 Hey good morning, welcome to Morning Prayer from the Radiant City Center. We are gonna be joining in, there's a 21 day prayer initiative by a pastor and a good friend in the city, Pastor Jeff Port from Center Point. Just 21 days of praying for unity in the body of Christ. And so we've been praying for that as a church and just in the prayer center. We are, it's really cool, just what's happened here in Kalamazoo, just with prayer, with unity of prayer and such an important thing, just even as I was thinking on Beckett Cook being here this weekend and just how important being unified on just key core issues in the body of Christ is like, we are not gonna make it if we're standing alone. We're kind of in different factions but the Lord is just releasing revelation and unity is costly and it's difficult. I mean it's kind of like this, we're all going to the same place but we're kind of, we're all hopping on the bus with our own different set of ideas and where it's like a big school bus where like Susie's acting this way, Jimmy's this way, I'm this way, whatever but we're all in the same bus going to the same place and this morning just want to pray out of Ephesians three, just asking for the Lord to reveal to all of the saints the with length, depth and height just for that corporate revelation as hard as not to release it just to us individually, it's not just to release to us as our own church like this is just radiant church but this is a corporate revelation that he's releasing to the entirety of the body of Christ and so let's go before the Lord I don't want to actually just read that scripture that we're going to be praying through as we kind of enter in through the gates of thanksgiving into the courts of praise. Let's just begin to hunger for his presence, hunger for revelation from his word, hunger to see him move. So Ephesians three, 14 says for this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named 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 made dwell in your hearts through faith that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all of the saints what is the width and length and depth and heights and know the love of Christ which passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Lord we say this morning we are hungry to comprehend with all the saints the width, length, depth and height of your love, Lord we are hungry to experience a depth of your love. Lord as the deer longs for the water so our souls long free. Just take a moment and let hunger be stirred in your heart. Lord we lay aside the cares of this life called we hunger and thirst for you. The reason we want unity is not just to have a good time with other people but we want the corporate revelation of your love, who you are, the depths. Lord show us your glory, let us hunger for your face Lord even in summer in Michigan when we have so many of our own things going on Lord it's your face that we seek above all else. More than pleasure Lord, more than rest, more than the wine, the positive things, the gifts in life Lord more than that we want your presence, we want to see your face, we want to know your love, we want to be rooted and grounded in that love. Stir up hunger in our hearts this morning. Sing in the spirit if you have your prayer language, sing in your understanding. You reached out your hand and met me. You reached out your love to find me. Who deserves your name, is your name. She is your name, who deserves the praise, is your name. Worthy are you to receive praise and honor from your church forever and ever amen. Worthy are you of infinite more worth than anything of this earth, of infinitely more worth, infinitely more deserving. Lord have your glory in and among your church, have your glory, Lord be glorified in and through your church, Lord your body, your bride here on the earth. Receive the glory that's due your name or even ask that incense would rise from your church in America. Oh you are so deserving day and night worship and prayer, unceasing adoration from your bride or day and night, night and day, let incense rise, Lord. Let the aroma from the church of America be a pleasing fragrance. Let the aroma of the church in this city, Lord, be a pleasing fragrance. Let it soothe your heart, let the aroma soothe your heart. Let it minister to your heart, let it bless your heart. You are worthy of all the honor and glory and the praise. Lord you are worthy of unceasing worship, Lord. You are worthy of hours spent in your presence, beholding Lord, you are worthy of the church gathering around the corporate altar to exalt your name, Lord. You are worthy of our praise in the secret place, Lord. You are worthy of our praise in the public square, Lord. You are worthy of a church unified together to bless, exalt and lift high the name of Jesus, Lord. You are worthy, great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and we enthrone you on our worship. We enthrone you on our praise. We exalt you with our words. We exalt you with our hearts. We exalt you with our gaze, Lord. Be exalted and be enthroned on our praise in the name of Jesus. Exalt you on our praise. Struct a throne with our praise for you to rule and reign from before you, your church in this city, Lord. We lift before you the church of Kalamazoo and Lord we ask that you would grant us according to your riches of glory to be strengthened with might through your spirit in the inner man that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith that we would be rooted and grounded in love that we may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width, the length, and depth, and height. To know the love of Christ that passes knowledge and that we would be filled with all the fullness of God. Lord, this last verse is the cry of our heart that we would be filled with all the fullness of God. Lord, we long to see the day where the church is filled with the fullness of God. Lord, in an hour where we are filled with a lot of other things or we are filled with the culture, we are filled with ideologies of the day, Lord. We are filled with divisions and strife. Lord, we are filled with so many things but Lord, we long as your church to be filled with the fullness of God. And so Lord, we lift before you the family in heaven that is here together in Kalamazoo, Lord. You don't call us organizations that are commanded to work together but you call us a family. You've planted us within the same household of faith. Lord, that you have made us living stones, carved out to be built together into a holy place, a habitation, the temple of God. And Lord, I just thank you for what you started in this city, Lord, I just even thank you and I bless Pastor Jeff Port just this call for unity and prayer in our city. Lord, we thank you that even this room, Lord, where our feet are planted, Lord, the prophetic word you gave, Mike Bickle, that this room would be a unifier of the city in prayer or that this city would bring unity or this room would bring unity to this city, Lord, and I just even thank you, Lord, even as we've sung this chorus this morning, look at what the Lord has done, Lord. I'm looking at what you've done in unity and prayer since we've established this room and I'm saying thank you, Lord. God, we ask, Lord, that you would strengthen us with might through your spirit and the inner man so that Christ can dwell in our hearts through faith and that we would be rooted and grounded in love. Lord, in this hour I ask the church to be rooted and grounded in your love. Lord, I ask in this month in June, Pride Month, Lord, that we would not be insecure, that we would not waver as your church embodied, but that we would be rooted and grounded in your love. We would be so secure in the love of Christ, Lord, that we would be able to be salt and light in this hour, Lord, that we would not be tempted to have our knees buckle. Lord, that we would not be moved by doctrine, Lord, of preach to those who have itching ears to have their conscience soothed, Lord, but we would be rooted and firmly established in the love of Christ. If God is for us, who can be against us? God, if you are for us, Lord, that we would stand, even in this month of June, Lord, during Pride Month, Lord, that we would stand together as the body of Christ, Lord, not filled with anger, not filled with hate, but filled with the love of Christ, Lord, a beautiful and bold witness, Lord, but what better witness to a broken community, Lord, than a united church rooted and grounded in love. So, Lord, I just pray for the church of Kalamazoo, Lord, together for unity that you would root us and ground us in your love of the saints, what is the width, length, depth, and height to know the love of Christ, the passes, and all that should be filled with the fullness of God. Lord, we repent for when we tried to comprehend your love apart from the saints, or we've disconnected ourselves, or we've made our faith individualistic. And, Lord, we know the cry of your heart that you put on Paul is that we might experience together, that we would know the love of Christ that passes what we know, and that we would be filled with the fullness of God together. Lord, we ask in this hour for a corporate revelation of your heart, Lord, we ask for fresh revelation of who you are and what you are doing on the earth today. God, we pray for the preaching of the gospel in this city. Lord, I ask for every pulpit that proclaims the name of Jesus that stands on the firm foundation of the word of God. Lord, for authority to proclaim the word. Lord, I ask for an anointing on the preaching of the gospel in this city, Lord. Every pulpit, Lord, that there would be a spirit of wisdom and revelation on the knowledge of Jesus Christ, of the eyes, of people's understanding would be enlightened and they may know the hope of His calling, the riches of the glory of His inheritance and the saints, and the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, Lord, that there be a great wave of anointed, powerful preaching from the pulpit, Lord. I ask for unity of language and heart. God, that you would reveal what you're doing on the earth today, Lord, that there would be understanding among your people, Lord, that we would not fall prey to the spirit of confusion, Lord. We would not be bound by the spirit of Jezebel, Lord. We would not bow to the idols of Baal and Asherah in this culture, Lord, but there would be a uniform, unified language among us, Lord, that unity not just mean celebrating one another, but let it also mean that we are actually burning for the same things, that we are proclaiming the same things, that we are proclaiming the same gospel with one mind and one mouth, glorifying the name of the Lord together, God. This is our cry for this city, one family under heaven, one mind, one mouth, one language, glorifying the Lord together in the name of Jesus. Last little bit of time, we're gonna open up the mic for a rapid fire, but we're gonna do something a little bit different. I'm gonna pull on our pastors this morning. If we could have like 10 to 15 pastors that lead us in this rapid fire as sort of a prophetic act, that it's the leaders of the church crying out for unity. And so I'm gonna go ahead and open, and if our pastors could just come on over, these are 10, 15-second prayer burst pastors. I'm praying from Romans, chapter 15, verse five. Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus. So that with one accord, you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus. And so Lord, I just pray that these prayers led by our leaders, God, that they would be just a prophetic representation of the leadership voices across this city, God, where there are many voices you would bring to one voice, where there are many ambitions and visions, God, you would bring into one agreement the glory of your son. We ask this in Jesus' name. And if you're joining us from another city, this is where we just invite you to begin to lean into the heart of God for the leaders and the unity in your city. Pastors, when you finish, would you just remain up here and we're just gonna close by blessing and praying for unity here. Father, we pray in the church that there would be a unity in one gospel, one baptism, one Holy Spirit. We pray that there would not be a division over small issues but God that we would come together to see Jesus exalted in our nation, in our cities, in our homes. Lord, we ask that your church, your people and your leaders would be unified in Jesus. God, I pray for the worship pastors in Kalamazoo. Lord, I just ask for encouragement to their hearts. Lord, you would refresh them in your presence. Lord, I ask that you would lift their gaze, Lord, and cause us to see a fresh revelation and behold your glory. I pray Ephesians four, that the church would be humble, gentle, patient, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the spirit, the bond of peace, one body, one spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism and one God. In the name of Jesus, we speak this over the city of Kalamazoo in Jesus' name. Father, we pray over the health for every senior pastor in this city, for their physical health, for their family, for their emotional health and their marriages. That Lord, you would be a shield, a fire around their households, around their hearts, around their relationships and that they would walk in the strength and the power and the unity within their homes so that we can walk in unity in this city in Jesus' name. God, we thank you today for the unity that you provide through your spirit. The Holy Spirit is unity and God, I thank you that anywhere that we go in the world that your spirit is there and that there's a unity available to us. Gotta pray for more of that spirit of unity. Pour it out, God, on pastors. In Kalamazoo, pour it out, God, on pastors. In the United States, God, pour it out on pastors in every nation of the world. God, we thank you for the unity available through your spirit. Alleluia fusions, 222, that in Jesus, we are being built together into a dwelling place where God lives by his spirit. God, I thank you for the church in Kalamazoo, Lord, that you are building us together to be a place where you come and rest. Lord, we're a dwelling for your spirit, that the church in this city would be known as a church that hosts the presence of the living God. And we thank you in Jesus' name. John 17, 23 says, I am in them and you are in me, that they may become perfectly one so that the world may know that you sent me and love them even as you loved me. Lord, I pray for the churches in Kalamazoo that they would become perfectly one to be the catalyst of an increase of salvation in Kalamazoo in Jesus' name. It's Jesus, we just thank you. We pray that your name would be a banner over this city today, over every church, over every leader, every pastor, would your name go forth and shine brightly in this city today. Lord, I pray Isaiah 60 saying, lift up your eyes all around and see them gather together. Your sons shall come from afar and your daughters shall be carried on the hip. Lord, I pray for every kid's pastor and next-gen pastor in this city. God, we know there's a Kalamazoo promise, but we know that you have a greater promise and we pray that we would unify together to be able to reach the families and the kids of Kalamazoo like never before, to be able to bind up the broken heart and to partner with you to be able to reach the families and the kids who are in broken and desperate situations in Kalamazoo in the name of Jesus. Father, we just ask for every leader in Kalamazoo that they would rise in boldness. God, we pray against any discouragement that would come against them and their call to lead people towards you, Jesus. We ask that they would rise in strength and boldness in Jesus' name. Father, we pray that the congregations of these churches would follow the lead of their pastor, that as the pastors get revelation of this unity we're praying for, that it would indeed be an impartation to the congregations. Lord, I pray that in our congregations, the names of the pastors of other churches would be lifted to the throne, that congregation-wide, Sunday after Sunday, we would pray over one another's churches, blessing one another's churches to this in Jesus' name. He says, bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And Lord, we just pray specifically for the leaders and pastors of the churches in this city where there's any grievance, where there's any offense between each other, Lord, that literally Holy Spirit, this week you would come in and you would convict their heart that they would begin to forgive. They would go to each other and repent. They would confess, Lord, and you would heal every place where there's broken relationship. Thesians 6-10 says, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his mind. Father, we just lift up the pastors of this city and ask for supernatural grace and power. God, again, where there's discouragement or fear or anything that's not from you, God, we just ask sometimes it's difficult, especially for leaders to be vulnerable or to ask for help, God, we just pray that you would supernaturally impart grace, strength, wisdom, and favor into the leaders of the churches of this city in Jesus' name. Ask for an Ephesians 2 unity among your church, Lord, that the church would once again be grounded on the cornerstone, which is Jesus Christ, that they would be unified together as a holy temple and that they would be built together as a dwelling place for your spirit, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in the place of unity. And Father, even as these leaders are gathered at the altar, that we just extend our hands right now just as the prophetic act. Lord, we're asking for a spirit of unity over every department, over every vision, Lord, represented here, over every heart represented here. Lord, even in our church, radiant church, we pray for a spirit of unity, for love to abound God in every expression of this ministry, Lord, represented at the altar. And God, we pray that you would enlarge the scope to the leaders God across this city, the departments they represent, the visions they carry, God, from heaven, from your heart, Lord, that there would be a oneness at the altar, a oneness that glorifies you in the place of praise, a oneness, Lord, administering to your heart one to another with one voice and God proclaiming the gospel in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Father, we bless our leaders as they lean into your heart in this hour for unity. In Jesus' name, we pray, amen and amen. Thank you, pastors. Okay, I know we're a little bit over. We're just gonna close. If we could put Pastor Jeff's prayer up. And we're just gonna close by just declaring this and praying this together. King Jesus, awaken the sleeping giant of your church in our city as we pray and collaborate to seek the common good for our region. Open our eyes and hands to the marginalized and our voices for the voiceless. We endeavor to live such counter-cultural lives that our places of work and neighborhoods will experience the beauty and the power of the gospel. Give us such an unquenchable passion for you and your word that we can't help but tell others about Jesus and his unstoppable kingdom for the glory of Jesus and the advancement of his kingdom. Amen and amen. Well, God bless you all. Thank you for joining us this morning for our morning prayer set. We're back here at noon and 6.30 tonight. We just invite you to come on downtown with us. Amen.