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Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Heather…
Good morning. Welcome to morning prayer. My name’s Heather Sibinski. I’m one of the pastors here at Living Word.
Prayed…
Thank you, Jesus. We love you more than anything. More than comfort. More than peace.
You bring those things, but we love you more than anything.
More than our next breath. More than any of the gifts that you’ve freely give us. We love you.
Thank you that you’re the lover of our souls.
You call us your beloved. You call us your bride.
Oh, how we love you, Jesus. Beautiful, beautiful Jesus. Just your name has power. Jesus! How we love you. Thank you for your presence.
Right now, I thank you you’re touching people in this room, people watching online. Just receive His love right now.
We receive it. We open our hearts to receive the love of Jesus right now.
What would you say to your people today, Jesus? What would you say to each heart right now as we come before you in all different states of being?
Some of us broken
Some of us feeling empty
Some of us needing healing
Some of us needing a word, hope, comfort.
We come as we are and we open our hearts now to receive your love, Jesus.
Instruction…
Allow Him to shower you with His love right now. He’s always speaking, wanting to spend time with you. You just have to slow down long enough to hear that still small voice, to be intentional about connecting our hearts to His heart.
Luke 24…
I was reading in Luke 24, and this verse just stood out to me. Shortly after Jesus was risen from the dead, and He appears to His disciples. We’ll start in verse 45: “Then He thoroughly opened up their minds to understand the Scriptures.”
So I love that. He took time to go through the Scriptures and show them everywhere He was mentioned in the Old Testament, in types and shadows and went through and opened their minds and their eyes to see.
And it says…
45 “Then He [thoroughly] opened up their minds to understand the Scriptures, 46 And said to them, Thus it is written that the Christ (the Messiah) should suffer and on the third day rise from (among) the dead, 47 And that repentance [with a view to and as the condition of] forgiveness of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things.”
We are clothed with power from on high…
He’s talking to the disciples. And here’s the part that stood out to me: “‘And behold, I will send forth upon you what My Father has promised; but remain in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.’”
“Until you are clothed with power…”
These are His last moments with them on earth, and it was so important that He told them to wait until they were clothed with power from on high. We know that’s the Holy Spirit and Pentecost that was coming.
But we are “clothed.”
Just close your eyes and picture that. We are clothed with power from on high.
Thank you, Holy Spirit. You’ve clothed us. You’ve endued us with power from on high.
You clothe us, you cover us with power.
The Greek word endyo…
And we just recognize that right now. The Holy Spirit of the living God on the inside of us, clothing us, covering us. That word in the Strong’s Greek Concordance is endyō and it means “to put on, to clothe, to be dressed, to array, to endue, to put on in the sense of sinking into a garment.”
So just picture that—”sinking into a garment.” From the word endyō in the sense of sinking into a garment, to invest with clothing, literally or figuratively, array, clothe, endue, have, put on.
The verb moves from the simple act of dressing the body to the profound reality of God clothing His people with righteousness, power, and immortality. In the New Testament, it occurs 27 times in narrative, parable, exhortation, apocalyptic vision, allowing the theme of divine clothing to run from the ministry of John the Baptist to the armies of heaven in Revelation. And then it goes through and cites all the different things.
Wedding clothes…
It talks about one of them in the parable that Jesus tells about the guest that’s found without wedding clothes. That’s that same word.
Clothed with garments of salvation…
And then in Isaiah, “He’s clothed me with garments of salvation.”
Angels are clothed…
And in Revelation, it talks about the angels being clothed in fine linen bright and pure.
We are clothed with Christ…
In Galatians, it talking about baptism, “All of you were baptized into Christ and have clothed yourselves with Christ.”
Put on the new self…
In Ephesians, it calls believers to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. That “put on” is that same word about putting on, like clothing yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience as garments. The imagery conveys that virtue is not self-generated, but received and consciously worn.
Putting on the full armor of God…
And then, of course, we have putting on the full armor of God. That frames each piece: truth, righteousness, readiness, faith, salvation, and the Word. It combines faith and love as a breastplate with hope of salvation as a helmet. The clothing metaphor underscores preparedness and divine provision in unseen battle.
Clothed with power from on high…
And then here, what we’re talking about: Jesus instructs the disciples to stay in Jerusalem until you are clothed with power on high. Pentecost answers this promise, demonstrating that ministry effectiveness is not inherent, but bestowed, covering human weakness with Spirit-given ability.
The “intentionality” of clothing ourselves…
And it goes on to cite a couple more areas. But the part that I loved about it is just the intentionality of clothing yourself. We are clothed with power from on high. A lot of us took time this morning to choose what we were wearing. We probably took more time to choose what we were wearing, our pieces of clothing, than we did to be intentional about recognizing that we are clothed with power from on high.
And sometimes the Lord will give me a sweet little rebuke. He’s always gentle. But it’s like, “You spent more time getting ready today than you did getting your spirit man ready.” I mean, our spirit man’s always ready, but maybe connecting with our spirit man… we’ll put it that way.
I’ll get up and I’ll take a bath, I’ll curl my hair, I’ll put on makeup, I’ll choose clothing, all those things, you take all that time. And I do get up and do my devotions. I want to say that. But there was a time where I would definitely spend way more time getting ready physically than I would getting my heart ready for the day. And I’ve changed that. And that’s not correction for anybody out here, but if the Lord speaks to you about that, just obey.
Intentional about getting our hearts ready for the day…
But I think a lot of us do that or just planning. We got to pack the lunches. We got to think through our day. What meetings do we have today? But how much more important to be intentional about getting our hearts ready for the day, having that connection with Him, and realizing that we’re clothed with power from on high. That just encouraged me so much today. I’m clothed with power from on high. You are clothed with power from on high.
That is not a small thing…
And it helps to put some of the heavy things we’re walking through in perspective. We’re clothed with power from on high. So anything we’re about to walk into, we are clothed and we are ready for it. It won’t take us off guard. We have that armor of God. We have that Holy Spirit clothing us, giving us power so nothing can surprise us. Nothing can take us off guard because we are clothed and ready and prepared for anything that the enemy might try to bring. He tries seeking who he “may” devour. We say, “No sir, you may not. You may not.”
Prayed…
So we thank you, Father, for the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Thank you, Jesus, that you went so that you could send the Comforter.
You said, “It’s good that I go, that I can send another Comforter.”
And so we thank you for the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit, we just take time to just recognize you, thank you for clothing us, for enduing us with power, for living on the inside of us, choosing to make us your temples.
We receive that now.
We acknowledge that now.
Help us to never forget.
We’re not walking around trying to figure things out in our head.
No, no, no. We have the greater One inside of us.
We are clothed with power from on high.
