 Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our Radiant City Center downtown in Kalamazoo to Monday morning prayer. Thank you for those who are here in this room together in this place, gathered together. And thank you for those who are joining us online. I know there are some that are watching right now that have been watching since we started going online. And you're faithful to join wherever you're at. You have gathered with us in these mornings as one voice, as one church to partner with the Lord with that's on his heart. So we're going to be praying, worshiping, agreeing with God, with who he is, what he says he wants to do. So we're going to pray prayers. You're going to pray them as well. We're going to sing songs, sing choruses, and you're going to sing those as well. And we're going to be taking this hour. We're going to be praying for Israel, just in light of the war that is happening right now and how Israel has looked seemingly overwhelmed with an enemy surrounding and coming against them just as we've seen so many times in Scripture, the hatred towards Israel. But we are going to stand and agree with a God who says Israel is his own. And stand and agree with a God who has proven over and over his strength and has actually routed the enemy and has brought Israel to its salvation. We're going to stand as the church, a church made of Jew and Gentiles and pray for them. But before we do, we're going to set a posture of remembrance and thankfulness. I want to read Psalm 103, just the first few verses. And before we come and contend and remind God to pour out his spirit, to rescue, to save, we want to bless him and thank him because he is a God who does that. He is a God who has done that. We're not trying to convince him to do something, but we are agreeing with this as who he is and what he wants to do. Psalm 103 says, bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, and who redeemed your life from the pit, and he crowned you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the Eagles. So Father, we thank you, we bless you, and we stir up our souls right now here as your church in America. We break off our apathy, we break off our selfishness and our distractiveness, and we stir up our soul to bless the Lord, to offer our song and our praise and declare in the face of the enemy the truth and faithfulness of who you are. And we remember that you have forgiven us when we did not deserve it. You have healed every sickness and every disease, and you have redeemed our lives from the pit, and you have crowned us with steadfast love and mercy, and you have satisfied us with every good thing that comes from your right hand. So we stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel as we begin to set a posture of remembrance. We need you, we need you on earth as it is in heaven. What is happening in your kingdom, we need here in this kingdom on earth. We need your love, your faithfulness, your righteousness on earth as it is in heaven in Jesus' name. All my soul and all my soul it all that is, with it bless the Lord, own my soul and me. Bless the Lord, own my soul and bless the Lord, own my soul and me. All my soul, don't you know he is good and he is faithful? All my soul don't you know he is good and he is faithful All my soul don't you know he is faithful All my soul don't you know he is faithful All my soul don't you know he is good It's who you are today this morning Our worship, our worthy can rescue and save From the heavens and the earth and our praise We come before you right now hearts with yours Makes your heart with what saddens your heart With what moves your heart We cast off our own distractions and our own circumstances And as your church we align and partner with you Pro to see will there be anyone to stand in the gap Anyone that will agree with you With Israel right now being desecrated Their lands that you've given them seeing it destroyed You're saying will anyone stand in the gap Will anyone partner with me and agree with me That I have not forgotten Israel That I have called them to be a people set apart That I have given them this land and called them To be a people holy unto the Lord No one, even yourself faithful, we can open up Page after page of scripture to see your faithfulness Your strength, your goodness towards the people of Israel That you have rescued them time after time from bondage From slavery, you have rescued them time after time From occupation, from enemies You have rescued them from seemingly overwhelming odds That you have made a way of stretched out your hands With signs and wonders You have stopped the sun, you have shifted heavens You have parted seas to rescue your people This moment, this year, this circumstance is no different The same God who split a sea, who stopped the sun It turned to blood and in hailstones to fall to the earth That same God is alive and well and full of power and zeal In this time, when he sees his people dead and destroyed and surrounded When it looks like your people are surrounded by the enemy You will surround them with a shield of deliverance With shouts of praise So we're going to be praying for Israel out of Second Thessalonians 3 These first few verses out of Second Thessalonians chapter 3 It says, finally brothers, pray for us That the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored As has happened among you That we may be delivered from wicked and evil men For not all have faith, but the Lord is faithful He will establish you, he will guard you against the evil one And we have confidence in the Lord about you that you are doing And will do the things that we command And may the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and the steadfastness of Christ So Father, we gather together, brothers and sisters With your church in Israel, with those who call you by name Call you Father Adonai, Yahweh And we stand with your children in Israel And we ask that from their mouth Your glory, your worthiness, and your holiness would be on display That as the enemy tries to tear down Israel That it would not look like that you are part of that tear down But that you would be seen lifted high, beautiful and glorious That your name would be put on display Faithful, deliverer, strong tower, redeemer We ask that as the enemy tries to rush into the streets That you would be rushing in, mighty to save Author of their salvation And that the word of the Lord runs swiftly Through all of the streets of Israel, in Jesus' name You always make a way It's your name be glorified, peace For me, deliverer, redeemer Deemer, you always make a way Savior, the streets of Israel A testimony of your goodness The streets of Israel It's a Jerusalem We ask for deliverance right now From wicked and evil men Who would seek their own agenda Who would seek the agenda of the kingdom of darkness Who would seek the agenda of the kingdom of the accuser Who is trying to make a way for him to be glorified Who is trying to wipe out the people of Israel Because of the enemies and hatred of God We ask for deliverance right now from wicked, evil men We believe, Lord, that you are faithful You will establish them You will guard them Where it seems like there is no way Where it seems like hope will be lost You will come in like a flood Like a mighty rushing wind Like a fire and a hammer And you will rout the enemy You will, you who can cause the sun to stop You who can turn water to blood You who can bring the ten plagues of Egypt You can come against this enemy of Israel Then come against the enemy of your people It was signs and wonders As we look upon the threats of the enemy Would you stretch out your hands With signs and wonders Healing and deliverance right now We ask for miracles We ask for deliverance We ask for favor We ask for the doors to be open And doors to be shut We ask for the enemy for confusion among them We ask for internal conflict among them That it seems like when the enemy tries to come in That something happens Suddenly, supernaturally That causes them to be routed and overthrown That the people of Israel would not turn to their own strength But they would turn to the strength of their redeemer Their deliverer The one who is mighty to save That they would call upon the name of the Lord right now Knowing that God is faithful God will establish them God will guard them against the evil one Let their confidence be put in this Let their hope be placed in the Lord Not in their own weapons Not in their own armor Not in their own strategies Not in their own buildings But their hope would be placed In the God of the Old Testament And of the New Testament and of this time The God who split the sea for them And led them through the wilderness Would you come right now Stir up faith in their hearts In the name of Jesus Do not delay Do not delay Coming like a fire Coming like a flood Destroy the enemy Destroy the enemy camp Like a fire Like a flood Coming like a fire Coming like a flood Destroy Look upon their threats Stretch out your hand Coming like a flood Destroy the enemy Signs and wonders Healing and deliverance Light Pierce the darkness We need you to come Your kingdom come On earth as it is in heaven Come like a fire Come like a flood we believe that you want to and you can't only you can bring deliverance As we continue in our worship and our praise and our song which you stir our hearts give us faith to remember and declare the power the strength The faithfulness of your name Let's begin to lift us our voices to the Lord right now as we recall our salvation our deliverance Way where there seemed to be no way despite us When we did not deserve it came in the form of flesh to take on our sin Let's begin to say thank you to the Lord right now Me to say thank you Thank you for saving me. Thank you for washing me clean for covering me with your blood Thank you for making a way for me to enter into your throne room with boldness and confidence having access to you Thank you for bringing us back together in communion Thank you for allowing your Holy Spirit to dwell inside of us Consilent and delivering We thank you to lift us all let us share your faith your soul to praise the Lord Tell your soul to shake off apathy distraction And to sing to its deliverer to sing to its Savior So in our last few minutes together As we recall The faithfulness of God as we prayed earlier and his heart for his people of Israel and as we have then Sung and declared remember our own salvation. We're going to We're gonna pray together out of Romans 10 and we're gonna do I'm gonna just set it up But I actually want us to gather together in groups of two to three to four Just some small groups. We're each take about 30 seconds each and pray for the salvation of Israel That this moment would be a moment that the crisis that is happening They would turn to the Lord that they would call upon him Romans 10 says brothers My heart's desired prayer to God for them is that they may be saved And I bear them witness that they have sealed but not according to knowledge for being ignorant of the righteousness of God and a seeking to establish their own because they do not submit to God's righteousness So I encourage you right now just to gather in groups and pray for the salvation of Israel That they would turn to the Lord turn to the righteousness of God and not to their own We want our hearts to burn. We shake off our own Circumstances that We think are a big deal and we partner with the people who are hurting Israel our brothers and sisters God would you make our hearts? burn And and burn for the place of prayer and intercession that we pray for salvation and deliverance and Breakthrough in this in this city your name. We pray amen. Amen. Thank you for joining us here Thank you for praying together with one voice. We are gonna continue to be praying here Morning noon at night Monday through Friday. You can come here in the Radiant City Center You can join us 8 a.m. Online. Thank you for joining us God bless