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Pastor Ken…
Good morning, everyone who’s joining us online. Good morning to all of you in the chapel today. Good to see you all on this 9th of December, 2024.
Announcement…
Just a quick announcement. We will have live prayer hosted here from the chapel through this week, and then we’ll be off for the remaining part of the year. We’ll reconvene the 2nd of January, which is a Thursday, I believe. So that will be 2025. So get ready, get ready, get ready! God’s got some good things in store for us in 2025.
We will be streaming the best of morning prayer the remainder of the year after this week on our online church channel. So if you want to still tune in and be a part of that, join us. Same time every morning on online church, we’ll be re-streaming some morning prayers.
Exodus 14:13…
This morning, I have a number of things on my heart. I going to read a couple of scriptures first. And I might read something here as well. But in Exodus 14:13, it says, “And Moses said to the people, do not be afraid. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which He will accomplish for you today.”
Now, before I finish that, I just want to say that I believe that this is the hour, this is the time, this is the season where God intends for the church to take ground, for us as a people to step into breakthrough and obtain some victories that we have long sought after. Amen!
God intends that you would be victorious…
I want to encourage you with that this morning, whether it pertains to something God has assigned you to pray about around the world or in the nation or in your life personally. Whether it’s your family, your finances, your health, a situation with your own soul in some way, God promises fighting for us. And He intends that we would obtain some victories in this season that we’ve just stepped into.
You shall see them no more forever…
It goes on to say in Exodus 14. “For the Egyptians whom you see today.” In other words, the challenge you see, the division that you see, the insufficiency that you see, the obstacle or adversity that you see. “For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace.”
God is at work for us…
The Bible says that God simply works for those who wait for Him. And I believe even as we just start off prayer here and we just wait in His presence that God is at work for us. The Bible says He neither sleeps nor slumbers. He is active. He is alert. The Bible says watching over His promises to perform them.
His promises enable us to get from here to where He has called us…
And we see in the scripture that He gives us His promises to get us from here to there, from where we are to where He has called us to be. And again, that may apply to something small like a need you have in your life or it can apply to something greater like the fact that He wants to pour His glory out on this generation, upon our nation. And it’s His promises that enable us to get from here to where He has called us to be.
His Word is our sword…
But isn’t it interesting in His Word, He characterizes His promises, a.k.a His Word, as a sword. Which implies that there will be a conflict or some challenges or a fight between here to there. So I believe God is helping us now. He’s helping me and I pray He’s helping you wherever you’re streaming this from, wherever you’re at in this chapel, helping us to become more skillful in using what God’s put in our hands.
Prayer is an act of spiritual warfare…
How many of you know God’s given us implements of war? Spiritual war. Prayer is an act of spiritual warfare. Prayer, in fact, if we’re going to believe what the Apostle Paul taught us and left us in the passages he wrote to the church in Ephesus, is a weapon that allows us to take out the enemy before he even gets in close quarters to us or our lives. Right?
The “lance of prayer”
Paul actually implied… He doesn’t actually call it out but many Bible scholars believe that when Paul writes about the different weapons of our warfare in Ephesians, like the sword of the spirit and the shield of faith, having your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace, having your head covered with the hope of salvation, that he goes on to say at the end of that passage there, he says, “and praying always.” And that Paul actually was probably thinking what Bible scholars believe is what’s called a lance when he was referring to prayer. The “lance of prayer.” And a lance was like a long javelin sort of weapon that you could hurdle at some distance from your enemy to take out the enemy before he got close to you and you had to fight him in close quarters or hand to hand combat.
Well, the lance of prayer allows us to go out into the future to cross time and distance and deal the enemy a death blow before he gets close up.
Prayer, as Pastor Lynne has taught us through the years, pushes back darkness, deals with the enemy well before you even realize you have a problem. It’s one of the great beauties of prayer in the spirit. It’s our ability to pray from a supernatural standpoint.
Prayer is our supernatural technology…
I shared recently at the Northwest campus. I was there ministering and I said, “God has given us a supernatural technology. And that is the ability to pray in a heavenly language, to pray in an unknown tongue, and to pray according to the perfect will of God.” Romans 8:26. Prayer in the Spirit in particular… and that could be in your known tongue or could be in your unknown tongue. Regardless, its prayer inspired from your belly, from your spirit.
The Bible says in James 5:16, it’s the effectual, fervent, heartfelt… or the prayer that issues or comes forth from the heart, born of the heart that makes tremendous power available, dynamic, and profound in its working. Amen! Hallelujah.
So know that prayer in the spirit is a supernatural technology that allows us to pray sentences and whole paragraphs right out of our books of destiny. So that the plan of God as God sees it for your life, for your family, for your nation, for your church, can come into being.
Susan Parr’s book, “Prayer Secrets: Four Keys to Results in Prayer”
So let me just share something with you from an author by the name of Susan Parr from her book, “Prayer Secrets: Four Keys to Results in Prayer.” Let me just read a short chapter. She writes…
“Spiritual warfare is something you will become more aware of as you dig deeper into the things of God. Until that happens to you, life’s obvious battles are what you will think requires spiritual warfare. Let me tell you, it goes deeper than that.
“I begin this chapter making it clear that where spiritual warfare is concerned, there is no question in whom the victory lies. It lies in Jesus Christ, in His power, and in the power of God’s Word. Unless God specifically leads you to address the Devil, don’t. You’ll notice that Jesus never went looking for the Devil in His earthly ministry. He simply preached and He taught and He healed. He went about the Father’s business. When the enemy reared his ugly head, He took care of Him. But He wasn’t out chasing devils. You don’t have to do that. He’ll find you. Our focus and our mandate is to occupy with God’s plans until He comes, to overcome evil with good, preaching the gospel, teaching, laying hands on the sick, following the steps God puts before us, simply just today. One day at a time.
“So unless God specifically leads you to address the Devil, don’t. Keep your focus on God and on what He has called you to do.”
What has God called you to do today?
So can I just pause for effect here this morning and just ask you, “What has God called you to do today?” I would suggest first and foremost that is to pray. Our mandate is 1), to know Him. Jesus said in His Word, “This is the work of the kingdom, that you might believe.” He went on to say that you might know Him, the true God. So our call and our mandate is to follow Him, to be determined and urgent in our spirit to know Him more, to abide in His Word and for His words to abide in us. Susan goes on to say…
Excerpt continues…
“Ask God to fight your spiritual battles in Jesus’ name and trust in His power. Ephesians 6:12 says, ‘For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.’ In this life, we aren’t playing games. There is a real battle going on. And God’s Word is a spiritual weapon. In the book of Ephesians, when Paul is teaching the body of Christ about their armor, he says, in Ephesians 6:17 to 18, ‘take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Praying always with all prayer and supplication.’
Supplication means simply “earnest entreaty.” You’re earnestly entreating God from a heartfelt place, ‘…in the spirit being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.”
Pastor Ken says, Let me just prophesy over you today…
You are a persevering, peaceful people. We are a determined and persevering people. Things may have not changed as of last time you checked, but God’s still on His throne. His Word still says after you’ve done all that you know to do, stand. And stand, therefore. So today we go another day in our confidence and our trust in Him, that He’s going to see us through, that His Word is faithful and we can count on it, that He’s working behind the scenes as we pray today, as we simply just sit here today. Because once again, He works for those who wait for Him. He’s working in your family today. I prophesy He’s working in your situation where there’s an unknown or something that’s broken down in some way or something that’s upside down. I prophesy and I declare God is at work. His angels have been deployed. His power is flowing. Heaven is available for us to see the goodness of God in that situation.
He is the God of, “yes.” It was His idea that we would ask that we might receive—not your idea. It was His idea…
That we would seek
That we would knock
That we would ask
That we would receive
That the door would be opened.
She goes on to say…
“Another biblical writer echoed Paul’s sentiment about the power of God’s Word as a weapon. The Word of God is living and powerful and shaper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hallelujah!
“Learn to use the Word of God properly. The difference between improper application of the Word and its proper application is the difference between children who play at sword fighting and a swordsman who after much training has developed his skill. The swordsman is a master at what he does. The muscles he uses have become developed and strong. He has become quick and when he strikes with the sword, he hits his target forcefully.”
So imagine that happening when you pray…
Imagine that happening when you speak forth the Word of God over an atmosphere in your home, over a particular situation, over a nation. See yourself as a skillful, well-conditioned, well-capable swordsman in the army of God. Your words—God’s words—on your lips are as powerful as the words Jesus Himself spoke. The Word spoken to us was designed and intended by the Father to be spoken through us and to be wielded as a sword. It does a particular work. That’s what prayer is. It doesn’t come overnight, but after much training, we become master swordsmen with the Word of God. Jesus stood on scripture when He faced temptation. Matthew 4. The very Word of God proceeded from His mouth. The Word of God is the sword of the spirit.
“Remember this vital part of scripture: “praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit” (Eph. 6:18). Remember, God’s given us promises once again to get us from here to there…
To change situations
To change the trajectory of people’s lives
To affect change in nations
To precipitate the plan of God upon planet earth.
God has given us promises, and those promises on our lips enable us to deal with the enemy on our journey from here to there.”
Fall in love with the process…
I love to coach my daughter in various ways, especially with her volleyball aspirations, but just in life in general. Her and her brothers. And I often remind them to fall in love with the process. Don’t just fall in love with the outcome of being successful in your sport or in your academics or in your life in some way. Fall in love with the process or the journey from here to there. If you’ll do so, then time won’t be a factor. You won’t be so concerned about the time or whether or not there’s a W or an L in the column on the scoreboard. You just fall in love with the process of showing up every day, showing up on God’s radar screen, showing up to practice, showing up to put in some extra reps, I tell her. Showing up to give it your a hundred plus percent effort in practice. Just fall in love with the process of getting rest of recovery of all the things that go into her sport. And good things will eventually begin to happen.
The same is true for us…
Our job isn’t to figure out exactly how God’s going to perform, what we know He’s promised to do, or when it’s going to happen. Let’s just fall in love with the process of knowing Him. Fall in love with the process of showing up on God’s radar screen, follow up with the process of just walking with Him day by day. And as we do so, we’ll look back and see that it’s changed. We’ll see that good things are beginning to emerge and happen on the landscape of our lives and our nation and the earth.
