 Welcome to Friday morning prayer. Just invite you to join us and stand if you're here in the room, the Friday morning faithful. So I'd like to call you guys. Love seeing you here every Friday and you use with us online as well. Yeah, this morning as I was just in prayer, just felt like today I wanted to spend our time just praying our way through the Lord's prayer. And yeah, so we're just gonna start there. We're gonna work our way through it, meditate on his word, meditate on his scripture and just see where the Holy Spirit leads us. And so if you'll turn with me to Matthew six, I'm gonna start in Matthew six, verse nine. In this manner, therefore pray, our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Lord, this is the prayer that you gave us to teach us how to pray. Not as a once through and call it good and move on with our day, but as a place to lead us and guide us into how we should pray. And Lord, it all starts with knowing you as Father. Our Father, we can't get to anything else. We don't move on to anything else before we acknowledge you as our Father. That you love us like a father loves a child. That you're for us, like a father is for his child. That you love us with a perfect love that will never fully comprehend. Lord, before the worries of the day, the give us this our daily bread and forgive us and may we forgive temptation and all these things, Lord. Doing your will, your kingdom come, you instructed us to start with our Father. And Lord, so that's just where we posture our hearts this morning. And we ask, but no matter if we've been following Jesus for three days or 30 years, that you would increase our knowledge of the Father, Holy Spirit, that you would come into this room, into this place and increase our knowledge of the Father. We let you see our need for it. You know what's there. And wherever we're at, we need more of a revelation of you as Father, of how you love us. So Lord, this is our petition. This is our ask. Come and minister to our hearts, the places that are hurt, the places that are afraid, the places that are calloused, the places that need to see you rightly as a Father. And we just ask, Lord, do what you love to do. Lift our heads. Would we lock eyes with our Heavenly Father this morning? The perfect one. Who loves us with a perfect love? You sent his own son to take our place. What kind of love is that? Would you lift our eyes to see you rightly? Minister to our hearts. And reveal the Father this morning. Pray this prayer that we've been singing. Receive it like a gift, whatever it takes, just meditate on that and ask the Lord with your own words to reveal himself as Father. Nothing matters if we miss that. So Lord, you see in you, you know, every part of each of our hearts. We just ask that you'd make yourself more real as a Father, that we would know you more as a Father. Or we thank you that we can trust you with that. That you're faithful. Faithful to do it because it's on your heart. That's your desire before it's ours. Continue on in this prayer that you gave us with hallowed be your name. Lord, that your name would be made holy in the earth. Where it's become a thing that we say loosely, where your name doesn't have weight anymore. Lord, would your name be made holy in the earth? Would it be praised? Would it be worshiped? Would you be lifted high, God? Right here in this city, are we asking Kalamazoo, that your name would be lifted high? That it would be taken seriously, not lightly. Lord, in that through the revelation of you as Father, that many hearts would in return lift high your name, Lord, Yahweh. That you would be lifted high and be glorified. Lord, that you would be praised from here in this city. We desire for you to be praised all over the earth, but Lord, we stand and contend for our own city, Lord. For your name to be lifted high in the mouths of our neighbors, in the mouths of our friends, that praise would come from their lips, the people that we pass every day on the street or driving, that we don't know and never will know. But Lord, we just ask that by your spirit, that your name would be lifted high here, Lord. There's only one name that's whole. There's only one, there's only one name that's whole. Yes, you are, yes, you are. There's only one name, yes, you are, yes, you are. There's only one, yes, you are. To be lifted high, we even just take a moment to pray for the church and amidst your purification, of your bride, of your church, amidst the new thing you're doing on the earth. Lord, with the big sea church in America, Lord, the body of Christ, would we be unified on one thing and one thing alone? And that's the name of Jesus. And lifting it high, submitting to it, submitting to you as leader, as Lord, as our bridegroom, as our savior, God, would you be lifted high? Not us, not a church, not a name, not a person, but all high places be made low. And Jesus, would you be lifted high? Would you be lifted far above everything else that we can make with our hands? Would you be lifted high on our praises, above any platform that we could build for ourselves? Would we forget about that, God? Just look to you, just submit to you, just come under you. Jesus, you are Lord, you are savior, Lord, and it's our desire that you would be the only one lifted high, that you would be the only one glorified, that it's your name that would be remembered, your name that would be exalted, not ours, yours, Lord. Lord, we be ones who exalt your name and your name alone and amidst you being lifted high, Lord, we just pray that your kingdom come your will be done, Lord, not our will, but yours. Your plan for us, Lord, we know that it's your heart to, to purify and to make your bride, us, the church spotless. That's what we just ask, God, that you would have your way with us, have your way in us, Lord, where we've built idols or stored up a fence, where we've held onto pride, jealousy, greed, whatever it is, Lord. We just invite you as the great physician to come and cleanse us, as the purifying fire to consume us, Lord, that we wouldn't look to the left or to the right, but just to you, and that the, where our hearts have desired other things, that we would only desire you, that we wouldn't, that we wouldn't hold offenses against our brothers and sisters, Lord, but that we would all link arms as one bride, the bride of Christ, and that we would look to you, stand together, holding up the person to the left and to our right, and that we would just ask for your presence, crying out for Jesus, for you to draw near, for you to come close, for you to return to us, for you to show us your face, even a glimpse, a glimpse of your glory, a glimpse of your goodness, whether we would stand together, stand together, unified as one body, just ask to see you, for you to show us your face, show yourself to us, we need you, we desperately need you, we need to see your face, even if you just give us a glimpse, even if you hide us in the cleft of the rock, and pass us by as you did for Moses, but even that was enough for him to be radiant for days with your glory. We know that the fullness of you would be too much for us, Lord, whatever, or whatever we can handle you, we wanna know, we wanna see, we wanna experience, Lord, take us as deep as we can go, show us as much of you as we can handle, we need it, we need you, we're all broken, all in desperate need, our Savior still. Once we just close out this morning with this cry, show us your face, would we see you? Lord, and would it bring life back to our hearts, life back to our souls, would a glimpse of you give us endurance to keep going, to keep running the race, knowing that you're the prize, and that a glimpse of you on this side of eternity won't compare to all that's waiting for us on the other side, with that grip of Scott, that there is a day coming after this life, where we see you fully unveiled in all of your glory and splendor, and we fully understand all of your love for us. Lord, would that give us endurance, keep going, keep running the race, and today, Lord, would you just draw near to us and show us your face, and captivate us once again with your goodness, with your holiness, with your glory. Lord, we love you, and we are so grateful for you, that you're a God who hears our prayers, you're a God who desires to reveal himself to us. We couldn't do this life without you, Lord, and we don't want to. So Lord, we just pray that you continue to love us well, continue to carry us, and lead us, and guide us. We love you, Lord, in Jesus' name, amen. Thank you guys for coming to Friday Morning Prayer, and thank you, those of you who are with us online as well. Well, we'll be back here in the prayer room on Monday morning at 8 a.m., but hope to see you at one of our weekend services. Thank you guys, have a good day.