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Morning Prayer Summary for Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Pastor Ken…
Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to Morning Prayer.
Pressing onto the next level in God…
As we continue here with prayer, I just want to remind you of a passage in Philippians 3:12 in the New Living Translation. It states, “I do not mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection, but I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. No dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it…” or I have not arrived, you could say. We’ll never arrive in this lifetime in our relationship with Him and all there is to see and all there is to know about Him because there’s always another facet, another side, a next level to God to His purpose and meaning for our lives and what He intends to bring through us.
It goes on to say…
“No dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it. But I focus on this one thing: forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead. I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God through Christ Jesus is calling us.”
2026 is a year of movement…
So I pray that’s a word for you this morning. I know there’s some things in the back of my mind that I need to let go of and forget that I might move forward. God intends for 2026 to be a year of movement, of moving forward and taking ground for Him, for His kingdom, in our own lives. Because there’s a next level. There’s another level. And God deals with His people. He deals with us individually because He intends to take us higher. He intends to take us to the next level of what He has prepared for us…
As a church
As individuals
For our families
For every aspect of our lives
Is that good news?
That’s good news. The last time I checked, my Bible still says that God intends for us to be those who experience the goodness of God in the land of the living. He intends to not only watch over but to perform that promise that He spoke to you, that dream that He dropped into your heart. He’s going to bring it to pass. The good work He’s begun here at Living Word, He will continue and He will bring it to a next level and even a flourishing finish. If we’re going to believe in the Word of God this morning. The work He’s begun in you, in your household, in your calling, He’s going to bring it to a next level in 2026.
Can you agree with that? Does that resonate with anybody this morning? Faith is a matter of agreeing with what God has said to us through His written Word and to our hearts, our spirits by His Holy Spirit. It’s agreeing and saying the same thing…
In our faith decrees
In our prayers of intercession
In our worship
In our everyday going around doing what we do conversations
The enemy does not have an antidote to gratitude…
Your words unlock the treasure chest, the storehouses of heaven. Your confession of faith, your words in prayer, your worship, your thanksgiving, your gratitude. The enemy does not have an antidote to gratitude, by the way. He doesn’t know what to do with it or with worship, for that matter. It sends out a frequency that paralyzes him and repels him and sends him backwards. And at the same time, that frequency of gratitude and worship and praise and prayer also unlocks what God intends to do in our lives, in our areas of responsibility, in our families. Amen.
Your words are either working for you or against you…
You were created a speaking spirit after the image of God for a reason, that you and I might be creative entities, creative beings like our Heavenly Father, able to set spiritual laws in motion. The law of faith, for example, that God would get His way in our lives, in our church, in our city, in our nation. Your words are either working for you or they’re working against you. Not just in prayer. But as you go about your day and everything that you say.
Jeannie Wilkerson’s book, “Contact With God”
I want to read something just as some further reflection before we pray this morning. It comes from Jeannie Wilkerson’s book, “Contact With God.” And in a chapter where she talks about effective prayer, she says…
“You must keep striving to know even more of God. But don’t misunderstand me, you never get to the place where you have arrived, according to the Apostle Paul.”
Then in this other section, she says…
“Through prayer, we remain in continual contact with God. It is we, not God, who must create the right atmosphere for heaven’s work on earth. We must bring God to the people.”
We do that with our words, with our prayers.
She says…
“So often we want someone else to bring God’s presence into a certain place, but every one of us is a divine repository of God’s presence. God is a melting pot and consuming fire. And when we have been in His presence, something should emanate from us that attracts people. People should not need to be begged or cajoled to come to God. Rather, they should cry out, ‘What must we do to be saved?’
Pastor Ken comments…
I believe we’re entering a season and a time, perhaps much like the first and the second great awakenings where people cried out, “Send a minister, send a chaplain, that we might come to faith in this Christ that we are sensing and witnessing in our hearts.”
We’re entering a time of a third great awakening…
People would just be taken over by conviction those far from Jesus and would repent. And we’re entering in an into an hour of awakening once again. A third great awakening, at least in our nation. An hour of revival. Amen. And our prayers are integral in the purposes of God. Our prayers are integral in God getting His way. We’re here not for our agenda. We’re here to seek the face of our Heavenly Father, to seek His heart, to know what He has on His agenda, that we might articulate that in the spirit and in our understanding. Because in that process of prayer, God mobilizes and positions us as a pipeline. Or I like to say a “portal” through which God is able to…
Invade earth
Invade hearts
Invade lives
Invade churches
Invade cities
Invade whole nations with His plans, with His power, with His glory… because we pray.
Ms. Wilkerson goes on to quotes and references a passage in Isaiah 64 where it says…
“And there is none that calleth upon Thy name, that stirreth up him or herself to take hold of you…” to take hold of more of God, in other words.
And she goes on to say…
“As I have mentioned before, Israel’s sin was that of not praying. As we see in Isaiah 64. Even though they met all the requirements of the law and had all the promises of God, they did not exercise the right privilege and function of prayer. Therefore, they suffered the consequences. But it didn’t have to be that way. They could have enjoyed the manifestation of God’s promises if they had come to Him in prayer.”
It’s been said that your life or the plan of God for your life, for that matter, will only go as far as your prayer life.
She says…
“Remember that when you come to God, you are coming to the most powerful being in the universe. And when He begins to use His power against your problems, they must do one of two things: bend or break. You see, prayer is a channel by which one can reach the most powerful listening audience—God. Therefore, when you set out to pray and believe to see God’s promises fulfilled, don’t give up. You’re getting in touch with the power of God. And so don’t let obstacles turn you back. David said, ‘I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and turned not again until I had consumed them.’ The Bible says if thou faint or give up in the day of adversity, your strength is small (Psalm 24:10). When the enemy tries to discourage you, don’t let him.”
Pastor Ken interjected…
I was reminded last night that the Christian life is a life of resistance. You must choose to resist temptation. You are not living for a place to come into God’s good graces. No. The grace of God and the good news of the Gospel reminds us that we have been brought into a place, that we’re not living for something. We’re living from something. And as well, we are praying from something, from a place in God today that according to the writings of the Apostle Paul in Ephesians is a joint seating, a co-heir seating with Christ in heavenly places, endowed once again with authority, with the right to the use of the name of Jesus, cloaked in righteousness.
And that’s good. Pastor Lynne has taught us that through the years. It’s good to remind yourself who you are, the “new you” that is. There must be an identity shift on the inside of us if we’re going to be effective in prayer, if we’re going to wield the Word and the power of God skillfully to make a difference and to shift the course of men and women’s lives. Because that’s what prayer does. It assigns and it delegates the power of God to situations, to atmospheres, to people’s lives that there might come transformation according to the will of God… in hearts, in minds, in families, in churches, in nations.
Hudson Taylor quote…
I believe it was Hudson Taylor many years ago stated, “When we work, we work.” In other words, we’re limited to our human abilities. “But when we pray, God works.” He wasn’t saying we don’t work. He’s saying prayer ought to be our priority and viewed from our daily perspective as our sacred and most high assignment and calling.
Jesus created the template…
That was the template Jesus laid down in the gospels as recorded. He prayed and sought the Lord first and foremost, and then He walked out the Father’s plan as He heard it and saw it in His secret place with His Heavenly Father. That’s the template He intends all of us to follow.
Ms. Wilkerson goes on to say…
“When the enemy tries to discourage you, don’t let him. Instead be encouraged to do what Nehemiah did after his city, Jerusalem, was destroyed. He returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the wall. His writings indicate that he came against the enemy with prayer. Nehemiah said, ‘Nevertheless, we made our prayer unto our God and set a watch against them day and night because of them.’
“If you want to prevent your enemies from overtaking you, then you too must remember to pray as a watchman on the wall. And as an heir of the New Covenant, you have the added power of praying in the Spirit. The Bible says if you go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then you shall blow an alarm and a trumpet and you shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies (Numbers 10:9). That is a picture of praying in the spirit. Praying in the spirit is one of the strongest weapons you can use against the enemy. And God told His people to blow an alarm with trumpets when they went to war. Well, what is your trumpet? It is your voice, of course! And you must use it. Lift up your voice in the spirit and your doubts, fears, and discouragements will be left behind.”
