Morning Prayer Summary for Wednesday, January 15, 2025

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Pastor Ken…

How’s everyone doing? Good day, good afternoon, and good evening. My name is Ken Olson. I’m one of the pastors on staff here at Living Word.

The power of prayer…

There’s nothing like the power of prayer and agreement to break whatever the enemy is strategizing, whatever the enemy is tempting you with, whatever the enemy has done to cause problems. That can all change in a moment. In a nanosecond of time!

Our God is eternally in the business of redeeming what seems too far gone, what’s broken, what’s out of joints, what’s unhealthy, what has been frustrated in your life. Our God is “the” God of redemption. And the more challenging the situation or circumstances are, the more He’s excited to turn that situation around, to restore, to heal, to put back to change whatever needs to be changed.

So just expect today as we go along, no matter what we’re praying about, I just encourage you to anticipate and expect that there is a supernatural flow of God’s presence available to us.

The wisdom of Brother Kenneth E. Hagin…

Brother Kenneth Hagin, over the years in his earthly ministry, would talk about how electricity is ubiquitous, it’s available everywhere. You just need to plug into it in the outlet in your house or in your car. There’s a certain type of electricity in your car you can charge your cell phone with or whatever. Well, the same is true when it comes to supernatural power. The supernatural power of God is available. It’s ubiquitous. Wherever you are on whatever continent of the planet you find yourself residing presently, there is power. There’s power in this chapel this morning. There is power wherever you’re viewing this online today, whatever country. You’re not alone and you’re not without the power of God.

Heaven is a place and a flow…

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Heaven is just a place. Heaven is a flow. And because of the redemptive work of Jesus, because of the love of the Father to send Jesus, to do what He did for us, as I like to say, “to dot every I, cross every T” to fulfill every obligation and demand of the law. He did that.

Why? For many reasons.

But one reason is to make His power, heaven’s power, throne-room power available and transmittable to you and to me for our everyday lives. Not just so that we can once be saved. Oh, we’re glad and if it was just for salvation, we would have enough to praise and exalt Him forever. But Jesus came to make all provision available for all of our lives in every facet of our lives and to live godly lives.

You are not alone…

And so just have that expectation today. You are not alone. You are not without. God went to great lengths. Jesus went to great lengths in obedience “to dot every I, once again, to cross every T” and to make a way where there wasn’t previously a way so that we could step into and receive of His fullness.

Be saturated with God’s presence…

So if it’s healing that you need in your body, then expect that as we go along, as we worship, as I share, as we pray, that the presence of God is imbibing you, that you’re becoming saturated and you’re absorbing the presence of God like a sponge. In your spirit, yes, but in your mind, in your body, in that part of your being, that you’re feeling pain right now, wherever there’s an infection right now where you’ve had perennial and perpetual pain in some way, I just declare that the power of God is assigned to your situation, to that part of your brain that’s been freaking out or been hijacked by circumstances or what you seen or what you’ve been through or whatever.

God is able to transform and deliver and do what needs to be done in this moment of time, in this season. Right now, this morning as we pray and as we worship Him and as we acknowledge Him, for His power is available and it’s being transmitted and I believe that we are receiving it right now.

Prayed…

We just thank you, Father, this morning that your power is available to us. Lord, we just turn our attention away from everyday distractions. We turn our attention away from the pain, from the loss, from the frustrated expectations, from what hasn’t happened. And we look to you today, Lord. And we say we love you. We honor you. We praise your name, Lord.

The importance of words…

Well, let me just share a passage of scripture with you, just say a couple of things here that I was reflecting on last night. I want to draw our attention to the importance of words, not just in morning prayer or when you’re agreeing with a friend and praying a prayer of agreement about something, but just everyday words, what comes out of our mouths, day in and day out. And I don’t mean this to be any sort of thing that puts you under legalism. I’m not talking about that. Certainly there are times when you should be completely real and vulnerable to the Lord and maybe to a friend when you need to unpack things. But I’m speaking of our everyday words and what we say.

James chapter 3…

I want to draw your attention to some things James writes in James 3, which I think some of it are his reflections of things he noticed regarding Jesus’ life and how He used His tongue and His words. Because at the end of the day, I don’t think most of the church recognizes really what God has fashioned us to be, that being “speaking spirits” created in the order and the lineage of God Himself, sons of God. We’ve been transformed into being sons and daughters of the most high God with the ability to speak and create, to speak forth life or to speak forth death. And we know the Bible teaches us, “therefore, speak life. Choose life.”

Ask the Holy Spirit to help you see your blind spots…

So ask the Holy Spirit to arrest you and help you to see and notice, to reveal to you blind spots as we enter into 2025, regarding what is coming out of your mouth, what you’re using your tongue for. Again, not just in morning prayer or when you’re praying on your own, but as you go throughout your days, your weeks, your months, and your year. Because they’re significant. Words, that is.

And in James 3, James writes in the epistle of James, “My brother, let not many of you become teachers knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he’s a perfect man.”

Give attention to your vocabulary…

So he is setting us up saying this is tough. You’re going to need to give some time and attention to your vocabulary, to what you choose to say on a daily basis. “If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man or woman able to bridle the whole body.”

What? You’re able to affect your body—with your words!

Absolutely. I like to point out that psychologists, researchers, and scientists tell us today, we know for a fact that your speech center, the speech unit of your brain is directly hardwired into your central nervous system. So when you say something, you are sending signals through your central nervous system to the rest of your body, much less the externals in your life. Which I always like to say gives new meaning to the passage that says, “Let the weak say I am strong.” That we know and can quantify and measure today, when you say, “I’m strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.” That you’re telling your body, you’re sending it signals to prepare to be strong.

Words set spiritual laws in motion…

So maybe don’t say, “I think I’m catching a cold.” “Oh, this always happens to me this is the same time every year.” Or “Every male in my family dies before they’re 40. So I guess I probably will too.”

No! You’re setting spiritual laws in motion. You are praying. That’s one way we pray perpetually or at all times. We don’t realize that our words are forms of prayer. Everyday words. They’re prophetic! You are the prophet. You are the pray-er for your own life in everything you say. So choose wisely.

James 3 goes on to say…

“Indeed we put bits in horse’s mouths.” He’s using an analogy here. “That they may obey us and we turn their whole body. Look also at ships, although they are so large, they are driven by fierce winds. They’re turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot,” or you could say the captain, “desires. By that little rudder at the back of the ship. “Even so…” So he’s comparing that, those two analogies to the tongue, to our mouths… “Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.” In other words, it can set in motion or it can stop great things.

Your mouth can prevent or permit…

Jesus said, “Pray the prayer of binding and losing.” The prayer of preventing or permitting. Your mouth can prevent or permit spiritual laws from going into motion. You can give the enemy place with your words, or you can not give him a place in your life, in your heart, in your finances, in your health—with your words.

If you’ve given him a place, well take courage this morning. You can start closing the door on the enemy by choosing to speak words of faith and words of positive expectation, to speak the promise of God.

James goes on to say…

“So how great a forest a little fire kindles. And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell.”

So the enemy doesn’t have his own authority. He’s been, according to the redemptive work of Jesus, booted out of our lives. So you could say he’s a renegade, really, on the earth. And he seeks to gain entrance into lives and into the world and in the world system through people—through unwitting, ignorant, or lacking spiritual discernment people who give him place to speak words of doubt, to speak words of fear, curse words. In all sorts of ways, including our music and our entertainment. That’s how he gains entrance and propels him into the affairs of humanity and His plan as well. So the whole world set on fire with words.

But it goes on to say…

“But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father and with it we curse men who have been made in the likeness of God. Out of the same mouth, proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.”

He’s saying, “Hey, wake up to what you’re saying.”

“Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives or a grape bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.”

He goes on to say…

“Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic, for where envy and self-seeking exists, confusion and every evil thing are there.”

And finally, in verse 17…

“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits without partiality, without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.”

Commentary from book “The Power of the Tongue” by Kenneth Copeland….

Now, let me just read some comments from a little book called “The Power of the Tongue” by brother Kenneth Copeland. He actually quotes that chapter James 3 saying, “In this chapter, there are two central ideas that I want us to pay particular attention to.

Number one: There is nothing in the earth so great or so powerful, including the physical body, that it cannot be controlled by the tongue.
Number two: The entire course of nature and circumstances surrounding every human being are controlled by that person’s tongue.”

We need to get wisdom…

Now, don’t freak out. I mean, this is not meant to be something that is a heavy weight on us, but we want to get wisdom. The Bible says that in all your getting, get understanding, get wisdom so that we can live more wisely in 2025 and see different results and see God’s release because your words can prevent or your words can permit God from working in your life. Spiritual laws are working or not working in your life.

In verses 3–5, James uses some examples to illustrate. We read those examples about the horse’s bid and the ship’s rudder, and he goes on to say, “No matter how big or how strong a horse may be, he can be controlled by a small piece of iron in his mouth. No matter what size a ship or how fierce the winds are against it, it can be directed by the helm or the rudder. The parallel drawn between a ship’s rudder and a horse’s bit in its mouth and the human tongue is outstanding. They seem insignificant in themselves, but the power each wields is remarkable.

“You are the rider holding the bit. You control the horse. You are the governor or the captain of the ship. You turn the rudder [I would say, of your life]. In either situation, you are in authority as long as you maintain control.

So who’s got control of what you say? Is it just flippant words? Is it just words that just come out, out of habit or ritual?

Or are you discerning what to say and choosing wisely what you say over your own soul? You’re planting seeds even with your words into your own heart. Are they words of doubt and fear and more of the same? Are they words of hope and expectation and faith?

The Bible says that faith must be found in our hearts and in our mouths. Your tongue is the deciding factor in your life. I know some of these things are things we’ve been taught before. But the Bible says we’re to give more earnest heed to those things that we’ve learned lest at any time we let them slip. That’s a basic biblical principle. And I know for certain in my heart this is important now as we enter into 2025.

Brother Copeland goes on to say…

“No matter how fierce the storm or how serious the problem, your tongue will turn it.” In other words, don’t just pray a prayer of faith with your friend and then go about your day continuing to say the same old thing. Jesus said you would have what you say. So why are you saying what you presently have? Start saying what you want to in the future, see.

This is bottom-line Christianity…

No storm is so big that you as a believer cannot overcome it with God’s Word in your mouth. Like Pastor Lynne used to say, “Tis is bottom-line Christianity.” And honestly, this is the foundation of the pray-er’s life. You can’t come into the prayer place individually or collectively like here this morning or online and pray and “oh holy thou” proper way and then go out of here and then begin to throw up at the mouth with doubt and unbelief and flippant things and sarcasm. That’s having a lack of integrity in your faith. Your faith isn’t going to work because you’re confusing your own soul. Because on one side of your mouth, you’re speaking the same thing. And on the other side of their mouth, you’re believing for something better and say, “Lord, do this.” But everyday words are stating that you really don’t believe.

“Your confession will control your ship in the storm. In verse five, James makes a comparison between a tongue and a kindling for a fire. He says, “Behold how gray a matter a little fire kindleth. The tongue is to your circumstances what kindling is to fire.”

Pastor Ken exhorts…

Oh, I’m telling you, there’s a breakthrough here this morning for somebody. You might get to the root of the problem right here today. You’ve been kindling your own problems. Words are kindling for the enemy.

It goes on…

“Kindling is where the fire starts. A huge bonfire is begun only by a tiny piece of kindling. You can’t start a fire with a big log. It won’t burn. You have to begin with tiny bits and pieces of wood to use as kindling. When you set the kindling on fire, it will, in turn, cause the log to burn.

“This is how circumstances of our planet function. Satan is not powerful enough to start his own bonfire with the big logs of the planet. He has to begin with kindling. And the human tongue is the kindling he uses because he is a fallen angel with no creative power of his own. He has to use the power delegated to man.” That’s you and me. “And manipulate that power to his own advantage. Without the use of a person’s tongue, he cannot function in the world. But when he has control of the tongue, he can control the entire realm of that person’s life.”

Isn’t that interesting?

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