Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Hello and happy Monday, everyone. Good to see y’all. Welcome. If you didn’t already know, my name is Ken Olson. I’m one of the pastors here at Living Word, and I am excited to pray with y’all today.
I thought I would open up this morning with a couple of passages of scripture just to get us started.
Let’s continue to press down on the accelerator of God’s plans…
I am encouraged by what I see happening presently in our own nation. There are some chaotic things and some enemy attacks in different ways in our nation and around the world, yet God is performing His desires and work to bring forth a great harvest, to spark and perpetuate revival and awakening in nations and in our nation. And so I want us to just continue to press down on the accelerator of God’s plans and purposes through prayer this morning.
Prayer releases the plan of God to go into effect…
That’s one thing that prayer does. Prayer releases the plan of God to go into effect. It resources the plan of God. And I think you’ll see that by something I’m going to read from Pastor Lynne here in just a little bit. But let me just read this passage, one of the Pauline prayers, commonly known as “The Pauline Prayers” found in Philippians 1:2–6.
Phil. 1…
It essentially says this, “Grace, favor, and blessing and heart peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I speak to each of these precious ones I’m standing in the gap for. I thank God as I remember them in prayer. In every prayer I pray, in every treaty and petition I make for them is with joy and delight. I thank you, Lord, for their fellowship, cooperation, and contributions and partnership in the advancing of the Gospel. I am convinced and sure of this very thing that you, Lord, who began a good work in them [that’s you and in me, right?] will continue that good work until the day of Jesus Christ, right up to the time of His return, developing that good work and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in Christ.”
So can we just agree and let that be our prayer at the outset of this brand-new week, that God would continue the good work He began in us?
Prayed…
Lord, continue the good work you’ve begun here at Living Word, in your church home, in your family, in your household. Lord, advance, accelerate, continue the good work that you’ve already initiated in Jesus’ name.
Quote by John Osteen (father to Joel Osteen)…
Then, I was just thinking about by John Osteen just the other day. He said, “The Holy Ghost is not a luxury. He is a necessity. You cannot live a victorious Christian life without the power of the Holy Spirit.” Amen!
So I want us just to be expectant of His power this morning to equip us and enable us to pray effectively. As I often point out, He after all is the Great Intercessor. The Holy Spirit comes alongside us, whether we’re praying individually or collectively as we are here online and in this chapel this morning. He comes alongside us and He assists us in praying out the plans and purposes of God. He assists us to not pray just in our own understanding or intellect, but to pray out of the deep well of mystery and divine providence that God has established, things that He wants to accomplish, in other words.
We can draw from that well…
We’re able to draw from that well… we’re able to draw from the Father’s heart directly with the help of the Holy Spirit…
to pray things out
to groan things out at times
to cry things out sometimes
As we cooperate with the Spirit, we can get the job done…
Sometimes you can become so overwhelmed by the identification of a situation or a life that hangs in the balance or a nation that’s going the wrong direction, or a prodigal son or daughter who’s gone away from his or her relationship with the Lord, You can identify and begin to pick up on that in the spirit. And your spirit begins to cooperate with God the Holy Spirit, the great pray-er and intercessor. So that we can come together to get the job done.
It’s going to require a flow of heaven to get the job done…
What we have in ourselves is not going to accomplish the plan of God for our lives or for the world. It’s going to require a greater collaboration and partnership with our Heavenly Father through the Holy Spirit in these coming days. It’s going to require a demonstration of God’s power and the flow of heaven to us and through us…
for us to wrap up the age
for us to see the Great Harvest reaped
for you to see the fulfillment of that dream He dropped in your heart years before
We must be aligned with Him…
For you to realize all that God intends heaven on earth, it’s going to require that we become more accurately aligned with His way. And His way is to trust in His spirit—The Great Helper, the Standby, the Advocate, the Intercessor.
The Lord is hovering over the Church…
So just be aware of that today, that the Lord is hovering over His people. He’s hovering over the church. Yes, in this 21st century generation. Desiring and yearning to communicate through us, not just to us, but through us. That groanings, that utterance, that articulation would come forth from us. Yes, in our known language, but also in an unknown language, a.k.a. tongues…
that there might be expression in the earth realm
that there might be declaration in the earth realm of the wonderful works of God that have yet to be seen
that God wants to fashion and bring into reality in our generation, in your household, in your life, in my life.
God’s resources of heaven is available to us…
There’s far more available to us than we understand. There’s far more stored up in the resources of God. There’s far more than we understand prepared and set in store for us. And prayer enables us to draw upon that great and vast resource of heaven, not just in an ethereal or spiritual kind of way. But you can draw healings, body parts if you need a new body part.
“Oh, did he just say that, Myrtle?” Yeah, I just said that!
There are body parts, there are breakthroughs, there are turnarounds, there are answers, there’s provision for the vision in the realm of God, in the storehouses of heaven. They’re chock full of what you and I need and what the church needs, what America needs for this hour. It’s a collaboration with heaven and the spirit of prayer, the Holy Spirit, that enables us to go from our realm to His realm to receive what Ephesians 1:3 declares that we’ve been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly arena in Christ. Every spiritual blessing! Every practical blessing! All things that pertain.
Bottom-line Christianity…
Another passage in the scripture reads, “pertains unto life and godliness has been prepared and put in store for you and me to receive.” And it’s prayer that enables us to traverse the realm of time and space to touch the heart and the resource of God in that realm and bring it back to this realm. I’m not just trying to hype you up this morning. I’m speaking of bottom-line Christianity, the way God set this thing up.
The great Charles Finney…
The great Charles Finney, who was known for great preaching and whole cities and villages and regions coming to Christ in a short amount of time, understood what I’m talking about. He understood the power of devotion, fasting, and prayer to receive what God wanted. Not just for Himself, but for whole regions and a whole nation at the time of his life in earthly ministry.
He was able to access great awakenings for America back in the 19th century. So much so that the makeup of the most hardened sinners that you could refer to, of men and women who were far from God. Yet when they got to Finney’s presence or they got within even a mile of the great tent meeting that was happening where the Gospel was being preached, they would fall under conviction without any necessary prompting because the Spirit of God was in evidence. The power of God had come down. A man with him knew how to pray…
that there would be something of God’s realm brought into our realm
that there would be a great shaking in the hearts of people
that our eyes would be open and our hearts would be broken
that we might understand and receive what this life is all about.
It’s about the fact that God created us for Himself…
It’s not about our deal. It’s not about the world system. It’s not about the current political figure in office. It’s about the fact that God created us for Himself. It’s about the fact that God desired a people to relate to and to be in union with a people that would know Him by name. A people who would, in addition to living and journeying with Him, work with Him – in this current life, but also in the life to come.
It must be Monday morning… I am preaching. Hallelujah!
Pastor Ken’s personal notes…
So I jotted this down a while back. I just had to write it down because it kind of like jumped off the page of my heart. It’s a simple phrase. It’s this: “The expectation of God working through us must come up to a higher level.”
In other words, God wants to turn up the volume, turn up the expectation of God working through us. The Holy Spirit, once again, is not a luxury. He’s a necessity. His power and the divine flow of unending resources and anointing and virtue must come into evidence now. Not just for one deal in your life, but there must come a repetitive flow now, a continuous flow of God coming to and through us…
that He might accomplish His work
that we might see even on a whole other level what Charles Finney saw
that our whole nation would be made over again
that our whole nation would be shaken to the core
that souls and lives would be transformed
that there would come an increase in the awareness of the God of heaven, who came down to do what He did for us that we might know His grace
that we might know His love
that we might seek to know Him day by day.
Early church account…
Let me read this account that comes from the early church found in the book of Acts, chapter four, which is an account of the early church. It says this in verse 23…
“And being let go they went to their own company…” The church at that time. “…and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. So when they heard that they raised their voice to God with one accord and said, Lord, you are God who made heaven and earth and the sea and all that is in them. Who by the mouth of your servant David, have said why do their nations rage and the people plot vain things? The kings of the earth took their stand and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ, for truly against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together to do whatever your hand and your purpose determined before to be done. Now Lord, look on their threats and grant to your servants that with all boldness, they may speak.”
We may speak! We may pray, you could add to that.
“…that we might speak your word by stretching out your hand to heal and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant, Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they spoke the word of God with boldness.”
Making declarations and decrees…
I’m praying and decreeing that this week as you come to morning prayer, as you’re logged online, as you give your heart over to Jesus one day at a time, one moment at a time that you’re going to receive boldness to speak forth the Word of God… maybe in a conversation with a coworker or a fellow student or a family member, but perhaps God has in mind for you this week to speak boldly His rhema or His logos promise… His Word, in other words, over your situation, over an atmosphere, over your household, over your children, over a coworker.
Speak out His Word…
He intends that we would speak the Word with all boldness, with no reservation, with no misgivings, with no hesitations. And that includes all of His promises. Grab hold of His promises, take hold of His Word and speak it out. Declare it over that situation, over that sickness, over that lion that’s growling at you day after day, telling you it’s going to take you down.
“No, it ain’t.” Excuse my English. “It will not!”
God intends that we would defeat some lions privately so that eventually we can take down some giants publicly in our lives, in our churches, in our schools, in our workplaces, in our nation.
Quote from Pastor Lynne’s book, “The Master Is Calling”
Now let me read something. This comes from Pastor Lynne’s book, “The Master Is Calling.” It’s a classic in my mind. And it’s an essential book on prayer that every believer, every pray-er should have. And she talks about what I’m referring to, this collaboration with heaven, this work of prayer. In chapter 15, where she talks about the realms of the spirit, she reminds us of First Corinthians 2:9–10.
“But as it is written, eye has not seen nor ear heard, neither has entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit.”
The Holy Spirit is a necessity to lead an effective Christian life…
So the Holy Spirit, as John Osteen said, isn’t a luxury. He’s a life. Actually, I think that Katherine Kuhlman said that. The Holy Spirit isn’t a luxury. He’s a life. Osteen said He’s not a luxury. He’s a necessity to lead a successful, fruitful, effective Christian life. We must partner with God the Holy Spirit today by being conscious of Him, aware of Him, drawing upon His gifts and His enablement in every facet of our lives.
Pastor Lynne writes…
“Once you start learning to cooperate with the Holy Spirit, you will discover that prayer is more than a magnificent occupation than you’ve ever imagined. You will find it’s not just the Holy Spirit helping you to pray about matters that concern you. It is you helping the Holy Spirit pray about matters that concern Him.
“The very concept staggers the imagination. If it were not in the Bible, it would be impossible to believe almighty God could possibly desire the aid and assistance of the likes of us—reborn creations though we are. Yet from cover to cover, the Word of God reveals that since the beginning when God gave man dominion over the earth, He has worked in partnership with men and women of faith and prayer.”
“Over and over in the pages of scripture, we hear Him say, ‘Ask of Me.’ Behind those fervent admonitions is the loving heart of a Father who longs to pour out blessings upon the earth. Yet He restrains Himself. He has given the earth to mankind. That’s you. That’s me. And He will not usurp His authority. He waits to be invited. “Throughout the Old Testament, He has always found a remnant who will do so. God-loving people who yielded themselves as servants and under the power of the Holy Spirit prayed God’s will into the earth. But now He has something much greater. He has millions of born-again men and women who are not just servants but sons with His own name and nature and His own spirit living in their hearts.”
“My, how we have underestimated the call God has given us. The Apostle Paul gives us a glimpse of it in 1st Corinthians 1:9, when He says God is faithful, reliable, trustworthy, and therefore ever true to His promise. And He can be dependent upon. By Him, you were called into companionship and participation with His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Not spectatorship but companionship. We are not called to be forever spiritual infants constantly crying for our Father to do this or that for us. We are called to grow up and become participators, companions with Him. In other words, true sons and daughters of the most high God.”
