Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Good morning. Welcome to Morning Prayer.
Let Him clear out the clutter…
Just let Him work in your heart this morning. Let Him work to clear out the clutter. Let Him take hold together with you in your inabilities, in your weakness, in your pain, in your trauma, in the unknown that’s before you. Invite Him to take hold together with you to steady your course, to steady your feet spiritually speaking in your life, and even in your soul or emotions.
Lord, enlarge our capacity for you…
Lord, we pray “steady us, strengthen us.” Even as the great Apostle Paul prayed, Lord, “strengthen us on the inside; enlarge our capacity to follow you… to know you… to obey you… to work not for you but with you. You would invite us into a working, collaborative relationship. So teach us in that way.
We pray for a deep work…
We pray for your anointing to go down deep into the hearts, in the lives, into circumstances… deep to do the work that must be done now… the work to prepare… the work to transform… the work to ready us for the new day at hand. We pray for a deep work in our church, Father, and in our families and the members and the guests and all those that we have the opportunity to serve on a weekly basis, a daily basis for that matter.
We pray, Lord, that there would be a supernatural initiation of deep work in hearts and lives and whole families in situations in chaotic circumstances going on right now. We pray for a deep work in our school, in our students, in our staff at Living Word, at MCA today.
Lord, change us, transform us…
Breathe on us, we pray, Lord. We don’t want to stay where we are or go back to where we’ve been. But Father, we pray and unite in agreement today, we want to march forward into this bold and beautiful new hour, this remaining time that’s before us, Lord, even before the catching up of the church. So we pray, Lord, change us, transform us. Help us to obey. Help us to respond today in our families, in our school, in our staff, in our leaders.
Prepare us to be released…
Let it all open up today in Jesus’ name. Prepare us for your glory, Lord; prepare us for a magnifying effect of your glory and your power and the works of Jesus. Prepare us to be unlocked. Prepare us to be released. Prepare us to step into the next phase, in our callings, in the assignment you have intended and prepared for us individually, once again as a Church for America.
Prayer for America…
We lift up America, and we just reflect back to you, your plans for this great land. This was in your heart once upon a time long before there was a word for the United States of America. It was your idea, so we lift it up to you, Father, and pray let your idea, the fullness thereof, the fullness of your plan, the next steps of your plan for this land, for this country, from sea to shining sea, for every individual in every household in every city.
Prayer to come to a flourishing finish…
And every church, Lord, today we contend in prayer and say, surely Lord, we’re not going to end with a whimper. No! We pray, Lord, that we would come as your Word says to a flourishing finish, that the good work you’ve begun in us collectively, individually would be advanced. We unite and say, “Lord, we want your way. We want what you have planned and what you have prepared that let it be deployed. Let it be released throughout our nation, throughout our cities, into our homes and churches and hearts in every way, in Jesus’ name.
Psalms 42…
The Bible reads in Psalm 42, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul for you, oh God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night while they continually say to me, Where is your God? When I remember these things, I pour out my heart within me. For I used to go with a multitude. I went with them to the house of God with a voice of joy and praise with a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast. Why are you downcast on my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God. Hope in God for I shall yet praise him. For the help of his countenance.”
In other words, He’s able to help our countenance. He’s able to help our hearts. “Oh my God, my soul is cast down within me. Therefore, I will remember you from the land of the Jordan and from the heights of Herman from the hill mazar, deep calls unto deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and billows have gone over me. The Lord will command his loving kindness in the daytime and in the night his song shall be with me. A prayer to the God of my life.”
The deep in me is calling for the deep in Him…
I just want to point out this morning, I don’t know about you, but I’ve been strongly sensing the deep in me calling out to the deep in God… a sense of hunger, a sense of dissatisfaction. Not that I’m not in a good place. Because I am. But how many of you know that you can’t be drawn to God unless He draws you first? So I just want to highlight something this morning that is simply this: that we are not to overlook that prompt on the inside of us… that desire, that hunger, that longing. Even that holy discontent. You feel discontented. You feel like you just can’t sit still in some ways.
Well just let that be a cue. Let that be a prompt from the Holy Spirit that we’re to turn ourselves toward Him, orient our lives in a more accurate, consistent way like David, to seek Him, to long for Him, to pursue Him.
Spiritual hunger is a gift…
Spiritual hunger, no matter how small it may seem is a gift. The Bible says He’s able to will in us to do His good pleasure. And it is a disservice to get caught up in distractions day after day and be flippant and casual and overlook that longing on the inside, that desire to maybe pray a bit more, to redeem the time.
A return to the days of Noah…
The Bible teaches us that the word to redeem the time for the days are evil, and without a doubt, we are late in God’s timetable of end time events. Some have even said as boldly that the days of Noah are upon us. Well, if you know anything about the days of Noah, whether you look in the scriptures or read even extra biblical texts, if you even believe some of that, they were pretty crazy chaotic days. Like unprecedented, outrageous days!
And Jesus prophesied that before His return, they would first come a return of the days of Noah before His Second Coming. Days that will require us to respond to the simplest and slightest prompting of the Father’s hand in our hearts. Days that will require us to level up in our collective and individual response to God. But once again, working with God. He doesn’t want us working for Him; He wants to teach us to work with Him in the ministry, in the day-to-day of our lives and businesses and homes.
Lord, what door should we knock on today?
I was reminded of a story I just heard recently of a minister. I don’t know if he’s a missionary to these nations or actually from these nations. But he was sharing recently how in the countries he ministers, which is Iran and Afghanistan, which the church is underground there and is very persecuted. That a few of them get together every day and ask God to really kind of reframe their day and say, “Lord, what does it look like to work with you today?” And they basically ask God, “What door should we knock on today?” In Iran and Afghanistan, you better make sure you know that you’ve heard from God and you’re working with Him as to the next door you knock on because the next door might be your last door. They don’t play in some of those countries when it comes to persecuting Christians, sadly.
Get synchronized with the plan of God…
But he said they pray for hours to get the heart of God, to get synchronized with the plan of God, to know that they’ve heard Him and they’ve joined their lives to Him. That’s what Jesus taught us to do, right? He said, yolk yourself with Me. Join your life with Me, the New Living Translation says. And let’s do this together, He said to His disciples and says to us today. Don’t go it alone. Don’t live perpetually distracted or complaining about what hasn’t happened. I’ve said this before and I truly believe it, things have already been rigged in our favor, even in the days of Noah.
Respond to even the slightest inclination to come to God…
But we must respond to that slightest inclination to come to God, not just in morning prayer or on Tuesdays, but on the weekends when you’ve got something planned that’s fun, but yet you feel like I need to spend some time and just seek Him, wait in His presence, worship Him, pour over His holy Word.
Prayer is your “to do” list…
These spiritual things are not secondary things. Pastor Lynne said years ago that prayer isn’t a box you check off your to-do list. Prayer is your to-do list. It is your life. So just sense that, be encouraged. If you’re hungry, if you’re dissatisfied, good! Respond to that. Yield to that. That’s a gift.
Dissatisfied? Good!
Blessed are those who hunger, Matthew 5:6 says. Blessed or empowered to succeed or prosper are those who hunger and thirst for the rightness of God, for they shall be filled or satisfied.” That’s the way of God. That’s His pattern, His template, His way. You’re hungry? You’re dissatisfied? Good! God’s working. He’s leading. He’s prompting. He’s coaching us to work with Him to take next steps.
And those next steps begin by turning to Him. By yielding to prayer, giving ourselves to prayer. As we read in the scriptures, it says more about the Holy Spirit’s help in prayer and intercession than in just about any other way the Bible teaches us on the Holy Spirit’s help. It talks about Him being the spirit of prayer and how He pours His prayers into us when we pray in the spirit, in our known language and in our unknown language.
God has plans for you to step into…
There’s a collaboration that goes on when we pray, when we yield ourselves to Him. He joins us and He intercedes on our behalf. Us here. Him there in the other realm. So that the plan of God that’s already rigged in our favor, already planned out, already done. God has some things He intends for you to step into this year, and in the coming days can come to pass.
Prayer essentially is our participation in the ongoing work of creation. And the ongoing reality of what God intends to be on earth as it is in heaven. After all, isn’t that what Jesus taught us or how He taught us to pray?
So I just encourage you, when you yield in your prayer time, imagine the working that’s going on behind the scenes through the Holy Spirit to create the reality of your next step, to open the door that you can’t open on your own. But He would gladly do it for you. If you’ll go His way. If you’ll yolk yourself with Him.
Jesus is smiling now…
So, Father, we just thank you this morning. I can guarantee you Jesus is smiling now. He enjoys us. He’s got this. Whatever this is for you. Don’t run from Him. I feel like I need to say, don’t run from Him. Turn to Him. Say yes to Him. Call out to Him. Use His name.
Your voice is your address in the spirit realm…
I think Mark Hankins once said that your voice is your address in the spirit realm. So when you call out just “Jesus,” it gets the attention of angels. It gets God’s attention. The Holy Spirit is a consummate gentleman. He doesn’t go where He’s not welcomed. God waits to be wanted. Do you want Him today? I want Him.
“Lord, I want it”
Pastor Lynne has taught us through the years that salvation is just an introductory offer, but there are many more offers that He has planned for you. Beautiful offers. Glorious offers. All sorts of ways, promotions, furtherance, level ups, new assignments, breakthroughs, greater levels of freedom and fullness of His presence. But you have to say, “Lord, I want it. I want you and all that you have for me.”
