 Oh good morning. Welcome to the Radiant City Center for 8 a.m. Prayer Glad you're joining us whether you're online or in the room and we're just gonna begin this prayer meeting by reading Psalm 63 It's a psalm of David where David is in a wilderness season Verse one he says oh God you are my God I shall seek you earnestly My soul thirsts for you my flesh yearns for you in a dry and weary land where there is no water And thus I have seen you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory Because your loving-kindness is better than life my lips Will praise you I'm gonna read that again because your loving-kindness is better than life my lips will praise you So I will bless you as long as I live I will lift up my hands in your name My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness and my mouth offers praises with joyful lips It's wherever you are this morning. Let's just begin to open our mouths Just begin to bless the Lord whether that's a song or whether that's just statements whether it's a whisper Lord we've come to your sanctuary we've come to your house of prayer to bless your name and Lord when we bless you, it's a response of who you are and Lord We just even magnify who you are right now this morning You're the Alpha Omega beginning and end you are the king of kings and the Lord of lords You are the Messiah the Christ the lamb who was slain the lion of the tribe of Judah You're the mighty God the wonderful counselor You're Jehovah Rafa Jehovah Nisium You are El Shaddai you're Adonai and Lord we just take a moment and we just begin to enter into your presence With Thanksgiving and Lord we just respond to your loving-kindness by blessing your holy name Yeah, let's just begin to just begin to lead yourself just begin to bless the Lord This morning hour Lord, I just wake up I receive your new mercies this morning and I just bless your name. I just say thank you I just say thank you for what you've done. Thank you for where you've brought me Thank you for how you've led me Lord your love it extended towards me and it is leading me and it is in front of me behind me and around me And Lord I just say this morning you will be blessed from my mouth You will be blessed from my heart And I will lift up a song to you Lord and I will give a fragrant offering That cost me something and I will bless the Lord at all times because you are worthy because you are holy Because you stand alone and there is no one like you Lord So I will bless you in your sanctuary Jesus name. Oh, we just command our souls to bless the Lord this morning To identify We're suffering who dons the road the spitefulness so that man could wear his righteousness We just begin to set our affections back on focus. We begin to lean in into the depth of Suffering that you went through it's hard to even fathom or imagine the torment and the pain Experience on that day at Calvary, but Lord, we don't want to be we don't want to be ignorant and we don't want to be arrogant we want to be aware we want to be We want to be invested in Lord We don't want to shy away from the hard truth of the depth of suffering that you went through So Lord we just meditate upon you and Holy Spirit. We ask that you would just open our eyes to the beautiful day that was for us and that That hard and terrible Gruesome day it was for you Lord But I just pray for a spirit of sobriety of what it costs you and we just meditate upon you this morning Get a wisdom and revelation. We ask that you make it real. Yes, Lord. Just restore the innocent child restore the childlike wonder For the kingdom of heaven belongs to those that are like children how you love us Lord. Oh, how you've loved us so well This is our response to you. Yes We come into agreement with the with the song of our youth with the song of our childlike faith How you love us Lord? Oh, how your love has been poured into us actually last night at Radiant students and worship where we sang Yes, Jesus loves me heard that song in years and the Lord's brought it back Twice in a matter of 12 hours And I want to read out of Revelation 2 verse 1 it says to the angel of the church of Ephesus, right The one who holds the seven stars in his right hand the one who walks among the seven golden lampstands says this I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance and that you cannot tolerate evil men You put to test those who call themselves apostles and they are not You found them to be false and you have perseverance and heaven dear for my name's sake and have not grown weary But I have this against you that you have left your first love Therefore remember from where you have fallen repent Do the deeds you did at first or else I'm coming to you and we'll move your lamp stand out of its place unless you repent Just want to lean into verse 4 and 5 this morning Jesus The one who walks among the lamp stands said this to a thriving church With all the accolades and all the good theology he said but I have this against you that you have left your first love Therefore remember from where you have fallen and repent and do the deeds you did at first Lord, we just come to you this morning Lord, we just come into you with individual hearts at your corporate altar And Lord we just even repent where we have grown out of this childlike wonder where we have Matured in the natural and we've we've even in the spiritual thought that maturity and independence was a thing to be grasped But Lord we just even repent and come back To the childlike faith that says Lord you are my first love You are the one whom my soul loves Because the Bible tells me so yes, Jesus loves me Oh, how he loves me. Oh his love was poured out at Calvary and Lord just like little children again We begin to receive that free gift of grace and love and adoration that you poured out on us And God we ask that you would return us to our first love Lord the the early days of our salvation where we were just so Infatuated with you where we were so fascinated Where we were caught up in wonder that we couldn't believe that a God would put on flesh and die a gruesome death for us Lord, we just even repent our way back to first love this morning as your people We don't want to be cold-hearted. We don't want to be distant from you We don't want to take the blood of Jesus and just squander in front of us But we want to receive it with a holy fear and a holy wonder that who is this God that would lay down his life for me That would purchase my life that would cleanse my sin Lord, we just say we've sung it for decades. We've declared it for years We have we have gone through the motions over and over but Lord we ask that you make it real to us again The words that we sing the scriptures that we read the very God that we're in a communion and relationship with God We may we wake up every morning with a fresh Fascination that who am I that you would be mindful of me and who am I that you would come and die for me for it Was my sin that puts you on that cross and yet the joy set before you you took every nail every pounding blow every whip On your back every bruise on your brow Lord, and we just come to you this morning And we repent for being numb for being cold for being For being entitled for what you did for us at Calvary and God we just say restore the first love fire Deep on the inside restore the wonder restore the beauty We just say Lord you are majestic in all of your ways You are all-powerful all-knowing and just like you brought the Apostle John up in the spirit Lord We just ask would you take us up in your spirit, but we just say yes to the invitation come up here Come up here take us higher Lord to see what you see restore the first love fire Lord Restore the burning on the inside the longing the depth of just knowing you of loving you of being with you of communing with you but I pray for the the spirit of the age to be set aside the The spirit of counterfeits and numbing where there's just been a numbing of distraction Where our eyes have gone elsewhere Lord, and we just repent we fix our eyes on you the man with the eyes of fire And we just say Lord fill us with your burning presence fill us with the longing on the inside Fill our souls and satisfy our souls with your presence Lord with longing for you. We're after your heart We're returning to first love and though we ask that you just fill us with your fire Fill us with your presence fill us with the longing to know you in a greater measure and of our independence We fix our eyes on you and of our self-justification Our self-righteousness We return Lord, we've been functioning out of the realm of your grace we repent We become jaded when we become cold-hearted We're returning to the flame of your love Horizon you Lord we ask that you return to us the joy of our salvation But return to us the joy of our salvation the childlike wonder Would you return it to us Lord would you deposit it on the inside? Yes, so we just fix our eyes. We just say all eyes on Jesus We return we look to you We've been looking at other things We've been obsessing over other things As your people As your saints that you purchase with your own blood We turn back to you we fix our eyes We just let the corporate song arise All eyes on Jesus all eyes on the Sun All eyes on the one the lamb who was slain Lord come take the center of your church again Come take the center come take the throne come take the leadership Lord we submit to you we bow before you And Lord we look you in the eye we make eye contact with you We ask that the the fire in your eyes would transfer Or the eyes the gate of the body so Lord we make eye contact with you And we ask that your fire would be deposited in our hearts Lord You say all eyes on Jesus All eyes on him may may the bride return to a fascination where their eyes cannot leave you Lord Where our eyes can't look at anything else because we've behold We behold and we meditate on the one whom our soul loves and there is no one like you There is no one beside you. There will never be another God like you You stepped out of heaven who descended on the earth and he ascended into heaven in resurrection power Oh Lord you tore the veil you opened up the holy of Holies and we step in and we want to be Re-fascinated we want our hearts to burn again No, all eyes on you all eyes on you all affection on you all desire on you Lord our souls are weary and a dry and weary and cold land But we know that you hold the Satisfaction and the longing and the burning and the fire in your eyes, so we look to you We look to you we intercede over the church that the church would look to you again That the church would be fascinated with you again that the church will return to first love We pray a repentance a holy repentance over your bride over your church We pray a returning to your heart a returning to your eyes in Jesus name Just begin to intercede over the American church We're coming back to first love. We're coming back to the first thing back to first love Oh Lord we're coming back to you. We're coming back to the first love flame You're the pearl of great price thing else aside, and we're running back to you The first love Because you so loved us Coming back to you Lord just want to begin to intercede just over families and over homes Just remember as a young child my my grandma would sing this song with me before bed And I I just have a sense that the Holy Spirit's just gonna give us a burden to pray that That Jesus would be the first love of our homes again that he would be the true attention. He would be the one thing the singular focus So Lord right now we just present our homes to you. We just we put them on your altar We just say over the homes of Kalamazoo Over this city God may the anthem be yes Jesus loves me Lord would you restore Innocence where it's been stolen Where the thief has come to steal kill and destroy? But we pray the redemption of the good shepherd the gate To the flock that is Jesus and Lord we just say our homes will be first love Flames for you God Lord the table would be a place of first love Lord where there's been division where there's been divorce where there's been pain where there's been hurt Lord where there's been idols God I pray by the spirit of the living God every other idol every Every superior thing that has been placed above you in our homes in the homes of Kalamazoo Lord we ask that we would repent that families would repent and Lord they would place you back At the forefront at the home Lord, I pray for just even the childlike lullabies to be reignited in the home Lord the wonder the beauty the thankfulness But I pray that parents would begin to pray with their kids again God I pray that worship would begin to happen in the home again Lord I pray that apathy would be shed off and Complacency would be shed and Lord you would ignite a fire of first love on the family altar again And Lord we just even asked that you would send revival on the homes God You would bring reconciliation by the flame of first love Lord that forgiveness would flow because of the great forgiveness you've given us Lord I pray for Transactions of the love of God to happen day and night and night and day in the home Lord We just say here are your family's God here are your homes come take what's rightfully yours in a city God We pray you abolish statistics God We pray you abolish statistics of abuse of divorce of brokenness of poverty and Lord restore The lamp of first love again in the home at the family altar God We just say we repent we're coming back Lord We don't we don't take our families as something that's rightfully ours But Lord we place them back at your altar Lord and say have your way in our homes have your way at the family altar God Oh, we're coming back to you and make it real in our hearts Would you give our fathers a revelation of the worthiness of Christ and the love of God that was poured out for them? Our mothers up in the love of God Where they're weary where they're tired Lord restore them give them strength in our children may this be the song over the children Would you make it real in their hearts at a young age would you captivate them in their elementary years? God just a few minutes left here and Here in the room. I'm just gonna have a side just getting groups of two or three and We're just gonna begin to pray together And intercede for family so just gather with someone around you And we're gonna close just by praying all of us together just praying over our homes praying over families So whether you're here with your family you can gather with them So just take just take about 30 seconds a person and we're just gonna pray We're gonna pray for the families of Kalamazoo and pray for pray for the families of this nation that first love flame would be restored So Lord we come before your throne of grace this morning and Lord we ask Lord we're asking you we're interceding on behalf of the families in our city in our county in our state and Lord We just ask that you would extend your hand But you would extend your spirit of wisdom and revelation and God every idol everything that's placed above you in the home would Would fall to the side and that first love flame would be ignited But we just pray that the fireplace of first love would be lit day and night night and day in the home again And Lord that families would gather around you that they would gather around your presence and God you would fill the Presence of homes with your glory Lord with your glory and your grace and your fire God I pray for dreams in the night for young children I pray that they would encounter and they would experience the love of God God I pray for marriages right now that you would restore hurt and pain and loss and God I pray over grandparents right now I pray that legacy would be imparted God I pray for history with God to be unveiled and that that there would be Testimonies that would flow from generation to generation and family lines of the goodness and the grace of God that extends forth And Lord we just pray over every person in this room We pray for everyone watching Lord that there would be hope Ignited to lead the family in adoration and first love again for Jesus Christ and Him alone God we just say from this house from this house of prayer You will be exalted and Lord we just reach out an intercession for those That need a first love touch that you would touch them God that you would touch the families That you would touch the marriages that you would touch the children And your hand would be extended And Jesus Jesus mighty name Jesus mighty name we just say amen and amen yes Lord. We love you. We bless you We just want to say thank you for joining us for morning prayer May that first love fragrance be with you throughout your day may it may be the essence of what you carry And yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves us So we just thank you for joining us. We'll see you at noon in 6 30