For His Glory with Kathy Branzell (Ep. 267)

Oct 27, 2025 | A Word in Season Show Notes, Podcasts, Uncategorized

Our Guest: Kathy Branzell

Kathy Branzell is president of the National Day of Prayer Task Force. As president of the NDP Task Force, Kathy leads this nationwide prayer movement, observed by law for 75 years with over 19,000 missionaries across America. She is also co-chair of the Global Church Network and serves on several boards, including the National Religious Broadcasters. 

Kathy has written several books including a 90-day devotional called An Invitation to Prayer and a 365-day devotional for educators called An Apple a Day. 

She also founded Fellowship and Christian Encouragement for Educators and served as a Rapid Response Chaplain for the Billy Graham Evangelical Association, National Coordinator of LOVE2020, and National Facilitator for the Mission America Coalition. Find out more about the National Day of Prayer at NationalDayofPrayer.org.

 

Scriptures and Key Points:

 

Hebrews 12:2 NKJV Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith…

  • Your life can be God’s glory story.

Haggai 1-2 NKJV …The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former…

  • With her military father often absent, God became Kathy’s ever-present and faithful Father.
  • Wisdom is in the strategy.
  • Sit and listen to the Lord.
  • Prayer is a conversation and you can’t always be the talker.
  • Take times of solitude.

James 5:16 NKJV …The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

  • “Much” (polys) in the above scripture is the same word used to describe God’s glory, His mercy, and our reward in Heaven.
  • Glorify God among the nations – Seeking Him in all generations.

1 Chronicles 16:24 NASB Tell of His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all the peoples.

  • Don’t just live it out, talk it out as well.

“Talk less, pray more.” – Gary Miller

  • And really listen.
  • Focus is key.
  • Leave your phone out of your prayer closet.
  • Practice silence.

1 Samuel 3:10 NIV …“Speak, for your servant is listening.”

Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV “For my thoughts are not your thoughts…

  • Learn to be in God’s presence.
  • Lift up the Word, and light up the world.
  • “If not for God”…we did not accomplish this on our own.

 

We’ve made prayer an event and not a lifestyle.

 

  • Keep your prayers biblical and focused on God’s heart.

“Josephus, the first-century Jewish historian who witnessed the tragedy of the destruction of Jerusalem and the desecration of the Temple- wrote that the Jews ‘turned their hands one against another.’ Divided families, towns and communities were in conflict…” – Watch Jerusalem in November 2019

  • The Bible is our litmus test.

John 15:4 NKJV Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

Matthew 12:34 CSB …For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

  • When you start telling a story, talking about yourself, or preaching a sermon, you have quit talking to God and are speaking to the audience.
  • And that’s not prayer.
  • Keep your focus on God, everyone else is just a holy eavesdropper praying in agreement.
  • You have to pray scripture, not personal preference.
  • Only declare what is in the Bible.
  • Often we declare things we should be asking.
  • Is it written in the Word of God?
  • We need to come before God with a sense of awe and humility.
  • Thank Him for what He’s already done.
  • The more we appreciate Him, the more He wants to bless you.
  • Eulogize others while they are alive.
  • Praise them for who they are.
  • Branches intertwine on a vine to uphold one another.

 

Our prayer life helps us in our relationship with others, because God gives us His perspective.

 

  • Face your challenges with the attitude that God’s glory is at stake.
  • We live in His promises, in His covenant.

1 Peter 5:10 NIV …after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

  • Our suffering is either authored by God or He allows it according to His purpose.
  • If He allows it, it is going to be good for you.
  • You’re going to go to bed tonight better than you were. That’s sanctification.
  • God promises completeness, perfection, to be established, and to be strengthened.
  • “Strengthen” (sthenoō) refers to a strengthening of your soul.
  • “Perfect” (katartizō) is to be made in the way we were meant to be.
  • Completeness in our minds.
  • Every time you go to complain about it, instead pray about it.
  • Give Him praise in the midst of it.
  • God never forgets His promise of fulfilling His purposes in our lives.

2 Chronicles 7:14 NKJV If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

  • We forget to humble ourselves and turn from our wicked ways.
  • Humility doesn’t cancel people.
  • Go to your Bible and test what you have heard.
  • We don’t know what we don’t know.
  • What does love require?
  • The word “balance” is not in the Bible.
  • Jesus was obedient.
  • God has the plan for each of us. It’s not our plans for each other.
  • We need to stop trying to divide up our time and responsibilities. 
  • Focus on glorifying God.
  • Live a life of obedience.
  • And love those who are living differently.

 

“Prayer produces intimacy to whom you pray, with whom you pray in agreement, and then for whom you pray.” – Dr. Edwin Louis Cole

 

“Before you talk to your neighbors about God, talk to God about your neighbors.”  – Ed Silvoso

  • When you get God’s heart, you can minister the truth in love.

“Speak the truth in love, seasoned with grace, but speak the truth nonetheless.” – Doug Stringer

  • We need to be lovers of truth if we want to walk in obedience.
  • Be available to God daily.
  • Don’t think too highly of yourself.
  • Walk in simple obedience to God, which is the highest form of worship.
  • The first scriptural context of worship was not in the form of singing, but in obedience to God.
  • Offering ourselves as living sacrifices becomes an act of worship.

Romans 12:1 NKJV I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 

  • “How am I going to glorify God?”
  • We are enough of a mess; we don’t need to sort out others.
  • God calls us to love and pray for one another.
  • Instead of rubbing salt in their wounds, become salt and life.
  • Speak truth boldly, but don’t be mean or rude.
  • Talk about God.
  • Watch your tone.
  • Apologize when you slip into a non-loving tone.
  • People matter more than your opinions.
  • Have the ministry of hanging out.
  • Everybody has a story.
  • Touch their heart and their mind will open.

 

Pray that people will hear about God.

 

Jeremiah 33:3 NKJV ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

  • That scripture was spoken in the midst of a difficult time in Israel’s history.
  • We need to reengage with the Lord.

Isaiah 9:6 NKJV …And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

  • His Word is our instruction manual.

Ephesians 2:10 NIV For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Galatians 6:2 NIV Carry each other’s burdens…

Hebrews 13:5 NIV …God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”

 

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