 Good morning, here from the center of Kalamazoo in our Radiant City prayer room. We're gonna open this morning in Psalm 47 and bring our praise to the Lord. Verse five, it says, "'God has gone up 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 song. The Lord goes before us with a shout and the sound of a trumpet and our response that we would clap our hands, all the people, shout to God with loud songs of joy for the Lord the most high is to be feared, a great King over all the earth. So today we bring praise to Jesus who rules and who reigns. The Lord above all, you are the victor and we bring praise. And you lead with a shout, you lead with the trumpet and our response following your leadership. So today we say, you are the worthy one. King Jesus, we crown you with our praise and our exaltation that we bring our praise unto you to the throne room. God let it be a pleasing aroma from this place in the center of Kalamazoo and wherever you're at that we're gonna lift up our voice to the Lord. High praise, high and lifted up is our Jesus. Worthy to be praised. God we bring our song, our praise, our adoration that you would be exalted above all. Seated in heavenly and in high places and you dwell with those in a lowly place. So today we say we're lowly but we're singing praises to you. King Jesus seated on your throne today. We love you, we adore you, we worship you and we exalt you with all that we are. We love you, Jesus. Just to bless your heart. Beautiful song she would sing. What you wanted from the stock of charts but it crowned you king. With all his might, he just knew. So he offered up himself. Ice of joy. The sacrifice of tears praying for the next generation of kids who have just come out of their camp encounter where Lord I believe with all of my heart you're raising up Samuels, Asters who know the voice of the Lord and become prophetic messengers to their generation and kingdom influencers. The Lord right now they're in the stage where they like Samuel do not know the Lord and do not know his voice yet but Lord you're stirring it in our hearts even now. And so we're praying on the other side of this camp experience that they've had here in our city and going home. We're praying that Lord even beyond all of the fun and the squirt gun fights and horse rides and cheering and all of that stuff. Lord the voice of the Lord would become prominent in our hearts. That what you've spoken to them, what they heard, what they experienced, what they encountered at Camp Lord would mark them indelibly for the rest of their lives to go home and build prayer closets. To go home and begin to seek out the Lord the Father you're gonna raise them up in this generation and I just have this sense that Lord you're calling us as radiant and many, many other churches to be a Hannah church. That we look at a generation that right now all hell is breaking loose. To dismantle, to confuse, to distort the image of God and the call of God off of a generation. They're being attacked in schools, in media, in social media. At this end of the age of spirit of this age this counterfeit cause, this counterfeit anointing is coming for our children but Lord you're raising up a Hannah church that looks at this generation and says we have no children. We have a generation that has not called out to the Lord but with tears we will not eat food. With tears we will get no rest until the Lord of heaven gives us children that know the voice of the Lord. And our tears are gonna soak the altar, our tears of this church are gonna soak the prayer room in our living rooms. It's gonna soak the mattresses of beds that moms and dads will not relent as they pray and intercede for their kids together on their beds. Couches where mothers get down on their knees and intercede for their children and say I'm not satisfied to just have children. I want children that know the voice of the Lord. Give us a generation God, our womb has been barren. A generation after generation kids that have been raised up and left the church, kids that have been raised up and are complacent and apathetic towards the things of God that have many have deconstructed and walked away from the faith. We as the church are not gonna stand back and watch that. We're gonna be a Hannah church where our tears soaked prayers are gonna cry out before God. Our lips are gonna move as we pray in the spirit and don't even know what we're praying. But Lord, you're going to hear and you're gonna raise up Samuels out of this generation of our kids in every household, boys and girls who are gonna begin to hear the voice of the Lord in camp. They're gonna hear the voice of the Lord in their living rooms. The voice of the Lord in their prayer closets and they're not even gonna know what it is. They're gonna have dreams and visions. They're gonna begin to stir prophetic callings in their hearts and something is about to change. And when they hear your voice, they're gonna say, Lord, here I am, your servant, speak to me. And the tide is gonna change and the current is gonna change in this generation and in this culture because Samuel was a prophet unlike any other prophet and there's a generation of young people that are about to rise up in the middle of middle schools and high schools and home schools and elementary schools who look at the things that this world is offering and all their perversion and all their confusion and they're gonna say, none of that compares to the voice of the one I hear in my bedroom. None of that compares to the one who I encountered at camp. None of that compares to the one who has spoken identity over me. I know who I am. I know who I am. I'm not gonna be confused. I'm not gonna be lied to. The voice of the Lord is gonna be my guide and you're gonna establish a lamp in this generation that shines brightly. So Father, we pray right now. Come on, wherever you're at. We pray over our kids that have come out of camp and those that even were not at camp. Father, right now, raise up. Hear our prayers. See the tears. I just know that there are parents who right now who've just been overwhelmed at the battle that they're facing and raising kids in the midst of this generation. Anxiety has tried to grip their hearts. Fear has tried to come in and say, I don't even know what I'm doing. Where are the resources? Where are the helps? Parents, your help is the Lord. Maker of heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to stumble. He who you pray to, he neither sleeps nor slumber. He is our helper. He is our helper and he hears your prayers. Father, touch and mark our children in this hour, in this generation. We're praying for esters who are gonna be called to the forefront, young girls, young women who are gonna have kingdom influence and leadership and be positioned in places of influence that they never would have guessed even in the midst of Persia. Though their heart is in Jerusalem, their calling will be in Persia for such a time as this. So raise them up right now. We're praying, God. First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, 10th, 11th, 12th graders, preschoolers who know the voice of the Lord who've been marked for an hour such as this got put a Hannah anointing on moms and dads and on our entire church to intercede and to pray them in to their calling in Jesus' name. A place that we send our kids but we just continue to live our lives for the things of this world or for the temporary urgent matter. Cation that happens as kids come back from camp that their parents are touched by the residue of the glory of God on their kids. That it comes into the home and it challenges parents who are praying for an anointing of leadership, insight, revelation, discernment over moms and over dads in the home that they're able to see the calling of their kids. That their ear is open to hear the voice of the Lord and that their heart would be turned towards fashioning them as arrows in the hands of the Lord. Psalm 127 says that children are an inheritance from the Lord and blessed is he whose quiver is full of them. That's arrows, weapons. We're praying Lord that parents would have an anointing to identify and fashion the hearts of their children for the divine calling upon their lives to sharpen their hearts resolved to serve Jesus even from the days of their youth and that families as we enter into secant sin here in a couple of weeks, junior high camp next week that Lord this month would be completely dedicated to resturring and fanning into flame the compassion and the passion for Jesus in our homes that is gonna light the way into this home. So Father right now stir the hearts of mom and dad Lord put a fresh anointing, a fresh hunger and a fresh thirst for the things of God and a new release of the gifts of the spirit with words of wisdom, words of knowledge, discernment discerning of spirits, prophecy, tongues interpretation of tongues, miracles, faith and new anointing all parents in this hour in Jesus name. It's happening in our lives, the Holy Spirit in a fresh new way as we invite them to have conversations with their children but yet they're dreading them because they feel unprepared, used to the battle there would literally be a download step into that and Lord I'm praying for reconciliation in households and marriages. Every home is an altar to the Lord. Herbs chapter 20 verse number 12 it says that he for a Samuel generation Lord this is who he was, he was a man in a time where there was no widespread revelation. You raised up a young man who heard your voice. The hum on his voice turned all the way up. Many of us it's the only voice we hear. But Father would you mute grace to block out all the distractions. Father would you open our spirits ear today where you commune with us and where you speak to us. You give us hunger and thirst for your word again but also our inward and as we read your word give us ears that are tuned in to your voice and the frequency of your voice and your voice alone. You said I am the good shepherd and my sheep know my voice. Lord we want to know your voice today. Open our ears, open our ears to hear your voice. Resist you but we want soft, pliable hearts where your word is literally written on our hearts and in our spirit and that there's an immediate yes. We don't want to just hear it and just be a hearer of the word of God. We want to be doers of it. We want to be led by your voice and no other not by the spirit of this age, not by our own will and our own desires not by our own good thinking, not by the voice and the opinions of others, not by what man thinks. Lord we want the bread of your voice, the daily bread of your voice speaking to us. Open our ears, open our eyes to see what you're doing. Jesus said in John 519 that I only do those things that I see my Father doing and I only say those things that I hear my Father saying. Lord where you go, that's where we want to go. What you're doing, that's what we want to do. What you're saying, that's what we're going to say. Protect us Lord, give us soft, pliable hearts and today Lord as we repent for the times and the places in our lives. Lord where we've heard your voice and we know it to be true but we've said no to it and we've walled you off and we've become callous to you. Lord today would you put a sledgehammer to the walls that we've erected between us and you. Lord would you peel back the calluses off of our hearts and give us soft hearts of flesh where there's been stone before because we want to hear your voice, we want to obey your voice today. Lord just like you healed the blind man would you heal our lack of sight just like you unstopped the ears of the deaf. Lord would you unstop our ears once again and give us hearing ears and seeing eyes. Listen today Lord, unstop the ears of your church and your people. Open the eyes, pull the scales off of the eyes so that we can see you as we turn our hearts towards you. Jesus you're so faithful to speak. We want to have ears to hear what you're saying but that we're living in over our families, over our city, our church, our own lives and our calling. Lord we want to have ears to hear what you're saying. So we say yes, Jesus. Your way is our way. Your word is true. Your voice is the guiding reality. It's the compass of our hearts. We will not listen to a liar. We're not going to listen to the voice of this age. And Lord would you raise up a generation in our families among our children that they know the voice of the Lord from an early age. Lord to counter the assault of the spirit of this age against them Lord. You're faithful Jesus. God you said in Isaiah when the enemy comes in like a flood you raise up a standard against them. So I'm praying Lord in the midst of the flood of dissipation and confusion and diabolical strategies. We will not stand in fear. We're not going to cower. We're not going to retreat. We call on Samuel. We say rise up Samuel. Rise up Samuel generation. Rise up and when the Lord speaks to you say here I am your servant is listening. We say to the next generation, Gen Z and the Alpha generation rise up Samuel. Rise up. Rise up you prophet. Rise up you prophetess. Rise up you one chosen of the Lord for this hour to respond to the darkness of the hour as a great shining prophetic light in this hour. Come forth Samuel. Kids returning from camp. Junior hires go into camp next week and to seek and send where families are going to fortify the altar in our homes. We're praying that this entire month leading even up to the sand event that's going to take place in Grand Rapids on Labor Day weekend where young people by the thousands are going to rally to worship the Lord and respond to the call of God. We're praying that this it would be a significant hour in which you're calling forth a Samuel generation from this region to lead an outpouring and a move of God. So we put all of this before you Lord and we add our amen to it. We say Father in Jesus name. Thanks so much for joining us and we invite you if you're at home to join us today at noon and tonight, 6.30 p.m. and if you're here in our room we're about to shift into a divo prayer session so we're going to ask if you would like to stay you're welcome to but if you're leaving would you please prayerfully step out of the prayer room and chat it up in the lobby but thank you so much for being with us.