 hey good morning welcome to morning prayer from the radiant city center we're going to be entering in to worship to praise to proclamation to prayer all the peace this morning starting in Psalm 100 go ahead and grab your bibles if you're in the room grab your bibles out we're just going to begin an old classic of psalm 100 verse 4 enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankful to him and bless his name for the lord is good and his mercy is everlasting and his truth endures to all generations let's do that right now let's enter into his gates with thanksgiving even though we are going to be interceding and and proclaiming and petitioning things from the Lord's heart we always want to begin with a posture of gratitude and thanksgiving of just lifting up all of the Lord's benefits his goodness and his kindness and his grace and so just encourage you this morning just begin to stir yourself up stir yourself up in the Holy Spirit stir yourself up in gratitude and thanksgiving and just begin to lift up a song of thanksgiving and grace the Lord our confidence god this is why we are here lift your voices or is this the power like our god who is like our king who is like our father god you reign over every heart we set our gaze on the king of kings the only one who's worthy of all honor of all glory and all praise god we set our our affections on things above where you sit god we take our eyes off ourselves we take our eyes off the things of the world and we set them on you god we fix our gaze god we give you our praise we set our hearts we set our minds on things above because god you are worthy of it all god you are above it all would you begin to lift your voice and just pray to the Lord how good he is his worthiness god may your beauty god may the words of our mouth and the meditation of our heart be acceptable in your sight god you're the only one who's worthy of our praise god you're the only one who's worthy of our lives so lift up the name of Jesus this morning i we worship you and you alone come together as one body just reminding this morning isaac six in the year that king Uzziah died i saw the Lord seated high on his throne it's the king Uzziah dying in the midst of crisis god's answer was not to open Isaiah's eyes to what was happening on the earth first but to actually show himself that he was seated on the throne that he was in control and even before we petition and intercede for it to be on earth as it is in heaven let's approach the throne of grace remembering that we are seated in heavenly places with christ that we boldly approach his throne and he is the king of kings and he is the lord of lords he rules and reigns and want to pray for israel out of isaac 62 for Zion's sake i will not hold my peace and for drusum's sake i will not rest until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her salvation a lamp that burns at noonday verse six i've said watch when on your walls oh drusum they shall never hold their peace day or night you who make mention of the lord do not keep silence and give him no rest until he establishes and he makes drusum a praise in the earth what type of god says i don't want to rest what type of god says i'm willing to be patient and wait and listen for the prayers of my people where we stand before you almighty god the holy one of israel we stand before you alpha and omega beginning and end we come before your throne of grace lord did we lift up the city of drusum lord we lift up zion to you this morning lord this city that is in the midst it's grief and sorrow lord this city that's mourning for its children it's mourning for its mothers lord it's mourning for the elderly it's mourning for its slain lord at the same time they're watching not just the rising up but the full-on manifestation of anti-semitism rise throughout the earth lord and jesus i ask in this environment lord that you would manifest yourself to your people as the prince of peace jesus i ask in this time and in this moment lord all over the land of israel and all over jerusalem that you would manifest yourself lord i ask for your church in israel lord i ask for all who call on the name of the lord whether jew or gentile lord arab or westerner doesn't matter lord whoever calls upon your name lord in this city lord i ask lord that your hand would come upon them lord i ask that you even in the midst of this environment lord would send a revival to israel lord why not now well the nate well the eyes of the world gaze upon zion lord why not now to glorify your son jesus lord why not now to exalt the prince of peace and so lord we ask for boldness in this hour on your church lord we ask for prophetic foresight lord i ask for the willingness to lay down our lives for our jewish brothers and sisters lord courage to stand courage to not bow the knee to the prince of persia lord the spirit of the death lord that is at work lord courage to not bow the knee to the spirit of hayman lord courage to not bow the knee lord to culture's pressure that tries to bring allies and so discordant hate and violence in the earth god i ask lord while your eyes are looking upon jerusalem and locked upon this city oh lord that you would act on behalf of your people lord that you would not be silent lord that you would send a revival to israel lord i ask at this time lord that you would save jews in israel lord i ask for a proliferation of the gospel lord i ask for a wide door lord i ask that you would look upon the threats of your enemy that you would grant to your servants in israel boldness to speak the name of jesus that signs and wonders may be done in the name of your holy servant jesus lord we look not just for a political solution lord but we look also to heaven lord to send your spirit and send a revival to your people in israel lord we ask and we lift up the people of israel before you lord and we ask that you would exalt jesus in their midst even today in the name of jesus open up their eyes to see jesus jesus open up eyes to see you ask that you would act on behalf of jerusalem oh that you would run the heavens and come down that the mountains might shake at your presence as fire burns brush wood and fire causes water to boil that you may make your name known to your adversaries that the nations may tremble at your presence when you did awesome things over which we did not know you came down the mountain shook at your presence for since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the year nor has the eyes seen any god besides you who acts for the one who waits for him and so lord we lift up our eyes not to zion but we lift our eyes above the hills to where our help comes from it comes from you it comes from the throne it comes from the king of kings it comes from the ruler and the rain are the one who's taught our times are in his hand the one who turns the hearts of kings like water the one who has conquered every other ruler and kingdom lord to that king we ask would you run the heavens and come down lord that you would make your adversaries quake lord not not not the flesh and blood adversaries lord but the principalities and the powers of darkness that are controlling and breeding breeding violence lord and hatred in this region lord we ask that you would do incredible to expose darkness lord we specifically live before you lord that you would see and hear the blood that cries out from the ground because the violence of hamas in this region lord there is blood that is screaming from the ground demanding justice lord the blood of jews lord the blood of palestinians lord the blood that has flown because of a demonic rage that says from the from the the river to the sea lord that demonic cry that seeks to operate in the spirit of hamen lord we ask expose that spirit in the name of jesus lord i asked for it that you would deliver a death blow to hamas lord this demonic ideology that has imprisoned and has brought so much blood shed oh god you are the god who sees and acts for those who wait for you and so i asked that you would listen to the cry of the blood that cries out from the ground that you would listen to the cry of your people lord i asked that you would dismantle hamas and that you would show yourself strong on behalf of your people in the name of jesus the demonic principalities in this region lord make them your footstool let your name be no head and turn to hebrus chapter 13 verse three says remember the prisoners as though in prison with them and those who are mistreated since you yourselves also are in the body just have this verse pressing on my heart it's sort of twofold the lord calls us to remember them it's a call to prayer it's a call to isaius 62 to get on the wall and to be with him as the great intercessor and it is the call to do exactly what we've been doing this morning to pray for our brothers and sisters who are suffering in the middle east right now but i just want to turn and i want to pray for that first part just for the church to be awakened to the fellowship of his suffering to the place of prayer and so father i thank you that your strategy for government is to set people on the wall to agree with you day and night lord is the great intercessor i thank you lord that even now you are awakening your global bride to join you in your prayers and intercessions on behalf of israel and father i asked now in this hour that you would pour out grace upon us i ask holy spirit that your church in kalamazoo that radiant church god that your church in america that we would awaken in this hour that we would be granted grace for remembrance lord would you help us i just confess opa it's hard to enter in and to feel what you feel to see what you see forgive us god for shrinking back forgive us for seeking distraction and the anesthesia god of distraction rise this morning we say yes to enter into the fellowship of your suffering we say yes god to remembrance of our family in the middle east god jew and palestinian alike holy spirit would you pour out grace in this hour to pray to share your cheers god to have our hearts torn as yours is torn lord over your people israel god we're asking pour out grace for prayer in this hour in jesus name we want to share your tears we want to share your prayers we want to draw near god in spirit as you draw near to the broken hearted as you save the crushed in spirit lord raise up a church who won't cross the street but who will bind the wounds of your heart through worship who will tarry with you for an hour give us grace to travail give us grace to intercede give us grace to see your promises release god to them and to that land in jesus name as the king who reigns and as the intercessor who groans all that we would know you in this hour jesus that we would be a people who draw near to your heart to feel what you feel to share your tears to share your declarations and awaken us awaken us lord night watches awaken us lord to tarry with you it's art of intercession god awaken us grace us in jesus name alone are worthy every nation tongue and tribe shall declare your worth god we thank you that this is where it's going that this is the grand finale and lord we thank you for this morning for this sacred hour god to make much of your name to declare your reign and supremacy over rulers and powers and principalities and forces of wickedness and heavenly places and over god is right we thank you lord for this sacred hour thank you that we get to partner with you in this hour i pray for grace god to remember grace to enter in grace to pray for each one of us lord draw us in bless israel the apple of your eye from this altar in jesus name thank you for joining us this morning for morning prayer we're back here again at noon praying for the nations and at 6 30 this evening hope to see you down here god bless you