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Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Heather…
Good morning, everyone! Welcome to morning prayer. Thank you to those of you who are joining us online. My name’s Heather Sibinski. I’m one of the pastors here at Living Word.
Book “In His Presence” by E.W. Kenyon…
I’m really enjoying the book, “In His Presence” by E.W. Kenyon. So I wanted to read a little bit out of it, and I think I have some other direction here, so we’ll see how that goes.
We trust the Holy Spirit. Amen? I always pray every morning on my way, “Just pray the words that you need to pray, say the things that you need to say.” Because I could have my own agenda and I could come here, but what is it that He wants to share or pray through us today?
So I’m picking up in the book where it talks about the reality of His redemption.
“The church has had a theological conception of our redemption. It has never been a part of our daily walk. Colossians 1:13–14 says, ‘Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have our redemption.’
“And Ephesians 1:7 says, ‘The redemption is according to the riches of His grace.’ In the mind of the Father, that redemption is a reality. It would have been a total failure otherwise. That redemption meant that Satan had been utterly defeated, stripped of his authority and dominion so that any man, no matter what his condition has been, how deeply he has been enmeshed in sin, can by whispering the name of Jesus and by confessing His lordship, step out of bondage into perfect liberty.”
Hallelujah.
Romans 6:14…
“For sin shall not have dominion over you…” or Satan shall not lord it over you. “It has made the new man, the new creation, a master of sin. In the name of Jesus, the weakest child of God is an absolute master of Satan and demons. That redemption is a reality. You who have received eternal life, as you read this, can whisper, ‘I am free. The Son has made me free, and I am free in reality’ (John 8:36).
“Most of these verses are a literal translation or copied from some of our modern translations. That redemption is a reality to the man who knows his place in Christ. You cannot be in Christ and not be free from the dominion of the Devil. What substitutions we have had for the new creation. We have called it forgiveness of sins, being converted, getting religion, joining the church, and many others. It is just one thing, a new creation, a child of God, a partaker of the divine nature. These all represent the one fact that you have passed out of death, satanic nature, into life, the realm of God. That is not just forgiveness of sins, but it is an impartation of a new nature. The old self, the old man was crucified with Christ. A new man was resurrected, and when you accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and confessed Him as Lord, God imparted His own nature, eternal life to you, and you became a new species, a new man over which Satan has no dominion.
Jesus gave to us the use of His name…
“How little we have appreciated this. It is one of the greatest gifts the church has ever had given her. Before Jesus left us, He gave to the church a legal right to use His name. John 15:16, ‘Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, He will give it to you.’
“John 16:23–24, ‘And in that day, ye shall not pray to me. Verily, verily, I say unto you, If ye shall ask anything of the Father, He will give it to you in My name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name. Ask, and ye shall receive that your joy may be made full.’
We have the power of attorney to use His name…
“Here He gives us the power of attorney to go to the Father and make our requests. When you pray in that name, it is as though Jesus prayed. There can be no denial. You remember, Jesus said at the tomb of Lazarus, ‘I thank You, Father, that Thou dost always hear Me.’ That is the ground for your assurance.
“John 14:13–14 says He gives us the use of the name. ‘And whatsoever ye shall ask or demand in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. And if ye shall ask anything in My name, that will I do.’
The difference between praying and saying…
This is not prayer. This is described in Acts 3:6, where Peter and John heal a man at the Beautiful Gate by saying, ‘In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise and walk.’
“It is as Paul used in Acts 16:18, where He spoke to the demon in the girl and He said, ‘In the name of Jesus, come out of her.’ Or as the name was used in the day of Pentecost when they baptized those people in the name of Jesus.
“When we pray, we say, ‘Our Father, in Jesus’ name.’ That is our approach. That gives us assurance of a hearing. Jesus said, recorded in John 14:17, speaking of the Holy Spirit, ‘He is with you, but He shall be in you.’
Four things took place in the upper room on Pentecost…
“On the day of Pentecost, we see four things take place in that upper room.
First thing: They were the first people (aside from Jesus) to ever be born again…
Suddenly, there came from heaven the sound of a rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the room where they were sitting. The disciples were immersed in the Holy Spirit. And when they were immersed, they received eternal life, were made new creations. They were the first people aside from Jesus that were ever born again. Jesus, you know, is the firstborn.
Second thing: Tongues of fire sat on each of them…
“The second thing that happened, tongues of fire sat upon the brow of each one, indicating the method of propagating this Gospel of the grace of God. It is going to be with tongues of fire. For example, Stephen’s tongue couldn’t be withstood, so they had to kill him to get rid of his tongue of fire.
Third thing: They were all filled with the Holy Spirit…
“And the third thing, they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. He couldn’t come in until they were recreated.
Fourth thing: They all spoke with other tongues…
“And the fourth, they all spoke with other tongues.
Note: They received eternal life and had the Holy Spirit living in them…
But note that the great thing was they had not only received eternal life, but they had the one who had raised Jesus from the dead now living in them.
“We have made a great deal of receiving the Holy Spirit. It has been majored, and we have ignored the fact of His being in us. First John 4:4, ‘Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.’
“Philippians 2:13, ‘For it is God who is at work within you, willing and working His own good pleasure.’ Not only are we born again, have become the very sons and daughters of God, but He comes and makes His home in us. The ministry has kept the church in bondage of sin consciousness ever since the Reformation. None of us have ever been able to get away from it. Most of our hymns are about sin. Most every sermon is about sin. The church has never known of her absolute freedom from sin consciousness.
“Hebrews 10:1–14 should be studied very carefully. We haven’t space to quote it all. First, it tells us how the blood of bulls and goats couldn’t take away sin, for if it could, the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices, there is a remembrance made of sins year by year. That makes us think of the altar service where we ask the believer to keep coming Sunday after Sunday to be cleansed from sin. The blood of Jesus Christ hasn’t meant more to some of us than the blood of bulls and the goats meant to a Jew. For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin.
“The eleventh verse, ‘And every priest standeth day by day ministering and offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sin. But He, when He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God. For by one offering, He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.’
Jesus dealt with the sin problem so we could receive the nature and life of God…
“He dealt with the sin problem for us perfectly when we were recreated and received the nature and life of God. At that time, He not only put our sin away, but He remitted all that we had ever committed, and at that same time, He imparted His own nature and righteousness to us.
We became new creations upon receiving Jesus…
“Second Corinthians 5:21, ‘Him who knew no sin, God made to become sin, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.’ And by that new creation, we have become the righteousness of God. So Romans 3:26 has become a reality that He, God, might Himself be righteousness, that the righteousness of Him who have faith in Jesus.
“Here, God declares that He becomes the righteousness of the man who accepts His Son as Savior. First Corinthians 1:30 declares that Jesus has been made to be our righteousness. God is our righteousness. Jesus is our righteousness, and by the new creation, we have become the righteousness of God in Him.
The righteousness of God is the ability to stand in God’s presence without guilt…
“But you ask, What is the righteousness of God? It is the ability to stand in the Father’s presence without a sense of guilt, condemnation, or inferiority. It is the ability to stand there as the very sons and daughters of God Almighty, so that you can go boldly unto the throne of grace and make your petitions just as Jesus would if He were here.
Faith in the Father is built upon His Word…
“Faith in the Father is not built upon the word of man but built upon His Word. Man’s testimony to be the truth of word, has its place, but it cannot take the place of the Word itself. The Word is the Father speaking. It is as though the Master were here now in person. That Word is taking His place. That Word has given us life and made us new creations. That Word has sustained us and upheld us. It is the word of faith that proceeds from the very heart of the Father of faith. The Word is a part of the Father Himself. I feed on it. I breathe it into my spirit. It is being built into my spirit consciousness. Its absolute integrity. Its life-giving quality has impregnated my very being.
God’s Word never loses its power…
“Man’s word like grass withers. God’s Word like Himself He can never die, can never lose its freshness, its power, its ability to recreate, to strengthen, and to give courage. You see, the word in the lips of faith becomes just like the word in Jesus’ lips. The word in lips of doubt and fear is a dead thing, but in the lips of faith it becomes life-giving, dominant. Though it is the sick that through it the sick are healed, Satan’s captives are set free.
You can rest in the Word as you would rest in Him…
“This Living Word in the lips of faith is God’s answer to the heart cry of man. Man’s word may fascinate and satisfy reason for a time, but the heart demands the Word of God. This word illuminated by the Holy Spirit is God’s light on life’s pathway. The Word is a part of Himself. You can lean on the Word as you would lean on Him. You can rest in the Word as you would rest in Him. You can act on the Word as you would act if He had just spoken to you.
Our eternal spirits crave the bread of God…
“The Word is always now. Our modern psychological religions are children of the senses. They use the Bible and quote from it, but it is only man’s literature to them. Their writings can’t feed the hungry spirit of the man. They simply entertain and thrill the people of the senses. These eternal spirits of ours crave the bread of God. Jesus is the bread of life. They that feed on Him have no appetite for theories of men. Don’t waste time in the philosophies of men. There’s no life in them. In Him is life, and that life is our light. His word alone can answer the heart cry of man. Their words may answer the cry of lost reason-ruled souls groping in the sense realm for light, but never the cry of the heart.
Jesus is our example in confession…
“Jesus’ bold and continual confession is our example. We are what He made us to be. Jesus confessed what He was. Sense knowledge could not understand it. We are to confess what we are in Christ. Men of the senses will not understand us. To confess that you are redeemed, that your redemption is an actual reality, that you are delivered out of Satan’s dominion and authority would be a daring confession to make. To confess that you are an actual new creation, created in Christ Jesus, that you are a partaker of the very nature and life of deity would amaze your friends.
Declare that you are what God says you are…
“It isn’t confessing it once, but daily affirming your relationship to Him, confessing your righteousness, your ability to stand in His presence without the sense of guilt or inferiority. Dare to stand in the presence of sense-knowledge facts and declare that you are what God says you are.
“For instance, sense knowledge declares that I am sick with an incurable illness. I confess that God laid that disease on Jesus and that Satan has no right to put it on me, that by His stripes I am healed. I am to hold fast to my confession in that face of apparent sense-knowledge contradiction. Sense knowledge says that it is not true, that I am confessing an untruth, but I am confessing what God says. You see, there are two kinds of truth, sense-knowledge truth and revelation truth, and they are usually opposed to each other. I live in the new realm above the senses, so I hold fast to my confession that I am what the Word says I am.
Maintain your confession of faith in the face of sense contradictions…
“Suppose my senses have revealed the fact that I am in great need financially. The Word declares my God shall supply every need of yours. I call to His attention to what the senses have intimated, and He knows that my expectations are from Him. I refuse to be intimidated by sense evidence. I refuse to have my life governed by them. I know that greater is He that is in me than the forces that surround me. The forces that oppose me are in the senses. The power that is in me is the Holy Spirit, and I know that spiritual forces are greater than the forces in the sense realm. I maintain my confession of spiritual values, of spiritual realities in the face of sense contradictions.”
