Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
A word about hope came forth…
I just sense so much hope here today. Nothing but hope.
“Who told you were hopeless? Who told you that situation or what you’ve been praying about is hopeless, and there’s no possibility for a turnaround?
“Lies! All lies. Fake news. Fake spiritual news.
“Don’t you know the Devil is the original author of fake news? He is the Father of lies and can tell no truth, only lies. He can only try to insinuate, draw our attention to how we feel, or what it looks like, or remind us of some well-meaning person, even a Christian, who is in the wrong about it, to try to get us to think, ‘Oh, there’s no hope. Oh, there’s no way.’
“False! False! False! Fake news, fake news, fake news!”
Kathryn Kuhlman once said this…
“There are not hopeless situations, there are just folk who have become hopeless about them.” Isn’t that interesting? She also said this, “A situation may look impossible, but God is still the God of hope. He fills believers with all joy and peace in believing” (Romans 15:13). Scripture says, “With God, all things are possible,” (Matthew 19:26).
It can be a challenge to take up the mantle of prayer…
All things. All things are possible. It may not be easy. It may be a challenge to take up the mantle to pray every day, but that’s why God called you. Because He saw something in you and me that we would pray. Especially pray in this segment of God’s timetable before His soon return. He called us out because He knew we had the right stuff to overlook what we see in our natural faculties and say, “No! This must change.”
Everything in the temporal realm is subject to change…
We live in a temporal realm. That means everything in this realm is subject to change—can be changed! Our faith is in an eternal realm, in a kingdom whose king is Jesus. So we’re to live from His kingdom and His perspective and His truth. And everything that is not in agreement or in alignment with that, we are to target and bring change to.
As pray-ers, we must stay the course…
And sometimes that doesn’t happen overnight. We have to stay with it. We have to stay the course as pray-ers. We got to stay the course in our day-to-day lives. Because the choice you make today and the choice you make tomorrow, the choice you make the day after that, they start to stack and add up. And over time, without even realizing, it begins to transform that situation—in your body, in your mind, in your family, in your finances, in your nation, in your church, in your family, in those that yet are to be born in your family, your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren.
You can pray out into the future…
Remember, prayer crosses over into other spaces and time and places. You can pray out into the future. I call it praying forward. You can set the stage before somebody’s even born yet. Set the stage for Jesus to return. That’s one of our assignments as the church, to pray for the stage to be set at the right time for Him to return.
This goes on to say…
“But God is still the God of hope who fills believers with all joy and peace in believing. Scripture says, ‘With God, all things are possible.’ And it also tells us, ‘Be anxious for nothing, but to bring our requests to God in prayer, trusting that the peace of God will guard our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.’ (Of course, Philippians 4:6–7.)
“The enemy wants people to believe their story is over. But Christ brings light into darkness, courage into weakness, and faith into places where the heart has grown tired. Hope is not pretending everything is easy. Hope is trusting that God is still working, still speaking, and still able to make a way.”
God is working to make a way…
I would suggest He has not stopped making a way. He is still making a way. Behind the scenes where you can’t see with your natural eyeballs, He is working to make a way. I have learned that so much of the plan of God and the purpose and the blessing of God is a result of us refusing to be denied, refusing to grow weary and give up, but to stay the course. I can’t tell you, even in my own life, natural things, natural opportunities, natural promotions, natural increase, natural things even that showed up just because I was the only one left. Because I stayed the course and…
Refused to give up.
Refused to be offended.
Refused to stop praying.
Am I perfect or consistent always? No, and neither are you. But that’s okay, it’s not about our consistency or our best and most perfect effort. It’s about the fact that Jesus put in that perfect performance so we can step into His perfect performance for us today. And just find glory and find acceptableness and find complete love in Him because you’re perfect in Christ.
We are to stand and go another day, to grow not weary…
That’s why we can pray with authority. That’s why we can stand and go another day, even though nothing has changed from yesterday to this morning. Because we’re in Him, and He promises that if you grow not weary in doing well, which starts with believing and standing. Certainly, we make adjustments. Certainly, you change and you grow. If you made a mistake, you learn from it and you go again. More intelligently, because of the mistake and what you learn from it.
Stay where He’s called you to stay…
But as far as walking with God, as far as believing for the promise, you stay where He’s called you to stay. The enemy’s going to throw at us everything he can, including the kitchen sink. But let him throw it. I don’t care. I’m not moved by that. I will not be moved by that. Because I see in the Word, He’s faithful. And He will have His way. And it may not happen the way I think, but I’ll wake up one day and I’ll realize, “Praise the Lord, I am healed from head to toe. Praise the Lord.”
As far as me and my household, literally we are serving the Lord. As far as America, look what God is doing. Things have shifted and we are moving in the direction and stepping into revival. And it’s increasing one day at a time.
Cindy, did you still want to say something? How long will it take? Come on up. I’m going to ask Cindy just to share something that she saw in her heart this morning that may go along with that.
Cindy shares about “being about the Father’s business”
Well, talking about restoration, Christ, and how good He is, and one of the verses… In order for revival and all that to come, we have to be so close to Him. And we have to be “about the Father’s business.” And the verse that He gave me a while ago is Matthew 10:32: “Whosoever shall confess me before men, I will confess him before my Father which is in heaven.” And you know what He said? It’s right now. It’s right now in this time as you go, and you do, and you say all the things that He has called you to do. “Go pray for that person. Give this person a word in the grocery store.” Wherever it is, you’re about the Father’s business. And Jesus is going to confess you right now to the Father. And what the Father’s going to do is He’s going to go… because Jesus will go, “There goes My daughter. There goes My son. Look at them, Father. Look at them. Look at them go.”
And the Father is going to give you more and more and more of what He has so you can walk as Christ does. You’re going to walk as He does in the power of God. He’s going to give you more wisdom. He’s going to give you more discernment. He’s going to make you move in more gifts than even that you have.
We are not to be afraid to confess Him wherever we are…
And so that’s how He wants us to be right now, not afraid to confess Him wherever you are. Be about the Father’s business—not our agenda, not what we want. It’s what He wants.
This is how revival will come…
There was one more thing. There was one more verse, and it’s, “Whoever has, more will be given. Much more. And whoever has not, even that which he has will be taken away.” I don’t know that scripture right now where it is, but this is how you get much more is being about the Father’s business. More will be given, and that’s what He’s given you. The Father, when Jesus is saying, “Look what they’re doing.” More will be given. Much more. So keep being about the Father’s business. That’s how revival will come.
Pastor Ken shares about “Stoke your hope”
Yeah, just to add one more thing to that… Stoke your hope. I just heard that. Stoke your hope. Keep the hope in your heart stirred up and fueled and kindled.
Pay attention to your inner life.
Feed it the Word.
Speak the Word.
Pray the Word.
Pray in the Spirit.
We must not “shrink in our beliefs”
Because the primary limiter I see in people’s lives and according to the Word… from not entering into the “moreness” of God, is we shrink in our beliefs. We shrink in our expectation. We shrink in our mindset. And we kind of fall back to our old ways, which is, “How do I get by? How do I hold on till Jesus comes?”
Put yourself out there with your words…
When God is saying, “No! Put your faith out there. Believe Me for more. Believe Me for what I’ve said in My Word.” Either it’s true or it’s not. Either you believe it or you don’t. Whether it’s healing, provision, a destiny and a future that’s bright, the healing of your family members, salvation of your family members, just put yourself out there with your words, with your prayers, with your expectation, and say, “God, I’m going to dare you.”
Double-dog dare Him…
There’s a passage in Malachi that talks about the principle of the tithe, and it says, “Test Me.” I like to say, “Double-dog dare Me in this and see if you become a tither, if I won’t pour out through a window in heaven, a blessing there won’t be room enough for you to receive it all.”
So I just encourage you, I double-dog dare you, just let those audacious desires and promises in His Word begin to synchronize with them. Pray them. Declare them. Expect today something really good is going to break forth on the scene of your life. If it doesn’t, that’s okay. Then we’ll continue to say it tomorrow, and then the next day, and then the next day.
You’re setting in motion spiritual principles that will eventually produce the reality of what you see in your eye of faith, what you see in the promise of God. That’s good, isn’t it? So keep yourself stirred up. Keep your hope stoked and stirred.
