 Good morning, radiant family, for those of you in the room, I invite you to stand with us. Last Friday, I believe it was snowing this Friday. It is nice and warm outside, so we're here morning, noon, and night right here from downtown Kalamazoo to praise God, to worship, to also make an intercession and to really pray the things that are on God's heart for our city and for needs around the world. And so this morning is no different. We're going to jump right into Psalm chapter 67. I'm just going to read through, there's just a few verses I'm going to read through this chapter. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine upon us. That his ways may be known on earth and his salvation among the nations. May the peoples praise you, oh God, and may all the peoples praise you. May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples justly and guide the nations of the earth. May the peoples praise you, oh God, may all the peoples praise you. Then the land will yield its harvest and God, our God, will bless us and God will bless us and all the ends of the earth will fear him. Not only is the blessing of God resting on his people resting even on this prayer room downtown Kalamazoo, but when other people look and see that God is favoring his own, the fear of God strikes their heart and the repentance of God is released in their midst so that they can turn to him and also to be saved. So as we worship God we're thanking him for his favor but also we're lifting up our battle cry to him this morning that the fear of God will strike the hearts of men and that the the hearts of men will be laid bare before him that he'll be able to move in to speak and direct their heart their hearts like a water course wherever it is that he has them to go whatever plan he has for their life it will be accomplished. So we start this morning let's lift our voice even right now and say God we worship you Lord you've declared that all peoples will praise you that all nations will be glad and sing for joy all the peoples of the earth will declare the glory that is do your name and God right now we choose and this morning on this Friday morning to bring you glory and honor and praise and Lord from from right here in the prayer room and those of us watching online we choose to make this a holy moment we choose to give you glory we choose to lift up a song to you this morning and to declare the goodness of God in the land of the living and declare that you live forever that you have all power and all glory and God no matter what situation we're in right now we just lift our voice to the living God we declare you the king of kings we declare that you are worthy this morning we lift our voice to worship the living God let's continue to just lift our voice fix our gaze upon you Lord in this holy moment Lord we fix our gaze on you that you're the only one that can satisfy our soul you're the only one that can satisfy our soul Lord forgive us where we have sought other things Lord forgive us where we have felt like we've had enough we felt filled up enough Lord and you have held out the invitation for more and you have called out to your sons and daughters I have more I have more come and drink freely God forgive us where we have felt like we've had our fill and we stopped pursuing the purest thing you Lord we stopped pursuing you in your presence Lord we were satisfied for although you satisfy our soul Lord it's a continual feeling and it's the capacity to grow and to grow and to grow more and behold and right now God you're inviting us to dream again about the pursuit of you and pursuit of your presence you're challenging the question have we really had enough have we really tasted enough are we not also curious for more are we not also ready for more and this morning God we repent for the ways that we have come to you God for what we needed in that moment and not returned for the more we're repent for the ways God that we have come to you in moments of need and moments of despair and moments of key times key decisions and God we have not continued the same passion the same pursuit when you've brought about resolution when you've brought about change when you brought about victory and breakthrough when you've brought about the things that we have sought your face for and God still we are learning this lesson still we are learning forever learning God that you are the gift you are the prize you are the great reward beholding you gazing upon your beauty God all of our attention all of the energy of our life captured caught up in the gaze of the beauty of the one whose eyes blaze like fire of the one whose face shines like the sun Lord we want to see you God in your glory got the cry of your people in this hour Lord the cry of your people Lord our hearts are rent our hearts are torn Lord that we would see the living God beyond all of the practices and all of the disciplines beyond all of the performance Lord what we really want God is you what we really want is to see you God and to have you be glorified to have you be known God Lord even now you're deepening the cry and your sons and daughters Lord you're impressing the image the inescapable image of the risen king so that nothing that our eyes see will be tempted because the gaze of the beauty of the one that we worship is so intense it's so alive inside the living imprint of the face of the one who shines like the sun has captured all of our attention has captured all of our energy has captured all of our focus oh to look upon this one this holy one oh to see oh to see you God in your glory this is the cry of our heart Lord this is what is shaking in the in the foundation of our soul this is what is causing us to be discontented with everything in this world a deep cry Lord it's your cry you say the deep will cry out to deep we join with the chorus of the deep God we join with the chorus of the deep and we say more of you God more of the living water more of the image of the one who is dead great variant race and is seated at the right hand of the father more of this one more of you Jesus it's travail God it's travail Lord on our sons and daughters or the generation that cries and I mean literally cries for the living God that stands in the gap between what could be and what should be and begins to make travail even as Nehemiah saw what could happen with Israel the walls were broken down you were not being worshiped God you were not being the focus of your people or you went to pray and to fast until he heard you asking that you release anointing on our young people to pray and to fast and to to cry and to travail for the living God and their generation God that you would raise up intercessors young ones Lord you'll take on the journey with you you'll take them under your wing and you'll begin to share the burdens that are on your heart revelation from heaven desires God that you have for your people across the face of the earth and Lord travail will be broken open over our young people God is of the holy one cries for your name to be revealed Jesus to be revealed from the deep that is in them crying out the travail come forth thank God on your people it's almost declared that tears flow from my eyes for your word is not obey where there's a lack of knowledge of your word people cast off restraint how clearly we see this Lord in our society in our world and in our generations growing up access to so many things where restraint has been cast off and yet Lord in the middle of it you have reserved for yourself those who know you who are captured by a different audience who are captured with a different prize and a different gaze than what the world sees you've kept for yourself a brain and a worshiping church you've kept for yourself young and old who are marked with the presence of the living God who even as the world changes around them only go deeper into the cry only go deeper into the intercession only go deeper into the travail who literally weep because your word is not obeyed who literally cry out for the lost sons and daughters friends and neighbors who cry out who look at the gap and say God deliver the gaze of this generation and put it on to yourself Lord capture the attention of this generation and now God releasing your burdens even now God raising up your intercessors who are going to stand in the gap even now those who are marked by the brain and the worshiping call who will stand in the gap and declare will declare that our sons and daughters will know Jesus know Jesus will know him personally will know him will be moved by him will have images imprinted in their heart that lead them to life everlasting our young and old will be captured not led astray by what is happening in our campuses and our schools and our society and in our world but it will only be affected by the truth of the living word of God but raise up those intercessors those ones to stand in the gap before anyone else cries out for more of you we cry out for more of you before any revival is released in this land before masses of people come to you in droves and healings and miracles and power God first you have a people that's crying out and praying for the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ we join that cry today join that cry today we say God have your way have your way in Kalamazoo have your way in this city in western michigan have your way in our churches and ministries and homes Lord have your way God come in your power and in your glory be exalted be seen be known be the one that we worship the one that our cry is toward over this city you've challenged us to meant to the call and to the drawing and to be led by the spirit and to the depth of the cry the depth of the cry for more of you Lord there's an invitation and friends for those of you that are in the room and praying online there's a there's a holy invitation for us this morning to pursue the cry of the deep the draw of the Holy Spirit to pursue him in intercession and prayer and fasting and travail and I believe that as we've been praying and worshiping God's been speaking to different ones of you about that invitation that he's laid out for for you and before we close our time today I want to make sure that we have given him a proper response that this just isn't your thoughts or maybe your ideas but that it's actually the voice of God talking to his people right now inviting you into a deeper partnership with him God we just give you our response right now Lord we just acknowledge your voice God we acknowledge that you are calling forth your prayer warriors your intercessors those who stand in the gap from every generation Lord you're calling us now you've been calling us but Lord for some you're calling us deeper for others Lord we're just hearing this cry for the first time we're not exactly even sure what to do but Lord for all of us our answer is just yes gone yes to you we make ourselves available to you to whatever you're asking to whatever you're inviting us into God our answer and our heart posture is yes yes gone for everything you have for every journey into intercession travail any hour of the night or the morning or the day we just say yes to you God we say yes because you're worth it please continue to pray for those who are on mission trips through radiant we have rsm students in multiple locations we have a kingdom builders mission trip that's headed out right now so please keep those people in your prayer and the the missions around the world and also the believers in Ukraine just continue to lift them up as a church God we just lift up those who are being sent out who are in difficult places Lord that your spirit continues to make a way continues to open doors Lord that your miracles are what we need getting people out of Ukraine Lord getting people into the countries we've sent them to be your hands and feet your mouthpiece all around the world Lord we just lift up those who are serving you who have been sent out Lord we ask you for your protection provision for the fruit of the the spirit of God to be alive in them and on these different trips and journeys Lord we just bless them in the name of Jesus Lord we bless all of those who have prayed with us this morning their families their friends God let your presence be upon them bless they're going out and they're coming in today in Jesus name and all God's people said amen and amen hey before you go on with your day I just want to again encourage you take a moment jot down what what maybe the Holy Spirit was talking to you about in today's prayer session make sure you capture that I know life is busy and we're on to the next things but really believe he was speaking to some of you in a significant way so make sure you just note that before we get on with today we love you guys we're having another great weekend at radiant church so make sure you're here for the suffering king series and any of our campuses then also back here noon and this evening God bless you guys we love you have a great weekend