 and welcome to morning prayer. We just wanna take a minute and just give thanks for what the Lord did this past weekend here at Radiant Church, but also just across the nation that there was just a lot of people attending a lot of Easter services. And I know there were salvations. I know there were just people returning back to the Lord. And we just wanna give thanks. So let's just do that for just a minute, Lord. We just thank you. Go ahead, you can applaud. We can just shout. Jesus, thank you. Thank you for moving. Thank you for saving. Thank you for drawing with cords of loving kindness. Those back to you. Thank you for restoring families and marriages. Thank you, God, for fanning the flames of faith and hope again in the hearts of people. Lord, we don't take it lightly. We just wanna turn around this morning to be those two lepers and just say, Jesus, thank you. Thank you for your goodness. Thank you for answered prayer. We love you, Lord. So we're just gonna begin this morning. I'm gonna read a passage and we're gonna go into a time of worship. And then we're gonna begin our intercession, standing in the gap again, just with that tenacity of spirit that Jesus possesses for his own, for the prodigals in our families and in our spheres of influence and those that we love across the city. We wanna pray that they come home as well, that there's salvation and turning as well for the prodigals. And so I'm just gonna begin by reading in Isaiah chapter 49, if you have your Bibles. Isaiah chapter 49, beginning in verse 21, the Lord poses the question, can the pray be taken from the mighty man or the captive of a tyrant be rescued? Surely, thus says the Lord, even the captives of the mighty man will be taken away and the pray of the tyrant will be rescued for I will contend with the one who contends with you and I will save your sons. And so Lord, we thank you for these promises as we enter into your courts this morning with thanksgiving and with praise, that you are the rescuer, that you are the deliverer, that you're a good dad, that you are the Lord of hosts, the almighty God who may wages war on our behalf and we thank you that every promise is yes and amen in you. In Jesus' name, amen. Lord Jesus, outstanding among 10,000, we exalt you this morning. There's no one like you. We give you all of our hearts this morning, all of our worship, all of our praise, all of our trust. We're gonna shift now, staying in a posture of worship but we're gonna go into a time of intercession for the prodigals, our loved ones, across this city, across this land. And I just wanna encourage us, this can sometimes be a tender topic that we wanna shrink back from our hearts are bruised with the delayed answers for those we love. But as one who is contended for a wayward child for many years and seen them come home, I just wanna say it's worth it. It's worth investing our hearts and partnering with the Lord in this. And there is a word specifically over this house, Radiant Church, that we would be a place that would see and call prodigals home. And so that's not a passive response. We just don't say, okay, the Lord's gonna do it. But we need to stand up, stand in the place of prayer and tug on the hem of heaven for that reality. The Lord said to Jeremiah, he said, I'm the God of all flesh. Is there anything too difficult for me? And so we're gonna go back to that passage in Isaiah, those two verses. The Lord poses the question, can the pray be taken from the mighty man or the captive of a tyrant be rescued? Surely, thus says the Lord, even the captives of the mighty man will be taken away. And the pray of the tyrant will be rescued for I will contend with the one who contends with you and I will save your sons. And so Lord, we thank you that there is no one like you. No one rescues like you. No one delivers like you. I thank you, Lord, that every promise you have made concerning our sons and our daughters, concerning our loved ones. God, I thank you that your promises are yes and amen. And so we stir up our faith because you are the God of all flesh and there is nothing too difficult for you. There is no trajectory of heart that is too far gone beyond your reach. There is no mind too darkened and hardened demonically God. I thank you that the sway of this world has not taken them beyond your reach. And so Lord, we stand in a place of faith today because of who you are, because of your promises. And we lean in and we just say, Lord, would you release your spirit to our loved ones even now? Would you break in with revelation like light suddenly awakening them to their senses? God, would you walk into every pig trough represented in our families and across this city and reveal yourself as truth? Release revelation, release a spirit of awakening and a returning to senses right now in Jesus' name. Start crying against us, our inheritance and our children, the promises to families, God. We're asking Holy Spirit, release a spirit of revelation in the knowledge of Jesus. We're asking for sudden leads to take place today, God. Just you and Holy Spirit breaking into siblings, breaking into parents, breaking into children, breaking into altering of encounter, change. You've done it over and over and over again. You've walked into dreams, you've given visions. Now, Lord, give sudden leads of encounter, we ask, in Jesus' name, a bit of revelation, a spirit of conviction. Even now, Lord, that holy agitation, let it begin to rise in them, Lord, that they find no pleasure in the things of this world. Masking Lord, to bring that Holy Spirit, disruption and interruption, nested ties their hearts in the past that gave them the counterfeit pleasures. Lord, I'm asking that they would not satisfy from this day forth, that you would break in, Lord, and cause there to be just a stirring and an agitation until they turn. Spirit, go forth, go forth in power, go forth in jealous love. Turn them around, raise on Jesus, fine tune their spiritual hearing. Voice, Lord, again, we're asking Holy Spirit, break in with encounter, personal, experiential, heart encounter with Jesus, we ask, in your name. I'm gonna keep interceding. I wanna pray for those who said yes to the gospel yesterday at Radiant Church and all over the city of Kalamazoo. Just, we're thanking God today and praising God for these decisions. Just feel burdened to pray out of Ephesians 3, Paul's prayer for the church in Ephesus, that they would be rooted and grounded in love. I'm thankful for the salvation experience, but that moment isn't being rooted and grounded. That there needs to be formation that happens in their life. That book that we give them, the 10 Steps Stored Christ, the Bible we give them, they gotta pick it up and read it. They gotta make a commitment to come to church. They have to make a commitment to follow through on that. So I wanna pray out of Ephesians 3. I wanna encourage you. If there was a face that kinda was highlighted at church, I know for me, I stand at the keyboard so I can kinda see out into the room. But if there was a person you prayed with or a face that was highlighted, maybe someone you brought to church that responded, put the picture of them in your mind. Let's pray for them specifically in a prayer out of Ephesians 3, verse 14 through 20. For this reason I bow my knee before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named that according to the riches of his glory, he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his spirit in your inner being. So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith that you being rooted and grounded in love may have strength to comprehend with all of the saints what is the breadth and length, the height and depth to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. First of all, we join in with the celebration in heaven, Lord, with the angels and the saints who celebrate when one soul responds and says yes to the kingdom of God. And so, Lord, we ask that according to your riches of glory, Lord, for those new believers that you may strengthen them with power through your spirit in their inner being that Christ may dwell in their hearts through faith. God, I asked for this Tuesday morning, two days after them making this decision, but would you strengthen them with power that Christ would dwell in their hearts through faith? Lord, I just ask for encouragement, Lord, as the enemy as he always does when the seed is sown and it lands in good soil, he tries to choke it out with trials and troubles and the cares of this life. Lord, with doubts and with difficulties, Lord, when the enemy comes to choke it out, Lord, we ask for strength that they may remain, that Christ would dwell in their hearts through faith. Lord, I ask, Lord, that they would remember the experience of letting Christ sit on the throne and that you would root them and crown them in love. Lord, we just ask for a rootedness and a groundedness for every new believer who said yes at Easter. God, I ask the roots would go deep, Lord, that there would be a pole, they would grab that Bible off the shelf, Lord. They would turn on the prayer meeting, Lord. They would make the commitment to come to church. Lord, they would feel a pole to be discipled, Lord. They would ask those they know in the faith to disciple them, Lord. They would join a group, whatever that step is, Lord, toward being rooted, Lord. We ask for formation to be worked on the inside, Lord. We thank you for the moment of salvation, but, Lord, we contend for fully mature believers. Lord, we contend, Lord, that everyone that has said yes, Lord, that they would continue steadfast, they would not swerve from the faith, Lord, but they would work through formation, Lord, the foundations of the faith. Lord, we ask for prayer to come out of their mouth, Lord, we ask for worship to come out of their heart, Lord. We just, we even ask for those difficult decisions and repentance and all of those things, Lord, this week, Lord, would you root them and ground them in your love, Lord? They would remember, Lord, they're not joining a religion, but they are being joined to the Father. They are being joined to the bride of Christ. They're being joined to the maker of heaven, whose kingdom is here on earth and is yet to come, Lord. I ask that you would root them and ground them in the love of the Father that is for them, Lord, that you would dispel all shame and guilt and condemnation and doubt with the love of the Father. So, Lord, we ask, Lord, would you root them and ground them in your love? I want to just break up into smaller groups of maybe two to four and just pray for the next five, six minutes. Each person in the group pray out just 30 seconds to a minute. Let's just continue to just pray for those who have just said yes to the gospel, just asking for the Lord to break in, the worship team will still just kind of play and sing over, but for everyone else, kind of turn around, find people around you and let's begin to pray, let's offer them to you. Lift them before you, Lord, these are your sons and daughters. We thank you for trusting them to us, to your church, Lord, and we ask that we root them and ground them in your love. In the name of Jesus, amen. Amen, let's continue to just be in prayer for those, prodigals in our life that we're contending for as well as praying for the new believers, especially if you're connected to somebody who you know made a decision. Make sure, send a follow-up text today, set up a coffee appointment for discipleship. Now is the time for formation. So amazing, thanks for interceding and praying with us today. We'll be back in person at noon at 6.30 and tomorrow at 8 a.m. Have a great day.