Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken prayed…
Lord, we invite you… we give you entrance this morning. Operate in your way, Lord, in the way only you can function and work in us, through us, Lord.
Yes, Father, it is critical now! It is essential now… that which you desire, that which you have planned, that which has been prophesied, Lord. Oh, that which is of divine order now … divine intention now… the plan of God, we lift it to you, Lord, today. Yes, Lord, even in this room right now, today. And for those online with us, Lord, we pray that the plan of God be lifted up. Lord, let it be magnified. Let it be activated in some new ways.
Lord, let there come a stirring today… an activation today in the things of God, in the heart of your people, Lord, in the heart of your church… let us not stay where we’ve been, but, Father, let our hearts call out the depths of our being, call out to the depths in you, Lord.
Prayer for connections and shakings…
We pray for connections today, Heavenly Father, divine connections made in Jesus’ name… divine appointments now, scheduled and happening now, in Jesus’ name. Today! This week! The days yet ahead of us.
Lord, let everything that needs to be shaken loose, let it be shaken loose… We pray in the mighty name of Jesus… beginning with in our own souls, in our own lives, in our own homes, Lord… Let that which the enemy has afflicted us with and harassed us with and strongholds and points of deception and blind spots, let there be a shaking, Lord, an awakening Heavenly Father and an arousing to new life and awareness in God.
Prayer for breaking ungodly ties…
We pray for a breaking of the ties… unholy, ungodly ties… broken in the name of Jesus. Self-defeating ties … limitations… blockages now… we loose your hand, Father, we loose your angels, Lord, to work now in concert with the church, in concert with our lives now.
Declaration to go God’s way…
Yes, Lord, that we would fully obey and rise to a new place of calling and destiny and holy fire. Yes, yes, yes… we’re going this way, Lord. We’re going your way. We’re taking your way… the one way… God’s way today, in Jesus’ name… up into now some new things… up into your glory… up into the super naturalness that you intend to put on full display in this generation and day…
Prayer for hearts…
Lord, we pray for a softening of hearts, for your hand to plow straight through every heart, every life, Lord, not only in this place or online, but in our churches, Father, in our departments, in our families…
Lord, let there be a transaction of preparation now, that there be an engagement now … in a transaction with God to prepare, to change, to adjust, to make some things right, to repent now, to answer the call, to respond to the invitation of heaven now.
Lord, soften our hearts, cause our indifferences to be broken down. Let our preconceived ideas be swept away with the light of your way and what you want.
Prayer for yieldedness…
Lord, help us to be led now into new places of surrender, new places of yieldedness, new places of divine cooperation with the Holy Spirit, with angelic ranks, with the Father’s heart.
Prayer to let go of what weighs us down…
Help us, Lord, to lay some things down now. Help us to let go of what weighs us down and holds us back.
Woman had vision of the courtroom of heaven…
I heard of a young woman who is a minister, who not too long ago had a vision. And she felt like it was a word for the body of Christ. When I heard it, it hit me like, “Okay, that’s it.” And she had a vision of the courtrooms of heaven. And then in the courtrooms of heaven, she saw this enormous throne. And on the throne was the Father or what she believed to be the Father. She couldn’t quite see Him.
NO MORE DELAY…
And then there were angels pacing back and forth in the courtrooms of heaven with this pent-up energy and urgency about them. And then all of a sudden, the Father arose from His throne and He walked confidently across the courtroom of heaven to the balcony of heaven that overlooked the earth. And He pointed down toward the earth and He decreed, “The verdict is—NO MORE DELAY.” The verdict is no more delay!
And all of a sudden, these double doors at the back of the courtroom of heaven swung open dramatically and pouring forth from those double doors were legions of angels with all that pent-up energy pouring forth to do the will and the purpose of God.
Rumbling sounds were the prayers of the saints…
But the thing that she understood as to why there was so much pent-up energy and why there was this release was that she heard this rumble, this enormous, guttural rumble coming forth in that room. And she said, in a moment of time, the Father caused me to know that was the result of the prayers of the saints.
Give the Holy Spirit freedom to get our attention…
So the word is I believe that we’re entering a season of “no more delays.” And, I know for me, I’m always giving the Holy Spirit freedom to get my attention to yield myself to Him, to let Him have His way, even in the ordinary-ness of my every day. Not only when I’m up leading prayer.
God is giving us an invitation now…
And one of the things that just struck me was, okay, God is giving us an invitation right now. He’s eliciting a response from the body of Christ, from His people now. He is willing to perform and do and accomplish some things that have taken some time and required some prayer perhaps.
He needs us to respond…
But He also needs us to respond. He also needs us to connect with Him and rise in a spirit of faith and refuse to continue to conduct ourselves spiritually as we have in the past, which may have been fine in the past. It may have been all good.
But God is eliciting a response. He’s giving us an offer. He’s already made the first move through the redemptive work of Jesus. Now He’s giving us another offer. Salvation was the initial or introductory offer. But how many of you know there are many more offers in God that allow us to step into the bigness of redemption, the fullness of His power, the glory that He intends to put on display in and through us, the church, in and through us individually.
It’s a partnership…
But this whole thing is set up in that it’s a partnership as I often say. He responds and we respond. He responds. Then we respond. And we work in concert with Him. And so this morning, I just want to put something out there in regards to where we’re at individually, that God is looking for a fresh response from us. That it’s not an hour where we can just kind of remain in the status quo or continue the same cadence and rhythm of our lives.
A flourishing finish…
God is saying there’s so much more, church. There’s more freedom. There’s more liberty. “I desire that gift that I wove into you in your mother’s womb. I desire it to come into a flourishing finish in this hour.”
He desires the church, the body of Christ at large, to not slink silently into the darkness. But to rise and fulfill our mission, crossing the tape in a flourishing finish. Amen. A flourishing finish!
2nd Timothy, stir yourselves up…
And so I’m reminded of a passage in 2nd Timothy… I’m not reminded of it. I probably think about it every day. It’s one of the hallmark verses of my life. So maybe if you see a theme that I’m always endeavoring to sparkplug people or stir people up, it’s probably because that’s kind of how I live. I’m always stirring myself up…
In the Old Testament, there’s a rhetorical question that’s asked: “Who among you will stir him or herself up to take hold of more of God?”
So God is saying, “I want to do so much more than you can ask or think. Your eye hasn’t seen, your ear hasn’t heard, it’s not even entered your consciousness fully what I have for you…” what He has for Living Word, what He has for your household and your church. But He needs us to stir ourselves up to take hold of that.
And Paul writes in Second Timothy 1:6, Passion translation, “I’m writing to encourage you to fan into flame.” The New King James literally says to “stir you up.” But the Passion says to “fan into flame and rekindle the fire of the spiritual gift God imparted to you when I laid my hands upon you.”
The Holy Ghost wants to be released, to be stirred up…
Fundamentally, we all received the gift of the Holy Spirit. Jesus prophesied in Acts 1:8 upon receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit, you shall receive power. But it’s not enough just to have said, “I’ve received it” once upon a time, or “I have the Holy Ghost.” The Holy Spirit wants to be released. He wants to be stirred up. He wants to be fanned into fullness and full flame in us so that we have everything we need spiritually, emotionally, practically in this hour to make decisions, to take steps, to do ministry, to do life, to do family, to do relationships.
We are living in an unprecedented hour…
We’re entering into an unprecedented hour. We “are in” an unprecedented hour. Would you not agree with me? Which will require an unprecedented fullness of God, not a latent gift that we once upon a time received at some distant altar. But a gift of God that is fanned into fullness, that is burning bright. So much so that we become as a church and even individuals what I would describe as “glory hotspots,” where we shine brightly in the midst of the darkness and the uncertainty. And people beat a path to our door as a church or to our home in our neighborhoods, because they know there’s something luminescent… there’s something supernatural… there’s something of God upon that neighbor of mine, that friend of mine, my family member.
This is fundamentally who we are as a church. Don’t get it mixed up. It’s not about all administration or all this or all that in the ministry or in your business or in the marketplace. Firstly, we are called to represent Him. He deserves to be represented well. We can’t do it in and of ourselves. Trust me, I know myself. You know yourself. But He can represent Himself well if we yield to Him and take full advantage of the fire that was imparted to us upon salvation and the baptism, especially of the Holy Spirit.
He’s waiting for our response…
But our part is we must stir that gift up, and it has many facets. The gift fundamentally is the holy fire of God that is meant to do the work that must be done in this hour—practically, emotionally, spiritually, leadership wise, in every regard. To stir up the gift of God in you and keep it in fullness of flame is to have prepared well for any aspect of your calling, whether it’s preaching, or decision making, or administration, or goal setting. God wants to insert Himself now more than ever into the affairs of our lives and humanity. But He waits for a response. Holy Spirit is, as we often say, the perfect gentleman. He waits and He defers to us to give Him invitation.
So once again, 2nd Timothy 1:6 says, “I’m writing to encourage you to fan into a flame and rekindle the fire of the spiritual gift God imparted to you when I laid my hands upon you.” For God will never give you a spirit of fear. So this is, by the way, the antidote to the overarching fear that’s just out there of all kinds in this age, in this hour.
And I would suggest the overarching antidote to distraction. For God will never give you the spirit of fear, but this Holy Spirit who gives you mighty power, love, and self-control. In other words, the stirring or fanning into flame of the gift of God is able to deal with the issues behind the issues in our lives… is able to address some things that we can’t quite seem to fix or solve. The holy fire of God is meant to burn all that is chaff and wood and hay and stubble in our lives that needs to be burned out and cleared out of the way so that we are free to run our race of faith. We’ve got one more leg, it appears, ahead of us in our race of faith, as Paul describes it. And it’s our opportunity to leverage our will and choose to run it lightly and freely and fully for God. Knowing that there is great reward, not only in this time but in the time ahead yet in the eternities to come.
Prayer invitation to stir up the gift of God…
And so this morning, I want to do this. I don’t think I’ve ever done an altar call in a morning prayer, but I just felt like this morning I needed to give an opportunity for all of us to respond to Him. Whoever this applies to, you feel like “Yes, Ken, I identify with what you’re saying. I sense that I want the gift of God in me to be stirred up.”
I think it’s something that should be done often in our lives, honestly, whether you do it on your own or there’s an opportunity to receive a point of contact, like Paul talked about through the laying on of hands.
Pastor Trina has agreed to pray with me over anybody who responds this morning. If that’s you, if you would like prayer to stir up the gift of God, the fire of God within you and with that all the gifts and the assignments that God has bestowed on you, the dreams that are in your heart that maybe have been latent or just need a fresh ministry or fresh inspiration upon them for the day ahead, then come forward whenever you’re ready and we would love to pray for you.
Pastor Trina…
I wanted to share something real quick. When I woke up this morning, I had somebody on my heart to pray for. They are somebody that has known the Lord and I feel like they’ve heard so much Word and been in so much church, but they’re not walking out what God’s called them to do. They’re not living in a place of freedom or joy. And I just started to pray for them, “Lord, why can’t their heart receive all the Word that they’ve heard, like, how do I get through to this person’s heart?” I continued to pray. And He brought me back to the parable of the sower in Matthew 13. And as Pastor Ken shared this morning about us stirring ourselves up, the Lord was just showing me our ability to stir ourselves up is connected with the condition of our hearts.
And I just want to read quickly. It says, “Then he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, behold a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside and the birds came and devoured them. Some fell on stony places where they did not have much earth, and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up, they were scorched. And because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop. Some a hundred-fold, some 60, some 30. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
And the Lord showed me a visual…
Think about driving down maybe like a country road, and you’re driving on the blacktop and to the right of you is kind of that gravel shoulder. And then to the right of that is kind of that ditch area filled with thorns and weeds. And then you keep going and you get to this beautiful cornfield that’s just full of life. And He showed me that image in comparison to this parable.
And so some of us up here might have to admit like, yep, my heart is the wayside. And that doesn’t mean you’re not saved. That doesn’t mean you don’t love the Lord, but your heart isn’t in a place where you can receive any of the truth of His Word. And I believe that today when we pray for you, that’s going to be changed. And maybe some of you are the stony places and it lasts for a little bit, but then that fire fades away. And some of us just still have thorns in our lives and in our hearts that choke out the goodness of God’s Word.
And so today, as Ken and I pray for you, I just want you to locate your heart, be honest with yourself. Let the Lord show you where you are and let the fire of God burn up those things… that we all walk out of here today with hearts ready to receive the Word and bring life and bring multiplication into our lives.
