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Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Worship leader…
Good morning, everybody. Always good to be together with the body of Christ.
Psalms 22:27…
I wanted to start with a scripture this morning. I found this and I read it in the Message. Sometimes, you read a passage and it just lights a fire in you. You’re like, okay, this has to be shared, right? And I don’t normally read the Message, but I liked how this put it.
This is Psalm 22:27: “From the four corners of the earth, people are coming to their senses, are running back to God.” We can just stop right there and prophesy that right. “Long-lost families are falling on their faces before Him. God has taken charge. From now on, He has the last word. All the power mongers are before Him worshiping. All the poor and powerless, too, worshiping along with those who never got it together worshiping. Our children and their children will get in on this as the world is passed along from parent to child. Babies not yet conceived will hear the good news that God always does what He says.”
One day every knee will bow…
I love how specific this is, right? And it reminded me of that passage in Philippians 2 where it says, “One day every knee will bow.” So you can bow now or you can bow later, right? And with all the things going on in the world and in our own state, I think we just need to remember He is still the King of Glory. He is still on the throne. One day every knee will bow. One day.
Prayed…
So Father, we thank you that you’re still on the throne.
We thank you that one day every knee will bow.
And today we choose to bow. We choose to honor you. We choose to worship you.
Pastor Ken…
Let me read you a couple scriptures here this morning that maybe remind and recalibrate us to some things here. The first one I want to remind you of is found in the book of Daniel 9:2. A new king had just been put into office, you could say, in the ancient times. At this time, Israel, God’s people, were under Babylonian captivity. And Daniel was reading along in the scriptures one day when he had kind of a moment of clarity. Epiphany is the old word. Where he realized, “Oh my goodness.” Really, what he did is he “discerned the time in the season.” I believe we’re to be very discerning of the times and the seasons we’re in right now.
Daniel discerned the time of the season…
Daniel discerned where they were at on God’s timetable of events. He realized, in fact, that while they had been in captivity for nearly 70 years, if not 70 years at this point, and according to the prophetic Word of God, it was time for Israel to be released and to go back to their land and to Jerusalem.
It says this in verse two…
“In the first year of the his reign,” the new king’s reign, “I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish 70 years in desolation of Jerusalem.” In other words, they were 70 years under Babylonian captivity. So what does he do when he recognizes where they’re at in God’s timetable?
He takes action…
He doesn’t just say, “Oh, that’s cool. That’s interesting. I want to talk about that on my podcast today.” I’m not knocking podcasts. I love podcasts. I’m just saying like I may have said this weekend, when things are impressed on your heart, when you become righteously indignant about something or angry or frustrated about something you’re seeing, or that’s going on that you know isn’t right, don’t let the energy of that and the emotion of that and the prompting of that just go out sideways as you just talk about it or gossip about it to your friend.
Use that energy…
Use that energy that’s in you, that indignation, maybe anger even, that frustration that “I can’t believe this is happening in our own state” kind of thing… or in my city or with my kids or whatever. Redirect that, channel that prompting. Remember, the Bible says we have an unction of and by the Holy Spirit. It’s an “anointing” is another word used. Meaning an energy, if you will, of God. He’s teaching you. He’s prompting you to pray, to lift it up to the Father.
And while you may not solve it in the moment, every time you lift it up to Him, you magnify that issue before the Lord. And sometimes it’ll come back to you. It’ll come back to you maybe many times. But you keep lifting it up. You keep praying about it in the spirit. And you keep mentioning it before the throne of God.
Making mention is a prayer…
Maybe it’s just the name of a place or a city or a person like Paul said. “I make mention of you before the throne of God.” That’s a prayer. Sometimes the shortest prayers can be the most powerful prayers. What’s important is not how much breath we exhale when we pray. What’s important is the injection of our faith, that we understand who He is and what He’s capable of, our Father that is. And that He’s given us the green light to ask so that we could receive, to intercede so that change can come into the earth realm and into situations and into governments and into hearts and lives, et cetera.
And it goes on to say…
He understood by the books the number of the days specified by the Word of the Lord through Jeremiah that he would accomplish 70 years in desolation of Jerusalem. “Then I set my face.” So what did he do?
He acted.
“I set my face toward the Lord to make requests by prayer, supplications with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. And I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession and said, ‘Oh Lord, great and awesome God who keeps His covenant.’” So He’s faithful, in other words. “…and mercy with those who love Him and with those who keep His commandments.”
Then I’m going to jump to Daniel 2:20…
“Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His. And He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and raises up kings.”
Can I get an amen?
He still needs us to pray…
“He can remove kings. He can raise up kings. He can turn the hearts of kings [leaders, you could say]…” But He needs us to pray. I think I said this at the second service Sunday morning this weekend, the great man Hudson Taylor, “It is possible to move men through God by prayer alone.” He wasn’t saying that you can necessarily override somebody’s free will, but you can affect change and you can supernaturally one way or another…
If a king or a leader’s heart does not bend or is not persuaded by the presence of God to go in the direction of what God has planned, then He will remove that king, that leader, that president, that prime minister, that senator, that representative.
We’re not praying for something. We’re praying from something…
There’s a whole lot more behind what we call prayer as far as the power and the backing of heaven, that is behind you. We don’t stand on our own ground. We’re not praying for something. We’re praying from something. You probably have heard me say that before. We’re here processing the plan of God as He’s already intended it to unfold. He’s just working it out through us. He’s expressing it in this realm through human agency. So just know that as we pray, whenever you pray, you stand on some pretty solid ground.
We stand on the grounds of His Word.
We stand on the grounds of His prophetic intention.
We stand on the ground of what He has already intended to do for our nation.
We stand on good ground with heaven at our back and angels surrounding us waiting to be dispatched.
Prayerlessness makes angels to be unemployed…
Once again, one of the great sad things about prayerlessness… The absence of prayer in the church or in our lives is that it leaves a whole lot of angels unemployed. We have the resources of the heavenly arena and the kingdom of God at our disposal. At the simplest faith decree or you declaring the promise of God, or you drawing deep from within you and praying out in your heavenly prayer language why you don’t know exactly what you’re praying, we do know, according to the scriptures, we are praying according to the plan and the perfect will of God.
And there’s something about that that releases faith, that gives God permission to do what He has planned to do. And is capable of doing and willing to do. He just needs us to will it as well, believe and agree with it as well. So that we can get to that Promised Land. So know that we’re praying “from” something this morning.
We’re praying from divine destiny.
We’re praying from a place of authority.
We’re on the winning side.
The greater one abides in us if you profess the name of Jesus.
Is that true? Come on now. Praise God.
So Daniel answered and said…
“Bless the name of the Lord God forever for wisdom and might are His.” Wisdom and might are His. “And He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and He raises up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. He reveals deep and secret things. He knows what it is in the darkness, and light dwells with Him.”
Then in Psalm 85:6 it says…
“Will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you? Show us your mercy, Lord, and grant us your salvation.” Can we just agree on that passage right there?
Prayed…
Father, we just say, revive America again.
Revive the church at Living Word again.
Revive us in Minnesota again that your people may rejoice in you.
We pray, Lord, show us your mercy.
Lord, grant us your salvation.
