 Hey, good morning, welcome to morning prayer. We're gonna begin Psalm 40 and enter into, through the gate of thanksgiving, into the court of praise. And just behold Jesus this morning, this morning and this day is all about him. And we're gonna put our eyes on him. I'm gonna read the first nine verses of Psalm 40. If you have your Bible, you might enjoy reading along. Starting in verse one, I waited patiently for the Lord. He inclined to me and he heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the myery clay, and he set my feet on a rock and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God. Many will see it in fear and will trust in the Lord. Blessed is that man who makes the Lord his trust. And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Many, oh Lord, our God, are your wondrous works, which you have done and your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to you in order. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Sacrifice an offering you did not desire. My ears you have opened, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require. Then I said, behold, I come. In the scroll of the book, it is written of me. I delight to do your will. Oh my God and your law. It is within my heart. It's just stirring me this morning, David's confidence because obviously sacrifice and offerings the Lord did require of Israel in a sense. But David's saying, I know that the deeper thing that you long for is not the outward action, but a broken and contrite heart. And it's not my delight to do an outward action, but it's my delight to do the will of the Father. And the law is not written on my outward motions, but it's on my heart. My heart is stirred because I want to draw near to you and I want a broken and contrite heart. So let's just approach him this morning with that broken and contrite heart. I love the lyric empty-handed, but alive in your hands. Jesus, we are empty-handed this morning. And that's just the way you like it. We got nothing to impress you with. Lord, we have no strength of our own, no wisdom of our own, no zeal of our own that impresses you or wows you. We just come like children empty-handed, offering absolutely nothing but ourselves, offering absolutely nothing but our hearts that are pointed towards you, our faces that are turned towards you. We refix our eyes on your eyes. We refix our gaze toward the light of your countenance, the lifting of your countenance, your smile and your delight. We just come as children this morning. We just say, Abba, Father, we are yours. Just take a moment, say that out loud. Just say, Abba, Father, I am yours. Abba, Father, I am yours. Abba, Father, I am yours. Abba, nothing's to impress you with. This is my start, nothing to show off. Impressive to give, but my time in mine is like children. I sense just the ministry of the Father this morning, even as we were singing the phrase. I remember how far you carried me. I just feel like in this moment as we're letting the music play and anyone can sing or listen or whatever, these are moments to wait on the Lord. But I believe the Father is just specifically speaking. This morning, he's reminding us of how far he carried us. I think the Lord's even showing you specific moments of difficulty, pain, moments of being overwhelmed, moments of being in the pit. The Lord this morning saying, look, I wanna show you how far I've carried you. So we're gonna just let the music prophesy for a few minutes and wait on the Lord, but it's an active waiting on the Lord. And letting the Father speak and show us how far he's carried us, leading us to the place where we sing this chorus that we've been singing. I love you, I love you, I love you. So let's just open up our hearts this morning and let the Father show us how far he's carried us. Let's just receive this like the Father's singing it over us. I just feel the Father this morning just gently placing his hand, just the thought, the accusation that there was a moment or a season or a time in our life where we were abandoned. We were left there as an orphan. We were unprotected. We weren't fathered to feel this morning the Father just coming and ministering and just that chorus that Josh was just singing. It's just the simple truth, but he's opening up our hearts to receive it into the areas and places of our life where there's doubt and unbelief that maybe it's shrouded in striving or maybe it's shrouded in something else but the Father just wants to come and he just wants to exchange the lie that we were abandoned and that we were alone for the truth, that he never left us alone, that he carried us, that he was with us. I feel the Father specifically wants to minister to those who are feeling that come up in their heart this morning. And so if that's you, I just wanna invite you to lift your hand in the room, even if you're at home, raise your hand there and we're gonna just minister and take a moment and just sing the Father's love, pray the scriptures of the truth, of God's love and affection, but specifically him as a father. And so that's you, go ahead and lift your hand, wait a little bit longer, I know there's a few more that are sensing that and feeling that. Yeah, just keep your hand raised. Those in the room who feel that, if you would just lay your hands on them, we're just gonna pray and prophesy and minister over them in this moment. Some of you are gonna feel partway through the prayer that you were supposed to lift your hand, you can lift your hand too, your window of time hasn't closed. Father, right now I ask for the revelation of you as Father, the ever present help in a time of trouble. Lord, and I, we stand against the lie that there was a moment where you were not the ever present help in trouble, where you abandoned them, where you left them, where you orphaned them, where you let them experience more than what they could handle, that you were an absent father, where we declare the truth that you are an ever present help in the time of trouble. And Father, we just ask that you administer your heart and your love, how deep the Father's love for us, he is lavished upon us. Lord, I ask that you would reveal the width, the length, the depth and height, Lord, the experiential love of God that passes all knowledge. Right now, Lord, where there's knowledge that says you haven't loved, Lord, I ask for the experiential revelation of your love that surpasses that knowledge. Lord, there's knowledge that says I've been abandoned, but Lord, your love goes deeper and speaks the truth. And so Father, right now, I just ask for everyone in the room with their hand raised Lord, for those over the live stream right now, Lord, for a revelation of your love and your affection specifically, that you are the ever present help in a time of trouble. You are near those, you have not abandoned them. You are with them and you are for them. You are with them and you are for them. You are with them and you are for them. I'm just gonna keep praying over these. Felt drawn to Ephesians 3, 19. It's a prayer, we pray it all the time to know the love of Christ, be filled with all the fullness of God. And what I sense the Lord highlighting is we always think of that knowledge that passes knowledge. We think, well, we know things about God, but we wanna experience those things. But I feel like what the Holy Spirit is highlighting this morning is we have experiential knowledge that we haven't been able to reconcile that with what we know in our head, that we know in our head that God loves us and we know that he hasn't abandoned us and he's for us, but we feel like we have circumstantial evidence. We have personal revelation or encounter, so to speak with a moment and circumstance that prove that that's not true. And I feel the Holy Spirit highlighting this scripture this morning to say, I'm not just passing knowledge of head knowledge about my love, I'm also passing what you think is the deepest experiential knowledge that proves I don't love you and I'm showing you a greater experiential revelation and knowledge of my love that I didn't abandon you, that I'm not against you, that I'm for you, that I'm protector, that I'm provider, that I've carried you then, I'll carry you now. So I just wanna pray that over us one more time and then we're gonna go into worship and just respond with a response of love. And Father, I pray that same prayer of Paul, Lord, that we would know the love of Christ which passes knowledge. And Lord, I specifically ask for those experiential knowledge that we have inside of us, that we refuse to let go, that we say, well, I know in my head God loves me and I've actually experienced He's loved me but I don't understand how He could love me in this specific area, Lord. We surrender that on the altar and we say, Lord, we need to receive the experiential love of Christ that passes knowledge, Lord. I ask just, even as we sung, Lord, that you would show us how far you've carried us, Lord, that you would even show us that you have never abandoned us and that you are for us and that you are with us, Lord, that you would illuminate and actually pour the love of God into our hearts through Christ Jesus, that we would receive, Lord, that our hearts wouldn't be closed off to you, our hearts wouldn't be hardened but that our hearts would be confident in love, confident in the revelation of your heart and your love. Oh, how deep the Father's love for us. Lord, take us deeper. Show us the width, the length, the depth, the height. We love you. Finish with worship and let's just be, let's take this place as we've asked the Lord to encounter us with His love. Now let's in faith respond in love back to Him. Let's just declare this back to the Lord. This is who you are. Just remind ourselves of scriptures, admonishment to keep ourselves in the love of God. Or you've revealed your love and now it's our responsibility but ultimately our joy, it is our joy to keep ourselves in the love of God. And so Lord, we keep our face fixed on yours. We keep our hearts toward you. We love you. Jesus, we love you. Thank you for Calvary. Thank you for the blood. We thank you for the sacrifice you paid. We just receive your love today and we keep ourselves in that love today. In Jesus' name, amen. Thanks for praying with us. Sweet time and His presence. We'll be back praying today at noon and 6.30 p.m. and on the broadcast at 8 a.m. tomorrow. Have a great day.