Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Happy Monday, everyone. Welcome.
Good to see you all. Sure appreciate you and your faithfulness and your continual supply of prayer to the plan of God. Because that’s what you are doing. You’re supplying the plan of God with faith and utterance and prayers. The exercise of your authority. Those are significant to the purpose of God, significant to the heart of God.
God is pleased with His children…
And I believe He is smiling down on us today saying, “There’s My children. I am well pleased with them.” Come on. You can say amen right there. God is pleased with you, not because of you or me, but in spite of us and our best efforts. He’s pleased with us because of the finished work of Jesus.
Jesus went the distance for us…
I’m so grateful that Jesus volunteered to come to earth and to do what He did. I’m so glad that He decided to go the distance, to pray that prayer of consecration and dedication in the Garden of Gethsemane in His final moments before His great sacrifice. I’m glad that He went the distance. And I’m determined to go the distance as well. I know you are also. So we’re going the distance. We’re going to run our race with faith, with determination, with a pursuit to honor Him and to fulfill all that He has called us to do individually and collectively in the earth.
God’s biblical principals are eternal…
Well, it is Monday morning and I thought I would share… I shared last week an excerpt from Brother Kenneth Hagin’s book, “Following God’s Plan for Your Life.” And this is really basic stuff, but I always am reminded of the principle from the Word that we’re to give more earnest heed to those things which we’ve already learned, lest at any time we let them slip. The same truth and the same biblical principles that set you free or set you on a God-ordained course years ago or even decades ago, those same principles are eternal. And if they work then, they’ll work now in this season. And we’ve got to give attention to the principles of God’s Word. Amen. Even those things which we have learned.
We must learn how to follow the Holy Spirit…
And Brother Hagin talks about learning to follow the Holy Spirit. In particular, he talks about following the inward witness or the unction of the Spirit on the inside of you, and how that is not costly. Instead, that’s profitable for us. It produces the will of God. It produces fruitfulness. We should all desire to be fruitful, to bear fruit of the will of God, to bear fruit in the realm of prayer. That’s one reason why we’re here, right? That we would bear fruit, that we would produce the results of answered prayer in our lives, in our nation, in our households, even in future generations… if Jesus tarries. That’s how powerful prayer is. It allows us to reach across time and space and plant the seeds for God’s divine will to be accomplished 10 years from now, 20 years from now into the future.
The enemy is literally scared of the prayer you’re going to pray today. He is nervous. You want to make the enemy nervous? You wake up and you intercede. You wake up and you begin to decree.
We are to live by what we believe…
I was telling one of my kids that this morning just sharing the basic principles of how we’re to live by not what we see, but rather we live by declaring what we believe. And I believe the report of the Lord. I believe that His promises are still true to this 21st century day. That if you can say it, you give God the raw material to create it—in your body, in your finances, in your household, in your future.
We have a coach inside of us—the Holy Spirit…
Things begin to flow more supernaturally, begin to flow in a good direction, a more prosperous direction when you intercede when you yield to the spirit of prayer on the inside of you. You have a coach inside of you today. We have a coach, that being the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of prayer. He’s the Spirit of prayer and He’s inside of us to coach us and to prompt us and to lead us.
Learn to pick up on the cues of the Holy Spirit…
And before I read this, I’ll just say when you sense something on the inside, when you begin to pick up… Pastor Lynne used to call them “cues.” On a television set, there’s a someone behind the scenes off camera, that’s flashing cue cards. So that whoever’s speaking knows it’s time to go to a commercial break or it’s time to announce such and such, or welcome a new guest or something.
Well, you’ve got to know that behind the scenes, hidden in your hearts, just beyond the distractions of this world, in a still small voice, in a simple prompting with a nudge and a hint and a sense of peace, there is a Spirit and His name is the Holy Spirit. Amen. The Spirit of Jesus who is giving you and I cues that will be profitable for us… cues that will lead us to the next step in God’s plan.
When you hear the cue, follow it…
You don’t have to see the whole path or have eyes on the full map of God’s plan for your future. You just need to let the Holy Spirit speak to you and prompt you for that next step. And then there’ll be a step after that. But when the Holy Spirit prompts you, pay attention to that, first of all, but then respond to it. There’s an anointing on His promptings. There’s an anointing on His voice to step out and then do… to step out and pray to obey.
But if we are flippant or casual or live constantly distracted and we ignore those simple promptings, then the anointing wanes and we begin to dial into the other voices that compete for our attention on a daily basis. And the still small voice of the Holy Spirit gets diminished. Whereas the Bible teaches us to covet and practice hearing and responding to the voice of the Holy Spirit.
Kenneth E. Hagin’s book, “Following God’s Plan for Your Life”
Brother Kenneth Hagin talks about in this one passage in his book, “How to Be Led by the Holy Spirit.” He says, “One of the greatest assets God has provided for the believer in seeking God’s plan for his or her life is the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues.” Acts 2:2–4.
“The Bible says that when you pray in an unknown tongue, your spirit prays. First Corinthians 14:14. Your spirit is actively communicating with God when you pray in other tongues, as the spirit gives you utterance or inspires you to speak. This is a great enablement in prayer because it is through your spirit that God gives you guidance.
“First Corinthians 14:2 says that when you pray in other tongues, you are speaking mysteries. So as you seek the Lord for guidance and direction, the Holy Spirit will help you pray out mysteries, the mysteries of God’s plan for your life as you pray in other tongues.
“In my own Christian experience, I’ve found that praying in other tongues is one of the best ways to get my body quiet and my mind in neutral so I can hear what the Spirit is saying. You see, you can be just as noisy with your mind as you can be with your hands and feet. And if your mind is hollering at you, constantly bombarding you with the soulish thoughts or the Devil’s lies, you aren’t going to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying to your spirit.
“Over the years, it has become easier for me to get my mind and body quiet as I pray. It used to take me at least an hour and a half praying in tongues to get my soul and my body quiet. But now it only takes a few minutes. You see, spiritual habits must be practiced. The practice of meditating on God’s Word, you must engage in that. The practice of speaking in other tongues must be just that, practice utilized.
“You see, spiritual things have to be practiced just like natural things do. For instance, baseball players practice in the spring in order to get ready for the upcoming baseball season. Similarly, the more you wait before the Lord and pray in other tongues, the easier it will be to get quiet and listen to your heart. Of course, that’s not easy on the flesh. Your body won’t necessarily want to pray. It’s a whole lot easier to watch television or visit Susie Q or Joe Blow down the street than it is to make yourself pray. But if you’re going to receive God’s wisdom and direction in your life, you’ll have to keep your body under subjection to your spirit and diligently give yourself to prayer.”
Now, let me read one other excerpt. He says…
“Getting God’s direction clear in your spirit is what will carry you through to victory when the trials of life come. If you don’t know for sure what God’s will is for you concerning a particular matter, you could be easily swayed by adverse and contrary circumstances. If you don’t have God’s direction clear in your spirit and you make a decision anyway, you could waste a lot of time wavering back and forth in fear, wondering if you’ve missed God. Without the knowledge of God’s will fixed firmly in your spirit, you’ll ride the waves of circumstances…. Up one day and down the next. And you’ll eventually get off course because you’ll be led by natural circumstances rather than the leading of the Holy Spirit in your spirit. Knowing God’s will in your spirit is your anchor to keep you on course no matter what you come up against.”
