Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Worship leader…
Good morning, everybody. It’s always good to be back together for prayer and worship. Welcome to all of you online. We love you. We wish you could be here with us in person, but we’re glad that the Spirit can be everywhere and He is everywhere. So where two or three are gathered, He’s here with us. And we are glad that He didn’t put qualifiers on that, that you have to be in the same building. So we are gathered, whether you’re here with us in person or online, we consider you with us. And so the Holy Spirit is here with us.
Book, “The Daily Decree” by Brenda Kunneman…
So this morning, God rose up something in me about experiencing His glory. So I’m going to read something out of this book called “The Daily Decree.” This is by Brenda Kunneman. This is Hank Kunneman’s wife. This is a great little book. She’s got decrees on all sorts of things. I’m going to read one called…
“Encounters With His Glory”
The verse is John 17:22, and this is where Jesus is talking and He says this: “And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them.” So here’s the devotional.
“Believers commonly talk about the desire to experience the glory of God. It’s something everyone who knows God has probably sought. Like Moses in Exodus 33:18, we ask and seek God that we might experience His glory. This craving is an important factor in developing intimacy with an all-powerful God. Yet there is another factor we must include, which is something Jesus prayed. While in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus declared that He was giving us the same glory that was upon Him. The same glory. Not a different one. The same one. It sounds extreme, but He was saying that being carriers of God’s glory is a promised gift. Through the Holy Spirit within, we can expect to experience His glory. It’s already with us wherever we go. So when we ask to encounter His glory, we are asking for something already promised. And therefore, we should expect mighty encounters with His glory to manifest.”
Declaration…
And there’s a declaration she has that goes with each of these devotionals. So I’m going to read this, and you can just agree with me.
“Today, we declare that you’ll begin to encounter a new level of God’s weight and glory.
May you experience the power of His might and majesty on a level that causes you to fall on your knees in humble worship.
We say that you supernaturally see His beauty, perfection, depth, and strength.
We decree you have divine revelation of how limitless He is.
We declare that you will intimately know the God who created all things. For by Him, all things exist and are being upheld by the word of His power.
May His goodness pass before you that you will know certainty that His presence is going with you wherever you go.
We prophesy that you will sense His majestic strength in your home, workplace, and community, and live and function as a carrier of His great glory.
We say that the glory of the Lord will shine all about you and emanate from within you.
We prophesy this day that you shall enter into new realms and encounters with His glory, in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
Prayer leader Cindy…
And when we behold him, we become like him. The glory comes out. The glory of that Jesus had before He came to this earth, that very glory that raised Him from the dead, that brought new life to dead things.
So we thank you, Father, for the newness of life.
We thank you, Lord, that you have given us a tree to eat out of … a tree of life, the life of God, the transforming life.
Thank you, Father, that you are leading us by degrees of glory. It is our expectation, our hope.
And we still our hearts before you with all opposition, we be still and know that there’s an exceeding greatness working.
The greatness of your Word, your incorruptible Word… your word to us, in us, and through us.
Every Word of God is true. Every Word of God is coming through. Every Word of God doesn’t return void.
You accomplish all your pleasure. We put our hand in yours today, Father. Your great and awesome hand… the secret hiding place of your power.
And we decide today to walk in your ways revealed as we go with you, as Jesus began to do and teach…
Your Word is unfolding before us as we move. Your Word is burning within us as you teach us in the way we should go.
We live from our hearts filled with your words, moving by your Spirit.
Every day it’s a joy and delight to know you and grow in the knowledge of your glory.
Fill us, Father, with the knowledge of your glory.
Let it be our desire to know you more, Lord, which is life… only life.
Thank you, Father, for filling us with purpose. Thank you for showing us the things that matter.
We have fresh vision today because you’re revealing the future, the glory that you gave to us, and that is through your Spirit, the life-giving Spirit who shows us things to come, reveals the future, lights up our vision.
Fresh vision to run with strength and purpose and not be detour.
Because our eyes are on you, Jesus. You are the author and the finisher.
You are the one who’s running with us, hand in hand.
Excessive power being released, effectual power and the glory that comes at the appearing of Jesus.
Let your will be known. Let your will be done. Let everything you purposed and planned from the beginning, let us be complicit in full agreement with you.
We just set ourselves on record. We’re going in the way that has been prepared.
God, your way is better. Your way is great and awesome and mighty.
We agree today with you and everything you say and everything you are directing us.
Even ahead of time, we set ourselves as a seal upon your heart.
You are our reward. We are yours. We are your reward. Together, we will go and do and bring down strongholds of the enemy.
Mindsets set against God’s way have to come down today.
We are pulling them down by faith in the mighty name of Jesus.
We’re taking every battle to the gates… We thank you and declare that wisdom is firmly fixed at the gate.
Judging what goes in and what goes out.
The words that we are to speak, Father, we declare and decree your words.
We will speak today by the Spirit of the living God.
Prayer for Minnesota…
Yeah, Minnesota! We lift up this great and mighty state of Minnesota.
Thank you, Father, for the plans and your purpose coming to pass from this great and glorious state, filled with your Spirit, filled with the knowledge of your glory, filled with lively stones.
Actually, Minnesota is filled with stones. Minnesota is so prophetic. It’s filled with lakes, and it’s filled with stones, lively stones.
It is the land of sky blue waters. It reflects heaven. It’s the north star state. True north. It points to our Father.
If you lost your way, that star is fixed and set and will help you get back on the way.
So, Minnesota, we’re calling you to come into your own, walk out your purpose with joy, be flowing down to all of the states.
And the territories, Guam and Puerto Rico.
Thank you, Father, for this great and wonderful country that you have earmarked for your glory to come out and touch the world. All the nations.
So let it be, Father, your purpose and your plans are popping like popcorn on a hot skittle.
It cannot be contained and it cannot be controlled.
For the glory of the Lord is coming out of these earthen vessels because of the hot, fervent prayers of the righteous.
And the glorious presence of God, which turns people from what they were holding onto and the past and releases everything into the freedom that was given to us for freedom’s sake.
Christ set us free not to be returning to any kind of slavery, but we continue to stand in the freedom that Christ has set us free.
Knowing everything because He’s anointed us to know what we need to know and not get distracted with the backbiting and all the other stuff that’s come to knock you off your pedestal.
Because you need to shine. Shine with the glory that He has invested in you. Not to be hidden, but to be exposed to the world.
Lord, thank you that in the church everyone is lit up and on their tables, so the whole house is filled with light that we would know in the way that we should go.
No confusion, no backbiting, no envy, jealousy, contentions, but only pure light that cast light on others so they shine brighter.
I thank you that we do shine brighter together. There’s no superstars. We’re all shining bright.
There’s integrity in our fabric. There’s nothing weak. Nothing but tightly woven together with love and the supplies… the joints are supplying because it’s so easily accessible and freely flowing.
Worship leader shares…
I’m going to share something that we were talking about beforehand. In that devotional by Brenda, she mentioned Moses. If we think about what Moses did, he went up to the mountain. And he spent time with God. And it changed him. He was in the glory of God and it changed him. But Moses doesn’t have what we have. So how much more so should we? How much more should we not just spend time, but reflect the glory of God should be able to be seen on us. If it can happen for Moses in the Old Testament, before Jesus died, before the Holy Spirit came to fill us, how much more we the Spirit filled Church of Christ.
When we spend time with our Father, it should be evident…
So evident it causes a reaction. It caused a reaction in the Pharisees. With the Apostle Paul, it caused a reaction. You either wanted to become more like Paul, who wanted to be like Christ, or you hated on him. There was no middle ground, right? Us spending time sitting at His feet in the glory of God should change us and it should cause a reaction to the people around us. It did for Moses and he wasn’t even Spirit-filled, like he had to go up to a mountain to get it right. When he came down the mountain, Israel reacted… strongly reacted. They told him to cover his face. They didn’t want to see him. It’s a challenge, not just for you, but for me too. Are we spending enough time with Him that it’s evident.
Prayer leader Cindy…
What you said, time to reflect, you know, it’s time to think about or whatever, but it’s time to reflect. Give God time, gazing at Him because He wants you to reflect as in a mirror, reflect Him to the world. But if we don’t take that time, we can’t reflect Him. So our hope is in that reflection coming out into the world.
And then earlier I looked up this verse. And you’re talking about Moses on the mountain, but Jesus was on the mountain too. And Matthew 17, “And after six days, Jesus took with him Peter and James, John, his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves and He was transfigured before them. And His face shone like the sun. And His clothes became whiter than as light and behold there appeared to them Moses and Elijah. Elijah talking with Jesus. And Peter said to Jesus, ‘Lord, it is good that we are. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. And he was still speaking when behold a bright cloud overshadowed them and a voice from the clouds said, ‘this is my beloved Son, with whom I’m well pleased. Listen to Him.’ When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces and were terrified. But Jesus came and touched them, saying, rise and have no fear. And when they lifted their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus alone.” This is the hope to which we’ve been called.
