Mary Ann's Blog: Kingdom Seekers

March 22, 2015 Prophecy given by Pastor Mary Ann Wray Sunday Morning And the spirit of the Lord would say, this is how I build a house. With living stones, some of which have been badly burned. But I build it unto a lively priesthood. And these stones are being washed and they’re being buffed but  they are being compiled together to build my house in this city, in this region my way, not man’s way. And because I build a house your labor is not in vain and because I have been keeping watch over this city for decades and I have not been happy and I have not been pleased with the condition of my house and for this reason the Lord says, I breathe upon this place, I breath upon this place called the Rock Columbus.  I breath my breathe of life upon this house upon this Rock and I will build my church and I am building my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against my church. Because my church is made up of living stones; men and women and children and cross gene...

The Wonderful Diversity of the Holy Spirit... By Pastor Mary Ann Wray "There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work." 1 Corinthians 12: 4-6 The Lord has been opening up this passage to me more and giving me additional insight as I've been gleaning from a variety of different types of ministries over the years and even more so recently. What I see is that within each type of spiritual gift/ gifting, an individual operates in that gift in a variety of ways i.e., government gifts: Apostle, prophet, pastor, teacher, evangelist along with the 9 spiritual gifts (prophecy, tongues, interpretation of tongues, words of wisdom, words of knowledge, discerning of spirits, healings, miracles and faith) and the 7 motivational gifts (prophesying, serving, , teaching, exhortation/ encoura...

A Disciple Revival! By Pastor Mary Ann Wray Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19 I was saved in the 1970’s during the Jesus Movement and Charismatic Renewal. Raised as a Roman Catholic I had no clue what having a personal relationship with Jesus meant, much less the reality of the Holy Spirit. God apprehended me in a Catholic Charismatic prayer meeting and my life was forever changed! Back then, a lot of emphasis was placed on discipleship and small groups. I thank God for that because I don’t think I would have survived the following years without this as a foundation in my life. I believe that discipleship started to lose its emphasis and become somewhat of a ‘lost art’ in the 1980’s with the onset of televangelism, Word of Faith and Healing Ministries. This is not to say these things were wrong; I believe they were part of great moves of the Spirit and church res...