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Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Happy Monday! Welcome to Morning Prayer here in the chapel at Living Word.
If you don’t already know, my name is Ken Olson and I’m one of the pastors here at Living Word. And I’m excited to pray with you guys today.
James 5:15…
Let me just share a couple of things with you before we worship. I was meditating a little bit last night on James chapter five. I’m going to read it from the New Living Translation. In James 5:15 it says, “Are any of you suffering hardship?” I believe one translation that says, “Is anyone going through a tough time.” If you’re struggling, in other words. It says, “You should pray.” “Are any of you happy? You should sing praises. Are any of you sick? You should call for the elders of the church to come and pray over you, anointing you with oil in the name of the Lord. Such a prayer offered in faith will heal the sick and the Lord will make you well. And if you have committed any sins, you will be forgiven.”
Oh, what a good promise. Come on now!
Don’t shirk. Don’t feel like you’ve got to do some sort of penance when it comes to mistakes and mess ups, and where we have missed out on what God wanted us to do, just call it out before Him and just say, “Lord…
I receive your mercy.
I receive your forgiveness.
I receive your grace.
Be one who runs to Him…
Jesus ever lives not only to intercede and pray for us, but He ever lives to minister to us and for us. In fact, the Lord, I believe, in the heavenly realm is energized when He gets to pour into us. So don’t be one who runs from Him even when you mess up. Be one who runs to Him.
Build your life on ministry to Him…
Don’t build your life, don’t build your ministry just on what you can do for Him. Build your life and ministry on your ministry to Him.
Somebody said, “Think of it this way: don’t build your life or ministry on what you’re doing for Him, but instead your ministry to Him.” So that’s where everything flows from: our ministry to Him, our connection to Him.
It’s a new day to receive His grace…
So receive His grace this morning. It’s a new day. His mercies, His kindnesses, His faithfulness are ebbing and flowing to you and to me today. All we need to do is simply believe. Yes, we can stay stuck on…
what happened,
what didn’t work out,
the unmet expectation,
the issue that’s still unresolved,
the prayer that you haven’t seen an answer in the natural…
You can focus on that. But aren’t you glad we serve a God who is faithful to a thousand generations?
The one who says, emphatically, “I’ll have My way in their lives. I will have My way in the earth in this hour.”
Embrace His perspective…
Prayer is so much to do with embracing His perspective, being influenced by the surrounding presence of the Holy Spirit so that what we see, what we perceive, and what we say aligns with what God is saying.
That’s much of where effectiveness in prayer is found. It is becoming so influenced, so imbibed by the presence and the influence of God the Holy Spirit that without even realizing, in other words, subconsciously oftentimes, you’re saying things, you’re decreeing things, you’re uttering things that align with His heart. And when you say what aligns with His heart, well, guess what?
That releases faith.
That releases the hand of God.
That permits the Lord to do what He wants to do.
God’s reward…
Agreat man of prayer back in the 19th century said that prayer should simply be God looking over the banisters, or balconies, and seeing His reward reflected back to Him. So when it is hard, when it doesn’t look like it’s going to work out, when nothing has shifted or changed, realize that God is calling for His Word to be announced once again. For His Word to be decreed. For you to say what ought to happen in that situation, either in the Spirit where you don’t maybe know naturally, but when you declare things, when you pray things out, when you intercede in your heavenly prayer language, guess what? According to my Bible, it says you’re praying according to the will of God.
Prayer is processing the plan of God…
In other words, when you pray in the Spirit, you’re declaring things the way they ought to be. Maybe not how they are at the moment, but the way God wants them to work out. You’re processing the plan of God when you pray in your heavenly prayer language. When you declare the Word of God where there’s injustice, you declare “Let justice be. Let the rightness of God be transacted here. May what’s upside down, be right sided up. May what’s going south be corrected according to His will and His plan.
Pastor Ken’s journal thoughts…
I jotted this now last night as I was reflecting for a few moments. I said this: Make no mistake about it, things shift and begin to move in the right direction when you pray. And it’s just a matter of time before the effect of your decree and intercession reveals itself in the physical realm.
Kenneth Hagin once talked about how when you begin to focus on your prayer life, when prayer has a place in your life, not just a secondary thought, or “maybe I’ll get to it today, maybe I won’t.” But when it is a priority to you, things will begin to fall into place including… and he mentioned physical healing. Again, prayer isn’t a work where we do X amount of prayer so that God will do X, Y, Z for us. Prayer opens the door for God’s hand to engage in our lives and in our world. Prayer opens the door for God to have His way. And it slams the door shut on the enemy. To pray is to bind and to loose, to permit or prevent, whatever the case might be.
Finish James 5…
I don’t think I finished James five here. Let me go back to this. So it says this, “Such a prayer offered in faith will heal the sick and the Lord will make him well. And if you have committed any sins, you’ll be forgiven. Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.”
God’s not through with what He’s going to do in your life…
I think the thing that was kind of leaping off the page of my heart last night was the fact that God’s not through with what He’s going to do in your life, in my life, and in the church. It might be a matter of us just continuing in prayer, continuing to journey with Him today, or continuing to pick up on that promise that He dropped in your heart long ago that was specific to you and your future, that maybe you’ve allowed to drift to the side somewhere.
And He’s saying, “I want you to pick that assignment up again. I want you to lean into My promise and what it states about your health, about your children, about your finances, about your future, about America. Whatever the case might be, I want you to pick that literal scripture promise up or that promise He spoke to you, breathed into your heart by the Rhema of the Spirit. Pick that up again and refresh that in your consciousness, write that down again, get that in front of you again this week… the first week of August, 2025, and lean into it. Press into it with your prayer language. Press into it with making mention of it before the throne of God to remind Him, “Lord, you don’t think this is not going to happen, do you?”
America shall be saved…
Oh no, all America shall be saved. All of Israel shall be saved. All of my household shall be saved. Don’t you think for a minute, Devil, don’t you think for a minute, heavenly realm, that I’m not going to have all of the will of God and carry it off into my future, all that God has promised and all that He is decreed over me. All that is decreed over Living Word and your ministry.
There must be a fire in our faith now…
I know I touch on this often and maybe it’s just part of my ministry, but there must be a fire in our faith life now. There must be a fire in our voice, and there must be a contending as Pastor Lynne often said. She used that word “contending.” Pray-ers must be contenders.
“I could have been a contender!” Isn’t that from a movie some time, way back? “Could have been a contender.”
Well, you are a contender! You are one called to fight the good fight of faith. It’s a good fight because God’s promise is “yes and amen.” God’s promise is you will surely see His goodness in your life, in your household, in this realm. You will surely see the answer.
The Holy Spirit is a producer in our lives…
And so I sense in my heart the Spirit of God calling for… What’s a good example? It just kind of came to me. But sometimes, like a movie director will call for certain kind of lighting, will call for an actor, will call for a scene, will call to reshoot a scene or something like that. The Holy Spirit has been sent into our lives as a conductor, as a producer. He’s here to orchestrate. He’s here to execute through His direction and leadership the plan of God in your life and my life. And prayer and our pursuit of Him spending time with Him allows us to be conscious and more perceptive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit.
So we can sense when He’s calling for something. And it might be that He’s calling for you to pray again about that situation. It may be that He’s calling for you to lean in a little bit more in your heavenly prayer language.
I’m not sure, but I do know as we continue to read James five, it says this about Elijah in James 5:17. It says, “Elijah was as human as we are. And yet he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years.” And it says in verse 18. So he prayed and the natural realm, the atmosphere obeyed him.
Huh?
Come on now. What authority must you and I possess as New Covenant, blood washed, endowed with the Holy Spirit… Remember, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit as the down payment on our salvation in this particular lifetime and realm. So that He can dwell on the inside of us and lead us in prayer in particular, as well as many other things, so that we could say what God is saying. You are His mouthpiece. You’re the one who’s called to be the mouthpiece to a generation, to atmospheres, like in this case with Elijah, a mouthpiece over your household to say what goes and to say, “No, this isn’t going to go… this isn’t going to fly.” That’s what bind and loose means” to permit or prevent.
“How much authority!”
Brother Hagin said that through the end of his ministry. He said he felt like there was a lot more authority vested in the church and in individual believers than we really recognize or will even know in this lifetime. Jesus said in the gospel of Matthew, “All power in heaven and earth has been given unto me. Therefore, go in My name.”
He said whatever you bind will be bound in the heavenly realm. Whatever you loose will be loosed in the heavenly realm. Whatever you say should be so, so shall it be.
Mark 11:23 says…
“Whosoever shall say unto this mountain of impossibility, or this obstacle, or this opposition, or this warfare that’s coming against me causing me to go through a tough time, “whosoever shall say, believe in his or her heart that what he or she says will come to pass, he or she will have whatever they say.”
What are you saying today about that situation?
What are you saying about that nation?
Watch your words…
You better watch your words including regarding the political realm. Death and life are in the power of the tongue. You can’t curse people and then go and pray for them on the other hand. I heard that recently from Nancy Dufresne who talked about, “You better watch what you’re saying. I don’t care if it’s not your particular political persuasion because God may have you praying for that person or that party or whatever that situation.” We need to discover a new respect for what we carry and what God has called us to be. That being a mouthpiece to a generation, mouthpiece to the plan of God.
