How and why you pray for California

by | Jan 23, 2020 | Christianity Today | 24 comments

You may be sitting on the beach in Florida. You may be prepping your property for winter in Maine. You may be fighting traffic in Chicago. The furthest thing from your mind is to pray for California.

Nevertheless, California looms over you and those you love like the sword of Damocles. The seething progressives who run this state zealously seek to overthrow the United States and the Judeo-Christian ethic. Doubt this to your own peril.

And make no mistake about their power to overthrow our nation. Modern times have never seen anything like California. It is the fifth largest economy in the world.  It has only one political party. It is dominated by a handful of billionaires who bitterly despise your values. They are demonically unified. They have a plan to force their agenda on you, and the means to carry it out.

Don’t believe the blather about California wanting to secede from the United States. It’s quite the opposite. They want to become the pattern for all the other United States. Those in power plan to export their brand of socialism, green planet, climate change theory, anti-family, gender confused, progressive social justice, anti-Christian, pro-abortion ideology to the other 49 states.  They want to be the engine that drives our way of life. They don’t want to go off and do their own thing. They want to barge into your life and dictate every iota of your existence.

The trifecta of technology, entertainment, and education guarantees that California will have an outsized influence on your life—like it or not. What they have done so far is nothing compared to what they want to do, and how they plan to do it. That is why we need to pray!

Praying for California to have a revival and praying against the California satanic agenda is praying for your freedom and your children’s future.

 

Now let’s talk about how to pray for California. Let me tell you the story of how I learned to pray.

I was saved on October 4th 1964 in a small Free Methodist Church located at 3811 Mission St, San Francisco. The pastor, George Norsworthy began a 30 day fast the night I was born again. He discerned something.

God used him to forge the way I pray. The way he prayed made me want to pray the same way. I am certain that the way Jesus prayed overwhelmed the disciples until they blurted out, “Teach us to pray.” His answer is what we know as the Lord’s Prayer.

But two truths have guided my prayer life like no others.  The first one is found in Mark 11:24, “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”

The second one is in Luke 18:1, “Now Jesus was telling the disciples a parable to make the point that at all times they ought to pray and not give up and lose heart.”

The essence of prayer is this: You must believe absolutely that you will get what you ask, and you must keep asking no matter what happens. Everything else is just a superficial attempt. Combine these two forces in prayer and you will see miracles happen.

So here is what we are going to do. We are going to believe absolutely and irrevocably for a miracle in California, and we are never going to stop until that miracle comes. That is what I am doing, so thank you in advance for praying with me!  I know that if we all pray intensely for California, God will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Remember: “The Lord does not delay and is not slow about what He promises…but He is extraordinarily patient toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn and repent.” (2 Peter 3:9)

P.S. I want to especially thank you for praying for our 6 tent crusades in California

 

 

 

24 Comments

  1. megagenius

    Let there be a Gospel Earthquake in California. Let Mario’s Tent Meetings go Nuclear in the Spirit. Let the Fear of God saturate California. Let God arise and His enemies be scattered in Jesus Name. Amen

    • Carolina

      I just want to say to California House Representative Adam Schiff…

      YOU’VE HAD 7 YEARS AS AN ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE 28TH DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA TO DO YOUR JOB…SEVEN YEARS TO SEE TO IT THAT ALL THE AREAS WIHTIN YOUR DISTRICT ARE BENEFITTED BY YOUR OFFICE. INSTEAD YOU’VE CHOSEN TO DEGRADE AND DEMEAN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND HIS VOTERS, AND TO CARRY ON A FARCICAL CHARADE IN ORDER TO IMPECH A DUELY ELECTED MAN THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE VOTED IN, WANTED AND WILL VOTE IN AGAIN.
      YOU MR SCHIFF ARE A DISGRACE TO YOUR STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND YOU ARE ALSO A DISGRACE TO THIS NATION. AS YOU CONTEND DAILY WITH ALL YOU’VE GOT FOR THIS IMPEACHMENT HOAX ON INTERNATIONAL TV, YOU SHOULD BE INSTEAD AT YOUR POST IN CALIFORNIA HELPING TO “CLEAN UP” THE MESS YOU AND YOUR KIND HAVE CREATED THERE.
      INSTEAD YOU JUST STEP OVER THE HUMAN EXCREMENT IN YOUR OWN BACK YARD, AS YOU DRIVE AWAY (in your limousine) AND GO DIRECT TO THE MEDIA CAMERAS TO CONTINUE YOUR BLATANT OFFENSE AGAINST THE BONA FIDE PRESIDENT OF OUR NATION.
      YOU ARE IN DRAMATIC EXTREME ERROR AND IT IS YOU MR SCHIFF WHO MUST BE IMPEACHED AND REMOVED!!!
      ??

      • Bobbie

        Mario: Please do NOT forget they want to kill your Children and we are all God’s kids no matter what age. Also, read the comments: https://bthenetwork.com/2019/12/20/hes-coming-for-the-children-2/. Whatever EVIL was behind “13 Reasons Why” and Santa Clarita Diet”, etc., as Hitlerism has been here for sometime. Battle Hymn by John Scura/Dane Phillips was a disgusting read for agenda and if that doesn’t make you mad as Hell and get off your derriere and suck carpet and or stone as in PRAY YOUR FACE OFF along with “The Market of Evil and How Evil Works, Snapping of the American Mind” by David Kupelian. The Planned Destruction of America by Dr. James Wardner. Prozac by Ann Blake Tracy beyond disgusting of death and murder in the guise of prescription drugs as she is tying in all school shootings to prescription pills; very disturbing read that is being allowed as “dark side of a pill” documentary confirms. William Cooper, Nick Begich many mentioned before. Evil commercial proclaiming: “something wicked this way comes”! ABSOLUTELY NOT ON ALL OUR WATCH. You do not want Sodom and Gomorrah; Spirit of Herod over the U.S.A. and whatever Satanic EVIL they have planned, NOT AT ALL. Set everything aside and Pray, speak the Word like NEVER BEFORE! Exit your dead churches, run.

        Carolina: Thank you for proclaiming the above; Ezekiel 18:23; 33:11; 2 Peter 3:9. Raise up Armies of Rebukers! “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”! 2 Chronicles 7:14.
        Pray for Leaders that God shows up and reveals himself however they can be apprehended, revelation of. That they know there is an Almighty God! Blues Brothers comes to mind “On a Mission from God”; Apostle Paul’s experience.

    • Laura

      Amen!

    • Sabra Garcia

      Yes, adding this prayer to my prayers?✝️?

  2. petergatekeeper

    I had that burden to Pray for what you are doing for weeks now especially after getting my stroke Peter

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    • Kevan Prati

      Peter, God’s blessings on you for praying for the Highway 99 revivals. It seems the stroke put you in a place of no distractions letting you focus like a laser in prayer.
      Now the Lord says to you, do not claim as your own what was sent as a fiery dart from the enemies of God. That stroke isn’t yours; it is an arrow of the evil one and his legions. Let that breastplate of righteousness you wear rebuff this attack and in the name of Jesus let all effects of that stroke be nil in your life! Take up your bed, brother, and carry on your prayers for California!

    • Patricia Upton

      Have you heard of “The Awakening 209” they’re on Facebook, they’re based in California and like their title say they’re praying for an awakening for their home state…. California.

      Me and my family visited them back in 2016, we’re from the UK. We were made very welcome……. And the God did and revealed something really amazing…….. After years of seeking God for a new breed of church leadership (because what’s coming through needs one not just to sustain but taking it beyond any move of God we’ve ever seen in all of church history) …… This is the place The Awakening 209 CA where the Father actually showed me He’d answered that prayer!

  3. Mecca Stewart

    Thank you for every word you write! I too have a strong burden for California. I know that what California vote for spreads to the rest of the country. I have watched California and New York politics for years. Every bad law in America started in California or New York. I pray for the Christian who live in California. I live in North Carolina. Far from California. But California in never far from my thoughts. Thank you. Bless you in Jesus holy name! I will pray more for California to have a great revival.

  4. Laurie

    The saying is, “as California goes, so goes the nation.”
    I decree California is going to “flip” and serve Jesus Christ and advance the kingdom of God. All the sanctuary cities will be the first to flip for Christ and BECOME sanctuaries of the most holy, righteous and just Yahweh! Everywhere there has been a natural fire, a spiritual fire will ignite that cannot be extinguished! Lord, we, Your body, repent for the lives that have been murdered in the womb. Their blood cries out for justice. We declare a 7 fold return on those murdered in the United States, for their innocent blood demands justice and we declare that justice is an army of on-fire, Spirit-filled believers taking back ALL 7 MOUNTAINS of culture!! In Your mighty name, Jesus! Release the angel armies to implement these decrees. Download strategy and wisdom and discernment in how to apply the strategies and revelations. We await Your instructions, Lord!

    • Brenda Turner

      Yes…prayers for California!!

  5. Sherry

    Pastor, I will be joining you and others in prayer for California.

  6. D Williams

    Looking forward in anticipation to what God is going to do in California.

  7. Jeff ARENDT

    Brother Mario: Not fighting traffic here in Chicago land….this the winter snow & cold….tired of it. I pray for California each day, Isaiah 60: 1-5 especially. My heart’s desire is for us to relocate to SoCal, LA. It is true as Cali goes….so goes our nation. Check out Henry Falany’s book “GOD, GOLD, & GLORY “. All about GOD’s hand upon the Golden State, it’s Prophetic history, and it’s Destiny! HIS GLORY is going to ARISE AND SHINE ON CALIFORNIA!!!!
    !

  8. roger canary

    Great word, we are praying for you & California we believe Jesus.

  9. susanspalmer

    We are the ones who will prosper in your ‘Gold Rush’ Mario. It is SOULS, SOULS< SOULS. The greatest Gold in the Kingdom. Have two grands at Berkeley. Enough said. I will be utilizing your two-part prayer for Victory until we see it. There is the Prophetic about Revival, and then the Prophetic Intercessors ask for "MORE", and trevail on thru until this coast starts the Great Awakening for the whole nation. Yes we can. Yes we will! C'mon Daniel Generation (Dan. 1:4, 17 20). Choose one or more of these gatherings, pray and believe the Lord for the finances, be prayed up, and GO! Nation Builders for God.

  10. Mark Stripling

    I preached in a Texas prison this past weekend, and one of the three sermons was from Luke 18. Even men behind razor wire can change their families and kids back home if they will pray and refuse to give up or give in. And I hear the testimonies of those who pray, believe, and see God move!!! Jesus asked an important question here: will he still find faith when he comes, or will humanity have given up on prayer? Mostly folks have given it up, they don’t believe God will intervene anymore, they are too busy or occupied to pray, and they have been told to pray “thy will be done,” and let what happens, happen. Thanks for encouraging us all to fight, to pray, to stand in the gap, and not give up. The California demons are hungry to move their activities east!! We bind them in Jesus name and by his blood! And God give a Holy Ghost awakening and another Azuza Street and Jesus Movement revival in California!

  11. Connie Sherman

    Praying and believing God to work in saving and restoring California and what happens there will spill over the United States.

    On Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 1:30 AM Mario Murillo Ministries wrote:

    > mariomurilloministries posted: “You may be sitting on the beach in > Florida. You may be prepping your property for winter in Maine. You may be > fighting traffic in Chicago. The furthest thing from your mind is to pray > for California. Nevertheless, California looms over you and those yo” >

  12. Patricia Barnes

    Praying for your meetings in California!

  13. Rhonda

    As a Christian in California I THANK YOU for your prayers. Our beautiful state is an overwhelming mission field. I stand in prayerful agreement with my brothers and sisters in Christ here on this thread: May the eyes of those dragging our state down into the pit be OPENED to GOD’S TRUTH, that there would be REPENTANCE, and then HOLY RESTORATION. In HIS name, amen.

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