 those of you in the room to stand with us. We're gonna open in Thanksgiving this morning from Ephesians chapter two, verse 22. And then we're gonna be praying for unity in the church here in Colomazzu. Ephesians 2.22 says, in him in Jesus, you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. Paul here is talking about the church and he's saying that we are being built together to be a place that hosts the living God, the presence of God. And I just wanna start this morning with Thanksgiving back to God that we get to be a place carved out from the world where his presence comes and shows off where his glory is pleased to rest. Whether you're driving or whether you're in the room, watching online at home, we're a part of a church where the glory of God comes to dwell and as we pray for the larger church in Colomazzu that we are becoming a place, Colomazzu, the church in Colomazzu where the glory of God, the living God is pleased to dwell in our midst. So would you lift a hand in God this morning? We just say thank you. We say thank you that you are not a God who is far off but you are a God who is near. We say thank you that we can be a place, God, that hosts the living presence, your presence that you Jesus can walk up and down the aisles of our sanctuaries and auditoriums. The Holy Spirit, you can pour out through our worship and through prophetic moments and through teachings and through ministry times. And Lord, the Holy Spirit can bring life in new ways because the living presence of God is in the church, is among the people, in our homes and as we gather in our public spaces. Lord, that you are pleased to live and to dwell. God, we say thank you. Thank you that church is not a dry and boring ritual but it is an encounter with the living God because you dwell with your people and among your people. Literally, you've built us together. Lord, we say thank you this morning for building us, for knitting us together to be a place where you dwell by your spirit. Lord, for everything that has come against to try to steal that dwelling together, we put it under the blood of Jesus this morning. Every offense, we put it under the blood of Jesus. Anything that's attacked our togetherness, we put it under the blood of Jesus. Lord, we say the prize of hosting the glory, the prize of hosting the living God is greater, is greater than the cost, is greater than anything that we would give up. So Lord, with hearts of gratitude, we say thank you. We say thank you, Lord, and we invite you in the same way. As we're saying thank you, we're inviting you to dwell, God. More and more by your spirit. Lord, as Thanksgiving comes up to you, as sweet incense, Lord, it's also an intercession. More, God. Thank you for your glory, more of your glory. Thank you for your presence, God, more of your presence, God. We say you are the worthy one. Come on, let's just lift our voices together right now. You are the worthy one, Jesus. You are the worthy one, Jesus. You're worthy to be the chief cornerstone of the church. You're worthy to be the one who's knitting us all together to be a place, to be the king of the church. Lord, that we would see the one who seated on the throne, the one who Revelation says, describes as hair white like wool, like snow, you're asking for the church in Kalamazoo, and we're asking for ourselves, or to see you as you rightly are, or you are enthroned, you are enthroned over the circle of the earth. You are familiar with all of our ways, God, you look down and you see all of the ways of man, you know what's in, you wait for all things to be brought under, we ask that you would enlighten our eyes to see, or that the church could grab a vision of the resurrected Lamb of God who is slain before the foundation of the world. Pray, God, this morning, help our eyes to see, help the eyes of our heart to see the one, the one we're singing of, the one we're declaring is worthy and is holy, the one who is the chief cornerstone of the church. Lord, only you can bring unity, only you can bring peace, you did it at the cross. Lord, open our eyes. Lord, we even ask you for the eyes in the church in Kalamazoo, and we're just gonna shift right now into intercession. Lord, we ask you right now to open the eyes of churches all across Kalamazoo. Lord, that they would burn for the image that Revelation talks about. Even as your eyes burn with flames of love, may our heart burn for Revelation of Jesus in our midst. Lord, maybe we would not be satisfied with church as usual or status quo, but Lord, may there be a cry that comes from the church in Kalamazoo that says Jesus hates the day, that says living God, you whose eyes burn with passion and love and zeal, come and have your way, come to Kalamazoo and be known as a place that hosts the living God, a place where the church at large has seen the eyes of the one who burns with flame of fire. We know that you're stirring in this hour, revelation and hunger to see Jesus. As you really are, not a woke Jesus, but a risen Jesus, who you show yourself to be in the Word of Shins chapter two, says that Jesus, he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. That at the cross, you died for every hostility against unity. We know the context is due and Gentiles, but Lord, it's also anywhere there's disunity or disharmony in marriages, church relationships. Anywhere there's disunity, Lord, you died so that there could be unity. And so God, we ask you right now to give us eyes to see you so that you can bring unity wherever there's hostility, eyes to see you so that there can be unity wherever there is hostility specifically God, we pray for marriages right now in our churches. Lord, we pray for pastors right now who are leading, serving in churches. God, we ask you, Lord, wherever the enemy is throwing hostility against them. We declare unity by the power of churches all across Kalamazoo, of the marriages of the pastors. We lift up the families of the pastors and we say wherever the enemy is trying to come in with hostility. God, you have died for unity in the pastors' lives into their leadership right now, into their marriage and their family right now. Bring unity in Jesus' name. Here's those who are leading, paid staff and volunteers. Lord, we're asking for unity. Lord, we're asking for unity in the house of God. Lord, that each one would be seen a revelation of Jesus. That each one would be united to you. Spirit of submission, the spirit of honor. Lord, that unity would dwell in the gospel preaching churches here in Kalamazoo. Unity would dwell not only in the families of the pastors but in the staff and in the volunteers, God. Lord, we pray anywhere that there's onslaught of disunity. Lord, you would heal it, God, by the power of your spirit. Lord, you died for this. You died so that we could in peace through Jesus be one in you. Lord, you literally gave your life so that we could be connected to you but then also found to one another in love. Or that we could maintain the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace. So Lord, would you release a grace on the church right now in Kalamazoo? To maintain the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace. Lord, we ask for supernatural grace to maintain, to harness, Lord, to keep the unity of the spirit. Lord, we ask you, you've given it to us through the cross by the Holy Spirit. Lord, we ask for heightened awareness and we ask for grace. Lord, to host your presence is to keep the unity of the spirit. For there's disunity, God, bring healing right now. To the church in Kalamazoo, bring healing up. Correction, bring restoration, God, in your spirit and in your power. And from church members, those who are coming to worship, know each other by our love for you and our love for one another. And they're in love. We pray for every Christian in Kalamazoo right now. We pray for grace and unity through Jesus God. You knit together a people, a place in this city. You dwell in every pastoral relationship. You dwell in every congregation. You dwell in the church as it meets together. This is out for it. This is a gospel preaching church without measure. For every marriage, where we even pray for marriages right now. The church members all throughout Kalamazoo, that we pray for unity in the marriages, God. In husbands and wine, taking the dividing wall of our Christian homes throughout Kalamazoo, Lord, we're asking you for grace, Lord, for healing. You need for restoration, God, by the power of your spirit, Lord, as you visit homes all throughout this city. Would you bring healing to marriages? Would you be healing to the unity that's wherever it's broken, God, in relationship? Or there's peace that heals relationships? Hope again, peace that feels very broken right now that are going through very difficult times. Lord, we ask you for restoration power right now. Lord, we ask you that eyes can be lifted up to the living God, whose eyes are burning with fire for love, for that husband, for that wife, for that marriage. And God, we're asking you, Lord, to instill hope, to renew hope in the name of Jesus. It's not too far broken, it's not too far gone. Jesus, you are the master healer. You died, you broke your body on the cross so that we could be at peace. The room would you stand with me, let's lift our hands. This has been broken. The enemy has assigned destruction yet, Lord. The story is not yet finished, Lord. You bring healing and hope right now to families that are calling on your name. Of the prodigal right now. Family wound or a father wound. Heart right now, prodigal home for the grand priest. Prodigal right now, the hope of every intercessor right now, for relationships. It's a place of unity, it's a place of healing for marriage and for family and for prodigal and for every relationship that's broken. Lord, we declare that your church is a place of supernatural healing and relationship. The relationships, the connecting one another. The love we have in the one another relationships right now. Restore to be a place for relationship God. You've already died for it, you paid the price for it. In a minute, I'm gonna just open the mic for rapid fire prayer, for brokenness, for healing in the broken relationship. And this is one of the signs God is moving by his spirit as he's bringing. Those who have brokenness or hostility in their relationship back together. So we're praying for this type of unity across the church in Kalamazoo. It gets real specific. The marriage and the family and the prodigal. So I wanna invite you 10, 15 second prayer verse. We're gonna call out for prodigals. We're gonna call out for healing and families. We're gonna call out for unity in the church here in Kalamazoo and as you line up on the wall, I'm gonna just lead us in a quick prayer for prodigals. I just sense God's heart right now. I'm calling God, we hear you calling to prodigals. Lord, we just even agree. Agree Lord, with the prophetic mandate that radiant church is a home for prodigals and we know Lord, even the greater church in Kalamazoo or the prodigals need to have an address to return home to. And so Lord, we say here, oh Lord, send the prodigal home here, oh Lord, let them know that healing for the brokenness in their life is here, oh Lord. It's here in your church, it's here in your presence. It's here in radiate, it's here in the gospel preaching churches in Kalamazoo. Lord, would you bring the prodigals home? Lord, there's healing for the heart of the broken prodigal in the church in Kalamazoo. We say send them home. God, thank you for drawing the prodigals near to you, God. Thank you that you have never stopped pursuing them even when they feel like you aren't pursuing them. God, thank you that you still are. And right now I lift up the prodigals in my own family, my friends that are prodigals. And right now, God, I lift up my sister. I pray that you would soften her heart, restore her relationship with you and bless her in Jesus' name. Now Jesus, we just thank you, God, for the churches in Kalamazoo, that you would raise up even within the church, God, intercessors for those who have been lost. Those who would stand in the gap day and night, longing God for the prodigals to return, longing for the lost to return into the church. So we just thank you that you'd raise up people that would know and pray for these ones in Jesus' name. God, I pray for the prodigals that are going to church every Sunday morning. I pray for the prodigals that are sitting in Sunday morning and they're lost and they're isolating themselves. They're getting away from the flock of the sheep, God. I pray for the ones that we think are okay. I pray for those, God, that are there on Sunday mornings that we don't even see. God, open our eyes so we can see. God, I pray for the ones that we think are okay. God, open our eyes so we can see them, so that we can help them, so that we can love them back into your loving arms. God, I pray for those ones that are just lost sitting in the congregations on Sunday morning. God, open up their hearts, open up their lives so they can see you truly and see you rightly in Jesus' name. Heavenly Father, I just pray for a holy conviction. God, Lord, that godly sorrow that would help these prodigals come to their senses, Lord. Give them a heart of repentance to turn, Lord, to you, God. And, Lord, I pray, God, over the mothers and the fathers, Lord, I pray that you would remove bitterness and anger and unforgiveness, God, that they would be able to respond with the heart of the heavenly Father, Lord. I pray that they would be met with love, God, that they would know, God, that in you they are forgiven, God, in you they can be restored and redeemed. And, Lord, Jesus, I just pray in the meantime you send laborers to remind them, and, Lord, that you surround them with spiritual fathers, God. If their earthly parents are not in a picture, God, let them know that they have a home in you. Thank you for bringing the prodigals home in Jesus' name. Okay, for conviction for the saints, for the prodigals in their life, God, when conversations come up, when moments come up, God, that we won't shy away from speaking truth, from speaking love to those around us. I pray for those in my life, I specifically pray for my best friend, Ethan, God, that you would soften his heart more and more every day, that his dad's death wasn't a crutch that he wants to lean on, but that it's freedom in you, God. And I pray that there are more moments in each and every one of our lives that when those moments arise, that we don't shy away from the spirit, but we press into those moments so that we can be the reason that prodigals come home. God, help us to be the reason that these prodigals come home. That the church in Kalamazoo, a place where you're bringing healing and hope, to end this morning with a prayer and a very grateful Pastor Jeff at Center Point Church, just church-wide here in Kalamazoo, prayer for unity for the church to be awakened. We ask that you would awaken the sleeping giant of your church in our city as we pray, collaborate to seek the common good for our region. Jesus opened our eyes and hands to the marginalized, our voices for the voiceless. We endeavor to live such counter-cultural lives that our places of work and neighborhoods will experience the beauty to give us such an unquenchable passion for you. We can't help but tell others about Jesus and his unstoppable kingdom for the glory of Jesus and the advancement of his kingdom. And thanks for joining us in prayer here in the room.