Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Just let the spirit of God visit with you this morning. Just sense His anointing and presence streaming into your soul, ministering life, hope, fresh perspective, a new outlook on the future. Give Him permission and access to your being this morning.
Prayer…
We invite you, Lord, in fact.
Holy Spirit, we acknowledge your presence, and we invite you to have your way inside in our emotions and our wills, in our perspective and our thoughts.
We pray, Lord, that right now you would just supernaturally wash over this company, this family, whether we’re online or in this chapel.
Lord, may your Spirit wash over us and breathe new life into us. And where there needs to be some things addressed inside of us, Lord, may your Spirit have free reign and ability to do what must be done inside of us, that we might be a people prepared and made ready to proceed in the plan of God individually and collectively.
So we just give you praise this morning, Father. We acknowledge your presence. We receive your presence anew and afresh right now here in this moment. We wait on you, Lord.
A true story about an archeologist and Inca tribesmen…
I want to read something to you that I came across a number of years ago. It’s a story, I believe from Central America. It’s about an archeologist who was once hired by some Inca tribesmen to lead them to an archeological site deep in the mountains.
After they had been moving for some time, the tribesmen stopped and insisted they would go no further. The archeologist grew impatient and angry, but no matter what he could do to cajole the tribesmen to go further, they wouldn’t go. They remained. They stayed. They rested.
Then all of a sudden, the Inca tribesmen changed their attitude. They picked up their gear and set off once more. When the bewildered archeologist asked why they had stopped and refused to move for so long, the tribesman answered, “We had been moving too fast and had to wait for our souls to catch up.”
That’s always stuck with me…
And I came across it again recently. And there’s just a lot of truth there. Right? I’ve said this before, but I believe the Lord has prescribed for us in this hour a slowed-down version of Christianity. Yeah, there’s much to be done and there’s much He will accomplish right here in our church and in our staff, in our homes, in our nation. Make no mistake about it, God is going to get His way. Because we stand and we agree with Him, He’s going to get His way in your life. He’s going to fulfill all that He’s started and initiated in your ministry, in your home, in your life, in your calling. He will fulfill it and bring it to a flourishing finish.
But what’s required now is an openness to Him, a greater surrender to Him, a desire to slow down and come apart, to be alone with Him.
That He would equip us
That He would download the appropriate strategy
That He would transform us from within so that He can move through us to do His work in the days ahead.
Journal reflections…
I jotted this down recently, some reflections, random reflections. I was thinking and praying the other day that there’s much God wants to change and much He wants to bring in and through our lives, not through our self-efforts, but through communion and surrender to the Holy Spirit.
The plan of God for your life is we’re staying with and fighting for. If you’re alive, there’s more for you. He has more for you, in other words. God has more planned and more in mind for you to carry out, more of His goodness and more of His purpose to experience. Every one of us is called to something. It’s the only thing that will satisfy us. Jesus Himself said that My meat is to do the will of my Father.
Stir yourself up regularly in Him…
So you must stir yourself up regularly in the spirit and presence of God to fulfill the plan of God for your life. Otherwise, you’ll begin to drift. The plan of God and the things of the Spirit for your future must be contended for. You won’t just waltz into them. God has prepared some things for us to experience and step into in this day, even as a church. But you must learn to fight for them… those things of God.
Fight in faith.
Pray them out.
Then walk them out.
You must step past your lower nature, or your flesh, and the enemy opposition to live out what God intends for you. Paul writes, “I am convinced that this very thing that he who has begun a good work in you will continue it until the day of Jesus Christ.”
The Amplified Bible says, “And perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you.”
We have not come this far only to fail…
Regardless of what you feel or what your mind has to say, what the enemy’s harassing you with on a given day, God has fully in mind and fully intends and fully prepared to fulfill what He started in you. We have not come this far to stall out. You have not come this far to stall out.
There’s another phase.
There’s a new place.
There’s a next step.
Let’s let that resonate in your heart this morning…
Because the more you think on it and focus on it, the more it becomes easy for you to see in your mind’s eye the goodness of God being fulfilled and experienced in your life. My favorite saying nowadays is “neurons that fire together, wire together.” In other words, you think those thoughts of His goodness and faithfulness and your mind will start to wire to automatically think good thoughts.
Thoughts of His faithfulness
Thoughts that He’s going to come through for you
Thoughts that He’s going to perform that dream that He dropped into your heart
Thoughts that He is going to provide for you
They’ll become more easy for you to think on the more you meditate on those things. Hebrews 12:1–2 says, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin, which so clings so closely…” I think one translation says, “cleverly clings to us.” “And let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.”
1st Corinthians 1:8–9 says…
“He will also keep you firm to the end so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful who has called you into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.”
In other words, His faithfulness guarantees that He will sustain you, and He will fulfill in you that good work. He will fulfill in Living Word the good work He’s begun here. And take us to a whole other dimension and degree of what He has in mind. There’s more. There’s so much more.
A word came forth for someone in particular…
I feel like somebody needs to hear that this morning. There’s so much more. He wants to stretch your cognitive capabilities. He wants to stretch your mind to see there’s more, not just to consume on yourself, but there’s more purpose, there’s more influence, there’s more anointing. We’ve only just begun. We’ve only just started to scratch the surface. Don’t wave the white flag. Don’t throw in the towel. Don’t let the enemy take you down a spiraling wormhole of some kind of despair and doubt and disbelief because of your past or because of what happened yesterday.
Somebody has a bad attitude…
No. The Bible reminds us to stir ourselves up to take hold of more of Him. Hallelujah. Glory to God! Because He is faithful and He is in the process of following through right now. Somebody has a really bad attitude, I feel like. And the Lord is saying, “You need to check that in with Him and submit that to Him and surrender that to Him. Give that to Him. Because the truth of the matter is right now behind the scenes, He’s doing things you don’t know about that is going to demonstrate His faithfulness, that is going to demonstrate His follow through, that is going to deliver on His promise in your life what He has said He will do. That and so much more.
Remember, He’s the God that says in Ephesians that He is able to do exceeding abundantly, above and beyond what we can ask, think, hope, imagine, or dream. So we should get ourselves like out there in our hopes. We should jack our hopes up, be on the edge of our seat, craning our necks, as the Bible says, looking for His faithfulness to come through. All of a sudden! Our job is just to keep our attention and our focus rightly set on Him, set our thoughts on things above, not on the things that are in this earth realm.
Paul writes in 2nd Timothy 4:7–8…
“I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.” King James says, “Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.”
Prayer…
So, Father, we just thank you this morning for your faithfulness.
We thank you, Lord, for this good fight that we have embarked on, that we’ve begun in our journey to follow you and know you.
We just lift up the name of Jesus today, Father, we lift it up and exalt it over our bad attitudes, over our fears and concerns and worries and anxiousness over traumas and doubts and things that haven’t worked out, and unmet expectations.
Lord, we just lift up and exalt the name of Jesus over those things. We speak Jesus to the mountains of impossibilities that we perceive in our mind’s eye.
We speak Jesus to those symptoms, to that family situation, to that financial struggle, to what is unknown and what we can’t see that’s crazy and chaotic right now around us in our lives in some way.
We speak Jesus, be Jesus in those environments and those realms and those circumstances.
Lord, we just surrender up and we give up anything that holds us back or keeps us down or causes us to just roam around in circles like the children of Israel did in the desert for some 40 years.
So, Lord, we choose to lay aside anything that inhibits us and we give you permission to do a work right here among us and in us and through us that you would have your way because we are intent, Lord, to like Paul echoes here or says, run our race with full vigor and full intensity and an urgency in and of and by the Spirit. To run our race of faith. Not looking back, not looking to the right or to the left, not being concerned with this person or that person or what didn’t work out quite the way we thought it would, but instead looking unto our Heavenly Father…
The initiator of this journey
The continuer of our journey
The sustainer of our journey
And the one who is able to bring us all across the finish line in a season in our lives in whatever way so that we could say that we’ve run the race.
