 Good morning, everyone. You guys can go ahead and hear in the room, stand as we come together for Monday morning prayer here at Radiant City Center. Thank you, people that are here with us this Monday morning, and thank you for those who are joining us online. As we gather together as one church, one body with Jesus as our head, whether you are here in this city, or if you're in another state or another country and you're joining us with those of us in this room, we are with one voice and one accord agreeing with what God promised to do in the scriptures and through our worship agree with the truth of who He is. So we're gonna pray together, we're gonna sing together and I encourage you, this is not a participatory, like I'm looking and just kind of seeing what's happening, but we are engaging and we are repeating phrases, we're singing songs, this is not our personal prayer time, this is corporate prayer together and it requires muscle and movement. But before we jump in to worship, I wanna open up by reading Psalm 84. This is pastor Lee taught this weekend on joy in the house of the Lord, finding joy in the place of prayer and that this hour together is not just the first thing on our schedule that we have to check off for or just something that we have to do before we get to the next thing, whether it be school or work, but that this is joy, this is relationship, this is life, because the Lord is so excited for this moment that we get to spend together, excited for this moment that He gets to partner with His people. And so He's been looking forward to this moment all night waiting for you to show up against all odds and so we shake off our own circumstances, our own fear, distractions, worries, things that seem to be at the top of our mind. We shake it off, we lay it at the feet of Jesus, we say, okay, this hour I'm giving to you. Psalm 84, starting in verse one, it says, how lovely is your dwelling place. O Lord of hosts, my soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of Lord, my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home and a swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young at the altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise. Blessed are those whose strength is in you and whose heart are the highways to Zion. As they go through the valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs. The early rain also covers it with pools. They go from strength to strength. Each one appears before God in Zion. O Lord of hosts, hear my prayer, give ear, O God of Jacob, behold our shield, O God, look on the face of your anointed. For a day, a single day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the Lord God is a son and a shield. The Lord bestows favor and honor and no good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you. So Father, we thank you that you have chose to dwell among us, that you are not distant, you are not remote, you are not in some other dimension totally separated and disconnected from us, but you choose to be enthroned on the praises of your people. You choose to dwell amongst your church. So here we are, your church, your body with you, your son as the head. And we come together and we create a resting place through our praise, through our thanksgiving, through our worship. We establish you on the praises of our tongue. We establish you with truth, with declarations, with faith that you are our God, our Son, our shield, our Savior, that you alone are our King. Blessed are we who trust in you. And as we declare that there are no other gods like you, there are no other kings like you, that you are our Lord and Savior. As we declare that you come and you are dwelling among us, and we can come into your resting place, come into your throne room right now with boldness and confidence, knowing we have access to be able to fully receive what you have freely given and freely provided for us. So Lord, let this hour together in prayer and in worship be a moment that we can rest, that we can receive, but also so that we can partner and engage with what is on your heart in Jesus' name. We give you our highest, our best. Just before we continue in our worship and prayer, I wanna take us to all take a moment in your own words, in your own tongue to just begin to thank the Lord, begin to call to remembrance, begin to call to remembrance the times that you were broken, you were needy, that you were surrounded by an enemy, circumstances on all sides, whether it be trials, tribulations, slander, whether it be financial, physical, emotional needs, relational conflict, whatever it is, recall the moments that the Lord came and he in the presence of your enemies prepared a table before you. That not only did he just shelter you, not only did he just protect you, but he provided abundantly. There was peace, there was a table prepared that he anointed your head, that your cup was overflowing with joy, with deliverance. So right now, just begin to thank him, literally. Just say thank you wherever you are at. Begin to call to those things of remembrance, thank you for this, thank you that in this circumstance, you were my provider, you were my shepherd, my leader, you took care of me. I called upon your name and you heard me from on high, that you reached down. Begin to thank him right now, let it stir your heart, let it stir faith and remembrance as we begin to praise and thank him. We remembered, we say thank you for all you've done. We remember and say thank you. Don't let your soul grow weary in blessing the Lord. Stir your heart, have life is a grateful heart. Grateful heart begin to be stirred up right now. We say thank you circumstance. We remember that you have already broken in before, that you're that same God yesterday that you are today. This enemy will not overwhelm me. This circumstance will not get the best of me because I have seen you provide. I have seen you lead. I have seen you listen and respond and recall and reach down. So we remember and say thank you. It is our weapon of warfare. Our worship, our thanksgiving is our weapon of warfare against our enemy, against our own fear, against our own insecurity, against our bondage. They thank you. There is no shame here in the house of the Lord. So let joy and thankfulness arise right now. Let joy arise in the house of God. Let our praise and our worship be an offering of incense before you in the heavenly realm as demons, as the enemy, this house from this church. We say no to fear. We say no to cultural pressure. We choose to remember. We choose gratefulness and thankfulness, the Holy Spirit to put his finger on something in your heart. A resting place, a dwelling place, relationship is your goal. Your church, be a house of prayer, be a resting place, be a resting place, the relationship that you made a way for us to dwell with you. So we are not transitioning right now. We are continuing in our prayer as we thank you Thank you. And remember that you want to dwell among us and you want your church to be a resting place, that you want your church to be a house of prayer, a house of joy and salvation and deliverance that is full of light and life and truth that is a place for prisoners to be set free for the sick to be healed, for the lost to come home. This is not just a prayer room for ourselves, just to hang out and feel better. But this is a place where people can come and encounter the Lord, not some stoic room with four walls that has a bunch of rules. But this is a church where prayer, relationship, communion is at the center, the heartbeat, the furnace. And we're not just praying for our church here, radiant church, we're praying for every church in the city. That you're not just looking for one church, you're looking for your church, the church. That prayer would be at the center. Not necessarily that every church would have a separate prayer room, but that prayer would take part and take root deep in the hearts of its leaders and its people, that pastors would be gripped by prayer, that church members would be gripped by prayer, that it would not just be something that they do, but it would be in everything that they do, that before every service, every meeting, everything, every event, before every one-on-one or communication, that prayer would be the root, that we would not do our own thing, but that we would search you, that we would dwell with you, that we would abide with you, and that prayer would be the center of our church. And through that, we would find joy, we would find rest, we would find strength, because it's what you want to do. We thank you that you are not a God who wants to be separate and not dwell among us, that you are not some remote, ethereal Greek Roman God who is just meddling with the hearts of different people, but that you are a God who is close, you are a God who is dwelling among us, that you choose for your church to be the place where you dwell, that you chose to dwell among us, that you sent your son to take on our flesh and to dwell among us so that we could have communion. It's why we draw to our remembrance our salvation. It's why we draw to remembrance our thankfulness and gratefulness, because it's because of what you've done that we can dwell with you. So in our prayers, we call to remembrance Ephesians 3, verse 16 through 19, it says that according to the riches of his glory, as we recall the riches and the glory and the things that he has done that he would grant us to be strengthened with power through his spirit in our inner being, our deep inside of us, so that Christ would dwell, that Christ would find his resting place, that God would dwell among us in our hearts through faith, in this love, that you would give us the strength to understand not just know it in our head, but to understand with the whole church what is the full capacity and dimension of the love of Christ, the length, the width, the height, and depth, and that love that surpasses all that we could be filled with all the fullness of God. We want joy, we want the fullness, we want to experience deep communion with you and that comes from letting you dwell on the praises of your people, that we cast off the bondage that we're holding onto, the chains are holding onto. So as we pray right now, we ask to the riches of your glory, would you strengthen us? We wanna say yes, we wanna say yes to Christ dwelling among us so that we can be a resting place. So that means that we say no to the things of this world, we say no to those things that are holding us back, we say no to those things that are hindering love, we say no to bitterness, we say no to anger, we say no to selfishness and envy, we say no to those things so that we can say yes to Christ dwelling among us. So in the name of Jesus, would you strengthen us with power to say yes in your name? Strengthen us, strengthen us with power. Our man, by your spirit, strengthen us with power. It's your grace to be a dwelling place, strengthen us with power, strengthen us with power. All those things, we want to say yes, give us the strength in place, a resting place. Every pastor in the church, the churches of this city, and if there's a church on your mind, begin to picture the pastor or pastors that are in leadership there who are constantly having busyness, circumstances, trials, issues, assaults from the enemy, real spiritual warfare, always in front of them. And that's causing prayer to take a back burner because I have to deal with all of these other things. I can't do this prayer thing right now. And we want to picture those leaders, not in a condemning way, not in a shame boy, but to understand the warfare that is coming against them, that the enemy is trying to separate them from their life source. The enemy is trying to put a wedge between that which gives them life and strength and he wants to tire them out. He wants to get them to separate themselves like he did with Adam and Eve from the garden. And so we want to pray for them right now that they would be strengthened, that they would be rooted and grounded in love, that the cultural pressures that trials and temptations and busyness would not be like a wind that would push them side to side, that would uproot them, but that you would cause their roots to grow deep, rooted and grounded in their first love. The things begin to draw into remembrance their salvation, begin to draw into remembrance those moments you called them into ministry. When they said yes to give the rest of their lives to you, when they could have said yes to any other thing, things that would have been more fame and fortune and money and adoration, they said I will lay down my life for you because you asked me to. And so we ask right now that you would draw to remembrance and let their roots grow deep so that prayer could begin to take the center of their hearts and their church in Jesus' name. Every church, every pastor who has a center reminds around them it's so worth it. Hell in the house lit as we transition back to a time of worship, we ask that you would begin to continue to draw to remembrance, thankfulness and gratefulness in Jesus' name. But there's a song who else is worthy? Your faithfulness, who you are only you deserve our praise, our thanksgiving and our adoration. So we lay down our lives to you to be a dwelling place so that we can have communion together as your church, your body. So let that be the center of who we are, what we do. In Jesus' name, amen, amen. What a way to close that prayer meeting out, declaring the worthiness and the beauty of Jesus. So thank you so much for those here in this room who have been with us for this last hour and those who are joining online. We're continuing to pray Monday through Friday, morning, noon and night here in the Radiant City Center. You can come back today and if not, you can join us again online tomorrow morning. Thank you, God bless.