 very short Psalm only two verses directing our hearts upward Psalm 134 verse 1 come bless the Lord all you servants of the Lord who stand by night in the house of the Lord and lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord. Ah yes in verse 3 may the Lord bless you from Zion he who made heaven and earth. Come and bless the Lord all you servants of the Lord who stand by night in the house of the Lord and lift up hands to the holy place and bless the Lord. Now I want to invite you wherever you're at this morning those of you in the room I invite you to stand and let's just lift our hands to the Lord this morning. Lord as we come before you Lord there's gratitude in our hearts that there's a place this prayer room downtown Kalamazoo where we can come on this Friday morning and just find you in a new way or we can carry your prayers forward or we can host your presence come or we can commune with the living God. Lord thank you that you have carved out for yourself a place where you love to come and to dwell in the heart of a city that needs you in the heart of a community and a county that needs you God you have drawn a people of prayer to yourself. We lift up our hands to you the holy God and we bless you this morning. We say worthy is your name Jesus. Thee is your name to be on every tongue and in every heart. Here in Kalamazoo worthy is your name to be exalted in the city. Thee is your name to be spoken in every home in every workplace today. Your name is exalted above every name. Lift our hands to this name to you Jesus this morning. Holy one worthy one exalted God. Your wondrous glory is beyond compare Lord who can search out who can know at the depths of your love and your goodness and your worth and your infinite value God. We declare worthy each of you just in your own words just tell him that he's worthy even as we're lifting up our holy hands to him worthy Jesus worthy to be praised and adored. Thee from every tribe and tongue to receive glory from every corner of the earth right here in Kalamazoo you're worthy God a precious you are to us Jesus. Your name is like honey on our lips so precious so sweet Jesus we just lift up your name just let his name be in your heart and on your lips right now Jesus we just lift up your name Jesus Jesus. Again without without it there's no insist yeah Jesus we look at you we turn the gaze of our heart toward you we say you are the only one who is worthy oh the precious Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world you are worthy to receive the reward of your suffering you are worthy the blood that you shed on the cross cries out the worthiness of the Lamb the worthiness of the Son of God the Son of man the worthiness of Jesus Christ exalted overall we turn the gaze of our heart towards you Jesus we say you are worthy just one glimpse at the throne room just one glimpse of you Jesus in our heart replies worthy worthy worthy peals of thunder in heaven worthy worthy worthy when eyes are fixed on you hearts reply worthy there's no other thing to say going with heaven and we join with those who have gone before us in the faith well let's just lift up this song say Jesus to him right now every heart as you gaze him as you grab a glimpse of his glory let your heart just respond and let your song flow as we worship him for worshipers that are in both spirit that's where we are with him even today even right now there's every eye on him all all of the things all of that you're to-do list everything that we have coming today this weekend this next week the struggles the pain the joy of the celebration even in the middle of it all Jesus we just pause right now to say worthy worthy Jesus worthy Jesus worthy God you alone you alone are set apart you alone are worshiped for all eternity though one day every eye will see one day every heart will know that there's only one God there's only one who is worthy even though today many other gods are worshiped and many false gods and many idols of our culture false religions are worshiped yet one day all of that will be swallowed up shown for the lie that it is and Lord only you will remain Jesus only you will remain worthy one so we invite you now God to bring revelation to hearts and right now we're just gonna move into intercession from this place of exalting him we're gonna move now into intercession for the city for Kalamazoo for the homes for the schools even as we've been gazing on him I feel this jealousy in the heart of God that he wants to be the focal point of Kalamazoo and he wants to be the focal point of the worship here in this area so God this morning we just lean in to what you want what's on your heart Lord the revelation of Jesus Christ in this city Lord we just lift up our voice right now and Lord we ask Lord that you would bring a revelation of Jesus Christ to the loss in the city Lord we ask that scales would fall from eyes Lord that even as the God of this age has blinded the hearts of many unbelievers God we're asking you to pierce and to open the eyes of hearts with the light of the gospel of truth even today Lord would you let the gospel shine in the hearts of men in this city where darkness has had a stronghold God we're asking you by the wind of your spirit to blow away the strongholds the dark clouds of strongholds and God to to shine the light of heaven on this city Lord we're once many were afar off Lord we see a time prophetically we see a time where many are drawing near washed by the blood of Jesus because there's been an outpouring there's been an opening of the eyes of hearts all throughout the city in this county Lord we know we've tasted it earth this year Lord we know we have tasted the spring rain we know we've seen many come to you friends even this year or 500 people have made a decision to follow Jesus just just the ones that we know in our weekend and service expressions and that's just one church among many here in this county he's doing something special he's doing something unique he's pouring out his spirit but he has more in mind there's more that he sees there's more hearts that he sees there's more sons and daughters there's more prodigals there's more that have never even heard his name and he sees them right now but we just invite you to walk every street in Kalamazoo County those of you who are joining us you just pray for your city right now wherever you're at Lord we ask you to walk through every street in our city in our county and begin to call people by name draw them by name glimpse of your glory will they not also reply worthy hearts to see you will they not also say God you are worthy Lord we ask you to walk these streets God and just supernaturally begin to open the eyes of the hearts of the unbeliever that have ridiculed you church and against other believers but I'm asking you to drop the scales from eyes we're asking you to supernaturally release the heat of your presence upon the cold heart break chains that are holding people away from the gospel of truth light to Kalamazoo of every workplace Lord everywhere that you walk and let the let their eyes be open to see you are the way and the truth and the life and there is no other way to heaven except through you said you're lying and call their names would you shed your light and call their names streets of Kalamazoo would you shed your light and call their names so they what would you shed your light and call their names so they lift up also are the various universities here God dials low we just lift them up to Learn of all the reasons that young adults would gather for sporting events or for social activities, for any number of religious gatherings, even as you did in the Jesus movement when you just drew people together with hunger for you, with hunger for truth, learn from every walk of life Lord, all that were hungry, all that were reaching for things in the world that were leaving them empty, and Lord you drew those hearts to you and you began to do many wonders and signs in their midst and Lord you showed them who you were and you let the scales drop from their eyes and Lord we're asking you to do this again, we're asking for the pain of a generation to lead them to the foot of the cross, we're asking for what is right now brought on the epidemics of a generation, lead to the answer and the solution that their hearts are actually seeking, Father we see auditoriums filled where you are the center stage, where nothing else is going on but where young adults have filled every seat because they're hungry for truth, God we see auditoriums and stadiums even filled with hungry people who have become aware that there is a living God, that Jesus is not just a folk tale but that you are real and you are a person and you came and you lived and you died and you paid the sacrifice and the penalty for their sins and now they can have entrance into the fullness of life and their life can make sense in light of your presence, Lord even now that hunger is stirring in this generation, they've turned to so many different things but yet Lord we know that many will also turn to you and Lord we pray, we intercede right now God that you would turn many hearts to you from this current generation of young adults of college students Lord, before their time before they graduate Lord that there would be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on their campuses, God that there would be auditoriums filled with your presence with hungry people seeking you, Lord that there would over flow in our churches and in our special meetings, God that hunger would be released in a generation, hunger for truth and God you would answer the cry of hunger with revelation of Jesus Christ, your name right now in Kalamazoo and in our college campuses, lift up your name and draw all man to you Jesus, this generation to you Lord that the gaze of their attention be fixed on the one true living God and draw them even now God by your spirit, invite those of you who are in the room to participate in this thing called rapid fire where you just come and pray 15, 20, 30 seconds maybe for a loss that you know for a school that you that God's highlight into your heart for the prodigal for something that God's highlight into you I'm going to ask you to just come line up here along the wall we're just going to release burst of prayer and even as we were praying today that God's calling names he's opening the eyes of people's hearts that this is a time for all of us to be active in the room to release our prayers to let prophetic imagination produce even prayers for what Jesus wants to do in our neighborhoods in our schools in our society right now especially here in Kalamazoo County so let's have several of you just line up here dear God I ask for your Holy Spirit to come in right now and just the Ukrainian people what's going on in the Ukrainian crisis yesterday was a year ago that it started and my heart is heavy with for the people and souls and Ukraine and everywhere around the world but especially Ukraine Lord I ask that your Holy Spirit start moving amazing ways and let that war end and just be with those people and let them know you love them Lord again praying for Gen Z increase hunger oh Lord across this city that hearts might turn that hearts might burn for you oh Lord thank you God for 500 salvation's God we pray for thousands more to enter your kingdom in Jesus name Lord I just pray for my co-workers I pray for Esther I pray for Rufiya I pray for Muhammad Lord I just pray for Esther as her husband is Muslim and her her sister was killed by Muslim extremists Lord I pray for Rufiya who is a Muslim and Muhammad who are Muslim God Lord I pray that you would just break in break through open their eyes to the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ Father God I just pray for your protection over the schools in Kalamazoo especially Gull Lake in Kalamazoo Christian where grandchildren attend please give your protection and your presence to these kids who are presented with so much distraction and I just ask Lord that you would show them that you are the way and that they would be in your word and spread the word to their friends Lord I just pray as this new justice system is being built a new beginning for righteousness that the gates of hell will not prevail that this city will be a city of righteousness and ruling that will affect the lives of those in our community like the homeless and they will be freed they will be freed to be who they are in their destiny to that they will rise up in Jesus name Lord I pray for intercessors right now mothers who are praying for for sons and and prodigals to come home Lord and that that as they cry out even from their prayer closets Lord that that you would release new hope Lord new bravery to leave to leave their their offering Lord to leave their ask for you Lord that we wouldn't be praying rock bottom prayers Lord the prayers like oh let them just meet their lowest their end Lord that we wouldn't curse them with our words but that we would speak new life into their situation new life into this into the lives of our sons and our daughters Lord the lives of this generation Lord I pray that you would release new hunger Lord and that it would start from that secret place from the heart of the intercessors we partner with who you are and how you feel Lord that you would release new prophetic understanding Lord that you long for the loss to come home that you long for the broken hearts to be mended Lord I pray for prophetic revelation I pray for the people of the world as this instability is happening in our our country and in the world around us we pray that as the dark comes to light that that will be an eye-opener for the world for them to see you Lord and we pray that they'll see your eyes and see that we need you in our lives Lord we're asking for a huge revival not only in the United States but in the entire earth and Lord we know that you say more times than any time in the Bible to fear not and we pray that you you comfort the people as we're going through this unstable time in our world and that we don't fear but look to you and ultimately Lord we want you to open the eyes of the people of the world to come to you we're praying for revival we're expecting revival and please use us to be part of that Lord Jesus's name I want to just remember those who even perhaps you're watching here today or perhaps you're in the room and just some are experiencing loss grief loss of loved ones right now and I just want to remember those who are in a moment of grief that the God of all comfort would be with you that you would sense the nearness of his presence as you walk through saying goodbye and the pain of losing someone that you love so we're just going to close by just praying the peace of God Lord we just thank you for your peace for all of those who today are mourning God for all of those who today are remembering even a loss of a year ago or two years ago or three or many years ago yet Lord in the light of eternity we know we're going to see our loved ones again but would you just extend God your presence and your comfort to be with those who today are mourning who today are in the throes of grief Lord would your presence be right in the middle of the pain of God we thank you Holy Spirit you are a god of comfort and you comfort all of those who mourn so God we just ask for your peace right now transcending understanding and just walking with every family and every loved one we thank you God we commit them to you in the name of Jesus and all God's people said amen well thanks so much for praying with us right here from the heart of Kalamazoo God hears every prayer he adds it to the bowls of incense that are going to be poured out at a time that he knows and revival is going to be seen here in our city in our county and the places that you're praying from we believe that God is on the move and he's doing amazing things in our midst it's a time to pray big prayers to make God who's able to do more than we can think or imagine well God bless you come back at noon or this evening and we'll see you this weekend at any of our three locations right here or at Portage or at Richland God bless you guys go in peace