Jim Bakker Show - Prayers and Mercy - Rick Joyner on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2017-09-07
Duration: 03:52


=== Pray For Leaders (03:52) ===

[00:00:00]  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.
[00:00:09]  It didn't say pray for the presidents you agree with or the leaders you agree with.
[00:00:15]  I let him down.
[00:00:16]  I didn't pray for him like I should have.
[00:00:18]  I did pray for him whenever I could think, but I wasn't resolute and all that.
[00:00:23]  We need to pray for all of our leaders, whether we agree with them or not.
[00:00:27]  We need to pray for them to have righteous and wise counsel and many things.
[00:00:35]  Because the word tells us to.
[00:00:37]  Yeah.
[00:00:38]  And if you look at, there was almost as much hatred and all issued towards Obama as there is Trump right now.
[00:00:48]  It really was.
[00:00:49]  There was.
[00:00:49]  And we need to own that too.
[00:00:52]  And I'm afraid it's ratcheting up.
[00:00:55]  You know, who would want to be the next president the way things are going?
[00:01:02]  But all these things will come to pass.
[00:01:05]  They've come to pass on.
[00:01:08]  And I think we're going to get back on track.
[00:01:11]  We're going to see a lot of these issues.
[00:01:13]  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.
[00:01:20]  And we're going to come out of it better.
[00:01:24]  And there's a lot to go on, a lot to happen in the nations.
[00:01:29]  But it's all setting up for an ultimate conflict between light and darkness.
[00:01:33]  We need this ultimate clash, and we need to see both for what they are.
[00:01:38]  But, you know, when Jesus came, you know, his worst enemies were the religious conservatives.
[00:01:49]  And the sinners would repent and fall down.
[00:01:54]  The demoniacs would fall down in front of him, bow the knee.
[00:01:59]  It was the religious conservatives.
[00:02:02]  Self-righteousness is a far worse enemy.
[00:02:05]  Oh, my.
[00:02:06]  You know, and instead of condemning the LGBT, what did Abraham do for Sodom?
[00:02:14]  He interceded.
[00:02:16]  He beseeched the Lord.
[00:02:18]  And we've got to do the same thing.
[00:02:20]  We are not warring against flesh and blood.
[00:02:24]  But what has these people captured?
[00:02:27]  And, you know, all these other things.
[00:02:29]  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.
[00:02:40]  So true.
[00:02:41]  So this is a warfare against good and evil.
[00:02:45]  Yeah.
[00:02:45]  But the Lord had incredible mercy for the sinner and no tolerance for the self-righteous.
[00:02:52]  Now, you can be an atheist and be self-righteous.
[00:02:56]  I think that's where some of the biggest ones are.
[00:02:59]  You can be an atheist and have a religious spirit if you understand religious spirit.
[00:03:03]  It really has nothing to do with religion.
[00:03:05]  It's counter to true religion.
[00:03:09]  But these are things we really need to be educated on.
[00:03:12]  We need to see.
[00:03:13]  We need to go forth in our armor, but also with the humility and the grace.
[00:03:21]  God gives us grace to the humble.
[00:03:24]  Well, we're not coming because we're so righteous.
[00:03:27]  No, we've been delivered.
[00:03:28]  We've been given grace, but we're no better than that on our own.
[00:03:33]  And we've got to have the same kind of mercy for them.
[00:03:38]  And our victory is their liberation.
[00:03:41]  But we need to keep praying for them.
[00:03:44]  And also, I ask you to pray for Kim Jong-un and pray for North Korea and pray for Putin.