Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Sister Cindy…
We lean into God…
We are in Christ Jesus gratefully acknowledging the surpassing greatness… Many are the plans that man has but the Lord directs his way. So we are always listening to hear and leaning in, not to our own undoing, not to our own understanding, but we lean into the God that’s far above, far above the wisdom of man, the plans of man. Take a back seat to the plans of God. And we are leaning and yielded and easily swayed by you, Father.
Let God be God…
At any given moment, we stop what we’re doing and we say, “Let God be God. Let every other thing have to bow and come into line according to what He’s doing right now in the earth, through myself and you and everybody who hears the Word and simply obeys. And says, “Let the chips fall, come what may. It’s going to end up good today.” Because the one thing I’ve desired, the one thing I try to put in practice is to walk out on the water when He says, “Come.”
We don’t have to be perfect…
And know His eyes are on me. And He’ll catch me and He’ll train me and strengthen me. You know, we don’t have to be perfect. I heard that this morning. Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful. It’s all about God showing up in the spaces and the places and our desire to just at His Word. And even like, I’m thinking Peter, God prompts us with questions like, “Maybe I should ask Him. Should I walk out on the water? If you want me to…” I think that came from a desire of God, from the Lord. He prompts us with these questions. “Maybe I should do that.”
Then He asked Jesus, “Do you want me to come out there?” And He said, “Come.”
Just do it!
Yeah, just do it. Just do it! But it’s good to ask because it’s a living dialogue with our Father. And we love your Word, Lord, spoken through us, spoken to us. Oh, how good it is. Well-fitted spoken word in season. It’s to lift us and to lift others. Yeah, just do it. Arrows in the hearts of men. We are His quiver full. He shoots us where He desires and it’s always a good, good journey.
Live an amazing life full of amazing grace…
He said this to me… and I probably said this before. He said, “Cindy, if you’re not willing to be perplexed, you’ll never be amazed.” I don’t know about you, but I want to live an amazing life full of amazing grace. And so we take a back seat sometimes and say, “Lord, just take the wheel. I’ll do whatever you want me to do.”
Book, “Life’s Best Kept Secret” by Lee Thomas…
I was reading this morning… I don’t know how far I’m going to get, but I’m just going to read a little bit and I’m going to do a little advertisement for this gentleman, Lee Thomas. And I first bought a book and it was called “Praying Effectively for the Lost.” It’s a really good book. So I decided to get his bundle. He’s got like three or four different books, and they’re all little like this, but they’re power packed. And this one is “Life’s Best Kept Secret.”
Life’s Best Kept Secret, Chapter four, “Power of Zoe.”
“The life of Christ in us is our greatest treasure, greater than everything else combined. If we allow the Holy Spirit to replace our self-life with the life of Christ, His power will flow unhindered in us and through us. F.B. Meyer calls this transaction the deepest mystery in the Bible, activating the power. Although the power of Zoe life of Christ is beyond all measure, a brief consideration of the atomic bomb will give us a general perspective.
“In 1945, the 15-Kiloton atomic bomb, Little Boy, was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in an effort to end World War II. The destruction was so horrific. Approximately 90,000 people were instantly killed, and a thousand more later died from radiation. Although the bomb was composed of 64,000 grams of uranium, less than one gram exploded. Scientists can measure the potential power of one gram of uranium 235, but the power inherent in the life of the Lord Jesus cannot be measured or calculated.
“Just as scientists had to learn how to properly detonate the atomic bombs, so must we learn how to activate the beyond measure power of the life of Christ in us. We find the answer in Philemon 1:6: ‘That the communication of our faith may become effectual by the acknowledging, epinosis, of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.’
“Epinosis expresses the idea of having a clear understanding of the precise and correct knowledge of the particular subject. In this case, the subject is every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. Since in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Colossians 2:9. And He is in us. Then all that God is and has is in us.
“Peter emphasizes the significance of the knowledge of God and of Jesus when he says, ‘Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. According as His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him that has called us to glory and virtue.’ 2 Peter 1:1–3.
“Perhaps our greatest problem is that we are ill-equipped for all with our God. Consequently, we are ill-equipped to live a godly life or to save a wicked world from drowning in sin and degradation. Do we not know that the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits? Daniel 11:32. Although I know faith is the clutch that releases the power of God and that the knowledge of every good thing that is in us in Christ is the key to activating our faith, I still needed further enlightenment on just how faith operates.
“Watching a documentary about Albert Einstein and his general theory of relativity set me on a quest for the formula that would do that very thing. Einstein’s theory was so mind-boggling that a total eclipse of the sun was required to prove it true. The eclipse happened in 1921, but until then, the scientific world thought Einstein was a nut. Now, e=mc squared has been dubbed the world’s most famous equation. Since many of the world’s greatest inventions came through the Jewish mind, I concluded that God must have had a hand in Einstein’s formula. Therefore, I asked Him to give me the formula for faith. After praying for several days, M=RE squared was the result. M stands for manifestation or answered prayer. R for Rhema. And E for expectation.
“Since Rhema is the key element in the formula and may be relatively unfamiliar to many Christians, a brief foundational study should prove helpful. There are two different Greek words in the New Testament for word: logos and rhema.
“Logos primarily denotes the entire Word of God. John 1:1 tells us that the word logos was God. John 1:14. The word logos was made flesh referring to Jesus. Basically, logos embodies all God is, thinks, and does.
“Rhema, on the other hand, is primarily a specific word from God to a specific person or group at a specific time for a specific purpose. He speaks to us through angels, the Holy Spirit, and others, especially prophets. In Acts 8:26, an angel tells Philip to go toward the south unto the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, which is the desert.
“Then in verse 29, the Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go near and join thyself to this chariot.’ God gave Philip a rhema through an angel and another rhema through the Holy Spirit for a specific purpose of witnessing to the Ethiopian eunuch. Those particular rhemas will never be repeated for they dealt only with Philip and the eunuch.
“Jesus quoted Deuteronomy 8:3 and Matthew 4:4, and He said, ‘It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word, rhema, that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’
“During the days of Deuteronomy, God spoke primarily to Moses and Moses in turn instructed the people concerning God’s will for them. Although He can and does give rhemas to others for our benefit, He basically speaks to each of us in guiding our daily lives. However, we may miss His voice if we do not know how He speaks to us.
“While sharing our seminar on praying effectively for the lost, I mentioned something that God had told me after the service was over. The pastor said ‘That really bothered me when you said that God told you something. I was taught that after the New Testament was finished, God didn’t speak anymore.’ I said, ‘How do you know that you are supposed to be a preacher?’ He said, ‘God called me.’ And all of a sudden his own words, ‘God called me’ flipped on the switch on his understanding. And he knew that God had spoken to him too.
“Just as we eat bread or food every day, so we are to live daily on the rhemas that God gives us. Just as the rhema to Philip was for a moment in time, so will be many of those that God gives to us. Since they deal with every area of our lives, we must learn to recognize them and receive them and live by them.”
Cindy continued…
Thank you, Father. And it’s according to His Word. We hold everything up to the certainty of God’s Word. It has to line up. But if we abide in Him and His words abide in us, those words that we have deposited, they come up in a timed-released fashion.
And actually, if somebody tells you something and they say it’s from God, those words will come up and go, boom. That’s a red light or a green light.
So we just thank you, Father, for your abiding Word in us and that we have an anointing and know all things. And I just thank you, Father, that I don’t have to know everything. I don’t have to understand any of it to obey because I know on the other side of my obedience, He just shows up and I will hear something and it will hit my heart and witness and that word will come up and say, “That’s for you.” Hallelujah.
