Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Good morning! Hello, everyone. Good to see y’all. Hope you had a good weekend. It is the 18th of May, 2026. My name is Ken Olsen. Hope you’re doing good.
God’s not through with America yet…
I don’t know if you had a chance to catch any of the ceremonies and the worship services in Washington, D.C., and maybe other places even in regard to the rededicating of our nation back to God yesterday. But that was amazing, wasn’t it? Rededicated to God.
And so let’s continue to keep what occurred yesterday in mind. And let’s continue to stay behind it and continue to pray over it and see ourselves entering a brand new season in God’s purpose for our nation. He’s not through with America yet. There’s more destiny to be fulfilled. There’s more prophetic intention that He wants to accomplish and bring about in our nation, in Israel, around the world in these days. And so we’re going to pray about some of that today.
2nd Chronicles 7:14…
I was listening to President Trump read this scripture last night and I thought, “I want to read it this morning to start off our time.” He, of course, quotes the very well-known verse found in 2 Chronicles 7:14:
“If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer made in this place.”
That’s His promise to us this morning. His ears are open to the prayers that will be made in this place, digitally and in person.
Now Isaiah 64:1 says…
“Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down.” That’s what we desire, right? That He would come down. “That the mountains might shake at your presence, as fire burns brushwood, as fire causes water to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence.”
Pastor Nancy Dufresne’s book, “Supernatural Prayer Life”
Well, let me share a little devotional with you before we get into some prayer here this morning. And this is found in Nancy Dufresne’s book, “Supernatural Prayer Life.” Pastor Nancy Dufresne writes in chapter 12 about the Spirit of Prayer. And I love that phrase—“the spirit of prayer.” I learned as a young person that the spirit of prayer is often more “caught” than “taught.” There’s a teaching side to prayer, without a doubt. But there’s also something you catch, the spirit of prayer that is, when you’re around other prayers.
So I pray today that you will catch the spirit of prayer. I believe that’s partly what occurred yesterday in that rededication. It wasn’t to be just a one-off, a “one and done.” It was to be an opportunity for people in our nation to catch the spirit of prayer. And…
Get behind what God is doing
Get behind what He is saying
Get behind what has been prophesied and what He desires to bring about in and through our nation and around the world.
Pastor Nancy starts off by quoting Hebrews 4:15 and 16…
“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. But was at all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace in time of need.” Hallelujah.
Nancy says…
“Jesus was touched with the feeling of our infirmities. He feels what another feels. As we enter into this great privilege of prayer, cooperating with the Spirit of God, we too will feel what Jesus feels for another. We will feel the agony of the Holy Spirit reaching out to God through us on our behalf.”
“So in other words, you’ll feel what He feels reaching out through us, through the Holy Spirit. Perhaps for somebody who’s lost, you might feel lost. Perhaps for somebody who’s going through great pain, you might feel that pain. You might identify, you could say, with that pain. That’s not you, that’s the Holy Spirit saying, ‘Hey, come on. Join me in praying about this person, about this situation, about even events that are yet to come.’ When we sense in our spirits this great longing of the Spirit through us on behalf of another, we know what we are to do. We are to ‘Come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain.’ We are to come before the throne on behalf of those who don’t know how to access the throne for themselves.”
You could call that intercession, right?
“The throne is the place of obtaining. No need goes unmet at the throne. How are we to come before the throne? One way is to lift up in the spirit, praying for them or that situation in other tongues as the Holy Spirit moves upon us in love and compassion toward them.”
Now, she shares an example about early in her life in ministry. She did not recognize that unction, that spirit of prayer, which she was identifying with and overlooked it and had to learn some things the hard way. And then she goes on to talk about the enemy’s strategy.
She says…
“The Devil took advantage of my lack of knowledge in these things in the spirit of prayer, in recognizing what’s going on inside of you when it comes to prayer. And bombarded me with thoughts suggesting something was wrong with me because the feeling of this heaviness was so real. The greatest weapon our enemy uses is the power of suggestion. He suggests a thought to us and if we don’t recognize it as from him and stand against it, he will gain entrance into our thought life, and we will yield up our peace. The enemy was seeking to keep me out of the spirit arena and hold me in the mental arena, because that’s the arena he deals in. That’s his arena. If Satan can hold you in the mental arena, he’ll whip you. But if you’ll hold him in the arena of the spirit which is the arena of faith, you’ll whip him. You’ll defeat him every time. He seeks to hold us in the mental arena, for then we don’t yield to the Spirit of God as we ought, and we lose effectiveness.”
Pastor Ken says…
That’s why worship, I think, is important, because it helps draw our thoughts and our attention to spiritual things, to what’s going on inside of us rather than what’s going on in our intellect.
She said…
“I should have yielded to the spirit of prayer by praying in tongues and resisted those mental attacks by answering those troubling thoughts with the Word. And then quieted my mind by focusing my attention on my spirit. But instead, I was held in the mental arena, and I was troubled.”
Ken says…
Then she talks about recognizing the spirit of prayer. And that’s what I want to emphasize to you for the balance of my reading here.
She says…
“The Holy Spirit was endeavoring to get me to cooperate with Him in the spirit of prayer. I should have given myself to speaking in other tongues, for then I would have been cooperating with the Holy Spirit in prayer. I should have prayed in other tongues until I sensed the heaviness lift. E.W. Kenyon describes this spirit of prayer, this prayer burden, in his book, ‘In His Presence,” when he writes, quote, ‘The Holy Spirit in us often makes intercession that cannot be uttered in words. Oftentimes we are depressed. We cannot understand or see any reason for it. It is the Holy Spirit in agony reaching through us to the Father. After all, we’re intercessors. God wants to do something through us. We are a conduit. We are an avenue through which God is endeavoring to get His way and to establish His purposes in the earth realm. If our spirits were only fruitful or sensitive to the Holy Spirit, perhaps we could understand the language and agony of the Spirit in His mighty outreaching toward the throne of grace.”
Ken says…
So in other words, God is reaching out through you and me today to the world that is lost and dying, hurting, broken, and in desperate need of a Savior. Perhaps God will be reaching through you today, calling out the deep in you. The Bible says the deep in us cries out to the deep things in God. Just expect this week, if not today, that you will pick up on something that He has for you to pray about. Maybe it’s a loved one, maybe it’s a family member, maybe it’s for yourself. Bible says, “If anyone is afflicted or going through a tough time, let him or let her pray.”
She goes on to say…
“When the burden of prayer moves on a believer like this, as we give ourselves to praying in other tongues, whenever the thing we are praying for is accomplished, the spirit of prayer will lift. When it lifts, you might sing in tongues, or you might start laughing, or just seem light sensing the lifting of that burden. That is what the old-timers called praying through.”
Ken says…
I like that. In other words, there are some prayer assignments where it is a “one and done.” But oftentimes there are prayer assignments that we have to give ourselves time and time again to. That thought or the image of that person or that situation will come up to you again. Don’t push it down. Don’t shrug it off as just a random thought. Pick it up and pray into that.
Like Terri said yesterday, just take five minutes and pray into that, whatever you’re seeing, whatever you’re sensing, whatever you’re hearing, even whatever you’re feeling. I would suggest to you that oftentimes what you’re feeling on the inside isn’t a result of your past or the fact that you’re maybe feeling melancholy in the moment. It could very well be, and I would suggest often is, as a pray-er the Spirit of God reaching through you. He’s activating us to give ourselves to prayer because He desires to straighten some things out.
Prayer straightens things out. Prayer makes adjustments. Prayer is the your ability to assign the power of God to a situation that things might be transformed, that atmospheres spiritually speaking might be cleared out so the angelic ranks, so the Spirit of God, so the plan of God can enter our dimension. Can enter a person’s life. Can shift the course of the events of humanity in a direction that God has mapped out in His divine providence.
God has chosen to partner with us…
I know I teach this a lot, but once again, God has chosen to partner with us. It is through you and through me being active in prayer, being yielded to the spirit of prayer that enables God to accomplish what He wants to do today and any day.
So she goes on to say…
Because I was a spiritual baby and didn’t understand these things, I didn’t know to cooperate with the Spirit through speaking in other tongues. But the prayer burden, this heaviness, didn’t lift. It would stay on me for days. And because of my lack of understanding, the Devil would suggest all kinds of thoughts and trouble my mind during that time. If I had known to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in these matters, God would have been able to accomplish His plan through me. If my spirit had been more sensitive, I would have recognized this as a spiritual leading instead of thinking that I was under attack.”
Ooh, that’s a good thought, isn’t it?
“How important it is for us to receive instruction in these matters so that we’ll know how to cooperate with the Holy Spirit and bear much fruit in prayer.”
Prayer makes a big difference…
So know that God desires to bear much fruit through us in prayer. He desires to produce the results of His heart and His will through prayer. And the more we progress in knowledge from a natural and scientific sense, the more I’m discovering that prayer can actually be the results of prayer measured in its effect on us physically, emotionally, mentally, on other people’s situations. Prayer makes a big difference.
Prayed…
And so, Father, we thank you for the privilege to know you.
We thank you for the privilege to come boldly to your throne of grace, the throne where we might obtain, the throne where we engage not just in our own requests, but also in that which you desire to do on a broader sense.
