Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Prayer leader Cindy…
Good morning, everybody. We know it’s Thanksgiving week. We are going to thank Him this morning for everything He has done.
Prayed…
We thank you, Father, for the ears to hear what your Spirit is saying to the churches.
We thank you for the finely tuned instruments… fine gold, tuned into what you’re hearing.
Lord, you’re always speaking. For the Spirit is speaking expressly in no uncertain terms.
And precise language to kind of fit it out for you so that you can hear the things that God is saying.
The role that is being called up yonder, so to speak, but he heard “roll call,” which was specifically suited for him to hear.
And on the day of Pentecost, they were all speaking in different languages. It says they were speaking in tongues. They came down and they heard! They heard it in their language.
It doesn’t say they spoke it in the language, but that’s what they heard.
Because the Spirit is able to combine and interpret and bring it to you the way that you need to hear it, the way you need to hear it.
God is speaking…
Like this morning you were saying, “Let us go to the house of the Lord, let us be glad.” And I was hearing “lettuce.” Like lettuce. It’s funny, God is funny. He speaks expressly in different ways. He’s the sound of many waters and He’s speaking through billboards. He’s speaking through some people. And the car ahead of them, they’ll see a bumper sticker. Whatever. But He’s speaking. If we have eyes to see it and an ear inclined to hear it, the Spirit is speaking expressly.
So I heard “lettuce” and I heard you saying several times, “Where do you want to go to eat?” And I would be like, “You choose. You choose.” And we’d always say “Let us go to Byerly’s and go to the salad bar.” And what do they have at the salad bar? Lettuce. And what else do they have at the salad bar? Lots and lots of different things that you can choose to put in your salad. He prepares a table. But that’s like when you were speaking, this is what I’m hearing. I’m hearing “Lettuce go to the house of the Lord.” Let us go and not forsake the assembling of ourselves together. Let us go to what would be a banquet table or a buffet table.
And Sue shows up and Carla shows up and there’s some interchange and there’s some things that feed us and we are able to feed other people with the things that God has given us, the gifts that He’s given us. And so we have a salad bar, which is full of all kinds of colors and all kinds of nutrients. And it’s just a wonderful partaking of Christ. By coming together and not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together.
Listening to the Lord…
So we can hear what the Spirit is saying.
So we can have those divine witnesses to what He’s already saying to us.
And somebody will say, like, DJ, when he went to church long go, they’re like, “You know what? I think you should go into real estate.” And somebody who doesn’t even know him, “I think you should go into real estate.” And so he’s like, “I’m going to lift that up in prayer.”
What do you think, Lord, I can hear you speaking. I can hear you speaking. And you lift up the basket and you say, “What do you think about this, Lord?”
Well, thank you for asking.
So the body of Christ and even those that are outside, if we have ears to hear, they’ll keep us sharp. They’ll keep us sharp, so we can not be asleep and not ask the right questions.
Lord, I thank you that your Spirit is working in and around us to keep us on track, to keep us moving, to keep us in that joyful pursuit of what you have for us.
The mark, the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
I press, press, press into that, Father, which is our heavenly reward in the ages to come.
But in the millennium, Father, ruling and reigning with you.
And this life here on earth is just an opportunity or a place to prepare and everything is working, Father.
For that heavenly call that you’re calling us upward in Christ Jesus, to rule and reign with you, to be conformed to your image and to help others to have our feet prepared for the preparation of that Gospel to reconcile others unto the Father.
But Father, we thank you for the authority that you have given us that we would walk out every day, tearing up, pulling down, and planting.
And, Father, we just thank you for all the things. We want it all. We want everything that you have planned for us to do.
Nothing left on the shelf, so to speak.
And we enter in with thanksgiving. We enter in so thankful, Father, so grateful, so appreciative for this life and opportunity we have here on earth to exercise our faith in developing ears to hear.
The more we step out in what we do here, the more we sharpen and tune the instrument of our ears.
Because we are the sheep of your pastorage. We hear what you’re saying. You are the good shepherd.
And the voice of the enemy, we don’t hear. We’re not inclined to hear. We have not exercised ourselves in that way.
But we’ve shaken off the spirit of slumber, and we are in it, Father, to prepare our souls for that’s the end of our faith, the salvation of our souls.
Let our souls be refined. Let the fruit that comes.
As we are prosperous in this area, we prosper in every other area to the salvation of our souls.
Father, that you would have your will and way and it would be a clear channel. No debris or no obstruction, no hindrance or delays.
Because we give our souls to you for salvation through faith, the end product of our faith is the salvation of our souls.
Singing, rejoicing, declaring your wonders, thanksgiving, gratefulness.
So what you require, Lord, and what you said we are ever to be doing: giving thanks, ever rejoicing, and always praying.
Do you know you’re never at a loss? Because you have a prayer entrance into the Father’s courts where He hears you and you can hear Him.
And whatever He says is life and peace.
So we sing and rejoice and give praise to the Lord for He is good and His merciful kindness towards us.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
How shall He not more with Him freely give us all things because our heart delight is given to us from the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
The desires of our heart, Lord, and there is a readiness in our hearts to desire the things that you’ve placed there and not drawing back, but going forward.
There’s a readiness in our hearts to desire which means we’re going to step out.
When you say “Step out,” because there’s a completion out of what we have.
You authored it, you finished it, you are in the middle with us walking it out. And that’s so fun.
Thank you, Father, for a divine attitude reversal towards this life being so fun that it’s just get an opportunity to live and breathe and have everything that you want and desire to come through us.
Paul considered everything just rubbish in comparison to the divine privilege of knowing Him.
And that’s a verb. That’s an action word. And it’s just not a mental ascent. It’s an experiential knowledge and everything else is just a means to an end to knowing Him more.
May we know you more today, Lord, may we walk in your ways.
May your ways be revealed more and more to us.
May we be intimately acquainted with them.
May there be our constant companion.
May fear be something that is just all together alien to us.
We are filled with love.
We are filled with the fruits of your Spirit.
We decrease that you may increase and grow up and become greater.
We’re faithful because you’re faithful, Father.
Because even when we’re not faithful, you’re faithful.
And you are training us in your ways. You’re training us to always be led forth in peace and go out with joy.
Those are our indicator lights.
Father, if there’s no peace, we don’t be led forth.
If there’s no joy, we don’t go out.
Righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
The kingdom of God that’s in us, and that kingdom that’s coming out into the habitable earth, into this temporal here and now.
What is that? That’s the glory of God flooding the earth.
The glory of God is the knowledge of Him.
Thank you, Father, that we are bringing an experiential manifestation of your Spirit to those outside, not just a manifestation, but a recognition that you are God.
Falling on their face and declaring that God is truly among us.
His Word is a word of power.
Not denying the power. Not a form of godliness, but denying the power.
We wait for it. We wait for it expectantly.
