 hey good morning welcome to morning prayer from the radiant city center we're gonna begin in Psalm 96 starting in verse one it says oh sing to the Lord a new song sing to the Lord all the earth sing to the Lord and bless his name proclaim the good news of his salvation from day to day declare his glory among the nations and his wonders among the people for the Lord is great and greatly to be praised he is to be feared above all gods for all the gods of the people are idols but the Lord made the heavens honor and majesty are before him strength and beauty are in his sanctuary let's go before the Lord I love this last phrase this honor and majesty are before him and strength and beauty are in the sanctuary I don't know about you but I need to experience and encounter that strength and beauty this morning I need to encounter the way that he reveals himself to his people in his sanctuary as strength and as beauty so Jesus this is why we approach you because the beauty of your holiness because the honor and majesty that are before you and Lord we we ask for you to reveal your strength and your beauty this morning Lord we want to see your mighty right arm we want to see your power Lord and we also want to see your beauty Lord the the revelation of your emotions Lord the the beauty of your glory and who you really are and so we enter into the gates with thanksgiving in our hearts Lord no matter what we have going on no matter what lack of strength we feel Lord we we still enter in with thanksgiving and into your courts with praise so let's just begin just as the singers are already started leading us and singing let's just begin offering praises of thankfulness and gratitude welcoming the king of kings the lord of lords declare the has said constant loving kindness of the Lord the covenantal loving kindness that you have set your love upon us have placed your holy spirit within us you have sealed us with your great love Lord we rest confident this morning in your goodness and your faithfulness you are the only constant you are the only one to cling to you are the only guaranteed steadfast love and your grace and your mercy this morning i want to pray for the church the church in america this morning of Ephesians three it's a prayer that paul prayed for the church in Ephesus primarily to be strengthened with might this is an hour where the knees and many at the knees of the church are tempted to buckle where many hearts are growing faint for fear i want to pray this prayer that paul prayed for the church in Ephesus Ephesians 3 14 for this reason i bow my knee to the father of our lord jesus christ from whom the whole family in heaven and earth his name that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit and the inner man that christ may dwell in your hearts through faith that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height to know the love of christ with the passage of knowledge that you may be filled with the fullness of god lord we lift before you your bride in this nation lord we lift lord radiant church alongside the church of kalamazoo lord the church in the us and god the reason that we bow our knee in full submission is that we ask that you would grant to us according to the riches of your glory to be strengthened with might through your spirit in the inner man oh god we are in need of strength lord the picture of of daniel fasting on the side of the river completely lost losing all strength lord in his body and his spirit lord it is a picture lord of the church that has that is weary lord from these past years in the seasons coming out of coven and and turmoil lord and and race riots and and and division lord and now war and and and the the war in israel and gaza lord and there is division and there is tiredness and there is weariness but god this morning we ask that you would look down from heaven that you would look on your your church and that you would grant us to be filled and strengthen with might according to your spirit in the inner man that christ may dwell in our hearts through faith lord i i thank you as hard as it is to even say it i thank you that you are shaking everything that can be shaken lord every foundation that is not built upon christ is being shaken and although it's painful and although it's unsettling and although it's fearful i thank you that you are shaking everything that is not built on you and so lord i ask lord that christ would dwell in our hearts through faith lord we ask that you would be the only one that dwells in our hearts lord our faith would not be in our own form of christianity lord our faith would not be in our programs lord our faith would not be in our messaging and our winsomeness and our anointing and our gifts but lord that our strength and our faith would be solely placed in you and lord i ask that you do continue to shake everything that can be shaken lord we don't want a false strength lord we don't want a strength to be added to us according to our own strength lord so we can continue doing things partly on you and partly on our own lord we want everything to be shaken so that you can strengthen what remains so that we can anchor ourselves to jesus the head of the church the cornerstone the cheese cornerstone of the church lord we want to be anchored we want to be tethered we want to be tied we want to be hidden in christ in god but this is our cry and our desire and so we need we need strength to stand on the firm foundation of christ we need strength to stand in this hour and in this moment with and on and within jesus so i ask for the church and america lord that you would strengthen us with might by your spirit and the inner man we will comprehend with all the saints the width the length and depth and height to know the love of christ that passes knowledge for this is why we want you to shake everything that can be shaken because we want to be rooted and grounded in love lord we want to be what david declared in someone like a righteous oak that is by a river lord this is our desire that our roots would go down deep but we want this personally in our lives but we want this in our families lord we want this in our churches and our communities lord root systems in place to withstand the storm and lord the only thing to be rooted and grounded on is your love lord we've been declaring it all morning lord your love never fails it doesn't give up your love your mercy endures forever your has said your loving kindness is a covenantal love that you have have put upon us and within us and lord this is our desire to be rooted and grounded in love god i ask specifically for your church your bride for us personally lord that our love would not grow cold and our hearts would not grow cold lord many hearts are fainting for fear they're closing up they're becoming hard they're becoming isolated they're pushing people away community away church away and hiding in isolation lord hiding in fear hiding in sin and lord we we want our the church to be rooted and grounded and confident in the love of god and in the love of christ and you you you pray that we all would all of the saints would comprehend together god your desire isn't just for us to have individual private relationships with you but but you actually want to reveal your love corporately you want all of the saints lord and this is our desire lord god would you reveal your beauty and your love and your presence in such a way lord that everyone would see lord it would not be for the elite few god but that our churches our prayer rooms lord our sanctuaries our place would be places with your manifest glory where your love and your presence is revealed god we ask for the fire to return upon the altar lord we ask for the fire of your presence god like it was here during the first great awakening and the second great awakening like you've done in the revivals of history lord where all of the saints got to witness a move of your spirit and a move of your love and lord i ask that on the heels of this moment where you have been purifying your church where the refiner's fire has been turned up lord and you have been burning away the chaff oh god we ask that you would temper the fire lord that that fire would not destroy your church but it would purify us and that we would emerge lord as a bride ready to receive the revelation of your glory and your power among all of the saints so god we ask for that lord when many hearts are growing cold or many hearts are firing off opinions on facebook but hiding their their vulnerability and staying closed off and closed off to the world because of fear because of fear of government lord because of fear of finances because fear of things changing lord we ask that your perfect love would cast out all fear lord that your church would be known as a courageous church in this hour because we're rooted and grounded in the love of christ and that we know with all of the saints the width the length the depth and height so lord we ask for a revelation and a revealing of your love to your church in this hour in the name of jesus go back into worship keep declaring the the love and the grace and the mercy of the lord so we continue to worship and then we're gonna close out strong with more intercession and of sarah sun your stripes king jesus glory to god in heaven still reaching all praise king jesus our eyes on you there is no one like you eyes on this beautiful man christ jesus declare your glory we declare your worth time of intercession now continuing just to stand in the gap this morning on behalf of the church of christ jesus in our land i'm gonna pray this morning just right in agreement with where pastor caliph was i'm gonna pray from revelation chapter four so if you have it you can turn there revelation four beginning in verse one and after these things i looked and behold a door was standing open in heaven and the first voice which i had heard like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me said will show you what must take place after these things and immediately i was in the spirit and behold a throne was standing in heaven and one sitting on the throne who was sitting was like a jasper stone in a sardis in appearance and there was a rainbow around the throne like an emerald in appearance and around the throne were 24 thrones upon the thrones i saw 24 elders sitting clothed in white garments golden crowns on their heads and lord i thank you that as everything shakes and as the world quakes god i thank you that there is a throne in heaven even now and that you are upon the throne unmoved unshaking your rulership remaining your dominion sure and secure and so lord we're asking right now on behalf of our own hearts our families and your people got throughout this land in this present context god where everything is shaking i'm asking holy spirit that you would open up a door of revelation fresh revelation that you would call the gaze of your people upward that you would lift our hearts god through a spirit of revelation above the fray god above the confusion above the fear above the offense and the division and lord i'm asking that you would set all eyes on jesus in this hour that there would be a grace god for a corporate gaze to be lifted an individual gazes to be lifted on this beautiful jasper like sardis like god upon the throne holy spirit we just cry out to you we need you we need you helper would you open a door of revelation would you let us hear your voice come up here into an eternal perspective into your frames and your interpretations lord lift us up in your grace we pray in jesus name your church in this hour would you show us a new jesus that you would lift us up in your grace god those that are weighed down with confusion heaviness would you lift us up above the fray above the feelings and the emotions god would you lift us up into this realm of beauty lord those that are fearful and anxious in this hour those that are offended lord and withdrawing those that are broken hearted and crushed in spirit lord i'm asking that you would open up the door and in your kindness and tenderness you would call us up you would grace us god to lift our hearts to you again to set our eyes on you again to receive lord that eternal perspective from you holy spirit lift us up in the spirit of revelation show us jesus again show us your surety god show us your throne lord that you are unmoved unshaken faithful in all of your ways by the power of your word would you lift your people up again jesus name on your beauty who sits upon the throne holy spirit do it again come up in your church with revelation of jesus as with might as we gaze upon your throne our living hope today it's you jesus jesus eternal perspective my heart dear beloved we say yes lord morning we say yes to your invitation ascent by a spirit of revelation the realm of your beauty and glory and majesty to hear what it is that you're saying holy spirit to be strengthened in your presence lord we say no to remaining in our fear and anxiety we say no to remaining down below in natural perspective in natural offenses isolation confusion say yes to your invitation to come up here to be with you where you are to behold your glory in this hour worship you to praise you this morning to declare who you are and lord i ask all that is transpired this hour lord that it would be all in this place and across the city the cities of our land and the nations of the world lord that there would be friend ministering to your heart agreeing with you in prayer as the world shakes jesus joining us on the live stream we're gonna be