 Well, good morning everyone, welcome to morning prayer as we kick off our seek and send Monday. If you're in the room, let's all stand to our feet this morning, those of you who are joining from home this morning. This week, we are consecrating a period of time that we call seek and send and we're praying over our families and we're building altars in every home and over every family as we prepare to send our kids back to school or really step into the next fall season here. And so for the next seven days, we're gonna be really intentional about building stone by stone and altar in our homes. Just imagine thousands of homes that have built an altar for the presence of the Lord to come and to take up residence. And so that's what this is about. And I wanna draw your attention if you're here or even at home, just to take your Bibles out, have your Bibles in your hands available and ready. This morning, I'm gonna start by reading Psalm 16. Psalm 16, David says, preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, you are my strength. I have no good apart from you. As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight. The sorrows of those who run after another God shall multiply their drink offerings of blood. I will not pour out or take the names on my lips. The Lord is my portion and my cup. You hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places and indeed I have a beautiful inheritance. This is a promise from God that we have a beautiful inheritance. And he goes on, he says, I bless the Lord who gives me counsel. In the night also my heart instructs me, I have set the Lord always before me because he is at my right hand and I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my whole being rejoices. My flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to shale or let your holy ones see corruption. You make known to me the path of life and in your presence there is the fullness of joy and at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. This morning there's a promise that as we build an altar we invite the presence of the Lord. That when his presence comes and makes himself known to us that there's fullness of joy that meets us there. And that's our prayer as we kick off this week. And many of you are in your homes, your kiddos might be there with you. We're praying and we're inviting the presence of the Lord into our homes. And with that presence comes joy, the fullness of joy. Sometimes we can think about the presence of God as just being really heavy and weighty and it's true but it's also filled with joy because the Holy Spirit is the most joyful being in the universe, he's filled with joy. His anointing is gladness. So let's just welcome him into this moment and to this prayer meeting into your homes this morning. Father, today we set our hearts towards you. Jesus, today we adore you and we glorify you as our Lord and our Savior. And Holy Spirit, we welcome you and your presence to come and to meet us as we begin to build a fresh and anew an altar for our families, for our home, even for our own lives, that personal altar to consecrate ourselves and to say, I am holy unto the Lord and this moment is holy unto the Lord. I will be like Gideon, the rebuilder of altars. And we pray across this land that even in places where maybe the altar has fallen down or it's never existed, where there's been things that have happened, disappointment, discouragement that have hurt and wounded our relationship with God that today by the power of the Holy Spirit you are the rebuilder of the ruined places and the desolate places. And you're a well able to rebuild a consecrated place to meet with you. Holy Spirit, come with joy, come with the fullness of joy and fill our homes with your joy. Release the pleasures of your presence as we reach out to sing and to worship and to glorify you and to pray and intercede over our families, in Jesus' name. Is my strength, I standeth today Is my strength, for joy of the Lord Is my strength, your strength today Is my strength, for joy of the Lord Is my strength, I stand in your strength Is my strength, for joy of the Lord Is my strength, I stay is my strength The joy of the Lord is my strength I stand in your strength Jesus, you're greater than who you face We all fall down before you Receive all the glory In all I receive all the glory We join in with heaven We join in with heaven, the small This is my daily bread This is the air Oh, this is my daily This is my daily bread I said that man does not live Lord, today what we know What our spirit knows within us We can go maybe a few hours A few days A few days without water But we can't go one moment Without your voice, without your presence In our lives, Lord Every hour we need you Our source, our strength Our righteousness Have our very being Lord, today we want the revelation Of our need, our great need For you, not just lie On the surface of our hearts Ready to be blown or scraped off Lord, we want it Like water That comes from the rain To penetrate the hardness Of the surface of our heart And get down deep into us Saturate us How much we need your voice Lord, your word is not optional Word is the source Bread to our soul Lord, your presence is not optional It's the strength It's the life David said, I've set the Lord before me He is at my right hand I shall not be moved God, you're the source of our stability Everything that we need So when we say we're desperate for you Our own desperation But Holy Spirit, you're the one To see our great need Of you And I'm praying that today Across the landscape in this room Recognize how desperate for you we are And we will become poor in spirit To have blessed are those who are poor in spirit We're poor in spirit We're rich in you Our hearts to our great need of you Against all of our sufficiencies In ourselves And all of our false ideas That we think that we can make it on our own Just pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps Work a little harder Strive a little harder Make the right connections None of that matters what we need More than anything is you You have the words of life, Jesus Where else can we go? You have the words of life You have the bread of life You are the living water You are the door You are our shepherd You are the way, the truth and the life Jesus, we need you More than the air that we breathe More than the songs that we sing More than anything We're at this morning I want you in this moment The tenderness of the presence Of the Lord is visiting us To make a very simple A very powerful from our hearts To just let him know And hear yourself say it Order presence in my life Just a whisper For you and we're like Zacchaeus Lord, we're small in stature But our need is great And even our weakest prayer Is that times, Lord, we just We feel smaller than we need to be We feel weaker than we should be But we're trying to get a glimpse of you Trying to get up higher So that we can see you But Lord, today we hear you respond Today Zacchaeus' salvation Is coming to your house Zacchaeus I'm coming to your house I'm coming to your home Lord, this is your reply to us To those who feel on the outside To those who feel insufficient Inadequate Small Unable to really see But that desperation that's driving us That over the next seven days During seek and send Lord, we're trying to get a greater glimpse of you Lord, your response to us Your response to All those who hunger and thirst for you Is To each of us as Zacchaeus Saying, today I'm coming to your house My presence is drawing near Salvation is coming to you So Lord, we invite you We invite you to come Come into our homes Let your presence find a resting place A Psalm 132 Resting place in our home As we prepare a table For you, Jesus As we're praying prayers That maybe we've never prayed As we're taking steps That maybe are outside of our comfort zone Lord, your response to us Is I'm coming to your house You're coming to our homes You're coming to our families You're coming to our children You're coming to our marriages You're coming to our needs You're coming to our fears You're coming to the place of our greatest Disappointments and you're saying today Salvation is coming to your house But we open wide the gates Of our homes today I want every mother and every father Every person who's the head of the household To just In your mind's eye And with your voice today Say, Lord, I'm opening the door And I'm saying, Jesus Your presence Come today, Lord Come today, Lord And I'm inviting Your presence Into our home and into our family Over our household As many as in your household You even named them to say over Jane and I Name your children, name your husband If it's just you, you just Invite them in Fight them into your hopes Today, say, Jesus, come I want your presence I need your presence We need your presence In our home today All through the Lord The Father that you would flood our homes With the joy of your presence Joy unspeakable God we're praying that you would fill Our homes with laughter As we're praying Lord, as we're singing As we're asking questions Just the fact that we're Turning our faces towards you In such an intentional way, Lord That you would meet us with joy Lord, joy The fruit of the Holy Spirit Joy, fruit of your presence Joy Joy, where there's been Cobwebs Discouragement and depression Intention Lord, I pray that you would flood our homes With your presence With joy unspeakable Joy indescribable Joy beyond comprehension Joy that doesn't even make Sense in the middle of turmoil In the middle of Some very difficult circumstances Lord, that it would be like a fresh wind Of joy that would flood Into our homes today Because you're there In the center of it Making our homes Your dwelling place today Release joy That begins to arise off perfect peace That surpasses all Understanding, Lord In places where there's been Anxed or fear Or anxiety That Lord, there's coming a fresh wind Of the peace of God Into our homes Cleaning out all the cobwebs All of the debris from yesterday I hear the Lord just saying Behold, I'm doing a new thing Consider the former things This is a new day And I, the almighty God I'm bringing peace Into your home The shalom of God Lord, fill our homes with peace That the spirit of this age Would not dominate Spirit of fear would not be Our inheritance, Lord You are perfect peace Jesus, you're the prince of peace And whatever room that you step into The shadows have to go Fear has to go Stress has to go Anxiety has to go Division has to go And peace comes So we're praying right now for the peace of God To be released in our homes In living rooms, in bedrooms In kitchens and basements We're praying, Lord, in churches We're praying in the streets of our city That there would be the peace of God That rules and reigns In righteousness today You promised in Isaiah 26 You said that you keep him In perfect peace Whose mind is stayed on you Because he trusts in you Lord, as we turn our hearts Towards you in a very consecrated way Lord, let the peace of God Flood our homes Rest of this day and this week As we seek and send Our kids back to school And welcome the presence of the Lord Lord, I'm praying that just like Obed Edom Who welcomed the Ark into his home For three months And the rumor spread Of the good things that were taking place In his home Lord, that the same would be true of our homes That there would be a testimony That's being written Starting today Of the goodness of God And the peace and the joy and the hope That God restores in our homes That would be spoken of us As we turn our faces And our countenance towards you Lord, you turn your face towards us So I pray a blessing I pray that your presence Would meet us Satisfy us In Jesus' name You who are here this morning In the prayer room and those of you Who are at home online And encourage you that this whole week Of seeking and sending Morning, noon, and at 6.30pm Prayer sets happening here at the prayer room I want to encourage you Pack up your backpack, grab your kiddos Husband, wife, whatever And come and join us in person At least for one prayer meeting this week Come to a bunch of them But join us online as well Have a great day As we continue to seek the Lord