 Hey, good morning. Good to be with you this morning to seek after the Lord open up the scriptures To worship to pray to gather together for those in the room those online welcome We're gonna open up the scriptures this morning in Psalm 61 and Just felt from the Lord to Corporately read through this Psalm together So if you're reading online reading in the room, we're just gonna use the vocal chords that God created us with and Stole the Lord through the scriptures to Have the truth embedded on the inside of us. So in Psalm 61 verse 1. Let's read this together Hear my cry. Oh God Listen to my prayer From the end of the earth. I call to you when my heart is faint Lead me to the rock that is higher than I for you have been my refuge a strong tower Against the enemy. Let me dwell in your tent forever Let me take refuge under the shelter of your wings for you. Oh God have heard my vows You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name Prolonged the life of the King may his years endure to all generations May he be enthroned forever before God a point steadfast love and faithfulness to watch over him So will I ever sing praises to your name as I perform my vows day after day? This is the word of God and we abide in the truth of Psalm 61 and we thank you God that you listen to our prayers When we call out to you even if our heart is faint you lead us You are higher than us and you are our refuge today God we confess our weakness we confess our great need of our heavenly father We thank you for your son. We thank you for the gift of you, Holy Spirit And we ask Lord that we would dwell in your tent That we take a refuge today in the shelter of your wings Father we ask Lord that there would be a renewed Reality and revelation of the steadfast love and faithfulness that you watch over each one of us We come and we cling to your love. We ask for that you would refresh us in your kindness and your goodness towards each one of us Where we're faint where we're weak we need the overwhelming powerful hand and love of The Lord today God we need your love. We need to be refreshed in the waterfall of your love Pour out your love over us today Renew us in the love of the father today We thank you for your kindness. We thank you that you're a strong coward. We thank you that you are our refuge Cover us today in your love in the name of Jesus. It's just what you did hiding Right now the good sense is this I just sense even if these keys are being played right now It's it's allowing the wall get in and tenderize your heart So we just open up our arms and we say Lord tender tenderize us to the goodness of the Lord You don't resist us. You're not against us. You are for us and your goodness overwhelm us I even I even invite you to ask the Lord even to touch my emotional self That I would literally feel the goodness of God touch deep places within me right now Holy spirit, you have access into my heart Teach me your goodness show me your goodness I don't want to resist you I want to be overwhelmed inundated and tenderized by the goodness of God We receive it We receive it do it lord say it's the Lord touch deep places in my heart We have accusation against the Lord against the father We resist those thoughts and we say no we abide in the goodness of our God Shower it over us shower over us. Let it waterfall over us. It just sense In times where the waves kick up you have that anchor that Caleb was singing about that grounds you Also the love of God it grounds you just like gravity keeps you tethered I wanted to Just have a picture of the father's hands your biological father a spiritual father in your life Put his hand on your shoulder and it provides strength and comfort It grounds you if you would would you just find somebody around you we're gonna just lay hands and just receive Even the the grounding of the love of God right now if you're Not near someone first Peter it says that there's the heavy hand of the father And so right now would you rue us and ground us in love? that we would have strength by your spirit to Comprehend the width the length and the depth and the height of the love of God That we would not be swayed. We would not be pushed. We would not Have our anchor up ground us and root us and anchor us and tether us right now In the love of God and as we feel this hand upon us. We're receiving the father's love Being imparted it says it on the laying on of hands The impartation of the love of God Just pray for your brother and your sister that they would receive the impartation of the father's love renewed strength to comprehend the love of root us and ground us today strengthen us Give us the ability to comprehend the love of strengthen to comprehend God help us In this day and in the days to come the knowledge of the love of God over all I'm going to spend these From the second half of this time together in praying You don't know me. I got a little fight in me and There's all out of salt on the truth In our culture and I just want to pray Together not just me but I'm going to actually invite you to come pray with me that truth would prevail It says this in psalm 86. It says teach me your way. Oh lord that I may walk in your truth Unite my heart to fear your name I want to ask of you that you would join me. I'm gonna we're gonna do some rapid fire prayer And I want you to just ask the lord what scripture That focuses on truth or in the fear of the lord Invite you up here to pray with me This is going to be a reading of the scripture and kind of one or two sentence prayers Young to old that you would come up and lead and we're going to contend for truth To prevail and though even though the darkness may try to stuff out light We know that light will prevail that the truth of the lord will prevail So we're going to read here in psalm 86 and pray I invite you to come up here and pray with me I'm going to read this again in psalm 86 11 teach me your way over That I may walk in your truth unite my heart To fear your name god. I pray right now that we would walk in truth God that we would not sit down. We would not slow down. We would not stand But we would be actively walking growing and maturing In the truth of the lord. We know that truth is found in you It's not even that we're fighting just for truth We're asking lord that the lordship of jesus christ would prevail that we find truth in Jesus so us that you would teach us your ways, oh lord That you would grow us to fulfill and walk out in obedience and in humility The commandments of the lord that we would walk in your truth and we asked lord that you would unite our hearts in you In the reality that we have some fragments of our heart god unite our hearts And that we would fear your name. We don't fear man We resist the fear of man and we abide in the fear of the lord today And as we're praying to be rooted and grounded god We say that we want to be those that walk in truth in the name of jesus We're going to pray together and those that are reading the scriptures Take a moment hear what's being said and partner with those prayers. You can even give amen Give moments to repeat the prayers that are being prayed. Let's join together Psalm 100 verse 5 for the lord is good and his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations Lord, I just pray that you reveal the truth that you are good and all circumstances Whether good or bad your goodness is forever We just ask this morning lord god, would you illuminate our inner beings? And teach us to walk according to your perspective Your word says that the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom So god if there's wisdom in our hearts that isn't full of the fear of the lord It's earthly wisdom So lord, we ask for your wisdom. We ask for the fear of the lord. Would you captivate our hearts? Lord, would you be grounded in the fear of the lord and full of heavenly wisdom in jesus name? Proverbs 9 verse 10 says the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom So lord, I just pray for a fresh download of the fear of the lord in your church that we would have Wisdom and understanding to know how to walk in truth and love Psalm 86 verses 8 and 9 there is none like you among the gods, oh lord Nor are there any works like yours all the nations you have made shall come and worship before you oh lord And shall glorify your name god I just thank you for your mighty strength your mighty power god and I pray that you would just Just reveal that to us today father. I just thank you for john 14 Poor jesus said I am the way the truth in the life No one comes to the father except through me if you really know me you will know my father as well And from now on you do know him for you have seen him Lord, we just thank you that you came to show us the love and you showed Showed us that you are the truth and then in john 14 you also said you'd send the spirit of truth To be with us always and so lord We just thank you for your spirit of truth who leads us into all truth and shows us jesus He shows us the love of the father and he shows us who we've been made to be in you And so lord, we just thank you for teaching us today by your spirit by your truth We can see you and know you for who you really are we thank you for it in jesus name Hosea 4 6 says my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge So lord, I pray that we would not walk in ignorance and that you would guide us in your truth lord put up Walls against deceptions that the church may walk in your truth and Be compassionate to those around us God said in verse um in covers 18 16 you said the the name of the lord is a strong tower and the righteous run to it and we are safe So lord, we just declare your your maddening your wisdom Over us as we walk in into your will and your purpose in your way And we do not fear man because you said the fear man is a snare So we just stand strong in your word. We stand in your truth Your word is truth and we can walk in that and we are safe in jesus name Psalm 119 verse 58 through 60 I sought your favor with all my heart be gracious to me according to your word I considered my ways and turned my feet to your testimonies I hastened and did not delay to keep your commandments and father I just asked that you would just hasten our feet lord to to obey your word lord But I asked that you would give us a hunger for your word And I love for you for the for the commandments that you have placed to keep us close to you in jesus name Yeah, jeshua 1 aid says this Book of the law shall not depart from your mouth. You shall meditate on it day and night God, we ask in jesus name that that this book lord your truth lord your word would not depart from our mouths But god would we would he keep it in our heart lord? Would we keep it close really keep your truth so close that it just over Overwhelms us lord it overflows it over Overflows what it says out of the out of the heart the mouth speaks lord Would we speak your word would we speak your truth in jesus name God, I'm just asking that you would raise up friendship In your in your church in your body god I pray that you would raise up friends of the bridegroom God, I pray that there would be a friendship with you That just roots and grounds the bride and jesus name Jesus in john 8 31 and 32 you said you are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free God, I ask that there would be a grace for corporate obedience among the bride of christ And that the truth of your word would set us free out of legalism out of sin and into wholehearted Obedience that we would love the lord our god with all our heart Soul mind and strength that we love our neighbor as ourself because of your teachings and what they'd be written on our hearts in jesus name Yes, lord Ephesians 6 says having fastened on the belt of truth I pray that there would just be a hunger and a desperation for your truth god Would your holy spirit be the great interpreter from our our head to our heart? And would you speak truth and would we be open and soft to receive that? God your word said that you will know the truth and the truth will set you free god God, we need to hear the truth. We need to preach the truth god I pray that preachers and evangelizers and teachers would rise up and be disgusted by a watered down gospel And that the truth would truly set us free god In john 17 Jesus prayed this over the believers and he said the glory that you have given me I have given to them that they may be one even as we are one I am them and you and me that they may become perfectly one so that the world may know that you have sent me And loved them even as you have loved me So god right now I just ask would you just give us a revelation of your love father? And would you just give us unity in the church in jesus name victorious amen It says that the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not Overcome it In sports in our culture. We use shouting to really proclaim who is victorious But who is much greater than any kind of sports team that wins any kind of football game or basketball game that really Jesus rules and reigns over everything and darkness will not overcome Jesus he rules and he reigns can we just together one last thing before we leave It's just a shout to the lord who really is victorious that the truth of jesus will prevail It is victorious. He wins amen So with the bands one two three, we're gonna shout to the lord ready one two three