 We want to invite you to come on in if you're here in the prayer room with us Let's let's focus our hearts this morning as we draw near to him and For those of you who are joining us from home welcome to morning prayer We're so glad you're joining us and prioritizing the presence of the Lord and drawing near to him in the place of prayer The secret place the place where we meet with him face-to-face Psalm 100 it's one of the shorter Psalms, but it's it's concentrated. It's packed with power and significance It says make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth Serve the Lord with gladness and come into his presence with singing Know that the Lord he is God and it is he who made us and we are his We are his people the sheep of his pastor Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise give thanks to him Bless his name for the Lord is good and his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness is to all Generations, you know when we hear the invitation of the Lord to come into his presence with singing The thing that gives us access to his presence or to awareness of his nearness Is the fact that his heart rejoices when our heart rejoices in who he is when we remind ourselves Of who he is of his steadfast love of his goodness It causes us to serve the Lord not out of obligation But out of gladness and out of joy. This is why it says that we serve the Lord with gladness So today as we minister to the heart of the Lord It's it's not that we're doing something out of obligation We're not doing it because it's just the right thing to do even though it is But we're actually doing it because it brings joy to his heart and when we bring joy to his heart He opens up the heavens and makes himself so much more obvious to us and That actually brings gladness and joy to our hearts and it becomes a flywheel of joy It becomes a flywheel of inexpressible fullness of joy that the world Cannot supply only his presence can supply so this morning as We begin to sing Singing is our heart our soul our mind and our body all coming into alignment to declare something spiritually true as we begin to sing I Want you to just allow What you're singing to awaken thankfulness and gratitude And I want you to awaken the morning with your praise but awaken a greater revelation and a reality of who he is And that you've been invited to the table this morning. You've been invited into his presence Father today we come into your presence with Thanksgiving Reminding our hearts of your steadfast love Lord that it never ceases Lord your faithfulness your coming at faithfulness It never ends Lord your faithful your true And we look to you our eyes are on you Lord Jesus and we awaken our spirit We awaken the dawn this morning with songs of Thanksgiving thought songs of deliverance For you are great and greatly to be praised well, let's just join in with the musicians and the singers this morning and Let our voices join into the symphony of praise These four wall claustrophobic I'm feeling restrained your gaze upon him and your focus on you father stepped into the room to just put his arms around Just want us to continue to sing and they just about the father's heart dancing over us Singing songs of deliverance over You rejoice over us What your song we want your voice to be the loudest voice in our hearts Because you're the one who's drawn us to yourself And through the blood of your son Jesus And his cross adopted us into your family Call the sons and daughters of the living God First John chapter 3 says behold what manner of love is this that the father has Bestowed upon us that we should be called what kind of love What kind of heart? What kind of song do you sing over us to that acceptance? Approval what kind of love would offer his own life for us? What kind of king? Kind of father brings us into his family when we were enemies and strangers What kind of God overlooks our sins and trespasses against him and pays for it with his own blood With his own life So that we could be brought to the table And accepted into the beloved What kind of father her face in your own cross We just say thank you father. Thank you for your love. Thank you for your song Thank you for the scandal of the cross Come on. Just thank him Take your own voice and begin to thank the father Think of for the lengths and the measures he went through to redeem you Thank him for the sins and the trespasses and the brokenness that he overlooked Thank him for the resurrection from your depths That he's brought you into the marvelous light One voice and just think of chapter one Paul hiding this Declaration of what the father has done and it really is what we're What we're singing about this morning. This is the song of the father Says blessed be the God and the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is Ephesians 1 beginning in verse 3 Blessed be the God and the father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places Even as he chose us and him For the foundations of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love He predestined us for the adoption as sons through Jesus Christ According to the purpose of his will To the praise of his glorious grace With which he has blessed us in the beloved have redemption through his blood The forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace Which he lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight Making known to us the mystery of his will according to his purpose Which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time Is the song of the father over us This is a song that he began to sing over us even before we took our first breath. I Want us to take the next few moments And let's just allow the Lord through the singers through his word To illuminate the father's eternal song over us Lord today we bless you our father we bless you the father of our Lord Jesus Christ The one that the son Jesus taught us to pray our father who art in heaven hallowed be your name Lord today we hallow your name Lord today we recognize that we're not orphans We're not on our own We're not sons of Adam any longer. We are sons of the living God and you are our father You're not just the son of our Lord Jesus, but you through the blood that he shed are our father as well And Lord today you sing over us that you have blessed us in Christ Jesus with every spiritual blessing So father we hear you saying and singing over us You're not cursed any longer You're not alone any longer You're not the sum total of what sin has done to you any longer. You're not Just the progeny of your mother and your father, but you are blessed With every spiritual blessing in heavenly places today Father this is the song that you sing over us you're blessed in heavenly places You're seated with Jesus in heavenly places It's it's strangers, but you belong to me says the father You're accepted today father, would you awaken our hearts this morning? to the fact that we're no longer just calling on you as a Creature to a creator, but we're calling on you as sons and daughters to a father We're asking you for a revelation What it means to be blessed by you in heavenly places But would you awaken our hearts to this reality today? Curse but we're blessed Not because of the works of our own hands But Jesus because of your perfect sacrifice on the cross who were blessed became cursed so that we who were cursed Might be called blessed You were rich and became poor so that we who were poor in spirit could become rich in Christ Jesus With the blessing of the Lord. Thank you for the extent of your love for us This you would send your son to save us and to redeem us And you said that you chose us in him Before the foundations of the world were ever laid Lord. We just prayed that the lie of this age The so many have believed that they are accidents That they're insignificant Lord that you don't see them that you're indifferent to them Or Lord that they're a mistake so many We have been overshadowed by the lie of the spirit of this age that there's eight billion people on this planet And it doesn't matter whether you live or die So many young people who look at the shattered family that they came from and say I that was all a mistake Lord man makes mistakes, but you make no mistakes And long before the foundations of this world were ever laid you looked and you chose us in Christ You know us and you chose us And you set your love and your heart upon us to be a father and To declare us holy in your sight To declare us blameless before you you said that you would do whatever it takes pay whatever price to redeem us and You chose us you saw us and you knew us you saw us in our brokenness. You saw us in our weakness Romans 5 says that when we were without strength You sent Christ to redeem us Lord you knew us in our brokenness you knew us in our mess And you see us even in this moment with our frailty and our weakness and yet you still choose us You still love us. You still claim us And you're still committed to us to make us holy and blameless before you Or today I'm asking that by the power of your Holy Spirit You would break beyond the ship the orphan spirit and the shallow Lies and deceptions that say that we're accidents and we're just barely making it through and maybe make it to heaven by the hair Of our chinny chin chin and but God you don't even know who we are Lord. You know us Better than we know ourselves and you see us and you love us and you've chosen us in Christ Jesus Convince our hearts this morning that we were known by you long before we ever knew You and you said I love you and I want you and I'm gonna redeem your life from the pit to adopt us as sons Or you pre-determined even before we took our first breath Even before we sinned the first time You set your heart on adopting us You set your heart on pursuing us and bringing us into your family through your son Jesus The red of Hebrew says that it's through Jesus that he's brought many sons Into the father's house What kind of love is this father? How deep does it go? How high is it? That you would pursue us To not just forgive us, but to adopt us To make us heirs and coheirs with Christ Jesus Lord you took us out of our spiritual poverty and set us in heavenly places Lord you took us out of our pit in our pink pen And you brought us into your family Lord you washed the filth off of our hands and you put a ring on our finger Lord you spoke blessing over us the blessing that only a father can speak You said mine You said love I Love you and you belong to me You washed the filth off of us and you put a robe of righteousness upon us All the height all the depth all the length All the breadth of your love what kind of love has the father bestowed upon us What does it mean? Lord that even in eternity past you determine this and for all eternity that lies ahead of us It will be unchanging It will never change You'll never change your opinion of us. You'll never change your heart towards us. It's fixed This is who we are Beloved of the father This is who we are sons and daughters of the living God This is who we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus Washed in the blood forgiven cleansed Out of the power of darkness and brought into the kingdom of your glorious son This is who we are loves us like this. Oh, how you love us Help us to love you. Would you open and widen our hearts today? To understand more that we might love you more God. We want to love you more We want our hearts response to be worthy of the gift that you gave us Teach us to love you from an eternal perspective not just our situational filters Teach us to love you like a son and not a servant or a slave Teach us to love you. Teach us to love you like you love desk Teach us to love you like the son has loved you We want to love you more Well, let's just sing let's invite the Lord to open our hearts and widen our ability to love him back And our response to the gift you've given is of your glorious grace Lord that our response would be worthy of the blood that was shed the of your hearts pursuit of us Lord We don't want to we don't want to draw near to the one who's loved us with everything and offer you anything Less than everything. We don't want to give you 10% of our hearts 10% of our praise We're not going to live all of our days with an 80% revelation from the world of who we are and Fail to live out the full expression of your purpose in our lives Lord we want to grow and we want to mature and the love that you've given to us so that we can love you back So that it is a response that's worthy of your glorious grace and your eternal purpose God Lord today, we're blessed in heavenly places because of you And it's only by the blood it's not by our good works. It's not by our efforts It's not by our own qualifications. It's by the blood of the lamb that has redeemed us. So we say, thank you Jesus For willingly and obediently shedding your blood so that the purpose of the father would be fulfilled in our lives Lord today We say thank you. Thank you for redeeming us and calling us by name Yours is the glory and the majesty and the might for ever and ever All glory to you today And we say this in Jesus name Amen, thank you for joining us from home those of you who are joining us in the prayer room We want to thank you as well Mind you that we're morning noon and night join us back here again in person at noon tonight at 6 30 p.m No, bless you have a great day