Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Well, happy Wednesday, everyone! Good to see y’all here in the chapel.
God is fixing to do something good here today. And my heart is always to just say, “Lord, what do you want to do? What do you want to accomplish through us this morning through pray?”
Our journey is one step at a time…
We are not out to seek a particular event or one-time experience with God, but we’re walking with Him. Day by day. And I encourage you to connect during this time of worship, to lean in during prayer and know that it’s okay if things aren’t fully okay in your life. We’re on a journey. We’re walking out our faith. We’re in a race. Paul described it as a race of faith. And so we take one step at a time.
God is doing a new thing…
And while maybe some things aren’t right in your life or a situation in your home, guess what? We get to walk by faith and not by sight or what we’ve been told or what has happened up until now. In other words, in the past. Behold God’s doing something new… new today, new in your heart, new in your life.
And if we will see and navigate and journey with Him by faith and by the knowledge that He is good and that we will see His goodness in our lives, then guess what? We’re opening up a lane for God to work in our circumstances, in our situation, in our bodies, in our finances, in our nation, in our churches, in our children, in our grandchildren. So that what He has stated ought to be so in His Word in your heart, through the Rhema word of God. He can begin to create the reality of that.
Prayer is a partnership with Him…
Prayer is our engagement with the Father, our partnership with Him, so that He can begin to create the reality of what He stated should be so in our lives. And maybe it doesn’t happen in a moment. We’re glad when a miracle instantaneously occurs. We thank God for that, right? But oftentimes it comes “as we go,” as Jesus often told people that He ministered healing to… “as they went, praising God…” “as they went about their day sharing the story of what Jesus had done they were made whole.”
Things are getting better…
So just know this morning, even as we worship and as we pray, and as you go into your day, things are getting better. You have turned a corner. The work of redemption is a work that God performed on your behalf and my behalf, to help us turn the corner from what was the enemy’s plan and what was negative and for our destruction and what we went through. Turn the page to a new chapter and a new day.
Do not grow weary in well doing…
So I actually delight in the fact that when things are looking negative, when things have gone south, that I get to lean in to the reality that He is good, that He is faithful, that He will never leave nor forsake me. And that I get to lift up holy hands. And I get to worship even when things aren’t perfect because I know that He is the God who always comes through for me. Maybe not today. Will I see it? Maybe I will. But that day is coming and He is performing that which concerns me, as the Bible says. And He will continue to advance you and fulfill the good work He has begun in you and your children. Sometimes prayers is just… when everything looks wrong, you engage in what’s right. You stay faithful. If you grow not weary in well-doing, you will reap. We will reap collectively what God has promised if we will not grow weary in doing… what? In doing good… what is good… fighting the good fight of faith.
We are every whit whole…
Perhaps simply worshiping and thanking God for the salvation of your loved ones, even though they seem to be on the Devil’s team right now. Praising God and thanking Him even though you have pain in your body, that you believe you receive His healing power to restore you, to restore your back, restore your elbow, restore that organ that’s malfunctioning, restore the platelets in your blood, restore your central nervous system where it is short circuiting. So that it’s whole, every whit whole, as the King James says.
That’s God’s will for us. Body, soul, and spirit… physically, neurologically… in our muscle tissues and our tendons and nerves, in every facet of our being. You must know today beyond a shadow of a doubt that He is the one who sent His Word in His Book, of course, but firstly, in the person of His Son. He sent His Word and He healed them. That’s past tense in the mind of God. Therefore, we can believe that we receive wholeness and rejoice even when things don’t appear like they’ve changed.
We’ve turned a corner…
We’ve got God’s Word on it, and we can worship Him in the journey as we walk out our healing, as we walk out the answer. Because we have turned the corner. Redemption means the shed blood of Jesus means you have turned a corner on that negative dark season of your soul, on that situation that went south. You’ve turned the corner, and we are on our way in God, appointed to go from glory to glory, from victory to victory, from strength to strength, from healing to healing to health. Glory to God.
God is inviting us to step up…
God is leveling up the church now, the pray-ers now. So that we don’t stay where we’ve been. Maybe that was a good place for the past month or past year or past decade, but God is inviting us to step up to a place where there’s a capacity in our faith. There’s a stability in our walk with Him. There is a new set of lenses on our eyes that allows us to see as He sees, not easily being moved or dismayed or discouraged by what we see. God has given us a whole new filter, not the filter of our past or the filter of what was said or what occurred to us or the trauma we went through, but a filter of His Word. His Word is clear, and as pray-ers, we have to be a people of the Word. We have to put on the lenses of the Word every day, even before we pray.
Our filter is His Word…
Brother Hagin has taught that through the years. Pastor Lynne has taught that. Our foundation and our lens through which we filter whatever happens today or in the coming days is His Word. That’s where we pray from. That’s where we decree from. That’s how we respond… through the filter of His Word. What has He said about that situation? What has He said that His will and intention is for our nation, for leaders, for what we should be praying for today. Let’s let that govern us. Let that build capacity, His Word, just being one who meditates and feeds on His Word, that we journey through His Word day by day, so that we’re strong in faith and therefore able to apprehend as the Bible says what He’s apprehended us for.
Don’t consider yourself as having arrived because you received an answer last week in prayer. Thank God for that. But God has apprehended you, the Bible says, for something so much greater. We’re in a journey here and His intention is that we grow strong in the journey. Not flag in our faith or grow vulnerable and weak and susceptible to temptation, but strong. Strong!
Prayed…
And so, Father, we thank you today for this time of worship and for the privilege to walk by faith and not by sight to walk by what your Word states and not by what we feel today.
Lord, may there come a download into households and into hearts today to strengthen us, to grant fresh courage and inspiration and tenacity…
We pray that this time would be healing and life giving and that peace would saturate every heart and mind, Lord, as we come together to worship you, to seek you and to pray, in Jesus’ name.
Every one of you has an important supply to give…
Let me remind us this morning that each and every one of us has a valid, necessary, and important supply of prayer. And that God wants to use the prayer that He’s inspiring us to pray, to articulate during this time, to make a way into situations, into nations, into the hearts and lives of people He desires to reach. Because I think it’s important for us to be mindful that what’s on God’s heart is the precious fruit of the earth—souls! There’s one reason why He has not yet returned and wrapped this dispensation up. It’s because the Bible says He waits for the precious fruit of the earth. He’s longsuffering. He’s patient, in other words. That’s perhaps the most prominent thing in His heart, I would believe right now, in this hour.
And so I believe He wants to make a way this morning through our prayers to reap the precious fruit of the earth, to reach people who have previously been unreachable, whether it be in your household or in nations across the globe. One thing is for certain: God desires to conduct His affairs through our faith and our prayers.
Prayer is like a river…
And one of the visuals that kind of came to me as we were worshiping is a river. Prayer is so much like a river. I should say the “flow” of prayer. How many of you know that there is the spirit of prayer, a.k.a the Holy Spirit. And each of us possesses the Holy Spirit if we profess Jesus. And there is a river. Jesus prophesied saying there would come a day—and that day is now—that out of your belly would flow rivers of living water. Not only to benefit and bless you and me, but also those that we’re called to influence. Make no mistake about it. We’re not here just going through some typical conventional, spiritual motion. We are on assignment. You and me have been mobilized for such a time and generation as this, that God would make a way. That His desire in His heart would be realized in the earth in our lives.
You never know where the river will take you…
And prayer is the conduit. Prayer is the way that that happens. And so the visual I got was a river. And if you’ve ever been tubing or canoeing on a river, you know you have to give yourself to the river. And then the river takes you… in some instances through straight areas. And then there are bends and curves. And then there may be parts of the river where it’s very winding. At times there are real calm backwaters where you’re just floating, right? Canoeing, floating, tubing, whatever you’re doing, it’s very calm. But then around the next bend, there could be rapids, maybe even a waterfall. It changes. But you’ve got to give yourself to the river and then the river takes you somewhere. That is true when it comes to the river of prayer.
And so just know one this morning, you and I, you’re not just spectating, but I encourage you to participate and give yourself to the Spirit of prayer on the inside of you. Can we do that this morning? Just yield to the Spirit of prayer. God grants prayer. He inspires. He does something inside of us if we’ll give ourselves to it and connect to our spirit hearts, the real part of us, the recreated part of us… It will take us somewhere. There’s a river there and sometimes the river is just waiting on Him. Sometimes the river is praying rapid fire in the spirit, right? Sometimes it’s faith decrees and declarations boldly out of the spirit of faith. Whatever the case is, we just want God to take us in that direction—the direction of His intention this morning.
Prayed…
Father, we yield this morning to the Spirit of prayer, knowing that this is our partnership with you, to make a way where there doesn’t appear to be a way in situations in this nation today, in Israel. And so, Father, we purpose to do that this morning.
Holy Spirit, take hold together with us against the enemy’s devices, against the evil that is running roughshod, even in our own nation. And of course, the earth.
Let our prayers coalesce and come together to do the work you want done today, in the Spirit.
Lord, let this collective prayer of your people right here, right online this morning, move some things out of the way. Make a way where there isn’t a way presently.
Lord, let there come new orders into the earth… new directives of and by the Spirit… that gets the world’s attention. New orders, new purposes, new intentions of the Father’s heart released into the earth, released into the church.
Lord, we don’t want our way or what we can come up with, we want your way, your thoughts, your plans.
We pray for new inroads and new avenues into nations, in the people groups, into the next generation.
Lord, let there come an awakening among the generations, from old to young and everyone in between.
Worship leader, Kathy…
I keep hearing in my spirit the words “He’s the God of the Jubilee.” And if you read Isaiah 61… Jesus quoted part of that. He opens blind eyes. That’s what He does. And He sets the captive free. And we like to say He breaks the chains, but if you actually look it up into Hebrew, it “destroys” the chains. Like it destroys it so much they can’t ever come back. There’s nothing left to come back. And Jesus still does that today.
He is the God of the Jubilee…
We as a church have to just believe what He said. And I know I’m believing for some people and for their spiritual blindness to come off of them. And for them to walk out of those chains and never return. Jesus said it 2000 years ago, it was quoted hundreds of years before that. And it’s still true today.
So He is the God of the Jubilee. He was and He still is. And He ever will always be. So it was true then. It’s true now. Pastor Ken keeps saying about opening blind eyes and opening the deaf ears, well Jesus already did that. He said He came to do it. And He already did it. The Holy Spirit floods us with the light of the revelation that it’s already done.
So, Father, we thank you that you have already made the way. And you’re going to show us what that is.
Pastor Ken…
Just continue just to receive this morning. There may not be a lot going on externally, but internally, the Lord desires us to simply absorb Him, to receive Him in His presence. Just receive encouragement this morning. Just receive grace upon grace this morning.
Personal word for someone to receive forgiveness…
For somebody, you just need to receive forgiveness and the grace to let go. Just receive in this moment. Let your soul be saturated in peace. Let the Holy Spirit advocate and operate for you, in you, right now.
I just declare encouragement right now this morning, encouragement and grace over each and every person here. I speak encouragement and grace this morning. Peace this morning.
And as Kathy mentioned earlier, I speak Jubilee over you this morning. This day. Jubilee! Jubilee! Jubilee! That means release, forgiveness, debts are paid off and paid in full. And you have the ability to just let go and fully release from that to embrace Him and His plan in every way.
Personal word to “let it go…”
In fact, there may be somebody who you don’t even realize it yet, but the Lord is saying, “You can let go of that. You can give that to Me. You can fully just open your hand and let that be blown away by the wind of My Spirit and be free. Free then to follow Me, free then to focus on Me, free to worship Me, free to give Me praise. Because you can release that which is from the past, that which does seek to burden and distract and weigh you down. Release it! That you might have a fuller ability to follow Me and worship Me and give yourself to Me.”
Isaiah 41:10…
As we wind down this morning, I just want to share with you Isaiah 41:10. I think it’s so appropriate for the hour that we’re in. It says, “Fear not for I am with you. Be not dismayed for I am your God.” Come on now! Somebody say amen to that. “I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”
Do you see that this morning?
No matter what’s reported on the news media later today, what threats of war come, what darkness seems to appear in the horizon, what upset continues in the markets globally as far as the economics of the world and the nation, God promises that we can in the midst of that still refuse the temptation to fear. And we can recognize that He is the one that upholds us. He is the one who has embraced us and brought us into His economy and kingdom. And it’s from that kingdom of abundance and peace and authority that we can reign in life by one Jesus Christ.
So let that just be something that stirs in your heart in the coming days.
