Power of Prayer | Pastor Dwain Wolfe | Jan 4th 2026

February twenty twenty. That was COVID and that was the coronavirus, right,

and corona means crowned virus or king virus. And we

know that it attacked the breath of humans, right, we

know that it had a spiritual dimension to it. I

mean if you knew that, so we know the testimony

of people coming under the influence of it was dread, fear,

even the influence of death. Right, So but rewind even further.

Nineteen eighty Bob Jones Kansas City Prophets associated there with

the Vineyard Church and the Vineyard Movement. Bob Jones had

a very clear prophetic given to him and often Bob

and others in the Kansas City Prophets, they would get

these words that had signs to them, so there would

be like a sign or a symbol, something that signified

or signified the fulfillment of the word. And so as

they were praying over global awakening, they were praying over

a revival as all of us have been. And if

you're old like me, you know this has been the

dream of my parents, the dream of you know, so

many of us that are like my age is we

haven't seen a real move of God in our generation.

And so he gets this prophetic word and this is

the Vineyard Church of Kansas City, and the prophetic word

that he gets is that when the Kansas City Chiefs

win the Super Bowl. Now they hadn't won the Super

Bowl in years and years, this is in the eighties.

But when the Kansas City Chiefs win the Super Bowl,

God will it will be a sign. It's going to

be a sign that when they have that win, when

they have that victory, it's going to be a sign

that a global awakening is starting, that a revival is starting.

And one of the words, actually, Sean Boltz records it

this way. Sean was the prayer leader there at the

church and the ministry for a number of years, and

here's the way he remembers it. When the Kansas City

Chiefs go to the Super Bowl and win, this will

be a sign post of the billion soul harvest and

a sign that God will raise up his apostolic chiefs

in all the spheres of influence. I mean, ha've heard

that before, so some you've heard it. This word was

so it was so predominant, so prevailing, so like everybody

was hearing this word, you know, Bob Jones was sharing

this word in the eighties. But this word was you know,

it was reverberating, and it became so impactful in terms

of reverberation that the church there and the prayer ministry

IHOP International Health of Prayer Ministry, they started praying for

the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl. They're like, okay, well,

if we need the Kansas City Chiefs to win the

Super Bowl for the great Awakening to begin, let's begin

to pray for the Kansas City Chiefs right now. James

gall was one of the prophets there, and he remembers

it this way, when the Kansas City Chiefs go to

the Big One, it will be a sign that revival

is coming and that the heartland will be healed. So

there were a few variations that Bob would share over

those years. Right well, February two of twenty twenty, they

won the Super Bowl. It was a massive victory. It

was a crazy there was so much symbolism to it

on the day that they won on I mean from

you know, all the way down to a lot of

factors about the team, the coach, the quarterback. But they

won February two of twenty twenty, they won the Super Bowl,

and all of us knew it was the beginning of

global awakening, and we knew it was the beginning of

a global revival. We knew it was the beginning of

the chiefs, the apostolic chiefs. We're going to be raised

up by God, not only in the church, but in

every sector of society. We knew all this was going

to happen. And immediately COVID hit and the attention of

the church there was like this massive collision of the

word of the Lord against the word of darkness. And

the word of darkness was to suffocate the church, to

silence the church, to gag the church, and even to

quench the church, and even to shut the church down globally,

when there was supposed to be a great breakout of awakening,

what looked to be a great victory and a great

sudden fulfillment, right all at once, it looked like there

was going to be a great disillusionment, a great disillusionment,

and much of the body of Christ fell prey to that.

How many of you know that, So thousands of churches

closed and never opened again, thousands of pastors across the

globe resigned from ministry and have never gone back into

the ministry. Thousands of people left the church and haven't

gone back to church. But hundreds of thousands of people

came to church globally, hundreds of hundreds upon hundreds of thousands,

maybe millions began to re engage with God and with Church.

And what Satan meant to silence the Church actually awakened

the Church, and the word of the Lord didn't fall

to the ground. The word of the Lord through the

prophet actually was sharpened, quickened, ignited even greater. Because those

of us with eyes to see, we could see this

was a Satanic attack against the Church, and this was

meant to be a global reset for darkness. But God

was going to work it to be a global reset

for the light of the Kingdom of God and for

the glory of God. Now Here at New Horizon, we

started announcing in February of twenty twenty, we started announcing

that what was actually happening was a global deliverance, that

COVID would actually work to the stumbling of darkness, and

what God would bring about in the next few years

would be a global deliverance. Now, a bunch of you

agreed with this bunch of you actually partnered with us.

We partnered in prayer, we partnered in fast, and we

continued and we were coming out of our twenty one days.

We were coming out of our summit, and we were

we were repped up and excited. And when COVID hit,

we reopened the church as soon as we could, and

we were marching forward and we grew by probably I

don't know, one hundred and fifty members, and people were

coming here from woke churches all over the region and saying,

we don't want woke, we want awake. Hello, somebody, And

so we added a second service and we never went back,

and now we need a third. Come on, somebody. But

I want you to see. I want you to look

this morning. I want you looking in the rear view mirror,

because I don't know what you were thinking. You might

have been thinking, oh, yeah, this is the end. Some

were selling all their stocks. Some thought the anti Christ

was coming. Some could see nation rising against nation. They

had Matthew twenty four all figured out. They knew that

darkness and great darkness was coming. And we kept saying

to you know, this is a global deliverance. God is

going to work in a powerful way. We're going to

see the enemies subdued. We're going to see the enemies

of Christ put under his feet. We're going to see

victory after victory. Hang on, hang on, hang out, and

buckle up. Now. I want you to look in the

rear view mirror, because it actually got worse. You remember,

it actually got worse because then we had an election

and we somehow were snookered into the wrong president. Do

you remember that. You remember some of that. And so

the leadership of the nation got worse, and things got bad,

and we had the autopin in operation, and we had

all this stuff going on. It's getting worse and worse

and worse, and it looks like the kingdom of darkness

is going to take over. But those of us with

a heart and with a vision for the Kingdom of God,

we see God is going to work this to the good.

And now we're on the other side and we can

see in the rear view mirror, because hindsight's always better

than foresight, right, hindsight is twenty twenty. We can look

now in the rear view mirror and we can see

God is working in the nations. We woke up yesterday.

Did you wake up yesterday morning? How many of you

woke up yesterday morning. We woke up yesterday morning with

a change of leadership in Vinza. I've been stumbling all weekend.

Or Pastor Joles, she's been helping me. So we woke

up to a change of leadership. Some of you are thinking, Oh,

that's it's all about oil. Oh, that's all about Trump

is just a bad dude. Oh that's all about Russia.

That's all about China. I want to tell you what

it's about. It's about the kingdoms of this earth becoming

the kingdoms of our God and our Christ. It's about

seven point seven million refugees that have been scattered all

over the world coming home. It's about persecution in the

church and persecution over the church coming to an end.

It's about liberty and freedom. It's about thousands of pastors

and leaders and Christians who've been either hiding or imprisoned

coming into freedom. It's about joy. It's about liberty. It's

about victory. It's about Eden. It's about heaven on Earth

and Venzaweh, thank you very much. It's about heaven on

earth for those people and for a great redemption and

a great liberty. That's what it's about. And not only

is it happening there, but there's something going on and Iran. Now,

by the way, with doctor Trump and some of you

aren't Trumpsters, and some of you are, you're sure that

he is a pile of poo. And sometimes when he talks,

we're all convinced that he's a pile of pooh. But

here's what you have to know. You have to know

God is using this pile of pooh. God is using

an earthen vessel. God is using this clay vessel. He

says in Isaiah forty five. Toward the end of Isaiah

forty five, of which I'm going to read in a minute,

he says, who are you to argue with the potter?

The potter can do what he wants to do with

the clay. And I chose Cyrus to do this, and

I'm going to do this through Cyrus. And you know what,

you got nothing to say about it? Just to work

with me and cooperate. Why don't we partner together. Why

don't we partner together with what I'd like to do.

God wants to do things, and it's better that we

see what he's up to and partner with him. If

we will align our hearts with him and align our

voices with him, this is all he needs for partnership

to bring forth kingdom realities. So one of the things

you know that we've seen. So when we woke up

yesterday to whatever was happening, and thank you, when we

woke up, we got to realize that was like Nation

number ten that mister Cyrus has been used to bring

peaceful resolution, global transformation, geopolitical change and rescue and in

the process, liberty to the gospel, Liberty to the gospel,

liberty to the gospel. Now we're about ready to see

you watch watch for Iran, fastest starving church in the

worlds in Iran. Watch for what's happening, Watch and see

what's going on over in Iran. We're about ready to

see a crazy breakthrough in Iran. And this is the fulfillment.

This is actually a prayer fulfillment solm the chapter two.

Can you imagine that Jesus has to pray, you know, Jesus.

It's interesting, but Jesus took on a flesh and blood

earth suit, and it says in Philippians chapter two that

he set aside his divinity, and he took on the

form of humanity. And as he took on the form

of humanity, then and and and and became a servant.

Then it was in that place that he became a

friend of God and a partner with God, and even

even a prayer warrior. Think about that Jesus prayed. That

message was your theology right there. Why would Jesus need

to pray for the will of the Father? The prayer

Jesus told us to pray was actually the primary prayer

that Jesus is praying. Matthew chapter six nine through eleven,

Thy Kingdom Come, Thy will be done on earth as

it is in heaven. This prayer that Jesus was praying

was actually it wasn't a foreign prayer. It's the prayer

that Jesus prayed before the Father. As he's hearing what

Father wants and desires, he says, I always do what

the Father desires. I'm always listening, you know. Isaiah fifty.

It talks about the prayer of Jesus. Isaiah fifty is

a prayer of Jesus, and it's the communion between him

and the Father. And it's a window in the communion

between him and the Father and Isaiah fifty and it

says that the Father opened his ear mourning by morning

and taught him and led him and coached him and

directed him, so that he would know what to say

and he would know what to pray. Think about that.

Think about that. We've got so much religiosity in our thinking.

Of that religiosity, what I mean is we've got this

thinking that whatever God wants to do, he's going to

get done anyway. We've heard in so many of our

theological circles, either we've caught it or it's been taught

to us, and sometimes more is caught than taught, that

God is sovereign and he's just going to do what

he wants to do. But God is always looking for

a people who agree with him in the earth, because

he's given us. He's given us dominion in the earth,

and he's given us dominion over the earth. And then

Jesus became the supreme man, the victorious second Adam, so

that in his humanity he has actually become one like

us who's received dominion and authority in the earth. So

we can either partner with Jesus and what he wants

to bring into the earth and what he wants to accomplish,

or we can partner with the demonic realm. This is

why our prayers are so important. This is why our

declarations are so important. This is why this twenty one

days is so important. This is why the model of

Daniel is so important. Is because in God's sovereignty, God

has a sovereign will and a sovereign expression and a

sovereign desire. But he always partners with people to bring

that to pass. And he partners with people through prayer,

through prayer, through agreement, through humility, through desire, through yearning.

We yearn, we desire for his will, We yearn, we

desire to know what he wants. We yearn we desire

to yield to him. And then we come into agreement

with him and we partner with him in the spirit realm.

And all of that is through our words. And in

twenty twenty Satan tried to silence the church. He's still

trying to silence the church. He's still trying to silence you.

What disillusionment have you listened to? What disillusionment have you

partnered with over your participation in prayer? When we talk

about when we talk about thirty minutes three times a day, Like,

does that like go over your head? Does that go

in one ear and out the other? Does that hit

your heart and bounce right off? Like can you see

yourself embracing that? Or have you received and come under

the influence of this sovereign thinking God's just gonna do

what he wants to do? And what good am I?

And what is my role? And what good would it

be for me to be involved? Or have you come

under maybe the influence of some disillusionment? Oh, I tried

that before. I've prayed before, I've prayed in the past.

I've taken a little bit of time for that in

the past. Really nothing much happened. I really don't think

that it really paid off. I think, I think, and

then we mix the two of those together, a little disillusionment,

a little sovereignty. I think God just gonna do what

he wants to do. Anyway, it's not really good. Now.

What's crazy is Satan is smarter than that. Satan knows

that the power of the spirit realm is agreement. Satan

doesn't have power outside of agreement. It's agreement that moves darkness.

It's agreement. It's vocal, verbal breath filled agreement that moves darkness.

That's what moves darkness. Proverbs eighteen twenty one. Death and

life are in the power of the tongue. Death is

in the power of the tongue. Death is in the

power of the tongue. He had Matthew sixteen nineteen before

Jesus did. Satan had Matthew sixteen nineteen before Jesus did.

Whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound. Whatsoever you

loose on earth to be loosed. Satan had already spent

thirty five hundred years or more working through the tongues

of the nations to bind up righteousness and to loose wickedness.

And as the prince of the power of the air,

it was working really well. And it was working so

well that every nation except one was under his spell.

And the nation that wasn't under his spell, or the

people of God, or Israel or Judah and Israel, they

were up and down constantly under the spell of darkness, liberated,

under liberated, under liberated. The power of agreement was working.

But then a greater one came, and he said, if

I come and I bind the strong man, then there's

going to be a people who can plunder his house.

There's going to be a people who can plunder his house.

But the people that plunder his house are not a

silent people. That's why Satan loves silent churches. We think

a silent church is a pious church, that's what we've

been taught religiously, but Satan knows it's a dead church.

A silent church is a dead church. The power is

in the agreement of your voice, the agreement of your

voice with God's word and God's will and God's desire

and God's heart and God's heart over you, and God's

heart over your family, and God's heart over the nations.

This is where the power is. So even Jesus praid,

it's recorded Psalm two, verse eight, ask of me for

the nations as your inheritance. Even the ends of the

earth ask of me, ask of me, ask of me.

That prayer is still the prayer that's on our lips,

that prayer that Jesus brought, it's still a prayer that's

on our lips today. Father, give the son the Nations.

He's worthy, Father of the Nations. Have you looked in

your rear view mirror. He's giving. He's giving he's giving

the Son all the nations. Saturday morning we woke up

to a new nation given to the Son. There's more coming,

there's more coming, there's more liberty coming. There's more liberation coming.

There's more freedom coming. And he's using this crazy Cyrus.

He's using this crazy Cyrus. Isaiah forty five, Trump forty five.

This is what the Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus,

whose right hand I take hold of? This is Isaiah

one hundred and fifty years before Cyrus ever was born.

Isaiah had a vision of Cyrus before Cyrus was born.

Isaiah had a vision of Cyrus before the seventy years

of captivity. Eighty years before the captivity started. Isaiah had

a vision of Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold

of the subdue nations before him, and the stripped kings

of their armor to open doors before him so that

gates will not be shut. I will go before him

and level the mountains, and break down the gates of

bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give

you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that

you may know that I am the Lord. We are

in for the biggest ride that has been seen thus far.

You're living in the craziest generation that the globe has

seen in generations. I'm talking about you're going to see

in the rear view mirror in another four, five, six,

eight years things that you maybe haven't even dreamed about,

because even your dreams need sanctified. Hello, somebody, but if

you would dream with God, come on, We're gonna shed

all pessimism as we move into this fast. We're gonna

shed this illusionment. We're gonna shed pessimism, We're gonna shed unbelief.

Let's dream with God as we move into this fast.

Let's dream for great things in the nation and then

the nation. Let's believe God to do miraculous things. We

are living in a great outpouring of Holy Spirit. And

the word that Bob Jones saw and gave in nineteen

eighty and then repetitively until he died. He died on

Valentine's Day of twenty fourteen. That word is coming to pass.

That word is coming to pass. Let's stand this morning,

and your prayers are so central, your prayers are so central.

I want to read to you Isaiah sixty two. It's

a little portion of Isaiah's sixty two. If you're unfamiliar,

the Daniel Fast is based on Daniel's pursuit of God

through this vegetarian diet. And this happened with Daniel often.

It happened in chapter one, it happened in chapter nine,

it happened in chapter ten. I think it happened here

and there in between. Right, So Daniel, chapter ten is

actually where he's serving under Cyrus, the same king that

we just read about, And that's where he is in

prayer for twenty one days with this fast, this vegetarian fast,

and God comes through Gabriel and brings him answers. And

I encourage you to read those passages, especially chapter nine,

chapter ten. Maybe start your fast that way. This week,

we've got a couple days before the eighth of the month,

and so we've got time to get our kitchen ready,

get our hearts ready, do a little bit of Bible reading,

kind of prepare ourselves. But I want you to hear

Isaiah sixty two. These are things that Daniel knew. These

are things that the men of old knew so important.

They didn't view God as sovereign insomuch that he would

do things without them. They viewed that his sovereignty was

hinged on their partnership. That his sovereign expression and his

sovereign desire and his heart felt desire for the nation

or the nations was hinged on their partnership. And so

listen even to what God is doing with Zion and

the Zion to come and Jerusalem. It's all moved through

the prayers of the saints Isaiah sixty two, verse one.

For Zion's sake, I will not keep silent. For Jerusalem's sake,

I will not remain quiet until her vindication shines out

like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch. The

nations will see your vindication and all the King's your glory,

and you will be called by a new name, that

the mouth of the Lord will be stowed, and you

will be a crown of splendor in the Lord's hand,

a royal diadem in the hand of your God. No

longer will they call you deserted or name your land desolation.

But you will be called Hesbalah, and your land Beulah, beautiful, beautiful,

And the Lord will take delight in you, and your

land will be married as a young man marries a

young virgin. But I want you to see this the

way it starts. For Jerusalem's sake, I will not remain

silent or quiet for Jerusalem's sake. I will not keep

silent for Jerusalem's sake. I will not remain quiet until

her vindication shines out like the dawn it goes on.

You know, there's a part of that. It says you

that understand God's heart, God's desire, and God's will. Give

yourselves no rest, give yourselves no rest until He establishes

Jerusalem and makes her a praise. Would you put up

your hands this morning and just let's receive grace today

to enter into what this season will have for us

personally and for the kingdom. Lord, we just received grace

this morning. I want you to see yourself just receiving

from him right now. Lord. We don't want rigor, we

don't want impossible work. We don't want burdens that are

man made. We don't want any type of asceticism. Lord.

We're not coming to you because we're not accepted or

we're not worthy. We're coming as sons and daughters. We're

coming as royalty, and we want a partner. With this season.

We want to leverage the kingdom forward. We want to

be your instruments of glory. We want to hear clearly

from you, and we want to partner with you with

our words our mouth. We choose not to be a

silent church, a quiet church. We will not be muzzled.

We will not be gagged, we will not be quieted,

we will not be silenced. Thank you for your word

in our mouth. As we draw near to you in fasting,

Holy Spirit, we welcome your word. Meet us with understanding

like we've never had, Meet us with revelation like we've

never had. Fill our hearts in the season, with all

that you desire and all that you're up to. We

receive it from you in Jesus' name. And everybody said, mh,

just give him a thank offering this morning. Church. Come on,

come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

Hallelu your Lord, Halleluyah. Win the nation's Lord, Win, the

nation's Lord, Win, the Nation's Lord. H