 Hello, good morning. Welcome to Thursday morning prayer, the Radiant City Center downtown Kalamazoo. If you're in the room, you can just stand with us. We're going to be reading out of Psalm 27 to start. And if you're at home, I just encourage you to open your Bible, grab your journal, whether you're in your car, just begin to engage with the Holy Spirit and with his ministry. So this morning we're going to read Psalm 27, verse four. It says, one thing I have asked from the Lord that I shall seek, that I might dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in his temple. For in the day of trouble, he will conceal me in his tabernacle. In the secret place of his tent, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock. And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. And I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy. And I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord. So let's just go before the Lord together and prayer and worship and just begin to meditate in his temple, his house. God, we've come here for you. King Jesus, we've come to honor you. You are the Holy One. You are the Set-Apart One, the Anointed One, the Christ, the Messiah. You're the Alpha, the Omega, the beginning and the end. You're the lamb that was slain. You're seated on the throne right now. And we just enter in with thanksgiving and praise. We just want to bless you. We just want to, we just want to admire you. We just want to take a second and put you in the center. We've come to your house of prayer this morning to just say we love you, to minister to you, to look vertically to you. So Holy Spirit, would you help us to not see with the flesh, but to see with spiritual eyes this morning and to worship you in spirit and truth. We love you, Lord. We bless you. We set-Apart this morning hour just for you. Jesus' name, amen. That is our song this morning. Wraith is the Lord and greatly to be praised, matchless and worth, wonderful, marvelous, magnificent. Who is like the Lord? If you have your Bibles, we can turn to Colossians chapter one. We're going to be reading out of verse nine and we're going to be praying over lost souls and just that the spirit of deception and the scales that have hindered the truth from coming into hearts would be received and awakened this morning. And so we get to join in with our great high priest Jesus Christ, our great intercessor, and we get to intercede for those and stand in the gap. So I'm going to start in verse nine of Colossians chapter one that says this, for this reason also since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will and all spiritual wisdom and understanding so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. And so Lord right now as we step into intercession, Lord, as we stand in the gap, but we agree with the Apostle Paul's prayer that you would begin to fill those that are far from you with all spiritual wisdom and understanding in the knowledge of yourself. God, we ask that you begin to pour out a spirit of wisdom and revelation over your lost sons and daughters. Lord, we ask that you would begin to take the blind eyes and open them. God, we pray that you would take the brokenhearted and you would heal them. But we pray for the prodigals that are far off and we ask that by your spirit you would draw them to yourself. So Lord, we just even stand in the gap right now when we release a sound, we release angels on assignment and we ask, Holy Spirit, that you would go forth and you would draw all men to yourself and you would reveal the Son. So we ask right now, Holy Spirit, reveal the Son to your lost children. Holy Spirit, reveal King Jesus to the hurting and the broken. Holy Spirit, reveal the way, the truth, and the life that is Jesus Christ, the Word of God. So we say, Holy Spirit, go forth, reveal the Son, reveal the Son in Jesus' name, reveal the Son, the only truth, the only life. Holy Spirit, reveal the Son. Yes, Lord, we ask that you begin to reveal your Son, King Jesus, the one with nail scars in his hands, the one who took a beating on the whipping post, who hung upon a cross, who holds the world together, who is the very Word of God. We ask right now, Holy Spirit, that you would begin to strengthen your bride to go on mission to reveal the Son to the lost sons and daughters. God, we ask right now that you would impart all spiritual wisdom and understanding, that you would infuse a greater light and a greater hope that would trample upon the darkness. Lord, we ask that you would infuse light and hope and strength, Lord, into your people, that they would arise and that they would radiate glory, and Lord, that it would draw the lost into your house. We just even declare in prophesy right now that the lost will come home, that the broken will be restored, that the hurting will be healed, and Lord, the addicted will be set free. And Lord, we ask right now that you would bind up every principality, every wickedness, every spiritual force of darkness, and we just release freedom over them in Jesus' name. And we ask, draw all people to yourself, Father. Draw all people. Would you just wrap your arms? And when you begin to stir up yourself, would you begin to stir up the Holy Spirit to send forth people into dark places? And we ask, Lord, just bring them in. Bring them home. Would you bring them to your heart? Would you reveal your heart? Would you pour out your love? And would you bring them in to the fold back into the gate where you have called them to reside and to be in life and liberty with you, King Jesus? So we ask, bring them in to your fold. Yes, so we just join in with this prophetic chorus. Reveal your heart, Lord. So we just even ask that you would begin to set the table. Lord, those open seats at the table, we just begin to prophesy that they be filled with your lost sons and daughters. Lord, we just speak to every seat with a name attached to it. And right now we just even attach names of people we even know, personal people. And Lord, we ask that you fill those seats. Lord, I pray just an RSVP be sent out. And Lord, I pray in accepting as your word comes to them and is presented to them. Holy Spirit, I ask for a softening of the heart. Lord, where there's been offense or bitterness. Lord, I pray that you fill the heart with all spiritual wisdom and understanding of the knowledge of yourself, of who you are, of your great love, of your surpassing grace, of your beauty, of your humility. Holy Spirit, I ask that you just begin to soften hearts. You begin to chisel away at the hard and the cold heart. Lord, those that are far from you, would you bring them near to your burning presence? And would you begin to melt away the pride, the insecurity, the offense, the bitterness? And Lord, may it not keep them from taking a seat at the table with the King. So Lord, we ask in Jesus' name, soften hearts, Lord. Soften hearts. Buy your spirit. Begin to reveal yourself and your tenderness. And Lord, we ask in Jesus' name, begin to soften the hardest of hearts. In Jesus' name, interceding on behalf of people who do not know you, Lord. We step in right now. We ask, Lord, buy your spirit. Draw them in. Soften the cold heart, the hard heart. Draw them out, Lord. Draw them out of the mess they found themselves in. Begin to soften the hurting places, Lord. We prophesy this morning. It's what you do. Join in with your heart. Yes, Lord, just bring the one. All of heaven rejoices more over the one who needs to repent the 99 righteous who don't. So Lord, we ask, would you begin to break our hearts for the one, for the hurting one? So we just begin to step in the gap. We just begin to prophesy over the lost sons and daughters. We just begin to ask that you would save a generation of people who do not know you, do not know their right hand from their left, who have been deceived as to what is truth and what is life and what is purpose. God, I pray right now. Lord, that you would begin to soften our hearts to join in with your cry, that it's your kindness that leads to repentance and it is your heart that all men would be drawn to you. Lord, you are patient and you are full of loving kindness. Lord, we don't forget that we were once enemies of you, but yet you still hung on the tree and you still marched up, bearing your cross and you took on shame in the wrath of God. Lord, we're just asking, we're just asking for a spirit of intercession that would get our eyes off ourselves and it would get our eyes on the people you're longing to bring into your fold. Lord, we just ask for a supernatural compassion that the Son of Man had on the earth that he would look among the crowds and he would, he would be grieved because they were sheep without a shepherd. Lord, we just even begin to call out every, every lost sheep by name, whether you're in your car or you're in the room, just begin to call out by name, each person you know outside the fold and we just prophetically begin to say that you will come home, you will come home, you will come home, you will come under the protection of the shepherd, you will come into the truth, you will come in through the narrow gate that is Christ Jesus, for he is the gate, for he is the only way, the only truth in the only life and no one comes to the Father but through him Christ Jesus. And so we just ask, Lord usher them in, prepare the way, Lord make a way where there is no way, Lord the farthest, the farthest away, those that are so far that we can't even comprehend that what it would look like for them to ever turn towards the Lord. God we ask that you would use them as a signpost that no one is too far gone for the Lord, no, no person is so deep that the blood of Jesus cannot heal, deliver, and set free. So God we ask redeem the lost people, save the lost people, Lord cover the lost people, set them free and counter them in a moment, Lord we pray for visitation in the night, Lord we ask that you would begin to send a deep longing and deep questioning of why I was created, what was I born for, and Lord I pray every counterfeit would begin to taste like rubbish, Lord it would begin to be dissatisfying, Lord I pray for a holy awakening, even right now, God I pray for those who grew up in the church, Lord that got dissatisfied and offended, that have turned their back on you, God I pray for a holy interruption, that they would return to the foundation of their youth, and that they would begin to see that Jesus you are the way, you are the truth, you are the life, that no one, there is no one and nothing else but you, and they were created by you for you, for your purposes, for your glory. So God we just say send your glory, send your purposes right now, we just step in and we say Lord make something happen on behalf of your people who do not know you, and Lord we want to step into this, we don't want to be apathetic, or we don't want to lean into oh you'll do what you're going to do, but Lord we step into your heart, and your heart is that all men be drawn to you through repentance, so God we ask right now send out your spirit, pour out your spirit in a fresh and new way, that it would draw people in, and when we say send a great wave of revival of people who do not know you, people that are far from you, people that are deep into drugs, deep into sexual immorality, and we say set them free God, set them free, buy your spirit, we release freedom in the name of Jesus by the blood and the body of Jesus, pierced on the cross, we say freedom, freedom, freedom in Jesus name. So we just ask that you release a burden of intercession, we just ask that you would awaken your saints, what the treasure of your heart is, the treasure of your heart, just gonna invite you to just begin to say the name of Jesus, the way the truth in the life, Jesus, Jesus, the truth is in a concept, it's a person, his name is Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus over the loss, Jesus over the dark places, Jesus over the deception, Jesus over the addiction, Jesus over the pain, Jesus over the family, Jesus over the high places, Jesus over the orphans, Jesus over the hurting, Jesus over Kalamazoo, Michigan, Jesus over the north side, Jesus over westwood, Jesus over the bind neighborhood, Jesus over the Edison neighborhood, Jesus over Parchment, Jesus over Comstock, Jesus over Richland, Jesus over Augusta, Galesburg, Jesus over Portage, Jesus over Vicksburg, Jesus over Matawan, and Jesus over Plainwell, Jesus over Delton, and Jesus over Battle Creek, King Jesus, we just ask that you would begin to walk across this dry and weary land, with the train of your robe, the train of victory, begin to fill the space, and with the truth of your word begin to go forth by your spirit, though we just ask right now that the truth would land on good soil, your word says that they will know the truth and the truth will set them free, so King Jesus we ask that you would step in and you would begin to reveal truth, that you would begin to reveal yourself by your spirit, that you are the truth, you are the one way, and Lord we just ask for blinders to be taken off people right now, Lord Holy Spirit ask that you would begin to remove the scales off people's eyes like you did from Saul to Paul, God we ask that you would begin to open their eyes that literally there would be a spiritual blindness taken off of them, and they would begin to see in the spirit you and you alone, you the risen Son, the Word of God, the person of Jesus, not a fictitious story but a living person who was and is and is to come, I just pray a Holy Spirit sobriety over Kalamazoo County to awaken to the love of God, the person of Jesus that laid down his life, we just say awaken, can you just say that with me, awaken in Jesus name, awaken to the true love of Christ, awaken to the person of Jesus, to the north, to the south, to the east, to the west, every square inch of the county, we just say awaken to the beauty of Jesus, awaken hearts, awaken lives, awaken families, awaken businesses, awaken churches for dismantle the enemy and awaken your people to the beauty of who you are, we just say awaken your people, I invite you to stand as we as we finish with this, no other name, no other name, every knee confess and worship, all of the things will fade away, all of their false doctrine, all false power, all deception, all fear, all torment will fade away in the likeness and the beauty and the fire in your eyes, King Jesus, so Lord until you until you split the clouds, we join in with how you taught us to pray, our Father in heaven hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, so Lord we just say heaven on earth in Kalamazoo, lost sons and daughters coming home, scales being removed off people's eyes, freedom from addiction, freedom from sexual immorality, Lord freedom from pride, freedom from narcissism and Lord we just ask right now Jesus take your rightful place right in the center, we love you Lord we bless you, we thank you for this morning hour and Lord we just stand in the gap, it's our privilege to partner with you in Jesus name, we'll be blessed as you go, we just want to thank you guys for joining us, the Radiant City Center, we will be back at noon in 6.30 tomorrow 8 a.m. Have a great day and be blessed.