Newsletter: AMI Newsletter May 15, 2021

Posted: May 15, 2021

Author: AMI Newsletter | Created: May 15, 2021 at 08:37 PM

Greetings and Blessings dear friends and partners of AMI;

What an amazing time the Lord has placed us into to share the reasons for our hope and joy in a season so full of fear, trails, chaos and loss.

During the last year while sheltering in place, the ministry has continued to move forward using new technology and new opportunities to minister to the individual and large groups on Zoom. Both Greig Detering and Robert Bare have been busy this last year with this method of communications.

Robert Johnson has continued to be used locally and has seen the Lord orchestrate many divine appointments to minister followed by many types of miracles taking place.

For months now we have been getting a lot of requests for the Matthew 18:18 Prayer, and we are wanting to share it with you again including the stories behind it and some of the testimonies that came from it. So please enjoy this prayer, be Blessed and encouraged by it. And feel completely free to share this Newsletter if you are so moved by the Holy Spirit.

Also, at the end of the Newsletter we are including some information about the schedules and a recent message Robert Johnson delivered that people are requesting an opportunity to see.

Matthew 18:18 Prayer

Author: Robert A. Johnson

Matthew 18:18

"I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

I bind this day every demon that would come against me. Whatever I
bind on earth shall be bound, so I bind you foul spirits. I bind your mouth
shut that you will not be able to speak a word to me all day and throughout
the night also. I bind you demons of darkness from projecting your thoughts
to my thoughts. I bind your eyes closed that you cannot see. I bind your ears
that you cannot hear. I bind your hands, you foul spirits, that you cannot
touch. I bind your feet and they shall be bound and you shall be unable to
walk. I bind all forms of movement you use to move from one place to
another. I bind you demons of darkness that you cannot use other people,
circumstances, objects, things, events, or anything else against me today, and
I bind you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Whatever I do or
wherever I go, this day and throughout the night also, you will be bound.
Whatever I loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. I ask the mighty warrior
angels to remove the demons to a place where Jesus says to go. I ask the
angels of God to come inside and outside the house, and wherever I go this
day and throughout the night also. I pray a wall of fire (1) around my family
and myself and all that we have this day. I loose my mouth this day to be
seasoned with salt (2) in Jesus Christ. I loose my thoughts to be held captive
(3) to Jesus today. I loose my eyes (4) today to be a lamp unto my path.

I loose my ears (5) to hear what the Spirit of God says. I loose my hands (6)
to do the will of the Father in heaven. I loose my feet (7) to walk the narrow
path that leads to life. I loose this day all peoples and circumstances and all
things into your hands, Jesus, for no one can snatch (8) us out of your hands.
In Jesus' name, Amen.

Psalm 74:16 "The day is yours, and yours also the night."

(1) Zech 2:5 "And I myself will be a wall of fire around it," declares the Lord, "and I will be its glory within."

(2) Col 4:6 "Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to
answer everyone."

(3) 2 Cor 10:5 "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,
and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."

(4) Ps 119:105 "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path."

(5) Rev 2:7 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

(6) Ps 81:6 "He says, 'I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket: "

(7) Ps 25:15 "My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only He will release my feet from the snare."

Matt 7:14 "But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."

(8) John 10:28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand."

The Origins and or Stories behind this Prayer

Matthew 18:18 Prayer, 1st story of its origin.

– by Robert A. Johnson 

Many have requested the story that goes with the Matthew 18:18 prayer I previously posted. 

The year was 1991. I would often walk on a dirt road on our farm and that is where I would do much of my praying. I was preparing for a trip to Brazil and I had a question for God: How do I keep the enemy from putting his thoughts into my thoughts and speaking to me? Often on these walks I would be attacked in several ways. And I heard the Lord speak to me, “Use Matthew 18:18.” He said start with this, “I bind you demons of darkness from putting thoughts into my mind, and I bind you from speaking a word to me throughout the day and the night also.” I thought to myself how simple this was.  

That same day a friend came to my house and was going to walk with me, and I told him about what I had just heard, how to bind the enemy’s mouth from speaking and his thoughts from coming into our thoughts. And so, we began our walk.

Not far into our walk we were met by a man driving a Volvo car. He rolled his window down and began to speak loudly and curse wildly. This man continued to do this, speaking nonsense out of his mouth, and I looked at him and said, “We have to go now.” So, the man drove off in his car. There was a picnic table not far from there. The man got out of his car, stood on the picnic table and continued to shout and curse. My friend and I looked at each other and wondered what just happened. How was it even possible? We continued our walk to the end of the dirt road. We got to the end and turned around to start our journey back. The whole walk was approximately one-mile long. On our way back, we came to a big dip in the dirt road. In front of me I saw a vision of a giant mirror. When you look in a mirror you can see what’s behind you. My friend was praying at the time and I saw this creature walking beside him. It had a lizard body with a frog head. This demon had its eyes looking at my friend’s eyes, his hands reaching out towards him, he walked as he walked and tilted his ear to hear what he was saying. I thought I was imagining things, so I told my friend to stop praying. I said, “I want to pray right now.” As soon as I began to pray, this demon walked over to me and began to watch my lips as I spoke, tilting his head to hear what I was saying, walking and reaching out toward me. A very ugly looking creature. I thought to myself, is this true what I’m seeing? So, I asked my friend to start praying again. Immediately the creature moved over to him. Without my friend’s knowledge of anything I turned around and I pointed my finger at this demon, and I said to this demon, “I see you.” He just looked at me like, “No you don’t see me.” My friend in the meantime is looking at me and thinking I am nuts! And then I took two steps forward and I pointed my finger right in the demon’s face and I said, “I SEE YOU.” The demon’s eyes became very big and then I said, “I call fire from heaven to strike you.” The demon began to move out across the field from where we were at and I said, “Lord, open my friend’s eyes that he may see.” My friend said, “Robert – I see smoke. I see smoke! What in the world is happening here?” And then I began to explain to my friend, as we walked back to my house, what had taken place.

After explaining to him what he had seen, I asked the Lord, “How did all of this happen? The man in the Volvo car? The creature beside us?” Then the Holy Spirit spoke, “Did you notice when the demon was walking behind you, he didn’t speak? No thoughts were coming from his thoughts to your thoughts. But he was watching you, he was listening to your conversation, he was reaching out to touch you and he was walking along beside you. The Lord said, “I allowed this to happen. So now you must bind not only their thoughts and words, but from them looking at you, listening to your conversations, reaching out and touching you, walking up to you. You must bind even their movements from one place to another.”  I said, “What about the man in the Volvo car?” He said, “You must bind the enemy from using people, circumstances, events, objects and things. Bind them this day and throughout the night, wherever you go and whatever you do. The day is yours and the night also.”

Stay tuned for further posting of the true stories that go along with this prayer after it was given and spoken...

Matthew 18:18 Prayer, CJ's Story

-by Robert A. Johnson

In continuation of the Matthew 18:18 prayer and story of its origin, I would like to now share with you some stories on the effects of the prayer in people’s lives.

Before we give the first story, this prayer is not a magic formula. The intention is not for it to become a ritual, but I believe it’s a tool the Lord has shown me and has been effective in helping people.

Not long after I had the Matthew 18:18 prayer complete, the Lord told me to give it to a woman at our church. We will call her “CJ.” For many years she was full of fear, anxiety, and could not be left alone and was often found in the church underneath the tables curled up in a ball. For a long period of time several of us would do deliverance with her to try and set her free.  One by one people stopped trying to help her. Everybody was worn out. The Lord told me to go to the church and give CJ this prayer, have her read it out loud before she goes to bed and He would do the rest. Upon meeting her, I explained to her about the prayer. I told her when she went home that night, before going to bed, speak this prayer out loud.

A few days later, I walked into the church, and CJ saw me. She ran out to meet me, began to hug me and cry. She said, “I slept all through the night. The voices are gone. I have no fear. I’m well, I’m ok. Everything is good!” She continued to jump up and down saying she had never experienced such freedom. And then CJ said, “It was so simple.”

As time went on CJ began to travel. She would even get on a jet and fly off for a vacation. And later she even got married! And she has never been the same since.

Would you like to hear another one?

Several years ago, I took a friend with me on one of my trips to Brazil. We went to the city of Sao Paulo and to a home of one of my contacts, a pastor who was originally from Germany, but had lived in Brazil a very long time.

I presented Pastor G this prayer and asked him what he thought. He said he’d never seen anything like it. I asked him to help me get this into the Portuguese language. He agreed and put it in German as well. His daughter was present, and she typed it for me. As she finished typing the prayer, both looked the prayer over to see if everything was ok. One sentence was not on the paper. His daughter thought she must have just missed it when typing. She typed the prayer again. They looked the prayer (second time) over and found the same sentence was missing again. Pastor G and his daughter looked at each other and were dumbfounded. This is not possible, they thought. She typed it, yet this sentence was still missing. They said maybe we needed to pray this prayer out loud first, before trying a third time. Now here is the missing sentence: Wherever I go this day and throughout the night also. (Ps 74:16) After praying the prayer, the missing sentence was now on the paper. The significance, I found for myself, when I’m traveling, going through different time zones, whatever I’m binding, wherever I’m going, the day is mine and the night also. And the enemy knows it and absolutely cannot stand for me to speak those words. There must be something in this small sentence that brings such a disturbance.

To be Continued…

Matthew 18:18 Prayer, and Testimonies

-by Robert A. Johnson

2 Corinthians 2:11 (NIV) ¹¹ in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

Why do we need to be concerned about the schemes of the devil?

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (NIV) ³ For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. ⁴ The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. ⁵ We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

These scriptures make it obvious that we must demolish the arguments, and everything set up against the knowledge of God. Is God more powerful? Absolutely! But He also doesn’t want the enemy to outwit us.

Now – picking up from the previous story about Pastor G. in Brazil – I took a good friend with me and met with Pastor G. We were to drive through the great city of Sao Paulo. We were going to a pastor’s house, though I would say he was more of an apostle than anything else. We’ll call him Pastor S.

Pastor S. had the Matthew 18:18 prayer given to him several years earlier. As we were driving there, Pastor G. brought up the Matthew 18:18 prayer. He said, “I don’t know if it really works very well.” I asked him why he thought that. “Some things just keep happening to me and my church.” I explained that if you have open doors into your life, and you don’t close them, the enemy can still get access to you from time to time.

When we arrived at Pastor S.’s house, we sat down for a meal. After sitting down for 5 minutes, Pastor S. spoke to me about the Matthew 18:18 prayer. He said, “We don’t start any new churches, without starting them with this prayer first. We go in against the voodoo and the witchcraft and we have learned to pave the road first, so that the enemy doesn’t outwit us.” He went on to say, “We have 5 churches now with over 1000 people each and 2 new churches that have just been started a short time ago with about half that amount and we have seen the results of people being set free. Every Pastor of all these churches have incorporated this prayer and we have found that when they don’t feel like they need to do this, the trouble creeps in. The people have taken it very seriously.”

We talked for a while and had a good time and then began the long drive back to Pastor G.’s house. On the way back to his house, Pastor G. asked me this question. “Do you think I can get another copy of the prayer?” I paused, didn’t say anything, and then I answered, “I’ll have to think about it.” Pastor G. got the point.

Also, in the country of Brazil, outside the city of Sao Paulo, at a place called the Valley of Blessing, there was the beginning of an orphanage and a place that sent people out all over the world. I was invited to go there and speak. I had a good friend with me and before we walked into the building my friend said, “This prayer of yours, I believe, is going to go around the world.”

We walked into the building and it was full of people. We did not realize all these people had just come home from all over the world to gather at the Valley of Blessing. I was holding the prayer in my hand, in Portuguese, ready to go. As my interpreter was translating my message about the story behind this prayer, she stopped and looked at me and her eyes became very big. Here the people are waiting to hear the next sentence and she’s talking to me in English saying she had never heard anything like this before. When the message was finished, I held up the copy of the prayer to the people and said, “Now it’s up to you to do what you need to do with it.” One person walked up, and I handed the prayer to him and the interpreter spoke to me and said that that person was going to make many copies of the prayer and that as you look at all these people, they represent many, many countries. Each person knows that language well and so this prayer would be translated into many languages and distributed as they went back to these countries. I could tell the people were moved deeply in spirit and very sincere.

I hope you enjoyed these stories. There are many more to be told. Stay tuned!

We want to remind you if you have not heard from anyone from AMI for a while and you want to know what the ministry is up to, check out the Schedule on AMI’s Communications page:

https://www.amormi.org/public/index.php?page=13

We will always do our best to keep it and you up to date, and we do not remove the events as they have been completed so there will be a history maintained for people to see.

Robert Johnson recently spoke at The Gathering on Sunday, April 25, 2021. If you missed it, you would find it at AMI’s Communications page, Social Media:

https://www.amormi.org/public/index.php?page=228

or AMI’s Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/AMIAmorMinistriesInternational

God Bless you and keep you and yours.