Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Worship leader Kathy…
Good morning, everybody. It’s good to be back with all of you.
Announcement…
One quick announcement. Our guest minister tonight is Joan Hunter. So if you can come in person, that would be fabulous. If you can watch online, the Spirit of God is there too. She has a gift for healing. So if you’re standing for something in your body or your soul or your mind to be healed, you need to either be in the service or watch and participate as best as you can.
Blood of Jesus…
I’ve been rolling around with a whole bunch of different songs in my heart. As a worship person, this is what happens. And God just kept bringing me back to the blood of Jesus. I think sometimes we get so caught up in all the things we feel like we’re supposed to do, that we forget the simplicity of just applying the blood of Jesus. Because without the blood of Jesus, we all know where we would be.
And in Revelation it says we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. And I was actually thinking, you know the blood of Jesus really is our testimony. Because we don’t have one without it. Right?
At the same time, we have been taught, you need to apply the blood of Jesus. And we are so grateful for the blood of Jesus. Father, we thank you for the blood. We remember where we were, and we are grateful we’re not there anymore because of the blood of Jesus.
Pastor Ken prayed…
We pray that the plan of God would rise and thrive and accelerate once again in every city, in every town, in every realm of the nation.
Lord, that you would’ve mercy on us we pray, in Jesus’ name. Mercy on our land.
And together with that, Lord, we pray for mercy upon the land of Israel today, upon her leaders that your voice would echo loud and clear in the hearts of Israel’s leaders today.
That your voice would be heard in every city, from the Galilee to Jerusalem, from the south even around the Dead Sea to the heart of Tel Aviv and the most progressive areas, Lord.
Let your voice resound. Let Jehovah be heard and perceived and encountered among her peoples, that your plan for this time in this generation in your land, among your first covenanted people would come now your plan that is into the forefront, into the very forefront of what’s going on there. Like no other time.
Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.
Pastor Ken shared…
Let me read something to you that I just came across last night that I thought was really good. And I always like things that refocus me, recalibrate me to the reality of what I’m called to do and what my life is about, what following Jesus is all about.
I thought this was really good. It’s based on some accounts of many that have gone before us.
It says…
“The Bible doesn’t just encourage us to know about God. It calls us to meet Him. Moses encountered the Lord at the burning bush and was never the same. Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up and his entire calling changed.”
We have a will to choose our thoughts…
And one of the reasons I’m sharing this too is because sometimes all that is needed for us to begin to coast or become lukewarm in our spirituality or become indifferent and casual and flippant about spiritual things and about God’s assignment in our lives is just a lack of being intentional… intentional to leverage our will. Whether it’s in worship, intentionally leaning into worship, not just thinking thoughts about what I’m going to do later today. We all have that temptation and we all have done that. But we have a will to choose our thoughts, to choose what we say, to choose our focus.
We can choose to seek the Lord today. We can choose to call out to Him and say, “Lord, I want to know you more today.” Or accurately, more correctly, more fully. Because everything is found in His presence. That precious flow we sang about at the beginning. its source is Him and encountering Him. And carried along with that flow of His presence is everything that our hearts desire and our prayers called for.
It goes on to say…
“Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up in his entire calling changed. Paul met Jesus on the road to Damascus and went from a persecutor to apostle. These weren’t quiet devotions. They were collisions with the living God. From Genesis to Revelation, scripture records God revealing Himself to ordinary people, not just for their sake, but for the sake of nations.”
Oh, come on now! Get outside your little self and realize we’ve been called to this time, not just to exist, to cope and get by until Jesus comes or our life is required of us in some way. But rather to be an X factor to a generation, to be a game changer, a world changer, right?
To assign the power of God
To assign the glory of God to lives
To situations
To nations that God would have entrance into our world.
You are the conduit.
You are the portal from heaven’s realm to the earth realm.
You have that privilege and authority.
That’s what prayer is about… one fundamental way of describing it. It’s to take from another realm and implement it into this realm. You have authority to do so. Jesus made that clear. But that’s another series and for another day.
He goes on to say…
“Scripture records God revealing Himself to ordinary people, not just for their sake, but for the sake of nations. Charles Finney entered into a room in Adams, New York as a skeptical lawyer, but he came out completely changed. He later wrote, ‘The Holy Spirit descended upon me in a manner that seemed to go through me, body and soul. It seemed to come in waves and waves of liquid love.’
“That one encounter launched a movement. Finney’s sermons shook cities, not just because of his words, but because he carried the presence of God.”
We come here to become imbibed with His presence, so we go out carriers of His presence.
“John Wesley was already preaching, but something was missing. On May 24, 1738, while hearing Luther’s commentary on Romans, he felt his heart, as he said, ‘strangely warmed.’ In that moment, he trusted fully in Christ alone for salvation. That encounter lit a fire in his soul and helped him spark revival, which transformed England and reached America.
“William Seymour wasn’t allowed in class because of his race, but he found his place in the presence of Jesus.”
It’s not about religion…
I like that! We find our place in the presence of Jesus. It’s not about and it never has been about religion, or church attendance. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. That’s a good thing. It’s never been about duty and works mentality. It’s been about presence.
Paul himself said, “This is my determined purpose, that I might know Him, the one and only, and living God and Jesus, the one and whom He set to redeem the world.”
Jesus, in another place Himself said, “This is eternal life that you might know Him.” That word know comes from a Greek word that implies intimacy, like the intimacy between a husband and a wife in a marriage. When there’s intimacy, you become pregnant with some things. And it won’t be long before some new things are born out of a place of intimacy.
The answers are found in His presence. The answers are found in encountering Him. If you have to choose, use your chooser to choose to pursue Him today. Even if there are no fireworks or bells or whistles or miraculous occurrences or even one single goose bump, we have faith in our hearts. God has given each of us, according to Romans 12:3, the measure of the God kind and God quality of faith.
And with that faith, we can leverage our will and say, “Today, whether I feel like it or not, I’m going to seek the Lord. Tomorrow is another day, and I will seek the Lord.” Whether it’s for 5 minutes, 30 minutes or longer. Whatever the case is, wherever you’re at, start or pick up on your journey where you left off to follow Him and know Him.
I guarantee it’ll be just a matter of time where you begin to have some encounters like Wesley, Seymour, Finney, and so many others who experience the lightnings of God and the fire burning in their soul and goosebumps all over their being, healings in their body and transformation in their souls.
The transformation of Saul…
Even going back to the Old Testament, I reference this every so often. There was a man named Saul, not Saul that became Paul in the New Testament, but Saul in the Old Testament, who was a man who needed change in his life. And the answer was God’s presence, even under an old and lesser covenant. The Lord’s instruction to him one day was “Saul, I want you to go down into the center of your city where there’s a parade going on and there are worshipers and musicians playing, singing. There are people praising and prophesying. The very Spirit of God is manifest right now in your city, so I want you to go down and get right in the middle of the throng of them.” And he did. He obeyed.
See prayer’s not a work. Prayer is an act of obedience because we love Him and that act of obedience releases the fullness and the supply of His presence and everything that it brings with it.
The scripture goes on to record that in a single day, Saul was changed into another man. How different could you be one month from now, six weeks from now, one week from now for that matter, if you’ll leverage your will to know Him, not just in morning prayer, but in your day-to-day life. However that looks for you.
Let me finish this excerpt; it says…
“William Seymour wasn’t allowed into class because of his race, but he found his place in the presence of Jesus. As he fasted and prayed and preached holiness, God met him. And in 1906, the Holy Spirit fell in power at Azusa Street. People were healed, wept, and spoke in tongues, and that was in commonplace at that time. This was a modern-day outpouring of Pentecost. Seymour didn’t manufacture revival. He yielded to it. And the world was changed.”
Wow! Could it be that simple for us?
We don’t need more info about God. We need real encounter. One moment in His presence can transform a life… through that life, a generation.
Prayed…
So, Father, we just thank you for the beautiful presence of Jesus.
We don’t take it for granted. We don’t take it lightly.
We acknowledge you, Lord, and say thank you for that presence and all that it brings to us.
We pray together, Lord, that that presence would go with us today.
Like Moses prayed, “Lord, don’t take me up from here unless your presence goes with me.”
So, Lord, may your presence be fully manifest and go with us today.
And I pray that each and every one of us would notice the effect or the outworking of that presence as we go about our day, as we set our hands to our work, as we do what we do in our lives, and that we would never be the same again because of that presence.
Lord, I pray that you would grant each of us a level up in our experience of that presence, that you would grant each of us a promotion in your plan, that we would notice it and recognize it and step into it, first of all, in our prayer lives.
But then practically as you show us the way to go.
We just honor you now today. We dedicate this time to you. We thank you for answers and real results and real transformation even as we pray today in our nation, in our churches, in our lives as we go forward in the coming days.
We honor you and we pray this in your name in Jesus’ name, amen.
