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Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Worship leader…
Well, good morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday. Thanks for coming to Morning Prayer. I think we have Pastor Dustin with us. So we’re going to just jump in the river and go this morning. Sound like a plan? Awesome.
Pastor Dustin…
My name is Dustin Sherry. I’m the NextGen pastor here at Living Word. And on behalf of our senior pastors, Mac and Lynne Hammond, we want to welcome you to Morning Prayer. Thank you for joining us, worshiping with us, praying with us. I’m going to read a verse to you. It’s 2nd Corinthians 1:11. But the 10 verses before it are pretty good, so I won’t shortchange you. We’ll just read the whole beginning of it. We’ll skip to verse three though.
It says…
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction. He comforts us so we can comfort others with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”
There’s a lot of comfort going on, isn’t there?
Verse five…
“For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings so through Christ, we share abundantly in comfort too. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. And if we are comforted, it is for your comfort which you experience when you patiently endure the same suffering that we suffer. Our hope for you is unshaken. For we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort. For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia, for we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, but that was to make us rely not on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead. He delivered us from such a deadly peril and He will deliver us. On Him we have set our hope that He will deliver us again.”
Okay, now verse 11…
“You also must help us by prayer.”
Sometimes I think it can be easy to take prayer for granted or get used to prayer. And if you’ve been praying for a long time, maybe you can just stop appreciating how significant and how important prayer is. But the Apostle Paul here is making a plea and he’s like, “You must help us.” How? “By prayer.” You must help us by prayer.
“So that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.”
So there are blessings that are granted through the prayers of many or through corporate prayer.
So we have to understand, we have to remember that…
Our prayers help.
Our prayers are doing things.
Our prayers are accomplishing things.
Our prayers are necessary.
Our prayers are vital.
The Holy Spirit will give you utterance…
And so this morning, as we’re praying, as the Spirit of God is giving you utterance, as you’re praying in the Spirit and He gives you things in English or your known language, just remember that these are accomplishing things. They’re helping. They’re going forth. Blessings are being granted by prayer.
Are you hearing what I’m saying this morning?
I know we’ve all been taught this. I know that we know this. But let us pray with a sense of urgency and a sense of fervor like we believe it. Like we believe that our prayers are actually helping… like our prayers are going out and solving problems all around the world.
Like God is actually here. He’s present. He’s listening. Angels are going forth. They’re doing things. Things are being accomplished. That’s what’s happening when we pray. Things are happening. Our prayers are necessary.
So I’m not sure exactly what direction prayer we’ll go in this morning. I have some things that I know that need to be prayed about. We’ll pray about the camps coming up. We’ll pray about the, “For His Kingdom Conference.” We’ll pray about the finances for the church. And I really want to pray for revival. That’s something that’s been on my heart, something I’ve been stirred about. Obviously even hearing Pastor Mac talk about it a bit yesterday. I know that’s important to Pastor Jim, Pastor Lynne. I know Pastor Jim’s been praying about revival and a move of the Spirit and an outpouring of the Spirit. And if you just let yourself imagine it for a few minutes, it’s pretty easy to get excited, isn’t it? It’s pretty easy to get excited.
I think about that sometimes. In the youth ministry, we have lots of things that we do. We’ll call them initiatives to increase attendance. We do giveaways and give people food. And we do games and that’s all great. Church should be fun and all of that, and that’s great.
But when Jesus showed up to minister…
People were cutting holes through the roof to get people in because they knew one touch from Him could change everything. They knew if they could get in the room, they would receive their healing. And imagine if word got out, “If I can just get inside of the church, if I can just get in Living Word, my mother-in-law will be healed, my brother will be healed. I’ll be healed.”
You would need police to keep order. If they knew, “If I can just get in Living Word, I’m going to receive a healing,” it would be out of control. You know what I’m saying? We would’ve so many people lined up.
Let’s just take time to pray in the spirit, like Pastor Kent would always say; “If we all do what we feel led to do, we’ll accomplish everything that we need to this morning.” This is not just me. I have the microphone this morning, but this is corporate prayer. This is everybody adding their agreement, everybody declaring things, everybody praying in the spirit. And I believe that we’ll accomplish what the Lord wants us to accomplish this morning. So let’s just begin by praying in the Spirit.
