 Good morning, welcome to Thursday morning prayers, February 23rd, I hope you are surviving the ice storm. I was very thankful for my hot water kettle to pour my door handle this morning to get it open and the little things, the little things. I wanna start by reading in Matthew chapter six and then jump over to Ephesians one, but Matthew chapter six verse 22, it says the eye is the lamp of the body. So then if the eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness? And then I wanna flip over to Ephesians chapter one for the apostle Paul and his apostolic prayer. Verse 16, he says, I do not cease giving thanks for you while making mention of you in my prayers that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation and the knowledge of him. Verse 18, he says, I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you will know what is the hope of his calling. What are the riches of the glory of his inheritance and the saints and what is the surpassing greatness of his power towards us who believe? These are in accordance with the working of the strength of his might which he brought about in Christ. So Lord, this morning we asked that you would give us spiritual eyes to see you rightly Lord. You said that if the eye is full of light, the whole body is full of light. And so Jesus, you are the very light. You are the radiance of the glory of God. And we ask Holy Spirit that you would begin to open our eyes to the reality that you are bright, that you are beautiful, that you are other than, that you are holy, magnificent. You are the very oxygen to our lungs. You are the very breath that we breathe. You sustain us with your right hand. We are the ministers of a new covenant, a better covenant. Your blood, it speaks a better word. So Lord, we look to you this morning. We ask that you would open our eyes to the worth that you're due. Holy Spirit, we just invite you this morning whether we're at home or whether we're in the room or whether we're in our car. We just say, come Holy Spirit. Can you say that with me? Come Holy Spirit. Come Holy Spirit. We're dependent on you. We need you. We're not gonna strive. We're not gonna bring forth our own efforts. We're just gonna bring forth what we have. We're gonna ask that you would breathe your fire upon it, that you would open up doors just like John and Revelation. The door was open and heaven and the spirit brought them up saying, come up here. So Lord, we reach out. We grab your hand and we wanna see you rightly. So come Holy Spirit. We're here to minister to you. I wanna see you Lord. Simplicity, Holy Spirit, we need you. A simple ask, Lord. Stretch out to love, shouts of grace, grace. Chabudu. John says, I saw heaven open and to hold a white horse. He who sat on it is called faithful and true and in righteousness he judges and in wages war. His eyes are a flame of fire and on his head are many diadems. He has a name written on him which no one knows except himself. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood and his name is called the word of God. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword so that with it he may strike down the nations and he will rule them with a rod of iron and he treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. And on his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Mords. And then I saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried out with a loud voice saying to all the birds which fly in the mid-heaven come assemble for the great supper of God so that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them and the flesh of all men, both free men and slaves and small and great. And I saw the beasts and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to make war against him who sat on the horse and against his army. And the beast was seized and with him the false prophet who performed signs in his presence by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone and the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of him who sat on the horse and all the birds were filled with their flesh. So Lord, I pray right now that you would open our eyes like you did the apostle John to the reality that you are slow to anger but there is a fierce zealous wrath. Even with our praise right now, we put demonic forces on notice. And we ask Lord that you would stir up yourself, stir up the man of war with the praises of your saints, fill up the bowls of incense that Psalm two, the nations are devising evil things but Lord you're coming with a rod of iron, you are stirring yourself up. It says in Psalm two that he who sits in the heavens laughs at those who scoff at him. So Lord, I pray that you would awaken the zeal. Lord you are tender, you are loving, you are merciful but there's also fire in your eyes and a sword coming out of your mouth. There is a resurrected Messiah who is zealous for his people, for his inheritance, for his saints and Lord we ask that you come make wrong things right, that you come make valleys raise and Lord you take mountains and you toss them in the sea and Lord we ask right now you would align, you would align, you would align, you would break the enemy's scheme and we say lion of the tribe of Judah roar, lion of the tribe of Judah roar over injustice, over a generation that doesn't know you, over a generation that's been caught up in a demonic squirrel. But we ask that you would clarify, that you would speak, that the sword would come out of your mouth and you would chip away the things of the enemy and right now we enter into intercession over a generation that doesn't know you, that doesn't know their right hand from their left and God we ask tear the scales off their eyes and we say lion of tribe of Judah roar, roar, roar make wrong things right in Jesus mighty name. We ask stir up the man of war and with a rod of iron crush the enemy, crush the head of the enemy in Jesus name. Take of a generation we ask that you would rend the heavens, come down, make wrong things right, Lord ship the script God rewrite the story. Number six says seek the Lord while he may be found, while he is near let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return to the Lord and he will have compassion on him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts nor are your ways, my ways declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there without watering the earth and making it there and sprout and furnishing the seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so will my word be which goes forth from my mouth, it will not return to me empty without accomplishing what I desire and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it. For you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace, the mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thorn bush, the cypress will come up and instead of the nettle, the meadow will come up. It will be a memorial to the Lord for an everlasting sign which will not be cut off. Lord we ask for a revelation of your zeal for your people. Lord we ask for a revelation of the man with eyes of fire that's withholding his wrath for the sake of mercy. Lord we pray for a holy urgency, a holy urgency to your justice. Lord we ask you just give us the fear of the Lord. Would you arrest our hearts with the fear of the Lord? You've captivated us with your love, but Lord I ask you would arrest us with your fear. Lord we open up to you, we say open the eyes of our heart to the fear of the Lord. That Isaiah six fear when he saw you, he fell before you. That Jeremiah one, that revelation one, that Saul to Paul moment. Lord we ask for the fear of the Lord that other than fear of the Lord that says you are holy, you are other than, you are righteous, your righteousness, your justice, holy spirit. We ask come reveal the justice of God that it was mercy and grace that we got grafted into. But Lord we ask that you would show us the fear and trembling that we're called to walk out in. Give us the fear of the Lord. Lord give us the fear of the Lord. Create some urgency within us Lord. Shake up the follow ground, the complacency, comfort Lord. The righteous judge, holy one. The lamb of God that was slain. I was just reminded of the story of Exodus when the Israelite people took the Passover lamb and painted the blood on the doorpost. And the Lord commanded that they eat every piece of that shed lamb. Jesus said unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood. And Lord we just come to you and we repent for only receiving the pieces of you that we wanted or that we accepted. Lord we can't have just pieces of you. We must consume all of you. You said that you are one. Deuteronomy, hero Israel, the Lord your God is one. So Lord we just even repent for compartmentalizing you for putting you in certain boxes that you are both grace and truth. That you are zealous and you are merciful. You are compassionate yet you are filled with fire. You have wrath but you're also tender and loving and slow to anger. So God would you pull us up higher to see that you are zealous in stirring yourself up to come down. Lord we ask right now for a revelation of the fear and wonder of the Lord that Isaiah six that woe is me. God woe is me. I am unclean. I'm undeserving. What is this righteous judge? Who is this holy one? This other than person that saved me. This God who came out of heaven put on flesh shed his innocent blood. God we choose this morning that we eat what's on our plate that we come to the table and we consume all pieces of you. So Lord we've laid aside your zeal and your zealous heart for your people. God we pick that mantle back up. We repent for leaving it on the shelf and God we ask give us a revelation of your zeal, of your fire, of your fear and trembling. God we ask right now that you would impart to us something that would shake up the inside of our being that would create an urgency for the hour. Would you awaken us to the reality that you're coming back that it's not a fictional story but it's actually a reality that you're gonna split the heavens and you're gonna come down and there's people right now who are not walking with you who will join the lake of fire. God we ask for an awakening in our hearts that would shake us up to pray and intercede for the loss and Lord to take up the mantle of evangelism and to spread the word of God. And we just even repent right now for thinking that we can't or we're not called to the great commission and Lord we ask shake it up, wake us up. I ask for the fear of the Lord. I ask for the fear of the Lord that looks at our brother and our sister and not knowing their eternal destination. God shake us up right now Lord to give us the fear of the Lord. This Holy Spirit revealed the jealous love of God. Jealous love of God. The jealous love that he doesn't want to share us with anyone else. You're jealous Lord. There's a longing inside of you for the full attention. It's your joy to reveal yourself, to see your jealous love. It is like being tossed into the middle of the other. Thank you for your kindness, for your grace, for your love. Wanna read out of Exodus chapter 20. It says then God spoke all these words saying, I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt but out of the house of slavery. Verse three says you shall have no other gods before me. You should not make for yourself an idol or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them for I the Lord your God am a jealous God. Visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children on the third and fourth generation of those who hate me but showing loving kindness to those, to thousands to those who love me and keep my commands. At this time we're just gonna close our live stream. We just wanna say thank you to those who joined us. We'll be in the prayer room. You can come anytime today and come be a part of what God's doing in this room. And we're just gonna continue on with our set here. But Lord, we just come to you. We don't, your zeal and your love are not oil and water but they are one and the same. So Lord, we ask for just an impartation of the jealous love of God that you're pouring out. Wave after wave of your love and your beauty and your kindness and your zeal. Let's just continue to worship him.