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Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Well, happy Monday everyone. Good to have you with us this morning.
The Lord sent us into this earth with His authority. He made it very clear; He was very distinct about it before He ascended back to the right hand of the throne of His Father. He said, “All power and authority in heaven and earth has been granted or given to Me. Therefore, you go and do My work.”
Luke 10:19…
We all know probably where it says in Luke 10:19, “Behold, I’ve given you power, authority to tread on serpents and scorpions. In other words, the Devil and all his cohorts in every form of evil is trampled over serpents and scorpions and every work of darkness. And nothing shall by any means hurt or harm us.”
We’ve got to use our words…
But we’ve got to use our voice. We’ve got to find our authoritative voice in the spirit. Jesus taught His disciples and so us as well through the writings of the gospels that things are moved, things are dealt with in the spirit with your words.
At one point, the Lord in His earthly ministry said, “If you would have faith as a grain of mustard seed” for as tiny as that is, if you’d have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you would say unto this tree, move from one place to another and it would obey you. So what kind of authority, what kind of power has He entrusted us with? And has He given us the right to use on a daily basis, not to accomplish our agenda, but to perform His.
That’s why we pray…
One of the greatest outcomes of prayer is us obtaining the Father’s heart, us perceiving and discerning and receiving what He wants and what His heart is. We want less of what’s on our minds and more of what’s on His. Prayer initiates a great transference where we give Him our hearts and our time, and in exchange, He gives us His.
We begin to pick up on His ideas and His strategies and His will and His way. That’s why Jesus in His earthly ministry could say, “I don’t say anything unless I first hear my Father say it. I don’t do anything unless I see Him do it.”
Because if we’ll receive His heart on a daily basis and we’ll pursue His heart and to have His heart, then the exercise of our authority, our prayers of binding and loosing, us speaking to mountains of impossibility will be truly effective and powerful.
And so I want us to do that this morning. Maybe just to start with right now, let’s just speak to the weather patterns here in the Upper Midwest. Maybe you’re experiencing something similar where you are in some way or maybe in some other way. Maybe it’s political or what’s going on in your community. Something different. Regardless of the fact God has given us authority or the right to use power and authority in our given domains.
Prayed…
And so, Father, we start off this Monday morning speaking to the weather patterns and what’s been forecast and what supposedly the weather people are saying could happen today here in Minnesota and Iowa and Wisconsin and different parts of the Midwest. We just take authority over that today. Any hostile, destructive weather that would try to rear its ugly head in our communities, we stand up against it under the name of Jesus today. We say, “No you don’t, weather patterns.” We say “peace be still” to the weather. We say no storms will rise up and become life threatening, catastrophic or destructive. We say no in the name of Jesus.
The key to mental health…
I just want to reflect on something concerning our inner lives. I was reminded of this that the key for us as Christians to mental health is giving thanks in everything. Always remember the importance of the practice of gratitude is a spiritual practice. We’re to give thanks in all things. What you’re thankful for, what you’re grateful for is what you’re focusing on. And what you focus on is what you’re moving toward. Gratitude and thanksgiving is a release of faith. It’s a high form of faith.
Jesus said believe that you receive…
Jesus taught us that when you pray, believe that you receive. In other words, believe you receive and…
Thank Him for the answer.
Thank Him for the fulfillment of His promise.
Thank Him for His faithfulness.
Thank Him that He is the same God yesterday, today, and forever.
Thank Him for the fact that He watches over His word and He performs it.
Thank Him for the fact that He holds all things together by the word of His power.
Even the cells in your being, even your psychology, He steadies you. He carries you and me through tumultuous times and seasons in our lives personally and even in the world. And He will be the one who sticks closest to us more closely than even a brother. So thank Him for the fact that He will be with us even to the end of the age.
He wants with you…
Whatever’s reported on later today, no matter how ominous it may appear, He is with us always. He promised His disciples when He was in His earthly ministry, and He still is promising us today through His Word and by His Spirit that He walks with you. And He walks with me. And He goes where we go on a daily basis. He is on planet earth. He is in the earth because He sent the down payment of the Holy Spirit.
Thank Him for the fact that the Holy Spirit is rising up in you today.
Thank Him for the fact that the Holy Spirit means you have a spirit. You are a possessor of the spirit of victory.
Thank Him for the fact that He bore upon Himself the stripes and the punishment that one Bible translation says “was needful to obtain or pay the price in full, that you might be whole from head to toe and even set free from tumults and turmoil and anguish and fears and concerning things that your soul wants to obsess over. So God has sent His Spirit that we might know peace.
Thank you, Father, for peace today.
That your peace is always with us.
Thank Him today for the fact He’s given you and I a river of living water, springing up on the inside of us unto eternal life.
So gratitude is oh so important…
And it’s the key to mental health. What you focus on, once again, you move toward. What you focus on and are grateful for you magnify. What you’re grateful for and you give Him praise for sends out a frequency to attract more of the same.
Gratitude is the language of abundance and increase and promotion. While complaining is the spirit of remaining stuck in your status quo.
Let me add to that. In addition, the key to emotional health is to REJOICE always.
The Bible says rejoice and again I say rejoice. What’s a good way in a postmodern vernacular to describe rejoice? It means really just to re-joy. Not run out of joy. But re-joy. Replenish yourself with joy. How? Well, one way is speaking out in Psalms, in hymns and spiritual sayings.
Jesus said when you open your mouth in song and spiritual sayings, in praying in another tongue, you replenish. You refill your soul so that you can enjoy emotional health.
Emotions can ebb and flow. They can be depleted or they can be replenished. And most people live depleted and drained and on fumes. But God’s Word states that we can live not only half full, but full and even overflowing with joy.
And when you open your mouth and when you rejoice, when you give Him praise, when you announce how it’s going to go today, that today is the day the Lord hath made, and that I will rejoice and be glad in it, that we have a note of victory in our hearts and on our tongues. No matter how we feel or what happened yesterday, we are rejoicing. We are receiving replenishment. We are inviting the Holy Spirit’s activity into our life when we rejoice.
But when you’re all “doom and gloom” and a Negative Nelly and speaking doubt and unbelief, then you’re giving the signal to the enemy to come and join you in his plan.
I don’t want his plan.
I want God’s plan.
I’m consecrated to follow Him. And go the distance, and so are you. That we would experience what God is praying in the heavenly realm for the church and for us individually right now, that we would not end up on some place of devastation and unmet expectations in life.
But, instead, the Bible says that His will is that we would come to a flourishing finish as the body of Christ, as a local church in our lives individually. God’s plan is that you would increase more and more and not end up depleted and not end up disgusted and busted and broke. But instead that we would rise to a new level.
Pastor Lynne described it this way…
God’s plan is for us to go on an upward incline into God from one degree of glory to another, from one place of victory to another. Yeah, there’ll be detours in between and yeah, there’ll be some days you got to gut it out and some days you got to re-joy. And then the next day you got to re-joy or rejoice. But if you’ll stay the course and you’ll stand in the midst of whatever storm blows up, we can stand and stand firm because our foundation is in Him. Jesus is our anchor. He is our cement, our foundation fixer. No longer is our life based on shifting sand, but upon the revelatory rock of His Word. Right?
Jesus told Peter, “Peter, upon this rock of revelation, I will build My church.” Well, He is building His plan and He’s building His glory in the earth through us. Hallelujah! So the key to emotional health is to rejoice always.
