Morning Chapel Prayer Playlist
Morning Chapel Prayer Today
Pastor Ken…
Good morning, everyone. Happy Revival Wednesday. Because revival is now, right? My name is Ken and I’m one of the pastors on staff here at Living Word. Good to have you with us.
Well today, I’m excited for us to pray some things through, just to continue with what God is doing here in morning prayer. I encourage you to just set some things aside this morning, set distractions aside and tune into the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit is here to meet us and to breathe upon us and to inspire us to pray at the right moment, with the right words and in the right way to get the job done for that situation that He’s called you to pray about, for what we’re going to pray about collectively.
Make no mistake about it, there is great activity in the realm of God right now, as God continues to advance His purposes and cause heaven to flow into the earth into all sorts of places and all sorts of lives. All around the world. So with that, I’m going to just let Kathy share some things and lead us in some worship.
Worship leader Kathy…
So very early this morning, I was resting with the Lord. And He started talking to me about plants and light and gardening which, if you know me at all, is hilarious because I do not garden. As I was telling Pastor Ken, I’m very good with fake plants. That’s my specialty. Pastor Ken is the gardener, not me. But God will teach you things if you are willing to listen. And He will use nature to show you stuff.
A good gardener…
And so I wrote down some thoughts and He was talking to me about He’s a good gardener. We know that, right? And the Word talks to us like we’re plants. It calls us trees. So a good gardener does not constantly prune, nor till the soil. They’re not constantly doing stuff right. A good gardener knows that sometimes a plant just needs to soak up the light. And He is the light, right? A plant turns toward the light. If you’ve ever seen those time lapse videos, you don’t think the plant’s moving. But you watch the sun move and the plant moves, right? The plant doesn’t strive to do this. It just happens. It’s a natural thing to do.
Choose to turn toward the light…
Unlike the plant, we have to choose to turn toward the light. However, I believe it can be such a habit that it becomes instinctive, just like it is with the plant. We can get so good at turning toward the light, we see Him and there we are. He’s over here and there we go. In turning toward Him, we will soak up what we need because He’s the one who provides the nutrients. He is the water. He’s the bread. He is everything.
So this morning, I want you to look at worship a little differently. We are going to turn toward the light. We’re going to turn toward Jesus. And in return, because of His goodness, not because of anything we’re doing, He gives us what we need just because we turn to the light.
Prayed…
So, Father, we turn to you, the light of the world. We thank you for being the light in the darkness, for being everything we need and so much more. We worship you today in spirit and in truth. You are the one who is worthy. You are the one we look to.
Pastor Ken…
Let me reference a passage of scripture for a moment. Ephesians 5:14 says, “Therefore, awake you who sleep, arise from the dead and Christ will give you light.”
Before I continue, I have to just interject that yesterday I was attempting to draw our attention to the time and the season that we’re in. And that this is a significant consequential moment in God’s timetable for events and what must unfold as we go through the coming days.
Well, I was driving home last night listening to Rabbi Kahn being interviewed. They asked him, “What exactly would you say if somebody asked you where are we at? What is God doing? Where are we at in God’s prophetic timeline?” He said a few things, but one of the things he said was, “Well, if you’re going to do something for God, if you’re going to live a certain way, if you’re going to make a bold step in your faith or in your ministry or in your life in some way to go all out for Him and leave it all on the table. It’s now. This is that time.”
Awake you who sleep…
So I like what it says here in Ephesians, “Awake. you who sleep.” Or those of us who are slow. Because we can be slow sometimes. We can be stuck in a rut sometimes. We can be conformed to a mold. You know what Roman says? Romans chapter 12 says, “Don’t be pressed into this world’s mold.” Don’t allow yourself to be molded and shaped by the content of this world, its dictates, your lower nature, which there’s always a poll for it to get its way, your lower nature, your flesh, that is. We must be intentional with our faith and choose each day who we will serve, as the Bible says.
Declare whom you will serve…
And I don’t know about you, but I will serve Him. I will serve Jehovah. I will serve the Lord God almighty. And so, I’m so glad I get to choose today to go with Him. And that starts by taking little chunks of our time and devoting ourselves to Him with being aware of Him with prayer in the spirit, with worship, with coming to morning prayer online or in the chapel.
In doing so, we’re devoting ourselves to Him. We’re sowing to our spirit. We’re strengthening ourselves from a spiritual standpoint. The real you, the spirit you, the one that will live on and on and on. You’re strengthening that part of you. That’s really probably one of the great things that the Lord’s speaking to the church now. If you’re going to make it count and you’re going to go the distance and you’re going to run your race… And as I said yesterday, you’re going to make a difference with your life, then you must strengthen your spirit.
Oh, that’s a word for a Wednesday morning.
Strengthen your spirit through your prayer life…
You must strengthen your spirit. Brother Hagin would always emphasize that through the years as well. He talked about the importance of building your prayer life. He talked about the importance of being a student of the Word. He talked about the importance of choosing words of life and speaking those words of life. Because they feed directly. They go through your inner ear when you speak.
When you speak the Word, when you preach the Word, you’re the most important person that needs to preach the Word to you. Because when you speak the Word, when you make your faith decrees, when you say the same thing that the Lord is saying about that symptom, or about that situation, or about that thing that He has assigned for you to watch and pray over, it feeds into your heart and you hear it in your inner ear. And it grows your faith and it strengthens your spirit.
Don’t draw back…
The Lord is calling for a people who are not hesitant or draw back, God forbid, as the Bible says, or weak or beggarly in some way. But instead of people who will boldly… yeah, you may not feel a hundred percent sometimes in your feelings, but you can by faith step out on the promise of His Word that He will meet you when you step out on His Word as a pray-er, as a believer. You don’t need any other prompting. You don’t need anybody to push you into the pool, so to speak. You have His prompting.
We have an unction from the Holy Spirit…
The Bible says, in fact, at least my Bible still says that you have an unction of the Holy One. You have a prompting… you have inspiration on the inside. And His name is God the Holy Spirit. He is the third person of the triune Godhead. And He abides and dwells and He’s taken up residence inside of us. And He is prompting the church and He is prompting us individually to not stay where we’ve been… to not circle the mountain of problems and trouble that maybe we have circled many times. Not because the enemy’s so good because he is not. But because oftentimes we just live to a certain point. Or we live on “fumes” spiritually.
Step out on His Word…
When the Lord is saying “No, step out on My Word, which says be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.” Step out on His Word that reminds us that He is what sustains us. He is our supply and our source. And if we’ll trust Him and we’ll take a step when we’re not a hundred percent in our understanding or how we feel, we can know that He’ll meet us at our point of faith. You can know that He’ll meet you when you show up on His radar screen in prayer, when you show up even on Saturday in your chair with your Bible open, saying, “Lord, what’s up?” When you lift up holy hands at a midnight hour and praise Him when you really want to go cry in the corner.
God will not fail you…
God is faithful. He will not let you slip. He will not fail you. As I said yesterday, He sent His Spirit to inhabit and hover over each of our lives and over the work of God. Because He’s protecting and preserving what the Lord has begun in you and what He has for you.
And, secondly, the Spirit of God is hovering right now over your life to prepare you for the further activity of God. Because make no mistake about it, He has further assignments and further opportunities for you to step into victory and further opportunities even today, to get up on that wall of the outpouring and watch and pray.
Sometimes you just need to watch. Jesus even said to His disciples as He found them snoring logs, sleeping in the garden. He said, “What, disciples! Could you not watch and pray with Me even an hour?” So sometimes just watching is significant. Sitting in your chair, meditating on a passage of scripture and watching. It’s strengthening your spirit.
Never judge the outcome of your prayers…
I would point this out too. Never judge the outcome, the natural or the tangible or quantifiable, or lack thereof outcome of your prayer, your time with God. You don’t know. You may have walked away from that time with God or after having prayed something, and you may not see an answer, or you may not see the breakthrough in the moment, or even for some time… or at all! The outcome is up to Him. Trust Him with the outcome. Trust Him with what you say. Even though you don’t feel any different. You can still go by faith today.
Let yourself be strengthened in your spirit…
The Bible talks about investing and sowing to your spirit. Your human recreated spirit in the image of Jesus, that part of you. And when you feed on the Word, it strengthens you. When you pray in the Spirit, we know according to Jude 20, you are being edified. You are being recharged with a lightning bolt from heaven. So that you have the ability to do what you can’t do in your limited self, on your own. But in partnership, in concert with Him, you can do all things through Christ. You know it, right? All things! I can do… you can do… we can do all things through Him, co-joined with Him.
Even Jesus was dropping a hint when He talked about His yoke, and He said, “Join yourself with Me. Yolk yourself with Me.” That means join yourself with Him. Learn how I do it. Learn My unforced rhythms.
And sometimes that means gut it out in prayer at the midnight hour. Other times it means just faithfully showing up one day at a time and having a conversation with your Heavenly Father and hearing from His Book and praying out of your spirit. It’s having an effect. It’s creating momentum within you and in the plan of God.
