 Good morning church, happy Monday morning. Welcome everybody in the room to Monday morning prayer and everybody joining online. I think my grandmother in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is streaming in. So good morning, grandmother. Good to have you with us this morning. But just excited to dig into prayer, really start this week off in prayer just leaning into the presence of God. It's an amazing, amazing way to just even start every day. But after a good weekend, restful weekend, time to just get back into it. So I'm going to be in Psalm 107 today. Just feel a lot of expectancy for this time of worship and leaning into the presence of God and really seeking his face, but reflecting also on what God has done for us through the cross, through his grace and the works of just who he is. And so Psalm 107, I'm going to start there right now and we'll get into worship and then the second half will pray through Psalm 107. It says this, it says, Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. So God right now, we just even look to you, Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. God, as the redeemed of who you are, God, you are the redeemer, Jesus. And we thank you for that. We lean in right now to that. God, we pause and reflect on you being the redeemer, Jesus, the one who came to save us from our own brokenness, from our own sin and shame. God, we don't want to rush into anything into this week without pausing and reflecting on who you are as God the Father, as the redeemer, as our savior, as our hope, as our joy. God, as the redeemed, Jesus, we want to say so, we want to proclaim it, we want to worship it. God, we want to worship out of thankful hearts this morning and throughout this week. God, we want to lean in. Lord, we want to fix our eyes on you. We don't want to do anything without you being with us. God, we don't want to say anything without your presence accompanying it, Jesus. We want to lean in to your presence right now. Just this morning, just reflect on that, the redeemed who we are, the truth and the reality of the world that we get to live in where there's hope, there's joy, there is freedom from captivity. There is chains that are broken. There is a darkness that we once were living in, but now we've stepped into the light. We are children of the light. We have the truth. We have the hope. We are the redeemed of the Lord. So we say so this morning. We proclaim it this morning. We worship it this morning. God, we fix our eyes on you. We lift our gaze to the heavens. We reflect on the cross. Holy spirit, would your presence come in? Everywhere that's tuning in to this room, God, that your presence would begin, just the gentleness, the peace of your presence. Come and surround us, God, that as we are leaning in and fixing our eyes on you, Jesus, there is a kingdom mindset that's coming over us. Any anxieties, any darkness, any weight, God, they're being lifted right now. As we lean in, as we put our attention on you, God, you are the priority this morning. You are our hope. You are our strength on this Monday morning. Holy spirit, would your presence come? Fill this room. Fill every room. Fill every room with the sound of my voice with your presence, God. There would just be an overwhelming sense of grace, of redemption, the freedom from our own sin and shame, God, would it overwhelm us this morning? Would our hearts beat faster this morning? Would there be a physical manifestation of the reality of us being redeemed of the Lord, God, where we want to shout it from the rooftops? We want to sing louder than we normally do. God, we want to pray harder. We want to open up scripture and find more about you. We want to learn about you. We want to lean in to your presence. We want to lean in to your face, God. We asked for revelation this morning. God, we asked for more of you this morning. God, I ask that as we worship, as we lean into your presence, God, we would feel you. We would find you. God, we're seeking you with everything we have this morning. So Holy spirit, come and do a work in us this morning. Come, reveal yourself to us this morning. Love you, God. Let's worship an idea that like a revelation, just praying that over, everybody tuning in this morning and in the room, just there be a revelation of redemption, what it means to be in this position of being redeemed, being saved, being called out of the darkness into this light. You see, there's a great transformation that we've been singing about that maybe you've been catching onto of broken bones becoming new again. Shackles shattering and being enslaved into being free and walking out of the darkness and into the light. And maybe your situation is depression that needs to be redeemed into joy or anxiety, redeemed into peace or poor, needs to be redeemed into rich or whatever it is in your life right now. I think there's any part of it that has been brought out of darkness into light. We have so much to be thankful for, so much to be grateful for as children of God who as you're tuning in, you understand, you have the desire to seek the Lord. And there's a redemption aspect there where you're here because you wanna be here. You're here because you know that God is our savior. God is our redeemer. God is the one who pulls us out of the muck and admire of our sin and it brings us into His glorious light. As we've been reading Psalm 107 and I've been reflecting in it, I just, some of you, I wanna take a moment to pause and in our own life just ask the Lord to continue to give us revelation of redemption and this idea of this divine freedom, this divine transformation that takes place from our earthly self into the creation that God originally created us to be and being transformed into the same image of God as His children, as His sons and His daughter and even Psalm 107, verse four, it says, some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in. They were hungry and thirsty. Their soul fainted within them. Maybe you feel like that this morning. There's just a longing, just a hunger, just something, there's something more that you're desiring, you're craving, you're seeking, you're wandering, you're longing for the Lord. And verse six, it says, and then they cried to the Lord in their trouble and He delivered them from their distress. They were in trouble, they're crying, they're longing and He delivered them, right? Redemption, He delivered them from their distress. Verse seven, He led them by a straight way until they reached a city to dwell in. They found that home, they found the city that they were longing for. Verse eight, let them thank the Lord for His steadfast love, for His wondrous works to the children of man, for He satisfies the longing soul and the hungry soul, He fills with good things. I wanna take a moment and if you're right now, if you have a longing, if you have a wandering, if you have a brokenness, if you have a darkness, if you have a hurt, a pain, a weakness, anything, I want to seek the Lord. It says they cried out to the Lord in their trouble. I wanna take a moment and just cry out to the Lord. This is a moment to get real with God. This is a moment to cry out to God and ask the Lord for revelation, ask the Lord to reveal Himself for the Holy Spirit to come and break forth, to break down the barriers to the walls that have maybe kept you from seeking the Lord or feeling His presence or sometimes I even pray, God, give me the desire to desire you because I don't feel it and that's okay. Cry out to God in the distress. Cry out to God in this longing. We're talking about the redeemer. We're talking about the one who has already done it. He has torn the veil. He has broken the bondage of sin and shame on our life. We need to cry out to God from that place of longing, that place of desiring more of Him. So God, right now, Jesus, we cry out to you. Come and meet us where we are. As the woman who was caught in adultery is thrown at your feet. You didn't even say, hey, come meet me in this house. We need to talk about this. You met her right where she was at. In the dirt, in that moment, you stooped down. You spoke truth, you spoke life. So right now, God, would you meet us where we're at? In this pain, in this darkness, in this longing for more of you, even if it's a hunger for more of the presence of God, would you fulfill that hunger? God, we ask for revelation of who you are. Would you fulfill that hunger? God, satisfy this craving for more of your presence. We are not satisfied with where we've been. God, we want more of you. We are desiring more of you. We are seeking more of you. Jeremiah says, seek me and you will find me when you seek me with all your heart. God, right now, God, we rend our hearts before you. We go all in with everything we know how to do. Jesus, we're longing for more of you. We're asking for revelation. We're asking God for your presence to engulf us. Jesus, like a blanket that would cover us from head to toe. God, we're longing for your voice. We're opening our ears. We're opening our hearts. We're recognizing that it's been our own sin, our own shame, our own walls that we've put up, our own insecurities that we've built up around us that have caused us to resist you. But God, we let that down. We lay those aside. God, we throw any insecurity at your feet. God, we step out of our sin and our shame, Jesus, and we come humbly before you. At your feet kneeling at the cross. God, just desiring more of you in our distress. God, we're longing for you. So Holy Spirit, would you come reveal yourself right now? Would you come move in our life right now? God, we're longing for a touch of heaven in Jesus' name. God, we're crying out for more right now in this satisfaction. Things of this world to fill these desires in our hearts. God, we look to you. God, you are our source of satisfaction. Psalm 107, verse eight, it says, let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man, for he satisfies the longing soul and the hungry soul he fills with good things. God, we thank you right now. God, that you do fulfill your promises. God, that you do show up and show out. God, you are a man of your word. God, you come to fill the longing in our heart. We thank you, Jesus, that even in these dark times, in these moments of our life that we feel, it may be all over. We feel that there's no way out. We feel the darkness engulfing us and surrounding us. You have never left us and you have never forsaken us. God, we thank you for your steadfast love and your steadfast faithfulness that is consistent, no matter how we feel, no matter what we're going through, how frustrated we are with life, how upset we are with you, how far gone we might be in our own head. God, you are faithful to the end. God, you are faithful with your promises. You are steadfast. God, in a world of chaos and ups and downs and roller coaster rides, God, you are steadfast. God, you are the anchor to our souls. You are the anchor to our emotions. You're the anchor to our thoughts. You're the anchor. God, we can rely on you. We can be fulfilled and satisfied by you, Jesus. We are so thankful that you are our source. We're thankful, Jesus, that you've never left us. You've always been with us. Holy Spirit, your presence has been there to help us and guide us and lead us. You are the light to our path. God, you provide the way. You provide a way out. God, and you reveal to us the next step. God, you give us hope and peace in this ever-changing life, God. And we are so thankful for your steadfast love and the wondrous works you've done in our life. Just pray right now for everybody in the room and watching online, just a thankfulness to rise up within you. Prayer can reveal to us kind of the reality that we're in, but pray and be thankful to God right now. I pray for a thankfulness to rise up out of our hearts that truly, no matter what you've been through, what you're going through, we serve a good God. We serve a good Father who is faithful to the end. He is steadfast in his love. And so we are thankful, Lord. Holy Spirit, we're thankful. God, we magnify you with our thanksgiving. God, may you become the biggest thing in our perspective. God, the center of our attention, just from our thankfulness alone. May our hearts swell with thanksgiving today. Jesus, on this Monday morning with thankfulness, God, would we find ourself being thankful even for the small things and the big things, God, in life. God, we are thankful for who you are and how you've been and your steadfast love in our life over the ages in Jesus' name. We shift our perspective a little bit as we continue to read Psalm 107 and verse 10. I wanna pray for those who we know are in darkness. Pray for those who may be close to us, some family members, some friends, those who we know need a little bit of touch from the Lord. And so I just wanna pray for this revelation of redemption in them. They go from darkness to light. Pray for the salvation of their soul. Verse 10, it says, some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons, for they had rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the most high. So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor. They fell down with none to help. But verse 13, then they cried to the Lord and he delivered them from their distress. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and burst their bonds apart. Let them thank the Lord for this steadfast love and his wondrous works to the children of men. God, we pray right now for those that we know in darkness. If you're praying right now and you have someone pray their name out loud, let the enemy hear you praying their name out loud. God, we pray for those who are walking in darkness right now. Jesus, those in the city of Kalamazoo, those in the state of Michigan, God, those in our workplaces, those in our families, God, our friends, the schools we attend, Jesus. God, we pray for the salvation of those who are walking in darkness, who are wandering in the desert, who are searching for satisfaction in the things of this world. God, we pray, Jesus, for the redemption of their souls. God, that you would pay back, God, you would reclaim, God, and win back their hearts, Jesus, that their hearts would be revealed to you, God, in a moment of revelation of your presence, revelation of the cross. God, that there would be a humbling aspect, God, to their heart, God, a pride would be laid down and they would come to know you, Jesus. We are praying, Lord, that the bondage that they're in, the shackles that they're tied to, Jesus, they would be shattered in an instant, God, the addictions that they're tied to, the things that they have found, some hope and some maybe life in this world, God, we break the chains of bondage over their life in the name of Jesus Christ. Satan, you have no authority over these souls in the name of Jesus, so we demand you to go in the name of Jesus Christ. And we ask for salvation to come forth. We ask for light to break forth, even pierce the darkest of hearts right now in the name of Jesus Christ. Holy Spirit, we ask, we intercede on behalf of them, Jesus. We wanna bridge heaven and earth, God, we wanna bring heaven down to earth in their life right now, God. We are crying out to God on behalf of those who do not know you, God. And we ask that you would deliver them from their trouble. We ask, God, that there would be a moment of despair where they have nowhere else to go. God, maybe they do hit rock bottom and the only way out is up. God, we pray for the salvation of these souls. God, we ask, Jesus, from darkness to light, from bondage to freedom, from broken to healed in the name of Jesus Christ. Redemption over their lives in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Those who are in the room, just a refreshing over you, continuing on in Psalm 107 in verse 35. It says, he turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water. And there he lets the hungry dwell and they establish a city to live in. They sow fields and plant vineyards and get a fruitful yield. By his blessing, they multiply greatly and he does not let their livestock diminish. God, I pray for everybody right now at the sound of my voice. God, that their deserts would be streams of living water. Holy Spirit, that your presence would wash over them. Lord, like a fresh stream of water or refreshing to their soul. God, would there be a breath of fresh air in their lungs? A heavenly air that would fill their lungs of peace, of comfort, of satisfaction in you. God, that his hungry longing souls are searching far and wide for fulfillment. God, that they would find it in you. God, we are people of heaven, citizens of heaven, God. And I pray right now, Jesus, for that peace to come over us that no matter what this world throws at us, no matter what life comes our way, Jesus, we are your sons. We are your daughters. God, we get to dwell in the house of the Almighty. God, I pray refreshing over souls this morning that the redemption of the cross would fill us with peace and joy. God, that we leave different than how we came in. God, that we go forth throughout this week different than even what we thought we were going to because we've met you, we've found you. God, we've sought you out. May your presence go with us. May your presence go before us. God, a refreshing would fill us right now. If you've been just in a moment or a season of being burned out a lot or just feeling weak, maybe emotionally tired, you've been pushing yourself really hard. You've been going really fast. Just pause right now in this moment. Deep breath in the presence of God. Allow the Holy Spirit to speak truth and life over you. May the presence of God fill you up. Find peace in this moment as you're going forth. A new name, new life, a new energy, a new mission, fresh perspective, a new strength to walk through what you're walking through. To go and do what you're gonna go do is presence satisfy the longing in your soul. May you truly find rest in these moments. May you truly find the thing that your heart is longing for. As the redeemed of the Lord, let us say so. Let us go and say so, be your hands and feet. God, we love you, we praise you. In Jesus' name, amen. Thank you guys for joining us this morning. Thanks for digging in, praying, worshiping. Thanks for joining online. Super grateful. We have this opportunity to get to do this. Just pray you be refreshed. Go and be Jesus to those around you. We love you guys. See you soon.