Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Prayer leader Jeannie…
Welcome to morning prayer. Once again, we have the honor and privilege to be with the most powerful people on the planet, notably in Minnesota. I’m Jeannie, my husband is Mike. And let’s just get started.
Prayed…
Holy Spirit, I thank you that we say what you say today. We say what you say, and we see what you say.
What do you mean?
Some of you might say, “Well, Jeannie, what do you mean ‘see what He sees’?” In the Word of Faith Church, which by the way I love… I’m so thankful for our foundation. But we hear the phrase a lot, “And it doesn’t matter what it looks like.”
“It doesn’t matter what it looks like…”
Honey, could you come up here?
So we hear the phrase a lot, “It doesn’t matter what it looks like.”
So he’s the result we’re looking for, okay? And I’m the religious version of, “It doesn’t matter what it looks like.” The powerless, quite frankly, ridiculously stupid, exactly what the enemy wants me to believe when I say, “It doesn’t matter what it looks like.” Whereas here’s the result. You’re the result of what we’re praying for.
Mike loves when I put him up here on the spot.
Okay. He’s the result. So when we pray, we pray for results, right? We’re praying for results. We have the name that’s above every name. Pastor Jim has continually talked about “in Him” there’s no condemnation for those who are in Him. He was already condemned for us. So the enemy hates that, that we are walking powerhouses with the results… sword of the Spirit to cause things to look different.
Excuse making for our prayers…
So here’s what happens when we get tired. We make excuses for our prayers not producing with religious “Christianese” phrases. “Well, it doesn’t matter what it looks like, but I still sound holy.” And all along, we have results right here.
Do your results. Here, come over here.
Okay, all along we have, woo-hoo, results. Okay? All along. But we allow circumstances or the things that unbelieving believers say, like, “Well, we have to deal with reality,” or “Well, you know, let’s complicate the Word,” or, “Let’s talk theology,” right? And we’re like, “Okay, that’s right, I have to still feel like I’m a good Christian, and it doesn’t matter what it looks like,” when really here’s the vine and the branches.
Here. And by the way, he’s solid. Just so you know, I have a very solid man of God. Okay, you can sit down. Didn’t he do a good job?
The enemy wants you in “Christianese…”
So, today I’m going to read in John 15. And we are going to observe who we are in Him and pray and declare from that place. And we’re not going to be able to help but have ridiculous expectation and expect things to shift now. Too often… I’m just going to say we… It’s really me, but I think we’ve all done this. Too often, if we can get into religion and tradition and say things to ourselves to make ourselves feel better when really we’re just exhausted and tired of not seeing what we’ve been praying for. And that’s exactly where the enemy wants you. He wants you in Christianese. He wants you in, “Well, at least I sound good, and if I sound good, God’s pleased with me.”
No!
God is pleased with you—period! Okay, I’m going to say it again. When you try and be a good Christian, it doesn’t work because you already are a good Christian. That’s why it doesn’t work to try and be good to come to Him. You might as well be Adam and Eve at the tree being tempted. That’s how it all… Right? Okay. Have I beaten the dead horse enough? Okay? So I’m going to read in John 15.
The enemy will try to intimidate and terrify you cuz he’s intimidated and terrified by you…
We are people who have the answer, which is already inherently you are the walking answer. You! So any time that condemnation comes, it’s the enemy trying to intimidate and terrify you because he’s terrified and intimidated by you. He’s actually terrified and intimidated that you would have the revelation and the knowledge that you are already in Jesus and Jesus is in you.
We’re not doing Christianese today!
Did you know Jesus is still a man? He’s still a man! So that would make Him your sibling. That would mean you have His DNA. That would mean that His name is above all these names. Hallelujah. That would mean that you being here today is holding back that enemy that tries to look so brutal. But he’s got nothing but to lie to you and get you to Christianese all day long. We’re not doing Christianese today. It’s so boring and pale and gets no results. And it makes you feel awful. And it tricks you into thinking you’re a good Christian when you already were.
John 15, New Living Translation…
Jesus said, “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener.” Okay, just that statement alone, Jesus is the true grapevine and the Father is in the garden. So He’s with Jesus the whole time. This would also imply that we’re back in the garden before Adam and Eve sinned, that He put us right back into that place of provision and power and healing and wholeness. Do you see that? I mean, why else would the Father be referred to as the vinedresser or the gardener if He didn’t put us right back there again in Goshen?
“So I am the true grapevine and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine.” This is Jesus talking. “He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit.” So when Mike and I were reading over this, the big thing that stuck out for me was that the Father is the gardener. So whenever there’s pruning going on, it’s your Dad that’s doing it—the one that is, like, nutty crazy about you, loves you, sees you perfect. Okay?
And Jesus is saying, “Yeah, Me too.” Just think on that. And then Mike picked up on “He cuts off every branch of Mine that doesn’t produce fruit.” So Jesus has branches that are being pruned.
Jeannie, that doesn’t sound right.
It says He grew in… What was it? Stature! What was it? In wisdom and stature with God and man! That would indicate pruning, right? So if Jesus grew in wisdom and stature with God and man, that means that we are always growing in wisdom and stature with God and man—just like Jesus.
He is our standard.
He is our sibling.
We’re challenging religion…
We have his DNA, okay? Stay with me here. I know you’re kind of like, “What?” Yeah, exactly. Religion is being challenged right now. I’m just saying what the Word said. It brings freedom and it tells you who you are.
“I am the true grapevine and my Father is the gardener.” Who wants to be the Father?
Alan, will you come up here and be the Father?
Okay, I’m going to be Jesus right now. And just pretend to trim me. Like just, you know, be the Father. Be really nice when you’re trimming me.
“Wow, my dad’s so good at this. Look it. It’s my dad. He’s trimming me.” Okay?
Okay, you can sit down.
He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit. Oh, my gosh, what a relief. I’m so glad those things are gone. They weren’t producing fruit. They were dragging on me, right?
Did I have to do anything? No. And He prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they produce even more fruit. So in the spirit realm, God’s like, “I always want you to have more.” So I don’t know, is that whole false humility gross to the vine dresser, to the gardener? Yeah, it’s gross. False humility, right? The, “Oh, no, I don’t need any more.” Yeah, you do! How are you going to help anyone if you don’t have more?
The Father is the pruner…
So think about this. And then verse three, already Jesus says, “You have already been pruned and purified by the message I’ve given you.” So those two sentences, as I say them again, are pruning and purifying us. And here they are. “That Jesus is the true vine, and His Father is the gardener. That He cuts off every branch of His that doesn’t produce fruit, and He prunes all the branches of His to produce even more fruit.”
Now, why would those two sentences already cleanse and purify us? Because it’s the same for us. If you read on, it says that when you abide in Him, He abides in you. And that we continually are pruned to produce more fruit by the Father.
So any pruning that’s taking place in your life right now, if the enemy tries to come in and condemn you for the pruning, you can respond with, “That’s the Father that did that. I’m just producing more fruit.”
Prayed…
Father, I thank you that your pruning is worth it.
Father, because of the pruning that’s taking place in our lives, we continue to abide in Christ
You prepare us for greater and greater fruit.
You are right now preparing us. We leave ourselves open to you, abiding in you.
Just cut it off!
Okay, you guys, just right now, do not look at me. Do not look at me. Put your mind on Jesus. We are abiding in Jesus right now. He’s abiding in us. And all of that pruning, we happily receive it. Why? For fruit! Why? For results.
He’s pruning weariness off of us. Disappointment is being cut off. False identity and rejection being cut off from us. Pride cut off, which is also false humility.
Just cut it off! We just let you do it, Father, as we abide in Christ, and as we abide in Him.
Fruit. Fruit. Declaring and decreeing and seeing.
Bodies whole and healed, resources abundant, wisdom in action, wisdom in words, brilliant ideas in play.
For the end time harvest. Harvest is your plan. That would be fruit.
We are the ones. We are the branches. It’s us. So we just abide now, and we allow the pruning.
