 Good morning everyone, let's all stand to our feet. Those of you who are joining us at home, welcome to Monday morning prayer. Today's a good day to draw near to the Lord and to find our strength and to find our rest in Him. Jesus said, take my yoke upon you for my burden is light. My yoke is easy and my burden is light. So today as we draw near to the presence of the Lord, you can exchange whatever burdens you're carrying for the lightness of His presence and His peace and find strength and find rest in Him. There's nothing better, there's nothing more refreshing than the presence of the Lord. Psalm one today, I'm just gonna read it, it's a short psalm but it's a significant powerful psalm. It says, blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of the sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers. But His delight is in the law of the Lord and on His law, He meditates day and night. He's like a tree planted by streams of water that yield its fruit in its season and its leave does not wither. All that He does, He prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous, for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. Today there's a promise that we can be rooted in the presence of the Lord and in His word. And when the winds blow, instead of being blown away, we're actually strengthened today because we're rooted in Him. So today as we draw near to the Lord and we worship and we pray, we stand in a place of prayer, I want you to just have this picture of the river of God, the river of His refreshing, the river of His approach to you, His availability to you. And to even see your heart becoming rooted in His presence, not moved by the storms, not moved by the winds, not dependent on any other circumstances, but your roots go down deep and are drawing on the life of His goodness, of His strength, of His consistency, His steadfastness, His eternal power, and this is where we root our lives. So wherever you're at this morning, let's just start this week, let's start this morning with just an open posture of receiving from the heart of our Father. Lord, today we draw near to you. We say that and we just align our lives for that to become a reality today, Lord. Our flesh is weak, our thoughts are sometimes scattered. Lord, we're fully cognizant of all of our flaws, but yet here we are in the deepest part of who we are, our spirit is drawing near to you because we know that in you is the fountain of life and you are all of our springs, are all of our hopes, in you is life, Jesus. In you said, he who finds the sun finds the life. So Lord, we found you and we draw near to you and we're putting our roots down deep into your presence today. And as always, your promise remains that there's life in you, that there's peace in you, that there's joy in you, that there's strength for those who will wait upon the Lord to be renewed, to be refreshed. Holy spirit, would you come into every environment, in every moment, begin to just breathe new life, take the heavy yolks and the burdens as we cast them at your feet and replace them with the lightness and the refreshing of your presence and the reality that you are with us. Lord, today you call us blessed and we say in Christ Jesus, we are blessed. So come and speak refreshing and renewing over our lives as we worship you today. In the cross has set me free, now I live again in Jesus and he lives and reigns in me. This the secret of his cross from buried grave, a portrait with bed of grafted, rich or sweet, a life is so sweet, to die, to the world and stuff. This the secret, this the story, through the cross he reached the throne and like him our path to glory ever leads to death alone. Rulership in your leadership in our life creeds and the things that hearts, even ourselves, even our own desires, Lord, that would be dethroned in 20, that I am crucified with Christ who now lives in me, the Son of God. Lord, today we consider wrecking ourselves, dead to sin. When we see the cross Jesus and we see you on the cross, we don't just want to see you on the cross, Lord help us to actually see ourselves crucified with you. Our old man, all of our shame, all of our guilt, all of our transgressions, crucified with you on the cross and raised to new life in you. That just as you were raised from the dead, we've been raised in the newness of life. What a joy it is to consider ourselves dead with you and alive again with you. Fill us with the life of your Holy Spirit. Fill us with the joy, the righteousness and the peace of your kingdom. Let the kingdom of God that you said is within us. Let it rise up and become the dominant reality in our hearts today. Holy Spirit, you are the presence of the kingdom. Wherever the king is, there is the kingdom. Jesus, you're in us. Go face down in your presence. Other knees bend in your presence. The most prideful and arrogant opinions and criticism and ideas are silenced in your presence until they confess that you indeed are Lord. At Jesus today, we say you are Lord. You are Lord of all, you are Lord of us in your presence today. What a joy it is to know you in the fellowship of suffering as well as in the power of your resurrection today. Crucified with you. It's no longer we that live, but it's you that lives in us. Lord, let the life of Christ become the greater reality for us. Just invite the Lord today this morning so we can see the kingdom in the eyes of a newborn for the very first time to see accusation, every lie, every trespass, every disobedient thought, every independent attitude, every temptation with the flesh of the demonic Lord. We lay it all down, all the old. We say we're crucified, accepted, blighted in heavenly places, adopted, recipient of the promises and the grace of God, loved by the Father in the same way that you love the Son. This is who we are in you, Jesus. This is who you've made us to be. As blessed as the man stands in the way of sinners or sins in the seat of scoffers. But as the light is in the law of the Lord and on his law he meant it to stand. Invitation to the blessing of the Lord today as we intentionally align our path and align our lives to go against the grain and the way of the world. So Father, today we come before you and we ask and we say that Lord, we don't want to just be those that are called blessed on paper as we read the scripture, but yet functionally and practically don't walk in the blessing of God because we walk in disobedience to you. God, we want to walk in the fullness of your blessing, the fullness of your favor and your bias towards us, the grace of God that empowers us, that meets us. And so today, Lord, just as we've been praying about crucifying our flesh and walking in the newness of the spirit today, we decide and we affresh in anew just say, Lord, we will not walk in the counsel of the wicked because we're guided by your word. And so, Lord, today in the places of our life where we've allowed counsel and advice, philosophies of this world, the belief systems of the structures around us that are in opposition to who you are, we've allowed them to guide us and direct us, but they've been shaped by the wickedness of this present evil age, Lord, today we repent and we say, we will not walk in the counsel of the wicked. We're not gonna walk according to the pattern of this world. We're not gonna be conformed to the pattern of this world, but we shall be renewed in the spirit of our mind, in the wisdom of the Lord to walk under the leadership of the Holy Spirit, the word says in Galatians 2, keep and step with the Holy Spirit and that if you are led by the spirit, you will not fulfill the lust, gratify the lust of the flesh. And so today, God, by the power of your Holy Spirit, even in our weakness, we're asking for your guidance and for your leadership to walk a different path, to walk in the path of righteousness. You said that the way of the righteous winds upward, but the way that seems right to a man leads to death and destruction. God, we wanna walk in the way of life. You have ordered the steps of the righteous person, Lord, today we choose to walk your path. Today we choose to walk in the counsel of the Holy Spirit, the counsel of the godly, the counsel that is in alignment with your word and your kingdom, so that we might walk in the blessing of the Lord today. It sets us in a right relationship with you, your word, it's a light unto our pay. We will not stand in the way of sinners, we won't sit in the seat of scoffers, but we find our delight in you. First John says that you are in the light and if we walk in the light, we have fellowship with you. God, we wanna have fellowship with you. We wanna know you. We wanna walk with the Father, walk with the Son and walk with the Holy Spirit. We don't wanna walk in the shadow lands of kindness and sin and self. Lord, anything that's habitually blocking and hindering love today, we reject it and we repent and we say, Father, our delight is in you and in your word. Help us to be people that meditate in your word day and night, that it's the delight of our hearts, not the obligation of a religious practice, that we don't go to your word because we have to, we don't go to your word just in times of crisis, but your word is life and it feeds us and it calibrates us and it connects our heart to yours. Lord, would you allow and would you create within us an appetite, a hunger for more of your word that produces eternal delight and joy in serving you and knowing you, not just the accumulation of information not just the ritualistic behavior of reading something sacred, but God, it's actually spirit and truth, it's manna, it's daily bread that feeds us, causes us to walk with you in the light. Lord, today, according to James one, we receive with meekness the implanted word of God which is able to save our souls. Both with a thousand things offered on the banqueting table, we say, we hunger and thirst for you. In a banquet hall of a million options, Lord, let our heart cry out for more of you today to please you, to know you, to welcome the fullness of your word and in pursuit of your presence. Passion delight, passion delight, passion delight for your word. Stir up hunger, Lord. Stir up passion for your word. Stir up hunger, stir up. It's delight for your words. Stir up hunger, stir up. Stir up our hearts. Stir up our hearts. Stir up our hearts. Stir up our hearts. Stir up our hearts. Stir up our hearts. Stir up our hearts. Stir up our hearts. Stir up our hearts. We're gonna continue to pray for this. Praying for this idea, but moving over to Ephesians three, as we are praying to be like a tree that is planted by living waters. That tree has roots and we wanna be rooted in the love of God. And in just a moment after I pray, just as a heads up, I'm gonna be asking us just to break into small groups, two to three, just to pray for this, for each other, as the body of Christ, to pray to be strengthened with power through his spirit in your inner man so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that we would be rooted and grounded in love, that that strength would give us the ability to comprehend with all the saints, with the body, with the church, what is the full breath, length, height and depth, every aspect of the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge that would be filled with all the fullness of God. This prayer that we pray, it starts from a place of God's grace, God's strength. As we opened up our time of prayer, thanking him for the revelation of the cross, that cross, his blood made a way so that we could boldly enter into his throne room and find grace and mercy in our time of need. That grace is the strength of God and that grace is what enables us to be rooted and grounded. When we pray this prayer, the Lord is not expecting us to do it on our own. He's saying, if you say yes, I will give you the strength to do it. Will you say yes, I will give you the grace to do it. God, we ask right now for your strength. We ask right now for your grace, eat you. We are desperate. We realize that we cannot do this without you. We are hungry and a desperate people searching for living water, searching for life, searching for daily bread. God, we need your strength and your grace so that we can be rooted and grounded in your love so that you, as you give us the strength to open our hearts, that you would be able to come and fill us and dwell in us. So I wanna take just a few minutes to find a couple people around you, even if you don't know them, and just lay hands on each other and to say just a small 30 second prayer each. God, give this person grace. Give them grace to say yes. God, we need your grace right now. Root this person. Let them be grounded in your love. Let them understand the love of God that surpasses all knowledge. Let them be filled with the fullness of God. But above all else, they need strength. Strength right now, grace of God right now. Strength to say yes, just to say yes. In every sphere, every aspect. Strength to say yes. Father who loves you. You have a family who is with you. Grace, strength, grace and strength, grace and strength. Your time of need, grace. In the moment of a weakness, grace. When you're expecting a harsh word, he gives grace. When you're battered by accusation, he gives grace. Sweeps in with his kindness and he gives grace. Ephesians three ends with now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we can ask or think of. According to the power at work within us. According to that grace within us. To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus. Throughout all generations, forever and ever amen. Thank you for joining us this morning, praying, worshiping together as the body of Christ. If you're still praying, you can keep going. We're gonna be closing our stream. You can join us Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. online or 8 noon and 6 30 here at the radio center. Thank you, God bless.