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Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Well good morning, everyone. It’s Wednesday today. We are cruising through the week here. Wednesday, the 4th of March 2026. My name is Ken and I’m one of the pastors here at Living Word. It’s good to be with you again this morning in the chapel and online. Welcome.
Prayer emanates from fellowship with Him…
Today I thought I would start by reading a passage of scripture found in Philippians. And I’m going to read it from the Passion Translation, initially. I was pondering this last night and was reminded of the importance of our relationship with the Father and how prayer emanates from fellowship, from a daily walk with Him, a daily pursuit to know Him, individually, personally, for yourself, in other words.
Philippians 3:7 in the Passion paraphrase says…
“Yet all of the accomplishments that I once took credit for, I’ve now forsaken them and I regard them all as nothing.” In other words, everything he had done in his strength and his ability, in and through his achievements, he said, “I forsaken them and regarded all as nothing compared to the delight of experiencing Jesus Christ as my Lord.”
Verse eight says…
“To truly know Him meant letting go of everything from my past and throwing all my boasting…” or what you could feel prideful about in what you’ve done in and of yourself “…on the garbage heap. It’s all like a pile of manure to me now. So that I may be enriched in the reality of knowing Jesus Christ and embrace Him as Lord in all of His greatness. My passion is to be consumed with Him and not cling to my own righteousness based in keeping the written law.” Or you could say based in trying to be good and not be bad. That’s not what this is about. What we’ve entered into is a relationship, and it’s through relationship and connection and communion and fellowship with our Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ that we receive freely…
His grace
His forgiveness
His righteousness or rightness
You’re stamped right before God, because you’re connected with Him, because you’ve entered into relationship with Him, because you’ve chosen to believe in Him and His work on your behalf. And as a result, we freely receive all the benefits that redemption provides.
God doesn’t take back what He has freely given…
And God doesn’t take them back or withdraw them from you or me. No. God has freely given us all things that pertain to life and leading a godly life. He’s freely bestowed on us all that is requisite for us to be called the sons or daughters of the most high God. In fact, my Bible still says…
That you are crowned with His favor
That you’ve been called into a royal priesthood
That you have been denoted as a holy nation
The Scriptures reveals our new nature in Him…
Once again, as His sons and His daughters in Him. It’s not because of what you’ve done in your past or what you will do in your future, but our place of standing before God is a result of who we are in Christ. The mystery of the Gospel is found in Christ. That’s why, daily, we seek Him and we turn to the holy scriptures because it reveals our new nature. It reveals our new selves in Him. You may not be able to see a way forward in your life or that situation or what you’re dealing with in your psychology or your body, or your family, or your business, or your home, or your nation. But guess what? There is a way in Him!
In Him, there is a way…
We don’t know exactly how we’re to pray today, but we can pray and we will pray effectively in Him. The Bible says look away from all that distracts. All that is of this age in this world. And look unto Jesus, the author, the continuer, once again, and finisher of our faith. Because in Him, there is a way. In Him, you can go another day to day, even though you haven’t seen the answer manifested. In Him, today as we step into Him through acknowledging Him and through giving Him precedence in our thoughts and in all that we do, He’s going to show us the way to pray. He’s going to give us the words to pray in our understanding and in the Spirit.
So Paul writes in the Passion translation…
“My passion is to be consumed with Him and not cling to my own righteousness based on keeping the written law. My only righteousness [or rightness] will be based on the faithfulness of Jesus Christ, the very righteousness that comes from God. And I continually long to know the wonders of Jesus and to experience the overflowing power of His resurrection working in me. I will be with Him in His sufferings and become like Him in his death. Only then will I be able to experience complete oneness with Him in His resurrection from the realm of death.”
Now, let me read this to you in the Amplified classic version. Paul writes in verse 7…
“But whatever former things I had that might have been gains to me, I have come to consider as one combined loss for Christ’s sake. Yes, furthermore, I count everything as a loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege, the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth and supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord. And of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him of perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more fully and more clearly.” Let that be our prayer today. “For his sake, I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish, refuse, dregs in order that I may win or gain Christ the Anointed One.”
The only good thing is found in Him…
In other words, if there’s anything that’s detouring you or preventing you from knowing Him more, get rid of it. Prune it! If it’s your phone, give it a timeout regularly, repetitively. Whatever it might be. We must run to Jesus on a daily basis. He is our great need. We have this old thing in our nature, our lower nature, that wants to depend on ourselves and wants to strike out on our own and figure it out in our own intellect or ability. But we need to recognize the only thing good is found in Him. Only thing that’s going to produce the result of His plan is in Him. He is our priority. He is your and my agenda. He is our everything. It’s only in Him that we live and move and have our being. For the Bible states where we are His offspring. We are His sons and His daughters.
In Philippians 3:9 it says…
“And that I may actually be found and known in Him not having any self-achieved righteousness that can be called my own, based on my obedience to the law’s demands, but possessing that genuine righteousness which comes through faith in Christ, the anointed one, the truly right standing with God, which comes from God by saving faith.”
Verse 10 says…
“For my determined purpose is that I may know Him, that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His person more strongly and more clearly, that I may in the same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection which exerts over believers…” Or you could say, “which operates and works within us.”
The resurrection released a magnitude of power and is still producing power…
Notice though, in that statement that we just read, you’ll notice that knowing Christ, knowing the Lord in a daily journey with Him precedes knowing His power. The resurrection power of Jesus that abides in us, the same power the Bible says that raised Christ from the dead, that God eternal event called the resurrection that released a magnitude of power we have no way to calibrate or measure that is called by many Bible scholars, a God-eternal event, is still producing power and will forever produce power. It’s that same power that scripture reveals is within us as New Testament believers called by His name. And that power flows. And that power goes to work when we set our affections on Him. When we set our agenda to knowing Him today. When that’s our priority, when that is the most preeminent thing in our lives.
Your answer is found “in Him…”
I’m just encouraging you today and stirring up your heart today that your answer is found in Him. Your answer is found at the place of knowing Jesus. Not having known Him. But knowing Him on a daily basis.
The springboard for all prayer starts with knowing Him…
Pastor Lynne has taught us very clearly and articulated many times through the years that our place, the springboard for all prayer, starts with knowing Him in a personal, organic, and ongoing way in our lives. Your answer is found in that same place. It’s found in the secret place.
The secret to the Christian life is in the secret place…
I think I said recently that the secret to the Christian life is in the secret place. The power of God, the wisdom of God, that strategy necessary to lead you from where you are to where God’s called you to be. In other words, the steps He wants to grant you is found in the secret place. His inspired wisdom and direction for your life and future is found in the secret place. Healing is found in the secret place. Breakthrough is found in the secret place.
Paul goes on to say in Philippians 3…
…that we would know the power outflowing from His resurrection, which it exerts over believers. “And that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed in the spirit into His likeness, to His death in hope.”
Let me read verse 12…
“Not that I have now attained this ideal or to become just like Jesus.” In other words, in your soul, in your mind, in your actions and attitudes, et cetera. “Or have already been made perfect or become fully mature.” None of us are fully mature. Nobody has arrived yet. We won’t arrive in this lifetime. We will only arrive at least in our externals, in our soul, in our mind, in our attitudes. We have arrived spiritually inside in your spirit. You’ve been made a new creature. But now we’re on a journey to know Him.
Why? Well, one reason is because we need to mature in every other regard in our lives to become more reflective and like Him…
In our attitudes
In our thoughts
In our decisions
In our experience of life
In our ability to walk in line with His plan
This is a day by day, step by step journey…
For us, that’s a journey, A day by day, step by step journey. Again, that starts by just pursuing Him to know Him. So he says, “Not that I have now attained this ideal or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of or grasp and make my own that for which Christ Jesus, the Messiah, has laid hold of me and made me His own.” So He’s made you His own. But now it’s up to us to press on to know Him. And by virtue of knowing Him, becoming more intimately acquainted with Him, more accurately understanding Him and what He’s called us to, we are more and more taking hold of what He has for us.
Verse 13 says…
“I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own yet. But one thing I do. It is my one aspiration. I forget what lies behind, and I strain forward to what lies ahead. I press on toward the goal to win the supreme and heavenly prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.”
Don’t let the enemy talk you out of what is yours in Christ…
Don’t ever let the enemy talk you out of what the Word clearly states is yours. Don’t let the enemy talk you out of what you have seen in your heart or what you know could be true and really should be true for you in every aspect of your life. We’re on a journey. God’s not through with you yet. We’re taking another step today in prayer and in our personal journeys.
Thoughts from Pastor Ken’s prayer journal…
Now, let me just share a few thoughts with you that I’ve jotted down in times past. I did already state that knowing God’s power is always proceeded by a pursuit to know Him. In other words, His power is an outflow or a result of knowing God. People often struggle in different areas because they’re trying to know healing apart from the Healer. They’re trying to receive provision apart from knowing the Provider. Or victory apart from knowing the Victor. Anything we need from God flows naturally out of Him.
Out of what?
Christ! Out of knowing Him. It’s received through knowing Him. We know Him by knowing the Word. That’s a good place to say “amen.” Knowing the Father comes by greater revelation of knowing His Word. Revelation is given by the Spirit. It doesn’t just come by study. It’s not something you earn. It takes the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. Revelation, in other words. Not just revelation of a particular passage of scripture, but revelation of how God sees you and how you should start seeing yourself. Revelation of God’s plan and His purpose for your future. Or just simply revelation of what you should be praying about today. That comes, yes, by being a student of the Word, one who meditates on the Word. But also one who fellowships with the Spirit of Jesus, a.k.a. the Holy Spirit.
Because ultimately, He’s the one that imparts enlightenment. He’s the one that breathes life in our souls. He’s the one that opens our eyes to clearly see the way forward, to see ourselves once again as He sees us. And to see our enemy as God sees him—under our feet!
So the Holy Spirit is our guide and our teacher. He’s our divine teacher. The more Word we have in us, the more revelation of the Word and the richer our fellowship with God will be. It’s based on the knowledge of the Word.
