 Good morning. Welcome to morning prayer on this beautiful day that the Lord has made. We are making the very purposeful and intentional choice to rejoice and be glad in it. And this morning as we enter into His presence, as we come into His courts, as we flood and run to Him with our cries, with our petitions, with our pleas, from the heart of our city. I want us to start off this morning by posturing our hearts correctly, by lavishing Him, by exalting Him, by extolling Him properly and adequately if you will. In Psalm 92 the Psalmist says, it is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name almost high, to declare your steadfast love in the morning and your faithfulness by night, to the music of lutes and the harp, to the melody of lyre. For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work. At your work, at the work of your hands, I sing for joy. You know, regardless if you're in this room right now or you're at home, you could be in Kansas City, Missouri, Bozeman, Montana. You can be in Canada wherever you are. This is how we are approaching the Lord this morning. We are coming into His presence and saying, Lord, we thank you because you are good and we know it's good to give you thanks. You are worthy of our praise. You are worthy of our song, Lord. You are worthy. And so right now I just want you with your voice for the next 30 seconds just to thank the Lord, to actually activate the air that He has filled your lungs up with that will then strike the chords, the vocal chords that He has put within your body to make sound and to use that sound and to use that air to give Him thanks. And so Lord, right now we come to you in this morning and we declare your steadfast love and we say, Lord, it is good. It is good because you are good. And so Lord, because you are good, you are entirely, you are holy, you are completely, you are always good. You are endlessly good. You are indelibly good because you are so good. We come this morning with an offering of thanksgiving. We bring to you an offering of thanksgiving just with your voice. Just begin to thank Him now. Just say, thank you, Lord. Thank Jesus. Vocal chords with thanksgiving and praise from this by night. Conviction and the longing that we would be found at your feet. That Lord, we would, that we would be marveled at your feet the way Mary was marveled. May we not be like Martha's who are always just trying to do. Lord, we understand there's work to be done and things to be done, but Lord, may we find and may we long for more time at your feet than anywhere else. Sitting at your feet, resting at your feet. Lord, would you enamor us? I feel weird even praying it, but Lord, would you enamor us with your feet? Enamor us, Lord. Remove from us that desire we innately have in order to earn a place by you and replace it, Lord. Replace it with the truth and with the reality of just being able to come and sit at your feet because you are worthy. This morning as we shift into the time of intercession, as I was driving in, the Lord burned in my heart with, and he's been doing this a lot lately over the last couple months actually. He's been speaking to me about the fear of the Lord. I feel led to pray through an entire Psalm. It's not six verses, but in regards to the fear of the Lord. And so if you have your Bibles in the room or whether you're online, I want to invite you to open up your Bible to Psalm 128 and we are going to in a way systematically pray through this in three different directions. And the first direction is going to be personal or for persons as well as the church. The Psalmist in Psalm 128 says, blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways. You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands. You shall be blessed and it shall be well with you. Lord, right now I pray for a holy fear of the Lord to fall upon us. Lord, in this room and online, Lord, I pray for a holy fear to fall upon every detail of our lives. Lord, may we truly become the people that you have for us to be. Lord, may we not play pretend people of God any longer, but may fear, the fear of who you are truly fall upon your church in this hour that we live in, in this culture, in this day, in this age. And may we truly be out of the fear of the Lord walking your ways. Lord, I pray that you would replace our duplicit lives with a holy fear. Lord, I pray that you would replace the anger that is burning in our hearts with holy fear. Lord, would you replace the complacency in our hearts with holy fear? Lord, would you replace the fear in our hearts with holy fear? Lord, would you replace the doubts in our lives with holy fear? Lord, would you replace the complaining in our lives with holy fear? Lord, I pray that the fear of you would fall heavy upon your church, not just radiant church, but yes radiant church. Not just radiant church, so Lord God, every church in Kalamazoo, every church in Richland, every church in Battle Creek, every church in Plainwell and Ossego, Lord God, every church across Southwest Michigan, Lord God, would holy fear fall upon your church and make the holy fear of who you are lead us to repentance, Lord. Lord, I pray for a broad sweep of repentance to fall upon your church, Lord God. Lord, blessed is everyone who fears you, Lord. So Lord, I pray that that fear would fall upon us. Your word says in Psalm 25 that friendship with you is reserved for those who fear t-shirts that say on them, Jesus is my homeboy, but may there be no reverence and no awe, astonishment of who you are, Lord. Lord, may a holy fear truly fall upon your church and Jesus would rest upon church, all of your church, Lord God, all of your church, Lord, in portage. And Lord, may that holy fear unite your bride in the, in the city of portage, Michigan, Lord God, and cause a revival to well up and spring up and flow out of your bride, Lord God, that Lord, I pray that that holy fear would unite churches who have denominational differences. Every priest in portage, Lord God, and unite them, Lord, as continues with this theme, your children will be like in olive shoots around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed, disrepresented in this live stream right now. Lord, I pray that every home would be, Lord, just like them, it touches their children. May that revelation wreck us and set us ablaze to follow you, not just in the highlight moments of our reels, but in the dark moments, in the difficult moments, in the trials, in the tribulations. May the reality of your jealous love for us ring loud, and may that reality develop in that you first loved us. And a blessing out of the fear of the Lord, and then he went to maybe a familial blessing from many transitions. And fear of the Lord is now applied to generational blessing, but also geographical blessing. And he says in verse five, the Lord bless you from Zion. May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life. May you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel. These last remaining moments this morning, I want us to direct our intercession, our war in the direction. He said, the Lord bless you from Zion. May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem. And then he ends with peace be upon your chosen people that promise land. Lord, I pray that peace would fall upon them. I pray that peace would fall upon every city and every home and every building. That despite rockets being launched, there would be a dome that covers your people. Lord, your word says as the mountains surround Jerusalem, so you surround your people. Lord, would you surround Israel right now? There are enemies coming from all sides. There are enemies conspiring and coming against them from every direction. Lord, would you protect them? Would peace be upon them? Would you bless Zion, Lord? Lord, I'm to shame. And Isaiah 40 verse four says, every valley shall be lifted up and every mountain and hill be made low and the uneven ground shall become level and the rough places of plain and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. Lord, I pray right now that every attack would be lifted up. Lord, that every plan against Israel would be lifted up, that every evil scheme would be made low that is coming against Israel right now. Lord God and Lord, I pray that your glory would be shown in this of Israel as you as you scatter. It was sovereignly planted by those of us in the new covenant who have been grafted in. Is that certainly to those of us in the new covenant but all to the saints of the old covenant and with jealousy back to you and they will look upon him and they have pierced and they will mourn would be seen and fulfilled by that remnant of Israel 34 starting at verse three name together. I sought the church be radiant. Let us be filled with divine passion Jesus name. Bless it. Thank you for joining us this morning. At this time, we're going to continue in this room crying out to the Lord and seeking him in the place of devotion. So I want to invite you to stay in this place and keep on seeking him if you need us double doors. If you want to have a conversation, I want to invite you to go down a match head and have that conversation down there as we continue to seek the Lord together. Have a blessed day. Continue praying and crying out.