 All right, good morning everyone. Good morning to all of you who are in the room with us here in the Radiant City Center for Monday morning prayer. And thank you for those who are joining us online as one family, one body in the city, joining together to worship and intercede with the Lord and who he is and what he has promised to do in scripture. And so I encourage, if you're here in the room, some of you are standing up, I encourage, we're gonna stand together. And if you are online as well, this is a time for corporate worship, corporate intercession. And so many of you might have your own secret time with the Lord where you're reading through scripture, praying through scripture, and that's that personal relationship and personally walking that out. But this is a sacred time. This is one hour. We come together as the church, one body, and we are engaging together as a corporate church, a corporate body, corporate children, stepping into the presence of the Lord into the governmental center of where he is and his throne. And we are agreeing with in worship, saying this is who you are. You are a good God, you are a faithful God. And it stirs our faith to know that then when we come to him in prayer, all we're doing is just saying promises that he has said throughout the scripture. And we're saying we believe that you meant it here. We believe you're the same God. We've seen you work in our life, your faithfulness and kindness. So I know that you are gonna do this. I know that your heart is for this church. I know your heart is for our city, for the lost, for the prodigals, for the broken, for the weary. And so we agree and we stand in the gap with you. And so this is a time where we are gonna sing together, worship songs together. This is not a, I'm just gonna watch and observe it. I'm gonna participate and engage. And when the singers sing phrases, you're gonna sing those phrases. And when me and Adam here are praying, you're gonna repeat those phrases. Just as I'm praying phrases, just take little snippets, little words, repeat them yourself. It helps you engage. As we, and it's not just engage it, but it's agreement. As we agree together, we're strengthened together. So I'm just gonna open up by reading Psalm 16. It was up my heart this morning. And then we're gonna be praying for, throughout this prayer ceremony, we're praying for strengthening the church and also healing for our city. So Psalm 16, it says, preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, you are my Lord. I have no good apart from you. As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight. The sorrows of those who run after another God, they shall multiply. And their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out. And I will not take them, their names on my lips. For the Lord is my chosen portion and my cup. You hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. So I will bless the Lord who gives me counsel. And in the night also my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me because he is at my right hand. I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad. My whole being rejoices. My flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to shield or let your holy ones see corruption. You make known to me the path of life. And in your presence there is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Father, we thank you for your leadership, for your faithfulness, for your kindness. We thank you for the gift of the Holy Spirit that dwells within us, that contains the fullness of joy and peace, of wisdom and understanding. So we lift our hands right now, symbolizing that we are holding on to nothing. No expectations, no desires, no circumstances. When we come to you, open-handed and open-minded, our hearts soft and say in your presence there's fullness of joy. So we receive that joy right now. We receive the joy knowing that you are our chosen portion. You are our cup. You are the one that we take refuge and there is no good we have apart from you. And so by receiving that, we in your presence we bless the Lord. So right now, give yourself a moment in your own word, in your own tongue, bless the Lord. Say thank you. Thank you for your presence. Thank you for your leadership, for your kindness. Thank you that I have a good inheritance that even though the enemy might try to, try to persuade me differently, and try to deceive me, I have a good inheritance. Thank you, Holy Spirit, that there is joy in your presence. That there is goodness in your presence. My heart is glad. Continue just to say thank you. There is, when you hear the words of Thanksgiving, it changes things in your heart, it changes things in your mind. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for who you are. Who wants to know your love? Wake us up. Stir up our hearts. To have your joy. To awake my soul. Bless the Lord, hide of us. Who contains joy to know you. Goodness at your right hand. Circumstance of our depression. Anxiety best to his leadership. His voice of identity over us. His love that is not run dry. Drink and never go thirsty. Stir our hearts. Well that is not run dry. Heavy laden, you will give rest. Turn away from broken cisterns. We turn away from other loves. Oh, you are our portion. Things that lead to death. You are our portion. Come to the fountain of life. Oh, you are our portion. You will satisfy the path of life. We drink and we drink. In your presence, there's fullness of joy. To right hand, pleasures forevermore. We drink and we drink. Source of life. We drink and we drink. Come to the altar. Bend our hearts to receive. Down to receive more. Leave his name over you that changes us. Respond right now. Heard your voice and we respond. He's asking if you'll say yes. He's asking if you'll believe. This church, the solution. I want us to turn our bibles to Colossians 1. In these few moments, pray for the strengthening and the building up of the church in this city. That could be, that's this church, Radiant Church, but also the other churches in our city to be strengthened up as the church, the Big C Church, a community and a family and a body with Jesus as the head to represent the love and righteousness and holiness of God. That we would walk. That we would bear fruit. And that we wouldn't just be sitting in a room, stacking it, but that we would go and bear fruit to be witnesses to the four corners of our city. To be love, to be joy, peace and strength to the weary and brokenhearted. So we're going to, I'm going to read Colossians 1.9 through 11 here. And then we're just going to pray through it. Little chunks says, so from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you would be filled with the knowledge of his will and all spiritual wisdom and understanding. So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might for all endurance and patience with joy. So Father, right now we lift up the church. We are in that church. So we look at ourselves. We look at our brothers and sisters around us. We look at other churches around us. And we ask for right now that we would be filled with the knowledge of your will with Holy Spirit wisdom, Holy Spirit understanding. We ask that you would come and fall upon our gatherings, our homes, our secret times, our times of prayer and worship. And we ask for this, the worldly spirit of deception and culture would be washed away, would be pierced, revealed and washed away. And that you would come and speak truth over us. You would speak identity over us. That we would not be bound by fear. We would not be bound by shame. We would not be bound by our own brokenness, but we would hear the voice of the Father speaking his identity, speaking his love, speaking his acceptance and affection of his children over us. That we are not trying to earn your affection. We are not trying to earn your attention. We are not trying to vie for your eyes and your approval to look towards us, but we already have it. That you have already given everything you have for us. And we turn our attention and turn our gaze to you. We turn our ears away from the itching things of this world and we listen to the voice of the Father speaking over us. We turn our hearts towards our first love and we lay down idols. We lay down those things that lead to death and brokenness and we listen and receive the knowledge of who you are. So right now we ask, in the name of Jesus, would you fill us with the knowledge of your will? Come fill us right now. May we be filled with the Holy Spirit understanding. May we be filled with the knowledge of your will. Of who you are. We are in you to know who you are. We need that light, that clarity. May we be filled with the knowledge of your will. To remove those things that hinder, that darkness would flee. May we be filled with the voice of accusation would be silenced. May we be filled with the voice of accusation. Peace and truth would reign. May we be filled with the voice of accusation. Here in C and L, culture would not define us. May we be filled with the voice of accusation. Speak our identity. May we be filled with the voice of accusation. God, we don't want to just be a cup that just gets more and more filled into it, but nothing ever happens. We don't want to be a static body of water that can grow toxic and corrupt because it never goes out. So we want to walk worthy, fully pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, increasing all of these adjectives, all of these actions that we are walking, bearing fruit, working, increasing. And it's not to earn, it's not to perform, but it's out of an overflow of being filled that the filling comes first. The filling comes from identity, but we are walking, we are working, bearing fruit and loving as an overflow. So God, if we ask that you would stir up the hearts of the church in the city for what moves your heart, that you would break the hearts of the church in the city for what breaks your heart, that the hearts of the city would burn for what causes your heart to burn. We want to be united. We want to move and bear fruit. So God, we ask that our eyes, our ears, our hearts, our mouths would be tuned and attentive to the physically broken in the city, the mentally broken in the city, the emotionally hurting, the ones who have no home, that have no family, that don't have food, that don't have love, that don't have attention, the ones who that society has shut away, the lost and the hurting and the broken. Would you stir up the church to care for the orphans, to care for the widows, to care for the castaways, to care for the broken, to care for the hurting, that we would not be just shut up in our own, our own gathering places, doing church just to fulfill our own selves, that we'd be sent out as a body and with healings, signs, wonders, deliverance that the name of Jesus would be seen and glorified. So Father, we ask in the name of Jesus, would you help us walk worthy and bear fruit in your name? Let us be like you, walk, talk like you, be like you for the broken, care for the hurting, to say yes, speak identity, we take a step toward that identity. We don't just listen, but we respond. As we transition back into a time of worship, as we declare truths of who God is, let's stir our faith. These are things that he wants to do. So Holy Spirit, speak to our hearts and worship. Stir us up that we can continue to agree with who you are. Let me gaze upon if the tears are made just to. Because you're beautiful Jesus, it's because of your love for us that you are worthy. We just take a moment to acknowledge how beautiful, worthy and holy you are of our worship and devotion, but worthy of every tribe and tongue. Worthy of worship, Lord, from every end of the earth, and we know that's what you want. So right now we're gonna shift into our second prayer cycle and we're gonna be praying for the believers in the 1040 window, and some of the most unreached places to where people haven't even heard of the gospel. We're gonna take the last couple minutes here and pray for them. I just wanna start by praying. Exodus 33, verse 11. So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp with a servant, Joshua, son of none, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle. So Lord, we just lift up the believers in the 1040 window, God, where it is so hard to follow you, so hard to worship you. And God, we pray that you would give them a Joshua spirit, Lord, that they would be so in love with you, so captivated by you, so on fire for you, Lord, that they would sit and stay in the place of meeting, that you would strengthen their secret place, that they would not depart, Lord, but that they would be fully captivated by the beauty of Jesus every morning when they open up their Bible, if they have a Bible. But God, whether it was through an encounter, through someone sharing the gospel, whatever it is, Lord, we pray that that they would be so in love with you that they would not depart from the place of meeting, Lord, that their secret place would be fruitful, that it would be a place of greater intimacy, where they would see and know the depths of Jesus, see and know the depths of your heart, where they would encounter your Holy Spirit and be strengthened, or where you would speak to them, where they would hear your affirmation, hear your love, that they would see the banner over them that is love. So God, in Jesus' name, I pray that they would be ones who choose to not depart, Lord, from the place of meeting, characteristics, a greater knowledge and a greater depth of Jesus. Would you encounter them? Would they hear your voice? Would they hear the voice of their Father? Shouting love over them, encourage, Lord, to continue to know their Savior, that they know their leader has the beginning and the end. We're just gonna end today, jumping back to Colossians, chapter one, verse 11, that these believers would be strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power for all patience and longsuffering with joy. God in a place, in places, Lord, where where longsuffering is as much more real than we know it here, would you strengthen them? Would you strengthen their spirit? Lord, according to your might, strengthen them in the inner man, or to have endurance, to suffer along with you, to suffer along to the hope, Lord, of your return, the hope that you will, that you are returning, and you will rule and reign. God, strengthen them in their inner man and give them joy. Lord, in dark places where they face persecution, where fear would wanna captivate their hearts, Lord, would you give them joy? A holy joy. A joy in believing, a joy in knowing, a joy in walking with you. So God, we just pray that in Jesus' name that you would strengthen them and give them joy. You are strength, fortress, a mighty fortress, Jesus, a fortress, Jesus, a fortress, Jesus, a refuge. A fortress, Jesus, would you believe the place that they run? This, would they run to you, not to things of the world? Their strength, would they run to their Father, run to their Savior, run to their God? In a fortress, in times of persecution, Lord, would you be their strength? Yes, Lord, we just lift them up to you and we ask that you would be their strength, be their fortress. By your Holy Spirit, would you strengthen them at the inner man? We pray all these things. Thank you for joining us for morning prayer. We'll be back here at noon today and 6.30 tonight. And if not, we'll see you back here in the morning at 8 a.m. Have a good day.