Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Good morning, everyone. Happy Wednesday. My name is Ken and we’re super excited to just lean in to the presence of God today.
Announcement…
I have an announcement. We will have prayer throughout this week through Friday, but then for the next last two weeks of the year and the beginning of the first year, we will not host live prayer here from the chapel. But we will be restreaming some of the “best of morning prayer” on our YouTube platform. So just a heads up about that. And then we’ll reconvene the first full week of January on a Monday, and we’ll continue from there. So spread the word.
We’re entering a new era…
I mentioned this Monday night. And I’ve shared a bit here and there in morning prayer. But I’ve been hearing regularly, a consistent word from different sources and different places and people I respect and trust. And perhaps we’ve been praying it as well. And I’ve been saying it at times. But prophetically speaking, without a doubt, it seems pretty unanimous, the word is “We’re entering into a new era, a new season, a new time.” We’re grateful for past times, for past seasons. We’re entering a new era and a new season and a new time. And the word is…
A time of revival
A time of renewal
A time of favor
A transition from past struggles into supernatural fulfillment.
Can I get an amen? Amen.
Look away from all that would distract…
So even as we prepare to worship this morning, I want to set the tone and encourage you and give you permission to look away from all that would distract. The Bible actually states that.
Look away from all that would distract unto Jesus.
Look away from the struggles.
Look away from how good or how bad 2025 was.
Look to the new era God is opening…
And let’s start looking toward this new era that God is opening up for us. I always like to point out the Bible says His grace and mercy are new each morning. Aren’t you glad there’s a whole fresh supply of grace, empowerment, forgiveness, help from heaven that has been laid out for you for today and for this new era and new season?
2025 may have gone a certain way, but 2026 is going to be a new and blessed purpose-filled and outstanding era or season of time for you and for me and for the church at large with people getting saved every day, including our sisters’ son here just this last weekend who felt the presence of God in the service, felt the heat and the dealings of the Holy Spirit in his heart and turned his life over to Him. What a glorious testimony. We should never get tired of what God is doing even in a single person’s life… to what He’s doing in India as I read on Friday about the hundreds of thousands of people being impacted in large crusades in Nagaland, India.
God moving on the NFL football field…
What was it Sunday night or Monday night football here recently, or maybe it was last Thursday night, watching Kirk Cousins and a whole group of young men on the NFL football field, kneel down to the center of the field after the game from both sides, both teams, hands on each other’s back, acknowledging the one and only true Creator of heaven and earth. The Father of all spirits. They knelt and they prayed and they acknowledged Him.
God is at work in America around the world…
He’s at work in your heart this Wednesday morning. Whether you recognize it or realize it or not, God is at work. He’s percolating, using an old coffeepot term. He is percolating. There are signs, there’s movement, there’s activity… there is God at work at the center of your heart, your life, your home, your family. That situation that you prayed long and hard about, I’m here to tell you God is at work. And He will have his way.
So just get in agreement…
Jesus in His earthly ministry taught us as He spoke with His disciples on a given day as they navigated the streets of the cities and villages of His day, “Disciples, My yoke is easy. My burden is light. And I want you to learn how to yoke yourself with Me, to join your life with Me, to see what I’m doing and come join Me in it. Come follow Me.”
His invitation is still the same—Come follow Me!
How many of you know, even for those of us that pray and have been long-term Christians, the invitation and the call of the Holy Spirit is still the same. “Come follow Me.” Come follow the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus. He’s taking us somewhere and it’s somewhere good. He’s taking “you” somewhere. He wants to lead you into days of heaven on earth. He wants to lead us collectively into a fuller expression of His grace, of His glory and all that He desires to accomplish in our lives and through our lives in the spirit, through prayer and faith and in and through our actions of obedience as we live our lives for Him.
Oh, that’s a really good word for a Wednesday morning. I’m glad and hope you agree. Because it is.
We’re not done yet…
I am on the edge of my seat right now, spiritually speaking… gawking and craning my neck to see the goodness of God come through. The faithfulness of God deployed and demonstrated in your life, in my life, in the church, in America, and around the world. We’re not done yet. Don’t sit back on your laurels, as the saying goes. Don’t just spectate. It’s time to join Jesus and what He’s doing. That starts in prayer. It’s time to join Jesus and what He’s doing. And that is to pour forth His glory to a generation that there would be a great harvest.
The Word and the Spirit come together…
Let me add one last thing to what is prophetically being spoken and communicated, I believe, by the Spirit right now. One additional thing is that we’re entering into a new era, a new season. An era where the Word and the Spirit come together. And we as a church and as individuals level up and become more skillful and perfected in our faith to function in the Word and the Spirit together at the same time.
Brother Hagin…
Brother Kenneth E. Hagin, at the end of his life and ministry, said this would be an earmark or a sign of the time before Jesus returns, that the Word and the Spirit will come to a place of prominence and where the church operates in both.
Pastor Bill Johnson…
But Pastor Bill Johnson from Bethel Church in Redding, California, said recently, “The next 12 months will be a time of supernatural breakthrough, where we will see some of the most extravagant answers to prayer we have ever seen.”
He shared an example and I thought it was so good and so I going to take the liberty to share it here. But speaking of extravagant answers, speaking of the Word of God proceeding the power of God… You know that one of the reasons we pray is because when we pray, we are stepping into our authorization to speak God’s Word for Him. He can’t speak it in this realm. Jesus ascended back to the right hand of the throne of His Father. He’s in that parallel universe called the spirit realm. But we have a right because we’re human, born of a woman, called by the name of Jesus, sanctified and set apart unto Him. As a result, we’ve been delegated spiritual authority. So we have a right to rule and reign within our given domain. That’s what spiritual authority is actually defined as.
We are authorized to speak His Word…
And it is our authorization by Jesus, the head of the church, to speak the Word. You’re authorized to speak the Word. You’re authorized to resist the Devil. You’re authorized to pray and declare mysteries in the spirit in your prayer language. Why? Because God’s template or precedence is His Word must be spoken before there is power that shows up or a performance of the promise.
So why, of course, we ought to take advantage of this beautiful opportunity today to open our mouths and rejoice, to open our mouths and speak life, to open our mouths and pray out of our spirits in our heavenly prayer language, divine secrets and mysteries. Because it’s releasing faith.
Kenneth Copeland…
Faith must be in your heart and it must be in your mouth. And when you speak under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in your known language, in your heavenly language, you are releasing… Kenneth Copeland once called it… divine materiality. Meaning divine substance called faith. And that gives God the raw materials to create the reality of the results you’re praying about, of the reality of the promise.
He wants to co-labor with us…
That’s one of the things Jesus was implying when He said, “Come join me in the work that I’m doing.” I want to co-labor with you because God needs us. Yes, we need Him, of course. It’s apparent to all of us. We need Him. We’re desperate for Him. But He’s also set this whole deal up, this kingdom of His, so He can co-labor through us in the fulfillment of His plan.
He needs us. He’s assigned us to earth for this lifetime so that He can get His way, so that prayer fruit is produced. It’s not just about producing tomatoes on your tomato plant or grapes on your grapevine or money in your bank account. It’s about producing the will of God in and through our lives, in and through the words that we speak. At least that’s the first place.
Confession proceeds possession…
An old timer once said that confession builds a road over which faith hauls its mighty cargo. In other words, it may not look like it, it may not feel like it in the moment, but God is at work in your life and in the earth. Because as we make faith decrees, as we pray in the Spirit, as we speak the Word out, it is prophetic and it allows the Lord to build a road, so to speak, so that faith can haul its mighty cargo, a blessing and fulfillment, and power and promise, and bring it into the earth realm and into our lives.
Pastor Bill shared this…
Actually, it was his firsthand experience. This happened to him. He shared how in his church, a number of years ago in Redding, California, a man came to his church and received salvation, got saved, in other words. Then two weeks later, a guest minister came to speak. In the middle of his message, this guest minister looked back about three rows to the exact man who got saved two weeks before and said, “You, stand up.” And he proceeded to prophesy over this young man that he would become an evangelist. And that God had assigned him to a particular group of people and that God was going to do great things through this young man’s life.
Two weeks earlier, he had received this prophetic word over his life. And then two weeks after that, he ends up in a logging accident. Evidently, he worked in the logging industry and while working on a given day, a large limb fell down and came into the cab of the piece of equipment he was operating, pinned him to the back of the cab. And I don’t know if it was against his chest or his throat but pinned him so tightly that he could not breathe or get oxygen.
Well, sadly, it must have been at night or the weekend when there weren’t many people around. There weren’t any chainsaws nearby. So somebody had to get in a truck, drive a couple miles, get a chainsaw, come back. Long story short, they freed him. They got him into an ambulance. They took him to the hospital where when he arrived, he was pronounced dead on arrival. Because he had gone too long without oxygen. They hooked him up on the machines to keep his organs going because they wanted to make sure that he was dead. They hooked up his organs. They did a brain scan, nothing. No vital signs.
So they called a pastor at a nearby town, and that pastor was Bill Johnson. Bill came to the hospital, walked in, he sees this man in the ICU ward, strapped down, all beat up from the branches and the tree falling on him. And in a very nonchalant way, Bill just proceeds to lay hands on him and pray over him.
“He will fulfill all of the will of God.”
But what he prayed was that he would live his life out and fulfill all of the will of God. What he spoke over this young man as he is unconscious because Bill could tell that he wasn’t there. His spirit wasn’t there. He was gone. His organs may have been pumping and working, but he wasn’t there. But Bill recalled that prophetic word his guest minister spoke over this young man. And to the best of his recollection, he spoke or prayed that word back over this young man in the hospital room.
When he was done, he just sang a simple song of thanksgiving and praise. As he walked out of the ICU ward, he thanked the nurse for allowing him time with this man.
He went home and went to bed. This was late Saturday night. Early the next morning, he gets a call from the hospital regarding the man he just prayed for a few hours earlier and they tell him, “This young man that you prayed for, he just sat up and he’s totally fine.” And within just a few days, he went home to be with his family.
So in other words, Pastor Bill didn’t know the magnitude exactly of this man’s injuries. However, he did remember what the Lord said and he said the same thing over his life. No fanfare. No dramatics. Just the Word. He spoke the Word over a hopeless situation, at least from a man’s perspective. And God raised him up.
Because every time you speak the Word, you give God a target to produce His promise. Jesus said this is the work of the kingdom in the gospels. He said “This is the work of the kingdom that you might believe.” He would go on to say, “Believe on Him whom the Father had sent.” Jesus, in other words.
Our responsibility is to believe…
But the point of the matter is, he said this is your work and your responsibility to believe. As pray-ers, as believers. That’s why we’re called believers. We believe. We live by faith and not by sight. Our job is not to dictate the timetable for the results to occur or the manifestation to your prayer to show up. Our job today as pray-ers, first and foremost, is to turn our attention to Him, to lock our eyes and our hearts on Him.
Like Colossians 3:2…
“Set your minds, your attention in other words, on things above, not on things on this earth.” Because faith comes by hearing, not by us leveraging our will to try to mentally ascent to a particular passage of scripture. But our job is to believe and to hear the Word of the Master, to be reminded of what He said in His Book and to our hearts. Because faith is produced or is born when we hear and when we connect with Him in worship, in prayer, and in times of study and silence and solitude in His presence.
And it produces a faith that creates a target for God then to perform what He said He would do. Which is the promise. Which is to be faithful and to bring forth His power in our lives and in and through the church.
