Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Hello and happy Monday everyone. Good to see y’all. Welcome. Let me introduce myself. My name is Ken Olson. I’m one of the pastors here at Living Word. And it’s good to have you with us.
Announcements…
Just a couple of quick announcements. This coming Wednesday, we have Joan Hunter, who will be here on site at Living Word at our Wednesday night service. So if you’re in need of healing, she and her family have a long history of healing ministry and miracles. So join us this Wednesday online or in person if you can.
The following Wednesday, July 23, I will be leading that Wednesday night service and the focus will be prayer and worship. And you know me, I will definitely spend a little time imparting and instructing and sharing some things, but we’ll also take a chunk of that time to pray.
In the beginning was the Word…
We have Miss Annie to lead us in worship here. She’s gifted and always so faithful. Miss Annie said this morning, we need to start with the Word because, “in the beginning was the Word.” And I thought “that’ll preach.” In the beginning was the Word, right? And the Word was God. And so He sustains all things in the universe, in each of our lives by the Word of His power. His Word will endure long after this temporary realm passes away. His Word will remain. So yeah, it’s important that we stir ourselves up on words of faith and words of life and the words of Jesus.
Words from E.W. Kenyon’s book, “In His Presence”
I’m going to read a few excerpts from EW Kenyon’s book “In His Presence.” Kenyon definitely had some understanding and revelation regarding the Word. And this is in particular on the subject of God’s presence and prayer.
And he writes in one segment…
“One who is easily disturbed and who in the jolts of life is unseated will find new strength and steadiness will make him a blessing to the world by spending just a little time with the Rock of our strength. You see a few moments with Him, with Jesus that is, tunes us up, fills the battery, adjusts the carburetor and makes it easy for us to face life’s uneven conditions. It gives us poise and holy dignity in our context.
Faith makes us an intelligent victor. Faith makes mountains and difficulties take their true position. You can’t sit with God, the God of faith, in all love for half an hour each day without unconsciously breathing in the faith of God. What would it mean to you if Jesus should come to your home today as He came into the home of Mary and Martha? You would take time to visit with Him.
John 14:23 states, “Jesus answered and said unto him, if a man loved me, he will keep my words and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him.” You love Him. Invite Him into your home and get acquainted with Him. Learn to talk things over with Him. He is there. Visit with Him. Remember, He loves you and He’s interested in all your problems. He will make His Word answer every question. He makes Himself real in your life and your home. [end]
And now I’m going to jump to another segment where he says this…
We are branches that are bearing the fruit from the real vine. Who’s the real vine? Jesus. We are opening channels through which He can pour Himself out unto man. Our ministry is not a failure. We are winning.
Don’t get it mixed up. Don’t listen to the lie of the enemy. You are winning today. We will make progress in the plan of God. Simply because we show up in His presence. Simply because we choose to be targets of His presence, that His presence would manifest and that He would reveal Himself through His Word and through the manifestation of God the Holy Spirit in our lives.
And as a result, you win.
As a result, He’s able to redeem whatever the enemy did to attack your life in recent times or in your past.
As a result, He is able to set you up for success.
He’s able to restore. Not only that, the Bible promises that He’s able to deploy or bless you with restitution. In other words, payback for what you’ve been through and what the enemy took.
We are winning in prayer…
We are winning as we take steps of faith, as we hold the promise of God at the center of our focus. You win. All that is needed to change, all that is needed to win is a change in our perspective, a change in our focus. And our focus is on Him. The Bible says set your mind and set your sights on Him, on things that are heavenly and not things that are on this earth and passing away.
Kenyon goes on to write…
We are making out of these failures, men and women… In other words, people who couldn’t succeed in themselves. God is making us successes. Our union with Him is beckoning other men and women to dare come unto a union with Him. They see failures transfigured into successes. They see men and women have been held for years absolute slaves to narcotics, drink, set free in the fullness of their liberty in Christ. And those in bondage reached their hands out for help and our Father grasped them and lifts them up onto solid rock.
Exhortation…
See yourself being lifted up onto solid rock this morning. Wherever things are shifting, wherever things are uncertain, wherever there is an unknown, wherever you’ve messed up or made a mistake, just see the Lord lifting you up out of a rut, out of miry clay, out of whatever you feel like you’re sinking into and setting your feet upon a solid rock.
Come on now! Amen.
It’s all about the finished work of Jesus…
It’s got nothing to do with how you missed it yesterday or where you made a mistake or where you engaged in sin in some way. We acknowledge that. We confess that. We take advantage of His blood. But it’s all about the finished work of Jesus, after all. It’s all about the victorious, overwhelming might and victory and success of our Lord through His life, His death, His burial, and especially His resurrection.
So you want to know your true state and the condition of your life? Look to Jesus. He is high and lifted up. You want to know who you are found identified with? Look to the Word. It says that you’re identified with Jesus. You’re jointly seated with Him in a place of victory, in a place of authority, in a place of perpetual overcoming.
The Word will remain…
I know we mess up and we feel weak at times and incapable at times. That’s okay. Your flesh and your mind can be tempted to think those thoughts, but you can always leverage your will and steer it toward the Word and the promise of God because the Word will remain and go on and on into eternity.
But this realm and how you feel and that harassing thought, it’s going away. It is temporary. And I can choose to focus on His Word and see that even though maybe I messed up or you messed up or whatever, or we feel incapable, we can look to His promise, we can look to His victory, we can look to that perpetual work of resurrection and say, “That’s me. I’m in that. I’m identified with Him. I am in Christ and He is in me. Hallelujah.”
We’ve got to stir these things up in our hearts as pray-ers. We can’t lose sight of the fundamentals. The Bible says that we’re to give more earnest heed to those things which we’ve already learned. Lest at anytime we let them slip. That’s a Bible principle.
So E.W. Kenyon goes on to say…
Come on, you who pray, join this mighty group of intercessors who are making the desert places bloom like a rose.
You know there are different times, even in modern times where the Lord sent forth rains into the desert places in Israel. And lo and behold, a desert that hadn’t bloomed in years, decades, maybe even hundreds of years, suddenly is the greenest, most prolific, most beautifully adorned place on the planet. Because the Lord gave rain. Well, guess what? Our prayers release the rain. Our prayers release the power and the glory and the intentionality of our Father’s heart into the earth.
Prayer causes things to bloom…
That as Jesus taught us to pray, that it might be on the earth, in the earth, in your life, in my life as it is in heaven. And it’s our prayers that cause things to bloom. I love that analogy. Maybe it’s because I have a degree in horticulture, I don’t know. But I just love that. Prayer causes things to bloom. It’s not a work. The work has been finished in Jesus. But our prayers are acts of obedience to follow Him and to join Him in this most sacred and holy assignment and vocation that of partnering with our Father and bringing about heaven to earth, causing desert places in your life and my life, in our city, in our nations to bloom.
