Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to prayer this morning. Hallelujah.
Following Jesus is simple…
I just have to say this morning that I just, I don’t know… It’s not like I’m hearing anything or seeing anything, but I’m just feeling the Lord just impressed in my heart the importance… and this might sound really simple, and it is. After all, the Gospel is simple. Following Jesus is really simple. It’s us that makes it complex and arduous.
But I just sense the Lord magnifying the truth that He wants to do so much through our partnership with Him… so much through our prayers and our collaboration with Him in the spirit… so much more than we can do with our natural abilities or our intellect or our best creative wisdom. He set this all up that He would work through the church to do what He wants to do in the earth.
It’s time to get back up on our faith…
So I just encourage you in that this morning. If you feel like your faith is sort of just barely hanging on, the Lord is impressing on us it is time to get back up on our faith. It’s time to get back up on the place and in the position of what He’s called us to do in the realm of prayer. We each have an assignment. We each are called to pray. We’re expected to pray. That was an expectation in the early church. That that’s where divine work occurs. That’s where God’s plan advances. That’s where we win. Or should I say, we reinforce the win that Jesus obtained for us.
That’s where we enforce our authority.
That’s where darkness is pushed back off of our nation, off of our homes.
That’s where a way is made in prayer for God to insert Himself in the lives of our children.
Aren’t you glad we don’t live by what we see?
Prayer is what makes the way, where there appears to be no way. Aren’t you glad we don’t have to live by what we see, but instead by what we believe that we can make a way in partnership with God the Holy Spirit, the very spirit of prayer. We can pray for change and see it with our eyes though in time.
Don’t grow weary in prayer…
So I just encourage you in that this morning. Don’t grow weary in well-doing and occupying and functioning in your place of prayer—both in your personal life, but also in what you do professionally, what you do in the ministry.
Moses held up his hands while the Israelites battled…
There’s a passage you might be familiar with in Exodus 17, which is a great prophetic image of prayer and the working between heaven and earth when it comes to the plan of God, that it might become reality. The story goes…
“Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim, and Moses said to Joshua, Choose us some men and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.” This is Moses speaking. “So Joshua did as Moses said to him and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And so it was when Moses held up his hand that Israel prevailed. And when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses’ hands became heavy.”
Moses holding up his hands is a type of authority in prayer…
So the picture, the type, here is when Moses held up his hands, it was a type of an exercising of authority and prayer. And so the Israelites advanced when Moses’ hands were held up. When the church prays, we advance. We accomplish. We win day after day. We take ground, is what I like to say. As the church, as Living Word, as your ministry, your church, in your life personally, in the call of God, you’re able to take ground. Not because you’re so good at what you do practically or intellectually or creatively, but because you collaborate. You’ve chosen to prioritize and make preeminent a working with God in the spirit. That it would be not by our might or our power, but by His Spirit.
Isn’t that what the Word of God says, after all?
So when Moses’ hands were raised, the staff was raised, authority went forth and darkness was repelled. And the people of God advanced, took ground, and won every time. But it says this: Moses’ hands became heavy. He maybe got distracted, got focused on some other things. So they took a stone and put it under him. And he sat on it and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on the other side and the other on the other side. And his hands were steady.”
Run your race, finish your course…
I feel like this is what the Spirit of God is saying. He’s saying, “Church, be steady. Hold steady. Don’t be a flash in the pan.” Anybody can be a flash in the pan, so to speak. But then wither away into nothingness and not complete your race. I don’t know about you, but I want to run my race and complete my race. Finish my course, as Paul proclaimed in the writings to the church. God’s saying it’s time just to hang steady. Stay steady. Stay in there. Stay consistent in your prayer place.
Take advantage of God’s grace…
If you missed it one day, pick it up the next day. Take advantage of the grace of God. Don’t beat yourself up. Don’t endeavor to do penance, as they say. Just receive His grace and don’t miss a beat. Keep going. Don’t beat yourself up. Forgive yourself. Let it go and keep going on with Him. His grace is able to swell and grow and make up the difference and give us a fresh start every day.
So it goes on to say…
“His hands were steady until the going down of the sun. So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.”
A picture of prayer…
This is a picture of prayer. When there was prayer, when there’s an exercise of authority, the church advanced. When they were inconsistent and got distracted by other things, or when Moses grew weary, then they began to be defeated.
The Bible says in Colossians 4:2, “Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart” (New Living Translation). “Pray for us too, that God will give us many opportunities to speak about His mysterious plan concerning Christ. That is why I’m here in chains. Pray that I may proclaim this message as clearly as I should.”
We, as the body of Christ, have a part to play…
Our pastors are amazing communicators and teachers of the Word. But God has set this up so that we’re a body, that we all have a part to play and a supply to bring to even lift up our pastors so they would have utterance, they would have boldness, they would have creative insights, revelation, understanding to proclaim and to teach and to preach and to do what they’re called to do on a level they can’t on their own.
The same is true for your department head, your leader, your boss, your family members. We all are to be supportive of one another, supplying one another. Not doing our “own thing.”
Oh, that’s good preaching. I’m glad you agree.
Colossians 4:12 (New Living Translation) says, “Epaphras, a member of your own fellowship and a servant of Christ Jesus sends you his greetings. He always prays earnestly for you, asking God to make you strong and perfect.” Or you could say mature. “Fully confident that you are following the whole will of God.”
You want to make sure you’re following the whole will of God… those around you, including your leaders, are following the whole will of God? This is it. It’s prayer. Praying passionately. Praying consistently.
It says in verse 13, “I can assure you that he prays hard for you and also for the believers in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.”
Excerpt from Pastor Ken’s prayer journal…
Now let me just read a little reflection just to add to that something I wrote recently. “Every prayerless day is a day of victory for the enemy’s side. The enemy fears the prayers you will pray today.”
Ever thought about that? That he’s shaking in his boots to think that you would actually give yourself to prayer, that you would actually make mention of someone before the throne of God.
And prayer doesn’t have to be this like arduous “eat carpet” for the next hour in the dark, kind of a thing. It’s just a conversation. The more you can cultivate a conversation… I do that when I’m watching the news. If I see something and my heart goes out to a family who’s suffered loss because of a news story I see, I’m lifting that family up oftentimes… or those individuals or praying for their salvation. When you’re going about your day, doing what you do, invite the Holy Spirit and His insights and to help us to realize we’ve got blind spots. Or to help us see solutions or answers. Or how to work more efficiently or effectively or excellently. He’s there as our ever-present help in prayer. But in the natural affairs of our daily lives as well.
Excerpt continues…
“So the enemy fears the prayers you will pray today. Simple prayer throughout the day creates constant disruption to demonic activities.”
And if you haven’t noticed, there’s a real growth in demonic activities. Maybe some of it’s because of social media and the ubiquitousness of technology sharing things from all over the world that at a moment’s notice. But we know prophetically that the days we’re in are days where the enemy’s activity is ramped up as well. In fact, one Bible translation says that the realm of the spirit is thickly populated with demonic entities, angelic entities and entities of light as well, but also demonic ones. And there’s just something about prayer that just keeps them at bay, off of your family, off of your life, off of your stuff, off of your church, your ministry, your department. You have a responsibility to pray for those in the cubicle next to you. It’s not just about you and me. He’s called us to serve. He’s called us to do what we do with His heart. And His heart was even hanging on a bloody cross to pray for and forgive the ones next to Him on other crosses. That is an example of servanthood and true love that we must aspire to. And that starts with prayer. We serve and we minister firstly from the place of prayer.
Let me finish what I wrote here…
“Simple prayer throughout the day creates constant disruption to demonic activities. The enemy cannot maintain a stronghold in your life when you are consistent in prayer. A flow of prayer creates a spiritual fortress the enemy cannot breach. When you pray with boldness and tenacity inspired from God’s Word, your prayers will create an impenetrable, spiritual defense system around your life and home and church that demons must avoid entirely!”
Whew! If we’re going to navigate safely and effectively fulfilling God’s call on us as a ministry, as departments, as individuals, as families (because families are called too), this has to be in place. And this is the mercy of God to prepare us and remind us.
James 5:16 says tremendous power is released through the passionate, heartfelt prayer of a godly believer. It doesn’t get any more complicated than that.
Prayed…
So, Father, we thank you for the privilege to serve you, to be on planet earth in this time and season. We lift our hearts up to you today and say we thank you that we get to work with you, that we get to take steps in your plan today—collectively and individually.
Prayer for disruptions in the status quo and what the enemy has attempted to do.
Prayer for a healing flow, a restorative flow, a mercy-giving flow, a fresh-start flow in our lives, in what you called us to do.
Prayer for reinforcements to be added to our church, to our homes, to our personal lives.
Prayer for fresh supplies in Jesus’ name, even a refreshing that you would resuscitate those dead places in our own souls, in the call of God in us that has grown stale or latent in some way.
Prayer that you would breathe upon the church that there would be a fanning into flame of the presence of God, yes, but also the purpose and call of God.
Prayer about convergence…
I hear that word “Convergence.” We pray for divine convergence in the plan of God, in America. A converging now, a coming together, a summing up, a compiling together.
Prayer about breakthrough…
We declare Living Word will increase more and more in the coming days… in every way and every turn. We speak “Increase” today. We speak, “Release” today. We speak “breakthrough.”
Father, your Word says you are the God of the “breakthrough.” So, Lord, we thank you that you show up in and through Living Word and reveal yourself as the God of the breakthrough for Living Word, for your church, for your household, we declare breakthrough. Breakthrough! We announce breakthrough! We declare a sudden breakthrough! We declare a sudden moving forward to take new ground. We declare breakthrough! We declare success. We declare fruitfulness. We declare harvest.
Prayer about changes…
We just speak forth changes today… sudden turnarounds and changes today in the name of Jesus. We decree changes today in situations. Changes in financial statuses. I hear the word “biological” changes.
We speak change in the spiritual atmosphere of this church and of our nation today.
We speak change to our government, that you would continue to resource and grant great grace to President Trump and his administration.
