 Hello radiant. We're so glad you guys could come out tonight for our Seek and Send service We hope you brought your family with you, and I just want to invite you guys tonight Tonight this is a time where we are going to worship together as the collective family of God And what's beautiful about a family what's beautiful about a family is that there's different Expressions different personalities different ages and there's different ways Even we worship the Lord and for a lot of us when we show up on Sunday morning here at church We know how we want to worship we know the expression Maybe we feel comfortable with the expression that we feel best with but today We're gonna let some of our kids lead us in worship So in a in the book of Mark in the book of Mark Jesus is this he says let the little children come to me Do not hinder them for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven, and then he says this and this is for you parents and Adults he says truly I say to you whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child Shall not answer it so tonight We have the privilege and the opportunity to be led by these amazing kids kids How are you guys doing it's you guys have a job tonight, and you're gonna lead us in worship That's one of invite our kids and our families forward parents Well, this is gonna look like is we have one hour. We want to respect all the little kids in here We're gonna worship her about 40 minutes and then we're gonna have a time where we're gonna pray together as family We're gonna have it maybe you didn't bring your family tonight. That's totally fine We're gonna have moments where we're all gonna be engaged in these in these minutes But we're gonna come together as the family of God and worship so let's just lift our hands Lord We love you tonight God we come to you like little children father, and we say we want all That you have for us tonight God we worship you in spirit and in truth tonight in Jesus name amen amen So keep an eye on your kids get your flags, and let's worship Hey, so you guys know this song This is our greater thing song and so I'm gonna need your help tonight to teach all of our friends and all Parents in the room. This is just a song about raising our faith and taking Jesus at his word That we will do even greater things than these so let's show them are you guys ready? We're gonna be doing some motions up here. You guys can just follow us as we go here. We go. Let's hit it Let's sing this here to start this dry She looks nothing When it's separate from the vine as you want to just as So you can yell as loud as you can too and there's something in the disappointment in the stuff of the movements over here To the Lord in this place Jesus we thank you for your presence here praise to you breaks the heavy Jesus we just say your name. Can we do that tonight in this room to say the name Jesus is above every other name God we exalt you in this place in this house Every generation we lift high the name of Jesus glorify you in this place. Can we sing this yes, isn't he We are see it. Yes. See it. We are see it. Yes. See it. He is in here. Yes Your prayers I speak to you Mission stars to pray and just to find your family. Let's just hold hands. Let's lift them high We're gonna sing this bridge. It's just a prophetic declaration Over our families over our city over our friends over lost sons and daughters. We're gonna sing this together So let's just lift those hands high We just ask for your presence to flow through this Resituation every person in this room tonight. Let's sing this bridge I want to take a minute Even as while we're with our families Today, I just a sense as we were worshiping that that the Lord was wanting to release peace and joy into our homes In a few minutes, we're gonna pray and we're gonna have a moment for parents to bless children and children to bless parents But even before that a sense that the Lord wants to minister to us for me and my family Tonight is special a year ago. Many of you know our story We're in the NICU my daughter Celia believe it for a miracle and today we've seen does God deliver us deliver her from so much But in those moments in the hospital and this is a testify There were moments where God's presence would step in to the darkest situation that we've ever been in and it would just be like The peace of God would flood the room where the joy of God would flood the room and then there's a reality That the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating or drinking, but it's righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Spirit And I just sense that there's some families in here tonight. I want to be before we go anywhere I just feel like the Holy Spirit wants to minister peace and joy to you tonight So right now if you came in here and you'd say that for my family, there's some some heavy yolks There's some heavy burdens that we've been carrying. There's some real things going on tonight Just as the the family of the church I just want to take a minute and just pray the kingdom of God over you today So right now if you would say hey, I have some heaviness in my life I got some real things we're going through and we need peace and joy into our family We just raise your hand right now wherever you're at wherever you're at again. We're family in here There's no judgment. It's a lot of us and what I want us to do is I just want us to put our hands Just lay our hands on these ones that have their hands up and we're gonna declare the kingdom of God Over their family the peace of God over their family that the kingdom of God It's not it's not something the external but there's a greater Reality of the presence in the power of God. So right now, let's just lay our hands on these ones kids lay your hands on your parents And we're just gonna receive the kingdom today Holy Spirit Holy Spirit. We receive peace and joy right now in the name of Jesus Peace and joy just begin to pray and declare it over these ones God we release peace and joy in the name of Jesus Thank you God that there's a kingdom reality that's stronger than our circumstance. There's a kingdom power That's more real than what we're experiencing God and it's an everlasting kingdom that won't be shaken So right now in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus I pray that you would release the kingdom of God in power over these ones tonight Father I even just pray against this even depression. I just feel like there's been moments of depression Lord Would you break break the heavy oak which shouts of praise break the heavy oak which shouts of praise? Thank you for your presence Lord. We love you There's a greater reality. There's a greater reality The moment we're experiencing it's the kingdom of God on the inside. So right now Radiant we're gonna take the next few minutes And we're just gonna begin to pray for each other as the family of God's right now If you if you're not with your family go find them parents find kids kids find your parents I'd encourage you. Maybe you came here tonight and you don't have Your kids with you don't have your parents with you I'd encourage you continue to engage in this moment if you're with your roommate You can pray with your roommate if you're with some some friends you can pray with some friends We're gonna continue to engage in this in this moment no matter where you're at in life today I'd encourage you maybe in some of these prayer moments to think of your think of your parents think of your siblings Shoot a text to your kids that you haven't talked to in a little bit But we're gonna we're just gonna have some moments where we're gonna pray for each other So first thing we're gonna do is parents parents I Want you to bless your kids and speak identity over them when Jesus before he started his ministry When he was baptized the father spoke identity and blessing He said this is my son in whom I'm well pleased and who's all my delight parents And I want you guys to do is even as we start off on even the second send week I just want you to pray blessing blessing over your kids blessing over each one and just bless him in the name Of Jesus lay hands speak identity if you don't know what to say just begin to pray to God This is my son in whom I'm well pleased and who's all my delight just being a declare God's will God's goodness over them and even I want to encourage you maybe you're You're an elder here today And the elder generation if you see someone Sitting by themselves today That's what I encourage you head over to them and it's being a pray blessing over them We are the family of God Collectively so let's just take a minute We're gonna pray together as families of bless our bless our kids Yeah to clear the love of God the mercy of God the plans of God the destiny of God over their lives I pray this that I clear this over my kids every night They go to bed so you're a man of God You're a man of purity. You're a man who hears God's voice and obeys him You're a voice to your generation Holy Spirit. We release blessing Blessing on these on these kids right now father We call out and we call forth the plans and the assignments of God the purposes of God on their life God the things that you dream for them before they were knit together in their mother's womb Lord We call it for today right now in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen Amen. All right kids Where my kids at you guys still here? Hey kids, it's your turn Kids you know that you can pray and bless your parents It's pretty cool when your parents bless you, but you get to bless them so kids Here's what I want you guys to do here's what I want you guys to do is focus up Don't don't tune don't turn out, but I want you to look at your parents I don't want you to put your hand right on their shoulder right on their shoulder And I want you to look at them and I just want you to say Jesus every person may say Jesus Say I bless my mommy and my daddy Thank you God for putting them in my life I ask Holy spirit Fill them with wisdom fill them with grace Be with them today In Jesus name Amen Amen. Amen kids. Give your parents a big hug and thank him Thank them for being your parent Malachi chapter four He prophesies he says before the great and the terrible day of the Lord That'll turn the hearts of fathers to their children and children to their fathers Family restoration and reconciliation Is a key aspect of the heart of God in this generation. This is what we're doing tonight But hey, I want to I want to take a minute I know maybe you came with your family your immediate family But there's a greater reality that that we serve a god who creates a new family And we need every aspect of the family of God and what I want to do Today is I just want to bless Even elders in the room if you're over the age of 55 55 we're gonna go over the age of 55. Um, will you just stand up today? Will you just stand up today elders over the age of 55? You guys are awesome. We love you guys. We love you guys Can we honor these ones so often so often as it comes to the family of God? Um, we can get so focused on even kids and like what's going on And there's a reality that we need every aspect every aspect of the generation. So elders I promise you I'm sorry. I'm embarrassing you guys a little bit. Will you stand up again? I just want to pray for these ones. Can we honor These guys even I don't love some kids. Where are my kids at? Kids can we go pray? I just want us to lay hands I just want to honor and bless the elder generation and their wisdom and their faithfulness to the lord There's a blessing. There's a blessing when we honor Honor the elders in the house You know so often we have an orphaned generation But we don't honor spiritual fathers and mothers So holy spirit right now right now We thank you. We thank you for the elder generation We thank you for the elder generation god and we thank you for their faithfulness Over the years. We thank you for the way they've carried the faith They've carried the faith. They've contended They've contended For true righteousness and faithfulness lord how they've even invested into their own children God in today is just a spiritual family. We honor them and we just declare we need them We need them. We need their wisdom. We need their experience god And we need the spiritual inheritance Under lives and right now father we receive We receive every blessing that you've put in them today god and we ask the radiant church Radiant church would be a place where the elders where the elders can sit God in authority and release power and calling to the next generation So father today we honor them. We thank you for the lord and we ask holy spirit Would you raise up raise up spiritual mothers and fathers in this house raise up spiritual grandparents in this house That would contend that would contend for the faith in the next generation Holy spirit. Would you be with them today? Jesus name amen Amen. All right. We're still going you guys. All right. We doing okay? I love I love These services I think these services can teach us a lot about The presence of god. I think we sometimes can have this idea that like worship has to look like clear cut and like not a mess Not kids running around and I think there's something wild and Beautiful about the presence of god that sometimes we miss out when it can be too too clear cut, but we just um Kind of what one more group I really want to pray for today Um, even as it comes to family We're going to be praying this next week for god to move in our family and the intimate and the ordinary Parts of our lives and I know for many of us as it comes to family It's it's actually the place of some of the deepest pain Some of the deepest pain in our life and even many of you today here as we're praying Maybe there's someone that you wish was here or maybe there's even pain in your family as it comes to a relationship And then what I want to do is I want to stand as a family of god I want to contend for prodigals I want to contend for prodigals tonight. So what I'm going to invite us to is I'm going to invite us to stand Again, we got 10 more minutes. We're going to invite us to stand tonight And we're going to contend for prodigals We're going to partner our faith together And right now if you'd say that you have a prodigal in your family You have a prodigal kid or maybe it's a brother or sister and an or uncle. Can you just raise your hand? There's a prodigal that you've been believing for We got hands all over the room What I want us to do is I just want us to stretch our hands out If you're next to one of these ones you can Put your hand on their shoulder and just want us to contend and intercede today and intercede today in faith Just for these ones Yeah, so let's just stretch our hands out lord Jesus today. We stand as the family of god Father and we call forth to prodigals and we say come home in the name of Jesus right now In Jesus name we lift up every lost child every lost Father a father or mother god sister or brother and we ask we ask Jesus right now tonight that you and knock God from the door of heaven on their hearts and that there would be a shifting that would take place There would be a turning that would take place god and that that things got even the heaven in the heavenlies We're beginning to shift over their life father today Father today call your children home Call your children home just say that to the lord just say god call them home today Call them home today call them home today. God great is your faithfulness great is your mercy lord and over our families today We're crying out. We're crying out lord release your mercy on us release your faithfulness on us We pray in Jesus name in Jesus name Amazing. Um, we have just a few more minutes. I want to invite tammy Rittering to the stage tammy is Yeah, we can give it up for tammy. She's an amazing Spiritual mother in this house. We're so grateful for tammy. She is the prayer room director of our prayer room in our radiant city center and uh I just wanted her to take a minute even to pray for us We're heading into seek and send this next week and establishing our family altar And I would have a minute for tammy just to share and pray for us as we head into that week Well, I just want to give just a little bit of encouragement I want to speak of blessing and I want to pray for you um as someone who knows fully well the challenges and the power and the beauty Of the family altar. I just want to encourage you moms and dads This is the hill This is the hill that we fight for this is the hill that we take This is the hill that we try dying to take There are so many hills out there in so many battles that as moms and dads We have to choose what are we going to fight for what hill are we going to take? This is it. This is the non-negotiable one Why do I say that because there is nothing more worthwhile? Then we can give our children or our grandchildren Then the presence of god and the truth of his word and so we've got to take this hill you know I um with my husband we homeschooled our three children for 18 years and most every morning of those 18 years we gather together in worship and prayer And reading the word of god together at our family altar And I know it sounds so norman rock well-esque doesn't it? But the reality is it was saturated with humanity It was the toddler creating the murals on the back of the recliner with the sharpie And it was the sibling squabbling morning after morning over who was playing what instrument in worship And it was the teenager rolling eyes and asking are we done yet? It was laughter and giggles as we recited our memory verses in different accents It was tears of exasperation and tears of repentance and tears of tenderness in the presence of god It's all there All of it is there as we raise the family altar. And so I just encourage you take that hill It's not about one bad Day at the altar. It's not about one bad Prayer set at the corporate altar downtown It just doesn't matter the season even of toddler hood and teenagers the seasons don't matter Raising the family altar what you're saying yes to do tonight. It's about the trajectory of your family This is about years. This is about decades. This is about grandchildren and great grandchildren So stay the course. I just urge you with everything in me. And so now I just want to bless Every yes in this room tonight Moms and dads grandmas and grandpas the gatekeepers of the homes. I want to bless every yes Even those that are a little bit you have trepidation like tammy. You don't know the context of my home You don't know how this goes. I don't but Jesus does and his pleasure is full Concerning the home altars. And so I just bless it because even when we offer the weakest Yes, he meets it with his abundant grace. Will you pray with me? Jesus, we love you Jesus, we thank you that you are so zealous for family And we thank you that this was your idea To make us priests unto our god That we get to minister to you in worship and to partner with you in prayer And we get to bring our children and our grandchildren along and raise them up as priests unto you And so lord I ask that everywhere in this room god as your eyes roam the room That you would strongly support god even the weakest. Yes, I'll give this a rip god I pray that you would open up the heavens Rain down your grace upon grace your strength your courage your boldness your perseverance Your joy lord and your peace over every home and every gathering in your presence this week in jesus name Amen and amen god bless you Shout jesus from the mountains one of the most significant prophetic witnesses you can make To a broken world is a full family It's a family full of the love the spirit the goodness of god In this year as we head into our homes for the second sense season As you head into your college dorms as you head into your your family with Kids toys everywhere as you head into maybe your apartment whatever that looks like for you I believe that god is going to establish altars of prayer and worship not just in prayer rooms Not just in in sanctuaries, but in bedrooms and living rooms and homes around the city and I just believe this that god God is restoring the family to be the new wine skin for the wine of a third grade awakening And I believe he's doing it here in kalamazoo. So this week radiant church. I want to charge you We are just getting started here at seek and send I want to challenge you get your altar box for your kids Um and engage maybe you don't have kids at home You can still engage in our prayer meetings engage in our themes wake up engage in the prayer stream Um and let's uh, let's make every home and altar this upcoming week We're going to be celebrating next sunday with a big cookout We're going to have food games at all our locations. It's going to be a great time We're radiant. Let's go and build the family altar. Thank you guys for coming tonight be blessed Eat up all the snacks on the way out and have a great week. We'll see you in the prayer room