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Sept. 7, 2017 - Jim Bakker Show
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Prayers and Mercy - Rick Joyner on The Jim Bakker Show
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Pray For Leaders 00:03:52
But one thing we need to do too, which I've been doing, you know, we need to pray for Trump, but I'm convicted I didn't pray for Obama enough.
It didn't say pray for the presidents you agree with or the leaders you agree with.
I let him down.
I didn't pray for him like I should have.
I did pray for him whenever I could think, but I wasn't resolute and all that.
We need to pray for all of our leaders, whether we agree with them or not.
We need to pray for them to have righteous and wise counsel and many things.
Because the word tells us to.
Yeah.
And if you look at, there was almost as much hatred and all issued towards Obama as there is Trump right now.
It really was.
There was.
And we need to own that too.
And I'm afraid it's ratcheting up.
You know, who would want to be the next president the way things are going?
But all these things will come to pass.
They've come to pass on.
And I think we're going to get back on track.
We're going to see a lot of these issues.
I don't think we're going to see them totally resolved till the king comes, till the Lord returns, but we're going to make progress.
And we're going to come out of it better.
And there's a lot to go on, a lot to happen in the nations.
But it's all setting up for an ultimate conflict between light and darkness.
We need this ultimate clash, and we need to see both for what they are.
But, you know, when Jesus came, you know, his worst enemies were the religious conservatives.
And the sinners would repent and fall down.
The demoniacs would fall down in front of him, bow the knee.
It was the religious conservatives.
Self-righteousness is a far worse enemy.
Oh, my.
You know, and instead of condemning the LGBT, what did Abraham do for Sodom?
He interceded.
He beseeched the Lord.
And we've got to do the same thing.
We are not warring against flesh and blood.
But what has these people captured?
And, you know, all these other things.
But our self-righteousness can be a bigger affront and a bigger block to God's purposes than all of the wickedness that we see on the other side.
So true.
So this is a warfare against good and evil.
Yeah.
But the Lord had incredible mercy for the sinner and no tolerance for the self-righteous.
Now, you can be an atheist and be self-righteous.
I think that's where some of the biggest ones are.
You can be an atheist and have a religious spirit if you understand religious spirit.
It really has nothing to do with religion.
It's counter to true religion.
But these are things we really need to be educated on.
We need to see.
We need to go forth in our armor, but also with the humility and the grace.
God gives us grace to the humble.
Well, we're not coming because we're so righteous.
No, we've been delivered.
We've been given grace, but we're no better than that on our own.
And we've got to have the same kind of mercy for them.
And our victory is their liberation.
But we need to keep praying for them.
And also, I ask you to pray for Kim Jong-un and pray for North Korea and pray for Putin.
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