Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Prayer leader Jeannie…
Good morning! Welcome to Morning Prayer. My name is Jeannie and I truly have the honor to be with the most powerful people on the planet, and that would be everyone here in the chapel.
So we’re going to switch it up a little bit this morning. I’m going to start with a few openers after prayer and then we are going to declare and literally take things in the spirit.
Prayed…
So, Father, I thank you for the privilege that we have just to be alive during this time.
And if we are alive during this time, we can rest assured that in you and with you, you trust us with this time.
And we do not take that lightly, that in you we live and have our being.
And in you, we walk this time out and we pray today.
So you be our eyes, our ears, and our voice.
Father, you’re our Father!
Can we just consider that for a minute?
You have a Father that knows everything about you and still gave absolutely everything He had and did everything in His power to make sure the two of you could have a relationship. What other father, that’s also God, that knows everything about you would do that for you? He doesn’t care about your motive. All He could see was how much He loved you. All He could see was you in complete perfection. And He was compelled, even when His only Son said, “There’s got to be another way.” Three times. His only Son that walked the earth perfectly without sin said, “Can’t we do this another way?” And your Father said, “No, I’ve got to have him. I’ve got to have her. I have to offer them the opportunity for relationship.”
So we do not, with your help, Father, take that lightly. We take it to heart even more this morning and then encompassed in that is the honor and the privilege to walk as sons and daughters of the most high God here on the earth.
Can we just say that for a minute?
You are a son of the most high God. You are a daughter of the most high God. What comes with that? Inheritance. Relationship. Connectedness. Power. And we’re entering into a power age for the church because we are learning to steward that power and steward that identity always in Him.
This morning I woke up—full disclosure—because what we were going to do, Holy Spirit’s, like, “We’re not going to do that.” So I woke up and I said, “Oh, okay, so am I just going to go in cold like I have before?” And then He brought to me, Proverbs 3, and it all tied together with Dutch’s “Give Him 15” this morning. You’ll see the common thread. So we’re going to go through that, and then we are going to, from that positioning, take and decree and enforce what has already been done.
Jonathan Shuttlesworth…
I was listening to Jonathan Shuttlesworth this morning. I have to tell you, he’s so refreshing. He’s audacious. He’s unfiltered. And he just keeps being audacious and unfiltered. And he’s unashamed about the Good News. And he said today, “Don’t mistake challenge for defeat.” We are in challenging times. And if the enemy has his way, even the slightest, we will accept even the slightest defeat. That is not what we’re doing. We don’t do that here. We’re the remnant.
Dutch: “The hinge that turned the door of history.”
So let’s just start with Dutch. This is from today. “The hinge that turned the door of history.”
“Several years back, I was visiting with the pastor at his office after speaking for him at a conference.” Now notice that, he was speaking amongst the church.
“I’m sure I spoke on some aspect of prayer, applying it prophetically to the nation and encouraging the people to intercede. I probably also led in some passionate prayer. He said to me, ‘You are called to the remnant, aren’t you?’ I really didn’t know what he was implying, but he didn’t seem critical when he said it. Although I’ve never been invited back.”
Challenge doesn’t mean defeat…
Okay, so remember that. There will be people that are believers that don’t believe the same way you do. The challenge doesn’t mean defeat. That accept defeat, that say, “Well, I have to deal with reality.” That’s my favorite one. I’m not going to go off on a tangent, but I am just going to say that is how you deal with reality! His promises. And you tell reality to get line with what God said.
Okay, back to “Give Him 15…“
“I strive never to adopt an elitist mindset, but I do believe God has raised up a praying element of the church in America, of which I am part. It is true that God sometimes uses a smaller segment of the body of Christ to accomplish things for the majority. If you look throughout the Word, you’ll see that when darkness seems to be at its peak, be encouraged! We already have precedents. God often doesn’t look for a massive, polished army to turn the tide. Actually, He never does. He looks for a remnant, a small consecrated group of people who have refused to bow their knees to the spirit of the age.”
Now, you might do that tired. It’s fine. Don’t let the enemy trick you into thinking you’re not doing it just because you’re tired. Was Jesus tired? All right.
“The power of the few…”
In the economy of the kingdom, God is never intimidated by numbers.” So I declare today, and we declare together, we are not intimidated by numbers! Never! Not the bottom-line number, not the multitudes, not timing. We only focus on what God has said.
“In fact, He sometimes prefers the smaller number. Think about Gideon. He started with 32,000 men, but God whittled that number down to 300. Why? Because the heart of the remnant was more valuable to God than the size of the army.”
The remnant strategy…
“Historically, the remnant has, at times, been God’s Plan A. Noah, his family, were a remnant that preserved the human race. Elijah felt alone. God reminded him. There was a remnant of 7,000 who had not bowed to Baal. The early church began as a small upper room remnant that eventually turned the world upside down.”
And they were all so imperfect, right? We are living these things out.
“The remnant often functions as a spiritual seed. You don’t need a whole forest to start a new season. You never have.”
It’s time now that we level up…
We level up in the anticipation of how is God going to do it? When is God? What? How? And we anticipate in everything He does.
The cloud the size of a man’s hand, we call for more.
We call for more with every victory.
The next victory, we call for more.
We need to become greedy in the spirit realm…
We have a God that is ever expanding. It’s time that we become greedy in the spirit realm. That we not stop. You know, things are going to start showing up. Even Pastor Jim keeps saying, “Look, it’s upon us.” But what we’re not going to do is we’re not going to grow satisfied with just this much manifested evidence. We will not limit what He wants to do.
We will not relax our hold on what He said…
How much time have we spent now being expanded on the inside, having our tent pegs expanded? What? To not have it totally full and bursting and going for more? That’s what we’re up to. We will not relax our hold on what He said. America is certainly in a Gideon moment. God has called a remnant to rise up, take their place on the wall as watchmen. This is about being part of it.
A deep sacrificial moment…
This isn’t about being part of a special club. It’s about a deep sacrificial commitment to see God’s purposes established on the earth. A deep sacrificial commitment. That’s going to bring us in the Word to Ziklag. And it’s also going to bring us in the word to Proverbs 3. Part of this deep, sacrificial commitment is that we literally [?] the way we see things. We trust in Him. We don’t rely on our own understanding. That is a deep, sacrificial commitment. Letting go of your own understanding. But trusting in Him and saying, “Okay, God, what are you doing right now? What do you want me to know about this?”
Laying a foundation to decree…
Right? So when we reference Ziklag, we will absolutely see. And by the way, this isn’t a teaching moment. This is a laying a foundation to decree moment. So stay with me here. So Ziklag. David walks into Ziklag. It is a disaster. He’s the remnant walking into Ziklag. Their women, their children have been taken. Have our children been taken? Have people fallen away? Their properties completely decimated. Have things been decimated to the degree where there are some areas in the church in the world where there’s no place to turn. And then as a result, the people that were following David, the remnant, his mighty men, started to turn against him.
But what did David do?
What David didn’t do…
I’ll tell you what he didn’t do. He didn’t rely on his own insider understanding. He didn’t look around. He didn’t look around at everything and try and understand what happened, try to strategize his way out of it. He didn’t look at the people accusing him that he had fought with and that they loved each other. He didn’t do any of that.
What David did to…
He kept his mind on God. He trusted in God, did not rely on his own understanding. And in all of his ways, he acknowledged Him. And out of acknowledging God in the middle of pressure, upon pressure—and immediate pressure, by the way—God made his path straight. In the middle of chaos. In the middle of devastation. Amongst massive betrayal. And David sacrificing his own understanding, sacrificing the way he saw it, sacrificing the way everyone around him saw it. He got away with God. And when you get away with God, you can’t help but encourage yourself in who He is and how He made you, and what He said. And who He is. And how He made you. In what He said.
It’s time. It is time! Okay. Stay in this position.
