 Good morning, welcome to morning prayer on this wonderful day that the Lord has made and that we get to choose, we get to make the very purposeful intentional choice to rejoice and be gladdened this morning. For the sun has risen another day, we have breath in our lungs and there's no other better way for us to express our gratitude, for us to express our thanksgiving to God than to waking up and coming to him and lavishing him with thanksgiving and with praise, with honor, glorifying his name and lifting him up from right where we're at. And so right now we are crying out from the heart of our city to the heart of God, to the very throne room of God and wherever you're at today, whether you're in your home or you're in your car on your way to work or maybe you're already at work, you have the same opportunity that we do right here in this place and that is to reach up and to touch our Heavenly Father and to bring him the praise and the honor and the glory that he is due. This morning as I was coming in, I just felt this burden on many of us that many of us are just worn out and tired, that we need strength, that we've been going and going and going and we just need a revitalization, if you will, that we need a shot of energy and strength brought back to us. And the Lord put Psalm 86 on my heart, starting in verse seven. King David says, in the day of my trouble. So he's in the midst of a day of trouble. He's in the midst of weakness. He's in the midst of pain like some of us are in right now, like some of us are entering into in this day. In the day of my trouble, I call upon you for you answer me. Not you might answer me, but you do answer me. Saints, we are convinced of this promise and this truth that even in the midst of our trouble, even in the midst of our pain and our weakness and our sorrows and our grief, that when we call out to God, he answers us. There is none like you among the gods, O Lord. Nor are there any works like yours. All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name. For you are great and do wondrous things. You alone are God. Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth. Unite my heart to fear your name. I give you thanks. O Lord, my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever. For great is your steadfast love toward me. You've delivered my soul from the depths of sheen. Lord, we thank you for this day. We choose right now to spend this hour bringing you an offering of thanksgiving, bringing you an offering of thanksgiving, Lord God, with our whole heart, God, we bring to you an offering of thanksgiving, even in the midst of the day of trouble, God, we bring to you thanksgiving. O Lord, despite the trouble, our eyes are not on the trouble, our eyes are on you, and when our eyes are on you, God, we realize and we come to grips with the reality that, Lord, truly, your steadfast love endures forever. So Lord, would you turn our hearts to you? Would you remove our heart's attention from the trouble of our day, from maybe the trouble that we're walking into, or the trouble that surrounds this very age, the day of this age, God, and would you unite our hearts, God, to see how great and awesome you are despite the trouble that we are walking through, despite the trouble that we are having, would you unite our hearts, God, to see the great and wonderful things, Lord, that you are doing in the midst of trouble, despite the trouble, despite the pain, despite the problems, God. Lord, we bring to you thanksgiving, knowing that you are faithful and you are true, that you are just and that you are righteous, God, and that you answer us in this day of trouble. So Lord, here we are, would you speak to us? Here we are, God, would you speak to us? Here we are, God, would you speak to us? Would you speak to us, Lord, we call out to you, Lord? Here's our trouble, actually just right now, just in a posture of thanksgiving. Say, Lord, this is the trouble I have. This is the trouble I'm going through. This is the thoughts of trouble that continue to make me weak and make me feel incapable, Lord, that continue to drag me down. This is the trouble, God, just begin to confess your trouble, begin to bring him your trouble right now. Express it, don't be silent, Lord, just like the psalmist. We may not understand why we are having trouble, but we trust you in the midst of our trouble. We trust you in the midst of our trouble. You, God, do great and wondrous things, things beyond our comprehension, things beyond our ability to even understand. And so we trust you, God, in the midst of trouble, in the midst of our problems, in the midst of our thoughts, in the midst of all the stuff that we are travelling through. We are not alone, you are with us, you are so good. Open our eyes to see you, Lord, in the midst of our trouble. Open our ears to hear you answering us in the midst of our trouble, Lord. I just, as Olivia was seeing that I saw this picture, I don't know if this is a representation of a specific person or just a picture that the Lord showed me of multiple people, but I saw a young girl and she was sitting at a counter, like a bar top counter just on the other side of her kitchen and your hands were clenched in fists and then you just began to uncontrollably weep at the counter and you were asking out loud, when is it gonna stop? When is my trouble gonna stop? When is my trouble going to stop? And I just feel that right now, I don't know if you're in this room or if you're on this live stream and that is actually you last night or this morning, but I feel like you need to let go of a prophetic decree and that decree is what Olivia was just singing. So can we sing that again, Olivia? Just begin to sing this chorus over your life, over your trouble, over your situation, over your pain, depression. Deep trouble within a soul. And when you're playing this instrument and I just feel that what Jojo is playing right now is doing that. It's ministering to someone, multiple people right now. It's just, you can't explain it. How are you just at peace? And trouble is real to you. David said in verse seven, hey am I trouble I call, you answer me. He's answering you right now, fluctuates. But you're steadfast love and yours forever. Over to the day of trouble we confess. Yes, a day of trouble, above and beyond the day of trouble with your steadfast love. Your steadfast love is greater, stronger. It's like A$AP said, in the day of his trouble, he sought you. In the day of our trouble, Lord, we seek you. We seek you, Lord. We make the decision right now to not fall back into the recesses of fear, to not back down to the pressure of trouble. But Lord, we stand up. We put our eyes on you and we seek you, Lord. In the day of our trouble, of our personal trouble, Lord, we seek you. In the pressure, in the trouble of our day, we seek you, Jesus. Lord, we seek you. We seek you, we seek your voice. Trouble can say what it wants. We're not listening to trouble. We're listening to you. So Lord, would you speak to us despite our trouble? Would you speak to us despite our pain? Would you speak to us despite our disappointment? Would you speak to us despite our frustration? Lord, in the day of trouble, we seek you. We seek you, Lord. Here we are, Lord. Seeking after you, would you speak, Lord? Would you speak, God? In the midst of our trouble, would you speak? In the midst of uncertainty, would you speak, Lord? In the midst of doubt, God? Would you speak? In the midst of trouble, Lord, would you speak? Tell us. Or we need a whisper to assure us, Lord. Would you speak in the day of trouble? Would you speak, Lord? In the day of their testing, in the day of their trouble, they did not believe you. They did not believe you and they did not, Lord, trust in your saving power. So Lord, would you open our eyes to see your wondrous works, not only that you did back then, but that you're doing right now? Would you open our eyes to see the wonderful things that you are doing? The saving acts, the saving power that you are doing every single day in our lives? The way that you surround us as the mountains surround Jerusalem? The way you encamp angels around us, protect us, God. Open our, I mean, God. Open our ear to the sound of heaven, to hear that sound, God. Open our eyes, give us senses. Let us use our senses that you have given us, God, that you've woven into the fabric of who we are. To experience you, God. Would you open our eyes? Would you open our ears, Lord God? Would you open our taste buds? To not just say Psalm 34 verse eight, but to actually taste and see you, God. May we taste your goodness in the day of trouble. May we taste your goodness in the midst of our pain. May we taste your goodness, God, despite the things that are happening around us, Lord. Use our senses. Open up our senses, God. That we may experience you and trust you like never before, Lord. In the day of trouble, in the day of pain, in the day of uncertainty, in the day of disappointment, God. Lord, would you open our water, saw you, oh, God. When the water saw you, indeed, they, the deep tremble, I'm sorry, the deep tremble. Right now I want us to engage in a moment of intercession and I want us to be very intentional. Whatever comes to your heart first about what is troubling the church, whatever is troubling people in our city, whatever is troubling our nation, whatever the Lord first puts on your heart, whatever He first reveals to you is a troubling thing of our day. I want you right now to engage in intercession for you to take your place on the wall, for you to stand in the gap between people and the almighty sovereign God to stand in that gap, that gap of trouble and for you to speak to it and you say, you name that trouble and you demand, you command, you decree that it will tremble the way the waters trembled when they saw God, that when this trouble will see God, that it will tremble. And so God, we submit these troubles to you and we speak to the troubles right now, tremble at the presence of God, bow down to the presence of God and destruction, abortion, tremble at the presence of God, oppression, anxiety at the presence of God, prejudice, racism, hatred, division, tremble at the presence of God, at the presence of God, tremble at the presence of God, tremble. May the trouble of our day made in trouble of our lives, may the trouble of our city, may the trouble of our nation, God, may the troubles see you, may all of these troubles see you and tremble and retreat at the sight of you God, may the trouble of our day retreat at sight of you, at the very sight of you God wouldn't retreat. Psalm 29 goes through this progression about the voice of the Lord. And as Devin was singing that, the Lord pulled my attention there and I just wanna pray through Psalm 29, if you will. And I'm just going to read through the voice of the Lord parts. It starts at verse three. The voice of the Lord is over the waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars. The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire. Verse eight, the voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness. Verse nine, the voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth and strips the forest bare. And then verse 10 and 11, the Lord sits enthroned over the flood. The Lord is enthroned as king forever. May the Lord give strength to his people. May the Lord bless his people with peace. Lord, right now we ask you for your voice, for your powerful voice that is over the waters. Lord, that is full of majesty that breaks the strongest of trees, that flashes forth flames of fire, that shakes the wilderness God, that commands creation to give birth. We ask for your voice in the day of trouble, Lord. We ask for you to speak, Lord God. And as you speak, Lord, would it give your people strength in the midst of trouble, Lord? Would your voice give your people strength? Would it give your people peace, Lord? As you speak, despite the day of trouble, despite the day of trouble actually happening and manifesting right in front of us, Lord, would you give a strength, Lord? Would you bless us, Lord, with peace as you speak, Lord, in Jesus' name? To our politicians, to our senators, to our representatives, would you speak? Would your voice speak and be heard? Lord, would you break the divide that exists between those aisles? Would you break the hatred and the animosity that is filled those rooms that are meant to lead people and help people and serve people, and to become vessels for the enemy to divide and hurt people, Lord God, would you speak in all of those meetings? Would you speak to our Congress? Would you speak, Lord? Lord, we prophesy that the voice of the Lord is over this nation. The voice of the Lord is over our senators. The voice of the Lord is over the house. The voice of the Lord is over the office. We prophesy the voice of the Lord over our government. We prophesy the voice of the Lord over Kalamazoo. Lord, would you cause Kalamazoo to tremble at your voice? Your voice is over Kalamazoo. Your voice is over this Southwest Michigan region, Lord. It is your voice, and so Lord, we want your voice and we ask you to speak. Would you speak? Speak, Lord. Your voice is over everything. As David said, Lord, in Psalm 28, 8 and 9, the Lord is the strength of his people. He is the saving refuge of his anointed. Oh, save your people and bless your heritage. Be their shepherd and carry them forever. Lord, we thank you for this hour where we have come to you, where we have confessed our day of trouble and we have put our eyes on you. We've taken our eyes off of our trouble and we've put our eyes on you. Lord, right now I ask that as we go about our day and that maybe we go even into trouble throughout this day, we ask for you to be our strength. We ask for you to be our refuge. We ask for you to be our shepherd. Lord, one thing I don't ask is, I don't ask that we would be removed from trouble, but that we would be strengthened in the trouble that we may endure the day of trouble. Be found faithful despite the trouble. Faithful to you. Be our strength, be our refuge, be our shepherd. Voice of the Lord would you speak over the waters in Jesus' name, we all say. Thank you for joining us for this hour of prayer, worship and intercession. I wanna continue to encourage you to engage in praying into this day. The hour, the day is not done. Let's continue praying into this day everywhere we go over people that we pass by. Let's continue to be the intercessors, the watchmen on the wall that we're called to be. Have a blessed day.