 Good morning, welcome from the downtown prayer room in Kalamazoo, the Radiant City Center and welcome to those that are in the room, to those that are joining and watching. We're gonna start this morning in Psalm 34. So Psalm I've just been in this season continually returning to in Psalm 34 verse 1, I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord that the humble hear and be glad. Oh magnify the Lord with me and let us exult his name together. If we can right now church that we would bless the Lord and that we would magnify the Lord and we would exult his name together. So we say we bless you Lord with your own mouth, your own lips, your own praise coming and flowing from you to the Lord that we would bless him at all times and that we would magnify him together. There's a unity among us that we magnify Jesus who sits on a real throne and we exult and we praise and we glorify Jesus today that you would be high and lifted up and all other things would be dethroned even now among us in our own city, in our own lives, in our families. We say Jesus Christ you are blessed, you are magnified and that praise will continually be in my mouth. There's a boasting in the Lord today. We boast in the Lord and we say mighty are you, strong are you, blessed are you. King of kings and Lord of lords you are above all, you're in all, everything's held in your hands, earth is your footstool. How mighty and strong and awesome is our God and that we would magnify and bless the Lord. Let us bless him. Let's just lift up our hands we bless you God. We magnify you, we boast in the Lord this morning. We make our boast in God today. We love you Jesus, we love you, we bless you, we honor you, we glorify you today in Jesus' name. It's a might letting off the rich man boasting his riches but let him who boasts, boasts in this that he understands and knows me that I am the Lord. This is steadfast love, justice and righteousness in the earth for in these things I delight, declares the Lord. So we boast in you today. We boast in your steadfast love, your righteousness and your justice and we ask Lord the self-sufficiency of our human default that we depend on ourselves God. We do not, we do not boast in our riches or our might or our strength. We boast in the Lord. We boast in his steadfast love, his righteousness and his justice and we say today that we boast in you, we boast and bless him. After us just as a father ran towards the prodigal son God we thank you for your unending merciful kind, slow to anger, gracious, steadfast love. We honor you father, we honor, we honor your love, we honor the way that you gave your son, we honor redemptive people because of your love that you've reconciled us back to yourself. We say thank you that that spirit of thanksgiving, it breaks that heavy yoke, that concern for ourselves and yet when we turn our eyes and our gaze and our focus, turn our face towards the Lord that we would be radiant, transformed in his presence. So we look to you today. We gaze on you today. We get the focus off of ourself and on to you and we remember your powerful love towards us. We're going to transition into a time of intercession. If you have your Bible I'd love for you to open into Revelation and we're gonna move through Revelation 2 and 3. This coming week Monday and Tuesday, Radiant Church is hosting a conference called Arise, Shine, Gathering, 1200 pastors and leaders from around the country and we're gonna pray for that but we're gonna pray for what it represents to the nation which is a repentant heart of the American church and there's been a prophetic word one more time God that a revival would break forth in our nation and in Revelation God is affirming and yet saying I have this one thing or these things against you and I want to pray and in partnership today serve and bless the Church of America that we would return to our first love that we would wake up and so we're gonna pray through and then even prophetically sing over the church and so would you join with me as we pray because in Revelation 2 to the Church of Ephesus Jesus says I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my namesake and you have not grown weary but I have this against you that you have abandoned the love you had at first remember therefore from where you have fallen repent and do the works you did at first God we pray right now for the church and America God we thank you that there has been an enduring and a bearing up for his namesake but God there has been a common thread where we have drifted away from our first love so we say and we repent God that we would return to you we say this over the entire church of America God that there would be a returning to what we first did we first loved you because of your love towards us so I ask Lord that over our church and over our churches and over our cities God we pray that there will be a returning and a remembering and a repentant heart and spirit and so we proclaim this and we ask Lord and we petition God help us help us God to return to you let us our churches and our lampstands be focused on our great first love which is Jesus and we thank you God that you called us you positioned us you have anointed us but we say that we don't find our trust in those things we find it in you we find our love in you let the centrality of our church let the worship come forth be one of love one of power one of might that we would worship in spirit and in truth God we ask Lord center our hearts your people and your churches and our lampstands on the first love of God in this hour and in this day the urgency of love and our churches in your name he who has an ear let him hear and this is a common message through each of these proclamations to the church and so we asked Lord right now he who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the church I asked Lord right now open up the ear of the church open up our ears in the name of Jesus that we would not hear our own voices we would not hear the voice of the accuser but we would hear the voice of the Lord in this day and in this hour God open up the ear of your church open up the ears of your senior pastors and senior shepherds God open up the ear of the sons and the daughters the saints in the church God we need our ears open to what the Spirit of the Lord is saying in this hour I asked Lord for a prophetic ear to hear what the Lord is saying attunes to your spirit not to the natural voices not to the voices and powers and principalities but to the voice of the Lord I pray God open up our ears we say this to the church we say it in a prophetic way God open up the ear of your church in the name of Jesus God you gave us two ears in one mouth I pray that we would wait on the Lord to hear what the Lord has to say in this hour and to our individual churches our regional church and the Church of America God we ask Lord that there would be a patient ability in the church to wait on the Lord and not first speak but to first listen that we find our strength in you by what we hear not by what we say God we ask Lord that we would first hear before we speak first hear before we prophesy first hear even before we pray God we want to be joined but so I ask Lord let our ears hear open up our ears let us hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying in this hour and in this time we've heard you say it before one more time God we want to continually hear what's on your heart for America God let our ears hear what the Spirit of the Lord is about to throw some of you in the prison that you may be tested for 10 days you will have tribulation be faithful unto death right now God we ask Lord for the church that senses the beginnings of persecution and accusation and God we ask Lord that they would not flee God that they would stay rooted and grounded and we rebuke fear in the name of Jesus and that we would suffer well as the church joining with you in unity God I ask Lord that there will be a faithful church even unto death God a faithful church in the face of fear and tribulation God give us endurance as the church build up the muscle of the church of endurance that we would be able to suffer well that we would rejoice in our suffering God that we're joining with you God the the endurance that you had through beatings and the cross God we know that you overcame by your blood and by your suffering and by the the scars in your hands and on your side but we see that you have risen you have ascended and that you're seated at the right hand of the father so we know in faith that we might endure to the very end even in the face of persecution affliction and death so God I say we will not fear the church of America will not fear we will stand in the face of persecution and accusation God build up your church in faithful endurance in this hour in the name of Jesus rest until you dwell here by your spirit revelation to verse 13 to the church in Pergamum I know where you dwell where Satan's throne is yet you hold fast my name and you did not deny my faith even in the even in these days verse 14 but I have a few a few things against you it's teaching I want to read out of Colossians 2 because there was false teaching engaging and infiltrating the church in Colossians 2 it says see to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy empty to see according to human tradition according to elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ God we see this in Revelation 2 this opportunity for false teaching to try and infiltrate the church but God we rebuke that and anyone that is being taken into captivity by philosophy and empty to see in human traditions and elemental spirits God we asked Lord that you would come against every one of those pursuits by the spirit of the age and by every power and principality that we're trying come against the church we asked Lord that your word your truth your power would move swiftly in the church and that there would be a spirit of repentance if there has been any abiding in a false teaching that has not come first from the word of God or by the spirit of God which you align the church in the name of Jesus according to your leadership and according to your word God anything that we try and cause a drifting away and anchoring away from the truth of God we asked Lord return and repent over the church of America over every senior pastor God we say those elemental spirits that have tried to deceive tried to accuse God we cut it off by the spirit and we say releasing truth faith and an anchoring in the tree of life and the word of God and Jesus you're the center God help us to abide in you let us not be deceived any longer gotta line us in a heart and in truth anchor us in your word in the name of Jesus in Revelation 3 says I know your works you have the reputation of being alive but you're dead verse to wake up church can we just stand today in agreement with this and we're gonna proclaim the reality that the church of America would wake up and what and strengthen what remains and is about to die but we asked Lord that in the sight of God that we would wake up the prophetic message for a rise shine conference comes from Isaiah 60 a rise shine for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you for behold darkness shall cover the earth and thick darkness the peoples but the Lord will arise upon you and his glory will be seen upon you and nations what shall come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising lift up your eyes all around and see they all gather together they come to you your son shall come from afar your daughter shall be carried on the hip then you shall see and be radiant your heart shall thrill and exalt God we asked Lord in this hour and in this day that the church of America would wake up we say in a prophetic covering and petition of heaven God wake up your church wake us up that arise and shine over our churches that the glory and the light of Jesus would be revealed and it would wake us up go the scales that have covered eyes the darkness that is trying to push them down the anxiety and the depression and it's even on pastors God we say that your glory would come in power and it would wake up your church in Jesus name so we say wake up church wake up the church of America wake up in the name of Jesus let your glory come in power and it's strength in the name of Jesus we join with you Jesus your great heart kindness your passion for us to return to you God we say you're our first love trust you and we love you to those of you that labored in intercession joining in today bless you in the name of Jesus continue to pray join with us even through revelation some of those churches that we didn't get to you can continue to pray through those bless you as you go today