 Welcome to morning prayer. So glad you're joining us as well as those who are here with us in the prayer room At the heart of our city in Kalamazoo. We're so glad you're joining us I know many of you are maybe joining us from other cities But even some other states and places and locales like that, but we're just so grateful that you're joining bless you So glad that you're joining us and we want to invite you to make your living room to make your home your church your city Arresting place for the Lord this morning because you were created to be a resting place For the presence of the Lord you were created to worship Much a part of who you are is breathing in Breathing out the inhale and the exhale of your spirit is worship Psalm 34 Psalm of David it says I will bless the Lord at all times his praise Shall continually be in my mouth my soul Makes its boast in the Lord let the humble hear and be glad. Oh Magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together Something powerful about us Worshiping and exalting the name of the Lord together and every moment is a moment That's worthy of us stepping into with a posture of worship I will bless the Lord at all times and the good times and the bad times and the morning in the evening and The day of trouble and in the day of rejoicing Oh bless the Lord. Oh my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name The name of the Lord is worthy to be praised and in a world right now that wants to praise men Praise brands praise political parties praise ideologies today We as the people of God say we're here to praise the name of the Lord and lift it up and to let his fragrance ascend Out of our lives. So today Lord Jesus we come And we say we want our lives to be a resting place this room This city this region this week this moment to be a resting place of your presence on earth in us As it is in heaven Lord, we're here to praise you Come now is the time to worship come now is the time to praise the name of the Lord What you wherever you're at to just use your mouth use your voice and begin to just Vocalize praise to the Lord even if it's just to say praise the name Let's begin to vocalize of resistance and Difficulty praise is our response So Lord today just like them The priests and the Levites went out before the armies of Israel Said the Lord is good and his mercies endure forever And it caused confusion to me today Lord we go the armies of Israel We go out before the armies of the kingdom of God today and we say the Lord is good The Lord is good and his mercies endure forever We say great is your faithfulness Great is your faithfulness. Oh God Lord, I'm praying for a breakthrough of joy today over the atmosphere Over the atmosphere of West Michigan as we go into the next three days Over West Michigan of this historic gathering called the sin I'm praying that even as the hurricane storm clouds begin to swirl and we see it on radars over, Florida And it begins to change the barometric pressure I'm praying that in the heavenlies today that there's gonna become a breakthrough a swirl of a cold front That begins to swirl over West Michigan of praise and Thanksgiving and joy that breaks through the religious spirit That breaks through the heaviness that breaks through the barriers in the walls and the man-made Structures that are not prepared for the storm clouds of joy and worship that are about to hit it Lord I'm praying for you to raise up a hurricane of praise a Hurricane of praise the Lord is good and his mercies endure forever Lord right now let the worshippers be raised up Let the spirit of joy begin to be elevated right now Lord I hear the sound of the abundance of rain I can see the storm clouds on the horizon They might just be the size of a man's fist But I'm declaring over Grand Rapids in West Michigan this weekend that there's gonna be a hurricane of praise That breaks open the atmosphere Releases the storm clouds of revival Releases the rains that have been withheld for generations Lord that you're going to unleash high winds torrential rains of revival They're gonna change the landscape problem The Lord is good come on wherever you're at. Let's do what the priest did the Lord is good and his mercies endure forever The Lord is good of the gathered people on Saturday So many prayers so much intercession has been prayed for decades over West Michigan Revelation 5 it says from the throne room scene in verse 8 When he had taken the scroll the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before the lamb each holding a heart In a golden bowl full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints and they sang a new song Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals for you were slain and by your blood You've ran some people for God from every tribe and language and people in nation and you have made them a Kingdom and priest or our God they shall reign on the earth Lord We're asking that this Saturday sin event would be a tipping of the bowls That the bowls in heaven that hold the prayers of the saints that have been mixed with the incense of worship That seemingly have dissipated as they've been prayed and hit the ceilings in the rooms in which they've been prayed and Disappointed Lord you've been collecting them in bowls decades of intercessions Tears that have filled bottles have not been lost heaven has recorded everyone and they've been filling up the bowls of incense filling up the bowls of intercession and Lord we're praying that those bowls are full We have full confidence that there are full bowls before your throne Lord today as we gather in a historic way on Saturday at the sin We're praying that the angels of revival would begin to tip the bowls That have been filled with the prayers and the worship of the saints and pour out Pour out the incense of heaven on our region and on this generation to ignite Holy revival of worship That you Jesus would receive the rewards of your suffering Lord that you're gonna raise up a generation of goers Of sent ones you're gonna raise up a room full of worshipers radical lexic worshipers And the song of the Lord is gonna break through it's gonna break through the steel atmosphere That has withheld the reins of revival for decades We're saying no more Lord let this be ground-shaking ground swirl Hurricane of praise that unleashes a storm upon this generation God Go before us right now Lord release angelic ministry over the atmosphere and prepare the bowls for tipping The praise of your people are gonna tip over the bulls And we're gonna see what heaven has in store released in Jesus name when we say revival We're not talking high full of hype. That's cotton candy that melts Impact the Lord we're praying for of the life and the revelation of Jesus the beauty of Jesus and the worth of Jesus to be placed on the chest of your body and for voltages of resurrection life To be shot back through your united body once again in the midst of a generation that the life of Jesus Would flow into us and the passion for Jesus would flow out of us God we don't need more hype. We don't need another arena event We're not looking for a concert for people to come together and feel all hyped up the Lord We're praying that as people gather together that there would be an opening of heaven and a release of the weight of the glory of God in our midst and acts for Weight of glory that comes and actually shakes the place Shakes its foundation skull Shakes the people that are in it or shake us beyond the American dream Shake us beyond our need for another event. Shake us beyond our own comfort in our D. I Y Christianity Lord shake us with a revelation of the beauty and the glory of Jesus in a sense of Urgency of the hour in which we live that this is a moment that you're speaking to the church to go for It's not called the stay event It's called the send event because Lord you're raising up a generation that will Not just lift up their shoes, but lift up their heart and say God here am I send me To the hardest places send me to my generation a post Christian post modern generation That ridicules the gospel of Jesus, but Lord would you raise up? Courageous steely young people who would go under the college campuses in the workplaces in social media And even into the church world in the mission field and go and declare the worth of the lamb Father we're praying for even pastors that gather in that room thinking I'm just gonna bring my youth to this event It will fire them up Lord. I'm praying that pastors who become cold and their devotion to you Whose prayer lives have been laid in a coffin and buried six feet down would be resurrected at the send event God we're praying that as they open their Bibles the eyes that once looked upon those pages of scripture as a new believer Are gonna see through those lenses once again and be captivated by the beauty and the fascination of who you are God Lord we're praying for fire in the pulpits We're praying for fire in the prayer rooms Lord. We're praying that out of this send event Thousands of prayer meetings are gonna emerge across America and across the region where we say come and let us return to the Lord Come and let us return to the Lord of Hosea six Cry out of our hearts come let us return to the Lord. He has torn us, but he will heal us He has struck us down, but he will bind us up After two days he will revive us and on the third day He'll raise us up that we may live before us come and let us know the Lord Let us press on to know him So that he will send forth the reigns of revival and let us return to the Lord let there be a sobering overwhelming spirit of repentance from apathy and complacency Then overwhelms it and a return to our first love Gonna walk into that arena By the thousands and they're all gonna have stories and the enemy is gonna have a tactic to build their senses to distract them bondage and sin That they're carrying in there's gonna be all kinds of warfare that's taking place in that arena because of the Potential that can come out of it and I want everybody even at home right now Normally we just intercede and we sing but I want us to take the next 60 seconds to a minute and every one of us Stand on the wall and intercede and ask off for a breakthrough in individual people's lives to verbalize it And I want you to contend like you were standing outside of a burning house One two three, let's go come on Verbalize intercede pray in the spirit whatever it is that you've got to do ask God Lord break through break through God break through Open people's eyes Lord soften their hearts intercede cry out to God ask him Lord move in people's lives In fresh new ways Reveal yourself Silence the voice of the enemy Break off the shackles of seeing Lord will deliver people from bondage God Stir their hearts Reignite the flame of first love in our hearts. Come on engage you verbalize it You verbalize it even at home. Nobody's hearing you, but heaven hears you come on verbalize it out loud out loud intercede cry out to God Send breakthrough God Blesses weak, but the spirit is willing let your spirit pray for his breakthrough happening ahead right now The people are gonna step into on Saturday because you're praying come on verbalize it out loud ask him Breakthrough Jesus even now heaven is preparing the atmosphere in the soil Even now Lord you put the blade of breakthrough into people's soul Or even now there's people that are at home saying my life has got to change There's got to be something more Tired of going around this track Tired of running these same lives. I'm tired of the sin and the weight that easily besets me. I'm tired of it And they're crying out to God Lord I'm praying in response to those prayers put the blade of breakthrough in like a plow That begins to turn over hard and soil Lord, we're praying that the seeds The seeds of encounters that people have had with you Two months five years ago ten years ago Lord, you're reminding them of those things You're stirring them up and you're reminding them of days when they had visions of serving you on the mission field Lord when they had days of saying yes to you at camp and shirt services where they encountered your presence But they become doled by the spirit of this age God I'm praying reactivate those members that they might come to their senses like the prodigal of the pig pen Lord, I'm praying that prodigals right now Prodigals all over the city all over the region are about to get a text a phone call and invitation come with me to the sand And Lord, I'm believing that the altars are gonna be filled With those prodigals who are returning home and what the enemy meant for evil are gonna become the weapons of righteousness Launched back out in power and purity and strength God Lord, we're praying right now for those who are on the fence We're like, I'm not sure if I want to go. I'm not sure if it's worth it Lord, I'm asking you from the north from the south from the east and from the west to build that arena as a sign and a wonder to a Hostile in a jaded Culture that wants to look at things like that and say I'll look there's just there's so many empty seats God I'm praying as a sign and a wonder you would pack that place out with hungry hearts So from the north and from the south and from the east and the west right now stir up the mighty men and women of war Stir up the mighty men and women of war Call a solemn assembly gather them together. This is the time to seek the Lord This is the time to call out To the Lord of Sable the Lord the one Who is above every other name Jesus? I'm praying that louder than the concerts that come out of that arena would be the name of Jesus lifted up We look at a generation and the questions asked can a generation live again Serve God again Be filled with his spirit again the enemy lifts up his trophies and says do you see what I've done? Do you see what I've done to God's image bearers? Do you see how I've cut them humiliated them confused them destroyed them strung them out? Do you see my trophies and yet we hear the spirit of the living God say prophesied of these bones prophesied of these bones And so we say to these dead bones Live live again. We say to the dry bones lying in the valley Come together Assemble Lord put sinew on bone put flesh back on bone Put unity back into order put the head in its place and let an army arise God And we say to the enemy You won't have the final word The one who went to the cross the one who rose from the dead has the final word He's the God who calls dead things back to life He's the God who speaks those things into existence that are not and we say I hear the sound of bones rattling I hear the sound of the spirit of God breathing in to that which has been dead and saying rise From the dead in Christ will shine upon you Lord. Let the spirit of the Lord. Let the glory of the Lord rise upon us Let it rise upon this generation. Let it become an army with the radiance of the glory of God Lord, I'm praying for a generation with a smile on its face Confidence in its heart a dance in its step a clap in its hands a sword in one hand In a trowel in the other ready to rebuild the waste places ready to rebuild the house of the Lord a Resting place for the Lord God Wake them up We say these dead bones can live we say they will live we prophesy live Live this great lakes region Jesus. You are worthy to receive the rewards of your suffering Lamb of God So have your way Jesus name we do not only Join us today at noon tonight at 6 30 p.m. Here at the prayer room as we're continuing to just pray morning If you're not planning on being at the send or you have it yet It's abandoned and so there's still an opportunity for you to go you can look up the send You can get a ticket you can also just show up at the Van Andel on Saturday morning and get in there But you're a little want to miss it and it's going to be a powerful powerful time together So even if you can't be there would you join us in prayer for the event as well? And I want to invite those of you who are here in the prayer room. We're about to shift Into a divo a devotional set so you're welcome to stay and enjoy the presence of the Lord Kind of soak in that for a while if you're going to talk or you're going to connect We're asking you to do that outside if you would just quietly leave the prayer room so that we can maintain an attitude and a posture of worship