Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Prayer Leader Cindy…
Bless the Lord! Thank you, Father. So we mount up. We don’t flap our wings and expend a lot of energy, go nowhere. We mount up.
We wait for the wind of your Spirit to come and lift us up because you are the God that lifts us, Father.
Holy God, we’re thanking you for the lifting. The lifting that comes…
Arise, rise for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
So we arise from the prostration in which circumstances have held us down.
We arise from the spiritual depression and darkness that we try and mess with our heart and mind.
For we simply arise to a higher height than we could ever find.
Because we trust you, Lord, in everything, and we know that you’re God after all.
and your eyes are on us and we endeavor to keep our eyes always on you.
If we ever lose our tracking of you, Father, you’re the graceful, faithful one, greater than our heart.
And you keep us.
You’re the keeping God.
For you’re always speaking.
We thank you, Father, for our ears tuned into what you’re saying today.
We have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.
Thank you, Lord, good God, glorious lover of our souls.
And perfecter of our souls.
You’re perfecting us every day as we just simply behold you, Father.
Thank you, Father, that we take every opportunity to exercise our faith.
What is our faith?
The wind that comes as we mount up.
Because you’re speaking and your Word is life, and your life is blowing on our sails today.
So where does the wind come? And where does it go?
We don’t know. Pastor Dustin was talking on Tuesday about the river of God.
Our lives are rooted and grounded in the rivers of life.
And there’s an abundant supply that’s coming to us every moment.
Because the river is supplying, the river is full, the river is carrying us.
We are not carrying our circumstances.
The river is carrying us to those good works that you’ve appointed before the foundation of the world and supplying us with the fruit needed.
For those that are planted by the rivers of the living water, they bear fruit in their season.
Their leaf does not wither and whatsoever they do prospers.
And what is the thing that God wants us to prosper in?
The good works that He’s appointed for us to do before the foundations of the world!
That we should walk in them—already supplied, already full and waiting for us to just step into.
Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord. We always bare your fruit.
We bare your fruit—joy, love, peace, long suffering, gentleness, meekness, kindness, temperance.
the fruit and faith. Faith is that “I know in my knower,” hallelujah popping out.
Father, I thank you that our determined purpose is to know you. More and more and more.
And that is life. The eternal life is to know you.
So Hezekiah was told that he would get life, but he was to go and do some things with it. Bear some fruit.
He used his life as a vessel of good to others that are on the path.
This is the way it’s going to be. We will bear your fruit today.
We will exercise your counsel.
We will perform your pleasure.
We will do all the things that you will for us to do.
And it will all unfold because we’re in the river and everything is coming to us on time, in time, and well within reach.
Because our determined purpose is to know you experientially.
For your sap to be flowing in our tree. Hallelujah.
Psalm 92 says that in old age you will still bear fruit.
You’ll be full of sap.
You’re not dried-up petrified wood.
You’re full of sap, not wrinkly. And your leaf is not withered or faded.
And everything you do, you prosper in the way that you should go.
The way of the Lord, because His way is better and His way is to serve others.
The secret of facing everything… we’re not self-concerned.
We have everything that we need.
We’re self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency.
His grace is sufficient. And His sap is flowing and the fruit is constant.
Thank you, Lord.
Sharing about book by Andrew Wommack…
I just got this book when Andrew Wommack was here. It’s on Philippians. I read the introduction and I thought it was so good. Because Paul is one of the greatest examples in scripture of someone who suffered greatly, yet always rejoiced in the Lord. Philippians 4:4. Paul wrote the book of Philippians from prison after being incarcerated for at least three years at that time.
Yet this is the most joyful of all Paul’s letters…
He still had joy in the midst of the very trying situations. How did he do that? The book of Philippians gives us insight into the heart of this man who had learned to be content in whatever situation he found himself in, (Philippians 4:11). Paul bears his soul to his partners to give us keys to his life of success. The same principles that worked for him will work for us too, if we work them. Paul went on to change the world. His writings were the key to reformation. And they are still setting people free 2,000 years later.
It’s for freedom’s sake that Christ set us free…
Hallelujah. Praise the Lord that he inspired Paul to share his heart with his partners and reveal what made him the man that he was. We would do well to examine what he says and follow his example. 1st Corinthians 10:11 says, “Now all these things happened unto them for examples, and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come.” The Word of God shows not only the good things people accomplish, but also all the bad things they went through. It’s not whitewashed. God did this for our benefit so that we could learn from the people we read about in the Bible.
We don’t have to learn everything by hard knocks…
Paul went through all kinds of hardships and persecutions for the Gospel’s sake. And yet he stayed encouraged, thankful, and kept praising God. Paul is probably one of the greatest men who ever walked the face of the earth considering the things God did in his life.
In this epistle or letter to the Church of Philippi, Paul reached out and encouraged those who regularly given to him, his partners, at a time when he would have been complaining about being imprisoned at Rome. He instead thought enough of his partners to write to them, thank them for their generosity, remind them of what he had taught them, and encourage them to receive the rewards of their faithfulness.
You and I wouldn’t be where we are today if it were not for Paul’s revelation of grace. And the book of Philippians is one of the most joyful letters Paul ever wrote. He loved the Philippians and was thankful for their partnership. And because of that, this letter includes some of the most amazing things you’ll ever read. So he learned the secret of facing everything.
And I wasn’t always in the book of Philippians, but we’re supposed to learn by their example. But sometimes we learn by going through things and learning the hard way. But I’ve learned the secret of facing situations. It’s like we are never at a loss. Like you were saying. He’s the God who strengthens us. We just need to wait on Him to let Him do the work. Let Him come in with the wind of the Spirit and lift us from whatever fray or situation we’re in that would try to keep us down. Rise, shine for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has come upon you.
And it says in the Amplified, Rise from the spiritual, like depression or the darkness that has held you down the circumstances. And they’re witnessing and they’re trying to make you think, “I just like to complain. I would just like to maybe think that there’s no way out. And I would just like to think, where is God in this? Where is He? I haven’t heard from Him in a while. Doesn’t he care?”
But the Bible says in Philippians that there’s a secret. He’s learned the secret. He has strength in everything. So when you learn the secret and you exercise it for things that you go through, you start to expect God to show up. And why is this happening? You get curious as opposed to questioning God. You inquire, “Why is this happening, Lord? What is this all about? What would you have me do in this situation?”
It’s called prayer. It’s talking to God. It’s not thee’s and thou’s and whatever. It’s just saying, “God, you’re my Father. Can I talk to you about this? Because I know you’re big and I know you’re over all of this stuff. So how do you see it?”
Philippian says that he’s learned the secret, but it’s called the secret place of the most High God. It’s an abiding place. It’s a place where you abide in the vine and you bear fruit. And part of that fruit is joy. So they’ll becoming some joy even in the midst of turmoil. And what is the joy? The joy of the Lord is your strength.
