 Okay, we're gonna go ahead and get started. I'm just gonna invite those of you in the room to stand if you're able and would like to do that as we welcome the presence of the Lord in this place. Those of you that are joining us online, welcome. We're just gonna jump right in and just ask Holy Spirit to come and do what he loves to do this morning. So Jesus, we love you. And Abba Father, we love you. And we thank you for your son. Holy Spirit, we welcome you in this place as our helper, as our guide. We ask that you would just open the heavens over this place. I ask for just eyes that see the beauty of the Lord as we worship. I ask for ears that hear the heartbeat of heaven as we pray. Holy Spirit, would you just come and lift our gaze this morning, our eyes of faith into that invisible realm of incomparable splendor and beauty. I pray that you would pour out grace that we would agree with you, Father, that we would agree with the angels and the elders and the proclamations of the worth of your son, Jesus. Lord, let fingers prophesy on instruments under your prophetic anointing this morning, carrying the sounds of heaven across the airwaves, Lord, over Kalamazoo. I pray for vocal cords that will prophesy and agree with the declarations and the proclamations of the worth of Jesus in heaven that we would agree on earth. And that this sacred hour, this privileged hour where we get to be with you where you are, Jesus, where we get to stand with one another in the power of agreement, I pray, that by it, Father, your heart would be pleased and that you would be glorified, Jesus. We love you, Lord, and we welcome you in this place in Jesus' name. Yes, Lord, you alone are worthy and we love declaring your worth and agreement with all of heaven. There's nothing like your presence, Lord. We're gonna shift now into a time of intercession into our first prayer cycle, maintaining that posture of worship. We're gonna pray and ask the Lord to release the light of who he is into every sphere of society in Kalamazoo. We're just gonna hold our city before him as a remnant this morning and just say, Jesus, light of the world, shine your light in Kalamazoo. If you have your Bibles, I'm gonna begin praying out of the Gospel of John, chapter one. In verse three, it says, all things came into being through him and apart from him, nothing came into being that has come into being. In him was life and the life was the light of men. In verse nine, there was the true light which coming into the world enlightens every man. And so, Lord, we just thank you that you are the light of the world, that no darkness can stand before you, that no darkness can overpower the light of your countenance, the light of your glory, the light of your truth. And so, Lord, as a remnant of your priesthood in Kalamazoo, Michigan, we stand before you with our ear on the heartbeat of heaven. And we agree with you this morning for your plans and your purposes, your kingdom will for the city of Kalamazoo, every sphere of society, God. We hold before you now and we just say, light of the world, would you break in even now and shine your light that illuminates the darkness, that scatters darkness and shadows of compromise and deception? Lord, we pull upon the hem of heaven this morning and we just say, Father, open up the heavens over Kalamazoo, let light penetrate the dark places, let light overcome darkness, let revelation break into hearts even as we pray this morning. We declare light over Kalamazoo in Jesus' name. Shadows, the fines in the darkness and the darkness did not overwhelm it. Lord, I thank you that this is truth, that when the light of who you are, you who are the light of the world, when you shine, when you break in darkness, you cannot overpower the light of who you are. And so Lord, we just in agreement with your heart, we declare light over Kalamazoo. Can we just lift our voices and even just declare that? Light, light over Kalamazoo, light over your churches, light over the families, light over the education system, light over the sciences and medical fields, light over the government, light over the sports and entertainment, light over the marketplace, scatter deception, scatter rebellion and treason, scatter injustice, hearts of men in this city. Oh Kalamazoo, we see the glory of God, light to perceive rightly, to judge right light in Jesus' name. And you change everything, it's every man. And so Lord, we ask you to shine light into darkened minds even now, with darkened hearts. Lord, where the light has gone out in prodigies, where they've embraced compromise and sin, deception, and the light of truth has gone out. We stand in the gap this morning Lord, and we declare over these minds and over these hearts light, light that illuminates the darkness, suddenly exposing the agenda of the evil ones, suddenly bringing truth to mind again, bringing sons and daughters back to their senses, like flipping a switch, light breaking in. Lord, we stand and with the power of life and death that you have given to us in our tongue, we agree with you and we declare light over the hearts and the minds of prodigals right now, knowing God that our words carry the power Lord because they're your truth, they're your words in our mouths so we declare it light, light into the minds of sons and daughters Scott, where a spirit of deception has darkened the truth. We declare light breaking in prodigal children for their senses even now, taking Lord that in Jesus name. First prayer cycle, I just wanna invite you just to pair up in groups of two or three, choose a sphere of society that resonates in your heart and just begin to declare light into that, whether it's at the educational system, the sciences and medicine, the marketplace, the families, the church, just begin to just declare light as the team just sort of ministers to the Lord in music and then in just a few minutes, we'll go back into a collective time of worship. Let's just join this chorus now together. Shine light in the glory of God, bless the Jesus Christ. Love you Jesus. Little bit of time together. We're gonna go into a second prayer cycle. We're gonna go right into a rapid fire and that just means we're gonna just pull on the priesthood, our voices in the power of agreement and we're just going to pray for whatever is on your heart this morning for the city of Kalamazoo, whatever God has laid on your part. When we each pray our little part that we carry, we have a fuller expression of the great intercessor's heart and so I'm just gonna open it and if you all just wanna come, maybe 10, 20 intercessors, just come line up along this wall. These are not long prayers. These are prayer bursts, like 10, 15 second bursts for God to break in and move in some capacity in our city. And if you're joining us on the live stream, this is where you can take those prayers and just yes and amen them in application for your city. So I'm gonna go ahead and open, just come over and line up. These are short, just prayer bursts for Kalamazoo, whatever God has laid on your heart. And so Lord, I just thank you that there is no other name but Jesus and no other banner flying over the city of Kalamazoo. And God, I just ask that you would release a spirit of unity among the churches and among the leaders of the churches and ministries in Kalamazoo. God, that you would release grace for the walls to fall. Every divisive barrier God to love, I ask that you would release grace for it to crash, Lord, to hit the ground and that love would abound in your church in Kalamazoo, in Jesus' name. Lord, I just pray that you would be exalted on college campuses. God, that there would be no other false God that is exalted. Lord, in the hearts of the students, faculty and staff on college campuses, would Jesus be exalted in Jesus' name? Father, I just come before you and lift up the lost and broken specifically those who find themselves in addiction and substance abuse. And Father, I ask that your love would break in. Father, I ask that they would find you as the satiator and the fulfiller of their souls, God, that you would fill every void and everything that they're looking for and you would find you, Jesus. God, we just pray right now, will you just stir up the ground where it has been still and dry? Will you break up the soil, Lord? Will you pour out your spirit again and will you rain down on this land? Dear Heavenly Father, I pray that if there's any reconciliation that has to be done with the first nation that lived in this land, that that would be done in Jesus' name. The Padawan army lived here before and they were moved out 1830s, 1838. So we pray if anything needs to be taken care of, that that would be done in Jesus' name. Comfortable and sin, I pray that you would just open eyes of those who have grown complacent that they would just realize that there's more for them, Lord, and that what they're in is just not even as good as what they could be doing, Lord. And I pray that you would just open their eyes to the light of your glory, Lord, in Jesus' name. Amen. Ephesians chapter five verses eight and verse 14. For you was sometimes darkness, but now are you light in the Lord? Walk as children of light. Wherefore you say, wait thou that sleepless and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee life. So Father, we pray right now in the name of Jesus. We pray for the body of Christ that we would recognize you. I pray that, Lord, that we would wake up and understand us, be alive in our conversations in the grocery store, wherever we must, God. And we speak to you. And ever shining on all the children here in Kalamazoo that have been led away in astray from God. And we know God that you want them to come home. And I pray that each and every one of us here today grow out in this world today and be an amazing shining light like God wants us to be. There's one person today that you can touch and bring to the Lord. There's always somebody that you can make a difference in their life and show them how Jesus loves people. And we just, again, we pray for your light to shine bright in the prodigal children that have been led astray and they may come back home to you, Lord. In this, in your mighty name, we pray. Amen. I just pray for getting an abortion. I just really feel, I just feel like this is their only option or they feel ashamed of what happened or I just pray that you would open their eyes to the special life inside of them. And I just pray them to choose life. And I pray that they have the whole pregnancy that they would not regret their decision. Like you would just bless the pregnancy and the birth and just everything. And I pray that you would bless them for choosing life in this world where it's just so easy to get rid of a life or to just pray for all the people who are choosing to get an abortion right now, Lord, at whatever stage of the process they're in, I pray that you would help them just stop right now. I just really pray that you would help anyone getting an abortion in Jesus' name. Yeah, Father, we just thank you also for sending laborers to those girls to show them what it looks like to be a mom. If they don't know the ropes, Lord, teach them, send laborers to show them the way. Thank you for that. And I also thank you for Psalm two, Father. You said, why do the nations and the people plot a vain thing? The kings and the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, let us break their bonds and pieces and cast away their cords from us. But then in verse four, you said, he who sits in the heaven shall laugh. The Lord shall hold them into vision and he shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure. Yet I have set my king on the holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree the Lord has said to me, you are my son, today I have begotten you. Ask of me and I will give you the nations for your inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron and you shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel. Now therefore, be wise, oh kings, be instructed you judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the sun lest you be angry when he perish in the way and kindle through. When his wrath is kindled but a little, blessed are those who put their trust in him. Father, we just thank you, Lord, that those who are coming against your people trying to break apart the bonds between us. Father, we just thank you, Lord, that you hold that in derision. And I thank you, Lord, that you will be magnified and lifted up. We pray for godly wisdom for our leaders and those in authority that your kingdom will come and that your will be done in Jesus name. Amen. We close, we're just going to pray a prayer together for the last number of days up until 30 days. We've been partnering with churches across Kalamazoo standing in the gap for a spirit of unity. And we have a prayer here written by Pastor Jeff, I believe from center point. And so we're gonna read this and prayerfully declare this over our city and over the churches. King Jesus, you can join me. Awaken the sleeping giant of your church in our city as we pray and collaborate to seek the common good for our region. Open our eyes and hands to the marginalized and our voices for the voiceless. We endeavor to live such counter cultural lives that our places of work and neighborhoods will experience the beauty and power of the gospel. Give us such an unquenchable passion for you and your word that we can't help but tell others about Jesus and his unstoppable kingdom for the glory of Jesus and the advancement of his kingdom. Amen. And amen. Well, Lord, we love you. We commit this hour into your hands, everything that has been prayed, everything that has been declared in agreement with heaven. We just say, Lord, would you multiply it many times over at this altar and all across our city and region and nation and the nations of the earth, God that you would find a mirror on earth as it is in heaven, your prayers, your songs, your decrees, Lord, as we gather as a priesthood and partner with you. We love you, Jesus. We welcome you in our city, in our homes, in our very hearts today. In your name, we pray and give thanks. Amen. Well, thank you for joining us this morning on the live stream as well. We are going now into a devotional worship set. You're welcome to stay and just soak in the presence of the Lord and in the Bible. If not, we just ask that all conversation be taken out. We're back here at noon and 6.30 tonight. God bless you.