Morning Prayer Notes for Tuesday, November 30, 2021

  1. “Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist

Pastor Ken…

Welcome everyone. I’m just gonna open us up here with prayer and welcome everybody online. I just wanted to say too that if you haven’t already checked out our prayer movement webpage, I encourage you to do that. Go to theprayermovement.com and check it out. In addition, there’s an opportunity to join our prayer movement Facebook group. And we’re just started to grow that group. Pastor Lynne has done some videos and we’re going to be more videos. And so we’ll be sharing those there in that Facebook group. But you can join that by going to theprayermovement.com.

Opening prayer…

Heavenly Father, we just thank you today for a great opportunity just to get with you during this designated time that we come every day. Lord, we thank you that this is never old. We open our hearts and lives to you this morning. And, Lord, we just invite you. We welcome you, Holy Spirit. Apart from you, we can do nothing, but with you, we can do all things that pertain to our lives and what you want to do in the earth in this hour. So we just yield to you today. We just offer up our time, our attention, turn our affections on you this morning. Lord, we just thank you that you’re here with us. And we pray that whether we’re online or in this chapel, that you would just supernaturally breathe on us and bring us together collectively for your purpose and for what you want to do here today, in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Father.

Prayer for hunger…

We pray for hunger today, Lord… right here in our hearts, we pray for hunger…. spiritual hunger, Lord… Holy Spirit, we pray that you would activate that something on the inside of us that causes us to hunger and thirst and become utterly desperate for  you…

that causes us to turn from our strivings and our strugglings and our laboring in our own effort and willpower and to shift over to surrender and yieldedness and abandoning ourselves to you… knowing that only you are the one who makes the way.

Hunger for the Church…

And we pray for hunger today for the church here at Living Word. Our church online, the community that we connect with each morning. Those of you that are with us online, we pray and agree for hunger for you and for your churches and your communities today. But just in general, the state of the Church in America and around the world today… we lift it up to you, Lord. And we know that it’s just not right that we just go through the motions. We know it’s not right, that the Church stay in a place of stagnation. We pray Lord for hunger. We pray for the breathings of God upon the Church in this hour… that God would once again resuscitate and breathe upon your Church. Breathe upon churches… breathe upon families… If there would be a resuscitation and a reviving and a bringing back to life of the body of Christ in so many ways and places … including in the Charismatic and Pentecostal part of the body of Christ… we pray that you would breathe on it today… that the move of the Spirit, the things of the Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit would not be lost to this generation… but once again like you did on the day of Pentecost, like you did in the great Azusa Street Revival and many times since then, including the charismatic revival and movement of the late sixties and early seventies, Father…

A reviving and refreshing of the things of God to the generations…

We pray that there would come a reviving, a refreshing, a renewal, a bringing back to life of the things of God and the things that the Spirit in the Church … in our generation, Lord… not just in those of us who may be a little further on in years, but those who are young… we lift up the generations, Lord, not a generation, but the generations today. And we just pray, Lord, that you would once again impress upon the generations, the move of the Spirit … that you would stir in the hearts of churches and people, and children and teenagers and families… holy fire that hungers and desires something far greater than just going through a religious motion instead of a fire and a hunger and a desire that goes all out for God… for the things of the Spirit … that casts self-preservation and comfort to the side and says, “I want all of God, no matter what. I’m not afraid.  I’m not concerned. I just want God. I just want His Spirit. I just want to be filled with the oil and the wine of the Holy Ghost” …

I want to obey and go where God goes. I want to do what God does. I want to say what He says. I want to flow, flow, flow in the river in Jesus’ name… and so, Father, we pray that you would just stir and awaken the generations on this earth in this time to the fact that we’ve been born for such a time as this… and assigned to this earth at this time … that we would encounter the supernatural … that we would encounter the miraculous … that we would work with God… from a place called “in the spirit” … from an address called the eternal realm, the spirit realm, the secret place…

Call for supernatural awakenings in the nations…

And open up… we open up over America today… we open up over the nations today. We stand in agreement with you if you’re in Europe or Asia or South America or Central America on up into the Yukon, wherever you are… We stand with you together as a community. We stand and agree and pray for supernatural awakenings and openings in Jesus’ name… for God to come and revive and move … we lift up those moves of God that had been reserved for our generation. We lift up the plans and the purposes of God. Yes, even the secret things of God that are to come to you and to me, and to our churches in our generation, in our communities… that God holds in store that He holds at the ready and waits for His people to pray and waits for those who are called righteous to hunger and thirst… that they might be filled and experience all that you have prepared. So we just lift that to you today, Lord …

Prayer to break up fallow ground…

And so we just break up the fallow ground right now… just like a farmer plows the field in the fall… We just pray that there would be a plowing straight through our hearts today… those fallow places in our own souls, in our own hearts, in our spiritual journey right now in our churches, in our nation… we pray that there would come a plowing of the Spirit … to turn over the old, to prepare for the new… a turning over the soil for a preparing of some new things to be sown and new things to be grown…

Help us to come to the end of ourselves…

Help us, Father, to come to the end of ourselves… because that’s a good place to be … because that’s where we come to the beginning of God… we pray over America today and we stand in agreement with your nation today… that there will be a movement of holy discontent, an uncomfortableness with the routine of life… that there would be a searching in hearts… a hungering … a calling out in the deep in humans … in the church today … in believers and pray-ers today. A calling out that says, “God, there must be more” … a calling out of the pray-ers that there is intercession and supplication and earnest prayer and entreaty … a calling out of those far from Jesus to say, “There must be more. I want to know. Is there a God in heaven?” We pray, Lord, that there would be a holy discontent, a turning over of the soil of hearts and lives… in preparation, in movement, in momentum, in the direction of what you have now in this time….

Prayer for leaders of nations…

We lift up leaders today… the leadership in Washington, DC… in the nations of the earth… in the EU nations down into Africa, into Australia, up into Japan and Asia, and Russia and the Ukraine today. Oh, we lift up the Ukraine… cross over into Scandinavia and even Iceland… the Pacific islands, Father… open up, open up… we prepare the way and we declare an opening up… no matter how corrupt they may be today, no matter how far from God and how far from the truth and how deep in the darkness the leadership and governments might be… we pray that there would come a holy shaking and a holy blast of God to those offices of authority… whether they’re a democracy or something else… we pray for a shaking today… we pray that there would come a movement of God… to pray within those offices. Those that are believers, we lift them up to you. Those that are pray-ers who are strategically positioned in different offices of leadership, we lift them up to you today. And we pray that you would just cause them to stand up at attention even in the night and realize it’s time to pray for my leader… that there might come a sway of God, a movement, and an influence of God exerted on offices of authority in governments, in nations… Things can’t stay as they are going in the enemy’s direction… but today we pray for an exertion of the heavenly realm in the realm of authority in leadership today…

Word of Wisdom: Old leaders brought down and new leaders brought up

Now we pray for changes in certain governments… no, I don’t know which ones they are… but certain governments in certain nations … there’s going to come a change in a day… leadership is going to change out … one leader’s going to be brought down and new leaders are going to be brought up … a change, a holy anointed God-ordained change is coming to that nation and in that nation and in that nation… because the seeds of prayer have been sown… the blood of the martyrs of saints have been spilled … in some cases, hundreds of years before and that is the seed for change that will come in this final hour before the splitting of the eastern sky, before the wrapping up of all things, the culmination of the time and the catching away of the Church… that those nations would be sheep nations … those nations would be prepared for what’s coming next… prepare for the shift, prepare for the transition from one dispensation to another … prepared for judgment…

Prayer for an Awakening…

And this is all preparatory for what is coming on the scene and that is visitation… and holy fire … and revival … and awakening such as the world has not seen up until this point… for surely, Lord, you’re not going to come back with so many lost and broken and hurting without God … surely, Lord, just like Abraham interceded, so we intercede today… we intercede and say, Lord, you’re not going to come yet until there’s a great, great, great harvest … a great coming together of the Word and the Spirit… a great movement of God to sweep in souls…

Prayer for China…

I’m just seeing the heart of China today… I see people in the Hills of China… way, way in the interior there of Asia … behind some mountains in the deep recesses of that great continent… we lift them up to you today and we pray for laborers and missionaries to be sent… we prayf or people to be translated maybe from this chapel or maybe online… that even the supernaturalness of God would operate to send people in the natural and in the supernatural to pray, to work the works of God in the heart of Asia… so we create an opening for God to come there …

Group entered worship…

Pastor Ken shared excerpt from book…

I mentioned earlier that God wants what’s in us to come out of us. He wants what is in heaven to come out of heaven into this earth. And, of course, prayer is integral to that experience. For what’s in you to come out of you, for what’s in heaven right now to become reality on the earth and in our generation. And I was thinking about a story that’s in Pastor Mark Batterson’s book, “The Legend of the Circle Maker.” I want to read it just as a point of reflection and to stir up your heart to understand and know that this is in a way what we’re called to be and to do in this hour, that there is a tenacity, that there’s a holy boldness, that there’s a call for justice, that wants to come out of us, that wants to be sounded and prayed and acted on out of you.  And the story of Honi, the circle maker, is quite interesting. Mark in his first chapter writes…

[start excerpt] Young children danced in the downpour like it was the first rainfall they’d ever seen. And it was. Parents threw back their heads, opened their mouths, and caught raindrops like they were libations. And they were. When it hasn’t rained in more than a year, raindrops are like diamonds falling from the sky. It would be forever remembered as the day, the day thunderclaps applauded the Almighty. The day puddle jumping became an act of praise. The day the legend of the circle maker was born.

It was the first century BC and a devastating drought had threatened to destroy a generation before Jesus. The last of the Jewish prophets had died off nearly four centuries before. Miracles were such a distant memory that they seemed like a false memory. And God was nowhere to be heard. But there was one man, an eccentric sage who lived outside the walls of Jerusalem, who dared to pray anyway. His name was Honi. And even if the people could no longer hear God, he believed that God could still hear them. When rain is plentiful, it’s an afterthought. During a drought, it’s the only thought. And Honi was their only hope. Famous for his ability to pray for rain, it was on this day, the day that Honi would earn his moniker.

With a six-foot staff in his hand, Honi began to turn like a math compass. His circular movement was rhythmical and methodical. Ninety degrees. One hundred eighty degrees. Two hundred seventy degrees. Three hundred sixty degrees. He never looked up as the crowd looked on. After what seemed like hours but had only been seconds, Honi stood inside the circle he had drawn. Then he dropped to his knees and raised his hands to heaven. With the authority of the prophet Elijah, who called down fire from heaven, Honi called down rain: He said, “Lord of the universe, I swear before your great name that I will not move from this circle until you have shown mercy upon your children.”

The words sent a shudder down the spines of all who were within earshot that day. It wasn’t just the volume of his voice; it was the authority of his tone. Not a hint of doubt. This prayer didn’t originate in the vocal chords. Like water from an artesian well, the words flowed from the depth of his soul. His prayer was resolute yet humble, confident yet meek, expectant yet unassuming.

Then it happened. As his prayer ascended to the heavens, raindrops descended to the earth. An audible gasp swept across the thousands of congregants who had encircled Honi. Every head turned heavenward as the first raindrops parachuted from the sky, but Honis head remained bowed. The people rejoiced over each drop, but Honi wasn’t satisfied with a sprinkle.

Still kneeling within the circle, Honi lifted his voice over the sounds of celebration and declared, “Not for such a rain have I prayed but for a rain that will fill the cistern pits and caverns.” The sprinkle turned into such a torrential downpour that eyewitnesses said no raindrop was smaller than an egg in size. It rained so heavily and so steadily that the people fled to the Temple Mount to escape the flash floods. Honi stayed and prayed inside his protracted circle.

Once more he refined his bold request and said, “Not for such a rain have I prayed but for rain of your favor blessing and graciousness.” Then, like a well-proportioned sun shower on a hot and humid August afternoon, it began to rain calmly, peacefully. Each raindrop was a tangible token of God’s grace. And they didn’t just soak the skin; they soaked the spirit with faith. It had been difficult to believe the day before the day. The day after the day, it was impossible not to believe.

Eventually, the dirt turned into mud and back into dirt again. After quenching their thirst, the crowd dispersed. And the rainmaker returned to his humble hovel on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Life returned to normal, but the legend of the circle maker had been born. Honi was celebrated as a hometown hero by the people whose lives he had saved.

But some within the Sanhedrin called the circle maker into question. A faction believed that drawing a circle and demanding rain dishonored God. Maybe it was those same members of the Sanhedrin who would criticize Jesus for healing a man’s shriveled hand on the Sabbath a generation later. They threatened Honi with excommunication, but because the miracle could not be repudiated, Honi was ultimately honored for his act of prayerful bravado. The prayer that saved a generation was deemed one of the most significant prayers in the history of Israel. The circle he drew in the sand became a sacred symbol and the legend of Honi, the circle maker, forever stands a testament to the power of a single prayer to change the course of history. [end]

Pastor Ken continued…

I love that story. And I feel like that’s who God has called us to be in this hour to continue in the footsteps and in the example of Honi, drawing circles through prayer. I mean, don’t forget what happened long before that in the days of the children of Israel, when they were faced with this impenetrable city called Jericho and God gave them instructions to March around the city walls. Each day, one time. And then on the seventh day, march six times. And on the seventh time around, they were to simply open their voices and shout. They encircled the city until it was theirs.

And I love this example because it’s an important reminder for us right now that this is our assignment, like Honi, be post-modern circle makers through prayer. Even like we were just at the beginning of prayer, praying for nations. You might think, I can’t even connect with that maybe. Praying for nations across the world and people I’ll never meet. But there is a call of the Spirit on the inside of us to pray and to draw circles around the injustices … to draw circles around what’s wrong that it might be made right … to draw circles around the broken that they might be healed … to draw circles around the impossible that the possible, the very miraculous and supernatural God would come.

God will do all that’s needed to be done. He is truly omnipotent, all powerful. He has a plan, and He has the will, and the way and all the resources to get done what needs to get done in this hour in a very short amount of time. But He’s looking to us and saying, “Will you draw circles like Honi and contend and pray and believe and call upon God?”

The cool thing about prayer is that we don’t have to convince Him. He already wants to do way more than we even realize for ourselves and for our nation and for the world. He sent us here for this time to take back what the enemy has stolen, what the enemy is doing in your life, in our nations, the trouble he’s caused. He’s done illegally. He’s a renegade holder of authority. In other words, the authority was taken back through the redemptive work of Jesus and given to us. Jesus declared in Matthew 28, “Behold, all power and authority in heaven and earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples. Go and preach the gospel.” Jesus modeled that life has to be first led through your prayer life, that the leading of your life is prayer.

Comments are closed.

Post Navigation