 Good morning. Welcome to the 8 a.m. Prayer set at the Radiant City Center We're so glad y'all are here on this rainy Thursday morning and those of you joining us on the live stream We're gonna go ahead and get started As we do I just want to read just a very familiar verse from Psalm 27 verse 4 It's David speaking concerning the corporate altar of his day the house of prayer if you will And he said one thing I have asked from the Lord and that will I seek That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life To behold the beauty of the Lord That's that posture of worship where we are undone by the beauty of who God is the awe of his splendor and holiness and To behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate In his temple or to inquire in his temple. It's that asking seeking knocking Standing in agreement with Jesus the great intercessor. This is what we do at the corporate altar This is why we've come to worship and to a pray and I just want to encourage us this morning to just Not take it for granted I have to stir myself up every once in a while just because it becomes so familiar the radiant city center We're here morning noon and night And yet there are cities and there are townships and there are regions and even nations in the earth That would so long for an altar like this for the freedom to come and behold The beauty of the Lord together with believers and to inquire in his temple And so I just want to remind us of the privilege the get-to-ness of this hour and the sacredness of it As we go into worship and so Lord we thank you We thank you for your work Here in Kalamazoo, Michigan Lord. We thank you for your seal for your house of prayer for all nations We thank you for this place God for those that gather regularly here in the power of agreement for those that join us Lord in The live stream in the power of agreement in the beauty and the splendor of worship of your son But we do not take it lightly this morning. We just pause In all the the setness of it and the routine of it. We just pause and we just say Lord. Thank you Thank you for the honor To minister at this altar as your priests in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Thank you for the privilege Thank you for the get-to God that we get to start Thursday morning At the altar of worship and praise that we get to agree With Jesus the great intercessor for your inheritance among the nations this morning God Oh, we love you Lord, and we thank you with grateful hearts That you are building something here that is just a whisper on Earth of the reality in heaven And we count it in honor and we count it a privilege We count it a blessing this morning as we enter into worship Lord. We just say we love you Jesus We love you Jesus Love this place in your presence. We love to stare at your beauty God, we love to have our hearts enlarged in your love. We love to declare your wonders Words fail us again and again There is no one we shift now into a place of intercession We just want to stay in that posture of worship because as we praise him and Mingle our prayers with our praise our praise is our weapon We pray and we praise and we pray and we praise and so we don't want to sit back during those times of prayer But we want to lean into There's been a common denominator This week throughout our prayer sets not just the morning But the ones that aren't live streamed at noon and in the evenings praying for this next generation Praying specifically for prodigal sons and daughters And there's a prophetic word over this house that it would be a place where we would see prodigal children return It's not just for this house because his kingdom promises say our inheritance is our children That in those last days he's gonna pour out our his spirit on our sons and our daughters And so we need to step into that emphasis of the Holy Spirit Because there's power in our agreement with one another and with Abba father And so I'm just gonna begin in Malachi chapter 4 If you have your Bibles verse 5 It says behold I'm gonna send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord and He will restore or turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers So that I will not come and smite the land with a curse And as we were worshiping I was holding these scriptures before the Lord of this emphasis of the Holy Spirit in intercession And I just saw the picture of that woman who had been hemorrhaging for years and years and years And she broke every protocol to push through the crowd and to have the audacity To tug on Jesus's hem of his garment, right? And he said your fate has made you well And so then I saw the unrighteous widow that parable where she'd heard the no the unrighteous judge and the widow And she just kept coming and coming and pounding on the door of the unrighteous judge to give her justice And I just felt that stirring of the Lord going what if we postured our hearts that way for our children For this next generation for the prodigal sons and daughters and we just said we will not be denied We're we're pounding on the door of the righteous judge who delights in answering our prayer We don't have to twist his arm. He's already said yes, and amen What if we broke every protocol and just pressed in and pushed through all the obstacles and the lies of the enemy To tug on heaven's garment this morning and say give us Give us our sons and our daughters. And so this is where we're going father. We thank you That you are father that you are righteous judge that this morning you are Inclining your ear to answer the very cries that you have stirred in our heart by Holy Spirit Lord we thank you that this is already your desire your longing your burden in intercession as the great Intercessor so we just stand up God and we just turn our hearts in agreement with you this morning And we just say father would you release grace to cry out even now all across this city? Lord, would you release grace to cry out with that tenacity with that? We will not be denied our inheritance in our children that kind of Persevering will not be denied cry God would you release it now in the name of Jesus and would you turn hearts? Turn mother's hearts turn father's hearts turn grandpa's hearts turn grandma's hearts Lord to begin to pound on heaven's door For the return of sons and daughters across this city for the standing firm to awaken My generation the moms of sons and daughters in Jesus's name God would you stir as only you can stir a Divine tenacity and a perseverance Lord. He's once again Lord where we've made peace Would you rush to stand in this hour God as you are? Tism of faith grandma's and grandpa's Lord every gatekeeper every foster mom every foster dad God Would you rush in and turn their hearts to the next generation? Turn us again God in a place of intercession and faith three once again in Jesus name But there would be just a cry arising out of this city Lord For our inheritance in this next generation That moms and dads would no longer be Heavy and weighed down with shame Indifferent and nested tithing pain God with distraction They would take their place in the gap on behalf of sons and daughters. Oh, we need you Holy Spirit We need you Holy Spirit to stand us up again To stand us at the gates again Lord where we contend For our families where we contend for our prodigal children Where we contend God for the rooting and the grounding of our little ones Lord to be oaks of righteousness all the days of their life But would you baptize your church? Did you baptize the moms and dads grandmas and grandpas great grandmas and grandpas with a spirit of intercession in this city Lord? And we would begin to see the turning of hearts to the older generation God First in the place of prayer and then discipleship God to the younger generation Crying out from my generation God crying out moms and dads begin with us Stand us up in agreement with yours as the great intercessor that we would see Lord the tide turn That we would see sons and daughters beginning to come home Breaking free of the sway of this fallen world prison cells opening Lord prisoners of war coming home a great exodus this summer God We're crying out release a spirit of the keepers of families. Let's just begin to lift our voices Can we just pray in the spirit pray with our understanding? Just begin standing this morning because you're good and your face of your people and you answer as we cry in accordance with your will And we thank you Lord for your promises That you say you will contend with that which contends with us and you will save our sons and you will save our daughters So we stand in the gap this morning God and we just say yes and amen Yes to the God who frees and heals and delivers As we sing as we agree with you as we praise you God We just say now would you release angels All across this city God Would you release angelic escorts home to our sons and our daughters? Even as they've come home from college even as they've come home from school in the natural Lord You said first the natural then the spiritual So as there's just this home coming in the natural God we ask that you would release angels To escort our sons and our daughters home to you again Home to the father home to their identity in Christ do it now Lord Do it now There is an initiative across this land For the sons and the daughters to return from the land of the enemy For prison doors to open God for shackles to fall God. We thank you for what you're doing Morning Lord, we laid in and we just say all across this city God Bring them home All across this city Lord the young the own them home Would you let that shaking take place again in the spiritual realm? Would you begin the shaking of polices of this nation? Lord was we sing and praise you? Would you begin to shake those exceptions let your true hammer begin to Sunday school vacation bible school all of the summer camps and the summer internships all of the national and international missions trips that are planned for young adults and youth groups God we ask that you would Come in as rescuer as deliverer Come in and encounter Lord in and through all good kingdom agendas God we ask that you would come in and breathe spirit in it all That young ones God would be marked and set apart that their roots would have an accelerated Deepening in your love and rooting and those who are just on the line and in the wrestle God that you would rush in Like those oaks of righteousness. We were singing about Those that are far from you, but just going through the ritual and the routine. This is what we do every summer I pray that you would aptly hand their hearts That you would fill them with holy spirit That you would rescue them from any and all addictions But this would be a summer of encounter a summer of rescue a summer of deliverance and a summer of just setting apart And marking a generation for young adults down to the little ones God in every expression every camp every church I pray that you would God anoint them with a spirit of wisdom and discernment Rise the hearts of leaders God with your father's heart of love People God would encounter the father racing to them with a rip open their ears to heal Open their eyes Lord for your faithfulness We thank you even today God for the turning of young hearts And the turning of older hearts in that place of faith and hope again We thank you for all that you have accomplished Lord At the altar this morning. We thank you for the privilege To minister to your heart and to agree with you God Concerning this next generation the sons and daughters our inheritance We don't take it lightly Lord the sacredness of this hour. We bless you And Lord all that has been prayed and poured out this morning All that has been declared We ask that you would seal it up Lord Jesus And that there would be a multiplication from heaven many times over of all that is transpired multiplied worship multiplied praise multiplied prayers of prophetic decrees in this place Across this city and across our nation and the nations of the earth God that there would be perpetual prayer and worship fires burning in the earth God As it is in heaven We love you Jesus and we bless you in your name. We pray amen and amen Well, God bless you. We are back here today at noon and then this evening at 6 30. We hope to see you here