 Good morning, welcome to an incredible morning that we have the privilege to come to Jesus, to celebrate what he has done, to thank him for what he has done, and to intercede for our city. We are crying out from the heart of our city to the heart of God today, on this beautiful day that the Lord has made. And we are believing that God has something powerful and something special for us. Not just for us in this room, but for you wherever you're at. Maybe you're at home or you're in your car or you're at work already. God has something special for you and maybe you're in a whole other city. We want you to be crying out for your city. So as we go into moments of intercession for our city and the cities in this area, we want you to interject your city's name and your region's name into these prayers. And we want you to participate by praying and taking your stand on the wall that this is not just a spectator thing, this is a participatory thing, that you are a prophetic watchman on the wall of your city that God has posted you where you are to pray, to intercede, and that God will move through your prayers in your city as you pray. Today, I just felt led to open up out of Psalm 57. I don't know if you've been feeling this, but it's really easy that when summer comes around to get into what I call a summer lull, we kind of just go through the motions. We get into this summer kind of almost like a hibernation or like a lull in our spirits and in our minds. And for us, it's kind of easy as well because we took last week off. And so sometimes it's hard to get out of that lull when you've taken a week off from what we're used to doing and what we love doing so much. And because of that summer lull or even that religious lull of going through the motions, I feel led this morning to open up by just commanding our souls to wake up. Like wake up, wake up mind, wake up soul, wake up heart, wake up to the Lord. And so in Psalm 57, King David says, starting verse seven, my heart is steadfast, oh God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing and make melody. Awake my glory, awake, oh harp and liar. I will awake the dawn. I will give thanks to you, oh Lord, among the peoples. I will sing praise to you among the nations for your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. Be exalted, oh God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth right now. Let's actually do what King David did here. He said, I will, I will awake the dawn. I will awake my soul. I will awake my mind. So let's do that right now by commanding our souls and commanding our minds to get up, to awaken the dawn with praise and with thanksgiving, with declaring the steadfastness of God, that his steadfastness is great. And so Lord, we come to you today. Some of us are tired. Some of us are in a spiritual lull. Some of us are just worn out. Some of us are tired from pressure and from pain. And Lord, we come to you right now. And we say, here we are. We will awaken the dawn. We will awaken our souls with praise. We will awaken our minds with thanksgiving, God. For your steadfast love is great, Lord. Do not let us forget, Lord, that your steadfast love is great. It is greater than all things God. And so from this declaration, Lord, with your steadfast love, awaken us, Lord. Awaken us, God. Awaken us now with your mouth and with your decree, with your declaration. Just begin to awaken yourself. Just begin to awaken yourself to his steadfast love. Declare his thankfulness, his worthiness, his holiness, his beauty, his splendor, his majesty. Use your voice. Use the instrument God has given you. You may not play a guitar or a keyboard, but you have a voice. Awaken the dawn. Settings like this, it's really easy just to push forward it. I just feel the sweetness on this moment right now as we command our souls to bless the Lord. There's a lot of things that we could do better as the church, but I think one of the things that we need to do the most is bless the Lord. Just minister to the Lord. Like King David said in Psalm 34, I will bless the Lord at all times, not sometimes, but all times. His praise will be continually on my lips. My soul makes boast in the Lord. Lord, right now we bless you. Lord, we turn from our ideology, which has gripped us for so long. The ideology of God bless America. Yes, God, we do need you to bless America, but Lord, we sidestep that and we say America bless God. And so Lord, right now from the heart of our city, we command our souls to bless you. We bless you, Lord. We lift you up, God. We praise you, we exalt you. Our lips are filled with your worthiness, with your holiness, God. And so Lord, as we bless you, may it be a sweet aroma to your throne, Lord. May it be a sweet fragrance to your nostrils, God. Lord, we do not make our boasts in ourselves. We do not boast in our strength. We do not boast in what we have and what we can do and what we've accomplished. We boast in you. You are good, God, and we bless you. Just begin to bless the Lord. Begin to bless him, begin to thank him for his goodness, begin to bless him, begin to praise him for his awesomeness and his holiness, his steadfast love. Bless the Lord out to him. When his children's lips are filled with praise, just begin with your mouths, not ours, not words. The frustration we lift you up. We lift you up, Lord. I know good thing, Lord, we seek you. Your words has taste and see that you are good, Lord. We wanna taste and see with the very senses that you have given us. We want to experience you and know you, Lord. Above our wants and our desires, God. Now that we magnify you, we exalt you. In this moment with everything that we are going through, with everything we are facing, all the noise and the traffic of our lives, all of the schedules and the agendas, that we are yours, yours, wholly yours. Holy hearts, soul, mind, strength. We are yours from a personal level to a prophetic level. What I mean by that is we've just commanded our souls. We have just confessed that we are his, that we've belonged to him personally, but now I want us to turn that same heart, that same focus to our city. And what I mean by that is to prophetically pray to prophetically decree and declare that this city is his, that the people of this city are his. Isaiah 55 says, come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and he who has no money, come buy and eat, come buy, out money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread? And your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me and eat what is good and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear and come to me, hear that your soul may live. Lord, right now we say to Kalamazoo, greater Southwest Michigan region, come, come, come to Jesus. Come to the Lord, listen diligently out. All who are lacking, all who have gone to merchants in order to satisfy the void, but been only been left more empty, come to Jesus. We say to Kalamazoo, come to Jesus. We say to Plainwell, come to Jesus. We say to Ossego, come to Jesus. We say to Battle Creek, come to Jesus. We say to Three Rivers, come to Jesus. We say to Vicksburg, come to Jesus. We say all around this region, come to Jesus. Come everyone who thirsts, come to Jesus. Come to the waters of Jesus. Come, come, he is your savior. Been looking forward, come the Lord has. Live up to him now. I want us to begin to think of our far from Jesus, neighbors and coworkers and family members and just begin to say, come prophetically, say, come to Jesus, name them out loud. Don't be silent. If you're not in Kalamazoo, name your city, name the people who come to your heart and say, come to Jesus, come. I say in 55, we have come Lord and we have found now asking that Kalamazoo would come to you and come to know you. Lord, to come to know that this is true, that you are true, that all who come to you who are thirsty and they come to you, Lord God, that you satisfy them, that you fulfill them, that you fill them up, Lord. With everlasting water, Lord, we have tasted and we have seen and we have drank from your well, Lord and we want Kalamazoo to come and so Lord, we ask you for Kalamazoo, Lord, to come. We ask for you to begin to speak to the hearts of Kalamazoo, that people who are far from you would come to know you, that they would come to the living waters, that they would come to you, Lord God and that they would drink, Lord, that they wouldn't just put their feet in the water, Lord God or go knee deep in the water, Lord God, that they would jump all the way in, Lord. So Lord, I prophesy a revival right now of people coming by groves. They come to you, Lord God, coming to you within Isaiah 55, burn us by Lord God and so we say again, come to Jesus, come to Jesus, come to Jesus, come to Jesus. Southwest Michigan today is the day, day 56, success. The foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to Him, to love the name of the Lord, we prophesy this, that those who are far from you are gonna come to you. They're gonna come, they are coming as we speak. Lord, would you soften their hearts? Would you open their minds? Lord, would you open their ears to hear what you are saying? Your ears to hear that salvation has come for them and you love them. Lord, show them your compassion and Lord, would you show those who are far from you your compassion through us? Would we be ambassadors of compassion to this world that is far from you? Lord, make us joyful in your house of prayer. Fill us with joy. Lord, when we think about this with a smile we come over our hearts cased on our face because your house of prayer is to be a joyful house of prayer. So fill us with joy as we watch those who are far from you and as we pray for those who are far from you to come, to come. Lord, we love you. We go into this day that you have made. Lord, do something crazy awesome in our midst. May we have a conversation that leads someone to you. We love you. We thank you for this hour in Jesus' name. Thank you for joining us for this hour of prayer and intercession and worship. I wanna encourage you to go throughout the rest of your day prophesying and praying that many would come to Jesus. We'll see you back tomorrow morning. On the live stream, we'll be back in the prayer room at noon and at 6.30 today tomorrow. Have a great and blessed day.