 Good morning and welcome to morning prayer. We're so excited to have you here with us this morning as we just Take time to seek the Lord We're gonna be starting out of Psalm 63 Oh God you are my God Early will I seek you? My soul thirsts for you my flesh longs for you In a dry and thirsty land where there is no water So I have looked for you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory over this morning We acknowledge our thirst for you We acknowledge our need for you We acknowledge that we are fully dependent on you Jesus Apart from you. We are nothing and apart from you. We have nothing But we love you. We let our heart cry out for you this morning Make our need for you real to us that we need you you are wanted here Lord You are wanted here would your presence fill this room Fill the homes of those with us online As we hunger and we thirst for the one true living God Would you fill the space around us with your presence? We don't want anything else. We want you We don't want to move forward Without you it's about your presence It's about your presence That's where we center ourselves this morning An apostrophe of thirst and hunger for the presence of the living God our souls are hungry Our souls are in need of a touch We need your presence God We long for you. We seek you with the hunger in our hearts be pleasing to you Lord Would our reach for you be satisfying a Sweet aroma to you. What our longing for you bless your heart What a bless your heart what we love you we love you Come and dwell here Without your presence where we've walked away But we come back to your presence is all that matters your presence is all that we need It's not about the things that we want. It's about you as the the big-sea church We've put things above your presence. We've put celebrity culture Doctrines of cheap grace Idol is in your church and we've let them be built We're the ones who've done the building. We've erected idols to self And God we're sorry And we repent We come back to your presence this morning, but you come and be the center of your church again Where we've let doctor we let a denominational differences cause division Bring us back together unified under one spirit the spirit of God not the spirit of pride Selfishness division one that would desire fame in a platform Bring us to a place of humility where we surrender to the spirit of God But as we as we're here in this room and here online crying out for your presence that you're all that we want You're all that we need You're the very heir lord that that we breathe in Would that be the cry of your church? Would you return Your church back to a place of prioritizing presence Letting go of open-handed issues Not letting division creep in Or that the church wouldn't serve two masters that we would serve you Jesus. It's about you. It's not about us It's not about We don't come to church to To feel good about ourselves and go home No, we come to encounter you We don't pray to feel good about ourselves we pray to encounter you we don't worship To feel good about ourselves. We worship To bless your heart So what we just acknowledge the sin the sin of the church specifically in America and in the West What we've we've erected idols to to false gods and the self We've allowed pride into our hearts No, we just ask that you would lead us back to a place of prioritizing presence that it would be all about you Not about us But we decrease as you increase Lord But we decrease as you increase your presence fill in your church Your spirit being poured out on all flesh God we're here repenting and asking For your mercy or that you would pour out your spirit in your church again Do it again Lord first place God Concerned with many things very was about the one thing Just about sitting at Jesus feet and worshiping him. I feel like the Lord was showing that The church has become like Martha concerned with many things Concerned about being better than the next church Making it a competition Letting distraction get in Feel the Lord calling the church back To a posture of Mary And so God we We ask that you would bring us back to a place of just worshiping at your feet of making it all about you It's not worrying about how we can Outserve the the church down the road or make ourselves better than someone else God But that we would prioritize you That we wouldn't be busy running around trying to get things done to make ourselves look good meanwhile You're sitting in our home. We're we're ignoring Do we not get caught up with many things like Martha, but would we take the heart posture of Mary? To sit at your feet to welcome you To give you the attention and honor that you deserve that we would be Transfixed on you Lord hosting your presence Knowing that everything else will fall into place As long as we prioritize you We prioritize your presence God work, but we're sick of dead religion Of trying to make ourselves self-righteous And in our pride thinking that we can do something to earn your affection and love I'll bring us back to a place of true and authentic worship true and authentic hosting of your presence But we need you We repent of our sin and we ask for you to make us as the church into Mary's For the church is throughout America Tense where you dwell because you are hosted and desired and welcomed Where you manifest your presence because you're wanted But there would be a new hunger for the things of God And a distaste for for anything of the flesh But we want you in Jesus name Lord make us Mary's It's the heart posture of Mary's fixed on you to give you all our attention All of our affection would we love you like she did we worship you like she did Would we bring a costly sacrifice? Just like where she took her alabaster jar and she broke it Lord would the the church break their alabaster jar at your feet Letting go of everything that doesn't matter Laying it all at your feet saying you can have the first place You're worth more Than anything else that we have a church that's unafraid To give a costly sacrifice a church that is unafraid To live with radical obedience a church that is truly hungry for the things of God a Church that isn't just moved emotionally in the moment Where there's lasting fruit? Last impugned of the the purification of the Holy Spirit Simplifying everything around us and bringing us back to the presence of God Bringing us back to a church that seeks first the presence of God Or this is your design with you at the center of everything Would you bring it a strong conviction a strong conviction in the church where we've put things before you Where we've let go of That one thing desire where we've become Martha Would you correct us like a loving father does? Bring us back Lord Whatever it takes it doesn't matter what we have to go through bring us back to a place of prioritizing you In our own hearts and together as your body What in Jesus name when we prioritize you? Sorry for what we've made it about ourselves help us to bring you more than a song to bring you our hearts Lord bring your hearts True worship. We're gonna take the last 10 minutes here and transition into intercession. I I read this morning in an article that Gen Z is the the only generation Concerning what's going on in Israel right now who? Where the majority is against Israel Gen Z is the only generation who? Where the majority lies against Israel? So I just want to pray these next 10 minutes That the Lord would take back that generation And that they would pick up the Isaiah 62 call Isaiah 62 verse 6 I have set watchmen on your walls. Oh Jerusalem. This I'll never hold their peace day or night You can make mention of the Lord do not keep silent and give him no rest Okay, establish this till he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth and so Lord We lift up Gen Z to you this morning Lord as the enemy is trying to to claim them trying to To fog up their vision with an anti-semitic spirit Lord, we just prophetically proclaim that they will be watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem Standing in the gaps standing in intercession for your chosen people Thought that there would be 10 11 12 year olds praying for Israel gripped By the heart of God Lord that you would give them there give them your heart for for your people Let them feel what you feel towards Israel. Let them feel what you feel When people come against your chosen nation Or they they need you they need your heart Lord as the spirit of the age is trying to claim them trying to To lead them astray and it's it's working God we take a stand in the spirit today and we proclaim that Gen Z will be for Israel Young people will stand up for the nation of Israel will stand up for the Jewish people the ones who Who made the original covenant with you who you made your covenant with them? You chose God But the generation of young people in this country and all over the world Lord that they would stand for Israel They would not fall astray into the doctrine of demons That would say that your covenant is no longer with Israel God you made an everlasting covenant and it stands good It stands true today And so Lord grip young people's hearts With the need to pray for Israel with the need to stand with your people What's when Jesus name Would you grip the hearts of Gen Z to pray for Israel and for Israel you will not get the Lord rest Gen Z will not be silent before the Lord concerning Israel. They will not hold their peace day or night So Jerusalem is a praise in the earth Gen Z will not fall prey to the spirit of the age They will stand with Israel stand for the truth of God Give him no peace as you move and capture the hearts of your young people God would you move them to pray? Would you also move them to go? What is Israel's a nation who's also rejected Jesus is to the true Messiah? Lord would you send young people To give their lives to minister in Israel to minister in Jerusalem And even as things heat up in the Middle East as nations turn against Israel Or would you make young people bold? Would they recognize the need of the hour in which they live That Israel needs the gospel that Israel needs to see Jesus Would you move in their hearts and call them to go? God would they give their lives for your kingdom and your purposes The the sleepy demonic lie that would tell them all you need to go all you need to do is just go to college Get an education work have a family the American dream. That's what it's all about. No Lord. That's a lie It's about you and about your purposes. It's about what you care about So Lord would you grip their hearts and call them to a life of wasting everything that they have at the feet of Jesus? Or specifically to go and minister to Israel to set aside their lives to be Intercessors for Israel to stand in the gap for this demonic forces approach on your people and upon your nation God, I prayed that you would give courage and boldness To the young people to Gen Z to stand in the gap and to say no Enemy you stop here. We take a stand for the living God Would you anoint them with power from on high Lord to stand in the gap and to call forth the prophetic Promises that you have given Israel or that she will be a praise in the earth She will be a praise in the earth God Would you give young people? That reality grip their hearts with the need with the desperation that Israel needs the gospel God would they would they echo Paul in Romans 10 as he said my prayer for Israel is that they would be saved That they need the gospel that the gospel would go forth God I asked specifically that there would be people from Gen Z Young people Lord who feel called to give their lives to missions in Israel Even right now Lord deposit in their minds bring a call bring an encounter with the Holy Spirit That would cause them to give up everything give up their plans and give their life to missions in Israel Give their lives a way to prayer For Israel to stand in the gap Also in Jesus name we ask that you would grip the hearts of young people Send them Lord send them to your people. They'd be set apart for you Life's given to see in the Israel reached with the gospel They hear your spirit beckoning them God go forth in Israel God send young people to bring the gospel Spirit is saying who will go the answer. I will go Open up the doors Lord, but your gospel will go forth in Israel When we pray the Gen Z would be gripped by the Holy Spirit not gripped by the spirit of this age a Lion and deceitful spirit They would be gripped with the truth of your heart for Israel Or the Jerusalem will be made a praise in the earth in the last days God would Gen Z be a generation that stands in the gap But Gen Z be a generation who who says I will go if no one else will I will here? I am Lord send me send me to Israel Send me to labor unseen for the rest of my life if it means glory for you Or that they would live their lives as a waste To see the kingdom of God and the gospel to go forth in Israel God raise up intercessors raise up laborers who will go who will pray for your people Raise them up Lord call them Call them by your Holy Spirit. We thank you that your heart is to see Israel saved. We thank you that your heart Is to use Gen Z But we love you Jesus name we pray amen here with us this morning We'll be back here at noon and 6 30 tonight We hope to see you at one of our three locations this weekend. God bless you to go