 Good morning and welcome to Morning Prayer today. Those of you who are joining us from home, we're so glad you're starting off today. This is the first day actually last night of Seek and Send, which is a focus that we have here at Radiant. As we enter into this 10 day season or this week long season of prayer, preparing for our kids to go back to school and for us to step back into fall season. And an emphasis of just asking for the Lord to dwell in the midst of our families in our home, to put our emphasis on inviting Him, believe with all of my heart that God comes where He's wanted. And we are saying during Seek and Send, Lord, we want You, we want You to come. And so we had a great kickoff last night at the Richland location, a night of worship and prayer, consecration. And so we're leaning into that today and today for Seek and Send, our focus is on God's presence. So to begin that, just as we position our hearts here, Psalm 16, verse number seven. It's a Psalm of David that says, I bless the Lord who gives me counsel in the night also. My heart instructs me. I've set the Lord always before me because He is at my right hand. I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad in my whole being rejoices. My flesh also dwells secure. For You will not abandon my soul to shale or let Your Holy One seek corruption. And verse 11 says, You make known to me the path of life. This should be where we anchor our hearts, Lord, make known to us the path of life in Your presence is the fullness of joy and at Your right hand are pleasures evermore. And that's what we want in our homes. We want God leading and instructing us, showing us the path of life. We want to always set the Lord before us. He's our strength. He's at our right hand. And in return, the Lord says, in my presence, there's the fullness of joy. Everything that our heart delights in is found in His presence. So we're going to position ourselves this morning. Let's just do this wherever you're at, even at home. Maybe you've got your kids and I want to encourage you, get your altar boxes out that you picked up and open those up and get your kids engaged this morning. If they're around them, pull them on in and say, okay, it's time to open the box and pull the details out there and the things that are going to help your kids engage right now. And let's focus our hearts in on the presence of the Lord together as we build an altar in our homes and we invite the Lord's presence right into our living rooms, right into our basements, out in our backyard, on our deck, wherever we're at today with our family, as we seek the presence of the Lord together. Father, today, right at the beginning of Seek Consent, we're asking for your presence to flood our homes, for your presence to come and to fill our living rooms and our families and a minister to our kids and every mom and every dad and every grandparent today, that our families would be marked by your presence because in your presence is the fullness of joy. And I'm praying that today, instead of there being fear and anxiety in our homes, instead of there being chaos and questions, division, Lord, that there would be unity, there would be order because your presence and your joy and your peace flood our homes. And we know, Lord, that we welcome your presence as we worship you. We come into your courts, thanksgiving and into your, through your gates with thanksgiving and into your courts with praise today. So, Lord, as we open our mouths altogether, moms, dads, children, singing and worshiping you from our living rooms, from our homes, Lord, let your presence come and let your joy come and just flood and wash over us today. We give you praise. We bless you, Jesus. I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise will continually be on my mind. Right where you're at, let's just say, Jesus, we welcome you into our homes. Come Holy Spirit, mark us with your presence and with your joy. We welcome you into this moment. We welcome you into this room. We welcome you into our homes and into our family today. The one that Jesus said would come as a helper. We recognize our deep, deep need for you and for your help, for your leadership, for your guidance, for your strength, for wisdom, for knowledge, for power. We need the Holy Spirit, the fire, the baptism, a fire that comes and purifies our hearts, burns away all the wheat, all the chaff, all the weeds that have grown up in our hearts and in our families, our households and our thoughts. Jesus, you said that you would send the Holy Spirit who would baptize us with fire. It's a purifying fire. Lord, we want to have hearts pure before you. So we say purify our hearts today. Come Holy Spirit, and in the places where we become dull, in the places where we become distracted and indifferent, apathetic, compromised, let the fire of your presence come and consume all of that away and leave the pure gold of your presence, the pure gold of a faith, refine, purify our hearts Holy Spirit and take the place of whatever idols we've allowed to take center stage in our lives. We want nothing more than your presence to have the first place in our lives and in our families. And I want to encourage those who are at home and here in the room as well if you're the head of your household, mom, dad, grandparents, whoever. I want you to right now just establish right from the beginning in this moment. Just say it verbally, just say Holy Spirit, you are welcome here. Lord Jesus, you are welcome here. Father, you are welcome here. This home, this family belongs to you. You say it because your authority as the head of your household opens the door to the leadership of the Holy Spirit and it slams the door on any other leadership, any other voices. You have that authority because you're the head. So even moms, you're a single mom and you just start, you're just like, well, I feel I'm in this all by myself. No, you're not. Jesus is the head of your household and your authority as a mom, you just, you speak it and say Holy Spirit, come, you have complete authority as we welcome his presence. He comes. Dads, if you're at home or you're watching this even later on, I want you to say it. Don't, don't let somebody else say it. You dads say Holy Spirit, you and you alone are the leader of this home. This home belongs to you. This home is an altar. It's an altar for the fire of the presence of God to burn on and for no other fire, no strange fire to burn in our household, no strange fire of the spirit of this age, of compromise, of sexual impurity, of substance abuse, no strange fire of the demonic, no strange fire of compromise will have authority in my home. This home is an altar for the fire of the Lord alone to burn upon. I want you to take the next 30 seconds and I want you to just declare that and pray that over your homes and over your family right now. This house, this family is an altar to the Lord. Exodus chapter 33, Moses is leading the children of Israel out in verse number 15. He says to the Lord, if your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not your presence going with us that makes us distinct, I and your people from every other people on the face of the earth? Lord, today we are resonating with the prayer that Moses prayed. We say your presence is what marks us. Lord, your presence is what distinguishes us from all the other people and all the other families on the face of the earth. We are declaring the presence, the priority of your presence in our homes and upon our families and in our church. Lord, that we want your presence more than anything else. Your presence is our priority. More than wealth, more than pleasure, more than any other things that would compete with you, Jesus. Jesus, you are Lord of our homes and your presence is the most important thing. So we say we don't want to take a step in any direction that would cause us to step away from your presence. Lord, here we are, the first day of seeking sense, seven days where we're consecrating ourself before you and we're starting it by saying, God, more than anything, we want your presence. More than anything, we want our family to be marked by your presence. We want our neighbors to look at our home and look at our family and say there's something distinct and different about them. When we go to work, when we go to school, we want your presence to be upon every member of our family and the only way that that happens is when we make it our priority. We say no to everything else so that we can say yes to you, Jesus. We say we want your presence. We want your presence in our homes, on our families, in our children's lives, in our teenager's lives, in our marriage. Single. Here we are. We might even be single. We don't even have a family that we're building yet, but Lord, we're prophesying into the future. I want you to make me a carrier of your presence so that someday when I am married and I do have children, Lord, that there's going to be a marked presence of the Lord in our household because I carry that. Lord, I'm praying for every divorced person who feels at times the shame of what they've gone through. We say that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, but your presence draws near to us as we draw near to you. So in every single parent household, Lord, in every single person's household where maybe they're not even living with their children and they've got joint custody, Lord, I'm praying that their prayers at this moment would transfer to where their children are no matter what environment they're in, but Lord, your presence finds us wherever we are when we make your presence our priority. So wherever you're at right now, just say, Lord, more than anything, we want your presence. Come Holy Spirit. We're in today, Lord, no matter their age and our households, we're praying that during this seven days of seeking sin, Lord, building on camp and building on junior high camp, Lord, that our homes would be flooded with your presence going after the heart of our kids. And we're praying for a stirring in their hearts and a marking of their lives to go hard after you from the earliest moments of their life, not to wait until the world's had their way with them, not to wait until there's been some crisis or there's been some dry season of their life where they've wandered in the wilderness of the world. We're praying, Lord, that just like Samuel from the very beginning of his life was marked out, consecrated, holy unto you, that he grew in his knowledge of the voice of the Lord. Father, would you stir a heart in our children to know you from an early age that your presence would be native to them, that your presence would be the native atmosphere and environment, that they don't immigrate into the presence and have to relearn it, but they know it from their childhood. They know the voice of the Lord, they know the word of the Lord, they know the house of the Lord. We're praying, Lord, that you would mark them, mark them now, Lord, that they would have dreams and visions from you. You said that you would pour your spirit out in the last days, even upon our children. We're praying, Lord, for the power of the Holy Spirit, supernatural signs and wonders encounters with you and a supernatural hunger and a thirst for you. Lord, to mark them out, Lord, that happens when your heart goes after them. They respond by coming after you. Lord, raise up a new breed of young people that even while the spirit of this age and every demonic force and the legions of hell have targeted our children in this generation, God, whenever the enemy comes in like a flood, we can know that you're about to raise up a standard against them. And we pray, Lord, raise up an army of children in this generation who are not susceptible to the deceptions of this age, but they know their God and they do great exploits, even from their childhood, that they prophesy, that they make, they're discerning, they're baptized in the Holy Spirit. They lay hands on the sick and they recover bold evangelists that are raised up in elementary school to offer hope and salvation to their friends, that they're not intimidated, that they're not being conformed to the ideology of this age. When they see rainbows, they don't see some demonic lie. They see the promise of God's covenant. Lord, raise worshipers up that know the Lord from their childhood. Raise them up in this house, in our families, in this generation, we pray. Take the next few moments and go back into just the time of worship before the Lord interceded. Now I want us to soak that seeds of those prayers that have been put into the soil of prayer. And I want us to just water it with worship again. So all over the room, let's just lift up our hands. If you're at home, let's just lift up our hands in the presence of the Lord. And we just say out loud, Jesus, we praise you, your Lord of all. I want you to just express to him out of your own heart, just worship. Begin to exalt the name of the Lord. The devil hates it when you praise. The devil hates it when you begin to exalt the name of Jesus because he flees at that name. But now if we just begin to exalt his name, Jesus, we exalt you. Let's just continue to sing in the name of Jesus right now. In the face of accusation, in the face of fear, in the face of shame, of brokenness, let's speak and sing the name of Jesus. Jesus. Over our circumstance, over our fear, over accusation, we declare the name of Jesus, our Lord and our Savior. Even right now in your, where we are at in the prayer room or in your homes, speaking to speak the name of Jesus, speak it out loud. In your name, there's joy in your name. Jesus, shame cannot stand, fear cannot stand, deception cannot stand. Matthew 18 verse 20, it says, for where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them. So here we are in this prayer room and in our homes. We are gathered together as a family, as literal families and as a family of God. We are gathered together speaking your name, speaking the name of Jesus. And you promise that your presence would be among us as we declare the name of Jesus, as we gather in your name, for your name and in your name, you will be here among us. Your presence of joy, of power, of breakthrough, salvation and deliverance would be among us. So right now I pray for our homes. I pray for our homes. Fathers and mothers in the homes where maybe fear or shame or their own brokenness has made them feel shut up that they cannot pray or worship in their homes because they feel their own lack or they feel accusation telling them they're not good enough that they don't know how to do it, that it's not going to work. And we ask right now for that to be broken in the name of Jesus. And just the simplicity of saying the name of Jesus out loud would begin to shift the atmosphere right now in homes. That fathers and mothers would rise up, that children would gather around and the name of Jesus would be the center of the home, that prayer would begin to rise up, that worship would begin to rise up, thankfulness would begin to rise up, offerings of praise, thanksgiving would begin to rise up. We ask for values, we ask for rhythms, we ask for health to become the center, the offering of the home. And God, right now would you begin to reveal anything that is standing in the way? We ask for the eyes and their hearts and their ears to be opened to your word of false gods and altars that have stood inside the homes, altars of money, of pride, of their own achievement and dreams and success or whatever culture has tried to bring into the home. We ask that those false altars would begin to be revealed right now and that you would give fathers and mothers grace to tear them down and in unity gather together around the altar of our God and Savior Jesus and that your name would be glorified in praise knowing that there is a promise of the infilling and indwelling of the presence of Jesus. So God, right now in your name we ask for unity and grace in Jesus' name. There's power in your name. We gather together fathers and mothers, children gathered around the home. It's worth it. We ask for unity. The name of Jesus is broken, broken in the name of Jesus. Artists would flee, would rush in. This home belongs to the Lord. Home is anointed for Jesus. Yes, we pray for grace for fathers and mothers and children of any age to have the strength and the grace to tear down altars in the home to other gods to other things and that the name of Jesus would be glorified. So God, right now I ask for grace and wisdom. The eyes would be open that as you begin to speak truth in the homes that fathers and mothers and children begin to see things that are standing in the way of love things that are standing in the way of experiencing the fullness of your presence things that are our clouding vision things that are causing scales over the eyes things that are causing a hardness or a dullness of the heart and we ask for those things in your kindness to be revealed and that strength would be given to them to tear those things down and to say yes to the altar in the home in Jesus' name. Yes, every home and altar feel and bring grace. We transition to our 9 a.m devotional sets. I want to thank you for joining us for this hour interceding for our homes and for God's presence. We'll be here Monday through Saturday this week for Seek and Sin morning noon and night gathering together daily focuses praying for the families and the homes in our city. So if you have not been able to receive an altar box that you can come downtown here the Radiant City Center and pick one up you can go to our website as well if you're unable to come to one of our locations and you can get some digital resources there to continue to engage with us every day this week as we contend for the homes and our families during this time. Thank you and God bless.