Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Pastor Ken…
There’s a waterfall of His presence for you…
Do you sense His presence this morning? I pray that those of you online that you as well are just caught up in His presence. He’s here. He’s where you are. There’s no time nor distance in the spirit. So I believe that there’s a waterfall of presence, a waterfall of grace, a waterfall of love and mercy. And just His warmth and beauty flowing into your life right now, in this moment. Wherever you’re joined with us this morning around the world, around America, here in this chapel, I just love that God goes from revelation to visitation to His ultimate, which is habitation.
His kingdom is advancing rapidly now…
That’s what He’s really endeavoring to do in this hour. He wants to simply and fully and completely and overwhelmingly dwell with us, be habitually with us in a way that is above and beyond what we maybe have ever thought. His kingdom is true. His kingdom is advancing rapidly right now, and His intention is to come to us and be with us… individually, yes, but collectively as well… that we would have habitation, that we would be our hearts and our coming together in prayer, our services, our family meals, our day-to-day would be the atmosphere and the landscape with which the Holy Spirit is invited and welcomed and feels comfortable.
The more habitation we have in Him, the more there is a waterfall of His presence…
Do you know you can get to a place where the Holy Spirit’s comfortable, angels are comfortable hanging out where you are, just taking up residence in the spirit where you are, where you live, where you dwell, where you “do life.” That’s what He’s looking for more and more habitation in our lives. And the beauty of that is that the more and more we experience habitation, the more and more… I like to use that word “waterfall.” There’s a waterfall… there’s an overflow of His presence and His glory and His power and all that that consists of, and all that that brings, which is life and health.
We must worship Him in spirit and in truth…
And because while we worship Him in the spirit, the Bible says they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. We connect with Him down here in our recreated human spirit where the Holy Spirit dwells. That’s where we connect and that’s where the portal opens up, and we receive what heaven is transmitting. The beauty of that is that it wasn’t intended just to stay down there, but that as we journey with Him and as we hunger for Him and as we pursue Him, and as we invite Him, and as we live our lives in such a way that He feels perpetually welcomed—the Holy Spirit that is—then there comes a flow of heaven through our spirits, through our hearts that rises up to bless our minds and inspire and inform our intellect of ideas and wisdom and direction and vision.
A flow from God rises up through the portal of our spirits…
There’s a flow from heaven that rises up through the portal of our spirit and spills over into our physical being to drive out sickness, to quell every ache and pain, to bring restoration to what’s broken, to restore what’s missing, to strengthen what is weak. After all, He is our Jehovah Rapha, as it was prophesied in days of old. The God who heals us. He announced long ago, I have sent My Word to heal you. And it’s never not God’s will to heal you. He is perpetually and eternally the healer of our bodies, the healer of our hearts, the healer of our emotions, the healer of our minds, or whatever else needs healing or requires a touch from Him.
We must be aware of the activity on the inside…
So just be conscious of that. I do that sometimes in the night. I’ll be up late praying, and I’ll just turn all my lights off and I’ll sit on the floor against the wall and I’ll really be aware of my insides. I’m really aware of my spirit, what’s going on… the activity in here. The Bible says in your belly is your spirit. In your belly is where the Spirit of God lives. Jesus said, “Out of your belly would flow rivers of living water.” Not out of your intellect! Not out of your outside or externals of life, but here on the inside. Thus, it requires quieting yourself and being present and cutting off all that would sidetrack us and distract us and become really aware of the supernatural activity inside of us and what the Spirit is saying. So that we can hear it, but then we can yield to and permit what He is transmitting presently in our lives.
There are rivers flowing through you…
He is transmitting. I’ll say it again… Heaven isn’t just a place. Heaven is a flow that is intended to not just remain in the far-out spirit dimension. But instead to flow through you and me. Right? That’s why Jesus announced that and made that really clear: “Behold out of your belly would flow rivers of living water.” Rivers. Multiple… plural… rivers. And when you’re really conscious of what’s going on, on the inside, you’ll recognize rivers rising up in you… rivers to support you… rivers to supply you… rivers to inspire you… rivers to grant you prayer to pray that you didn’t even think to pray. But it turns out it’s exactly what needed to be prayed so that God could do exactly what He wanted to do. He wants us to ask because He wants to already do it. He’s already decided to do a thing in you, through you. But He works through human agency. He’s chosen to work through human instrumentality, through you and through me. So recognize there are rivers. Be conscious. Yield to give permission to those rivers in you of what God is saying and doing.
Let those rivers reinvent you…
I sensed this as we were worshiping this morning. I jotted it down. I sense the Spirit of God say, “If you’ll let Me do it on the inside, you will eventually see it on the outside.” 3rd John 2. “Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospering.” So if you’ll let those rivers reinvent you, reinvigorate you, renew you, recalibrate you to the heartbeat of God, to the wisdom and power of God inside, you’ll let Him do something in you, then you’ll start seeing some things around you unfold and precipitate effortlessly and organically. As pray-ers, our job isn’t to figure it out, isn’t to strive to make it happen. Our job is to let rivers flow.
We are in a transition…
One other thing that I sensed as we are worshiping is this. Let me just back up before I go there to preface it by saying we’re living in a time of transition very similar to the transition Jesus was in when He was in the Garden of Gethsemane and He was praying, “Lord, if it’s possible, let this cup pass from Me.” He was about to transition from earth to the cross, to hell, back to earth, and then be ascended once again. There was great transition.
God is about to usher in a whole new age…
And we are kind of at a similar place right now. We’re in a place of transition. We are in the precipice of God endeavoring to wrap up one dispensation and season and open up a whole new one to usher in a whole new age. And you and I are at the doorstep… we’re at the threshold of that. You and I have been called for such a time as this, the church and generation in this hour. You are that people that was prophesied of old. You are the ones who Joel spoke of that would experience the former and the latter rains coming together. We are the ones who have been sent here not to just “get by” or “hold on till Jesus comes.” But we have been sent here to co-labor with Him, to usher in a new age through our yieldedness, through our position in the spirit just by being who you are called to be by God… by opening up your mouth and decreeing with your assigned authority.
The Holy Spirit wants to take ground through you…
But Jesus said, “Behold, I’ve given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy.” We’re not here taking up space. We’re not here just trying to cope and live and put up with something or some things. We are here to take ground. The Spirit of God in 2023 wants to take ground through you. Not only ground in you, but ground through you. Of course, that begins on the inside of you. But there’s one thing that’s integral to transition as we stand at this threshold of a whole new age and a whole new reset and a whole new home that He’s going to take us to and new assignments, I’m sure. And that is, of course, prayer. That’s what Jesus in His hour of transition found Himself in the garden of Gethsemane praying.
In fact, before I go to that quote that the Lord spoke to me this morning, it says in Matthew 26. And this is from the original Aramaic language in the Passion translation in Matthew 26:40. It says this. “Later He came back to His three disciples and found them all sound asleep. He awakened Peter and said to him, Could you not stay awake with me for even one hour?” Ouch, right? “Keep alert and pray that you’ll be spared from this time of testing. Your spirit is eager enough, but your humanity is weak.” In other words, Jesus knew what was coming. There was going to be some challenges. There were going to be some opportunities to be tempted and succumb to those temptations. There are also going to be some amazing, outstanding, above and beyond our imagination things ahead for us.
This is to be the church’s finest hour…
Like we said the other day, we’re living in an hour of opportunity. Don’t let CNN and other naysayers fool you. This is to be our as the church of the Lord Jesus Christ our finest hour. Not just the final hour, but the finest hour. Right? And so Jesus is saying, Hey, I’m in transition. Things are about to transition from the Old to a New Testament from law to grace, to a whole New Covenant that I am about to ratify in My shed blood that they didn’t understand at that moment, but He knew.
The Bible says in John 16:13, “Howbeit, when he, the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will even show you things to come.” In the original language, it means that he will show you God’s reality for you, not only for His Word and His stated logos promises, but also His reality for you and yours, for that situation going on in your family, that deal going on at the office, that symptom going on in your body. The Holy Spirit comes to mentor and coach us up into truth, or next level us into a place where we understand things from God’s reality.
Prayer is your transportation in transition to new seasons…
But Jesus knew that prayer was integral. And the thing that I heard in my spirit this morning is that prayer is your transportation in transition to new seasons, opportunities, and positions in the spirit and in the natural. Prayer is your transportation in transition, whether it’s a new job, a prayer assignment, one condition of your soul to another. Sometimes, you know, God intends for you to go to bed one night and wake up the next morning and certain things are just broken off and gone from your life and you discover, “Wow, I, I, I don’t even recognize myself. I just have a whole new state about me. I sense that I’ve stepped into a new season of joy and freedom… a new season of opportunity… a new season of boldness… a new season of freedom!”
He who the sun sets free is to be free indeed…
And sometimes that happens in a moment. Other times you just, you’re just journeying day by day by faith, resisting the enemy at every turn. And then one day you wake up and it’s gone! That monkey on your back that just dogged your way is gone. Don’t grow weary! Stay the course. Stay in prayer. It’s your transportation in this season of transition for you individually, but as well for us as the church, as we transition in the days ahead. Jesus wants us to be present with Him in this transition, just like He did Peter and the disciples that were with Him. He really could have used their prayer support. He really could have used them there. But you know what? The enemy was about his diabolicalness. He was actually trying to deploy a strategy of weariness and tiredness because we see that Jesus came a second time and the disciples were sleeping, not praying, not taking advantage of their transportation and their ability to help Jesus.
There is an attack on the church to get weary and to withdraw…
Really, what the devil was trying to do was isolate Jesus by causing the disciples to be tempted. And sadly, they succumbed to the temptation of their lower nature, their flesh, and they fell asleep. And as a result, they left Jesus all alone. He tried to isolate Jesus. Of course, Jesus didn’t succumb to that temptation of isolation and aloneness, even though His disciples didn’t step up and do what they could have done. But I think that’s true in this generation as well, in that we’re living in a time where there’s a real temptation and attack on us to withdraw, to grow weary. We’re living in an hour when it was actually prophesied in scripture that many would fall away from the faith, right?
I jotted down, as I was reflecting last night, we live in a time where spiritual lukewarmness is more of a problem than we realize. I don’t know about you, but I quite often say, “Lord, I’m sorry for my slowness.” The Bible says that we’re not to be slothful, which means slow to respond. I’ll repent and say, “Lord, I’m sorry for my lukewarmness in certain things from being lackadaisical, from my inconsistency.”
God wants us to live with fiery hearts, ablaze with God…
There is a lot more fire and intensity in the heart of God than you realize. We just kind of acclimated to this age and world in ourselves, not realizing God wants us to live with fiery hearts, ablaze with God, that the most effective prayers it says in James is the effectual, fervent white hot burning prayer of a righteous man or woman. That kind of prayer makes much power available. That kind of prayer permits an ever-increasing river or flow to come from heaven through you to the world around you, to the situation at hand in your life even. So we need to realize that lukewarmness is more of a problem and many are falling asleep or falling away. The Holy Spirit wants to show up in our lives each and every day to reveal to us our true spiritual condition. So that we can respond to that, repent of that and yield to Him and the working on the inside that He’s doing.
