 Good morning. Welcome to Morning Prayer from the Radiant City Center. We intercede morning, noon, and night today. We're going to be praying for the Church in Western Michigan, specifically the SEND event that's happening this Saturday. Just praying for unity and revival in this area and in this region, and really excited to have the SEND come here and be able to sow into this region and prayer and fasting. So I want to start in Psalm 132. And as we enter into worship and prayer, we praise the Lord and then go before Him in an intercession. Psalm 132 verse 1 says, Lord, remember David and all his afflictions. I always swore to the Lord and vowed to the mighty one of Jacob. Surely I will not go into the chamber of my house or go to the comfort of my bed. I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids until I find a place, a dwelling place for the mighty one of Jacob. Lord, I ask this morning, Lord, that the cry of David would be our cry. Lord, that the desire to build you a resting place, wrapping our rest into your rest, Lord, would be the cry of our heart. Lord, mark us with that idea that God who is everywhere desires to be somewhere. And Lord, we would be obsessed with building that somewhere for you to rest, that somewhere for you to dwell. Lord, that we would tear down the altars of Baal and Asherah. Lord, the high places of resistance. That we would lift up the ancient doors and the gates so that the King of glory could come in. Let's just go before Him and let's just bow low in our hearts. Let's just get low Lord, we bow before the King of kings and the Lord of lords. We get low before the King of glory. Lord, we don't come to elevate ourselves this morning, but we come to get low. Lord, because we desire for you to move like a river that rushes to the lowest place. Lord, we get as low as we can. So the river of God can flow over us and flow through us. Just fix our eyes on you Jesus. So sing in your spirit or sing in your understanding. Let's just welcome the King of glory in. There's a grace right now that I don't want us to miss to lock eyes and give undivided affection and attention to the Lamb who is slain. Jesus, you are worthy because you were slain, because God raised you from the dead, because you've been seated the right hand of the Father, because all authority has been given to you, because you asked the Father for the nations as your inheritance and He gave it to you, because you are coming back to reign, because you are the sinless, spotless Lamb. You are deserving of our undivided attention and our undivided affection. Worthy is the Lamb who is slain to receive glory, honor, power and dominion. Worthy is the Lamb who is slain to receive His bride as His reward. Worthy is the Lamb who is slain to receive my heart as His reward. Worthy is the Lamb. I saw in the right hand of He himself written inside and on the back sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice who is worthy to open the scroll and loosen seals. And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look at it. So I wept much because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll or to look at it. But one of the elders said to me, do not weep. Behold the lion of the tribe of Judah. The root of David has prevailed to open the scroll and to loosen seven seals. And I looked and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures in the middle, in the midst the elders stood a lamb as though he had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. Then he came and took the scroll out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne. Now when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before the lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song saying you are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals for you were slain and you have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe, tongue and people in nation and have made us kings and priests to our God. And we shall reign on the earth. Then I looked and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne living creatures and the elders and the number of them was 10,000 times 10,000 times 10,000 saying with a loud voice worthy as a lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing and every creature which is in heaven on earth and under the earth and such is in the sea. I heard them saying bless blessing and honor and glory and power be to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb forever and ever amen. Oh Jesus we are the ones that are on the earth responding to the heavenly throne room scene saying blessing and honor and glory and power be to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb forever and ever amen. Jesus we enthrone you on our praises eyes with you don't move on too quickly we don't get to the to-do list Lord we focus on the lamb who is slain who is worthy of our affection our attention who is worthy of our hours who is worthy of our words who is worthy of our worship who is worthy of our hearts blessing and honor and glory and power be to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb forever and ever. Oh Jesus we want you to receive the reward of your suffering where we ask you to receive your inheritance when the Father said ask of me for the nations as your inheritance Jesus you asked for the nations long to see you receive the reward of your suffering from in Kalamazoo Michigan and to the ends of the earth blessing and honor glory and power our hearts to yours from our lives to yours from the church to you and for this inheritance for Jesus to receive I want to intercede for southwest Michigan we have the the sun coming up on Saturday this was something that that the sun team felt the Holy Spirit was highlighting this region because there were churches like radiant and others that have been knocking on the door of heaven asking for the bowls to be tipped over asking for revival in western Michigan asking for Jesus to receive his inheritance in this region in this area so I want to encourage you not to check out in this moment but to step into the holy place before the altar and to intercede as a priest before the Lord so Jesus we long for you to have your inheritance in western Michigan God I ask for the send this weekend this Saturday God that this would be not just an event or a concert Lord but this would be a moment Lord there would be a crack Lord in the wall that we have been hitting time and time again asking for the dam to break and for you to release your glory and your power in this area and in this region Lord that the door that we have been knocking on over and over again would fling wide in the name of Jesus God I ask that you would gather your church to pray Lord this solemn assembly Lord that your church would have ears to hear the call that now is the hour to rise up and contend for revival now is the hour to rise up and to pray and to be the ones that fulfill the great commission taking the gospel to the four corners of the earth God we ask that you would call the dead things to life in western Michigan Lord there is a valley Lord of religious dry bones and sometimes that's all we see but what we say is dry bones you see in army what we see is death you see as a living breathing army filled with the Holy Spirit and so Lord we call out to the dead bones of western Michigan and we say breathe we say skin come on those bones rise to life become the army that you were created to be become the living army that you were created to be not for our glory but so that the Lamb would receive the reward of his suffering Lord Lord in this region in this area in Grand Rapids Lord in Kalamazoo in western Michigan we want the Lamb to receive the reward of his suffering and so this Saturday Lord in the Spirit not just in the natural Lord we ask for a trumpet blast to go forth to your church and they would respond to the call that they would respond become people of prayer to become people that contend for revival to become people that are obsessed with building you a resting place in this region to be a people that burned for the great commission so Lord we ask that you would let the trumpet blast go forth on Saturday in the name of Jesus decision Lord on churches that are in decline and Lord there are two paths in front of them it's the answer the call that the Spirit is saying to the churches and and the answer the call the spirit of the age one that says compromise become affirming to the culture be a friend to the world take on the creed of the spirit of the age and try to become more appealing to a culture that is dying and going to hell and then the way of the Spirit Lord we just ask dry bones come alive Lord I ask for churches and denominations that have been resistant to the person of the Holy Spirit to his work to his ministry to his gifts that have even grieve the Holy Spirit and blaspheme the Holy Spirit by forbidding the speaking in tongue by forbidding the work of the Holy Spirit God I ask Lord that your your spirit would breathe fresh life Lord in a dead church God we ask we look over a valley of dry bones and say come alive but we ask that you would break the grip of the religious spirit in this region Lord the religious spirit that has actually stopped up the ears of the church from hearing what the Spirit is saying to the church in this hour Lord we ask that you would deal a death blow in uppercut to the spirit of religion in this area Lord that has been causing your ride to be on the ICU but Lord we ask in this hour Lord that you would breathe fresh life Lord we ask for fire in the bones Lord and we ask for a fresh baptism of your Holy Spirit Lord even on Saturday Lord I ask for a fresh baptism of your Holy Spirit that you would come not just rest on individuals but actually that you would rest on churches that you would rest on leaders Lord that you would come with a spirit of might Lord you would come with the spirit of wisdom the spirit of revelation and the knowledge of Jesus Lord we look at the dead bones of this region Lord and we ask for a unified church we ask for a praying church Lord we ask for a church that is contending for revival that is contending for the the fullness of the spirit that is not weighed down in cultural wars but is doing that is pulling down strongholds in the spirit or that their hands are being trained for battle and their fingers for war Lord we ask over this region over the church awaken the sleeping giants in western Michigan Lord awaken the sleeping giants in western Michigan we call forth the church to rise in the name of Jesus halfway through the prayer meeting when we were just singing worthy as the lamb kind of this throne room image I just heard the Lord say I am the solution I am the solution I am the solution in the last 15-20 minutes I've just been googling like solution more than just an answer to the problem he's actually he's actually the source that purifies and solution is more than just a plus b equals c but it actually it's if as if there were bacteria a cleaning solution is added and it purifies and it kills all substances and I just saw Jesus begin to pour out his spirit his purifying spirit and I saw church doors locked and I saw all these church doors begin to open and I saw Jesus walk in and we just even submit to Jesus you can come flip tables in our churches judgment starts in the house of God so God we ask right now that you would pour out your solution your holy spirit your purifying spirit and God you chose that the solution would be a spotless bride so as your bride God we submit to you this morning we call forth western Michigan every church even churches that have been written off God we ask for a holy repentance and a drawing back and even us Lord even us here at radiant church we just say God purify us Lord if there's things that need to be made right would you make them right would you would you spray your cleaning solution that the bacteria and the and the hidden things this the things that can't be seen with the naked eye would you put give us spiritual eyes that you would come forth and you would reveal what needs to be right so that your purposes that your solution that your kingdom would come from heaven to earth and we just say God don't let your kingdom just dwell in heaven would you pour it out upon the earth God would the earth be the very bacteria where heaven comes in the mixture purifies the earth so that your spotless bride would arise in Jesus mighty name amen in this prayer meeting let's all stand and just to clear this together let's just pray this prayer dry bones come alive one more time together as we say you the only solution the only solution but we are committed to being your bride that is crying out on earth as it is in heaven Jesus have your inheritance Lord have your inheritance in your church in this region Lord have your inheritance in us Lord have your inheritance in the lost in this region in Jesus name amen amen thanks for joining us and contending us contending with us and intercession and prayer we're going to be back at noon and 6 30 pm we're going to be continuing to pray morning noon and night so bless you have an amazing day