 Good morning, welcome to morning prayer. This is our last Tuesday, praying for unity in our city. The unity focused put out by Pastor Jeff Port over at Cornerstone in this city. Or center point, excuse me, not Cornerstone. He's our Cornerstone, amen. Amen guys, let's pray. Psalm 133, this psalm that's kind of anchored us during this prayer for unity. We're gonna be praying out of Ephesians one, 17 through 19, Revelation of Jesus. But I just wanna read Psalm 133 as we unify together, just as a congregation and as a people before we go before the Lord. Psalm 133 verse one says, Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, running down on the edge of his garments. It is like the dew of Hermon descending upon the mountains of Zion. For there the Lord commands his blessing, life forevermore. Lord, we long for your blessing, Lord. We wanna be in the place where you command your blessing. Lord, in that place is unity in the church. Another way to say it is if we are outside of unity in the church, we are outside of the commanded blessing of the Lord. And so right now we just unify our hearts around Jesus. We unify our hearts, Lord, we say thank you. Thank you for uniting us with the body of Christ, Lord. And in an hour where there is a great falling away and many people are disassociating with the church and stepping outside of the commanded blessing that you have, but we say it is good for me to draw near the Lord. I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord. There's gladness in our hearts to be joined with the body of Christ. And so Lord, as one church and one people this morning, we bless your name. We bless the name of the Lord our God. Let's want you to begin to open up your mouth, offer the fruit of your lips and just begin blessing the Lord. Blessing his name, blessing his ways, his character, his nature. Lord, we walk through thanksgiving. We bless the name of the Lord this morning. One mind and one mouth. We bless if the elders can buy us. Why do we bless you, Jesus? Exhortation one to another, come and behold Him. I just, I felt stirred to just pray that even by faith declare that over the lost in this city. So we say to those who are lost and who are far away, come and behold Him. Isn't He fascinating? Come and behold Him. He is beautiful. Come and find the one that your heart is searching for. Come find the one, the man who will tell you everything about you. Come and drink of the living waters. Come, you who have no money. Come buy, eat and drink. Come to the waters and drink of the living water. We just declare we call out from this place into the streets of Kalamazoo. Lord, into the streets of Portage, Richland, Plainwell, Vicksburg, Madowan, all the surrounding areas and regions. Come and behold Jesus. See Him as beautiful. See Him as fascinating. See the one that your heart longs for. Lord, call to the mothers, call to the fathers, call to the children, call to the business owners, Lord. Call to the educators, call to the old and the young. Come behold Him. He's fascinating. Come and meet the man from Nazareth who knows the secrets of man's hearts. Come, see the resurrected, risen Lamb of God, the one whose hair is like wool, whose eyes are like flames of fire, whose feet are like burnished bronze, whose voice is like the sounds of many waters. Come and behold the risen resurrected Jesus who sits at the right hand of the Father, the one who holds the scepter of righteousness, the one who will ride on the white horse, the one who rides for justice and truth on the earth. Come and behold Jesus. We just declare this to the lost in this region. Come home, there's a table set for you. The king has prepared a banquet and he has set his workers out to invite all who are crippled, blind, broken and lost. Come and feast. Come and dine at the table. Come and eat in taste of the Lord's goodness and His kindness and His mercy. Come and behold Jesus exalted in our region. We wanna see Jesus lifted high. Wanna turn our attention toward praying for the church and call him as you out of Ephesians one, 17 through 19. Asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the mouths of him. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened, you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance and the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe according to the working of His mighty power. Father, I live before you, the pastors and leaders, Lord, during this 30 days. Thank you, Lord, just for putting on the call for unity, the call for the church to rally together. And Lord, I ask that we would not unify as the church around the lowest common denominator or there would not just be, this is the lowest bar that we can actually all agree on. And so we just, we'll unify around this, but oh, God, I ask that we would unify around the beautiful Lamb of God. Would you give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus Christ? Lord, we are in need of Jesus to be exalted and lifted high and made beautiful. So Lord, I ask for this spirit to rest upon your church. Lord, starting with your leaders and your pastors and your shepherds, Lord, that you would open up to them wisdom and revelation from your word. Oh, God, I ask that this word would be alive, that it would not be words on a page. It would not be a story from 2000 years ago, but God, that it would be a sharp two-edged sword, that it would be living and active. God, that you would give prophetic vision and download, Lord, in a confusing time that your shepherds and leaders would have clarity. God, I ask for the artists in the church of Kalamazoo. God, I pray over the songwriters, Lord the painters, Lord the dancers, Lord the music teachers in the schools, in this region, Lord, those who are gifted in the arts. Oh, God, I ask for fresh vision of Jesus. Lord, I ask for songs and music and worship to come out of Kalamazoo from the hearts of this city to the ends of the earth, that the name of Jesus would be glorified and praised. Lord, that you would remove the veil and the curtain that we would see Jesus as so beautiful, that we would be compelled to write, to paint, to write books, Lord, to create, Lord, that there would be a great movement of creatives, Lord, that have the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus. God, I ask for the teachers in the education sector, Lord, those who are working with our children and many who are feeling the pressure to bow their knee to the spear of the AIDS, at the sound of the flute and the lute and the harp, to bow down to the idol that the spear of the AIDS has crafted, Lord, I ask for the school teachers to be like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Lord, to stand and say, we will not bow to the spear of the AIDS, but we will stand on truth. And Lord, I ask that you would reveal the beauty of Jesus, Lord, that you would even send revival to our elementary schools and our middle schools, Lord, and our high schools and our college campuses, and Lord, that you would actually send educators as shepherds who operate in the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus. So God, we ask for the church of Kalamazoo, the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus, pour it out. Let's press in this morning on behalf of our own hearts, on behalf of our own homes, and all across this city, God, every expression of your church, we press in for a spirit of revelation in the knowledge of the beauty Jesus possesses. Father, we confess one look changes everything. So we're asking you to enlighten hearts. Even as Pastor Caleb read, we echo this ancient prayer of the apostle Paul, open the eyes of our heart to see Jesus rightly. Holy spirit, we confess we need you. We are blind without a spirit of revelation. Our gaze just roams everywhere on so many different distractions. We need your help to open our eyes, to fixate us on the man Christ Jesus. Every beautiful asset, every beautiful virtue that he possesses. We're asking Holy spirit, open our eyes to behold him afresh anew. God, the lens that a spirit of religion has distorted, the dust and the smattering of rules and regulations and shame and condemnation. I'm asking all across this city, would you begin Holy spirit to just wipe the lens clean that we could see without obstruction who Jesus is, what he's like that your church in Kalamazoo, God. I'm asking open the eyes of your church in Jesus name. Vision, the vision of our heart. You would reset our gaze anew and afresh higher on the man Christ Jesus or the spirit of this age, the views of this age. They dull us. And so we're asking for your help, Holy spirit that you would clear every lens in this room and every lens across this city, God. That we would see Jesus suddenly that there would be that fascination again, that captivating again. Hold your beauty as hope for our bobbers of hope to surface again. Our identity goes deeper those. We see your ways that are higher than our ways. Your other than this Lord, I'm asking this city let there be a gasp of captivation. Let there be a gasp of exhilaration Lord as your church beholds elation. Flood the hearts of your people Jesus that changes everything of just the smattering of rules and regulations the harshness of performance in religion. Just clear, let us behold the beauty you possess In your name unifies us Lord your love grounds us. We love your love and we thank you that it is your delight to open the eyes of our hearts to see your son rightly that we would fall in love with him over and over and over again. And as we close this morning we're just gonna stand in agreement with the churches all across the city for a spirit of unity and we're just gonna agree together with this prayer penned by Pastor Jeff at center point. Please join me, King Jesus. Awaken the sleeping giant of your church in our city as we pray and collaborate to seek the common good for our region. Open our eyes and hands to the marginalized and our voices for the voiceless. We endeavor to live such counter cultural lives that our places of work and neighborhoods will experience the beauty and power of the gospel. Give us such an unquenchable passion for you and your word that we can't help but tell others about Jesus and his unstoppable kingdom for the glory of Jesus and the advancement of his kingdom. Well thank you for joining us this morning for morning prayer. We just wanna let you know about something that's taking place this Saturday here in the prayer room. It's our intro to the prayer room seminar from 9 a.m. to 10 30. Y'all this is for everyone in our praying church and especially if you're already serving in the prayer room in any capacity. This is our bedrock foundational understanding on which we're building and also if you would like to get involved in the prayer room or just want more information about it this is for you, this is your on ramp. So you can register at radiant.church slash events. We'll be back here at noon and then 6 30 tonight. God bless you all.