 Good morning, Radiant, those who are praying with us online. And in the room, I wanna invite you to stand as you're able in Psalm 68. Psalm 68 says, God shall arise and his enemies shall be scattered. And those who hate him shall flee before him. And as smoke is driven away, so God you will drive them away as wax melts before fire. So God the wicked will perish before you. But the righteous shall be glad and they shall exult before God. And they shall be jubilant with joy. So sing to God, sing praises to his name, lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts. His name is the Lord and exult before him. I wanna start there this morning first, reminding us that the enemies of God scatter before him in his presence. So we don't let the enemies of God in our mind, anything that's going on in your world, any circumstances of your life. Don't let that keep you from entering into the presence of God. But you should expect that as you come before him, praising him and exalting him, that the enemies of God scatter in his presence. So I wanna invite you with boldness to approach the throne of grace this morning. With boldness to lift up a song to him. Say, God, you deal with our enemies, we're coming to exalt you. God, this morning we see you more than any other circumstance, more than any other issue or problem, or we see you. And we say you're glorious. Let's all over the room right now, just begin to tell him that he's glorious. You're glorious, Jesus. You are the exalted one. We exalt your name. We lift you high. We say here on a Friday morning in downtown Kalamazoo, you are the one that we adore. You are the one that we pursue. No other pursuits, no other thing is worthy of our attention and our focus. But Lord, we give it to you. We give you praise, God. We say worthy is the lamb. Worthy is the one. We exalt you, Jesus. Say, blessing and glory and honor. They're yours. All blessing and all glory and all honor belongs to you, Jesus. Just in your own words, tell him that he's worthy right now, you're worthy, Jesus. You're so worthy, Jesus. I'm sorry, that has been with you and around you. Reminded today that we are worshiping one, free and splendor fills the heavens, host of angels and heavenly beings, worshiping around your throne. We join in a song that has existed for all time. You're worthy. Help our hearts to see and understand this morning. The magnitude of your worth, Jesus. The magnitude of your glory, God. We wanna see you with fresh eyes. We wanna worship you with a fresh admiration as ones who have gazed this day on the beauty of the King. We're not content just with yesterday's revelation, but God, we seek to bring you, Lord, new praise. Learn out of seeing new facets of your glory because you're worthy, Jesus. Because you're worthy, Jesus. Sweetness of his presence right now. Our souls find rest in you. Beauty, Jesus, our questions find answers in you, gaze into the eyes of love that are flames of fire. Our soul finds, just since that shift, even as we were worshiping and declaring his glory. Just a peace, his presence is here. The Prince of Peace is here. So let's take this moment and just cast any cares that you have on your heart over to him. Just let him walk right up to each of us. Then you're driving right now, listening or watching an officer in a home. Welcome the Prince of Peace right now. We welcome you, Jesus. Oh, Jesus, that when you step into the room, you have our full attention. You have every care and every concern that in this moment, let's just take these moments next couple of minutes and just look at him. Give yourself all cares and concerns and let his peace be a blessing to you right now. Just a blessing of his presence. We're gonna shift to intercession in a couple of minutes, but just stay right here. Even as the Prince of Peace can walk into our room and into our, even those who are walking along on the street, conversation about Jesus and begin to feel this burning in their heart. In a time of outpouring, we pray big prayers for God to do and show his son in amazing ways. I wanna turn our attention now to praying for the lost and for the prodigals. Right here in Kalamazoo and you pray for the city where you're participating from. God, we know that your heart is that all should find. We know that you came for the sick. We know God that you came for the lost to seek and to save. Know that your eyes are scanning our city or to see the injustices and to see the pain and to answer and to bring salvation. And so we ask you God, even in this hour as you pour out your spirit across the land Lord, would you pour out your spirit right here in Kalamazoo? Lord, would there be a season of revival that wells up in these streets? And Lord, would there be many lost who call on your name and find you as their Prince of Peace who right now are struggling with their identity. They're struggling with depression and anxiety. They're struggling with so many sins that are holding them fast. But Lord, would you come as the great Savior and enter their world your truth? Lord, would you bring light into the darkness of this city right now? Lord, we're asking you for lives that are changed forever because of your presence. And Lord, from the heart of this city we ask you for the hearts of this city. God, we ask you for hearts in this city that are turned toward righteousness and away from evil, away from pleasure, away from all of the sins that flesh. Lord, we ask you for renewal. We ask you that they would call on your name and be saved. Lord, that you would pour out your gift of repentance in this city. Lord, that you would win many to yourself. Lord, that churches would be full to the brim, added services. Lord, we ask you that even public venues would be filled up with Christians that are seeking you and lost that are coming to find you. Lord, we ask you for an awakening and a revival in the hearts of the people in the city, Jesus. Young and old, pour out your spirit. Pour out your spirit and Prince of Peace, we invite you and we welcome you. And gates of Kalamazoo, we say throw up your gate that the King of glory may come in. Every stronghold and every demonic presence that's trying to keep out the light that belongs in this city. The blood of Jesus speaks a better word and we plead the blood of Jesus over the hearts of this city. And we say where the enemy has stolen and where the enemy has sought to kill and destroy, we say that the God of life is entering this city, light in the darkness in the name of Jesus. My friends, let's just lift up our voices right now, light in the darkness. City, Lord, we're asking you for deliverance in the name of Jesus. But we're asking you to walk up and down the streets of Kalamazoo and say freedom to you, freedom to this house, freedom to the people that live here, freedom in the name of Jesus. Lord, we're asking for the gospel of truth to break the bond generationally, to break the darkness that holds fast people in this city. Jealous, God, if you are jealous for your people in this city, let your light shine in every dark house in this city. This is prevailing, God. We ask you to intervene now by the power of Kalamazoo. Welcome, welcome to every home. Friends, I just feel a strong spirit of intercession right now. I wanna invite you, we're gonna do a rapid fire here. Just what God shows you, maybe even prophetically, to pray. Just want us to take 15, 20, 30 seconds, just burst of prayer, just believing God's heart that's just burning, vibrantly for the city this morning. Lord, we say we are not content with crime statistics, with the darkness and the headlines. Lord, that we know, we need an intervention, we need the King of glory here. We say, Jesus, we have you in the church, we have you in the prayer room, but Jesus, we ask for you in the streets. Lord, we ask you and your people, Lord, we ask to be in the streets. Changing lives and changing hearts, and we ask for the power of the gospel to unburden and to set fruit. King of glory, we invite you in. We say, come. We say, enter, show your glory, and show your rapid fire prayer. So those of you who are engaging with us online, pray these prayers out with us, believing that God uses every single prayer, adding them to the bowls of intercession, and then pouring them out to accomplish his purposes and his time. And Jesus, we thank you that you are the light of the world, that your light shines into the dark places and the darkness cannot overcome it. So right now I ask, light of the world, shine through Kalamazoo. Expose every sex trafficking ring, God. Expose every drug trafficking ring, Lord. These darkest, most demonically charged places, God. Shine your light. Free the women, free the children, God. Free the youth, Lord. We're asking, shine light. Expose, let the headlights prophesy and testify of your light, overpowering darkness in Jesus' name. Jesus, for your heart for all people, your heart for all nations, God. Would I pray, even in this city, would you stir up your believers, your family, God? Would you stir us up to reach the loss in this city, God? I just ask for the gift of evangelism, a heart for evangelism, even if it's through sharing our own stories, even if it's through a smile, God, whatever it is, I just pray that you would help us to reach those that are on your heart, those that you have drawn close to you, God. I just pray for grace to tell others about who you are and what you've done in Jesus' name. Students in middle school, junior high and high schools, Lord, I just pray, as they're maybe going through finals in high school or even college students, Lord, I just ask that you get ahold of their heart, Father, that they would experience a love that never lets them go, that they would experience a peace that uses all anxiousness, Father, I just pray that they would come to see you, that they have come to know you as Father, as friend, God. I just ask that you would chase after your students, that you would chase after the one who feels isolated and alone, Jesus. Would you continue to pursue your kids? Would you continue to pursue your kids and encounter them with your love in the name of Jesus? Lord, I thank you for what you're doing in this city. And Lord, I ask that even in your church, Lord, you release a new burden, Lord, a new burden to pray for the lost and to contend for the lost and to partner with how you feel for the lost, Lord, that we wouldn't just pray empty prayers, but that we would partner with you, Lord, that we would truly intercede and step in the gap and find our place on the wall for these people, Lord. I ask and I pray for protocols where parents may have wronged them, Lord, that you would be the Father running down their road, Lord, that you would make up for those places where darkness was in their lives, Lord Jesus. In their misery, you see them in their discontent, churches all over West Michigan. Lord, we see them coming home to be restored in the presence of the Almighty God. See you turning the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers. We see you applying the healing into family relationships that have had tension and have been broken in work of the Holy Spirit, uniting families that have been separated, separated from each other and separated from you, God, calling them home right now in the grace of your voice, the mercy and your kindness of your voice, calling to your prodigal sons and daughters. They now is the time, come home, come home, even for radiant across three locations. We just remember the prophetic mandate that this would be a place where prodigals return home and find you as their Father. We say, as radiant church, we say, welcome home. We say, welcome home to every prodigal son and daughter and for every mother and father whose prayers are going up to you right now, Lord, we agree with them and we say, come home, every prodigal son and daughter, come home. Your place is here at the table, out from the world, separate from them and return home. Your sons, no shame, face and mercy and kindness, but loving embrace of the heavenly Father awaits. Lord, we ask you even now, even this morning, on Friday, April 21st, Lord, we ask you for turning of the heart of the prodigal toward home. We ask you that you would open the eyes of their heart, the ears of their understanding, Lord, that they would be able to hear and to know that you're drawing them home right now, this day. No matter what other voices surround them, no matter what darkness has held them fast, your voice is stronger, your light is more powerful. Even now, God, the light of your glory pierce their heart right now. Lord, I just see you breaking through, breaking through dark skies and little patches and just shining rays of light down all across the city, finding your prodigals, bringing them home. We disagree in faith right now, no matter how long it's been or how soon it has been, we declare you have the power to reach the prodigal right now. You have the authority to speak over every other voice right now, darkness right now in the name of Jesus. Let the name of Jesus, that you would cause them to speak out your name and watch the darkness flee around them. At the name of Jesus, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess on heaven, in heaven and on earth, that you are the King, you are the living God. We ask even that the name of Jesus would be on the lips of prodigals right now and light into the darkness of their life right now. We say, King of glory, come into the darkness right now. Let your name be on their lips right now. Jesus, mercy on our prodigals. Mercy on the pride of yourself. Let your kindness leave them right now to repentance. Let your name be on their lips to deliver from dark depression right now in the name of Jesus, bring light. Bring your name right now into the hearts and into the minds of your prodigals right now who are trapped in darkness and despair. Captain darkness, Lord it's a heavy darkness but Lord we're asking you to lift it right now in Pearson, Pearson with your light. The name of Jesus, dispel darkness right now. prodigal family members in your hands are fresh this morning. We thank you that no matter what heaviness of darkness might surround them, Lord, that you are working. You're intervening, you're bringing light into the darkest area, into the darkest heart, into the darkest mind. Lord our hearts are satisfied to rest. We sit and pray with the Prince of Peace and the King of glory. Lord we don't look at the darkness but we ask you to come into Pearson with your light. Lord today we're not overwhelmed as we were but Lord we know you're working, you're active, you're powerful. You're changing stories and you're changing hearts specifically for our prodigals. Intercession happening in the house this morning. Throughout the day as the Holy Spirit leads you, say those prayers up to God. Let his burden rest in your heart today. Let's see God too. We'll be back here at noon and again this evening. This weekend at all three of our locations, launching a new series, you're not gonna wanna miss it. Love you guys, go in peace. We'll pray with you very soon.