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Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Good morning, everyone. Good to see y’all here on this Monday morning in October. If you don’t already know, my name is Ken Olson, and I’m one of the pastors here at Living Word. And good to have you with us to pray today.
The supply and flow of the Holy Spirit is always available…
Aren’t you just grateful and thankful for gifts such as Miss Annie and the anointing she brings and the presence of God? This morning, I think that song is super apropos because I was thinking about the supply and the flow of God the Holy Spirit a bit the last couple of days. And I was thinking about how available it’s to us that there’s no lack or insufficiency in the kingdom of heaven. And if we profess the name of Jesus and invited Him into our lives, then we find ourselves as citizens of that kingdom even though we presently occupy a physical body and live in this natural world. Yet we’re a part of His kingdom as well. We have dual citizenship of the earth and of the kingdom of heaven.
And Jesus came to do what He did on the cross and in His resurrection to provide for us a supply, rain as we just sang about, a river of living water, a spring within our soul that springs up perpetually and eternally from the inside of who you are.
The enemy is a liar and the father of all lies…
And so I just want to encourage you with that this morning because I know the enemy is persistent. I’ll give him that, but that’s about it. And that he comes to harass, and he comes to discourage, and he comes to tempt, and he comes to tell you it’s not going to come to pass, that what you prayed about or you’re not going to realize your dream or you’re going to end up in a negative place in the year ahead or at the end of your life or something.
And I’m here to say it’s all not true. He is a liar and the father of lies from the beginning.
Jesus is the fountain of living water…
And what I want to encourage you in and connect you to is the reminder that He is the fountain of living water. He is our supply that we can take advantage of every day, that brings hope and encouragement and sustenance to our souls and to our faith and to our daily journey so that we can stay strong and remain sustained.
His living water is available to you every day…
God has plans to sustain you through whatever season you’re in. Through this season we’re in as a nation. Whatever comes a week, 10 days from now, God is still on the throne. He’s still our supply. There’s still a river of living water springing up from the inside of you and from me. And that river brings to us what we need on a daily basis. It brings to us the victory that He’s called us to walk in. It brings to us a supply. It brings to us emotional support and strength and wisdom and grace in all things that pertain unto our life and living a godly life. He is our eternal supply.
God is the higher way—seek Him…
So I just encourage you this morning, there are opportunities to give up. I’m sure for all of us. There are opportunities to compromise. There are opportunities to trust in the arm of our flesh or our understanding of what we’ve learned up until now. Yes there is. But God says I have a higher way. I am the higher way. Seek Me. Trust in Me. Live by believing in Me rather than what you see.
Birds can fly over your head, just don’t let them make a nest in your hair…
So God knows. Even right now where you’ve been this last week or where you’re at this morning emotionally and what you’ve been maybe dealing with, and the thoughts that have been attempting to go through your mind. It’s okay. They can go through your mind, but just let them keep going. Like Brother Hagin said, a bird may fly over your head, but you don’t have to allow it to build a nest in your hair and rest there and roost there. No! Just let those thoughts, regardless of what the enemy’s purporting and what he’s harassing you with, just let him keep going. Just tell him, “Keep going, Devil, keep moving. There’s no place for you here.” Ephesians says to give the Devil no place, no foothold.
Jesus is our intercessor…
And so I’m saying that to say He is a good intercessor. He is a good and faithful Heavenly Father. He knows what we’re going through. Jesus went through what you are going through. He experienced all the infirmities and all the temptations. And all that we experienced in this life, He experienced so that He could be a good and faithful high priest over the plans and the purposes of God for our lives. So that He could bring them to pass. So that He could be patient toward us. So that He could be prayerful because He prays in the heavenlies. He intercedes for us in the heavenly realm. He knows what you’re going through. He knows what you face. But He knows as well equally how great His supply and how great His faithfulness is. He’s faithful.
Draw a fresh supply and sustenance from God…
So I just encourage you this morning, draw fresh supply and fresh sustenance and fresh courage and fresh hope and fresh perspective on a brand-new week that’s before you… a new season, perhaps that’s before you. God has not given up on the church. He’s not given up on America. He’s not given up on you. He sees things one way and that’s through the perspective of His victorious Son who rose again from the dead and is seated presently at the right hand of the throne of God.
A word of encouragement…
I came across this word the Lord gave me some time ago, and if this fits, if this encourages you, just receive it and just let it soak in this morning. Maybe this is a little source of encouragement to you. The Spirit of God prompted me and said… The Spirit of God is saying, “I will come through for you. I want to be your comforter, encourager, and coach.” He’s saying, “I want to be your hero, your deliverer, your protector, your provider, the one you can count on, lean into, and find rest.” He’s saying over you today, “I am your healer, your safe haven, and hope through all seasons of life. I want to show you answers, restore what the enemy has stolen, and position you for something greater than you can dream or imagine on your own.”
How’s that for a Monday morning!
Jewish people just wrapped up the Feast of Tabernacles…
Now let me just share a few scriptures here. This morning, we’re going to pray about the election. We’re going to pray about the nation. We’re going to pray about whatever is on the heart of the Father. But I was reminded because on the 23rd of October, we just wrapped up, or the Jewish people wrapped up, Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles, also known as the Feast of Booths. They just wrapped up that seven-day period of festival harvest, fall time harvest. And it hearkens back… or is an opportunity for the Jewish people to remember and celebrate and recount and give God thanks and praise for a time long ago, thousands of years ago, when at the hand of God through Moses, He delivered His people out of Egyptian bondage. More specifically, the Feast of Tabernacles celebrates and commemorates the sustaining of the hand of God in the life of the children of Israel as they navigated through the desert wilderness. And how He supplied them even in a desert place, a lonely place, a place where there were no McDonald’s and there were no Cub Foods and there were no roadside stands to get whatever you need to get.
To give God praise is to receive a raise in life…
It was solely by them trusting in the Lord that they were sustained and led. Now, it was only meant to be a journey of maybe three to five weeks, something like that, through the wilderness to the Promised Land. However, you know the story. They wandered in circles essentially for 40 years. And a whole generation of the children of Israel died out in the wilderness because of their complaining. “To complain is to remain. But to give God praise is to receive a raise in your quality and experience of life” is what I like to say.
Praise is a high form of prayer…
And remember, praise and worship is a form of prayer. It’s a high form of prayer. It’s a confident expectation in the ability of God to do for you what you can’t do on your own. It’s believing that you receive. Jesus taught us that when you pray, believe that you receive and you shall have. When you praise and when you cultivate an attitude of gratitude, you are believing that you receive the answer before you see it with your eyeballs or touch it with your hands or see it in the driveway. You’re believing that you receive.
God has called us to a higher order…
God has called us to a higher order of functioning in this day and hour, in this season of the New Testament Church. One where we don’t have to have a sign on every occasion, but where we can just take Him at His Word. His Word is a source and a supply. His word brings courage. His Word inspires faith. His Word propels us forward. There’s life and there’s spirit, and there’s sustenance in His Word.
So the Feast of Tabernacles, the Feast of Booths, Sukkot is a time when even to this day, the Hebrew people remember what God did for them, how He was faithful to supply them with nourishment and water in the wilderness.
First Corinthians 10:1…
And there’s an account in 1st Corinthians 10:1. Paul writes and says, “Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud.” In other words, they moved with the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, a forerunner and an example or a prophetic image of the Holy Spirit that was to come. That they were protected and shaded and guided and led by the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, as we are today by the Spirit.
They drank from the rock…
Paul goes on to say that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. All ate the same spiritual food. All drank the same spiritual drink.
Now catch this. “For they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them. And that rock…” So he’s interpreting what was going on in ancient times. That rock was Christ! He is the rock of revelation knowledge and revelation grace and love and mercy to all people. That if we believe upon Him, if we trust even on a daily basis. The only time you believe is not just when you go to the altar to receive Jesus. God commands us daily to trust Him. Trust Him in our thinking… in our speaking… in our decisions… in our patient awaiting. Trust Him that He’s following through on what He said he would do, that He is not a man that He can lie.
Don’t grow weary in well doing…
Don’t interpret His faithfulness based on natural worldly timing. Remember, God is outside of time and space. We’re inside of time and space. He’s outside time and space so He doesn’t calibrate or measure things based on time and space. Fifty years to Him is nothing. So don’t grow weary in well-doing. That’s what the enemy wants to get us to do as pray-ers, as believers… grow weary in well-doing, meaning praying and believing for our nation, for revival, for an outpouring, for changes in our families and our finances, in just today! He’s going to come through for you. He’s the God of heaven. He’s the star of Jacob that some have said that they have astronomers have seen the star of Jacob in the cosmos. And it appears to be moving this way. Of course, revelation talks about the star of David being an indication of the Second Coming of Jesus.
Exodus chapter 17…
So let me just read another passage to you about this rock and about what issued forth from that rock in Exodus 17. And I’m just trying to paint a picture to just kind of refresh in your consciousness and in your heart this overwhelming and abundant and never-ending supply of whatever it is you need today… to not only just help you get by, but help you to thrive and flourish. We receive that supply. We enter into that river of resource and heavenly flow by faith, by trusting Him, by choosing certain words to pray, to say, to worship with. By choosing certain thoughts to meditate and ruminate on. By choosing just to get up and say, “I’m going to go with you today, Lord, regardless of how I feel.” Or how it went yesterday, or what they’re posting on social media. My belief is in Him. My trust is in Him.
Even like the children of Israel; they saw the awe inspiring hand and power of God displayed on a level that I’m sure even Steven Spielberg couldn’t quite replicate in a movie or in CGR or whatever. The power of God was tangible and before their eyes. Yet they still, the children of Israel that is, were tempted to doubt and complain and gripe and fall into melancholies. Because they took their eyes off of who He said He was. And off of what He did and off of what He had recorded in His Word. We must do that daily. Stir up in us a consciousness of what He promised us.
