 Good morning, let's go ahead and stand and just posture our hearts ready to worship Jesus in this sacred hour. If you're joining us on the live stream, welcome. We're so glad you're here to worship with us and pray together in the heart of Kalamazoo. We're gonna go ahead and open with a Psalm this morning, Psalm 47. It says, oh, clap your hands, all peoples. There's our percussion. Shout to God with the voice of joy. For the Lord most high is to be feared, a great King over all the earth. He subdues people under us and nations under our feet. He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loves. God has ascended with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. Sing praises to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with a skillful Psalm. God reigns over the nations. He sits on his holy throne. The princes of the people have assembled themselves as the people of the God of Abraham for the shields of the earth belong to God. He is highly exalted. And so as we enter into worship here in just a second, I just wanna encourage us to take this Psalm literally, those action words to clap and to sing and to shout. They're in the imperative form. They're in the command form, like just do it because God is shouting and God is singing. And so we're gonna enter in and just mirror just a little bit on earth this morning of what is already taking place in the heavenly realm. And so Lord, we love you. We thank you that this morning we get to clap. We get to sing. We get to shout. We get to make much of you Lord. Because you have filled our hearts with joy in spite of circumstances. Lord, we're not going to hell and we have the best dad in all the universe. And so we enter into your courts this morning with praise, with thanksgiving. Let's just go ahead. Let's just begin to lift our voices. Don't wait for me. Just begin to sing a song. Lord, we enter in with our vocal cords caught vibrating in praise, joining with myriads of angels together Lord, making much of you, glorifying you because you are a great king. You are a great dad. You are a great savior and friend, deliverer and healer, restorer, provider. Oh, we love you Jesus. We love you Abba Father and we welcome you here Holy Spirit to do what you love to do. Show us Jesus. Unlock our hearts in larger capacities as we worship Him. Let us see Him more clearly. Let us feel your manifest presence. We enter in in the name of Jesus. And this is what we need to do for fun but this is worship. Crafting of kings is worship and I believe. Make us a bride worthy of this worthy bride curve. Your ministry this morning. We're going to shift a little bit now just staying in that posture of adoration and worship. But we want to just begin to cry out in agreement with Jesus' heart for that very process that He would have a bride ready worthy of His return. You have your Bibles. Let's go ahead and turn pages. Open the screen to Ephesians chapter three. We're going to echo this Holy Spirit prayer. Pray through Paul the Apostle. Chapter three beginning in verse 14. For this reason I bow my knees before the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. That He would grant you according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened with power through His spirit in the inner man so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith and that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge that you may be filled up to all fullness of God. So Lord, we love you. And Father, we thank you that you are first and foremost Father and you have great zeal for the families on earth and in heaven, your children and you have great zeal for the preparation of Jesus's bride. And so we just stand in agreement with your heart and with this very prayer, prayed by Holy Spirit for us and for all who would come to believe in your name. And we're asking this morning God that all across this city every beautiful expression of your church God the congregations, the homes we're asking that a spirit of grace and might would be imparted to our hearts. Lord that we would be strengthened on the inside to set Jesus on the throne of our hearts that He would be in the center of our hearts consuming all every passion, every dream, every desire, every longing that Christ would dwell in the center of our hearts as King, the very King we have sung about and declared this morning, Holy Spirit, we need you. We need you to dethrone every other ruler in our hearts. We need you to come and strengthen us with might that Jesus would be center, that Jesus would fill our hearts in every context, in every expression. We just say Holy Spirit release, grace and strength and fortification to the heart of your church now in Jesus name. Love Jesus rightly. Your grace on the hearts of your people does take your play dirt of our hearts. Be passionate. Love Jesus rightly. To hear Him write passions, our dreams, our emotions, our desires. Yes Lord, renew our throne of our hearts for loves, counterfeit kings, years of this fallen age, we need you to reign in our hearts, to be the center. So we're asking Holy Spirit for just a rewiring in your grace, a re strengthening of your church in might, in our spirit man that we would truly have roots that go deep in the love of God, to your people in Kalamazoo God from the most seasoned believer and leader to the newest believer, to the little ones God that we would be in the soil of God's love. That we would not weigh of this fallen world by the temptations of counterfeit loves and fools asking Holy Spirit, do what only you can do, root system of your church to go deep in the love of God, that we would be father's affection for us as sons and daughters. Not succumbing to the accusations of the evil one, bearing the loads of shame and condemnation, disqualifying ourselves, loving Jesus on the peripheral. But Lord, I'm asking a church rooted and grounded in the love of God, confident in your affections for us in every chapter of our story. Begin and root your church in your love in Jesus name, behalf of our hearts, my own heart, my family's heart. God, the families represented across this city and on the live stream are congregations, this next generation. Lord, I'm asking for the experiential knowledge of the love of God, that you would break in, Lord, where there is condemnation and shame, where the lies of the enemy are turned up, God. And that's all that's echoing through hearts and minds. I pray, Holy Spirit, break in. Let the decibel of love, God, break the sound barrier in hearts today. Your love, tangible, let it be manifest even now as I'm praying, God, break into offices, break into cars, break into homes, break into this very place, Lord, bringing revelation of the love of God, the delight of God, the enjoyment of God for us in the fullness of our human package. I pray for the experiential knowledge, the breath, the depth, the height, the length of your delight in your people, God, to flood and saturate our hearts in this hour that a confident people rooted in ground, in immovable and unshakable bold would emerge, Father. Oh, we need to know the love of God. We need the experiential encounter with the love of God. So break in, Lord, break in on the peripherals, Lord, where people have just been marginalized because of shame and fear and condemnation. Break in, Lord, like a tsunami, overcome and overflow and undo shame, undo the works of the liar. When we just begin to lift our voices, let's just begin to pray in the spirit. Let's just begin to pray all around the room. Join us on the live stream. Pray in the spirit. Pray with understanding. The mystery that rings in my ears and calls me to sing. Oh, so holy. Oh, so powerful. Back into a time of prayer in these last remaining minutes. We've been singing much, making much of Jesus this morning, praying for the revelation of his love. And I wanna just press in now for all that we've prayed, but just target that prayer cannon, if you will, on our prodigals. And so if you have your Bibles, let's go to Ezekiel, chapter 34. And we're gonna go into a time of rapid fire. And that's a time where we're gonna have all 10 to 20 intercessors just line up along this wall right here, careful of the camera. And we're just going to come up and one by one, just release what we call these rapid fire prayer bursts, just 10, 15 seconds, just surrounding the topic of prodigals. Uniquely, we have a word over this church that we are called to see the prodigals come home, that God's gonna release an exodus of prodigals and we get to play a part. And the way that we do that is by agreeing with his heart and praying. And so, and if you're joining us for the live stream, you just lay hold of that word and you just press in with us for your loved ones who are far from the Lord right now. I'm gonna open in Ezekiel 34. This is God's promise to his prodigal Israel, but we're gonna grab hold of it and declare it over our own. Ezekiel, chapter 34, verse 11. For thus says the Lord God, behold, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out. As a shepherd cares for his herd in the day and when he is among the scattered sheep, so I will care for my sheep and I will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and a gloomy day. And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel by the streams and in all the inhabited places of the land. I will feed them in a good pasture and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. And there they will lie down on good grazing ground and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I will feed my flock. I will lead them to rest, declares the Lord God. I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken, strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. So Lord, we thank you for your promises that you are the God who leaves the 99 and goes after the lost one. I thank you that you are the one who gathers. You are the one who binds up what is broken. You are the one who feeds on truth. You are the one who rescues. And so Lord, we just lean into your heart, your father's heart for lost sons and daughters this morning. And we just say, Lord, do all that you have declared you will do. Be God in our midst and do the God things. Be God, every one of these action words that we just read, we just say, Abba Father, be faithful to do it in Jesus' name. Yes, God, I just pray like your word says in Ezekiel 36 that you would take hearts of stone and turn them to hearts of flesh. God, where there may be wounds from the church, where there may be wounds from wherever in life, Lord, would you turn those hearts of stone into hearts of flesh, turn them back to you and put your spirit within them, Lord. We lift up our brothers and our sisters right now. We ask that you would remind them of your goodness and faithfulness, that you know their name, that you are calling them by their name to return to you to their first love. So we ask you encounter them with dreams in the night, visions in the day, through your Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus. Pray for those that were in the church that found you, that you would stir the knife, that you would stir up remembrance in their hearts of the times that they felt the Father's love, the times when they knew who they were, they knew their identity, Lord, would you bring them home, Lord, that the fire that turned into embers, would you blow on the embers of their heart and that you would reignite the flame that they once had for you and they would restore the love of God in their hearts to Jesus. Lord, I thank you that your word says, my sheep hear my voice and the voice of a stranger they will not follow. God, would you make your sheep hear your voice again? God, would you call the lost home again once more, Jesus? If, Father God, I pray for a Luke 15 moment for those who have been lost, that they will come to themselves, that they will realize that there is provision in your house, that they will turn from their ways, that they will come back into your fold and realize that they have it so good in the Father's house in Jesus' name. This is our agreement with the heart of God. Think of them in dreams and visions and the moment they take a step back towards you, Lord, would they hear your steps running after them? God, I ask that you would ruin them for the pleasures of the world. God, I ask that you would bring them to the end of their selves where all they can find is you, God. We just ask right now for those in our minds say, God, would you bring them to the end of themselves so that they can find you, Jesus? Jesus, would you renew faith in those who have been praying for prodigals for so long? God, would you restore hearts of mothers and fathers who have been seeking after you on behalf of the prodigal sons and daughters? God, would you restore faith in their hearts in Jesus' name? Lord, we know that your word said is your kindness that leads us to repentance. So Father, we ask for an outpouring of a revelation of the kindness of a Father. And Lord, we pray for authentic, true repentance, a returning of their heart to Jesus. I just pray that you encounter them with your spirit and the revelation that you are the way, the truth and the life, that you are the holy vine dresser, that you will only satisfy the things of this world will never satisfy but it's you. And Lord, we pray against every lie and every scheme of the enemy that comes to steal and kill and destroy. Lord, you have a better word over your people and we pray that right now. For verse 16 says, I will seek to lost and bring back those who have strayed. Lord, we pray for those prodigals that have strayed that have tasted and seen that you are good, who know your presence. Lord, we're praying that you would reactivate the words, the promises and the moments that they've had with you that causes their heart to come to their senses and be restored back to you in Jesus' name. Psalm 139 verse 17, how precious also are your thoughts to me, oh God, how great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they would outnumber the same as the sea shore. Lord, I ask that you would reveal just one of your countless thoughts towards my aunt and uncle that they could just get a glimpse of you, the love and mercy you have for them that they could return to you with all their hearts. I ask for a profound revelation of the cross and the blood of Jesus for those that are far from you, that they would see you there in your suffering, but with kindness and mercy and forgiveness. They would see the cross and the blood and the resurrection of Jesus and that it would bring them back to you. They're every specifically for those who feel like they're too far from you to come back, who feel, who have bought into the lie that the enemy has sold them, that they cannot come back to you because they've done something that's too bad or their life is irreparable. I pray against that in Jesus' name. I just ask that you would send people into their lives over and over and over and over again, whether it's encounters with you through like visions or dreams or just people coming in and just saying, no, you are not too far. You're not too far to come back in Jesus' name. Thank you, Father, that prodigals are coming home. And God, I pray that when they do, that they will not be met with shame, but that they will overcome shame and know your love, God. And I pray that they will live in your love and produce lasting fruit all the days of their lives in Jesus' name. God, I pray that you would soften the hard hearts that said, if God's so good, that why wasn't he with me in the hard times? But actually you're the shepherd to the sheep and the shepherd doesn't leave the sheep. The shepherd stays and he fights the lions and he fights the bears. Just God, remind them that you're the shepherd for them and you're fighting for them. You have been there the whole time. We close, I just wanna release this declaration. This verse comes right after all the verses we were praying in Ephesians chapter three concerning the revelation of the love of God. In verse 20, it says, now to him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we can ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever, amen. So Lord, we thank you that everything that we have prayed, everything that we have longed for, everything that we have declared in agreement with who you are and what you do. Lord, exceedingly abundantly beyond that, you are able and will do and we rejoice in who you are and we rejoice in your faithfulness with great gratitude this morning. We love you Lord. All that is transpired this morning, Father, thank you for the privilege. We ask that you would multiply this many times over across this city, in this place, across this land and the nations of the earth, that on earth as it is in heaven, there would be incense of worship declaring the worth of Christ Jesus and the prayer fires burning in agreement with your heart. We love you Lord in Jesus name, amen. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. We are back here at noon and at 6.30 tonight. God bless you.