Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Hello and happy Wednesday everyone. It is Wednesday, the 5th of November. Thank you, everyone, for being here in the chapel this morning, bringing your supply of prayer. Thank you everyone who’s joining us online.
John 16:7…
This morning I want to share something real quick. I want to remind you of John 16:7. Jesus is speaking. He said, “Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away. But if I do not go away, the helper will not come to you. But if I depart,” which He did, “I will send him…” That would be the helper, the Holy Spirit. “to you.”
Acts 2:17…
Then in Acts 2:17, it says, “And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh.” Amy Semple McPherson said this at one point in her ministry many years ago: “This is absolutely the message of the hour. This is the dispensation of the Holy Spirit.”
Let’s acknowledge the Holy Spirit…
I’m highlighting this right now as we go into worship just to draw your attention to the Holy Spirit. Let’s acknowledge Him today. Let’s be aware that He is active and alert, carrying out the Father’s plan for us individually, carrying out the Father’s plan here collectively today. We want what He wants, right? So just be aware of Him as we go into worship.
Amy Semple McPherson went on to say…
“This is the Lord’s great call to His church to arise, shake her garments…” or shake off our garments “from the dust and get back to God’s fullness. And He honors that message with His power and presence.”
So today I want us to get back to the business of experiencing walking in God’s fullness, the fullness of His Spirit. Don’t get it mixed up. If you received salvation and you received the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues once upon a time, that wasn’t it. That was a step. But the Bible commands us to “be being perpetually,” in other words, “filled with the spirit.”
Prayed…
And so, Heavenly Father, we thank you this morning for your presence here today. We thank you that you have in mind for us to be filled again today, to not have been filled, but to be being filled. And so, Holy Spirit, we just welcome you.
We must daily recalibrate our focus on Him…
It’s just so important that we maintain our connection with the Father through the Holy Spirit. I often think about the word “recalibration” and how the Lord wants us to daily recalibrate our hearts and our focus on Him. When you experience a call on your cell phone that has feedback or is interrupted in some way, you hang up and you make another call to establish a fresh connection. And that’s what prayer is all about, right? Establishing a fresh connection with Him each day, even moment by moment. Because it’s that connection to heaven’s flow, to the Spirit’s flow that brings wisdom, strategy, and direction, that brings sustenance and a new supply even to your physicality, your being, so that you can do what God has called you to do today.
Today is the day the Lord hath made…
Just today. We’re not promised tomorrow, but we have today. Yesterday’s gone. But there’s today. And I don’t know about you, but I’ve just been stirred in my spirit here these last few days about the utmost importance of living our todays to serve Him and to advance His kingdom. And aren’t you glad that you’re here or you’re online for prayer today? Because this is an opportunity to advance His kingdom spiritually, to pray some things out that we as the church and as individuals may walk some things out.
Jesus leaned into times of solitude and prayer…
That’s the template Jesus laid down for us in His earthly ministry. He leaned into times of silence and solitude and prayer with His Heavenly Father that were difficult on His flesh and inconvenient to Him personally, maybe in a natural sense. Because who wants to get up at 3:30 or 4 a.m. And go off into a desert or behind a granite boulder and pray by yourself in the dark. That was hard. But because He did the hard thing, because He devoted and recalibrated His life and His heart as, yes, He was God but He took on the form of human flesh. So you know it was hard.
Jesus chose the high path…
The Bible says that Jesus was touched by the feelings of our infirmities, our weakness, and what we go through including temptation at times. But despite that, He chose the high path. He chose the way that led to a perfect life lived so that we don’t have to try to strive in our humanness to live a perfect life. Rather we get to connect with Him and by virtue of connecting with Him and recalibrating our lives with Him, we receive His perfect life lived on our behalf. So as we approach the Father in prayer, He doesn’t see what you did yesterday where you messed up.
He sees if you’ve taken advantage of the blood of Jesus.
He sees the perfection of Jesus on you.
He sees the loveliness of Jesus reflected from you as a person.
He sees righteousness.
He sees holiness.
Let’s choose the path of walking closely with Him…
And so I’ve just been inspired about the importance of just choosing the path where we walk closely with Him. We devote ourselves to Him each day. I’ve often said it’s time to get back to the simplicity of what it means to follow Jesus. Not the multilayered complicated work of being religious, but the simplicity of following Jesus, talking to the Father, devoting our lives to Him, acknowledging the presence of His Holy Spirit and that He has a strategy and a plan and some steps for us to take today here in this time of prayer, but also individually.
When you give yourself to building the kingdom, when you give yourself to the simplicity of just following Jesus in His Word and in His presence through prayer and in community like this, let me tell you, that gets the Father’s attention. That’s a secret to blessing. Both spiritually but also naturally.
Setting yourself up to prosper…
You take up the cause of Christ, you take up the cause of the Father to build His kingdom in the earth realm, to advance His purposes, you better believe that you’re setting yourself up to prosper. You’re setting yourself up for increase. Our job is not our deal. Our call and the invitation of the Father each and every day is to lay down ourselves and our lower nature and what we want and what’s on our mind for our agenda. But, instead, to say, “Lord, what’s on your agenda today? What can I do for you today? Who can I pray for today? What steps can I take for you today? How can I perpetuate and advance and even accelerate the Gospel today? Through my life and even through the opportunities you’re extending to me today in the marketplace, in the ministry, at the gas station, or simply at home with your family?”
When you advance God’s kingdom, He fully is able to work behind the scenes to take up your cause and your agenda and to open up the door for a whole other level of blessing and increase and promotion even naturally.
Seek first the kingdom of God…
The Bible says seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness or what He wants and all these things will effortlessly and organically… That’s the Ken Olson paraphrase. “…be added unto you.” And that’s really what it means.
Jesus said, “Apart from My Father, he said, I can do nothing.” And you, church, apart from your connection with Me, Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus can do nothing. Because it’s that connection, it’s that flow that we prioritize and we’re intentional to maintain each and every day, even moment by moment. Like Brother Lawrence years and years ago, talked about practicing the presence of God. When you practice the presence of God and maintain heaven’s flow to you and through you… It’s flowing to you I should say that, all the time. But it’s a matter of you acknowledging it and receiving it and allowing it to flow in you and through you. It’s in doing that, that we are set up to be a supernatural people and accomplish what God wants to accomplish through our lives.
Herald of His Coming article…
Listen to this. These are just some quick snapshots of little blurbs from different authors that I screenshotted from this month’s edition of “Herald of His Coming.” A publication that’s free. You can probably just Google it and subscribe to it. They send out a paper like every month or two. And it’s got a lot of great articles that perhaps will encourage you. But this one’s written by Jean Guru. And she quotes Psalm 27:11.
She said…
“Teach me thy way, oh Lord, and lead me in a plain or straight path. God only is holy. He alone knows how to lead His children in the paths of holiness. And He knows every aspect of your soul, every thought of your heart, every secret of your character, its difficulties and hindrances. He knows how to mold you and to His will and to lead you onwards to His perfect sanctification. The consequences of this belief if fully grasped will influence your whole life.”
In other words, following Him will influence your whole life in a positive way.
“You will seek to give yourself up to God more and more unreservedly…” In other words, don’t reserve anything. We should give Him everything. Because He gave us everything, right? “Asking nothing, refusing nothing. Wishing nothing but what He wills. Not seeking to bring things about for yourself, taking all He sends joyfully and believing the ‘one step’ set before you is enough for you.”
William Culbertson quote…
Now, this was written by William Culbertson many years ago. Its entitled “Holiness and the Word of God.” He said…
“The word quoted, Psalm 119: 11, ‘The word have I laid up in my heart that I might not sin against you.’ The Word of God has great power in itself. Used effectively, it brings victory to every child of God.
Oh, come on now. That’s a good word on a Wednesday morning, isn’t it? Amen.
The Word does the work. The Word still works, by the way. We have not advanced beyond the Word. He’s exalted His Word high, right? Even above His name. His Word holds all things together by the word of His power. His Word still works. So let’s take advantage of the Word. As pray-ers, the Word of God is our sword, right? Pull the last Word of God that He spoke to you. The last word that you read from His Book out of its sheath. And start swinging it today. It will work. It will defeat the enemy. It will advance the kingdom. We work with the word skillfully, right?
Speaking the Word.
Praying the Word.
Declaring the Word.
Worshiping with the Word.
The Word of God! Amen.
Did it before, and it’ll do it again in your life, in the church.
So William Culbertson goes on to say…
“It’s able to bring victory in the life of the believer. As a matter of fact, lodged in the heart of the believer in itself, it becomes power for holiness.”
You could say separation.
You could say deliverance.
You could say freedom from your past.
“Our Lord said to His disciples, ‘Already, you are clean because of the Word, which I have spoken to you.’ John 15:3. The Apostle Paul led of the Holy Spirit spoke of the church as having, ‘been cleansed by the washing of the water with the Word.’”
What comes next is a level up in the church…
See, this is part of the preparation that’s going on now, because what comes next is a level up in the church as a whole. A level up of power and glory as Pastor Lynne has taught us to pray about, for revival, for His glory, for awakening. But for us to step into that, we must step up in how we’re journeying, how close we’re following Him. How our level of sanctification in our soul, our mind, our will, and our emotions, because we’re going to be working with a level of power and a gifting of the Spirit on a par to what we’ve not experienced up until now.
So you can’t just live any old way. How you lived yesterday, you can’t live today. God’s calling us to a higher way, to reflect Him not just in our confession, but in our lifestyle and in our choices and in our thoughts. The Gospel actually levels up on the Old Covenant, right? The Gospel of Jesus. He says, “If you think a certain way that’s wrong, that itself is actually doing it in reality.” So even our thoughts, especially our thoughts, must be leveled up in their sanctification. If we’re going to walk in the power in these days… if we’re going to sustain the glory that is now filling the earth and wants to flow through us to perform the works of Jesus. We can’t live like we did yesterday. We must live on a higher plane of devotion and dedication.
