Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Good morning, everyone. It is Monday morning, September 15, 2025 already. Welcome! Good to have you here today. My name is Ken Olson. We’re glad to have you with us.
Quote by the late Kim Clement…
A number of years ago before Kim Clement went on to graduate and went to heaven, he said this prophetically, “The time to live for God is now.
The time to obey God is now.
The time to hate sin is now.
The time to say no to the world and to say yes to Jesus Christ is now.
Do not wait until tomorrow, for tomorrow is not promised.”
God has called His people to stand and watch…
And then there was another thing I wanted to share with you that spoke to me as far as the time and this season in which we are in right now, but it’s a reflection on scripture and a particular truth that’s found there. Throughout scripture, God has called His people to stand and watch, spiritually and prophetically on behalf of Israel, but also for the plan and the people of God. The prophet Isaiah gives us a picture of this calling. This is your calling. This is my calling for this hour and this generation. For the people of God. Israel included. The plan of God for America included.
Isaiah writes…
“On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, (aka pray-ers). All day and all night, they will never keep silent. You who remind the Lord, take no rest for yourselves and give him (the Lord) no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.” Isaiah 62:6–7.
This is my challenge to you…
This week, I invite you to pray that the Lord would raise up watchmen/prayers. In our generation, we need men and women who will carry God’s burden, or prayer assignment, for Israel, for America, for the church, for your household who will pray without ceasing and who will boldly remind the Lord of His promises. Let’s ask for a fresh wave of intercessors, rooted in love for Zion and aligned with God’s eternal plan.
Can we just pray that right there, right now?
Prayed…
Lord, align and synchronize our hearts with your plan, with your purpose.
Let your blood, we pray, do its work in our hearts this morning where we’ve messed up, where we’ve been slow to respond, where we have not taken up the full assignment to pray and given ourselves to prayer as it says in the New Testament.
Lord, we repent of our slowness, our disobedience, our indifference, our pursuit of just natural things in our day-to-day lives.
Lord, we repent and we just receive your blood and your forgiveness today.
And we pray, Lord, may Your Holy Spirit be activated within us even right now in every one of our hearts, whether we’re in this chapel or online streaming this on YouTube, on Facebook, on our online church channel.
Lord, I pray may the lightnings of God flash through our souls today, and may it cause change to occur.
May our hearts begin to synchronize and align and beat with the heart of God for our generation, for Israel, for the church, for the people of God, for those specific things, Lord, that you have endorsed us and called us to pray for.
Lord, may that begin to work its way deep in our hearts today in Jesus’ name.
Lord, we just make an important service announcement today to the body of Christ.
You are being summoned…
Calling all believers, calling all professors of Jesus Christ, you are being summoned. You are being invited to the secret place, to the place of prayer.
We call out to the body of Christ at Living Word today.
We call out to the body of Christ in your church today, in America today, in your nation today.
Lord, we call out to the body today that would be your church.
And we say, “Church…
It’s time to wake up.
It’s time to come out of your stupor.
It’s time to come out of your rebellion.
It’s time to come out of your lukewarm state and be revived and resuscitated and breathe upon with fresh fire and newness of life.
Breathe upon the church, Lord…
So we pray, Lord, breathe upon your church in this land.
Breathe upon your church here at Living Word.
Breathe fresh fire upon the body of Christ worldwide.
May our hearts be synchronized.
May our hearts be transformed.
May our hearts and our wills correspond and respond now to your invitation, in Jesus’ name.
Scripture is our basis for prayer…
Now let me read some other scriptures to you here. Pastor Lynne has taught us through the years that scripture is our basis for prayer, right? It’s our foundation. It is our sword of the spirit. So just let this work its way in your heart and let’s pray from this here just a bit.
Hebrews 10:35 says…
“Therefore, do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.” I feel like somebody needs that this morning. Don’t cast away your confidence for it has great reward. That would be your faith, in other words. For whatever you’re praying about, whether it’s something on a global scale or in your personal life, whatever the case is, hold fast to your confession of faith.
Hebrews 10:36…
“For you have need of endurance” or you can say steady, active persistence “so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.”
Now, in verse 38, it says…
“Now the just…” that would be us if we’ve called on His name… “shall live by faith. But if anyone draws back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
Romans 1:16 says…
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God to salvation, to everyone who believes. For the Jew first and also for the Greek.”
Now, verse 17 says…
“For in the righteousness…” or you could say the rightness… “of God is revealed from faith to faith. As it is written, the just shall live by faith.” You could also say the just live by believing, not by just seeing.
Hebrews 6:11 says…
“And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, that you do not become sluggish…” or that King James says, “slow.” “But instead, imitate those who through faith, that is steady, active persistence, that you could also say faith is the process or the daily choice of living by what we see in the Word, what we hear in the Word, rather than what we feel or perceive through our five physical senses. “That you not do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience…” Once again, patience can be translated in the Amplified as steady active persistence. “…inherit the promises of God.
Now, in Hebrews 6:12 Passion says…
“So don’t allow your hearts to grow dull or lose your enthusiasm, but follow the example of those who fully receive what God has promised because of their strong faith and patient endurance.”
I press on that I may lay hold…
Now, listen to the words of the writer to the Philippians. It says this from the New King James in 3:12: “Not that I have already attained or I’m already perfected, but I press on that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.”
In other words, there must be an intentionality about your life today, about our praying today, about the use of your will today to choose not just any old thing, but to choose what God has put before you to choose the right thing, to choose to seek Him. That’s why you’re in prayer this morning, right?
“I press on that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended.” In other words, I don’t consider myself to have arrived. Neither should you. Neither do I. “But one thing I do. Forgetting those things which are behind.” And can I just say, an important service announcement would also be, we’ve got to let go… We must choose to let go of fears and anxieties and what didn’t work out, that unmet expectation, those cares, those things that trip us up and so easily beset us or distract us.
Right now would be a good moment to say, “Lord, I’m going to turn those things over to you. I can’t do anything about what happened in the past.” And when you complain and when you gripe, when you murmur, when you’re anxious, when you mull over in your mind what could happen in the future from a negative standpoint or what didn’t work out in the past or what happened to you, it holds you in the place of the status quo. So turn that over to Him this morning as a pray-er, as a believer.
Forget the past…
One thing Paul says I do “forgetting those things which are behind.” Your past does not have to equal your future. If you will release it to the Lord, if you’ll let it be doused and plunged in the blood of Jesus, so that your hands can be freed up to take hold of what God is offering you for the future, for the now, which must be taken hold of by faith. That’s what prayer does. It takes hold of what God is saying that He wants to do that’s brand new for you. That’s brand new for America. That’s brand new for Living Word Christian Center, for your ministry, for your business.
This is what faith means…
It means to let go of the old that we might take hold of the new, to steady ourselves in and on the promises of God, that He’s faithful, that He will see us through all the way to the finish point of our race. He’s not going to leave you. He’s not going to forsake you. He’s still by your side. In fact, He’s on the inside sticking closer to you than a brother, as the Word reveals.
And so, Father, we thank you for that this morning.
