 This morning we want to welcome those of you who are joining us from home. Welcome to morning prayer. Those of you who are joining us in the room. It's kind of a unique season for us as we're continuing our prayer burn. Around the clock during the season of God's visitation, kind of an outpouring what He's doing here and in other places as well. This morning as we begin morning prayer here for the broadcast specifically I just want to read Psalm 42 part of that. It says, as the deer pants for the flowing stream so pants my soul for you O God. My soul thirsts for God for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night and while they say to me all the day long where is your God? These things I remember as I pour out my soul how I would go with the throne and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise a multitude keeping festival. Why are you so cast down on my soul and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope and God for I shall yet again praise Him my salvation and my God. Psalm 42 is David's cry to the Lord just of his constant need and how his thirst for the presence of God was like how a deer thirsts for the flowing streams. This morning that's just the highlight that God's presence is not a reservoir that you drink from one time but it's a flowing stream that provides to us exactly what we need and it's fresh in its living that our emotions and our energy levels might rise and they might fall but his presence satisfying refreshing presence is consistent it's alive it's available and it's flowing and it answers the question that our heart consistently asks is how do I get back to that place of renewal there's a rest that's found in the presence of the Lord and so this morning even as we wake up and we're beginning a new week and we're asking the Lord Lord what what does it mean what are you doing in my life what are you saying to me my body might be tired my emotions might rise and fall we don't set our fix and our gaze upon our emotions we don't set our gaze and our fix upon our circumstances return our heart and our attention to the river to the one who's flowing to the one who satisfies the one who's consistent the one whose peace and joy and righteousness righteousness peace and joy this is the kingdom of God in the Holy Spirit and he's available to us so Lord today we reach out to you Lord and we thank you that as we draw near you open the door and give us access to your kingdom and give us access to your presence your abiding presence that is with us Lord I'm praying that in every home in every living room where anybody who's joining us this morning in every city Lord that you are our resting place and that we find our rest we find our refreshing we find our renewing our reviving in you it's not in what we do it's in who you are sweet Holy Spirit come and dwell come and renew come and make yourself known in you is the river in you is the fountains of life all of our springs are in you God so this morning just like David said Lord as the deer pants for the water so I thirst for you we say Lord we thirst for you we long for you Lord our hearts cry is when can we come and appear before God again when can I stand in the presence of the one whose eyes burn when can I draw near to him when can I be in his presence and hear his voice feel my heart come to life Lord today we draw near we know that when we do you draw near to us come Holy Spirit meet us as we worship and as we praise as we awaken the dawn with our praise and with our voice as our soul awakens the dawn this morning let your spirit respond to the deep cry of our hearts with the deep longing of Jesus's heart come Holy Spirit come Holy Spirit that Jesus's presence in our midst will manifest as our habitation this is our dwelling place your presence God this is what we were meant for just as the birds sparrows have found their nest in your presence God our soul finds its dwelling place its habitation in your presence this is our home you are our home wherever you are that's where the kingdom is and wherever you are that's where we want to be there's so much more I can never see the end we want to see you and God we want our eyes so firmly fixed on you that the things that are natural and it's like Jesus when you walked into the room after your resurrection step through the wall into the room where your disciples were full of fear full of anxiety full of questions full of wondering what does this all mean what are we going to do Jesus you stepped into the room and he said peace it's just one glimpse of you brings all the peace of heaven is when you step through our bearing you make yourself known when you make yourself seen in our hearts in our lives by the power of the Holy Spirit when revelation opens up our hearts to see you in a greater dimension it's the same as you just speaking peace over circumstances everything comes into alignment so Lord would you just speak peace right now peace to the chaos confidence to the questions security to the unknown Jesus you are our peace the prince of peace we're just asking you Lord would you step through the wall into our upper room meet us it doesn't matter where we are father would you meet us with the spirit of revelation that Ephesians chapter one prayer that Paul prayed that God that you would grant to us the opening of the eyes of our heart in a release of the spirit of wisdom and revelation and understanding awaken our soul awaken our spirit to know Jesus to know the love of Christ to know the father and what we look full into your wonderful face on Jesus your wonderful rest for your souls my yoke is easy my burden is Lord we come to you we approach you striving ceases the effort of making things happen in our own strength all the fear and anxiety about whether we're going to fail or whether we're going to succeed whether we're going to be accepted whether we're going to be rejected in just one moment Lord in your presence all those things fall away because we hear your voice saying come to me bring it to me those of you who are laboring those of you who are burdened and I will be your rest I'll give you rest Lord today would you give us just as the priest put 12 loaves on the table in the holy place every single day the bread of your presence Lord today we come into your presence and we ask you to give us the daily bread of your presence the invitation to draw near where we can lay our burdens down where we can find our rest where the yolks that we've taken upon ourselves where the striving where the achievement mentalities where the performance mentalities where the demands of this age are all broken in a single moment because rest isn't found when we're done with what we think we're supposed to do and our rest isn't found when we get the applause or the affirmation of men our rest is found in one it's found in you so we draw near to you we say yes to your invitation Jesus we come we come to you Lord and we bring our faith in them at the feet of the Prince of Peace lay them down this morning the Lord's just highlighting things in your own life that you've been carrying that are wearing you out you know burning out necessarily because of the things that God's called us to but would burn out oftentimes because we carry loads bigger than what we're called to carry the Lord's is going to highlight right now the Holy Spirit to some things they sing I want you to bring those to me I want you to take those backpacks off on your shoulder I want you to take those cares those fears that you carry in your soul those questions that you have the words that have even been spoken over you that have been like boulders you've been carrying around in the backpack and today the Lord's saying I want you to bring them to me bring them and I want you to put them at my feet and I'm going to release rest buy my spirit into your spirit rest rest that renews rest that refresh us Lord we surrender and we yield to them to you Lord and we lay at your feet those things that we've been carrying that we were never called to carry we come to you Jesus we're not going to be bent over anymore we're going to be lifted up you're the lifter of our hands we're not going to be bent over by the burdens we were never meant to be beasts of burdens sons and daughters that rest in your presence and find our rest in who you are Jesus we say we come whatever it is that the Lord's highlighting you release that today portion forever Lord we trust you we say you are our portion our portion you are the lifter of Jesus you said take my yoke from me friend gentle and lowly we want to take your yoke that's not burdensome walk in the anointing we want to walk in step with your Holy Spirit we want to be continually filled with your Holy Spirit we want to walk out of confidence in who we are and you and that other insecurity wondering what other people think about us Lord we walk in the strength and confidence knowing that you are our provider every burden and every need that we've had Lord we trust that you provide every question mark about who we are Lord we say that we are accepted in the beloved because your word promises that Lord we want to learn from you we draw near to you we want to find our rest in you rest for our souls we're praying for those that have just gone through seasons of intense conflict and even disappointment and your soul has just felt like it's just dried up with Lord would you release the oil rest for our souls just one word Jesus just one word peace just one word it is enough to bring rest and renewal to our souls God we don't have to have all the answers we just need you to release rest for our souls for the emotions for the broken places for the burdened places for the traumatized places Lord would you release the rest of your spirit you said that there is a rest in Jesus Lord we choose to step into that rest for our souls rest for our emotions rest for our minds for anxiety has to go here has to go in imaginations have to go bitterness of the soul has to go holy spirit release rest rest chapter 2 and 3 says there remains a rest it's a Sabbath rest where we can enter in to the rest of God prayer said is just going to continue to go throughout the day so we want to invite you to come and be a part of it you can really come at any time during the day God's just moving in a powerful way