Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Dustin…
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to morning prayer. My name’s Dustin. I’m a pastor here. And just thank you for being here and joining us today. With morning prayer, obviously, we worship together, we pray. We’ll declare some things. And so I just want to encourage you with worship. Worship can and should be a form of prayer. When you think about the words that you’re saying and you’re singing them from your heart. It can be prayer, it should be prayer. And the Bible tells us in the New Testament that we’re priests. You and I are New Testament priests. And as priests, we have priestly responsibilities. And some of those responsibilities include bringing sacrifices to God.
A sacrifice of praise…
Hebrews tells us we don’t bring bulls and goats and sacrifice those things. Instead, we bring a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that acknowledge His name. When we gather together like this corporately or on a Sunday morning and we worship together, it’s not religious tradition. We’re doing what the Bible instructs us to do as priests, which is to worship Him in the way that He wants to be worshiped.
It’s true our lives are worship, but there are specific ways that we see in scripture God likes us to worship Him. It says God likes it when we sing. He likes it when we shout. He likes it when we lift our hands. He likes it when we kneel. He likes it when we lay prostrate before Him. And so that’s the reason we do those things.
In any healthy relationship…
You find out what that person likes, how they want to be loved, how they want to be treated, and then you endeavor to love them the way that they receive love. You want to love them the way that they want to be loved. You want to treat them the way that they want to be treated, right? And so maybe for some of you, if you were like I was a while ago, it’s like, “I don’t like this singing business. I don’t like all that. I like the other stuff.”
We are New Testament priests…
Well, the good news is it’s not about you. It’s not about me. We’re worshiping Him. And because we love Him and we’re in relationship with Him and we’re New Testament priests, we worship Him the way He wants to be worshiped. Right? So one more time, corporately, everyone together, every voice, I can’t worship for you. Pastor Melanie can’t worship for you. You’ve got to open up your mouth for yourself and lift up a praise to Him. And so, one more time together, let’s worship Him and then we’ll jump off and we’ll just start doing some praying together. Do you want to lead us just quickly.
Prayed…
Father, we pray that we wouldn’t just worship you with our lips and then our hearts would be far from you.
Lord, I thank you that you said in your Word that you give us both the will and the desire to do your good pleasure.
And so, Father, we ask you to increase our desire to do your good pleasure.
Increase our desire to do what you’ve called us to do, to worship you, to give you praise, to give you honor, to give you glory.
Increase our desire to win souls.
Increase our desire to preach the Gospel.
Increase our desire to stretch forth our hands and to pray for the sick.
I thank you, Father, for the desire that you give us a new desire. Wrong desires, removed. Right desires birthed and fulfilled in Jesus’ name.
A renewed passion. A renewed zeal. Fan the flames in our hearts, Father.
Stir up the gifts on the inside of us this morning.
We resist the spirit of fear. We resist any spirit of apathy.
We resist any temptation to sit down and just begin to take a passive approach.
No, we’re going to be on the offensive. We’re going to run our race with patient endurance.
We’re going to forget that which lies behind.
And we’re going to strain forward to what lies ahead, where our eyes are fixed on Jesus.
You are the author, you’re the finisher, you’re the beginning and the end.
And so our eyes are on you.
We draw our strength from the Spirit of God on the inside of us.
Who enables us, who empowers us, who equips us, who strengthens and reinforces us with mighty power in our innermost being.
We, run, we live with a determination that only comes from you, Father.
We live focused on the kingdom.
We seek first your kingdom and your righteousness.
And we know that all of those other things will be added unto us.
Father, if we’re aiming or looking too low, if we’re too busy on things that don’t matter, I pray that we would look up, and we would put our eyes on you, and we would focus on the things that you’ve called us to give attention to in this season of our life.
I pray, Father, that we would walk accurately by your Spirit and we wouldn’t allow ourselves to be distracted.
We would stay focused. We would keep our eyes on the vision.
We would run with endurance. With joy. With joy. With joy.
Not heavy, not burdened. No, no, no.
Jesus said, “My yoke is easy and My burden is light. And so we’re going to run with joy in our hearts.
We strip off every burden and every unnecessary weight, every unnecessary sin.
We thank you for the grace this morning to strip that stuff off in Jesus’ name.
So that we can be unencumbered, so that we can run with grace, so that we can run at the pace that you’ve called us to run at.
Father, we thank you for the race that you have set before every single person here at Living Word Christian Center.
The individual race that you’ve called them to run.
We thank you, Father, for the corporate race that we’re all running together.
I pray that we would spur one another on, we would encourage one another.
We would lift each other up.
We would yield ourselves over to prayer and we would pray for Living Word and each other.
I pray that we would honor one another. We would prefer one another better than ourselves.
We would look for ways that we can add… that we can be a blessing.
I pray you would give every single person here a servant’s heart.
I pray that we would have a heart of service.
We wouldn’t be keeping track of what we have and what other people have, and keeping score.
I pray that we would lower ourselves like Jesus did. We would lower ourselves and we would serve.
I pray that you give us the desire. We ask you, Lord, for the desire to serve, to be servants, to be motivated.
To serve other people and to serve you well.
We plead the blood of Jesus around Living Word Christian Center.
We plead the blood of Jesus around the families of Living Word, the children of Living Word.
The Youth of Living Word, the congregants, their families, their businesses, their ministries.
Father, we plead the blood of Jesus over them.
We hold the blood of Jesus up and we say no weapon, no word, no accusation formed against them will prosper.
We draw bloodlines around Living Word.
We thank you for protecting us. We thank you for keeping us.
We thank you that we don’t have to live in fear. We don’t have to live in anxiety.
You haven’t given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound, sound well-balanced mind.
We receive that by faith.
We’re not out of control. We’re not losing it. Our roots are founded securely on you.
We are rooted deeply and founded securely on the love that you have for us.
Father, we thank you for these things, that you’re our source, you’re our provider.
Everything that we need, we know that it’s found in you.
And so we thank you, Father, for the increase that you’re bringing to our lives.
That you’re a God of blessing. You are a blesser.
And so, Father, we thank you that we can look forward to the future.
We thank you that you said that you would supply all of our needs according to your riches and glory in Christ Jesus.
We thank you for your faithfulness. We thank you for your consistency.
We look back and remember your goodness and your faithfulness over the years.
All of the times we cried out to you and you heard us and you answered us.
We thank you for all of the times where you made a way when there seemed to be no way.
All of the times there was mountains in front of us and you removed them and there were valleys and you brought them up and you made the crooked places straight.
We thank you for the breakthroughs.
We thank you for the miracles.
But we look forward to the future because we know that the latter rain will be greater than the former rain.
We know that the best days are in front of us.
We know that the future is bright.
And so we can really get excited because we know how good it’s been in the past, and we know that it pales in comparison to the glory that lies ahead.
And so we thank you, Father, for the glory that you said in your Word lies ahead.
The glory that’s in front of us.
The miracles that are in front of us.
The people that are getting healed, the people that are going to be saved and brought into the kingdom of God.
The people that are going to be brought out of addiction.
The people that are going to receive heavenly callings and assignments.
And they’re going to step in them and walk them out.
Father, we thank you for utterance.
We thank you for prophetic words going forth.
We thank you for the gifts of the spirit in operation in our lives and in services.
Father, we set our expectation. We’re not content to just “play” church.
We’re not content to just go through the motions of a Christian walk.
I pray that we would hunger after you like a deer pants for water.
Lord, I pray that our souls would hunger for you, thirst for you, long for you.
That we would actually be obsessed with you.
That on the deepest levels of who we are, we would crave you.
