on and on.

Trust in the LORD and do not fear. You will have no worries and you will bear fruit. The word of God says in Jeremiah 17:7-8, “like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream…it does not fear when the heat comes…it has no worries in a year of drought.”

You want no worries in your future? Get yourself planted by a stream of water and get strong in the LORD and be stable. Our God is a mighty fortress.

Shalom,

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries †

My faith in God continues to leap...

My faith in God continues to leap as I make myself available to Him. I feel very strongly that the most I can do for someone is to pray for them. Doing a lot of praying is exactly what I have been doing.

Wyatt Kinman is a name that won’t soon be forgotten. Wyatt is a two day old fighting baby born to his parents Aaron and Ashley Kinman. Wyatt came into this world via c-section this week as his head was two months too big because of a blockage in his brain.

The blockage is called aquaductal stenosis. The doctors told the Kinmans that Wyatt’s chance of living was slim to none. He also has a very rare chromosome disorder called mosaic trisomy 12.

We have prayed over Ashley anointing her with oil and laying hands on her in the name of Jesus. We have prayed many times with Aaron and his father, Mark. People all over the world have been praying for this young family.

Wyatt was delivered on Monday at 10:50 a.m. and was not expected by man to still be on earth at 1 p.m. that day. Wyatt’s heart rate dipped to 40 beats per minute from a normal rate of 140-160 and his body temperature dropped to 92 degrees. This was in the first five hours that he was alive.

God tucked this little guy under his loving and healing arms and Wyatt battled back. When I visited him with some prayer warrior friends on Tuesday evening, Wyatt was doing very well. His heart rate was 144 to 158, his oxygen level and kidney functions were normal, and his temperature was 98 degrees.

Wyatt was not quite 60 hours old when he successfully had surgery to put in a shunt to relieve some of the pressure on his brain. He had been out of surgery for about two hours at this writing. The doctors say he is awesome.

His dad has text me “Wyatt is doing great. Everything is normal still. He does not seem to be in any pain. He is awake. His eyes are wide open and moving around. PRAISE OUR SOVEREIGN GOD OF MIRACLES!”

I thank the LORD God Almighty for this tiny baby that has again proven God is bigger than all things. Wyatt has been on earth only 60 hours and is already changing lives in a great way.

Thank You Jesus,

Rick Hawbaker
Praying 4 U Ministries †